Pet speaking part 3 by Nguyen

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PET SPEAKING

PART 3: PICTURE

DESCRIPTION

Lecturer: Nguyen Thi Que

Intensive English Class K10

Nguyen Thi Que - TNUS

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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.


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

WATCH A VIDEO (PET Speaking Part 3)


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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?


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?


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?


C. DESCRIBING PEOPLE

1- HEIGHT

Tall MediumShort



2- BUILD

Well-built Skinny

Thin/ slim Plump

Fat



3- AGE

Young Elderly Middle –aged Young

in his 20s in his 70s in her 40s Teenager



4- HAIR

Bald straight curly spiky wavy



5- CLOTHES


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.


Remember the

question words!

What? How many? Where?

Why? When?

Who?

How? Nguyen Thi Que - TNUS

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PRACTICE describing a photo

Role-play: one examiner and one candidate


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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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HOMEWORK

Audio-record yourself describing a photo and send it to T’s email before 9h00 pm on Wednesday


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