The Bedroom, by Vicent Van Gogh

 

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0047V1962

Shared by Viviane Pereda: 

When I have used piece works of Art in my lessons, they have always been a success. At least, from my point of view as a teacher of English. I think that images are very powerful tools and they are great resources to exploit. 

This time I suggest a very simple task that I have sometimes used for my 1st year of Eso students. We are going to use 'The Bedroom' by Van Gogh to practice over some bits of grammar (there is/are and prepositions of place). 

We can start with a very simple description task. Students can write some sentences to describe the bedroom. 

And we can move forward to a more complex task in which, for example, they have to imagine and describe the person living in that bedroom. 

We can finish the lesson with a speaking activity discussing in what ways that bedroom is different to the students' bedrooms.