Story behind a photo

1. Ask the students to bring to the classroom photographs of themselves, or someone they know, taken some time ago; and bring one yourself.
2. Show the students your photograph, and tell them about the circumstances in which it was taken, or any other interesting facts (in the past) connected with it. Encourage them to ask questions. Then invite another student to display his or her photograph and talk about it. And so on, round the class.
3. The activity may be based on questions, in the past, about the photograph. The owner of the photograph simply states who the subject is - and from then on all information is given in answer to questions: Where was this taken? Did you live there long?
4. For homework, ask students to write a brief composition based on a similar photograph.