1) general description
Wh-Questions: What, When, Where, Who, (How)?
- It’s a photo / a picture / a painting / a drawing
- It is colored / black and white
- In the picture I can see…
- The picture shows…
- The title of this picture is
- There is…/
- There are…
- It is in/at
- I see…
- This photo was taken by/in…
2) detailed description
Talk about the different areas of the pictures as detailed as possible, but only name the important bits.
- In the upper left-hand corner there are
- At the top there is
- In the upper right-hand corner there is
- On the left …
- On the right …
- In the middle …
- In the bottom left-hand corner …
- In the bottom right hand corner …
- At the bottom …
- In the foreground …
- In the background …
- Out of focus …
- In focus …
3) What are the people doing?
What are the people wearing? What are they doing? Use the Simple Progressive-Form.
- She is wearing…
- They are wearing…
- The person looks happy/sad/young/old…
- The is eating…
- The person is thinking about…
4) What’s your opinion about the picture?
- I don’t like the picture because
- I like picture because…