Picture Description and Addiction

📋 Course Outline

1. Spatial Vocabulary for Pictures
2. Three Steps of Description
3. Social Media and Cartoon Analysis
4. Addiction Causes Effects Solutions

📖 1. Spatial Vocabulary for Pictures

★ Must-know

• The expression “at the top” locates something in the upper part of a picture.

• The expressions “in the middle,” “on the left,” and “on the right” locate something in the central, left-hand, or right-hand part of a picture.

📌 “On the background” refers to a rear area of the picture, whereas “on the foreground” refers to the front area.

Further detail

• The expressions “at the bottom,” “in front of,” and “in the bottom left-hand corner” locate something in the lower part, before another object, or in the lower-left corner of a picture.

💡 Memory Hook

Background versus foreground: behind versus in front.

📖 2. Three Steps of Description

★ Must-know

• 🔄 A picture description follows three steps:

  1. Identify the type of image
  2. Describe what is visible
  3. Interpret the meaning

• Useful expressions for giving an opinion include:

  • In my opinion
  • According to me
  • I think

Further detail

• The English verb “think” means “penser” in French, while “couler” is a different French verb.