Hello! First of all, I'd like to congratulate you for your blog: it provides many difficult activities which can be used to enhance communication and collaboration between students in the class, which I think is very useful!
About this activity in particular, I think that using images as the basis to, later, ask students to produce language is a great idea: in my opinion, this usually motivates them and is a great source or mental images; and describing is usually a good resource when it comes to working with a structure such as there is/there are. If students get tired of just describing, a possible variation for the activity could be giving them the possibility to write some sentences which are false (for example, for the first picture: "There is an enormous elephant drinking from the lake") and then having their partners find out which ones are true and which are false.
Again, congratulations for the activity and your blog!
Hello! First of all, I'd like to congratulate you for your blog: it provides many difficult activities which can be used to enhance communication and collaboration between students in the class, which I think is very useful!
ResponderEliminarAbout this activity in particular, I think that using images as the basis to, later, ask students to produce language is a great idea: in my opinion, this usually motivates them and is a great source or mental images; and describing is usually a good resource when it comes to working with a structure such as there is/there are. If students get tired of just describing, a possible variation for the activity could be giving them the possibility to write some sentences which are false (for example, for the first picture: "There is an enormous elephant drinking from the lake") and then having their partners find out which ones are true and which are false.
Again, congratulations for the activity and your blog!