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These activities should teach pupils to be confident in describing pictures and events and improve their creative storytelling. They should also help pupils to understand the differences between speaking to an audience and speaking to a friend, in descriptive language and reporting.
The starter activity is designed to stimulate interest in the difference between pictures and the images that words used to describe them create in the mind. The main principle is for a pupil to describe a picture to another pupil who cannot see the picture. The pictures are large files and teachers could organise the classroom and explain the activity to their pupils while they download.
The second, main activity is to make up a story incorporating a set of words. They must try and use as many as possible - if not all - in the story. This can be done either on the board as a teacher-directed activity, in groups or independently.
The third plenary activity asks teachers and pupils to describe a day in the life of someone using a page from their diary. This can be done using different tenses, eg past, present, imperfect, future, etc and using as many linking words as possible such as then, next, after, soon, later, before, etc. This activity is designed to be done using the whiteboard as a whole class activity.
Curriculum links: Range 1; Skills 1, 2 & 6; Language Development 1, 2, 3 & 4 (main objectives in bold)
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