You can use time phrases to give your

Describing
People Actions
story a sense of chronology:
Number: How many people are there? - What are the people doing?
Characters: Who are they? - What else is happening?
first finally

pictures
Age: How old are they? (Use the Present Continuous)
firstly in the end
Company: Who is with them? - What was the cause?
first of all at that moment
Appearance: What do they look like? - What is the effect?
at first while...
Place Feelings: What are they feeling? - Why was this picture taken?
second(ly) one evening / morning
- Where is this? Outside or
soon meanwhile
inside?
after that the next day
- What can you see? Buildings,
suddenly when
the nature, a room, objects,
then before...
animals?
next later
- Describe the details.
during... as soon as
- What colours are there?
- Use some adjectives to
describe the place
You can use different words to make your
story more interesting:
Adjectives: young, old, big, dark, afraid, early, small,
Time fantastic, bad, interesting, lovely, usual, boring,
- Is it present, past or future? relaxed, clean, busy, fast, funny, dangerous...
- What season is it? Adverbs: quickly, slowly, happily, fast, hard, well,
- What part of the day is it? mostly, luckily, badly, absolutely, very, really, much,
- What’s the time? only, (not) so, every, a bit, more, less, surprisingly...
- How can you tell? Verbs: come, go, wait, talk, think, decide, look, smile,
surprise, touch, see, feel, hear, order, plan, try,
enjoy, shout, watch, beg, say, push, clean, open...
Weather
- What’s the weather like?
When you don’t know what to say, buy yourself time and
- What season is it?
- What’s the temperature? Is it
My feelings, experience use these hesitation strategies:
- What do you think of the situation? Well, Just a moment/Hang on a second. Maybe
hot or cold?
- How do you feel about it? Comment on it. Um, I’m not really sure. What else?
- Have you ever been in a similar situation? Er, Well, let me think. (All) right,
Let’s see, You see what I mean? Basically,
Senses - What was it like?
- What did you do? I mean, Is that understandable? I don’t know.
- What can the people hear, smell,
- How did you feel? I guess, Was I clear to you? Ok.
taste, feel?
You know, Now, where was I ?
So, I have to think about this.
Cartoon taken from: http://www.themovierambler.com/2009/07/official-planet-51-trailer-hits.html
 You can use time phrases to give your

Describing
People Actions
story a sense of chronology:
Number: How many people are there? - What are the people doing?
Characters: Who are they? - What else is happening?
first finally

pictures
Age: How old are they? (Use the Present Continuous)
firstly in the end
Company: Who is with them? - What was the cause?
first of all at that moment
Appearance: What do they look like? - What is the effect?
Place at first while...
Feelings: What are they feeling? - Why was this picture taken?
second(ly) one evening / morning
- Where is this? Outside or
soon meanwhile
inside?
after that the next day
- What can you see? Buildings,
suddenly when
the nature, a room, objects,
then before...
animals?
next later
- Describe the details.
during... as soon as
- What colours are there?
- Use some adjectives to
describe the place
You can use different words to make your
story more interesting:
Adjectives: young, old, big, dark, afraid, early, small,
Time fantastic, bad, interesting, lovely, usual, boring,
- Is it present, past or future? relaxed, clean, busy, fast, funny, dangerous...
- What season is it? Adverbs: quickly, slowly, happily, fast, hard, well,
- What part of the day is it? mostly, luckily, badly, absolutely, very, really, much,
- What’s the time? only, (not) so, every, a bit, more, less, surprisingly...
- How can you tell? Verbs: come, go, wait, talk, think, decide, look,
smile, surprise, touch, see, feel, hear, order, plan,
try, enjoy, shout, watch, beg, say, push, clean, open...
Weather
- What’s the weather like?
When you don’t know what to say, buy yourself time and
- What season is it?
- What’s the temperature? Is it
My feelings, experience use these hesitation strategies:
- What do you think of the situation? Well, Just a moment/Hang on a second. Maybe
hot or cold?
- How do you feel about it? Comment on it. Um, I’m not really sure. What else?
- Have you ever been in a similar situation? Er, Well, let me think. (All) right,
Let’s see, You see what I mean? Basically,
Senses - What was it like?
- What did you do? I mean, Is that understandable? I don’t know.
- What can the people hear, smell,
- How did you feel? I guess, Was I clear to you? Ok.
taste, feel?
You know, Now, where was I ?
So, I have to think about this.
Cartoon taken from: http://www.themovierambler.com/2009/07/official-planet-51-trailer-hits.html