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The document provides a 6-step process for describing pictures in English: 1) summarize briefly, 2) use relevant phrases to describe locations, 3) add details, 4) speculate about the picture, 5) speculate about the context, and 6) make a longer answer incorporating all steps. It includes examples and prompts readers to practice each step.

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Image Description: Instructor: Anika Subah Ahmad Upoma

The document provides a 6-step process for describing pictures in English: 1) summarize briefly, 2) use relevant phrases to describe locations, 3) add details, 4) speculate about the picture, 5) speculate about the context, and 6) make a longer answer incorporating all steps. It includes examples and prompts readers to practice each step.

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Instructor: Anika Subah Ahmad Upoma

IMAGE DESCRIPTION
THIS LESSON WILL HELP YOU TO: -

 Learn how to make a summary of what you see.


 Use more detail when you describe a picture in English.

 Understand how to explain where things are in the


picture.
 Learn how to speculate, or make assumptions, when
describing a picture.
 Make guesses about the context of a picture.

 Create longer answers when you describe a picture in


English.
6 STEPS TO DESCRIBE A PICTURE
 Summarize briefly
 Use relevant phrases

 Adding Details

 Speculating about picture– suppose, maybe, might….

 Speculating about context

 Making a long answer


1. SUMMARIZE
2. USE RELEVANT PHRASES
 In the background
 At the top-left/top-right

 At the bottom

 At the bottom left/right

 At the centre

 In the foreground

 Towards left

 Towards right

 On the right
FOR EXAMPLE

On the left, there’s a girl with dark, curly hair. She’s holding half a cauliflower.
In the middle, there’s a man who’s chopping vegetables.
At the bottom, we can see a counter with many different vegetables on it.
In the foreground, there’s a sandy beach with three metal anchors on
it.
In the middle, there are several small boats, which are close to the
beach.
In the background, we can see the blue sea stretching to the horizon.
TRY YOURSELF!
3. ADDING MORE DETAIL TO YOUR DESCRIPTION

The two people both look unhappy or irritated.


They’re sitting at the kitchen table together, but they aren’t talking
to each other.
The man is staring down at the table, while the woman is stirring
her tea with a spoon.
TRY YOURSELF!
4. SPECULATING ABOUT THE PICTURE

*I suppose it might be some kind of art project.


* Maybe one person put an umbrella up there as a joke,
and then other people started doing it, too.
TRY YOURSELF!
5. SPECULATING ABOUT THE
CONTEXT OF THE PICTURE
This must be somewhere tropical, like the The parents must be on the beach, leaving their
Caribbean or the Maldives. children
Perhaps it was taken by a tourist who came This photo is probably taken by a relative or
to the beach on one of those boats. random tourist
6. MAKING A LONGER ANSWER
 When you describe a picture, you should:
 Give a summary of what you see.

 Talk about where things are in the picture.

 Add details.

 Speculate about what’s in the picture.

 Speculate about the context of the picture.


LET’S TRY

In the picture, there are two people sitting at a table, looking unhappy. There’s a
woman on the left and a man on the right. In the middle of the picture, we can see
some things on the table, like cups of tea, biscuits, milk and so on. The two people
look sad or irritated, and they aren’t speaking to each other. They’re both looking
down at the table. I suppose they had a fight and now they aren’t talking to each
other, or they might just be bored and not have anything to talk about. I guess it’s a
stock photo because otherwise, why would the photographer be in the kitchen with
them?
The picture shows umbrellas hanging in the air. In the foreground, we can
see a streetlight, and the umbrellas fill the picture from left to right. The
umbrellas are of many different colors, mostly bright colors like pink, yellow
or green. They’re hanging from wires. I can see at least four lines of
umbrellas hanging down in this way, but there could be even more. Maybe
this is some sort of art project. It might also be a festival or tradition, that
people decorate the street with colorful umbrellas like this. I suppose the
picture was taken in a city or town, though I can’t tell where exactly.
Perhaps the photographer was a tourist, and was just walking around the
city when he saw this amazing and strange scene.
TRY YOURSELF NOW!
GOOD LUCK!

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