57347 adjectives describing physical appearance

Adjectives for Describing Personal AppearanceName: • What is an adjective?. In order to describe people we can find adjectives for describing personality and adjectives for describing pe

Adjectives for Describing Personal Appearance

Name:

• What is an adjective?

Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence Its main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's referent.

In order to describe people we can find adjectives for describing personality and adjectives for describing personal appearance, but now

we are going to learn the second classification: adjectives for describing personal appearance, in terms of height, size, hair and eyes, among others.

List of adjectives for describing personal appearance:

-General appearance:

-Height

-Size:

-Hair color:

-Hair style:

-Eyes:

-Other features:

fair dark pretty good-looking handsome plain ugly

tall medium-height short big small fat thin slim blonde fair dark red grey brown short long straight wavy curly bald blue brown grey green

beard moustache glasses

He is tall He is short He is normal-height

He is bald

He has no hair

• Describing People

 What’s she/he like?

She/he is tall

She/he is very friendly

*(What’s she/he like? Can refer to personality as well as appearance)

 What does she look like?

She/he is quite good-looking

*(Order of the description: Height, Size and General appearance)

 What colour/what sort of hair has she got?

She’s got long, dark, curly hair

She has short, blonde, straight hair

*(Order of the description: Length, color and style)

 Does she/he wear glasses?

No, she/he doesn’t

• Exercises.

1) Put the following sentences in the correct order

 long - hair- She – red – has – wavy

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 Mark – good-looking – is – very – a – man

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 Is – woman – tall – slim – Kelly – pretty - a

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 Men – ugly – fat – short – Dylan – a – is

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2) Look at the pictures below and describe them in terms of hair style and hair color, and in terms of eyes:

She has _, , _ hair She has _ eyes

She has _, , _ hair She has _ eyes

He has _, , _ hair

He has _ eyes

He has _, , _ hair

He has _ eyes

3) Look at the pictures in the whiteboard and choose one of them in order to describe it in terms of height, size, general appearance, hair and eyes

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Now you have to present what you have done in front of the class Their task will be to guess which picture is being described

Thanks for your attention!!