Online Photo Dictionary

Online Photo Dictionary website displays a set of thematic pictures (fruit, numbers, fast food...). The image can be explored by dragging the mouse on its different parts. The name of each item can be read and listen to.

GenMagic: online comic generator

GenMagic is a simple way to create short stories. The program allows users to choose from a set of background pictures, objects, animals, characters... and add text to the different six scenes. Once it is finished, the story can be printed out.

Bingo cards

Custom Bingo Cards

Make a monster

Make a monster is a simple game based on Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings. The aim is to create a monster by choosing its body parts from the models provided. The new pictures can be printed out or saved as pdf documents and can be used to practise description.

Example:

My monster has the head of a bird and the legs of a horse. It has the tail of a sea monster and two big wings. It has got two antlers and long pointed ears. It is always angry.

Creating photo stories

Time for a Photo Story proposes a sequence of activities aimed at ESO 1 students. It can be carried out in around ten lessons and gives opportunities to develop language, arts, and ICT skills.




Time for a Photo Story: teacher guide

Time for a Photo Story: student materials

Pictures to practice vocabulary and description

These are a couple of websites that provide panoramas that can be used for games such as 'I see with my little eye', 'Find something that starts with the letter...' or as a trigger for oral and written descriptions.

Panoramas dk

Arounder

Image search engines

These are three three engines that allow online image search according to criteria such as colour or topic:
Multicolor Search

Wylio and FlickrCC search for 'creative commons' pictures.

Photo edition

These are three tools that allow the user to edit and transform pictures online:

Photofunia is an online photo editing tool that works like this: you upload any photo and the technology automatically creates photo montages.

It is not necessary to sign up.

Tuxpi Photo Editor is also a simple tool that allows to change colours, create montages, add text to pictures, edit photos with many different effects...

Registrations is not requested.

Photovisi is very appropriate for creating collages.

A free account must be created in order to download the picture.

Garammar and Vocabulary

Grammar and Vocabulary from the Teens section of LearnEnglish offers several sets of interactive activities aimed at working on different vocabulary fields.

Draw a Stickman

A couple of interactive cartoon stories can be tried on the website of Draw a Stickman app. The layout is simple and attractive and the language of the instructions can be useful for reading and vocabulary work on the interactive whiteboard.

Drawing like Picasso

Picassohead website allows to create portraits made up with a variety of features drawn in a 'picassian' style. All features can be altered with regard to size, colour and position. The tool can be used for oral dictation of instructions (e.g. make it larger/smaller, change into blue, drag it to the left...) when using the interactive whiteboard or as a pair activity when sharing a computer.

Use of pictures in the English classroom

This article presents some ideas about the use of photos in the EFL classroom.

Some websites to find copyleft photos:

Flickrcc
10 banques d'images libres
INTEF: Banco de imágenes y sonidos