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Describing 2 peopleand comparing them
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` Use your own photosask for permission to your
friends` Look in google images
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` When we describe a person,
we need to talk about:
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What they look like (Physical Description):Hair, eyes, nose, mouth, face, shoulders, height, built, age,
expression and general appearance.
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What they are like (Personality and Character)` If we are describing a photograph, we can also talk/write
about theirclothes and what they are doing.
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1. IntroductionIfI could meet anyone in the world, I would like to meet
I have chosen these people because .
One of the people I admire the most is .
2. Physical description: He/She is
3. Description of character and personality.
5. Describe shortly the second person
6. compare them both.
REMEMBER: This organization is flexible, but you need to follow
some order, and the information in each paragraph must be
clear and different from the others. You need to prepare
your presentation
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` HAIR: long, medium-length, short; straight, curly, wavy; blond(e), fair, dark, brown, black, red, grey, goinggrey, white, thinning; a beard, a moustache, bushy eyebrows; bald; receding hairline.
` EYES: green, blue, brown, greenish-blue, grey, big, round, bright.
` NOSE: long, turned-up, pointed
` MOUTH: wide, generous; thin lips, full lips
` CHIN: pointed, firm, weak
` FACE: oval, round, long; high cheekbones; a scar, a beard, moustache, clean-shaven, freckled,wrinkled,
` FOREHEAD: high, low
` EARS: big, small, pointed, sticky-out
` SHOULDERS: broad, narrow
` BUILD: skinny, thin, fit, slim, slender, muscular, well-built, heavily-built, strong, plump, overweight,chubby, fat, obese.
` HEIGHT: tall, of medium height, short, petite.
` AGE: young, middle-aged, elderly, old; in his early thirties; in her mid-fifties; in their late forties
` EXPRESSION: serious, cheerful, worried, friendly
` GENERAL APPEARANCE: good-looking, pretty, handsome, beautiful, gorgeous, attractive, ugly, plain;` CLOTHES: baggy, comfortable, fitted, skin-tight, checked, stripy, conservative, daring, cotton, denim,
woollen, embroidered, fashionable, sophisticated, sporty, well dressed, casually dressed, trendy, scruffy,untidy, shabby,
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Physical Description
What does he/ she look like?
Height Build Age
tall, short,medium
height
slim, thin, plump, fat,
skinny, well-built
young, elderly, middle-aged,
teenager, in 20s, 30s, 40s
Face Eyes Hair
round, oval,
square, with scars,
wrinkles, freckles,
sun-tanned, pale
big round blue
eyes, large, small,
bright, narrow
bald,
straight,
curly,
spiky, wavy
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` Adjectives:Affectionate, aggressive, boring, calm, caring, cheerful, cold,
deceitful, dull, easy-going, emotional, extroverted, friendly,
generous, honest, interesting, kind, mean, modest, moody, nervy,
out-going. optimistic, patient, pessimistic, polite, practical, reserved,rude, selfish, self-confident, sensitive, serious, shy, sociable, unkind,
vain.
` Compound adjectives:
We put two words together using a hyphen (-) and ed after thesecond word: bad-tempered, narrow-minded, open-minded, two-
faced
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Negative adjectives Positive adjectives
Bad-tempered
Big-headedBossyCheeky Clingy ClumsyMeanNarrow-minded ImmatureQuarrelsomeSnivellingSpoilt
StubbornTwo-facedWeird
Easy-going
Hard-working HumbleLoyalCharmingSporty Sympathetic Talkative Naughty Open-minded Quick-witted Reliable
Sensible Sensitive
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Adjective
Length type of hair colour Noun
Long curly brown hair
Short wavy blond hair
big/small blue/green eyes
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` The photo shows
` In the picture we can see` In this picture there is/are
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` While you think: Umm Uhh
` I mean / I think
` Lets see / Let me see
` So
` Well / Ok
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