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Learn, practise and build conversational skills in your language. Use the picture cards to teach the basic words and sentences, then use the poster scenes to ask questions and model answers. Before you know it, your learners are yarning up!
Who? Ages 3+, individuals or groups.
How? Lay the cards out, one level at a time, starting with Level 1 (yellow). One speaker asks questions and models answers, pointing at the different pictures. Later everyone can ask questions.
The number of things you can talk about in your language increases with each level. Always start with saying what’s in the picture: Here’s a dog. The dog is drinking water. If you’re not sure where to start, try these questions.
Level 1people, animals, things
This is a dog.
- Repeat after me …
- Point to the dog.
- Where is the dog?
- What is this?
- Is this a dog?
- Is this a fish?
- What do you see?
Level 2actions or doing things
The dog is drinking water.
- Repeat after me …
- Point to the dog.
- Point to the water.
- What is the dog drinking?
- What is drinking water?
- What is the dog doing?
- What do you see?
Level 3actions in different locations
The dog is sitting in the water in the bucket.
- Point to the dog, bucket, water.
- What is sitting in the water?
- Where is the dog sitting?
- What is in the bucket?
- What do you see?
Level 4actions using a tool or instrument
The man is chopping/cutting the tree with an axe.
- Point to the tree, axe, man.
- What is the man chopping?
- What is the man doing?
- What is the man chopping the tree with?
- Who is chopping the tree with an axe?
- What do you see?
Level 5two posters of bush scenes
- What is this?
- Where is the …?
- Is this a …?
- What can you see?
- How many … can you see?
- How many … are sitting?
- Who is eating fish?
- Who is sitting?
- What is on the rock?
- How many men / women / dogs are in the picture?
Remember
The cards include both transitive and intransitive verbs, so remember to use your language’s grammar to indicate who is doing the action, and who it is being done to!
Make it your own
- Write your language on the back of the cards if you like.
- Name it in your language. How do you say Who, What, Where in your language?
- Make more cards. This is only a beginning. Add lots of other picture cards and posters to suit your mob, country and lingo.
The cards and posters can be used in any way that you think up. Over to you!
One page, ready to print for your classroom or group.
More free resources
- A3 posters and A1 large posters (the Level 5 bush scenes)
- Flashcards for home printing
Who, What, Where? has been produced by Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative and Living Languages, inspired by the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL). Artwork © Frank McLeod 2023, Dunghutti artist. See the full resource in our shop.