{listening} Pictures, maps and diagrams

You may be asked to identify something using information that you hear. Before you listen, you can often guess what information you are going to be asked for, just by looking at the picture or map on the question paper.

To answer this kind of question, you need to be able to recognize adjectives and descriptive phrases when you hear them.

The woman was short with long wavy hair. I think she was wearing a dark leather jacket, and a light coloured skirt.

 Another area of language which will bee useful to you in identifying pictures consists of words or phrases which tell you about position or direction.

The post office is opposite the cinema.

If you turn right at the main gate and continue along the path that takes you to the zoo, you should get to the Garden Bar in about three minutes.

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source: Successful Listening for First Certificate by Shelagh Rixon, OUP, 1993