This lesson uses a simple storytelling technique (magic mirror) to give students speaking practice in a relaxed, non-threatening environment. Magic mirror can be used at any level, but works best where students have a sufficient level of English to narrate a story orally.
This lesson is about buying and selling items on online auction sites, such as eBay and eBid. It provides students with the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the vocabulary and typical format of item listings on such sites. They will closely read and then write their own item listings, using adjectives and persuasive language.
When you are describing a place it is useful to use relative clauses to add details to your description.
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?
Would you like to learn how to describe a picture?
When you describe a picture with people in it, you sometimes need words to say where the people are.
In these activities you will learn a range of adjectives for describing a picture that has been taken outside, such as a winter scene.