Practise and improve your speaking skills with these activities.

Practise and improve your speaking skills with these activities.
People in the UK like to queue when they are waiting in places like the bank and post office. Watch the video, which focuses on how and why people queue in the UK and practise your speaking skills as you complete the activities.
When you describe a photo it is important to say where the people are and what the people are doing. These activities help you to practise using the present continuous to say what someone is doing in a photo. You will also learn new words about school. Listen to a description of the photograph above.
When you are describing a place it is useful to use relative clauses to add details to your description. These activities will help you to give a detailed description of a hospital scene, using relative clauses and a wider range of specialist vocabulary connected to hospitals. You will also practise asking questions in hospital.
Would you like to learn how to describe a picture? These activities will help you to speak about what you see in a photograph, in this case a photo of people at work. Listen to someone describing the picture.
In this description of a photo of a formal conversation, you will hear language to speculate about how people are feeling and what they might be saying to each other. Use these activities to build your range of feelings adjectives, practise modals for speculating and practise word order in indirect questions.
Would you like to learn how to describe a picture? These activities will help you to speak about what you see in a photograph, in this case a photo of a market.
Would you like to learn how to describe a picture? These activities will help you to speak about what you see in a photograph, in this case a photo of people in a park.
Would you like to learn how to describe a picture? These activities will help you to speak about what you see in a photograph, in this case a photo of someone at the dentist’s.
When you describe a picture with people in it, you sometimes need words to say where the people are. These activities will help you to practise describing where people are in a queue, what they are wearing and what they are doing. Listen to the description of people standing in a queue at a bus stop.
In these activities you will learn a range of adjectives for describing a picture that has been taken outside, such as a winter scene. You will also practise the present perfect so that you can say what has happened before the photo was taken. Listen to a description of a photograph of a winter’s day.