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PET SPEAKING
PART 3: PICTURE
DESCRIPTION
Lecturer:
Nguyen Thi Que
Intensive English Class K10
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.
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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.
LEAD-IN: VOCABULARY GAME
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3 Teams of 10-12 students each
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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.
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
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PRE-TEACHING
WATCH A VIDEO (PET Speaking Part 3)
PRE-TEACHING
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Questions:
+ What do you have to do in PET Speaking part 3?
+ Who do you talk to?
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
WHILE TEACHING
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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
behind In front of on under in between
in
next to / near
Prepositions of place
on the
left
in the middle
on the
right
at the top
at the bottom
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?
C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
1- HEIGHT
C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
2- BUILD
Well-built Skinny
Thin/ slim
Plump
Fat
C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
3- AGE
Young Elderly Middle –aged Young in his 20s in his 70s in her 40s Teenager
C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
4- HAIR
Bald straight curly spiky wavy
C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
dress
glasses
gloves cap coat
raincoat scarf shirt shoes shorts
skirt
sneakers socks sweater underpants belt boots
trousers jacket
necklace
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