The story behide the photo

Warm – up
1) Do you like to take photographs?

2) How often do you take photographs?

3) What kind of photos do you like to take?

Vocabulary

1) Press pass -

2) Election results -

3) Quietly holding hands and smiling -

4) Announced -

Reading

On 4th November I arrived in Chicago late in the evening. I wanted to photograph Barack Obama and his family in the Convention Center, but when I got there I discovered that I didn’t have my press pass and I couldn’t go inside. I walked around the park outside the center. Although it was November, it was a warm night. The atmosphere was wonderful. When I took this photo everybody was looking at the TV screens waiting for the election results.

Some people were quietly holding hands and smiling – others were tense and nervous. They felt that it was their moment. Suddenly I realized that this was a better place to be than inside. I was watching Obama’s victory through the faces of all these people, African, Hispanic, Chinese, white. At about 11 o’clock the results were announced, and everybody went mad. People started laughing, shouting, and crying. But when Obama made his speech they all became quiet and emotional. There was only one place to be on the planet that night – and I was there.

Discussion
1. Do you prefer to take photos yourself or to have other people take photos? (Why?)

2. Do you have a photo you really like? Who took it?  What was happening at the time?

3. Do you upload photos onto Facebook or other internet sites?

4. Do you have a phoro as the screen saver on your computer or phone? What i it of?

5. Do you have a favourite photo of yourself as a child?

Who took it? What was happening when they took it? Whar were you wearing?

6. Do you have any photos in your bed room or living room? What are they of?

7. Do you know any other famous historical photos? Who or what are they of?

Valeriia Bondarenko | www.thedapo.com