Pictures for Learning Languages

Patrick R. Moran

Beginning to Advanced. Primary to Adult

ISBN: 0-86647-123-5

• Download: Learning and Teaching with Lexicarry

"Lexicarry is the best single all in one language learning resource that we
have come across." Greg Thompson: Summer Institute of Linguistics
International.

Lexicarry offers a fun, active, conversational approach to language
learning. With this book you can learn any language the active way using
one of the Lexicarry word lists and/or someone who knows the language.

The book has 142 pages of full-color drawings illustrating functional
language and vocabulary in 190 situational and topical contexts. This
amounts to over 4500 everyday words and expressions. The pictures
make conversation and interactive learning easy.

Unlike standard "picture dictionaries," Lexicarry stimulates talk, lots of talk,
while students build their speaking skills and learn vocabulary.

Students learn by discussing the objects, places, and activities in the
drawings, working together in pairs, as a class, or with native speakers.
The illustrations are not labeled, and this naturally challenges and excites
the students' imaginations and helps them retain the language. The brilliant
colors and often humorous drawings add to the fun of working with
Lexicarry.

A great variety of learning activities are explained in detail in two new
guides. The first, "The Introduction for the Student" is a simple "How to
learn with Lexicarry," a brief and practical learner's guide. It appears in the
book and, for free, here on Lexicarry.com.

The other guide given in "Materials for the Teacher" here on this website
includes easy-to-follow "How to" suggestions for all sorts of teachers, a
sharing pool of bright ideas and experiences from other teachers, and links
to related professional sites.

The sections of Lexicarry are:
* Functions - expressions and phrases used in everyday life shown in
dramatic contexts
* Sequences of actions
* Related actions
* Operations
* Topics - vocabulary items related to one theme
* Places - both scenes/rooms and the things we find and do there And a
new section in this 3rd edition of Lexicarry illustrating 54 common
* Proverbs and Sayings - a dynamic way of sharing both language and
cultural insights

Click on the section titles to see sample illustrations.