This document provides descriptions of people's physical appearances, clothing, personalities, and ways to compare two people. It includes vocabulary and phrases for describing looks, outfits, and characteristics. Examples describe facial features, hair, body type, and clothing items and colors. Descriptions are also provided for pictures and ways to discuss similarities and differences between two subjects.

1. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
CFE 19-20

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4. Use of English score

5. Writing score

6. Listening score

7. To fight tooth and nail
What does Rob love
eating?
What does he plan to
do?
Why is Rob angry?
What are we going
to fight tooth and
nail for?
What
promotion are
they offering at
Rob’s café?

8. What does he/she look like?

12. Descriptions: Match the two halves
• to bear a striking resemblance to
• cropped hair
• disheveled hair
• to dress up to the nines
• to be fair-skinned
• to get done up
• to be getting on a bit
• to grow old gracefully
• to be hard of hearing
• in his/her 30s/40s
• scruffy
• to go grey
• Getting old
• Short hair
• In lose disorder
• Be very, very similar
• To make yourself look glamorous
• Your hair shows you are getting old
• Aging healthily
• To be half deaf
• To be dressed for a very special occasion
• To have a complexion that is not dark
• Untidy and wearing old clothes
• Eso

13. • to look young for your age
• to lose one’s figure
• complexion
• make up
• middle-aged
• to never have a hair out of
• place
• to be overweight
• pointed face
• shoulder-length hair
• slender figure
• slim figure
• thick hair
• to be well-built
• to be well-turned out
• To have a youthful appearance
• Cosmetics for the face (wear make up)
• When someone does not look his age
• Skin tone (have a pale complexión)
• To gain weight
• Have a very neat appearance
• fat
• Between 45 and 65
• A heart-shaped face with a pointy chin (i.e Scarlett
Johansson)
• Your hair is long enough to touch your shoulder
• You have a nice figure
• Physically strong or attractive
• Someone who wears nice, good quality clothes
• You have a nice figure
• Someoune who looks younger than his age
• A lot of it

14. Ways of comparing two people
I think…
• She has the same______ as you
• You are more ______ than
• You are as _________as
• You are _____er
• She has a _______ but your is (more/less) ________(er)
• You are different from / similar to / the same as….
• You are much / a lot / far more…. (when there is a big difference)
• You are exactly/ roughly / more or less… (when there is no difference)

15. What does this person look like?
Hooked
nose
Pale complexion Snub / turned up
nose
Bushy eyebrows
(pobladas)
Hazel eyes
Thick eyebrows /
gruesas

16. • Take something for g_
• Occur at r_______
• T___ date
• Those twins are e_______
similar
• This job is open to all, r________
_ of previous experience.
• Many people have a
hard time telling
less expensive perfumes a_____.
• Take something for granted
• Occur at random
• To date
• Those twins are eerily similar
• This job is open to all, regardless
of previous experience.
• Many people have a
hard time telling
less expensive perfumes apart.

17. What is he/she like?

18. Some of us seem to be infinitely kind, while others seem to (1)__________
down on everyone around them. Some of us never forget an argument,
while others (2) ____________ up to forgive easily. As we (3)
______________ up, our personality develops, and we find that we
(4)__________ on with certain people more than others. Who we are seems
to have a large genetic element, but is also influenced by those who (5)
____________ us up. If we (6) _________ up to our parents or other family
members, we may want to be like them. On the other hand, if our parents
seem to (7) _______us down all the time and we (8)____________ out with
them a lot, then perhaps we will develop quite different personalities.
Get, make, put, look, bring, fall, grow (one of them used twice)
look
make
grow
get
bring look
put Fall

19. She often suffers from brain fades….
Wich examples of bra

20. Phrasal verb Translation
Look down on someone menospreciar
Make up to someone congraciarse
Grow up crecer
Get on (well) with somebody Llevarse bien
Bring up criar
Look up to someone admirar
Put someone down menospreciar
Fall out with somebody Alejarse de alguien / pelearse

21. What was he like?
Argumentative
Bossy
Arrogant
(Dis)honest
Grumpy

23. What is he/she wearing?

24. Describing outfit
Flat black
boots A fur collar jacket
Denim
trousers
Long-sleeved
white T-shirt
High heel black
shoes
Long loose
cardigan
Short-tight cardigan
Baggy
trousers

25. What are people wearing?
Remember: Colour + pattern + material + noun (plain addresses colour,
so it comes first)
Stripped
fabric
Spotted
fabric
Plaid or
checked Gigham Argyle
Polka
dot
patterned
plain

26. Young Bill Gates & Steve Jobs
Argyle
waistcoast
Checked
shirt
glasses
Short
straight
hair
Long wavy hair
Patterned
shirt
Squared
face
Fleshy cheeks
Long face
Prominent chin
Straight nose
Strong neck

27. Describing pictures
The girl with the wavy hair is staring
at the camera
She is wearing a big
black bow, layered
over a white shirt
The midday summer sun
shinning over a rippled sea

28. Homework – Bring a picture of someone you
know well and describe her to us

29. Alice

30. Laura

31. Vocabulary revision pp 11
• A fingernail bitter
Can you tell them apart?
A sensitive boy (sensible)
A spooky baby
(espeluznante)
At random / al azar Janitor

32. Who wants to live forever?
• Colonise other planets
• Live forever
• There is a lot of disagreement about that
• Repair the human body
• Why is that?
• All alive at the same time
• Buying birthday present will be a nightmare
• It won’t last forever
Pronunciation
Deteriorate
Disadvantages
Immortal

33. USES OF THE FUTURE
• Future events that are
dependent on other events
• Arrangements
• Completed actions in the future
• Schedules
• Decisions on the spot
• Something in progress in the
future
• Will
• Present continuous
• Present simple
• Future perfect
• Will
• Future continuous
How many tenses does English have?

34. The use of ”and”
• She has a small nose and thick lips.
•She has long and wavy hair.
• She has brown eyebrows and her eyes are
big and blue

35. An article: Messi
Paragraph What is it about? Justification Development Example Key vocabulary
1 I went to the Circle du
soleil…
It was a birthday
present
What did I like it
so much
In one of the
acts…
Effort
Fun
Discipline
2 Why he is a legend Facts about his
character and
physical
condition
3 Will he leave Barça? Crisis in Barça
He is not that
young
4 Messi is the best
player of all times