3. What are people like?
1. Gender
2. Age
3. Face
4. Hair
5. Other distinguishing
features
6. General appearance:
height and build
7. Clothes
8. Personality
I’m afraid, not
too different
from chimps
Gallery
9. 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
Some useful tips to talk about people’s age
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9 1110 12
Roundish face
Receeding hairline
Bald
Long neck
Double chin
portruding teeth
Long nose
Full lips
Pointed chin
Large forehead
Sideburns
Hooked nose
15. 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)
Describing somebody
18. 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.