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This is a wonderfully simple communicative activity.
Get a pile of nice magazine pictures. Next, tear or cut them into twos. Enough halves for the number of students in your classroom.
Then, give each student half a picture. They have to walk around the class describing their picture and finding their torn “match”. Once they find their match, they can sit down.
Make sure to make the rules clear. English only ! No showing the picture or peeking! Have some extra halves to give out incase some students finish early.
This is a great way to practice “In my picture there is / are …..
Use these picture guessing ppts for a nice game to compliment this. Load up your ppt with a picture and students must guess what it is, as you take away pieces! Use class faces – it works great!
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1 Response to Torn Pictures…
Luke Martin
September 29th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Great and simple! Thanks David!
Another idea to add onto this, is to use this as a method to divide the class into pairs (escaping the whining that often occurs when the teacher assigns partners.)
Once 2 students find their match, they sit down together and become a team/pair.