Transcript Slide 1

Picture Discussion
True or False?
Picture discussion is
• NOT DIFFICULT but quite logical and
inferential.
True or False?
• You can tackle picture discussion any
direction you like in the examinations.
True or False?
• There’s no need to point out the person’s
motivation and thoughts in picture
discussion.
True or False?
• The oral examiner will tell you, you are on
the wrong track when you have an
irrelevant response.
True or False?
• There are guiding words provided during
the picture discussion.
True or False?
• Every single inference about the picture
can be accepted.
True or False?
• Don't worry if the examiner jumps from
one part of the format to another.
True or false?
• Use your finger to point from one person
to another as you are explaining the
picture.
True or false?
• Usually, pictures used are of community
activities and of local affairs.
True or false
• It is okay to get tongue tied before the
examiner.
True or false?
• Keep waiting for the examiner before you
say anything. After all, what if you get
things wrong?
True or false?
• Grammar doesn’t count in picture
discussion.
Marks Rubric
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5 Fluent communication with examples and
elaboration
4 Good communication with some examples and
elaboration
3 Satisfactory communication with few examples
and expansion of ideas
2 Hesitant and somewhat brief in communication
although some expansion was given when prompted
1 Very brief response that did not help despite a lot
of prompting for examples and ideas
For interest
You will be asked to communicate the
following:
1) Anything related to the Who, What,
When, Why, and How of the picture
2) What is interesting about the picture
Eg. Residents look at a body found inside a
supermarket cart in a slum in Rio de Janeiro
In his own corn field that is flooded, a
man stands in the water, in China,
Anhui.
Two girls play in a deserted boat as
a lake dried up in Zhengzhou,
Henan
Policemen sit in a police truck after they agreed to
return to the provinces at a main road leading into
Bangkok
A traditional Buddhist worshipper in
Tibet
A man selling watermelons in
Downtown Shanghai
Li Renying (R), 70, and her
husband Zhang Kunlin, 74, stand in
front of a backdrop.
The 21-year-old, who would only give her name as
Xiaoqing, is seeking extensive plastic surgery to
look like U.S. actress Jessica Alba
A large solar structure used in
Shanghai, being cleaned by a
migrant worker
Minority children watching tv in
Xingjiang, at a market
A staff member of a tanning salon
in Shanghai looks out of a tanning
cabinet.
A girl plays with a toy pistol
Boys hang on a bar for five minutes as part of a
training session at the Gymnastics Hall of the
Shanghai University of Sports
An earthquake survivor lies with her mother on a
sleeping bag at a coliseum housing homeless
people in Mianyang, Sichuan province
Russian Orthodox Cathedral in San
Francisco