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.

1. Juan Osborne

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

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."

5. MACMILLAN Vocabulary Making Things Better for You! Picture Dictionary – Twisted Fingers

6. MACMILLAN Vocabulary Making Things Better for You! Picture Dictionary – Missing Word 3 4 1 5 2

7. MACMILLAN Vocabulary Making Things Better for You! Picture Dictionary – Keyhole

8. MACMILLAN Vocabulary Making Things Better for You! Picture Dictionary – Lip Reading

9. MACMILLAN Vocabulary Making Things Better for You! Posters – Out of Focus

10. MACMILLAN Vocabulary Making Things Better for You! Posters Run and Point

11. MACMILLAN Vocabulary Making Things Better for You! Posters – I Spy

12. MACMILLAN Substitution Drills Making Things Better for You! Point and Say

13. MACMILLAN Substitution Drills Making Things Better for You! Question and Response

14. MACMILLAN Memory Tests Making Things Better for You! Present/Past Continuous

15. MACMILLAN Memory Tests Making Things Better for You! Present/Past Continuous

16. MACMILLAN Memory Tests Making Things Better for You! There is/are There was/were Prepositions

17. MACMILLAN Memory Tests Making Things Better for You! There is/are There was/were Prepositions

18. MACMILLAN Conversation Prompts Making Things Better for You! A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

19. MACMILLAN Conversation Prompts Making Things Better for You! A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

20. MACMILLAN Listening Making Things Better for You! Point – Level 2 Unit 6 Page 72 Track 76

21. MACMILLAN Listening Making Things Better for You! Draw a line – Level 2 Unit 5 Page 64 Track 64

22. MACMILLAN Listening Making Things Better for You! Circle - Level 2 Unit 4 Page 56 Track 54

23. MACMILLAN Listening Making Things Better for You! Write – Level 2 Unit 2 Page 38 Track 31

24. MACMILLAN Listening Making Things Better for You! Color – Level 2 Unit 7 Page 82 Track 10

25. MACMILLAN Speaking Making Things Better for You! Picture Sequencing

26. MACMILLAN Speaking Making Things Better for You! Picture Differences

27. MACMILLAN Speaking Making Things Better for You! Odd One Out

28. MACMILLAN Reading Making Things Better for You! Matching Pictures to Sentences and Paragraphs

29. MACMILLAN Reading Making Things Better for You! Matching Pictures to Sentences and Paragraphs B A C D E F G

30. MACMILLAN Reading Making Things Better for You! Read and Choose the Picture

31. MACMILLAN Reading Making Things Better for You! Error Correction

32. MACMILLAN Writing Making Things Better for You! Words

33. MACMILLAN Writing Making Things Better for You! Sentences

34. MACMILLAN Writing Making Things Better for You! Paragraphs

35. MACMILLAN Writing Making Things Better for You! Stories/Letters/Essays

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!