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Picture Description. Reason A picture description is an ideal way of practising your English vocabulary in all sorts of fields. And there's also a benefit for everyday life – imagine you want to show pictures of your family or home to your foreign friends. Describing paintings or other art pictures (e. g. caricatures) is something for the advanced learner of English as you also have to talk about the artists intention and the impression on the viewer.

Preparation Have a close look at the picture and decide on how to structure your picture description. Structure and Content It's not easy to follow a picture description if the writer jumps randomly from one point to another. From left to right (or from right to left) from the background to the foreground (or from the foreground to the background) from the middle to the sides (or from the sides to the middle) from details to general impressions (or from general impressions to details) Pictures in General Paintings Important Tenses Tips Word Lists. Learn English - Passive Voice. Exercises on Passive Use of Passive Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.

Example: My bike was stolen. In the example above, the focus is on the fact that my bike was stolen. I do not know, however, who did it. Sometimes a statement in passive is more polite than active voice, as the following example shows: Example: A mistake was made. In this case, I focus on the fact that a mistake was made, but I do not blame anyone (e.g.

Form of Passive Subject + finite form of to be + Past Participle (3rd column of irregular verbs) Example: A letter was written. When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following: the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence the finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle) the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped) Examples of Passive Level: lower intermediate. Present Perfect. The present perfect is a verb tense which is used to show that an action has taken place once or many times before now. The present perfect is most frequently used to talk about experiences or changes that have taken place, but there are other less common uses as well.

Read on for detailed descriptions, examples, and present perfect exercises. Present Perfect Forms The present perfect is formed using has/have + past participle. Questions are indicated by inverting the subject and has/have. Negatives are made with not. Statement: You have seen that movie many times.Question: Have you seen that movie many times? Complete List of Present Perfect Forms Present Perfect Uses USE 1 Unspecified Time Before Now We use the present perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. Examples: I have seen that movie twenty times. How Do You Actually Use the Present Perfect?

The concept of "unspecified time" can be very confusing to English learners. TOPIC 1 Experience. Sin límites (Limitless) - Tráiler oficial en español HD.