Picture Scenes and Conversation Cards

English speaking practice exercises (pdf) to improve conversation
Looking to improve your ESL class’ conversational skills? These picture scenes and conversation cards are ideal to get your students off to a fantastic start. How will your students describe these different pictures? These beautifully drawn pictures are so varied. Some show different landscapes, others show scenes of people.

These English speaking practice exercises are PDF format so they are so easy to download and print. You might divide these scenarios up so different groups have different pictures to work with. Or you might let children work through in pairs to test each other with the different questions provided. You could let your students go and take their own pictures or bring some in. Then you could use these images to start new discussions that are more personal to each of your class members.

Why are these English speaking practice exercises useful?
Practice makes perfect, and this is especially true for speaking and ESL students. This PDF download breaks speaking down into bite-sized chunks. These exercises are really engaging and interactive, the perfect way to get your students confident with speaking activities. This resource is designed for B1/B2 level students, to help them to think creatively about pictures. This improves your class’ creative problem solving too. Why not check out these lovely speaking games to boost what your class are learning?

These lovely pages include a series of prompts to help your class out. This makes sure your students are using the correct language and techniques such as modal verbs. It helps your students get comfortable with speculation about the past present and the future, as well as describing things.

This gets your students to think beyond simply what is shown in the pictures. This is so useful to encourage your class to be perceptive. It gets your students to justify their reasoning. You could even extend this into a writing activity to really get the most out of this resource.

What are the questions about these pictures?
There are so many varied questions about these pictures. They focus on who, what, why, when and where as well as how and opinion questions.

Some examples are:

“Who lives in this house?”
“Would you like to be there?”
“Will they have anything special to eat or drink?”