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Eliciting from pictures

A teacher uses this picture to elicit vocabulary.

Below are the answers she wants the students to give.
What questions should she ask?
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What questions should she ask?

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.
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Eliciting vocabulary

Rice
To plant
By hand
Bend down
Rows

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?
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Getting SS to guess
•What do these examples show?
•Can you think of more examples of the same type?
•Write them down.
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Getting SS to imagine
a. Look at the picture and answer the questions:
•Why is she standing
•Where is this woman here? What has
standing? happened?
•What is she wearing? •How does she feel?
•What is she doing? Why ?

•What is she holding in her •What is she thinking?

hand? •Write some of her
•What time of the day is it? 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?
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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.