Ex. 7. Say whether these words have a pleasant, neutral or unpleasant meaning
Thinness: thin, slim, slender, slight, skinny, emaciated, underweight.
Fatness: fat, stout, chubby, flabby, obese, overweight, plump, broad-shouldered,
of medium height, short, large, slim, well-built, graceful.
Ex. 8. Say whether these words describe only men, women or both
Lean, tanned, muscular, voluptuous, well-built, shapely; good-looking, handsome, pretty, attractive, beautiful, ugly, hideous, plain; beard, moustache, glasses, eyebrows.
Ex. 9. a)Which of the adjectives can go with these nouns?
Blonde, curly, dark, fair, large, long, pale, round, straight, hazel
Which physical features do the following adjectives describe?
Weak, dark, thinning, pointed, curly, shiny, wide, mean, receding, large, bright, protruding, strong, generous, square, straight, wiry, appealing.
Complexion:
Face: Hair:
Eyes: Nose:
Mouth: Chin:
b) Match the following words to make compound nouns:
А В
wrist à à à watch
finger brow
ear nail
stomach lobe
cheek style
eye lash
hair ache
head bone
tip
cut
ring
lid
c) Match the following verbs to parts of the body to make phrases:
clap your head
clench your fingers
crook your thumbs
cup your fist
bow your hand
shrug your finger
cross your face
screw up your hands
twiddle your shoulders
Ex.10. Write down the antonyms to the words:
Erect, clean-shaven, extraordinary face, beautiful bones of face, regular features, painted lips, straight eyelashes, straight eyebrows, bushy hair, fair-skinned, pale complexion
Write down the synonyms to the words:
Slim, good-looking, to be alike, appearance, build, features of face
Ex.11. Mind the difference in spelling and learn to ask a correct question with the words. Make up your own examples:
High __ - height
- What is your height?
- My height is 1 meter 70 centimetres. OR: I am of average/ medium height.
OR: - How tall are you? - I’m 1,70 metres tall.
Weigh - weight
- How much do you weigh? - I weigh 55 kilos.
OR: -What is your weight? - My weight is 55 kilos.
Ex. 12. Complete the text with words from the box.
A)
heavily, look, narrow, serious, smile, straight, strong, thin, lenses
moustache, bald, blue, casually, late, ears, fair, glasses, good-looking
Let me introduce myself. I’m Nick. I’m in my ……. thirties. I’m very tall, and quite ….. built, but I have rather …… shoulders. I’m a little overweight. I have … medium-length …. hair, but I’m going ….. so, there isn’t a lot of it left. I have a grey beard and … . My eyes are ……., I have a poor sight so I wear ……. I’ve got a rather long face, with a ……chin, a big nose and big ….. . I have ….. lips, and I usually have a ……. expression; my face changes a lot when I ….. I have a high forehead; I like to think that it looks intelligent.
Clothes are not very important to me, and I’m usually very ….. dressed. I don’t think I’m very ….., but I’m not all that bad-looking either. I hope I …..a bit younger than I am.
B)
ears, eyelashes, fair, fat, features, make-up age,
plain, plump, skin, slender, straight
She was a woman of forty, looking her (1) _____ , rather tall, and (2) ________ , without being (3)________ ; she liked to tell everybody how (4) ________she was at the age of seventeen. She was not pretty. Though she had irregular (5)________, herface was pleasing, chiefly, perhaps, on account of herkind blue eyes with long curving (6) ________ and (7) _________ penciled eyebrows. Her (8)_______was rather yellowish and her nose was large. Her (9) ________ hair was elaborately dressed. She was the only woman of the three whose face was free of (10) ________, and by contrast with the others she seemed quite (11)________ and unaffected.
Ex. 13. Write a description of yourself; don’t put your name on it. Give it to the teacher, listen to the descriptions and guess who is described.
Ex. 14. Give your own examples according to the models below. Speak about your relatives or friends.
Ann was between five and six years old.
Tom was (eight years) younger than his brother.
He is neither young nor old, he is a middle-aged man.
She is his (Bob’s) junior by 2 years.
Alice is my senior, she is a couple of years older than I am.
My cousin is much/far older than I am, he is as old as my Dad.
Between little Meg and the youngest of her brothers there was a gap of 6 or 7 years.
He was fully two and a half years older (younger) than little Robert.
All the students in our group are approximately of the same age, we are as old as one another.
Twins are as old as each other.
Ex.15. Put these words in chronological order.
elderly, teenage, youngish, retired, middle-aged, in her early thirties, in his teens, in their mid-twenties, under 27, old
teenage à--------------------------------------------------------------------------------àold
Ex. 16. a) Read the description below & say if a person looks his/ her age.
b) Write a couple of similar paragraphs about your friends and relatives. Let your groupmates decide if a person looks his/her age.
→ Pattern: He looks his age.
He looks old for his age.
He looks young (too young) for his age.
1. Brenda’s father is only 40 but he’s bald and rather stout.
2. Though retired John travels a lot and goes in for lawn tennis. He is gray-haired but looking at him and his life-style you’ll never say he is in his late sixties.
3. Jack’s wife was fat and stooping. She walked tottering and used a stick. You couldn’t believe that she was just in her early fifties.
4. Nora is tall and slender and very attractive. Her good looks appealed to me as soon as I saw her. Is she really in her mid fifties?
5. My brother has grown thinner and his illness took some colour off his cheeks, his is touched with gray at the temples, though he is only 35.
(Y.M. Merkulova. English for University Students. СПб, 2002)
17. Fill in the blanks with the proper words from the box. There is one odd word. a)
abundant, clean-shaven, complexion, decisive, dye, gait, gloomy,
height, late, moustache, person, structure, thumb-nail, upper
The Evening Messenger decided to offer £500 reward to any (1) ______ who will give information leading to the arrest of the man, William Strickland, who is wanted by the police in connection with the murder of the (2)_______ Emma Strickland.