The document provides useful language for describing photographs and asking questions about pictures. It includes prompts and phrases for discussing elements such as the setting, emotions conveyed, and similarities or differences between images. This guidance is intended to assist learners in engaging with visual content in a conversational context.

1. Describing a photograph
Useful Language for the Certificat
Intermedi EOI

2. Questions you may ask about your partner’s picture
So, what’s in your picture?
Where do you think it was taken?
When was it taken? [summer, winter, during the day, at night]
Do they seem happy/sad/tired?
What kind of house/shop/etc. is it?
What does he/she look like?

3. My picture shows… It might have been taken
There is/ are… in summer, in the
I can see… countryside of Spain
In the foreground / in the  I would say it was taken in
background a cold day in winter
On the right / on the left It can ‘t/might/must be
In the top left corner of the the Mediterranean coast, as
picture… there are palm trees …
The central focus of this  Maybe / Perhaps
picture is…  It reminds me of my
The picture has two main schooldays when I was
parts twelve …
 It seems that …
 He seems to be happy
/the woman’s husband/in a
bad moment

4. Spotting similarities and differences
 Ah, then both pictures were taken in the countryside.
 So this is another similarity, both pictures were taken in the
countryside.
 So the people in your picture are young whereas in mine, they
are old.
Ah, in my picture they are old, this is a difference.
 My picture was taken in the countryside too. This is a/another
similarity.
The house in my picture isn’t too big either.