Young market traders (lower level)

• Show learners the image and ask them what they think it shows.

• Draw a table (2 x 2) on the board with the headings habit and that day.
• Ask learners to copy the table and to allow space in the second row to write 8 sentences
• Give learners the cut out list of expressions from the audio and ask them to guess if these will be habits (the girls' or the photographer's) or things specific to that day.
• Learners write the phrases under the headings in their notebooks. Monitor and support as needed.
• Check answers as a whole class

Answers

Habit

• I was living in Vietnam
• I often went on fun motorbike adventures
• We didn’t usually plan our trips
• We improvised our adventures
• We decided where we wanted to go when we saw things that looked interesting                                  

That day

• It was a Sunday morning
• I took this picture early in 2010 
• None of us can remember exactly where we were
• We stopped to take pictures
• These two girls came walking past
• It was still early in the morning
• They’d had a good day
• They’d sold everything in their baskets

• Play the recording. Learners listen and check their answers.
• Play the recording again. Ask learners to put the phrases in the same order as in the recording.

• Put learners into pairs
• Ask learners to retell the story together. They can use the expressions to help them
• Monitor and support

• Ask pairs to write their version of the story in their notebooks
• Tell them they can simplify the story
• Ask one pair to read out their version. Keep pausing them to check if the other students agree with this version.

Note: If learners write on a piece of blank paper their stories can be displayed on the wall with the image.

• Assign each learner a photograph showing a person or people
•  Tell learners to make two lists of activities under the headings HABIT and THAT DAY for the picture they have chosen using their own ideas about the photo. 

Note: If it’s difficult to print so many photographs, give learners the links to choose a photograph. They should write a brief description of the photograph they’ve selected.

• In the following lesson put learners into small groups
• learners show their photograph, or describe it, and tell a short story using their lists as a prompt.

Useful links for images:

•     Jobs (http://www.flickr.com/photos/eltpics/sets/72157625352999273/)
•     Working Week (http://www.flickr.com/photos/eltpics/sets/72157626507470277/)

Victoria

I took this picture early in 2010. I'm not sure but I think it was a Sunday morning – it was certainly very relaxed, so yes, it was probably a Sunday.

I took the photo the Central Highlands of Vietnam – um, that's a region of Vietnam on the border of Laos and Cambodia. I was living in Vietnam at that time and I often went on fun motorbike adventures with some good friends of mine. The strange thing is that none of us, not me or my three friends – none of us can remember exactly where we were on this particular day. Oh well.

We didn't usually plan our trips very much, we wanted them to be quite spontaneous and improvised, so we just knew when our trains left and where our planes took off from. We improvised the rest of our adventures along the way, really, we just, um, decided where we wanted to go when we saw things that looked, you know, looked interesting. No plans, really.

I remember that, on this day, we stopped to take photos at an old, picturesque village that looked nice, um, a typical village for this region - they make great photos and just then these two girls came walking – no, more like striding or marching past us, laughing and full of energy.

It was still early in the morning, but they'd obviously had a good day already, and had sold everything that had been in their baskets. I think you can also see it had been a good morning from the way they were walking happily home.