Describing a Picture

 

PICTURE READING ACTIVITIES

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Picture reading is an interesting way to improve your knowledge of English. It involves your knowledge of vocabulary, grammar and even good thinking. It is the 3rd Test item on the OL English paper, Sri Lanka. It carries 5 marks. The question format has been changed from time to time. Well, this is a small attempt at helping with you some extra activities. 

More similar activities are available in the two model activity books I have compiled for OL. If you are interested you can contact me and get down the books to your home. 

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ACTIVITY 1: 

Fill in the blanks with the help of the picture. USE only one word in each blank.

This is a picture of a kitchen. There are 1)................children in the kitchen. Their mother is 2)....................something at the sink. Jim is 3).................at the table. It seems that he is 4)..................something. Sheila is talking with 5).................. . There are some clothes in a basket on the 6)................... . There is an 7)................ board beside the table.

[1.three 2. washing 3. sitting 4. writing/reading 5.Bobby 6. table 7. iron ]

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Activity 2:Look at the picture and complete the blanks use   only one word for each blank.                    

This is a picture of  a living room. There are five 1)______ members in the picture. There are 2)________ children. One of them is 3)__________ on a chair 4)_________ a book. The 5)______ who seems to be children's mother is buttoning up the girl's 6)__________. The lady is sitting on a 7)_________. The youngest of the 8)_______ is sitting on the floor. The child is 9)................. a toy to the gentleman who is 10)_________- in front of her. There is a lamp shade on the stool.
1.family 2. three 3. sitting 4.reading 5. woman /lady 6. frock  7. stool  8.children 9.giving 10. standing
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Activity: 3 Study the picture and fill in the blanks. Use only one 

word for each blank. 

This is a picture of a street. There are many people 1)_______ along the pavement on either side of the 2)________. There are both men and 3)_______ on the street. There is a police officer 4)_________ to a young man 5)__________ on the pavement. There is a 6)_______ just behind the police officer carrying a 7)________. There are 8)_______ vehicles on the street. There is a big 9)________ on the pavement beside one of the vehicles. There are many tall 10)_________ along the street.
1. walking 2. street / road 3.women 4. talking/speaking 5. sitting 6. lady/woman 7. baby 8.two 9.tree 10.buildings

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ACTIVITY 4: Study the picture and fill in the blanks. Use only one word for each blank.  

This is a picture of a classroom. There are nine 1)............ in the class. There are both 2).............. and girls in the 3)............. The teacher is 4).................... some lesson. The children are 5)................ to the teacher. There are some 6)................ on the wall.  

1.children/students 2.boys 3. classroom 4.explaining/teaching 5.listening 6.pictures

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ACTIVITY 5: Look at the picture and complete the blanks with suitable words.

This is a picture of a college playground. There are both 1)............. and girls in the 2).................. . One of the 3)................. is playing hopscotch. Three other girls are 4)..................... with a skipping rope. One of the 5)............... is carrying ball. There is a large building in the background. There is a tree beside the building. 

1.boys 2.playground /picture 3.girls 4. playing 5.boys

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 Activity 6: 

Fill in the blanks with the missing words. Do not use more than one word in each blank.

This is a picture of a living room. There are two 1).........................., a woman and a man. The 2)......................... in the picture seems to be the 3)...........................mother and the man seems to be 4)......................... father. The woman is 5)........................ a cup of tea to the man. The man has a 6).........................on his lap. There is a cat 7)...................... beside his chair. The boy seems to be 8)......................... something to the dog. The girl is 9)...................... at a table. There is a 10)............................ above the table. 
 1.children 2.woman/lady 3.children's 4.their /children's 5. giving/offering 6. newspaper 7. sleeping 8.telling 9. sitting 10.picture

Activity 7: 

Look at the picture and fill in the blanks. Use only one word.

    [ There/they/chopping(cutting)/table/haired/standing/trying/shelf/utensils]

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Activity 8: 

Look at the picture and fill in the blanks of the paragraph given below. The first letter of each word is given.

This is a picture of an OPD of a 1.h____. There aren't  many 2.p____ at the OPD. There some people 3.s_____ on the chairs 4.w_____ for their turn. There is a patient sitting on a  wheel chair. A 5.n_____ is 6.t_______ to the patient. She is 7.k_____ in front of the patient. There is another patient on a 8.t______. A nurse is 9.p_____ the trolley. There is a 10.d______ and a lady with a baby standing beside the trolley.There are two nurses at the counter. 

[1. hospital 2.patients 3. sitting 4.waiting 5.nurse 6.talking 7.kneeling 8.trolley 9.pushing 10.trolley]

Activity 9:  

[ 5 / 2 / 6 / 4 / 7 / 3 / 10 / 8 / 1 / 9 ] 

Activity 10: 

Look at the picture and state whether the following statements are True or False.

Activity 11: 

 Fill in the blanks with the words given in the box.

prehistoric(giant)/dinosaur/giant(prehistoric)/torso/neck/head/small/has/its/elephant's

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Activity 12: Look at the picture and write 5 sentences.

[There are three children on the beach./There is a boat sailing on the sea. / There is a small boy making a sand castle. / There is a small girl standing near the sand castle./ There are birds flying in the sky. ]

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Activity 13:

Look at the picture and fill in the blanks. The first letter has been given.

students/classroom/revolving /hair/standing/marking/paper/written/slippers/floor

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Activity 14:

Look at the picture and fill in the blanks of the text with the words given in the box.

crowded/electric/platform/commuters/lady/trolley bag/person/bench/two/walking

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Activity 15: 

sunny/crowded/fence/bench/riding/bicycle/having/passing/floating

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Activity 16: (extracted from my blog page activities for grade 9)

      rainy/sitting/rain/football/dressed/shorts/mood/unable/anxiously/clouds

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Activity 17:

beach/sunny/some/playing/two/swimming/girl/making/flying/having

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Activity 18: Look at the picture and complete the paragraph with the words given in the box. 

     rainy / group / having / rain / five / one / umbrella / laughing / themselves / glasses

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Activity 19 

Look at the picture and complete the paragraph with the words given in the box.

(engaged /badminton/hitting/plants/another/garden/having/girl/three/round)

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