What Are People In This Painting Thinking?

I’ve previously published several posts about having English Language Learners use photos and videos as fun opportunities to invent “thought bubbles” or dialogues.

Today, someone (and I apologize for losing track of who that someone was) tweeted out a link to an older BuzzFeed article titled This Twitter Account Hilariously Captions Old Paintings And It’s Brilliant.

Most of the examples it shared were off-color and, to tell the truth, I didn’t really think many were funny, but the idea of using paintings for this kind of activity hadn’t occurred to me, and I can see using them in the future.

Here’s one example they shared that is classroom appropriate and slightly humorous:

Even in its earliest incarnation, Batman's costume attracted a lot of criticism regarding the ears. pic.twitter.com/KDSki9XN3G

— wtf renaissance (@WtfRenaissance) August 14, 2014

Just another idea to keep in mind….