Describing Describing PeoplePeople

ChildChild

This is a child. He is a boy. He is a boy with blond hair.

ChildrenChildren

These are children. There is one girl. There are two boys.

BabyBaby

This is a baby.

This baby is cute.

BabiesBabies

There are two babies.One baby has blond hair. One baby has black hair.

ToddlersToddlers

These two boys are toddlers.Toddlers are young children

learningto walk.

TeenagerTeenager• This girl is a teenager.• Her hair is blond and

straight.• She has short bangs.• A teenager is thirteen

to nineteen years old.• This teenager is a

fourteen-year-old girl.

TeenagersTeenagers

These teenagers have brown hair. The teenager on the phone has wavy hair.These teenagers are seventeen years old.

These girls are teenagers.

AdultAdult• An adult is a grown

man or woman.• In the United

States, you must be eighteen years old to be an adult.

• This adult woman is talking on the phone.

AdultsAdults• This is a man and

a woman.• They are adults.• The man has black

hair.• The woman has

blond hair.• These adults are

twenty-five years old.

Senior CitizenSenior Citizen• A senior citizen is

an older man or woman.

• If you are fifty-five years old in the United States, you are a senior citizen.

• This woman is a senior citizen.

Senior CitizensSenior Citizens

The senior citizens have short gray hair.The little girl has straight, blond hair.

These senior

citizens are

with a girl.

YoungYoung• All these people are

young.• People that are

below the age of forty are young.

• The brothers are young.

• The couple is young.

• The family is young.

Middle-agedMiddle-aged• People between the

ages of forty and fifty-four years old are middle aged.

• The middle-aged woman is lifting weights.

• The middle-aged man was playing basketball.

ElderlyElderly• Elderly people are

sixty-five years old and above.

• Many senior citizens are elderly.

• The elderly woman has gray hair.

TallTall• The basketball

player is very tall.

• The basketball player has no hair.

• The basketball player is bald.

Average HeightAverage Height• The man is average

height.• The woman is tall.• The average height

man has short, straight, blond hair.

• The tall woman has straight, shoulder-length, blond hair.

ShortShort• The basketball

coach is short.• He is short and

bald with some gray hair.

• The basketball player is very tall and bald.

PregnantPregnant

• This woman is pregnant.

• She is going to have a baby soon.

Heavyset/FatHeavyset/Fat

• This man is heavyset.

• Heavyset is more polite than saying fat.

Average WeightAverage Weight

• This man is average weight.

• This man has short, brown, wavy hair.

Thin/Slim/SkinnyThin/Slim/Skinny• This woman is

very thin.• This skinny

woman has black hair.

• This woman is pretty and slim.

AttractiveAttractive• The woman is

very attractive.• The attractive

woman has blond hair.

• The attractive woman has long, straight, blond hair.

HandsomeHandsome

• The man is very handsome.

• The man is in good shape.

CuteCute

• The baby is cute.

• The babies are cute.

Physically Physically Challenged/Challenged/

HandicappedHandicapped• The woman with

the walker is physically challenged.

• The woman in the wheelchair is handicapped.

• There is special parking for the handicapped.

Visually Visually Impaired/BlindImpaired/Blind

• The boy is visually impaired or blind.

• The boy with the brown hair is wearing glasses.

Hearing Hearing Impaired/DeafImpaired/Deaf

• The deaf people speak with their hands.

• The hearing impaired speak with sign language.

Now You Can Describe Now You Can Describe PeoplePeople

children baby toddler teenager adult senior citizen youngmiddle-aged elderlytallaverage height

shortpregnantheavyset/fatthin/slim/skinnyattractivehandsomecutehearing impaired/deafphysically challengedhandicappedvisually impaired/blind

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