Picture event

Suppose you are to 'cover a topic'. You know that in about two weeks you and your group will read about shopping. Make your students go outside and take photos they can associate with 'shopping'. Create an event, invite all the members of the group. The date of the event is the deadline of uploading their photos on the event page.
The pictures can be used in class as visual stimuli for speaking. On facebook they will surely trigger comments.
You can as well tag pictures with names of things in them. (Any vocabulary can be presented this way.)

Facebookicize your coursebook: collaborative writing

This activity is built upon the writing section of a coursebook unit. The aim is to make your students learn to write a proper 'for and against essay'. The part in the photo is the description of the paragraphs of the essay from the coursebook (Success Intermediate Students' Book by Stuart McKinlay and Bob Hastings, Pearson Longman, page 39).

Tag the photo with names of the members of your group. Each member should just write the paragraph with their name over it (in the comment section). Finally you will have several versions of each paragraph.

You can print these and in your regular lesson you stick the paragraphs all over teh classroom, students walk around and copy the paragraphs (alter them if they like) to comply the full essay.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=284546978240000&set=o.251193808240149&type=1&theater

An Obscure Image

A strange tagged image to practise expressing uncertainty.

Upload an obscure picture. Tag certain parts of the picture with expressions of uncertainty. Students are asked to write comments  which describe a given part of the image, using the expression in the tag. 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=259724064055625&set=a.131324166895616.18685.100000541016537&type=3&theater