Photo Description Vocabulary and Practice

Photo description

Discuss these questions in groups

• Do you take a lot of photos?
• Do you usually print them out or look at them on a computer?
• Do you store any photos online?
• Have you got any photo albums at home?

Identify the people and things

People

Things

• a celebrity
• A paparazzi photographer
• A reporter

• A camera flash
• A notebook
• A sign

Photo description

people

actions

• a number of people
• The woman
• pop singer or film star
• The man in the grey suit
• a TV reporter
• the star of a show
• The people
• Photographers
• Paparazzi
• fans of the woman

• He’s holding a microphone and interviewing her.
• They are walking away from the theatre.
• they’re taking photos of the woman
• One of them is holding a notebook
• the woman is writing something
• she’s signing her autograph

location

• street at night
• in the background
• in the street
• to the right
• In the top right-hand corner of the photo
• On the left

Look a bit like/ look just like = resemble

Look + adjective = appear to be

Look as though/ look as if/ look like + clause = seem to be

Describe a photo

What?

Where?

What is happening?

How does he/she look?

Describe a photo

What?

Where?

What is happening?

How do they look?

Describe a photo

What?

Where?

What is happening?

How do they look?

Describe a photo

What?

Where?

What is happening?

How do they look?