Cambridge English Cambridge English: First / Writing and Speaking
Cambridge PET Speaking part 3
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Language focus: • Describing a picture
description
A guide and tutorial to the third part of the speaking paper of the well-known Cambridge: Preliminary exam.This presentation gives practical examples for a teacher to work through with a class to help expand and improve performance in this part of the test.
Transcript of Cambridge PET Speaking part 3
Language focus:• Describing a picture
General description
In the picture I can see …
There's …
There are …
It looks like …(+noun)
It looks quite… (+adj)
Describing the person/people
He looks…(+adj)
The girl looks a bit…(+adj)
They seem ...
Giving an opinion
I think it's…
I don't think…
In the foreground, on the left, there's an armchair
On the right there are shelves
In the bottom right-hand corner there’s a
stool
In the top-left cornerthere is a lamp
In the background you can see decorations on the wall
In the middle there is
a white horse
At the top of the picture you can see the hills
At the bottom of the picture there is a green field…
Comparing
The girl looks slightly older than the boy.
The yellow car is the biggest.
The child isn’t as tall as the baskeball player.
