speaking assignment people

8/7/2019 Speaking Assignment People

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Describing 2 peopleand comparing them


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` Use your own photosask for permission to your

friends` Look in google images


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` When we describe a person,

we need to talk about:

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What they look like (Physical Description):Hair, eyes, nose, mouth, face, shoulders, height, built, age,

expression and general appearance.

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What they are like (Personality and Character)` If we are describing a photograph, we can also talk/write

about theirclothes and what they are doing.


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1. IntroductionIfI could meet anyone in the world, I would like to meet

I have chosen these people because .

One of the people I admire the most is .

2. Physical description: He/She is

3. Description of character and personality.

5. Describe shortly the second person

6. compare them both.

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. You need to prepare

your presentation


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` HAIR: long, medium-length, short; straight, curly, wavy; blond(e), fair, dark, brown, black, red, grey, goinggrey, 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

` 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,


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Physical Description

What does he/ she look like?

Height Build Age

tall, short,medium

height

slim, thin, plump, fat,

skinny, well-built

young, elderly, middle-aged,

teenager, in 20s, 30s, 40s

Face Eyes Hair

round, oval,

square, with scars,

wrinkles, freckles,

sun-tanned, pale

big round blue

eyes, large, small,

bright, narrow

bald,

straight,

curly,

spiky, wavy


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` 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 thesecond word: bad-tempered, narrow-minded, open-minded, two-

faced


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Negative adjectives Positive adjectives

Bad-tempered

Big-headedBossyCheeky Clingy ClumsyMeanNarrow-minded ImmatureQuarrelsomeSnivellingSpoilt

StubbornTwo-facedWeird

Easy-going

Hard-working HumbleLoyalCharmingSporty Sympathetic Talkative Naughty Open-minded Quick-witted Reliable

Sensible Sensitive


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Adjective

Length type of hair colour Noun

Long curly brown hair

Short wavy blond hair

big/small blue/green eyes


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` The photo shows

` In the picture we can see` In this picture there is/are


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` While you think: Umm Uhh

` I mean / I think

` Lets see / Let me see

` So

` Well / Ok

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