ESL Speaking & Writing Activities Differentiated Funny Picture Prompts
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Give yourself a break from those boring ESL worksheets and engage your English Language Learners with these picture prompts. Perfect for bell ringers, ELL lessons, extension activities, and differentiated stations, these picture writing prompts are sure to get your most reluctant learner writing and speaking.
These prompts have generated plenty of discussion during our ESL lessons and I hope they open up conversation for your students as well. And, if you have a mixed ability class like mine, you will appreciate the differentiated questions.
I (and my English Language Learners) were tired of the same old boring pictures. I chose these picture prompts because they are engaging and funny.
There are 20 pictures and 20 prompts. There are two formats: four pictures and prompts per page or two larger pictures and prompts per page. Choose the format that works best for you. You can choose to print and cut the pictures and prompts on the dotted lines or display them on a device.
For conversation practice, have students ask and answer questions in pairs – one student asks the question and the other responds. For writing practice, have students use the writing response template or write responses on loose leaf or index cards.
I know many classes have a mix of language levels, so I created two levels of questions. Level A is the beginner level. These questions include present and progressive tense yes/no, either/or, questions that will cause the student to generate a list of words, literal questions, and text (picture to self) questions. Level B questions are designed for intermediate to advanced levels. These questions ask students to describe, explain, tell how, give an example of, what if, what might, and comparison words using past, present, progressive, and future tenses.
*Updated August/2021 to include full page images for projecting.
Suggestions for Other Uses
Use for Warm Ups: Display a picture at the beginning of class. Have students respond to prompt(s) orally or in writing.
Write a Caption: Give students a picture and have them write a caption. Encourage them to use who, what, where, when in their captions.
Write a GIST: Students write a GIST (main idea) statement for a picture in 12 words or less.
Notice & Wonder: I love the Notice & Wonder Protocol. Display a picture. Write a T-Chart on board for recording student responses. First, ask students what they notice about the picture. Then, ask students what they wonder. This is a great way to open up conversations.
Couple this with my Grammar Practice, Games, Newcomer Units, or my Flip Books
and you’ll be ready to rock!
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