I.ES. LA ARBOLEDA

WRITING WORKSHOP 1.- PCITURE DESCRIPTION. Task.- Write an essay on what you see in the pictures below. (Write about 120-125 words) Functions to practice: Picture description. Key structures:

- Present Simple/ Present continuous. - Place prepositions and adverbs - Existential patterns: There is/are.. - Contrast words. ( but, although, however; unlike; on the one hand, on the other hand). - Stative verbs: To be, seem, to look (parecer) , look like, wear, have sth on Verbs related to senses: feel (touch), smell, sound, hear ,taste, look

Kinds of pictures picture, image painting photograph / photo portrait landscape painting caricature

Describing the scene The picture was taken in (place). The picture shows a scene from It's an image of (place, person, scene). The picture describes (scene). The picture shows (place, person, scene) from a distance. (place, person, scene) is shown from (a bird's eye view/). What impresses me most about the picture is.. This picture reminds me of ..

Structure In the foreground / background in the upper part / in the lower part in the upper left/right hand corner in the lower left/right hand corner in the left part , in the right part

on the right , on the left in the central part / in the middle in front of , behind next to, between, far from from the front , from behind from above , from below

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