Asking questions about a person’s appearance

Q: What does she look like?           A: She’s tallish, with short fair hair.

Q: How tall is she?                  A: About 1 metre 65.

Q: How much does she weigh? A: I don’t know – roughly 50 kilos, I   guess.

We can use about and roughly to mean ‘more or less’ when talking about height (= how tall someone is), weight (= how heavy is someone) or age. The suffix ‘-ish’ can be used at the end of some adjectives to mean ‘quite’ and at the end of some numbers to mean ‘more or less’.

She’s got longish hair.            He’s twentyish.     She’s roughly 40.

      (Redman Stuart. English Vocabulary in Use. Pre-intermediate and Intermediate.)

4.2. Complete these sentences in a suitable way. (More than one answer may be possible.)

1.  He’s got very muscular ………. .

2.  She’s got blonde ………. .

3.  He’s got very pale ………. .

4.  They’ve both got curly ………. .

5.  I would say he was medium ………. .

6.  Her brother has got very broad ………. .

7.  Last time I saw him he had grown a beard and ………. .

8.  Both men were very good-………. .

       (Redman Stuart. English Vocabulary in Use. Pre-intermediate and Intermediate.)

4.3. Replace the underlined word with a word which is more suitable or more polite.

1.  He told me he met a handsome girl in the disco last night.

2.  She’s beautiful but her younger sister is really quite ugly.

3.  I think Peter is getting a bit fat, don’t you?

4.  I think she’s hoping to meet a few beautiful men at the tennis club.

5.  Paul is very thin.

      (Redman Stuart. English Vocabulary in Use. Pre-intermediate and Intermediate.)

 

4.4. Now answer these questions.

1. How tall are you?

2. How would you describe your build?

3. How much do you weigh?

4. What kind of hair have you got?

5. What colour is it?

6. Would you like it to be different? If so, what else would you like to change about your appearance?

7. Do you think you have any special features?

8. Are there any special features you would like to have?

9. Do you like beards?

10. Can you think of a famous woman you would describe as beautiful, and a famous man you would describe as good-looking?

 

4.5. Read the Internet advertisements for pen-friends and answer the questions.

1. What can Pierre do? 2. How old is Mario? 3. Who has got brown eyes? 4. Who is tall and well-built?

5. Is Mario’s hair curly? 6. What can Anna do? 7. What is the last sentence in each  advertisement?

1) Hello. My name’s Pierre and I’m seventeen years old. I live in Paris, France. I have got short straight dark hair and brown eyes I’m quite tall and slim. I love playing computer games and I can play tennis very well. I like reading too. Please e-mail me today!

2) Hi! My name is Anna and I am eleven years old. I live in Moscow, Russia. I have got long straight fair hair and green eyes. I’m quite short and I like skiing. I can play the piano quite well. Please be my e-mail pen pal.

3) Hi! My name’s Mario and I’m twenty-six years old. I live in Florence, Italy. I’m tall and well-built with brown, wavy hair and brown eyes. I like playing the guitar and I love dancing. I can speak French too. Hope to hear from you soon.

 

4.6. Read the advertisements again and complete the table. Then, look at your notes and talk about the people, as in the example.

	PIERRE	ANNA	MARIO
Age:	17
Lives in	Paris, France
Hair:	short straight dark
Eyes:	brown
Height:	quite tall
Build:	slim
Likes/ Loves:	playing computer games, reading
Can:	play tennis very well

Model: Pierre is seventeen years old. He lives in Paris, France. He has got short straight dark hair and brown eyes. He is quite tall and slim. He likes playing computer games and reading. He can play tennis very well.

 

4.7. Match the descriptions of the people (1-5) with the countries they are from (a-e).

1. People from countries such as ………. are usually tall with fair hair, blue eyes and a pale complexion.	a) Italy, Spain and Greece
2. Most people in Mediterranean countries, such as ……, are rather short. They have usually got black or dark brown hair, brown eyes and light brown skin.	b) Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Libya
3. Most people from ………… have got black curly hair and very dark skin They have also got dark brown eye full lips and a wide, flattish nose.	c) Denmark, Norway and Sweden
4. People from ……….. have usually got dark hair and dark brown eyes. They have also got dark skin.	d) northern China
5. People from ………. are quite short, with thick black hair and dark, slanting eyes. They have got a small nose and a yellowish complexion.	e) central and southern parts of Africa

● What do people from your country look like?

 

4.8. Simon Groom, Janet Ellis, and Peter Duncan are the presenters of Blue Peter, one of the most popular children’s TV programmes in Britain. Read and complete the chart with the missing information about the three members of the team.

Simon Groom’s birthday is the twelfth of August, and he was born in Derby. He’s tall – he’s one metre eighty-five with fair hair and blue-grey eyes. In his spare time, he likes training Goldie, the Blue Peter dog, playing the drums, and doing up old cars.

Simon studied English at Birmingham University, and then went to teach in a comprehensive school. He’s also worked as a disc jockey for eighteen months in Germany and London. His favourite food is breakfast, and his favourite colour is blue. Handel, Delius and Wagner are his favourite classical composers, and his favourite pop bands are OMD, Dire Straits and The Who. He enjoys cricket and football, and he drives a Jaguar. His ambition is to drive a Formula 1 racing car. He really likes music programmes and cars. He doesn’t like coconut and ties!

Janet Ellis was born in Kent on the sixteenth of September. She’s one metre fifty-five, and she’s got dark brown hair and green eyes. She likes singing, going to the cinema, sewing and collecting small teddy bears. She went to seven different schools both in Britain and abroad because her father was in the Forces. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and she’s done a lot of theatre and TV work, including Dr Who and Jigsaw. She loves seafood, and her favourite colour is pink. Her favourite classical music is Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Hoist, and she also likes The Police, The Smiths and Wham! Her favourite sports are roller skating and tennis, and she drives a Ford Escort XR3. Her ambition is to make a pop record. She likes funfairs, cats and rainbows, and she hates broken telephones – and rudeness.

Peter Duncan was born on the third of May in London. He’s one metre seventy-one, and he’s got fair hair and blue eyes. His hobbies are singing, decorating, and thinking up dangerous stunts to do on Blue Peter Peter went to secondary school, and has starred in many children’s drama series on TV. He is also a successful film and theatre actor. His favourite food is fresh fruit, and his favourite colour is green. His favourite music is Bach and the Beatles, and he loves football. He has a BMW. Peter would like to be a singer and he’d also like to travel in outer space. He loves the cinema and the country – and he dislikes people who are greedy – and boiled egg white!

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