2 COMMUNICATION WORKSHEET Comparing photos

Aims: To practise using functional language for talking Follow-up activity:

about photos (comparing, speculating and stating your Invite students to find similarities and differences
opinion). between different combinations of pictures on the sheet,
Time: 20 minutes e.g. Picture 1 in Row 1 and Picture 2 in Row 3.
Materials: One copy of the worksheet for each group of
three students.
Procedure:
• Put the students in groups of three (A, B and C) and
give each group a copy of the worksheet.
• Remind students of the phrases they learned in the
speaking lesson, shown below:

PHRASEBOOK Talking about photos

Comparing
Both photos show …
In both photos, you can see …
The common theme in the photos is …
The main difference (between the photos) is …
In the first photo … , … whereas in the second photo …
The second photo shows …
Unlike the first photo, …
Speculating
I can’t be sure, but …
It looks like some kind of …
It looks to me like a … of some kind.
It’s / There’s a sort of …
He / It / They could / might be … , or something like that.
I’d say that it’s / they’re probably …
Stating your opinion
In my opinion …
It seems to me that …
For me, the main thing / point / consideration is …
(Personally,) I would say that …
I feel quite strongly that …

• Explain that students are going to use the pairs of

pictures in each row for a speaking activity. They
will take turns to say something about the pictures,
according to the rules below.
Row 1 of pictures:
• Student A: Talk about two similarities between the
two pictures.
• Student B: Talk about two differences between them.
• Student C: Speculate about each of the pictures in
the pair.
• Students A, B and C: State your opinions about one
or both of the pictures.
Row 2 of pictures:
• Student A takes the role of Student B, Student B
takes role of Student C and Student C takes the role
of Student A.
Row 3 of pictures:
• Student A takes role of Student C, Student B takes
the role of Student A and Student C takes the role of
Student B.
• When all the groups have finished, invite them to say
which of the pairs of pictures were the easiest to talk
about and which were the most difficult, giving their
reasons.

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