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In a hospital ward

When you are describing a place it is useful to use relative clauses to add details to your description.

Student on a building site.

At work

Listen to someone describing an image of people at work.

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Describing a picture: a formal conversation

Listen to a description of a formal conversation, you will hear language to speculate about how people are feeling and what they might be saying to each other. Use these activities to build your range of feelings adjectives, practise modals for speculating and practise word order in indirect questions.

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At the dentist’s

Would you like to learn how to describe a picture? Listen to a description of someone at a dentist’s.

Field on a cloudy day.

Describing a winter scene

In these activities you will learn a range of adjectives for describing a picture that has been taken outside, such as a winter scene.

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