- En esta parte del examen tendréis que describir una fotografía durante un minuto aproximadamente. - El examinador os entregará la fotografía y os dirá el tema de la foto, pero no añadirá nada más ni hará preguntas. - Aunque estaréis con vuestro compañero, el compañero no intervendrá cuando vosotros habléis y viceversa.

Tendréis que:

1. Dar una introducción general.

2. Decir qué hacen las personas de la foto.

3. Hablar del lugar en que se ha tomado la foto.

4. Describir la edad de las personas en la foto.

5. Describir cómo van vestidas las personas que están en la foto.

6. Describir el papel que realizan las personas en la foto.

7. Describir los sentimientos y emociones de las personas en la foto.

8. Explicar conceptos para los que quizá no conozcamos la palabra

concreta.

9. Hacer deducciones sobre qué está sucediendo en la foto.

10.Hablar de la posición de los objetos y personas en la foto.

Hacer deducciones A veces no sabemos exactamente qué está sucediendo en la fotografía, pero esto nos da la posibilidad de hacer deducciones sobre lo que ocurre en ella. No hay respuestas correctas (eso sí, hay que ser algo realista).

Podrían ser madre e hija, o una profesora y su alumna, o una tía y una sobrina.

Useful language for

Speaking Part 3

1. GIVING A GENERAL INTRODUCTION

• This picture shows …

• In this picture I can see…

• This is a picture of …

2. TALKING ABOUT PLACES

• They’re driving in the country/in a city/in the mountains

• She’s sitting inside/outside a cafè

• I can see a street market/old building/square/street/restaurant/beach/museum …

3. DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S CLOTHES

• She’s wearing a pair of shorts and a red T-shirt

• They’re wearing quite casual/smart clothes

• He’s wearing a uniform

4. DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S AGE

• She’s about 40 years old.

• They’re in their early/late thirties

• They’re around 40

• He’s a teenager/a young child/a middle-aged woman/a new-born baby/an elderly man

5. DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S ACTIONS use the present continuous

• He’s standing in a queue

• They’re having breakfast

• Some of the women are sunbathing and others are swimming in the sea

6. DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S ROLES IN A PICTURE

• He’s probably a shop assistant and she’s a customer

• This person on the left seems to be a tourist guide – he’s pointing to a building

• The man serving the drinks is a waiter

7. DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S FEELINGS IN A PICTURE

• You can tell they are enjoying themselves because they are smiling

• He seems a bit frightened. Maybe this is the first time he’s tried this

• She looks very interested in this activity – she’s concentrating very hard

8. PARAPHRASING (use these phrases to describe words you don’t know)

• It’s something you fry food in (frying pan)

• It’s a kind of container for flowers (a vase)

• ·It’s a cupboard for keeping clothes in (a wardrobe)

9. MAKING GUESSES

• It might be spring because I can see a lot of flowers in the field

• It’s probably in a village, because …

• This picture may have been taken in Africa because of the buildings

10. Talking about position

BACKGROUND

MIDDLEGROUND

FOREGROUND

ON THE LEFT ON THE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE

AT THE TOP

AT THE BOTTOM

EXAMINER: Now I’d like each of you to talk on your own about something. I’m going to give each of you a photograph of people learning. (Student A), here’s your photograph. Please show it to (Student B), but I’d like you to talk about it. you just listen. I’ll give you your photograph(Student B), in a minute. (Student A), please tell us what you can see in your photograph. (Student A speaks for about 1 minute.) Thank you.

1 Where are the people? 2 What are they doing? 3 How old do you think they are? 4 Describe the clothes they are wearing. 5 What can you see in the background? 6 In your opinion, how do they feel about what they are doing? 7 Would you enjoy doing something like this?

1 In this picture I can see people in a classroom. There is a teacher in the background and there are some students sitting in class. 2 Some of the students are looking at the board and others are writing things in their notebooks. There are two students in the foreground who are talking. 3 They must be teenagers, maybe sixteen or seventeen years old. 4 Half of the class is wearing black sweaters and the other half is wearing red ones, and so is the teacher. It could be some kind of uniform. 5 In the background I can see the board. There are some colorful posters stuck on the board. 6 The students seem interested in the class and look concentrated, but these two students at the bottom seem to be bored and that’s why they’re talking. 7 I think I would enjoy being in the class, you can always learn something new!

Consejos finales -Imagina que estás describiendo la foto para alguien que no la puede ver. -Habla de la situación, así como de las cosas físicas que puedes ver en la imagen. -Comienza con una idea general del tema de la imagen antes de entrar en detalles. -Habla en oraciones y no hagas listas de cosas que puedes ver en la imagen. -Organiza tu descripción y no describas lo mismo más de una vez. -Da razones (relacionadas con la fotografía) para tus ideas -Puedes incluir una reacción personal a la imagen ¿Qué sensación te produce la imagen? ¿Te gusta? -Escucha en silencio cuando tu compañero describa su foto y no hagas ningún comentario, ni para ayudar.