Using EP Languages visual text lessons in the classroom

This article outlines suggestions for how teachers can use EP's authentic visual text lessons within their classroom for language learning.

Our visual text lessons are based on the theme of a specific EP Languages unit.

Each lesson contains 3 different visual texts accompanied by a variety of comprehension and production tasks.

These lessons have been designed to go alongside our beginner and intermediate level units, but can also be used as stand alone lessons.

They can be found in each EP Languages Beginner or Intermediate unit, either within our Discover tool or in the Library tab within a unit folder.

Individual activities

Students work through the lesson at their own pace.
Teachers can choose to assign different sections to different students - you might just assign the comprehension questions to some students - but all activities to other students.
You might choose to assign one visual text at a time.
On completion of the EP lesson -students could make their own version of the visual text.
Students create their own vocabulary glossary based on the visual text.
The production tasks can be used as a speaking/writing assessment.

Whole class teaching

You could use the visual text lesson to introduce a topic.
Project the visual text and use it with the whole class to introduce/discover new vocabulary.
Group reading out loud together with the text projected on the screen.

Pair or small group activities

Students work through the EP Lessons in pairs or small groups where they discover the language in the visual text together - but individually submit the activities on their own device.
Students create a role play that relates to one of the visual texts in a particular unit
In pairs - do a running dictation with the visual text

Click the links below to preview lessons in EP.

French

Intermediate coming soon

Spanish

Italian

German

Japanese

Chinese