VISUALS IN THE CLAS S ROOM

Inmaculada Torres Aguilar

1.INTRODUCTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF VISUALS

ACTIVITY 1: Description of a picture (picture)
ACTIVITY 2: The parts of the body (wall chart)
ACTIVITY 3: The dots chart (wall chart)
ACTIVITY 4: The British Isles (wall chart)
2.FLASHCARD S
ACTIVITY 5: Keep talking (flashcards)

3.THE OVERHEAD PROJECTOR

ACTIVITY 6: What are the differences? (slide)

4.BLACKBOARD USE
ACTIVITY 7: Blackboard use (blackboard and slides)

5. CRITERIA FOR JUDGING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AIDS

(slide)

6.CONCLUSIONS (blackboard)

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 8. KEY WORDS
5. C R I T E R I A F O R J U D G I N G T H E E F F E C T I V E N E S S O F AI D S

Description The The dots The British Keep What are

of a parts of chart Isles talking the
picture the body differences
?
Type of visual Picture Wall chart Wall chart Wall chart Flashcards Slide
Skills Speaking, Reading, Reading, Speaking, Speaking, Speaking,
practiced vocabulary, vocabulary grammar grammar vocabulary, vocabulary,
grammar (present grammar, grammar
(present perfect; connectors (there is/are)
continuous, would like
there is/are) +infinitive)
Level Low- Low Intermediate- Intermediate- High Low-
intermediate high high intermediate
1.Information ü ü ü ü ü ü
gap
2.Choice û ü ü ü û
û/ü
3.Feedback ü ü ü ü ü ü
Communicative ü ü ü ü ü ü
Easy to ü ü ü
prepare?
~ ~ ~
Easy to ü ü ü ü ü ü
organize?
Would you use
it?
 7.BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Doff, Adrian. 1988. Teach English. A Training Course for Teachers. Trainer´s
handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

- Hubbar, Peter et al. 1986. A Training Course for TEFL. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.

- Klippel, Friederike. 1987. Keep Talking. Communicative Fluency Activities for

Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

- Maley, Alan. 1988. The mind´s eye: Using Pictures Creatively in Language Learning.
Student´s book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

- Oxford Picture Power Dictionary: 1500 Words through Stories and Pictures . Cop.
1996. Stories by Stella Maidment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

- Phillips, Sarah. 1993. Young Learners. Resource books for teachers. Series editor:
Alan Maley. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

- Wright, Andrew. 2003. Pictures for Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

- Wright, Andrew and Safia Haleem. 1991. Visuals for the Language Classroom.
Longman keys to language teaching. London: Longman.

- Wright, Andrew. 1994. 1000 + Pictures for Teachers to Copy. London: Nelson.

8.K E Y W O R D S

development
 challenge
opinion
option
attraction
practice
opportunity
feeling
game
motivation
meaning
learning
stimulus
imagination
color
interest
variety
participation
freedom