PET SPEAKING

PART 3: PICTURE
DESCRIPTION

Lecturer: Nguyen Thi Que

Intensive English Class K10

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 PET SPEAKING
PART 3: PICTURE DESCRIPTION

Objectives:
- state what is required to do in the task of PET speaking
Part 3
- learn structures and vocabularies related to photo
description: giving a general description of the scene,
describing a place, people and actions and making basic
guesses and assumptions about the photo.
- practice and prepare a detailed description of a photo
with the language learned.
- give comments on their partner’s picture description.

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PART 3: PICTURE DESCRIPTION

Teaching procedures:
1. Lead-in: Play a vocabulary game
2. Pre-teaching: Watch a video
3. While-teaching: Describe a photo
4. Post-teaching: Practice describing a photo
5. Consolidation and homework delivery.

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 LEAD-IN: VOCABULARY GAME

o 3 Teams of 10-12 students each

o Instructions:
- Read a sample text of a picture description and
complete 10 blanks with missing words which
start with a given letter.
- Each student in a team has to run quickly to the
board and write the answers in their column.
- After 3 minutes, which team has more correct
answers or finishes earlier will be the winner.
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 LEAD-IN: VOCABULARY GAME:

In this picture we can see a family going to

the (1) b………… together. There is a man,
a woman and two children.
The small boy on the left is wearing blue
shorts and is carrying a red beach towel. His
hair is short and fair. His mother is wearing a
(2) y …………T-shirt and is carrying a violet
bag on her (3) r……………. shoulder. There
is a smiling sun on the bag. She is carrying
a brown (4) b ………… in her left hand. Her
husband is wearing
blue (5) s………… with orange stripes. He is carrying a big blue
umbrella and he has got a hat on his head. His daughter is (6) w ………….
next to him. She is wearing a pink dress and is carrying a big (7) t…………
in her left hand. Nobody is wearing shoes. I think they feel very happy
because everybody is (8) s…………and they are (9) p…………on their
summer holiday.
In the background, the sky is blue but there are two
white (10) c…………... Some birds are flying in the sky.
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 LEAD-IN: VOCABULARY GAME:

In this picture we can see a family going to

each
the (1) b………… together. There is a man,
a woman and two children.
The small boy on the left is wearing blue
shorts and is carrying a red beach towel. His
hair is short and fair. His mother is wearing a
…………T-shirt and is carrying a violet
(2) yellow
ight
bag on her (3) r………shoulder. There is a
smiling sun on the bag. She is carrying a
………… in her left hand. Her
brown (4) b asket
husband is wearing blue (5) s…………horts
with orange stripes. He is carrying a big blue umbrella and he has got a
…………. next to him. She is
hat on his head. His daughter is (6) walking
owel
wearing a pink dress and is carrying a big (7) t………… in her left hand.
Nobody is wearing shoes. I think they feel very happy because everybody
miling
is (8) s…………and they are (9) p…………on
robably their summer holiday.
louds
In the background, the sky is blue but there are two white (10) c…………...
Some birds are flying in the sky.

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 PRE-TEACHING

WATCH A VIDEO (PET Speaking Part 3)

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 PRE-TEACHING

- Questions:

+ What do you have to do in PET Speaking part 3?

+ Who do you talk to?
+ How much time do you have to describe a photo?

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 WHILE TEACHING

a. Giving a general description of the

scene
+ This pictures shows a family having a
picnic

+ In this photo I can see a group of tourists

visiting a field.

+ This is a picture of some people queuing

in front of an ATM.
 This photo shows
 In this photo I can see + SB + V-ing ….
 This is a picture of
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? What do you often describe in a photo?

b. Describing the background & existing things:

* Structure:
There is/ are + N in/ on/ at ……
In the background, I can see …….

=> Use the above structures to

describe things in the photo
and in the background?

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 Prepositions of place
at the top

on the left in the middle on the right

at the bottom

on under in between
behind In front of

in

Nguyen
next to / Thi
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What do you often describe a person?

c. Describing people: (making assumptions)
+ Who are they? (relationships)
+ What are they like? (build, appearance)
+ How old are they? (age)
+ What do they do? (job)
+ What are they wearing? (clothes)
+ How do they feel? (feelings)

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 WHILE TEACHING

How do you often describe a person?

HEIGHT BUILD AGE CLOTHES

Adj: casual,
slim, thin, young, elderly, smart, tidy,
tall, short, plump, fat, middle-aged, messy
medium teenager, in 20s,
skinny, well-built 30s, 40s Nouns: Jeans, T-
shirt, shorts

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 C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
1- HEIGHT

Tall MediumShort

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 C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
2- BUILD

Skinny Fat
Well-built

Plump
Thin/ slim
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 C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
3- AGE

Young Elderly Middle –aged Young

in his 20s in his 70s in her 40s Teenager

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 C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
4- HAIR

Bald straight curly spiky wavy

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 C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
5- CLOTHES

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belt boots jacket dress
glasses

gloves cap coat necklace trousers

raincoat scarf shirt shoes shorts

skirt
sneakers socks sweater underpants

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d. Describing actions:
- Which tense do you use when describing activities in
the photo?

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e. Making guesses/ assumptions and giving reasons:

- WEATHER AND SEASON:

+ It probably ………….
summer because they are …………..
swimming in
the pool.
winter because there is some
+ I think it is ………….
………….
snow on the mountains and it is very foggy.

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d. Making guesses and giving reasons:

- PLACE, COUNTRY:
+ This can be ……………
Europe because of the buildings.
+ It looks like ……………
Russia because of the man’s
appearance and the church behind him.

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e. Making guesses and assumptions

- RELATION BETWEEN PEOPLE:
+ I’m not sure but they can be friends
/ relatives / workmates/ classmates/…

- PEOPLE’S FEELINGS:
+ I think they are enjoying themselves
because they are smiling.
+ He seems a bit scared maybe because…
+ They look/seem (very/quite) worried/
sad/ happy/ excited/ nervous/ bored/ tired
maybe because they are lost in the mountains.
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Remember the
question words!

Who? How many? Where? What?

When? How? Why?

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 PRACTICE describing a photo
Role-play: one examiner and one candidate

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 PRACTICE describing a photo

Role-play: one examiner and one candidate

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 PRACTICE describing a photo
Role-play: one examiner and one candidate

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 CONSOLIDATION
Remember:
+ What can you see in the photo?
+ Who are they?
+ Where are they?
+ How old are they? (make guess)
+ What are they wearing?
+ What are they doing?
+ What are their feelings?

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 HOMEWORK

Audio-record yourself describing a photo and send

it to T’s email before 9h00 pm on Wednesday

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