In this activity, the teacher or a student describes a picture verbally and students must draw what they think they hear. Therefore, this is a great activity for students to practice speaking clearly and listening carefully. It gives an opportunity for creative students to learn by drawing. Unlike the samples on this site, I would choose pictures that are more relevant to teenagers.
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This idea could also be used for vocabulary building. Students would have to verbally describe the vocab word and a student could have to draw or guess what the word is. You could reverse this idea by playing Pictionary, where a student draws and his/her peers guess the vocabulary word.
I used drawing and information-gap activities when I taught words related to shapes and lines, and pair-groups worked perfect for this. I prepared a sheet with shapes and lines already drawn on it and gave it to only one person of each group. That person only verbally described the drawing and the other partner tried to draw it. My students liked the activity.
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