The grid below is an annotated index to part of theVirtual Picture Albumcompiled and distributed by theLess Commonly Taught Languages Projectat the University of Minnesota. The pictures in this section of the VPA are of people, places and objects in Tunisia. Each of the pictures is represented by a thumbnail-sized image in the grid, and is accompanied by:
We also have suggestions for ways to use certainpairs or groupsof pictures.
Due to the number of pictures in this section, the VPA index for Tunisia is divided into three parts.
| Part 1 | Landscape and scenery (this page) |
| Part 2 | Culture |
| Part 3 | People and daily Life |
To view or download a full-sized picture from the VPA, click on its thumbnail representation below.
| Photo (Thumbnail) | Vocabulary Items | Topics | Grammar Points |
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wide, flat, desert, sand, hot, dry; camel, afar, single, trees; | geography, weather, seasons | subject-adjective agreement, plural, compare/contrast; |
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desert, trees, green, yellow, sandy, slopy; | climate, seasons, | 复数,exclamation, colors, compare/comtrast; |
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desert, sunset, shadow, trees, sand, hot, dry, huge; | life style, climate, weather, seasons; | countable/uncountable nouns, locative, number; |
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grottoes, wave, water, sea, bay area, coast, swim, pastimes; | sports, recreation, seasons, shapes, hobies; | locative, motion verbs, adjectives; |
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house, old, on top of, mountain, view, rocks, high, low, direction, sky; | housing, rural, urban, sightseeing, location, lifestyle; | locatives, spatial relation, compare/contrast; |
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trees, green, blue, mountain, hills, sky, clear, view, near, some, many; | colors, seasons, landscape, shape; | number, locative, spatial relation; |
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green, mountain, top, view, shape, high, landscape, scene, overview, roads, climbing; | 颜色、景观形状,消遣; | locative, spatial relation; |
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oasis, horse, cart, palm trees, green, dry, summer, sky, bright, road; | colors, seasons, lifestyle, transportation, tradition; | compare/contrast, spatial relation,idafastructure; |
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winter, cold, snow, forest; valley, stream; | season, weather, agriculture, geography; | adverbs of time and place, compare/contrast; |
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forest, bush, grass, trees, frost, snow; | seasons, climate, geography; | countable/uncountable nouns, compare/contrast, plural; |
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sky, mountain top, cloud, tourist, standing, views, rocks, look at; | tourism, landscape, regions, | tense/aspect, locative, motion verbs, colors; |
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countryside, road, hills, narrow, long, straight, field, car, front view; | rural/urban, transportation, driving, | motion verbs, locative, tense/aspect; |
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street, long, car, drive, fields, farm, farmland, destination; | agriculture, rural, economy, vehecle; | motion verbs, tense/aspect; |
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sand, dry, ancient building, buried, abandoned, blue, yellow, soft, visit; | colors, climate, location, tourism, architecture; | locative, noun/adjective agreement; |
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main street, cross road, corner, pavement, steps, cars, stops, buildings, sky, hills, city, walkers, tourists, old, crowded, sun glasses, caps; | architecture, customs, dress, city life, urban, traffic, transportation, life style; | colors, motion verbs, plural, locative/spatial relations; |
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men, sailboat, sand, sea, summer, sunny, warm, young; | how many?-six men; pastimes- relaxing on a beach; seasons-summer; weather-sunny, warm; |
plural, number, gender, dual; |
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boy, men, sea, swimming, swimming suit, summer, warm; | pastimes-swimming seasons-summer weather-warm, sunny |
tense-present; comparatives, plural; |
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rocks, water, sea, mountain, ,am, look for; | colors, weather, seasons, hobby, pastime; | singular, genetive case, tense/aspect, motiom verb, subject-adjective agreement. |
| TOPICS | GRAMMAR POINTS | |
| seasons | adjectives | |
| desert | adjective agreement | |
| architecture | agreement | |
| geographical features | comparatives | |
| area differences | gender | |
| landscape | locatives/spatial relations | |
| coastal area | near/far | |
| colors | number | |
| countryside | numbers | |
| weather | tense | |
| tourism | ||
| transportation | ||
| site-seeing | ||
| scenic characteristics | ||
| distance | ||
| direction | ||
| colors | ||
| urban/rural |
| Part 1 | Landscape and scenery - (this page) |
| Part 2 | Culture (part 2) |
| Part 3 | People and daily life (part 3) |
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