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DESCRIBING THINGS
/ PICTURES :
Vocabulary
 - Listening
- Interactive
activities - Activities
to print - Lesson
plans -
Games
to print - Proverbs
- Songs
see Prépositions
Vocabulary :
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VOCABULARY TO DESCRIBE A PHOTOGRAPH
FOR A START / THE ORIGIN OF THE DOCUMENT /
THE DESIGNATIONS OF THE VARIOUS TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL /
PHOTOGRAPHIC GENRES / PHOTOGRAPHIC THEMES AND SUBJECTS / FRAMING /
THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PICTURE / THE POINT OF VIEW /
THE SCALE OF SHOTS ACCORDING TO THE VIEWING DISTANCE /
THE ANGLE OF VIEW / THE DEPTH OF FIELD / COLOURS / LIGHT AND SHADOW / LINES / SHAPES /
THE LOCATION OF EACH ITEM IN RELATION TO OTHERS / CHARACTERS / THE SCENE / THE COMPOSITION / THE ACTION / TIME MARKERS / THE ACCOMPANYING TEXT / POSTPROCESSING / WHAT THE PICTURE CAPTURES, BRINGS OUT /
THE QUALITIES OF THE SHOT / THE VIEWER’S RESPONSE
(english-for-techies.net)
- Describing clothing
Adjectives (other than common descriptive words) :
Aesthetic / Jaunty / Puffy / Diaphanous ...
(writing.com)
- A
Work of Art (How to understand a work of art) - analyse très
complète! (library.thinkquest)
- Gertrude Stein, "Let
Us Describe" : "It was a very windy night..."
(english.upenn.edu)
- Tangram
(strongmuseum.org) - Lien modifié
= "a geometric puzzle with 7 pieces (5 triangles, 1 square, and
1 Parallelogram) that are arranged to create images of various
objects."
Listening : 
- Which
ball is it? (elllo.org)
"You will hear about six different kinds of balls. You need
to listen and click on the correct one."
- Fruit
Game (elllo.org)
"Listen as Todd decribes some fruit. Click on the fruit you
hear. You can read the transcript at the end."
- Hair
Description (elllo.org)
"Listen to six descriptions of a person's hair. You need to click
on the correct picture."
- Picture
Perfect - (ello.org)
"You will hear audio about a picture. You need to listen
and draw what you hear.
At the end, you can see if your picture looks the same and the one online!
You should have paper and a pencil or pen."
Interactive activities :
- Go
West, Young Artist. (sanford-artedventures.com)
"It's 1870, and explorers and artists are discovering the wonders
of the American West.
Travel westward and meet six landscape artists to learn the basics of
landscape composition."
- What
is it? - "Click on the buttons
until you find the correct answer." (better-english.com)
ex : "It's a big noise that comes from the sky."
- Learn these 16 collective
nouns describing groups of people or things. (Ghislaine
Wulles)
+ interactive exercises
Activities to print :
- Description d'une photo : The
Mall in Washington, D.C. (visitingdc.com)
- A partir du texte, faire retrouver les différents monuments.
- How
to deal with pictures - (activitice)
"If you want to be able to describe documents with pictures , you need
to know some basic elements about the main pictures ,i.e. cartoons
, advertisements and photographs ..."
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Show us a picture: Describe
what it means to you (homestead.com)
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Writing
to describe - Some key features of effective description
- Precise and sensory description (with examples)
(englishbiz.co.uk)
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Picture
Description and Comparison - (ncrtec.org)
"What do you see?
What would you hear if you were in this picture?
What would you smell if you were in this picture?
What emotions do you feel as you view this picture?..."
Lesson plans :
Games TO PRINT :
Proverbs :
Songs :
CONVERSATION QUESTIONS
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