Tattoo Possibilities is a set of teaching resources designed to encourage students to use their higher critical thinking skills. The focus on this lesson is hypothesising about an image using language prompts, reconstructing a text by means of a dictogloss, and practising speaking skills by speaking about values and attitudes.

Tattoo - Possibilities via ELT Pics

The materials accompanying this pack are designed to be used with higher level (B2+) students.

Each pack in this series contains an audio recording with a photographer talking about an image they have taken and a complete downloadable lesson plan on how to exploit the image and the audio. There is a downloadable lesson plan and a full-size copy of the image.

In this lesson, students are asked to do the following:

  • Hypothesise about a photographic image, using prompt words. (Speaking)
  • Listen to check and review their hypotheses. (Listening skills)
  • To reconstruct a text by means of a dictogloss
  • To speak about values and attitudes and to share their ideas (Speaking). 

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See all the lesson plans in this series

 

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