French Photo Card Description Activity

For the description of the photo card, I teach my students 4 simple sentences and I have created this lesson based on these 4 sentences. I just ask them to describe who is in the picture, where are they, what they are doing (using the expression “ils sont en train de”) and their feelings (“ils ont l’air”). I also ask them to describe weather/objects. This works for the writing as well as the speaking and it helps students to repeat the same set of sentences.

I tried to make this activity as fun as possible. It will require students to move around the room, to work in teams with white boards and they will have the occasion to win sweets or fun pens (of course, this is totally up to you).

Of course, not all of us have the same way to teach how to describe a picture. I don’t ask them to go into details. My students really struggle with the picture description so I have to teach them something simple and they’ll easily remember. However, feel free to use the ideas and adapt to the way you teach the picture description.

Note: I do not own the rights of the pictures. They all come from AQA or free picture websites.

Thank you and don’t hesitate to leave some feedback. :)