Describing People in Photos - Elementary / Pre-intermediate - Useful Language
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Describing people in photos - Monologue to practice people's descriptions in the present tenses
I'm going to describe the people in these photos.
This is my mother. Her name is Laura. She is forty-two. She is an office worker. She likes her job. She is wearing a beautiful black dress. I love this dress. This is my father. His name is Peter. He is fifty-one. He is a firefighter. His job is very dangerous. He isn't wearing his uniform now! They are in my grandmother's house, celebrating their anniversary. They are very much in love!
This is my little brother. His name is Robert. He is eight. He loves video games. He is a bit naughty, but very funny. He is wearing jeans and a T-shirt. He wears glasses. His favourite food is pizza and his favourite drink is coke. He is in his room, at home. He has a lot of toys and video games!
This is my friend Clea. She is nineteen and she is a student. In the picture, she is wearing jeans and a red T-shirt. She loves red. Clea and I are good friends. We meet at the weekend. Next to her is my friend Baltasar. He is twenty and he works for an international company. He is wearing his favourite hat! Its a wool hat, for the winter. This is me! I'm laughing because they are very funny. We are in the countryside. Some weekends we like going to the countryside. We go for walks and we have a picnic.
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