DESCRIBING PICTURES
PLAN
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Introduction:
In this photo I can see, The photo shows…
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Talk
about the place: They are sitting in a café, in the city, in the mountains…
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Describe
position: On the right, on the left, in the middle of the photo, in the background,
next to, behind, in front of…
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Describe
people’s age: They are in their twenties, they are about twenty…
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Describe
people’s clothes: They are wearing… (use one or two adjectives to describe the
clothes: pattern, colour, material…)
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Describe
people’s actions: They are reading the newspaper, cooking…
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Describe
people’s roles: He is probably a waiter, a student…
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Describe
people’s feelings: He seems sad, frightened, happy…
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Your
opinion: In my opinion the photo is very funny, sad, interesting…
USEFUL PHRASES
What strikes me about the first picture is
the fact that...
This picture reminds me of...
Judging from the photograph, the children...
The man appears to be...
From what we can see here, he must...
There are many similarities...
Both pictures depict...
Both pictures are quite similar in that they
show...
When you give it a closer look it reveals...
The first picture ... whereas the other
picture ...
Another important difference is...
It's difficult to tell from a photograph but
this picture could have been taken in ...
I might be wrong, but I'd say that this
picture ...
I would guess that this picture comes from
...
LANGUAGE OF SPECULATION
1. …seems…
2. …looks…
3. …is
obviously…
4. …probably…
5. I guess/ I
imagine…
6. …might/
may/ maybe/ perhaps…
7. …clearly…
8. I’m not
sure exactly (what this is) but…
9. …appears…
10. …looks like…
11. I reckon…
12. I suppose…
13. I’m fairly sure…
14. I get the
impression that…
15. …is almost
certainly…
16. My initial impression
is…
17. …must…
18. …could (possibly)…
19. I’m pretty
confident that…
20. I expect…
21. I think I’m
justified in saying that…
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