DESCRIBING PEOPLE

attractive   bald   beard   beautiful     blonde   brown   curly   dark   face   fair  fat
glasses   good-looking   hair   head   kind   long   man   middle-aged   nice moustache  old
pretty   medium-height   round  short   shy   slim  tall   straight       teenager    thin   woman
  young   bad   boring   crazy   cute   fantastic   funny   happy   interesting    lovely
poor   sad

weird   terrible  cool   playful  hard-working  sister  selfish  boy  realible   brother   father
 mother    obedient  courageous   optimistic   confident pretty  short   wavy  small  ugly  grey
red  eyes   parents   glasses  people  big   blue  mouth   nose  careful  clever  cold
self-confident   fit    imaginative   intelligent   kind   lazy nervous    calm   optimistic
patient    pessimistic     polite     quiet     rude    sensitive   daughter  serious    tidy
good   grandfather  cousins   son   thin  strong



1)  Which adjectives can you use to talk about:

appearance   -        age         -    character



Appearance:


You use look like to describe people´s appearance.

What does she look like? She´s tall and she´s got fair hair.

She looks like a banker.

Who does he look like?  He looks like his father.


Character:


You use be like to describe people´s character.

What´s he like?  He´s nice.



2)  Complete the sentences with like if necessary:


a)   What does she look______?       She looks_____very kind.

What´s he_______? He´s ________lovely.





3)  Match the questions and the answers.


1.How old is he?

2. How tall is he?

3. What colour is his hair?

             4. What does he look like?


a. One metre seventy-eight.

b. Blond.

c. He´s quite young, good-looking and slim.

d. Twenty-one.



4)  Think of a famous person/someone from the class. Describe his/her appearance.



5)  Write five true information about your appearance/character and two false. Show it to your
friends.  Can they find the false information?


6)  Write a letter describing what you look like:



                                                          (write your address here)




                                                                   (write the date here)




            Dear Mr. Freeman,

            I am  looking forward to meeting you at the station next  Monday. I will be there at
ten o´clock and will wait for you on the platform.






      (describe your appearance)



Yours sincerelly,


(write your full name here)


Describing People

                                              Special

                                                                                              Shape of the face

freckles –

beauty mark –

pimple –

dimple –

pointed  chin –

double chin –

crooked nose –

straight nose –

sideburns –

mustache –

beard -

                                                     oval -

                                                     round -

                                                     heart  shape –

                                                     square-


height

             weight

                          eyes

                               mouth

                                         nose

tall

pretty all

fairly short

short

medium height

             thin

             slim

             fat

             medium weight

                          blue

                          green

                          big

                          small

                          brown

                          black

                          grey

                          hazel

                               thick lips

                               thin lips

                               beautiful


                                         long

                                         small

                                         ugly

                                         beautiful


hair

lenght of hair

              type of hair

                          color of hair


short

long

              straight

              curly

              wavy

              afro

              bald

              spiked

                          blond

                          fair

                          red

                          brown

                          light brown

                          black

                          dark

                          grey