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Describing a picture

Léa Duvernay

Created on October 30, 2020

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How to describe a visual document in English

Index

Introduction

Actions

Source

Exemple

Where?

QR Codes

Chart

Final task

01 Let's start by introducing the document

What kind of document is it?

  • It comes from /
  • It is extracted from (an advertising campaign, a magazine, a newspaper...)
  • It was drawn by ...
  • It was written by ...
  • It was taken by ...
  • It was created by ...(name of the artist, writer, association...)
  • and it was released in May 2012/in 1634/on April 8th last year

Precise the title, source, author and date:

The title is/ It is untitled...

Announce the topic / the thematic

  • The visual deals with...
  • The visual is about...
  • The picture/photo shows...
  • It's a coloured picture of ...
  • It's a black and white photo of ...

02 What is where?

There is/ there are / You can see/ The picture shows

  1. In the background
  2. In the foreground
  3. At the top
  4. At the bottom

There is/ there are / You can see/ The picture shows

  1. On the left
  2. On the right
  3. In the middle/In the center
  4. Behind ≠ In front of
  5. Between

There is/ there are / You can see/ The picture shows

  1. In the bottom left (hand corner)
  2. In the bottom right (hand corner)
  3. In the top left (hand corner)
  4. In the top right (hand corner)
  5. At the bottom
  6. At the top

https://www.wordwall.net/play/2130/545/118

https://www.wordwall.net/play/651/129/8715

03 Who is doing what?

Here you describe the person in the picture or you say what is happening just now. Use the Present Progressive.

1. 2. 3. 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0ICYCiglE

The present progressive/continuous

04 What I think about the picture?

Maybe ...... might be a symbol of ...

It seems as if ...The person seems...

" Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat"

The atmosphere is peaceful/depressing ...I (don't) like the picture because ...

It makes me think of ... I think that...

Nombre del autor

INFO

Jean-Pierre Lorand The siesta 2005

The Little PortJean-Pierre Lorand 2010

INFO

19 sept. 2024 Jean-Pierre LORAND Rivage
Jean-Pierre LORAND 2008
Ice-Cream Cones