Rainy Morning Bus Stop

Speaking Task 3 · Describing a Scene. Speaking Task 3 practice. Describe a crowded city bus stop on a rainy Monday morning to a listener who cannot see the picture.

Task 3 puts a picture on the screen and asks you to describe it to someone who cannot see it. You get 30 seconds to prepare and 60 seconds to speak - and the same picture returns in Task 4, so whatever you notice now pays twice.

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Rainy Morning Bus Stop

Speaking Task 3 practice. Describe a crowded city bus stop on a rainy Monday morning to a listener who cannot see the picture.

Rainy Morning Bus Stop

Describe some things that are happening in the picture below as well as you can. The person with whom you are speaking cannot see the picture.

A crowded city bus stop on a grey rainy morning, with wet pavement and puddles along the curb. Under a glass shelter a woman in a yellow raincoat holds a folded newspaper over her head while a man in a business suit shakes water off a black umbrella. In the foreground a teenager with a soaked backpack scrolls on a phone under a clear plastic umbrella, and beside him a mother crouches to pull a rain hood over a small child in rubber boots. At the edge of the group an older man leans on a cane and looks down the street toward a bus splashing through a puddle, while behind the shelter a delivery cyclist in a bright vest waits with one foot on the curb.

The person with whom you are speaking cannot see the picture.

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Rainy Morning Bus Stop

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