Picture Walk: Social Issues in Teens' Lives

This document contains ten situations encouraging learners to brainstorm/reflect on sleep deprivation, loneliness, dealing with problems, controlling intense emotions, body image, empathy/being helpful, the way social media/technology has changed the way they interact and communicate. Ideal for back to school or all year round.

Use this differentiated Picture Walk activity to build inference skills and develop speaking and writing skills (response to text). This resource contains images showing different situations, and learners need to offer as many details as possible using the visual cues and guiding questions. Teaching tips/directions are included in the downloaded file. If you are not familiar with Picture Walk, read my blog post on the Picture Walk reading strategy here.

UPDATE 2021: Printer-friendly images; slightly updated content

⭐This resource can also be used to practice:

• Information questions, WHO-questions (question words), yes/no questions
• The Simple Present Tense
• The Present Progressive/Continuous Tense
• Unreal conditionals (Second conditional/If-clauses)
• Modal auxiliary verb: may/might

⭐What is included?

• This packet includes 10 situations and four types of levelled/differentiated activities.
• The downloaded resource contains practical information about how to use this packet and tips for differentiated instruction.

⭐This resource is ideal to:

• develop oral interaction/speaking and writing skills
• practice forming and answering yes/no and information questions.
• help learner make inference.
• to practice grammar in context.

⭐Best uses:

• Centers/workshops/discussion groups
• Individual, pair or group work.
• Providing practice in making inferences.

⭐The four types of differentiated activities cover:

Level 1 Activity : These cards contain images and guiding questions to help learners make inferences and develop their speaking skills.

Level 2 Activity allows learners to answer the questions at their own pace. Some students might not be able to talk a lot during oral interaction because they need more time to think about their answers. So, they have a chance to make inferences based on the visual cues by answering the guiding questions in writing.

Level 3 Activity is more difficult as students have to form their own questions. This activity is ideal to practice the formation of information questions. In addition, the guiding questions from the previous tasks (Levels 1 and 2) might serve as models for learners to write their own interrogative sentences.

Level 4 Activity require learners to write the story of the image.

This resource is appropriate for Grade 9-11 learners and you may use it in ESL, EESL, EFL or Special Education classes. I included a very thorough preview so you can determine if this resource is appropriate for your learners. This unit is designed for ESL learners, however, it might be useful in ELA classes, especially in a Special Education context.

The teaching duration may depend on your students' proficiency level and the number of times you assign these activities to your learners. If you assign one situation per day, this resource will last ten days.

⭐FILE DETAILS: Paper size: 8.5" x 11" (Standard US Letter). Documents are not editable unless otherwise stated. Resources are available either in a PDF or PPT file.

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