VISUAL INTELEGENCE

Alena RyneiskayaIryna MykytkaGabriela Lobo

Irina Spirina

Definition

Visual/Spatial Intelligence:› Tend to think in pictures and need to create

vivid mental images to retain information› Enjoy looking at maps, charts, pictures, and

movies. Their skills include:

› Puzzle building, reading, writing, and sense of direction, sketching, painting, and interpreting visual images (rebuses).

Proposal for an activity

Level : 2nd ESO Extension: 1 session Type of activity:

a) Interpreting a map, sense of direction.b) Solving a set of pictograms

Interpreting a map

Pair work (asking/giving directions) Skills:

› Reading› Speaking› Listening

Linguistic competence:› Use of grammar› Syntax› Vocabulary

Interpreting a mapGUIDELINE:

1. Procedure: • Give each student a paper with a location from the map

and agree on which would be their starting location.• Student A starts explaining how to get to the location

provided on his/her the paper.• Student B is expected to follow S.A´s directions and infer

the answer.• Let students interchange their roles

2. Language focus: • Giving directions: It´s the second street on the right, Go

along, past, across..., Turn right, first left…Dou you see a … opposite to….?

Solving pictograms

Group work Limited timing Providing hints if necessary Skills:

› Reading› Writing› Speaking

Linguistic competence:› Vocabulary

Mathematical competence:› Use of numbers to produce and interpret information

Solving pictograms

GUIDELINE:1. Procedure:

• Remind students to write down the words corresponding to each image.

• Explain students that a comma (´) means they should take off a letter, two commas (´´) -two letters and so on.

• Numbers correspond to the letters, thus an unusual order of numbers would mean a change in the order of letters within a word.

• Provide some hints of necessary.

Solving pictograms

FIRE FRIEHAND

SHIP

Solving pictograms

BLACKBERRY ROAD OARD

Thanx 4 u Attention !