Comment on the statement above and discuss the following questions with your partner.
1. What is the first thing you notice about a person?
2.Is there a part of your appearance that you are very proud of?
3. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?
4. What kinds of things do you do to improve/maintain your appearance?
| nose, chin, long, bald, brunette, petite, tall, hazel, curly, plump, dark, overweight, auburn, tanned, olive, well build, grey, nostrils, straight, freckles, wrinkled, medium length, cheeks, blue, wavy, short, green, slender, skinny, eyes, with long lashes, fair(Х2), pale, slim, thin, fringe, |
| complexion |
| Height, body |
| face |
| appearance |
| eyes |
| hair |
Put the replicas in proper order to make a dialogue.
1) So, is your new roommate here?
__)No, the woman with the ponytail.
__) Yeah, she’s right over there.
__) You mean the guy in the yellow pants? That’s my brother Jimmy.
__) She’s the woman standing by the table.
__)The one with short hair?
__)Oh, which one is she?
__) Oh, she looks nice. And who’s that guy talking to her? He looks kind of weird.
Describe someone who is well known in your town, area or country.
You should say:
- What they look like
- What they do
- Why they are well known
Match the underlined idiom with definition.
1. Do you take after your mother or father?
– I think I look more like my mother.
2. Though they are sisters they are as different as day and night both in appearance and in character.
3. I wasn’t acquainted with him and I had never once spoken to him. I knew him only by sight.
4. Don was wearing blue jeans and a torn T-shirt, while all the other guests had on formal dinner wear. He really stood out.
5. He said that one of the lady-dancers had two left feet.
6. He liked Lucy in his own way. She is as fresh as a daisy, he often thought.
7. Never judge by (from) appearances. The boy looked so innocent and seemed very shy. Appearances are deceptive.
8. I’ve just run into Helen in a coffee shop. I could hardly recognize her. She is mere skin and bone. This is the result of her last diet.
9. The twins looked so much alike that almost no one could tell them apart.
10. You don't look yourself. What has happened?
a) not to have one's normal appearance
b) to resemble, look like (especially an older relative)
c) to know sb by his appearance only(without being acquainted with him)
d) the very picture of health
e) to distinguish
f) to be an awkward, clumsy person
g) to be noticeable
h) to be extremely thin
i) you can be mistaken if judge about sb by (from) his appearance
j) to be completely different
Make a written translation of the text.
W. Somerset Maugham “The Man With The Scar”
It was on account of the scar that I first noticed him, for it ran, broad and red, from his temple to his chin. This scar spoke of a terrible wound and I wondered whether it had been caused by a sabre or by a fragment of shell. It was unexpected on that round, fat and good-humored face. He had small features and his face went oddly with his large and fat body. He was a powerful man of more than common height. I never saw him in anything, but a very shabby grey suit, a khaki shirt and an old sombrero. He was far from clean. He used to come into the Palace Hotel at Guatemala City every day at cocktail time and tried to sell lottery tickets. I never saw anyone buy, but now and then I saw him offered a drink. He never refused it. He walked among the tables, pausing at each table, with a little smile offered the lottery tickets and when no notice was taken of him with the same smile passed on. I think he was the most part a little drunk.
Adjectives – degrees of comparison, order
| Positive | Comparative ER – MORE | Superlative EST - MOST |
| Shot adjectives (1-2 syllables) Short | Shorter | the shortest |
| Adjectives of 2 or more syllables Intelligent | more intelligent | the most intelligent |
| Irregular forms good little many/much far bad | better less more further worse | the best the least the most the furthest the worst |