What do the images tell us? 

Nowadays, teachers need more tools that can help them to catch the attention of the students, because anything is a distraction for them, specially the technologies such as: tablets, cellphones, computers among others. However, we as teachers can take this opportunity to work in the class. Part of the technologies have to do with images and these images can be very useful if they are used in a good way, because it is important to adjust the images to the context with the purpose that students feel more connected with their own learning process.

"Every picture tells a story" and "A picture can speak a thousand words"

Lesson Plan 1: using images in the class.

Unidad 2: Countries, cultures and customs.

Class: 8th Grade.
Age group: 12-13

Learning Outcomes:

1. The students will be able to create a collage with four images that represent to a country.

2. The students will be able to apply vocabulary of the unit in four sentences based on characteristics      of each image of the collage.

This activity corresponds to the development of the class:

Procedure: 

First, the teacher will explain the activity and then, she will give an example using images of Chile.
The teacher will ask the students to work in a group, then she will raffle the countries for each group randomly. After that, students will have to find in their computers four images that represent the most important facts about the country. Next, students will make a collage, pasting the images on the posterboard. Each group will write a complete sentence about information from the country under each image. In addition, Sentences must be included: name of the country, location, typical food, important landmarks or attractions, name of the president. Finally, students will present their collages to the teacher in front of the class.

Images that teacher will use to give students an example.

Four images about Chile.