DESCRIBING  PEOPLE

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Let's look at some useful vocabulary. When you describe people you can talk about their physical appearance or their character. Here are some adjectives and you can use to describe a person

Tall generous envious 
Ugly selfish funny
Ignorant slim short
Intelligent clever cheerful
fat talkative aggresive
loving pretty handsome
 Activity 1: What is your star sign?
This is a very interesting exercise. Check the description of your star sign.
1. First: Look for the following information:
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Your color, like numbers and stone
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Your compatible signs (it's good to know!)
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Your career suggestions (the jobs you can be good at)
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Read the description on the right and write down: adjectives and phrases describing you
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 Description of your star sign 
2. Second: Take notes of this information in a word document entitled "Starsigns" for future use.
 

Activity 2:

 

Activity 3:

1. Look at the picture of the man and read his description:

The man is tall and a bit fat. He is from England and works as a bank manager.  He has got white short hair.

He has got a beard. He is wearing glasses and a suit.

He is around sixty years old. He looks friendly.

2. Let's read about two of the FBI Most wanted criminals.  Read their file and then write a short paragraph describing them.

Remember to save your work in your disk as "criminals"   

 

Activity 4:

1. Now think about yourself. You can use the following questions to get ideas:

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Physical appearance:

Is your hair long or short?

What colour is your hair and your eyes?

Have you got a large or small mouth?

Are you strong, fat, thin, etc?

What do you usually wear?

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Character:

How is your relationship with other people and with yourself?

What do you like doing in your free time? What are your hobbies?

2. You can also look for friends in the internet to improve your English and write emails to them. When you write emails to people abroad they are called keypals Now prepare an introduction of yourself. We will post it in the internet later. Start deciding what to say about you:

bulletYour age
bulletPlace of birth
bulletYour physical description
bulletWhere you live:  describe the city, town, neighborhood
bulletYour family
bulletYour hobbies

Write a description of yourself  and save your work in your disk as "My description"  

You will use this description in your first message to a keypal very soon.

 

          Send to your teacher

 

 

                                                                  

                

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