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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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PET SPEAKING
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. Nguyen Thi Que - TNUS
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.
each
ellow ight
asket
horts
alking owel
miling robably
louds
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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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WHILE TEACHING
? 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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behind In front of on under in between
in
next to / near
Prepositions of place
on the left on the right in the middle
at the top
at the bottom
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WHILE TEACHING
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
HEIGHT BUILD AGE CLOTHES
tall, short,
medium
slim, thin,
plump, fat,
skinny, well-built
young, elderly,
middle-aged,
teenager, in 20s,
30s, 40s
Adj: casual,
smart, tidy,
messy
Nouns: Jeans, T-
shirt, shorts
How do you often describe a person?
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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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dress glasses
gloves cap coat
raincoat scarf shirt shoes shorts
skirt sneakers socks sweater underpants
belt boots
trousers
jacket
necklace
Next
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WHILE TEACHING
d. Describing actions:
- Which tense do you use when describing activities in
the photo?
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WHILE TEACHING
e. Making guesses/ assumptions and giving reasons:
- WEATHER AND SEASON:
+ It probably …………. because they are ………….. in
the pool.
+ I think it is …………. because there is some
…………. on the mountains and it is very foggy.
summer swimming
winter
snow
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WHILE TEACHING
d. Making guesses and giving reasons:
- PLACE, COUNTRY:
+ This can be …………… because of the buildings.
+ It looks like …………… because of the man’s
appearance and the church behind him.
Europe
Russia
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WHILE TEACHING
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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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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