True or False (Picture)

Teacher displays a picture and makes true or false statements about it; students stay silent for false statements or correct them.

Procedure

1. Display a clear picture (on paper, projected, or via screenshare for online classes).
2. Make a statement about the picture that is either true or false. For example, showing a picture of a woman playing tennis: She's playing football.
3. If the statement is true, students repeat it. If false, students either stay silent or correct the teacher: No, she isn't. She's playing tennis.
4. The teacher can add humour by pretending to be tired or shortsighted, "explaining" the many mistakes.

Tips

• Extension 1: give students a list of sentences about a picture, some true, some false. They copy out only the true ones.
• Extension 2: give students a text describing a picture that contains false statements. Students rewrite the text accurately.
• Extension 3: students write true and false sentences about a picture in pairs, then exchange with another pair to identify which are true and which are false.
• Works well on Zoom via screenshare, with responses via chat or unmuted audio.