Drawing and Vocabulary

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Kids love to draw! Use that interest to develop their English.

This lesson recipe is my “go to” lesson. An idea which you can use at the last minute for almost any children’s class. Also a good lesson when unprepared or just plain tired/hungover! (it happens).

Give each student a blank A4 piece of paper. Draw a large rectangle on the board. Give the chalk to one good student (or do it yourself). Write a title – it could be anything: the beach, the mountains, a beautiful day, our school, the city etc…

Ask the students what they see. They will catch on and respond with ..”I see ….!  Draw that and label it. Continue filling up the whole page with students drawing and writing and saying more things they see. 

Get some students to present their drawings afterwards and hang them up around the classroom to inspire your students. If time permits, get the students to turn over their page and draw their own labeled picture on their own topic!

This site, Odopod, offers a nice drawing board and also a wonderful slideshow of other people’s drawings to inspire students.

 

 

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4 Responses to Drawing and Vocabulary

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Daniel K

August 27th, 2009 at 11:33 am

Thanks for the idea! Yeah, I think it’s important to have those “recipes in your back pocket” for those times when things just didn’t go right before the lesson and so you’re not prepared, or else the lesson isn’t going as planned and you need to modify it quickly. Maybe these kinds of lessons deserve their own category… “Pocket recipes”? “Go-to recipes”?

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Andrew Harris

September 30th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

Okay, so the students are drawing while I’m asking them to participate? To me, it makes more sense if I tell them to make their own drawings after the board activity.

I think if I stamped finished drawings, it would give them motivation to actually follow the rules and use English labels, etc etc.

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Don Payzant

December 3rd, 2009 at 9:39 am

You can use this website to play team pictionary. Write a list of common objects on slips of paper- (if you have a picture dictionary this will help generate the vocabulary). Form teams and each team can send one student at a time to the computer. Each person draws the word you give them. The other team must guess the word. No correct answer, no point for the ‘drawing’ team. Repeat with as many vocabulary items as you have.

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