Describe the physical features of the person sitting next to you.
9 When describing people which of the following characteristics do you usually include?
| Characteristics | Description |
| a) Age: | baby, toddler, child, teenager, adolescent, middle-aged, elderly |
| b) Physical appearance: | thin, slim, small-built, medium-built, well-built, muscular, plump, overweight, obese |
| c) Height: | tall, medium / average height, short |
| d) Race: | Black, Asian, Mediterranean, Hispanic, Arab, White |
| e) Sex/gender: | female, male, woman, man, girl, boy |
| f) Eye color: | black, brown, blue, grey, green, hazel |
| g) Hair color: | red, black, dark brown, light brown, blonde, white, grey, highlights |
| h) Hair type: | long, short, shoulder length, straight, curly, wavy, bald |
| i) Hair style: | plait, spiky, bobbed, pony-tail, shaved |
| j) Facial hair: | full beard, moustache, thick eyebrows, plucked eyebrows, clean shaven, unshaven |
| k) Dress: | smart, well dressed, fashionably dressed, badly dressed, conservatively dressed |
10 Choose one of these famous people from real life and fiction and describe his/her physical appearance. Can you guess who your friends are describing?
Example: He is a good-looking man of medium height. He is well-built.
He has dark brown curly hair and brown eyes. He is always well-
dressed.(Alexander Pushkin)
| Alexander Pushkin | Peter the Great | Vladimir Putin |
| Alla Pugacheva | Harry Potter | Salavat Yulaev |
| Vitas | Jennifer Lopez | Charlie Chaplin |
| Eddie Murphy | Nikita Mikhalkov | Santa Claus |
Grammar
Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs (Степени сравнения имен прилагательных / наречий)
| Remember! Имена прилагательные и наречия имеют три степени сравнения: положительную, сравнительную и превосходную. |
Read the following sentences and define the degree of
Comparison of adjectives.
1. В семье Байбуриных Гульназ самая младшая.
2. Я люблю красивые цветы.
3. Какая башня выше: Останкинская или Эйфелева?
| Remember! · Положительная степень сравнения используется для описания чего-либо или кого-либо без сравнения. Например: I like beautiful flowers. · Сравнительная степень используется для сравнения двух предметов, людей и т.д. Например:Which tower is higher: Ostankino or Eiffel? · Превосходная степень сравнения используется для выделения предмета и т.д. из ряда, говоря, что он самый умный, самый длинный, наименее страшный. Перед превосходной степенью всегда ставится артикль the. Например: In Baiburins’ family Gulnaz is the youngest. |
Remember the formation of degrees of comparison:
| Положительная | Сравнительная | Превосходная |
| Короткое имя прилагательное | ||
| short | shorter | the shortest |
| dark | darker | thedarkest |
| fair | fairer | thefairest |
| Имя прилагательное оканчивается на -y | ||
| pretty | prettier | theprettiest |
| wavy | wavier | thewaviest |
| ugly | uglier | theugliest |
| Имя прилагательное оканчивается на согласную, перед ней идет краткий звук | ||
| fat | fatter | thefattest |
| slim | slimmer | theslimmest |
| Длинное имя прилагательное, наречия | ||
| beautiful | morebeautiful | the most beautiful |
| handsome | morehandsome | the most handsome |
| badly | morebadly | the mostbadly |
| quickly | morequickly | the mostquickly |
| Стандартные формы образования степеней сравнения | ||
| good | better | the best |
| bad | worse | the worst |
| many (much) | more | the most |
| few (little) | less | the least |
| old | older (elder) | the oldest (eldest) |
| far | farther (further) | the farthest (furthest) |
12 Identify the degree of comparison of the highlighted word in each sentence by writing полож. (положительная), сравн. (сравнительная), or превосх. (превосходная).
Example: Andrew sleeps on the lower bunk. - сравн.
a) We are hoping for better weather tomorrow.
b) Lucy interviewed a famous movie star.
c) Jesse is the strongest player in the team.
d) This is the juiciest orange I ever ate.
e) Cheetahs run more swiftly than any other animal.
f) That is the largest pizza I have ever seen.
g) The patient seems worse today.
h) That singer has a loyal fan club.