Silent Stories: using pictures in ELT

Pictures are like silent stories. Silent because they are non-verbal. Stories, because they are pregnant with content to talk about. For these two reasons alone, they are extremely useful in English language teaching. In this talk, we explain these and more advantages of pictures, as well as demonstrating different activity types for use in the classroom.

Click here for the present perfect picture pair lesson. Here for the funny accidents pictures lesson. Here for the detective work on contents of a handbag. Here for the picture story of a boy escaping. And here for the dogs and owners lesson.