Purpose:

To give learners an opportunity to practice oral fluency; to practice prediction skills; to practice writing.

Preparation time: 

15 minutes

Materials: 

Enough pictures from a newspaper so that there is one for each pair, the headlines that go with the pictures.

Preparation: 

Find the newspaper pictures and cut them out of the paper. Do not include the caption. Cut out the headline for each article that goes with a picture. You should choose pictures that are not too self-explanatory so that learners will need to think about what the article could be about. Put the pictures up around the classroom.

Procedure:

1. Pair up the learners. Explain that they will walk around the room in their pairs and spend 1 minute at each picture. During the minute, they should discuss what they think is happening in the picture and what the newspaper article that accompanies might be about.
2. When learners have finished discussing each picture, give each pair a headline. They should find the picture that matches their headline and take it with them back to their seat.
3. Based on the picture and headline, learners write a brief account of the story.
4. Learners summarize their stories for each other. You may want to write short summaries of the original stories so learners can compare their versions.