Describe the photo: our Thanksgiving dinner in Miami
Camila describes a photo of her family's Thanksgiving dinner; students learn words for describing photos, practice the present continuous, describe a photo for a partner to draw and show their own photos to a small group.
A2Adults45 minPicture description
About this lesson
An A2 speaking lesson (picture description). Warm-ups, role plays and discussion tasks — get the whole class talking.
- Level
- A2
- Skill
- Speaking
- Type
- Picture description
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 45 minutes
- Topic
- Thanksgiving
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, True / False, Table to fill in, Gap-fill, Grammar explanation box, Multiple choice
- Key words
- in the foreground, in the background, on the left / on the right, in the middle, behind, in front of, next to, opposite, carve, pour, pass, look + adjective
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Describe where people and things are in a photo (in the foreground, on the left, behind, opposite)
- Say what people are doing with the present continuous and guess with I think, maybe and They look ...
- Describe a photo of a family meal or celebration in four clear steps and ask follow-up questions