Describing Pictures

1. Describing Pictures Verb forms, clothes and situation vocabulary

2. What is this document? • It's a photo • It's a photograph • It's a photograph of two young children. • It’s a photograph of two young children reading a book. • A cartoon / a drawing / a painting / an advert

3. Where in the picture? • In the foreground • In the background • At the bottom • At the top • On the right • On the left • In the top left corner

4. What are they wearing? • A tie • A white shirt • Trousers • Shoes • Socks • A watch • A striped t-shirt He is wearing: She is wearing:

5. What are they doing? • They’re reading. • They’re writing. • They’re studying. • They’re taking notes for a research paper. • They’re working late in the library. Note: for actions, use the "be + V-ing" form.

6. Your turn!

7. Your turn! • It's a photograph of two men at a conference. • The man on the right is interviewing and filming the man in a grey suit. • The man on the left is facing the camera. • ln the background there are some tables and chairs.

8. Your turn!

9. Your turn! • It's a painting of two people in a forest. • The forest looks strange and threatening. • The man is in the bottom left corner of the picture. • He is wearing a red pullover and blue trousers, and carrying a brown bag. • He's holding a branch in his right hand.

10. Your turn!

11. Your turn! • The scene takes place at night. • The people are building a puzzle… a very strange puzzle. • On the left there is a man on a ladder holding a piece of the puzzle. • The man and woman in the middle are walking into the puzzle!

12. Your turn!

13. Your turn! • It's a drawing of some birds in a tree. • There is a plane dropping hamburgers by parachute. • There is just one tree left in the forest, the others have all been cut down. • The birds look sad, like they don't want hamburgers. • They want more trees!

14. Your turn!