Multiple Picture Listening Activity

This is a great post-reading, listening activity which I just recently learned from Andrew Olimpi, and it is very similar to Picture A/B Listening Matching but just with more pictures. This does require that you use pictures/screenshots so there is definitely some prep before.

Pre-Activity

1. Create 8-10 pictures/screenshots which illustrate sentences from a reading.
2. Place 3-4 of them on a Google Slide/Powerpoint.
3. Label each picture with a letter AND then include an additional letter choice as "None of the above"
4. Write sentences or use sentences from the reading which describe what are in the pictures AND write some sentences which do NOT describe the pictures. Six sentences is a good number.
5. Do the same for 2-3 more slides.

Activity

1. Project the first slide.
2. Read the first sentence and tell students that they are to write down which picture has been described. Let them know that "None of the above" is an option.
3. Continue reading sentences and have students write down their choices.
4. After the first slide is finished, review answers.
5. Continue the same with the second and third slide

Example from Latin 2 last week:

Sentences (with answers)

1. Gaius ad templum Iovis advenit ad implorandam victoriam in Circo Maximo. C
2. In templo Iovis erat magna statua dei. A
3. Noster parentes semper ad hoc templum advenerunt ad imprecāndam victorīam Romanam contra hostes. D
4. Cum Gaius vidisset statuam Iovis, exclamavit A
5. Cum noster parentes essent victorīōsi in pugnando bello contra hostes, advenerunt ad hoc templo ad honorandum te. B
6. In muris, Romani scribunt, “Scorpius est optimus!” et picturas Scorpi pingunt. D

Observations

1. This activity actually went very quickly, and I was able to do three slides of six sentences each (18 total) in about 10 minutes. 
2. I like the "None of the above" option, because students had to listen carefully and to look at the pictures closely to see if that was the answer.
3. Students need to be somewhat familiar with the pictures beforehand so that they know what the pictures are communicating, I had used these pictures the day before in a digital Picture/Sentence Matching assignment.
4. I used this as a practice for the next day's Picture A/Picture B Listening Assessment. (formative). Because students were very familiar with listening/picture matching aspect and had practiced the sentences earlier but in a different way, they did quite well.

Thanks, Andrew, for this activity!