A teacher uses this picture to elicit vocabulary.

Below are the answers she wants the students to give.

What questions should she ask?

Eliciting from pictures

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T ………………………………. SS: Farmers.They are returning from the fields

T………….…………………… SS: Donkeys. A buffalo

T ……………………………. SS: he is riding a donkey

T ……………………………. SS: It’s evening. End of the day

T ……………………………. Ss: Because the sun is low. It’s setting.

T ……………………………. SS: They are going home.

What questions should she ask?

You are using this picture to elicit the words in the box. What questions could you ask?

What other words could you elicit from the picture?

Rice

To plant

By hand

Bend down

Rows

Eliciting vocabulary

Getting SS to guess•What do these examples show?•Can you think of more examples of the same type?•Write them down.

Getting SS to imagine

a. Look at the picture and answer the questions:

•Where is this woman standing?

•What is she wearing?

•What is she doing?

•What is she holding in her hand?

•What time of the day is it?

•Why is she standing here? What has happened?

•How does she feel? Why ?

•What is she thinking?

•Write some of her thoughts in a few words.

•Imagine this is the scene from a film. What will happen next?

How are the questions on the left of the picture different from those on the right?

b. Think of three interesting questions to ask about the picture below. The questions should encourage students to interpret the picture or to imagine something. Write your questions down.

c. Think of similar questions to ask about the pictures in activity one.