Teaching English using pictures
By catamari
@catamari (127)
Romania
August 20, 2011 5:04am CST
First of all I started to study English by listening. Then I started to read a lot using voice. Then I saw many teachers are using pictures in their class. I think some of their activities are very good in this way. We can look at a picture and to tray to discribe it. Even we can start to have more ideas starting from a picture.
Now I want to describe this picture. I think there is a very beautiful signature of nature. We just must to learn from the buterfly how to be happy every day.
What do you think about this picture? Or what do you feel?
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2 responses
@Cherizette (76)
• Guyana
20 Aug 11
Pictures are great once they are concise.
The best picture to depict happiness is one that shows kids laughing while doing something that brings happiness like eating ice-cream, or playing.
@catamari (127)
• Romania
20 Aug 11
You are right. When I went on the forest or in the garden and I saw some butterflies their flies was so vivid. Ther is a happines about nature, about life. The happiness with kids is different point of view. There is more about love and happiness. I am not so sure. There is another topic. Now I just wanted to talk about happiness from the nature. And we, like human beings, can learn from it how to feel the happiness. How to enjoy to it.
@mitmymit (3)
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22 Aug 11
I agree with your opinion ,it is really a good method to learn English ,sometimes when learn some English words,really find it so boring ,and i usually consider about how can learn it in a happy atmosphere, and enjoy my english ,you know ,it is a very difficult for me to continue english without any happiness,Maybe it is a better way.
@catamari (127)
• Romania
23 Aug 11
Hi mitmymit. You can be very happy learning English words. When you learn a new word all the times link it in sentences. Try to make all the time an image in your mind. There each new word can creat an image in your mind. Try to do this in English all the time. Then you can go far away. You can imagine even some action, something what to you really love it. Then day by day you can be really happy when you'll discover new words, new images and finally new words. You can creat a big fantasy in your mind starting just from a single new word.
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
23 Aug 11
Learning visually is the most effective form, so pictures or objects could be used. I would have liked the object method better but pictures are easier and effective as well.
I can't see the picture while responding here, but it reminded me of the place we used to live. I liked watching butterflies there. This one resurrects the same happiness I felt at those times. And if I'm allowed, the body of the butterfly looks like that of an alien...
I can't see the picture while responding here, but it reminded me of the place we used to live. I liked watching butterflies there. This one resurrects the same happiness I felt at those times. And if I'm allowed, the body of the butterfly looks like that of an alien...
@catamari (127)
• Romania
23 Aug 11
Hello hora_fugit ! You are right, when you study a language it's very useful to see an image, a picture. Then you need to practice, to use a language. You can say very simple: this is a butterfly. Then you can describe more around it. The collors, the environment,the flowers, so on. For that you need to use more English words.
I am not sure about alliens looking like a butterfly. I hope to see more buterflies then alliens. When I saw butterflies I felt good. I am not sure if I'll have same feeling if there will be an alien... :).
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