Picture My Picture Opposites Flash Cards | 40 Language Development Educational Photo Cards | Speech Therapy Materials, ESL Materials

Picture My Picture produce a range of flashcards to support teaching and learning. They are made in Hong Kong for the company based in Melbourne Australia, they are also available in the USA. The language used does not seem to have any Australian or USA bias though, the English spellings are the ones we would use in the UK for all the cards I have looked at. The flashcards are twice the size of a playing card, glossy, colourful and durable - photo on one side, word printed on the other, excellent quality. This set of 840 Opposites cards come in a sturdy storage box. There are 10 opposites pairs covered in this set - each one is illustrated in two ways . For example Empty/Full are shown by an empty and a full jar of biscuits, but also by a full and empty cereal bowl. This is a good teaching strategy as it is not always easy to get children to focus on the opposite attribute from just one example. The photos feature modern pictures using people and artefacts from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, to which a diverse range of students can relate. There are additional cards in the pack giving ideas on how to use them in a variety of ways, differentiated for stages of learning . The best thing about these cards as a teaching aid is that they are very attractive to children and can be used in many different ways. They would be a great asset in any classroom for use in language teaching, speech therapy, small group interventions, to stimulate verbal communication, for any children who benefit from visual cues such as those on the ASD spectrum, for teaching English as a second language, to support project work or simply as discussion and conversation starters. Children can have fun matching up the opposite pairs. There is lots of further information on the Picture My Picture site including video clips of the cards in use. A range of boxed sets is available, this small box £10:50 is quite specialised but very well done.

cartes solides sur les contraires ; les images sont simples et épurés. Les concepts se basent sur des éléments de la vie quotidienne

Nos gustan mucho, por el tamaño de las tarjetas. La calidad de las fotos. La calidad de la impresión. El uso de los colores. El hecho de que son fotos sobre fondo blanco. Es la segunda compra que hacemos. Las usamos diario y dado el desgaste normal, las volveremos a comprar.

The cards 's quality is good. But that is not the issue. Each pair of opposite is strangely illustrated twice in different ways but many opposites are just not here (young - old / cold- warm...). You can only work on: clean dirty,/ empty full/ open closed / wet dry/ many few / front back / big small / long short / high low / on off. Not appropriate for language teaching. It is a shame, because the verb cards were really good.

Ottimo