Example

Expresiones útiles para describir imágenes

➢ Expresiones para empezar una descripción

• In this picture I can see a group of people…
• In this picture there are some people…
• This picture shows a couple/woman/man…
perdidos = lost
➢ Expresiones para especular
• I think… pienso o creo In the picture I can see a family verry happy
I can see the mother, the father and the child
• I believe…
• I suppose… Supongo I believe they are receiving good news
because they´re happyes
• They seem to be…
They are sitting on the sofa, in front of the doctor.
• He/she seems to be…
the doctor is probably talking to them about the child's
• Maybe they are… Tal vez ellos son o estan health, and may be they are new parents.
• Probably, he/she/it is… He wears blue pants
• They might be… he has short hair

➢ Expresiones para describir la postura de las personas

• they are sitting Ellos estan sentados
• they are standing Ellos estan parads
• they are lying down Ellos estan acostados

➢ Expresiones para describir la posición de las cosas y personas

• On the left/right… A la Isquierda / en la derecha
• In the middle/center…
• At the top/bottom…
• In the background/foreground…
• In front of… / Behind…
• On…
• Under…

➢ Conectores básicos
• because
• Also
• Moreover
• but
• However

➢ Expresarse acerca de lugares

• They’re driving in the country/in a city/in the mountains
• She’s sitting inside/outside a cafè
• I can see a street market/old building/square/street/restaurant/beach
…

➢ Describer las edades

• He’s about 50 years old.
• They’re in their twenties
• She’s a teenager/a young child/a middle-aged woman

➢ Describer la vestimenta:
• She’s wearing a pair of shorts and a red T-shirt
• They’re wearing quite casual/smart clothes
• He’s wearing a uniform

➢ Describir los sentimientos de las personas

• You can tell they are enjoying themselves because they are smiling
• He seems a bit frightened. Maybe this is the first time he’s tried this
• She looks very interested in this activity – she’s concentrating very hard

➢ Parafrasear (usa estas frases para describir la palabra que

no te acuerdes o no sabes)
• It’s something you fry food in (frying pan)
• It’s a kind of container for flowers (a vase)
• It’s a cupboard for keeping clothes in (a wardrobe)