Picture Prompts | Using Images for Conversation, Critical Thinking, and Debate

Spark meaningful classroom discussion with a versatile collection of images designed to encourage conversation, critical thinking, and debate. Each picture comes with suggested questions to guide learners, but can also be used independently to prompt description, speculation, and opinion-giving.

The resource supports a wide range of teaching goals: from practising exam-style image description, to developing descriptive and argumentative language, to starting mini-debates or roleplays. Students can compare images, write follow-up responses, or take part in short structured debates based on the issues shown. This flexibility makes the prompts suitable for warmers, full lessons, or ongoing practice in fluency and reasoning.

This resource is also part of our Debates & Discussions | EFL Resource Pack, which is available to download here.

Perfect For:

• ESL teachers looking for visual prompts to encourage debate and discussion
• TEFL and TESOL classrooms preparing for exams with image description practice
• EAL learners developing fluency, critical thinking, and expressive language through visuals

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