Blog challenge:compare and contrast photo

In a previous entry, I talked about elt pics: a wonderful resource for teachers created by teachers.

While I was looking at this resource, I also came across an interesting blog challenge: Compare and Contrast Photo.

The idea is to choose two different but similar photos and compare and contrast them. To those of us who prepare students for the Cambridge ESOL speaking tests (and examine students too in my case!) the idea of comparing and contrasting two photos will ring lots of bells!

I checked out a few of the blogs from people who had taken up this challenge and share here a link to one of my favourites by Tyson Seburn.

Tyson Seburn has also provided a worksheet for students to collect and note down useful expressions for comparing and contrasting and some sentences written by students – some of them contain mistakes and need correcting.

And there is also a powerpoint presentation considering ways of comparing two job adverts.

Another post I liked is by Sandy Millin– maybe I was influenced by the first photo on her post – a picture of Durham near where I grew up – and also one of my favourite places!

So, I decided to share a couple of pictures of Durham with you - compare the weather and the angle the photos were taken from!

And so that you can see a bit of the inside of the Cathedral, here is a youtube video showing Sting performing there!