Warm-up

Use some words to describe the people in the picture: attractive pretty lovely good-looking beautiful

It is a real masterpiece of Darvinchee. The lady is ______________ ____________. elegant, graceful, impressive…

Picturesque, scenic

When I see the pyramids, I feel ________. awesome The picture leaves me breathless. It is so unbelievable.

It is astonishing, surprising

All these clay products from Jingdezhen are of _______ quality. superior

Key Words: Describing Beauty astonishing, attractive, awesome, beautiful, brilliant, elegant, good- looking, handsome, leave me breathless, lovely, a real masterpiece, perfect, powerful, pretty, scenic, superb, superior, a thing of great beauty, unbelievable

Men: handsome, attractive, good-looking, brilliant, powerful Women: attractive, beautiful, brilliant, elegant, good-looking, lovely, pretty

Places: awesome, picturesque, scenic, leave one breathless, breathtaking, brilliant Objects: astonishing, a real masterpiece, superb, superior, a thing of great beauty, unbelievable, brilliant

Listen to the three dialogues about beauty and match them with the photos. Movement: graceful, elegant

I guess some of the most ___________ _________ things are _________ _______. They have _____, clean lines and __________, ____, _________ towers, don’t you think? I mean, they can be things of _____ ______. magnificent man-made suspension bridges lovely impressivehighhorizontal great beauty

Mm, ________...I know this bridge in the photo. The _____ from the top are just ___________-I can tell you. You can see the __________ on each side which is really __________ and _____. And when the sun sets behind the bridge, it looks so _________. Absolutely ___________ definitely views magnificent countryside picturesque scenic incredible breathtaking

I think it is a _______ painting. It’s got a ________ _______ of colors: with the black of the man’s hair and the hat that ______ his face with the ____ colors of the sky behind. And the red of the man’s _____ is ______, too. The __________ of the painting is absolutely ______. I think it’s beautiful, a real ___________. brilliant powerfulmixture frames pale sleeve perfect composition masterpiece lovely

Yeah, I agree with you. And the man is very interesting—He is not _________ in a ______ way but he is very good- looking. There is something very ________ about his eyes and the way he looks. Gorgeous! handsome typical attractive

I really love the way she dances. She is so _______ and ______. And she makes dancing look easy, doesn’t she? Almost ________. graceful elegant effortless

I think she is very ________, really ________. She is not pretty in the __________ sense. But she is very _______ and ______, quite ________ really. For me, it is very beautiful. attractive gorgeous Hollywood striking elegantstunning

area of countryside, painting rainbow, dancer building, film star “beautiful” and “pretty” are not normally used with “men”. Choose one word you think best to describe the following pictures: