1. Describing People

2. I’m afraid, not too different from chimps
What are people like?
Sex
Age
Face
Hair
Other distinguishing features
General appearance: height and build
Clothes
Personality
I’m afraid, not too different from chimps

3. SEX

4. Man
Woman

5. Age

6. Age Categories Baby Toddler Child Teenager Young person
Middle-aged person
Elderly person

7. 2.1 Age Categories Baby Middled-aged person Toddler Teenager Child
Elderly person
Young person

8. Some useful tips to talk about people’s age
Notice the use of the verb to be
I am 134 years old
Imprecise ages
She is in her early /mid /late twenties
He is in his forties / You are in your teens
She is about sixty

9. Face

11. eyebrows
nose
forehead
mouth
eyelashes
lips
Face description
chin
lips

12. Roundish face
Receeding hairline
Bald
Long neck
Double chin
portruding teeth
Long nose
Full lips
Pointed chin
Large forehead
Sideburns
Hooked nose 4 3 1 2 5 6 7 8 12 9 10 11

13. Describing somebody
She´s a beautiful young woman in her early twenties. She´s got short, fair hair, blue eyes, thin eyebrows and pale complexion.
She´s wearing strange make up in her eyes (Her eyelashes are extended as if they were snakes or insect legs)

14. Hair

15. Length
Long/ Short
Medium-length
Shoulder-length
Type
Straight
Wavy
Curly
Spiky
Style
A fringe/sideburns
A side/centre parting
In a plait/ pony tail
In pigtails
Dreadlocks
Colour
Fair/Dark
Black/Blond
Brown/Red/White/Grey (light/medium/dark)
Highlights

16. What’s their hair like?
He´s got short grey hair and a receeding hairline
She´s got shoulder length red straight hair with a fringe and centre parting.

17. What’s her hair like? She’s got long,blonde wavy hair
She’s got long,blonde straight hair

18. What’s their hair like? She´s got shoulder length blonde wavy hair
They´ve got a Mohican hair style

19. What’s their hair like?
He´s bald
He´s got dreadlocks

20. What’s their hair like? She´s got long dark curly hair
He´s got short dark curly hair and a beard

21. I love short,
dark-haired women
Winslet
I love
long
blonde
hair...
Binoche

22. Kate
Juliete

23. Distinguishing features

24. He´s wearing tattoos all over his body
He´s got an eye patch
She´s got a piercing
in her lower lip

25. Distinguishing features
Eyes
Shape Round/almond/slanting
Colour
Blue/green/brown/hazel
Shape
Round/long/square/oval
Complexion
Tanned/pale/dark/fair
Wrinkled/fresh/spotty
Distinguishing features
A beard/a goatee
A moustache
Clean-shaven
cheekbones
Nose
Long/hooked/snub
Lips
Full/thin
Teeth
Even/portruding

26. Describe