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:

  1. 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

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  2. 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,

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  3. Iván González 4ºA10 November 2011 at 09:06

    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

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  4. 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

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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,...

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  9. 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.

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  10. 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

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  11. 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.

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  12. 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

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  13. 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.

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  14. 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

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