1. Describing people and personal ads By. Brett Clendaniel
English Speaking
Describing people and personal ads By. Brett Clendaniel

4. To start… When we describe a person, we need to talk about:
What they look like (Physical Description):
Hair, eyes, nose, mouth, face, shoulders, height, built, age, expression and general appearance.
What they are like (Personality and Character)
If we are describing a photograph, we can also talk/write about their clothes and what they are doing.

5. Structure/ paragraphs
Introduction
“If I could meet anyone in the world, I would like to meet ….”
“ One of the people I admire the most is ….”
2. Physical description: “He/She is …”
3. Description of character and personality.
4. Conclusion: Say what you admire the most about that person or why you would like to meet them.
REMEMBER: This organization is flexible, but you need to follow some order, and the information in each paragraph must be clear and different from the others.

6. Physical description
HAIR: long, medium-length, short; straight, curly, wavy; blond(e), fair, dark, brown, black, red, grey, going grey, white, thinning; a beard, a moustache, bushy eyebrows; bald; receding hairline.
EYES: green, blue, brown, greenish-blue, grey, big, round, bright.
NOSE: long, turned-up, pointed
MOUTH: wide, generous; thin lips, full lips
CHIN: pointed, firm, weak
FACE: oval, round, long; high cheekbones; a scar, a beard, moustache, clean-shaven, freckled, wrinkled,
FOREHEAD: high, low
EARS: big, small, pointed, sticky-out

7. Physical description continued
SHOULDERS: broad, narrow
BUILD: skinny, thin, fit, slim, slender, muscular, well-built, heavily-built, strong, plump, overweight, chubby, fat, obese.
HEIGHT: tall, of medium height, short, petite.
AGE: young, middle-aged, elderly, old; in his early thirties; in her mid-fifties; in their late forties
EXPRESSION: serious, cheerful, worried, friendly
GENERAL APPEARANCE: good-looking, pretty, handsome, beautiful, gorgeous, attractive, ugly, plain;
CLOTHES: baggy, comfortable, fitted, skin-tight, checked, stripy, conservative, daring, cotton, denim, woollen, embroidered, fashionable, sophisticated, sporty, well dressed, casually dressed, trendy, scruffy, untidy, shabby,

8. Character and personality
Adjectives:
Affectionate, aggressive, boring, calm, caring, cheerful, cold, deceitful, dull, easy-going, emotional, extroverted, friendly, generous, honest, interesting, kind, mean, modest, moody, nervy, out-going. optimistic, patient, pessimistic, polite, practical, reserved, rude, selfish, self-confident, sensitive, serious, shy, sociable, unkind, vain.
Compound adjectives:
We put two words together using a hyphen (-) and –ed after the second word: bad-tempered, narrow-minded, open-minded, two-faced

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