Professional Documents
Culture Documents
DESCRIBING
DESCRIBING
PICTURE
Start with GENERAL information:
Who you can see, what they are doing, where they are.
The picture I'm going to describe is....
In this picture I can see....
This is a colour/black and white photo of...
Continue with more specific information, and try and show the examiner what a wide vocabulary you have. Use expressions
like:
In the background,
in the foreground,
on the left,
on the right,
next to
above
between
in the top right-hand corner,
In the bottom left-hand corner....
Say how old you think the people in the photo are:
they are in their teens/teenagers, very young, in their twenties, thirties, quite elderly, elderly...
Say how you think the people are feeling and, if you can, WHY YOU THINK THIS:
The father seems to be happy because he is laughing.
I think the teenagers are bored because they look very serious.
Describe how they are dressed in general:
They are wearing sports clothes/school uniform/casual clothes.
If you can't think of any more things to say, you could describe one person in more detail:
'I'm going to describe one person in more detail: the girl on the left has got long blonde straight hair and green eyes, she's
wearing a red and white striped t-shirt and a pair of shorts.‘
..If you can't remember the vocabulary, say 'I can't remember how to say it but it's something you use to'.....you will
get me points for this.