VIDEOTELLING & PICTURETELLING

We've talked about STORYTELLING before, either during our book club sessions or even here in our blog. However, have you ever heard about PICTURETELLING or VIDEOTELLING?

You can see Jamie Keddie, who we had the pleasure of seeing and hearing in Pamplona, doing some "videotelling".

 What do you think? Do you think you'd enjoy being a student in this class?

In any case, we do picturetelling and videotelling all the time. Think about all those times you tell a friend about a photo you saw on Facebook or a video you saw on the internet. Can you do it in English, though?

I propose a challenge: Go to The Guardian section "In Pictures" and choose one of the images there. Try to describe it for a classmate, friend, partner, giving them clues about the picture/video. If it is a picture, it would be fun to ask the other person to draw the image they have in mind.

Example:

Afterwards, debate and see if their mental image actually matched the real thing or not.

It's really fun!!

Check Jamie Keddie's  blog here (lots of good stuff to study English).