Workshop 20.11.23

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The use of illustrations as a form of interactive methods in teaching a foreign language

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Functions of illustrations

• Informative function
• Presentation function
• Explanation function
• Motivation function
• Memory training function
• Decoration function

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Pictures usually transmit information faster than texts, they can also make the situation understandable. It can be assumed that all pictures have an informative property, it depends only on the point of view.

We are talking about pictures that illustrate the content of the text and help to imagine the situation better.

With the help of pictures, complex text sections are explained, concretized and brought closer to students. Also, this function can facilitate the learning process and the acquisition of vocabulary (images that explain and identify a word)

Pictures in the lessons are used to stimulate speech (description of the picture, comments on the picture, comparison of images, role-playing games, image history, etc.).

The words presented in combination with the picture support our memory and are remembered better and for a long time.

Small paintings that accompany a text, table or dictionary, or various characters that comment on something, indicate something, convey opinion, arouse motivation, as well as their interest in educational material.

How to use images

and give your students an opportunity to communicate

• Asking questions
• Memory Game
• Picture Story
• 20 questions*

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Asking questions

Model

EXample answer

1. List six different fruits you can see
2. Can you find something which isn’t a fruit and isn’t a vegetable?
3. Where can you see this food?
4. Put the food into different groups. How many groups can you make?
5. Can you grow food like this in your country? Why? Why not?
6. Create a recipe from some of the food in the picture

1. What words do you think of when you look at the photo? - remembering
2. What is happening in the photo? - understanding
3. How is the child feeling in your opinion? - applying
4. Where and when do you think the photo was taken? Why do you think so? - analysing
5. When do you feel like this? - evaluating
6. What can you do to make your students feel like this? - creating

Memory game

Rules:

1) Show the students an image; 2) Give them 20-30 seconds to remember the details 3) Close the image (black screen on the computer or multiboard, flip the printed image);4) Ask questions about the image, or let the commands ask questions each other.5) Show the image and count the points.

Rules:

1) Divide the class into groups or let them work individually.2) Give out cards (from 3 to 6, depending on the level of English proficiency) 3) Give a few minutes to prepare.

Picture story

20 questions

Правила:

1) Divide your students into pairs.2) Put a picture face down in front of each pair. 3) Student A flips the image without showing to the partner 4) Student B must ask no more than 20 questions to describe the image as accurately as possible .Variations:4) Student B describes the picture to the class, student A then shows the image 6) Answers like "It's a picture of a boy holding a balloon." are not enough