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Descriptive writing uses vivid images to Describing the scene

illustrate a specific experience, person, or place. The picture was taken in … (place).
The picture shows a scene from …
Picture Description The picture describes … (scene).

What can you see?


Reason - A picture description is an ideal way of practicing
your English vocabulary in all sorts of fields. And there's also a In the picture you can see …
benefit for everyday life – imagine you want to show pictures of … (Position: on the left/right/…) there is / are …
your family or home to your foreign friends. See the example: … (Position: on the left/right/…) you can see …
… is … (position: on the left/right/…)

This is my family. My
Impression
father and my mother, my The viewer has the impression that the people in the
sister and me. My mother picture are alive.
is wearing a blue blouse The viewer's attention is focused on …
and my sister is wearing a
red blouse, like my father. The painting is vivid / happy / expressive.
I am wearing a blue and The picture makes the viewer feel … (sad/happy)
white sweatshirt. We are The picture inspires the viewer to think about …
having a picnic. We are in
a beautiful place. There is Intention
a checked tablecloth on
the grass. The tablecloth is red and white. There are some The artist / photographer / painter uses … to express …
fruits on the tablecloth and we are sitting on the tablecloth. He / She (probably) wants to criticize / express / show …
It is obvious that the artist wants to criticize / express / show …
What the artist / photographer / painter wants to point out is …
This is description writing. We are describing only what we can I think / believe / am sure that …
see.

This description can be improved. We can add more details and Look at this picture and use the orientation
we can add what we think about the picture, that is, our opinion,
to transmit it to the reader. There are some steps to follow: given above to write about the picture:

Preparation
Have a close look at the picture and decide on how to
structure your picture description. What is important or
special? What should the viewer pay attention to?

Structure and Content


It's not easy to follow a picture description if the writer jumps
randomly from one point to another. Therefore, make sure that
your picture description is logically structured, for example:

 from left to right (or from right to left)


 from the background to the foreground (or from the
foreground to the background)
 from the middle to the sides (or from the sides to the
middle)
 from details to general impressions (or from general
impressions to details)

Which structure you finally choose depends on your taste and


the picture you want to describe.

Important Tenses
Simple Present / Present Progressive

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