A presentation with useful tips to describe pictures. We do not claim ownership.

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
He is wearing:  A striped t-shirt
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!