Picture TIPS
Tasks and ideas to help you improve your English using the world wide web.

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In the First Certificate oral exam you will have to speak about and compare photographs and what you think they represent. Internet sites use pictures a lot. They can help you predict and understand what you will later read, see or hear.

Either by yourself or ideally with another student you can describe what you see in an image, what you think about it, what it reminds you of etc.

How does the caption help you understand the image?

Make a note of some adjectives and nouns you could use to describe this image.

Is there accompanying text, video or audio material which explain the image ... are they similar to your descriptions, predictions and vocabulary?

Write a brief description of the image for future reference.

Here are links to all the TIPS pages if you want to explore some techniques of using the different media available through the WWW further.

Students TIPS Freer TIPS Video TIPS
Audio TIPS Text TIPS Image TIPS

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