This document outlines how pictures can be used to teach English in the classroom. It discusses using pictures for vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, reading, and writing lessons. Specific activities are described like picture dictionaries, posters, substitution drills, memory tests, conversation prompts, sequencing pictures, matching pictures to text, and using pictures in error correction exercises. The overall message is that pictures are an effective tool to help explain concepts and make English lessons more engaging for students.
2. MACMILLAN Agenda Making Things Better for You! A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Introduction to using pictures in the classroom Using Pictures to teach: Vocabulary Grammar Speaking Listening Reading Writing Assessment Q and A
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4. MACMILLAN Introduction to Pictures Making Things Better for You! A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte said "Un bon croquisvautmieuxqu'un long discours," or "A good sketch is better than a long speech". The Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote (in Fathers and Sons in 1862), "A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound." Fred R. Barnard in the advertising trade journal Printers' Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements. The December 8, 1921 issue carries an ad entitled, "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words."
36. MACMILLAN Just for Laughs Making Things Better for You! A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
37. English World Overview MACMILLAN 10 level British English course for primary to junior high students. (levels 9-10 ready in 2013) 70-100 hours of instruction per level, 12 units per level, 4 review units per level, I welcome unit per level, 5 lessons per unit. Well-known, respected, successful and experienced authors of Way Ahead and Macmillan English. Methodology: Story based (levels 1 & 2) to thematic (levels 3 & 4) to cross curricular (levels 5 & 6) to literary approach (levels 7 & 10) Components include; SB, WB, TG, GPB, Dictionary, Posters, Flashcards, Audio, DVD, Website. Making Things Better for You!