The document discusses pictures and photos as graphic media that can be used to distribute visual messages in learning. It notes strengths like being concrete and low-cost, but also weaknesses like only engaging the sense of sight. For pictures to be effective in learning, they should be authentic, simple, proportionally sized, combine beauty with relevance to learning goals, and be focused on the lesson content. An example lesson plan is then provided to teach body parts to primary students using pictures, videos, songs and games. The plan's goals are for students to pronounce, remember and describe body parts, with assessment of students' success in tasks.

2. Pictures and Photos are categorized in the graphic media and this graphic are categorized as the kind of visual media which distribute message through visual symbols. The graphic visual have to fulfill the following requirements; interesting, simple, useful, accurate, legitimated, structured, pictures and photos are the media which commonly used in learning. Pictures and photos are universal, easy to be understood.

3. Strength and weakness :

4. Some excess in the pictures media :

5. Concrete

6. Able to handle the limits of room, time and sense.

7. Cost relatively low and also easy to be created and to be used in the learning process in class.

8. Some weakness in the pictures media :

9. Only pressuring to the perception of the eye.

10. If the pictures are too complex it’s become less effective for certain purpose.

11. In order to be more valuable in learning, the pictures or photos have to fulfill the following requirements :

12. Authentic : able to describe object/event

13. Simple : have to show clearly the main part of the picture

14. The size are proportional so that the student could imagine the real size of the object in the picture easily

15. Combine between beauty and compability to achieve the aim of learning.

17. To provide my students about knowledge of body parts.

18. Objectives:

19. students will be able to pronounce the parts of body clearly

20. students will be able to remember the parts of body because of the picture media

21. students will be able to describe the parts of body

22. Language Focus: knowing parts of body

23. Instructional procedures:

24. Brainstorm on what information that want to discuss (body parts)

25. Sing a song and play a game about body parts in Indonesian

26. Show a video about body parts in English and sing it together

27. Discuss about parts of body in English with a picture 1

29. Ask the students to do exercise 1 to trace the letters individually and then compare their responses with another participant’s. Follow with feed-back session with the whole class.

30. Ask the students to do exercise 2 to make an arrow from the body parts to the name of the body parts individually and then compare their responses with another participant’s. Follow with feed-back session with the whole class.

31. Ask the students to say what body parts are shown in the pictures.

32. Materials:

33. Video from http://youtube.com/playhousedisney

34. Picture 1 http://hocak.info.myside/htm%20All/body%20parts%20coloring%20book.htmlAssessment/Evaluation:<br />It is expected that 80% of class participants achieved > 80% success in the class work.<br />Follow-up Activities:<br />Participants are to assigned to some home work on writing paragraph of definition and grammar review.<br />Self-Assessment:<br />What is the rate of participants’ success in doing the assigned tasks?________%<br />What questions did participants ask during class session? <br />What is the area in focus of the questions?<br />What improvement is required for this lesson?<br />