UP TO DATE

This site has been thought as a helpful tool to promote my students' interest in learning English as well as to improve their English competence.

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

DESCRIBING PICTURES

As you know, next week we will start with the oral tests where you will have to describe a photo. Let's hear some examples and do some practise to help you with the task a bit more.

1.- Watch the following video which teaches you how to describe a photo together with some useful vocabulary and expressions.


Now write a comment with the words you remember for each picture. Do not worry if you can't remember all the words, just write down those words you remember.

2.- Go the site below and listen to the sample descriptions and the key words.




3.- Fill in the gaps with the expressions studied. You can click on ? for clues.





4.- The words studied so far may be useful to describe your photo. Revise the vocabulary in units 1 & 2 by doing the activities in the site below:

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

PICTURE 1: black, white,long,above, curly, wavey, moustache, bows, shadows.
PICTURE 2: colour, cheetah, spots, tail,strepeas, grey background, focuos.
PICTURE 3: landslide,grey, jagged,climb,grass.
PICTURE 4: Concert, crow, audience,shouting, across, top, bottom, balcony.

David lopez 4ºA

Anonymous said...

Hello teacher! I'm Carmen Moliz. These are the sentences that I remember:
In the first picture the man say that Dalí has got a long thin moustache, crazy while eyes, the ligth comes from above and you can see some ripples.
Second picture: the man say that the cheetah has spots, there are three trees and just the cheetah and the rock are focus.
Picture number three: It's a landscape photograph with mountains and rocks. You can see a very nice blue sky and a dense forest.
And finally in the last one the man says that it is a concer picture where a band is playing, it's also seems like a theatre and you can see siluets.
Bye bye,

Iván González 4ºA said...

Picture 1:black, white,out of the water, above, ripples, long, thin...
Picture 2:colour, cheetah, big, spots, grey, hard, trees, concentrating...
Picture 3:landscape, background, jagged, top, peak, mountains, grass...
Picture 4:indoor, concert, bright, lights, audience, silhouttes...
Iván González 4ºA

Anonymous said...

Iván Santiagp Bravo.4ºA

Dali:

B&W picture
Black long hair
Weavy
Crazy, wild eyes

Cheeta:

Thousands of spots
Standing at the top of the rock
Back ground out of focus
The cheeta is in focus

Landscape:

Mountains in the background
Jagged rocks
Peaks
Thick
At the bottom
Grass

Indoor photo:

Bright lights
A Crowd
Balcony
Slopping
Silhoutte

Anonymous said...

Malika.picture 1
Benjamin has described four photos with a simple words like background,on top of...in focus...He did it very good because I understood all.He has described the pfotos with details.

Anonymous said...

I´m Daniel López.
Picture one :It´s a Salvador Dali`s picture.In the picture we can see some water and a head in the water. It´s black and white picture. And the head is staring at photograph.
Picture two : It´s colorful , we can see a cheetah , the cheetah is standing on the rock. The cheetah and the rock are in focus.
Picture three: We can see mountains. There are lights and shadows on the mountain´s peaks.
Picture four: The picture is in colour. thera are a lot of people.A band is playing in a concert.

Anonymous said...

salvador dali's photo:black and white picture,long black hair,straight,curly,wavey,long thin moustache,he has crazy, wild eyes. CHEETAH'S PHOTO:colour photo,the rock is grey and very hard,concentrating very hard. LANDSCAPE'S PHOTO:jugged rocks,vey nice blue sky, very dense forest. CONCERT'S PHOTO:he is excited, bright,balcony and shadows.

Anonymous said...

Guillermo Perejil 4º A
PICTURE 1: Black and white, long and black hair, long thing moustache, ripples...
PICTURE 2: colour picture, stripes, spots,concentrating...
PICTURE 3: some mountains in the background, there are made of grey rock, blue sky in the background,...
PICTURE 4:concert, blue colour in the blackground, silhouttes,...

Anonymous said...

XINXIN WU 4ºA
The person who described the photos is Benjamin.
In the first picture he described a Salvador Dali,he said:the picture is a black and white,and have a ripples in the water.The second picture he described an animal,the animal had a spot.The thirt photo you can see a mountain,the mountain are jagged and it had the peak.In the underground there are shadow,crowd.The last photo there is a concert the people are slopping,the concert is bright.

Anonymous said...

salvador dali's photo:black and white picture,long black hair,straight,curly,wavey,long thin moustache,he has crazy, wild eyes. CHEETAH'S PHOTO:colour photo,the rock is grey and very hard,concentrating very hard. LANDSCAPE'S PHOTO:jugged rocks,vey nice blue sky, very dense forest. CONCERT'S PHOTO:he is excited, bright,balcony and shadows. Daniel Lorenzo

Anonymous said...

Sergio Peña Camacho

PICTURE 1. The picture is a black and white Picture of Salvador Dali, he is in the water but his head is out the water. And finally we can see some riples in the water.
PICTURE 2. This picture is colorful picture,and we can see a cheetah on the rock in the focus, and in the background we see some trees and blue sky that they are out focus.
PICTURE 3. This picture is a Landscape picture, There are three mountains and a dense forest in the middle.In the foreground there is a tree and in the barkground we cxan see a blue sky.
PICTURE 4. This picture is about a rock concert in an audence, there are some shadows of the people. It is a funny picture.

Anonymous said...

Manuel Viejo

Describe some detail.
1-Is for the artist.....
Is a black and white picture
He describes de person
He describes the shadow
2-Colour picture
IN FOCUS OR OUT OF FOCUS
He describes where is the cheeta
Background
3-Jagged rocks
Grass
Trees
4-Brigth lights
There are a lot of people
It's a crowd
The arm on the air

Anonymous said...

HI!I'm Maria.
In then first picture,Benjamin described a photograph of Dali. He used some adjetives like wavey to describe his hair.Also he use some words like above to say how is him in the water and he described the water and said that it has ripples.
In the second picture, we can see a cheetah.The cheetah is in the top of a grey and a hard rock. The cheetah has a lot of spots in her/his body and a large tail. In the background there are some trees and a blue sky, but there aren't in focus.
The third picture is a landscape picture. In the background there are a lot of peak mountains. In the foreground we can see some grass and a light tree.
The fourth picture is about a rockconcert. In the background there is a blue light. At the bottom there is a crowd with a lot of silhouettes.People are in a slopping area.Also a boy has his arm in the air.

Anonymous said...

1 Swimming Dalí

Black and white picture
Head above
Water
Moustache with bows
Wild stearing eyes
Riples in the water

2 Cheetah in a rock

Colour
Run fast
Stripes
Trees out of focus
Cheetah in focus
Thousand of spots

3 Big landscape

Mountain
Grey rock
Shadows
Grass
Blue sky

4 Rock indoor

Concert
Brights
Funny
Balcony
Excited

Isaac Timón 4ºA

Post a Comment