COMPARING PICTURES ENGLISH SPEAKING

About this resource

What's inside this resource

This resource of Comparing Jobs serve as speaking prompts for ESL students.

They include:\

- useful expressions

- functional vocabulary
- speaking questions for lower to intermediate level students.
These prompts are useful for exam preparation, specifically exams that use picture prompts, such as TOEIC, FCE and ECCE.
This resource of Pictures Comparing Jobs is great for:
- teaching online classes
- focus on language production
- focus on fluency development.
- developing fluency
- developing self-confidence
I have used it in an online classroom environment as well as with one-on-one students and they all loved it.
The product is suitable for anyone from to age of 10 to 100!

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Use comparative sentence starters ("in comparison with," "on the one hand...on the other hand") to describe similarities and differences between two photographs.
Produce an extended spoken or written comparison following the structure modeled in the sample answer.
Use topic-specific vocabulary (e.g., team spirit, dedication; marble, monument, ancient) when discussing a given picture topic.
Form and answer open-ended discussion questions related to a photo-comparison topic, such as zoo captivity or vacation preferences.

Teaching tips

Review the model answer (firefighter vs. hairdresser) with students before their first independent comparison, since it demonstrates the expected structure and comparative phrasing.
Supply or project the actual comparison photographs before each topic slide, since the topic vocabulary and prompts assume students can see two specific images that are not part of this pass's text evidence.
Use the zoo/captivity and extreme-sports topics for more advanced discussion, since they include open debate questions rather than simple descriptive prompts.

Skills covered

Comparative speaking structures — students use sentence starters like "both...and" and "whereas" to compare two images aloud.
Extended spoken response — students produce a multi-sentence comparison following a modeled example.
Topic vocabulary use — students incorporate given vocabulary (e.g., ancient, monument, dedication) into their spoken comparison.
Opinion and discussion — students answer open-ended follow-up questions tied to each photo topic.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Does this resource cover just one comparison topic, or several?

Several — the deck moves through comparing jobs, vacation styles, a historic monument, team sports, extreme sports, and zoo/animal captivity, each with its own vocabulary and discussion questions.