Expresiones útiles para describir imágenes

➢ Expresiones para empezar una descripción

• In this picture I can see a group of people…
• In this picture there are some people…
• This picture shows a couple/woman/man…

➢ Expresiones para especular

• I think…
• I believe…
• I suppose…
• They seem to be…
• He/she seems to be…
• Maybe they are…
• Probably, he/she/it is…
• They might be…

➢ Expresiones para describir la postura de las personas

• they are sitting
• they are standing
• they are lying down

➢ Expresiones para describir la posición de las cosas y personas

• On the left/right…
• In the middle/center…
• At the top/bottom…
• In the background/foreground…
• In front of… / Behind…
• On…
• Under…

➢ Conectores básicos
• because
• Also
• Moreover
• but
• However

➢ Expresarse acerca de lugares

• They’re driving in the country/in a city/in the mountains
• She’s sitting inside/outside a cafè
• I can see a street market/old building/square/street/restaurant/beach
…

➢ Describer las edades

• He’s about 50 years old.
• They’re in their twenties
• She’s a teenager/a young child/a middle-aged woman

➢ Describer la vestimenta:
• She’s wearing a pair of shorts and a red T-shirt
• They’re wearing quite casual/smart clothes
• He’s wearing a uniform

➢ Describir los sentimientos de las personas

• You can tell they are enjoying themselves because they are smiling
• He seems a bit frightened. Maybe this is the first time he’s tried this
• She looks very interested in this activity – she’s concentrating very hard

➢ Parafrasear (usa estas frases para describir la palabra que

no te acuerdes o no sabes)
• It’s something you fry food in (frying pan)
• It’s a kind of container for flowers (a vase)
• It’s a cupboard for keeping clothes in (a wardrobe)