Optical Illusions (Harder)

WHO/WHAT

WHERE

ACTIONS

I / we can see … The main characters are …

The scene takes place in…

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

There is a (+ singular noun)  There are some / 2, 3 … /  several / many (+ plural  noun) 

The focus of the picture is  … The viewer’s attention is  drawn to …

Ex: The man is reading a  book.

Note: You can also answer the questions WHEN?, WHY?, and HOW? ACTIVITY 1:

Match the expressions with the parts in the pictures.

at the bottom at the top in the background in the bottom left-hand corner in the bottom right-hand corner in the distance in the foreground in the middle in the top left-hand corner in the top right-hand corner on the left on the right

ACTIVITY 2:

Describe what you see in the following pictures. Use the expressions of Activity 1. If you don’t know how to say a word in English, don’t forget to ask “What’s the English for …?”

Note: These pictures are based on optical illusions, so you may see more than just one thing!! PICTURE 1

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PICTURE 2

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PICTURE 3

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PICTURE 4

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PICTURE 5

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PICTURE 6

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PICTURE 7

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PICTURE 8

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ACTIVITY 3:

Now compare what you saw with what your friends saw! If your friends did not see what you saw, explain to them how to see what you saw!!

ACTIVITY 4:

Write about your favourite optical illusions and explain why you like them!

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at the top in the top left-hand corner

in the distance

in the top right-hand corner

in the background

on the left

in the middle

on the right

in the foreground in the bottom left-hand corner

in the bottom right-hand corner

at the bottom

SOLUTIONS PICTURE 1: - an eagle over a lake in the foreground - 6 animals hidden in the mountain (a wolf, a lynx, an eagle, a bear, a chamois, a mouflon /  mountain sheep) PICTURE 2: - a sailor (looking through a telescope) - a young woman if you turn the picture upside down! PICTURE 3: - autumn leaves - a naked woman (right in the middle of the picture, she is lying on her belly) PICTURE 4: - two elderly people (a woman on the left, a man on the right) - 2 young men (in the middle, one is playing the guitar) PICTURE 5: - Napoleon’s tomb on the right - Napoleon himself!!! (see the shape between the two trunks) PICTURE 6: - a tree (in the middle) and two faces (at (at the bottom of the picture) - more faces in the tree (This tree actually represents the main political leaders in India. At the very top, on the left, you can recognize Gandhi. There is also Nehru)

PICTURE 7: - a young man riding a horse (on the left), passing under a bridge (top of the picture) near a river (on the right) - an old man (the river represents his hair, the horse his beard…) PICTURE 8: - Sigmund Freud (his profile is turned towards the left) - a naked woman (see Sigmund Freud’s nose, forehead…)