Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Teaching using Flickr

Instead of wading through through yet another page of boring grammar exercise to "help" my students understand the various uses of modal verbs, I decided to use Flickr instead. The basic ideas is that you use the images from the site in order to make guesses about what you can see. For example, use pictures from various parts of the world to practice making deductions about where the photo was taken.


"The picture must be from somewhere cold as all the things are made of ice.

It can't be from Greece as we don't have such shows."

When talking about deductions in the past Flickr provides a wealth of learning possibilities. Choose a dramatic image and ask you student what they think might have happened just before the photo was taken.


"The driver of the car must have been seriously injured.

The lorry driver may have been drunk."

2 comments:

Unknown said...

What a great idea. Next semester, I'm moving all of my classes into rooms with a beam projector and (perhaps) a computer. This could be a good way to expand some lessons.

And living in the technoland known as Korea, the students love it when the class has some sort of flash to it.

teacher dude said...

There are loads of ideas you can do with photos. I'm jealous of all that high tech stuff you have there.