Shadowing-Übung: Describe Image for PTE Speaking 2024 with Answers - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video
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Describe image is the most difficult PT speaking task.
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Many students find speaking spontaneously challenging because they can't find the right grammatical structures to describe the image.
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In this video, I'm going to show you the best ways to describe any image you see on test day.
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Let's quickly recap what you're going to see and what you have to do on test day.
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So you'll get three or four describe image tasks that look something like this.
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This is a line graph, but you might also get a bar graph or pie chart or a combination,
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a table, a process or diagram, a flow chart, a map,
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a timetable, a floor plan, a photo, or even a Venn diagram.
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You'll have 25 seconds to prepare to speak and then 40 seconds to describe the image.
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You need to introduce, describe and conclude your description of the data in the image.
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Okay, so before we look at key grammatical structures you need for describe image,
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make sure to click that subscribe button and subscribe to this YouTube channel for trustworthy the PT videos.
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Okay, let's analyze a describe image together.
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All right, so imagine the time starts and we have 25 seconds to understand the image before we begin saying anything.
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The first thing you need to do is read the title.
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Every graph or image you see will have a title.
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Music, album, sales in the United States by format.
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And if you look carefully, you can see three different formats, CD, digital and LP.
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These formats correspond to the colours of the lines.
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So you can see the green, purple and black line.
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Let's now check the x axis or the horizontal axis down the bottom.
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It's showing years from 2011 to 2021.
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Now the y axis or the vertical axis
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shows the number of sales in increments of 50 million from zero to 250 million.
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Obviously you wouldn't be this slow on test day, but I wanted to do a more rigorous analysis with you because you'll see lots of line graphs.
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Let's now take a look at the actual data because this is what you need to describe.
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All the stuff I've just shown you only helps you to understand the movement or the trends of the data.
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All right, what's the first thing you notice?
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Take a look at the green line.
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There was a steady decline in CD sales over the years.
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Or you could say CD sales declined steadily over the years.
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Notice the two ways I can describe data here.
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I can describe that decline by saying there was a steady decline, an adjective and a noun.
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And I'm using the phrase there was.
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Alternatively, I can use verb adverb, declined steadily.
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Keep these two sentence structures in mind.
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They will help you to vary your sentences.
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What about the purple line?
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Well, you could say sales of digital rose slightly and then fell steadily.
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Here we're using a verb adverb combination, rose slightly, fell steadily.
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And instead of saying digital sales, we're saying sales of digital to vary our sentences.
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I don't want to give you the wrong idea here.
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Your focus in describe image should be on the delivery of your speech, your pronunciation and your fluency.
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But by practicing these types of phrases and getting a better idea of how to rearrange your sentence types, you'll get much better at describe image.
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It's all about your ability to quickly read data, and then your ability to formulate sentences rapidly.
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If you look at the black line, the sales of LPs, well, it remained relatively stable before a late surge.
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Why relatively stable?
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Well, it's relatively stable relative to the other lines or the other music formats.
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That's why we say relatively, it's a nice adverb.
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Okay, before I show you a full top scoring example,
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I want to talk to you about the importance of doing high quality describe image practice questions with model answers.
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of high quality describe image practice questions with model answers designed by test experts that replicate the actual test.
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These questions and answers will allow you to be fully prepared on test day for any image you see.
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Okay, I'm now going to do a full describe image answer for you and put it all together.
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Listen to the various sentence structures and phrases I've just shown you.
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Listen for there was adjective noun and verb adverb combinations.
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This line graph represents the number of music albums sold by format in the United States from 2011 to 2021,
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including CD, digital and LP.
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There was a steady decline in CD sales over the years,
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dropping from about 240 million at the start of the period to less than 50 million by 2021.
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While sales of digital music rose slightly at the start of the period, they then fell steadily.
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As for LP sales, it was relatively stable over the period before a late surge around 2019.
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Overall, CD and digital sales have fallen considerably.
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Okay, let's do another one.
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This time we'll look at a map and we'll focus on active and passive sentences.
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Maps are a little less common, but still very important.
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Here's what it looks like.
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Let's read the title.
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It says average CO2 emissions per capita in selected regions in 2019 in tons.
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What does per capita mean?
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Per capita means per person.
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So if we look back at the map, we can see that North Americans emitted, that's an important verb here,
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about 21 tonnes of CO2 per capita or per person,
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while sub Saharan Africans only emitted 1.6 tonnes of CO2 per capita or per person.
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Now, when you describe any image, you have to make quick decisions, very quick decisions about which data you're going to describe.
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And you'll have to ignore, neglect, leave out a lot of data because you simply don't have time to describe it.
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My recommendation in PT speaking describe image is keep it really simple.
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Choose the highest, as we saw in North America, and choose the lowest as we saw sub-Saharan Africa.
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And if you find yourself with 20 seconds left, then pick the second highest or the second lowest.
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Simple as that.
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All right, now let's think about some critical language structures that we can use.
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So we can use the verb emitted here in an active sentence, we can say North Americans emitted the most CO2.
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Or we can use a passive sentence and put CO2 at the start and say, the most CO2 was emitted by North Americans.
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So keep in mind switching between active and passive sentences.
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That can be very helpful.
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Also, if you want to use a different verb than emitted, you can just say used.
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It's not quite right, but PTE doesn't expect you to be 100% accurate with your language in this task.
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Again, we're talking about grammar and sentence structure, but your aim should be to speak clearly and fluently.
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Let me show you a complete response.
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Listen for the active sentences.
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I'll highlight them in green.
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And listen for the passive sentences.
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I'll highlight them in purple.
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This map of the world shows the average CO2 emissions by capita in various countries in 2021 measured in tonnes.
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North Americans emitted the highest amount of CO2 at 20.8 tonnes per capita.
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This was followed by Europeans who used nearly 10 tonnes of CO2.
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The lowest amount of CO2 was used by sub-Saharan Africans.
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They emitted only 1.6 tonnes of CO2 per person, substantially less than all the other countries.
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Overall, there are substantial differences between regions of the world in terms of how much CO2 they emit it.
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Hopefully you heard my use of both active and passive sentences and how I kept my description very simple.
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Remember to sign up for free at E2 and practice your describe image with our high quality practice questions and model answers.
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Also, if you sign up for free, you can join our live classes with expert teachers to conquer any PT speaking task.
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Click the link in the below.
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Thanks very much for watching.
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Hopefully I'll see you on E2.
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