III. Memorize the words below to speak about people’s age and to describe their appearance.

People’s Appearance

Figure: tall, short, middle-sized; stout, thin, slim, slender, well-built; straight, stooping; narrow-shouldered, broad-shouldered.

Face: oval, round, long, square; thin, plump, fat; beautiful, handsome, good-looking, lovely, pretty, attractive; common, plain, ugly.

Complexion:rosy, pale, fresh, dark, fair, sallow, freckled.

Eyes: almond, slanting, round, narrow; blue, brown, hazel, dark, grey; deep-set, close-set, wide-set.

(Eye)-lashes: long, short, curving, straight.

(Eye)-brows: straight, arched, penciled, bushy.

Nose: aquiline, hooked, straight, upturned (=turned up), fleshy.

Mouth: large, small, tiny, red.

Chin: protruding, split, double, pointed, square.

Lips: thin, plump, thick, full, heart-shaped.

Cheeks: plump, hollow, with dimples.

Forehead: balding, wrinkled; broad, narrow; high, low.

Hair: long, short, shoulder-length; curly, wavy, straight; red, brown, dark, fair, grey, chestnut, golden, thick; to wear one’s hair long, short; to be bald; to wear one’s hair combed back/in plaits/done in a knot/ parted in the middle / on the right (left) side; to wear a beard, a moustache.

Arms and legs: long, short; shapely, small. Long-armed, long-legged.

Distinguishing features: fringe, scar, bruise, dimple, mole, freckles, wrinkles.

To gain / to lose weight; to keep fit.

How does he/she look like? - He/she looks worried.

What does he/she look like? - She is slim and dark-haired.

What is she like? - She is smart and a bit shy.

People’s Age

I’m seventeen (years old).

I’m under seventeen.

I’m over seventeen. I’m nearly eighteen.

I’m under age = I’m not yet eighteen.

Tomorrow I’ll come of age. = I’ll be eighteen.

She is still in her teens (13-19). She is a teen-ager.

She is in her early (mid, late) thirties (i.e. between 29 and 40).

He is a middle-aged person.

She is an elderly lady.

An aging gentleman.

IV. Complete the following exercises. Use the text and topical vocabulary.

A. Paraphrase or finish up the following sentences using the words and word combinations from the text.

a. She likes to spend money. She is a _____ .

b. People’s looks are not always reliable for making judgements about their personality. Appearances are __________ .

c. Something that is made to look exactly like something else is its ____.

d. She is an example for everybody. She is a _____ .

e. A person without complications may be termed as a ____ .

f. He very much looks like his father.

g. The last King was a very strict ruler.

h. They are very much alike.

i. He never gives money to anybody. He’s a real _____ .

B. Give definitions to the following words:

mediocrity, ingenuity, dimple, mole, exclusiveness, genetic fund.

C. Translate into English in writing. Remember about word order in English.

1. Отцу Бренды только сорок, но он упитанный и облысел.

2. Джон на пенсии, но много путешествует. Хотя волосы его поседели, никогда не скажешь, что ему далеко за шестьдесят.

3. Жена Джека была полной и сутулилась. Она ходила с палкой. Трудно было поверить, что ей едва перевалило за пятьдесят.

4. Нора высокая, худенькая и очень привлекательная. Неужели ей уже около 55?

5. Брат похудел, из-за болезни щеки его побледнели, виски поседели, и теперь он выглядит старше.

PART 2

It takes all sorts (to make a world)

Something that you say which means that all people are different and even strange people should be accepted. Now the couple next door, they go swimming in the sea in the middle of winter. Well, it takes all sorts, as they say.

I. Read the text and translate it into Russian.

It Takes All Sorts

"Hey, hey," called the tall, nervous man with the fat, little wife, waving his arms at the conductor for fear he would be carried past his corner.

"It takes all sorts of people to make a world," remarked the sensible-looking woman beside me.

It is not the first time that I have been impressed with the philosophy of those words. Who said them first, I wonder. "It takes all sorts of people to make a world." That is, if we only had one sort or even a number of sorts we would have no world. To make a world there must be all sorts, including the funniest folks we ever knew.

I looked from the sensible woman with her well-chosen clothes to the woman across the way. This second woman was a sort of dressed-up-and-no-place-to-go type, with a squirt of Cashmere Bouquet in the centre of her handkerchief. And nothing on that went with anything else she had on. And a hat which one knew was a hat, because it was on her head, otherwise it might have passed for almost anything.

The woman beside me wouldn't have been caught dead looking like the second woman. Yet she should have been thankful for her. For it is only by contrast that the well-groomed look smart, and the overdressed look fussy. Whether that is Einstein's theory of relativity or not, I don't know. I only know that, "It takes all sorts of people to make a world."

There we sit on parade in these side-seater cars, and what we are is revealed so pitilessly to all who sit across from us. It is as though Fate was making jokes of us and sits us down beside the antitheses of ourselves. Such a one of Nature's jokes I saw recently. They were two men. The first was the sort whom one calls an "old boy." He was a racy individual, well-fed with a round front, an Elk, of course, a city man, reeking of good cigars, and an appraising eye out for a good-looking woman.

Beside him sat a man who had been studying birds in the Park. Berkeley was written all over him. A thin, pure type, he was dressed in field glasses and a bag full of green weeds and stout walking boots. There was an ecstatic glint in his eye which meant that he had discovered a long-billed, yellow-tailed Peruvian fly-catcher, "very rare in these parts."

So there they sat packed in so close and so terribly far apart, both so necessary to the making of a world.

And as they sat a boy entered the car with a shoe-box, full of holes, and out of the holes came a "peep" and then another. And the Berkeley man lost his abstracted look and the man-about-town laid down his paper and pretty soon the boy lifted the lid a bit and both men peeked in.