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    The document provides guidance on the language skills required to describe pictures for ICAO English language proficiency assessments. Candidates will need a vocabulary to describe aircraft parts, weather, locations on an airfield, and types of damage. They must also be able to use verb tenses to describe present, past and future events. Phrases are given to describe locations within pictures using prepositions. The summary should describe the main idea, aircraft characteristics, and details, indicating positions. Practice with a colleague is recommended before the test.

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    The document provides guidance on the language skills required to describe pictures for ICAO English language proficiency assessments. Candidates will need a vocabulary to describe aircraft parts, weather, locations on an airfield, and types of damage. They must also be able to use verb tenses to describe present, past and future events. Phrases are given to describe locations within pictures using prepositions. The summary should describe the main idea, aircraft characteristics, and details, indicating positions. Practice with a colleague is recommended before the test.

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    The document provides guidance on the language skills required to describe pictures for ICAO English language proficiency assessments. Candidates will need a vocabulary to describe aircraft parts, weather, locations on an airfield, and types of damage. They must also be able to use verb tenses to describe present, past and future events. Phrases are given to describe locations within pictures using prepositions. The summary should describe the main idea, aircraft characteristics, and details, indicating positions. Practice with a colleague is recommended before the test.

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    What language skills are required?

    Quite often the pictures will be of unusual or unexpected events such as damage to an aircraft,
    a crash/collision or a malfunctioning piece of the aircraft’s equipment. You will need to
    develop your vocabulary so that you can easily explain these situations without being lost for
    words. As a pilot or controller you will need vocabulary to describe

    Main idea of the picuture


    each part of an aircraft,
    weather and time of day,
    the physical layout of an airfield and
    various types of damage that can occur.

    You will also need a good command of verb tenses so that you can describe:

    what is happening now


    what has happened before
    what is likely to happen in the future
    You should also learn the language skills needed to explain why these events have occurred.
    This will involve (among others) modal verbs of possibility/probability, conjunctions and
    infinitives of purpose.

    You should also use prepositions to describe the physical location, or path of movement of the
    various objects in the picture.

    Phrases for describing pictures


    Start by giving a brief description of each picture.

    The picture/photo shows …


    This is a picture of …
    In this picture I can see …
    This is an incident that happened …
    There are different phrases you can refer to parts of each pictures. For example:

    on the left / on the right (hand side)


    in the background / in the foreground
    behind x / in front of x
    Depending on the picture you will need to use appropriate tenses. For example:

    an aircraft is trying to land (present continuous because it is something happening at the


    moment the photo was taken)
    the aircraft in this picture has collided with a ground vehicle (present perfect because it is
    something that happened in the recent past with a result in the present)
    a ground vehicle is about to make a wrong turn that will surely cause a problem for aircraft
    that are landing.
    The assessor might also ask you to give your opinion about the picture.

    In my opinion …
    I think that …
    It looks like …
    x seems to be …

    Practice
    Before the ICAO English test, practice describing pictures with a colleague (if you already know
    someone who will also be taking the speaking test, ask him/her to practice with you).
    Students at Aviation English Asia are a friendly bunch who really make the effort to help each
    other. Of course, all our English courses for ICAO compliance offer thorough practice of these
    skills in each unit.
    DESCRIÇÃO DE FIGURA
    3 REGRAS

     PRIMEIRA : : FALAR DO FOCO DA FIGURA, OU IDEIA PRINCIPAL


     SEGUNDA : DESCREVER A CARACTERISTICA DA AERONAVE
     TECEIRA : CONTINUAR A DESCRIÇÃO FALANDO DOS DETALHES, INDICANDO A
    POSIÇÃO NA FIGURA.
    Modelo de resposta:

    The picture/photo shows____________(main idea) situation, in the center


    of this picture there is a ________, i can see ….. the acft is … the other
    acft on the rwy is.. ….in the background I see , there is /are ….

    The AIRCRAFT in this picture SEEMS TO BE A ... (characteristic of


    ACFT) EX: ( AN WIDE ,A NARROW BODY , RETRACTABLE
    LANDING GEAR , LOW WING , AND MULTI ENGINED ACFT , OR
    TWIN ENGINED ACFT

    I CAN SEE , THERE IS A ….(A NARROW BODY ,OR AN WIDE


    BODY(,characteristic of AIRCRAT )EX: ( AN WIDE,A NARROW
    BODY , RETRACTABLE LANDING GEAR , LOW WING , AND MULTI
    ENGINED ACFT , OR TWIN ENGINED ACFT.

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