Visual literacy ideas for ESL teachers

Excellent set of elementary ESL lessons using
pictures incl;- School-related vocabulary and present continuous (PDF)

Set of pictures for a speaking exercise about
Swirzerland (PDF)

Picture card site for vocabulary and behaviour
Dressing & Undressing,  Clothes,  Body Parts, etc.



Memory picture cards for students

Printable memory cards: various themes incl.
body parts, nutrition etc.

Spot the difference puzzles for ESL classrooms

There are ten differences in these two pictures of a pirate ship(PDF)


Storyboard templates for English language classrooms

Nice clear storyboard template(PDF)

Campaign Ad: Storyboard Template (PDF)

More advanced picture  teaching ideas for teachers

Metaphors: Responsibilities are like weights:
A metaphor and idiom lesson for talking about
responsibilities using pictures (PDF) Intermediate

Speaking task: Compare and contrast 2 pictures, commenting on the damage that mankind has caused to our planet (word)

Answer questions about pictures: city street scenes (intermediate-word p 5-8)

Modern art lesson  (PDF) teaching opinions,
adjectives and connectors

Other picture  teaching workhseets and ideas for teachers

Sequencing recycling lesson using  scrambled pictures (PDF)

Sequencing pictures lesson for oral health (PDF)

Sequencing: a trip to grandma's house (PDF)

A short guide to picture teaching ideas (PDF)

Sequencing: "From cow to you" elementary (PDF)

Household Furniture Crossword Puzzle (with pictures) (PDF)

Pictures as Icebreakers: Optical
Illusions

Activities using the eyes (PDF)

Einstein/ Monroe illusion (PDF)

Sample illusions pictures (PDF)

Are the horizontal lines parallel or
do they slope?/Can you count the black dots? etc (PDF)

Picture based  lessons for ESL teachers

Picture speaking activity (PDF)

English proficiency test: talking about pictures (PDF)

Pictures and questions for teaching past tense (PDF)

Picture dialogue-booking a room at a hotel (PDF)

Elementary ESL lessons on many topics using
pictures (PDF)

What do you hear, see and smell in the picture? (PDF)

Prepositions using picture worksheets (PDF)

Household vocabulary: label the picture (PDF)

Detailed house vocabulary with pictures (PDF)

ESL Work with Illustrations exercises insl. Drawing | Sentence Creation | Fill-in-the-Blank | Multiple Choice

Picture dictation lesson guide

Picture Dictation (elementary)

Partial Pictures teaching idea

Advanced picture dictation (science)

Lesson Plan- Describing Picture Scenes

Picture Sentence Teacher Worksheets: elementary

Work with Illustrations exercises incl. Sentence Creation | Fill-in-the-Blank | Multiple Choice

Picture story activities incl. "Conference with teacher", "Mean kid at school", "A sick child"
Elementary (PDF) Too tired to do homework (PDF)

Cartoons for the classroom archive

Cartoon analysis worksheet (PDF)

Comic Creator: online tool for composing  comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on)

Catchy Captions: Students write captions for pictures cut from newspapers and then match the real captions to the pictures.

Picture Stories

Pairwork with (educational) pictures

Pic Tac ToeA fun visual-linguistic lesson plan for presenting,reviewing and comparing verb tenses

Partial Pictures: To consolidate asking and answering "What is this?"

Adjective Gallery

Picture Stories and Thought Groups

Activities round a Group Picture

Improving writing through the use of  imagery

Ideas for using pictures for  ESL teachers

Superlative island

Other Ideas for teaching with pictures

Photograph scenarios and discussion questions (PDF)

Picture conversation: Korea old & new (PDF)

Questioning the photo (PDF)

Teaching ideas for using pictures

Fun with pictures idea
Workplace visual aids, drawings
and pictures for ESL and other
language teachers

ESL exercises (with pictures) for describing houses using language for household objects, adjectives, problems, pests & complaints (PDF)

"Find the hazards" in the workplace pics  (PDFs)

Find the hazards in the office and factory pics and lesson (PDF)

Building basics lessons with lots of excellent  drawings of  work related themes incl.
construction equipment, gardens, painting, plumbing(PDFs)

Great office equipment vocab pictures and matching exercise p69-70 (PDF)

Spot the hazard pics-garden, beach, home, playground (PDF)

What are people in the picture doing?

Speaking test using picture of people in office
and questions (PDF)

Describe a supermarket scene lesson (PDF)

Describe a busy street scene (PDF)

Another street scene picture (PDF)

Pairwork speaking activity: what are they doing?
(PDF)

What might people be saying to each other ?
(PDF)

Describing a person's life pictures- see page 4 & 5 (PDF)

Beach scene pic for present continuous (Part 6)
(PDF)

Aiport scene for present continuous  (PDF)

Which picture is it about? Writing sentences

Pic/sentence prediction for present continuous

Picture story exercises

Past tense story exercise with picture matching (PDF)

Picture stories  for "Money Talks" topics (PDF)

What is the story in these pictures?

Picture story: fill in the comic strip with your
own words (word)

"Call the plumber"- tell the story from the
pictures (PDF)

Picture story lesson for teaching past tense (PDF)

Use pictures to create a story (word)

Adapting a picture story