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doctors and nurses speaking with a patient

In a hospital ward

When you are describing a place it is useful to use relative clauses to add details to your description.

Describing a picture: a formal conversation

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.

a small boy at the dentists

At the dentist’s

Would you like to learn how to describe a picture?

a father playing with his child in the snow

Describing a winter scene

In these activities you will learn a range of adjectives for describing a picture that has been taken outside, such as a winter scene.

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