The Photo Captioners

The Photo Captioners

By the sixth grade students of the 37th Primary School of
Iraklio, Crete
2020-2021

This mini group project, which started during an online
lesson, through Webex breakout sessions in March 2021
and was subsequently finalized in class, involved writing
captions for a series of unusual photos1. The sixth graders
who took part in it came up with some brilliant ideas.

Malamatenia Stavrakaki, EFL teacher

1 The photos were all taken from https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/photo-
captions except from Photo 6 which was taken from https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-
cornwall



Photo 1

Suggested captions for Photo 1

1. Wasting your time
2. Today’s youth
3. Escaping from the real world
4. Going for a walk on mum’s order
5. Isolation
6. Addicted to your mobile
7. Mobile addiction
8. Online hide and seek
9. Teenagers in the 21st century
10. Blackout from life

Photo 2

Suggested captions for Photo 2

1. Surrounded by Emmos
2. Stand out in the crowd
3. The last colors in a dark place
4. A little happiness and a lot of sadness
5. Make the difference
6. Hope in the darkness
7. It’s okay to be different
8. June: Month of pride
9. Be colorful
10. Hope in chaos

Photo 3

Suggested captions for Photo 3

1. Live every moment
2. Love is everywhere
3. Enjoy life and don’t work hard
4. Joy
5. My own world
6. Childhood in nature
7. Loving nature
8. I love myself
9. Life before technology
10. Dancing in the sunset

Photo 4

Suggested captions for Photo 4

1. Too much work eats the master
2. A hard day’s work
3. All online
4. Online lessons
5. Quarantine life
6. Webex lessons
7. Tired at work
8. A teenager’s life
9. Contemporary working conditions
10. Working sleeper or sleeping worker?

Photo 5

Suggested captions for Photo 5

1. Moving away to another country
2. Strange turtle
3. Post-turtle
4. Travelling at turtle speed
5. A new start
6. A trip to a new life
7. Travelling to the sea
8. Migration
9. Holidays forever
10. Endless lonely road trip

Photo 6

Suggested captions for Photo 6

1. The skyship
2. Everything is possible
3. Reverse Titanic
4. A crazy boat It’s all in the mind
5. A floating ship or a flying ship?
6. Flying away from home
7. I believe I can fly!
8. Peter Pan’s Boat
9. The flying cargo
10. 3000 AD

The photo captioners:

Caption 1 was created by Anastasia ,George K., Iliana,
Stella D. and - ST3 class
Caption 2 was created by Chris, Konstantinos F., Lydia
and Maria- ST3 class
Caption 3 was created by Adrian, Chara, Eleanna John P.,
Konstantinos D.-ST3 class
Caption 4 was created by George Ps., Irene Sf., Mary
Helen and Yakinthi- ST2 class
Caption 5 was created by Alexandra, Eleftheria, Irene Sg.
and Vasiliki-ST2 class
Caption 6 was created by Bill, Ektoras and Philip-ST2
class
Caption 7 was created by Chryssa, Mara, Maria S. and
Sophia-ST1 class
Caption 8 was created by Eleanna, Georgia, Melina and
Myrsini-ST1- Class
Caption 9 was created by George P., George T., John and
Konstantinos –ST1 class
Caption 10 was created by Lefteris, Nicholas and
Panayotis-ST1 class
Caption 11 for photo 6 was created By Stelios –ST1 class