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BOX: The other you
1. Are you a man or a woman?
2. How old are you?
3. What is your name?
4. What job do you do?
5. If you won a million pounds, what would you do?
6. What do you want in life?
7. What do you worry about?
8. What are your main problems?
9. What makes you happy?
10.How do you get on with other people?

Three-picture story

Oral fluency and imagination.

Preparation: Select three magazine pictures, which are large
enough to be seen by the whole class. The first one should show
one or two people in a setting. The second and third ones should
be of an object, a situation or an event. The second and third ones
do not need to show the people in the first picture.

Procedure: Display the first picture. Ask the students to call out
anything they want to say about it. Your role is to stimulate
observation and invention and then to gather the suggestions and
to put them into story form. As the students offer more ideas, you
add them to the story, continually retelling it from the beginning.
After a few moments, you can display the second picture and later
the third. As you see your five minutes coming to an end, ask the
students to suggest a conclusion. Try to retell the completed story
before the time is up. This is an example of how the story might
begin:
You: (Showing the first picture) What do you want to tell me
about the picture?
Student: There are two people.
You: Yes. Anything else?

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