This document provides guidance on describing people's physical appearance and personality using adjectives and verbs. It lists characteristics like height, build, hair color, and age that can be used to describe someone's physical appearance. It also gives examples of positive and negative adjectives for describing someone's personality traits. Sample sentences are provided to model how to incorporate these descriptive elements, such as "She has got medium-length, blond, wavy hair" and "Donald duck is bad-tempered, selfish, careless and impatient." Overall, the document offers a toolkit for concisely yet fully capturing someone's looks and disposition in language.

1. DESCRIBING PEOPLE
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2. .
To describe someone we must use:
• Adjectives that define both his/her physical appearance
(height, build, look, age, hair) and personality
• Verbs like : Be
Have Got
Look
Wear
Look like

3. USEFUL SENTENCES:
CAN YOU DESCRIBE HIS/HER PERSONALITY?
WHAT DOES HE/SHE LOOK LIKE?
WHAT COLOUR IS HIS/HER HAIR?
WHAT IS HE/SHE LIKE?
HOW OLD IS HE/SHE?

4. HOW TO DESCRIBE SOMEONE´S
APPEARANCE
HEIGHT : tall short medium height
BUILD : thin slim overweight strong
medium build
LOOK : ugly goodlooking handsome(men)
pretty (women)
AGE : old young middle aged

5. HE IS SHORT, MEDIUM BUILD, YOUNG AND
STRANGE LOOKING
SUPERMAN IS TALL, STRONG,
YOUNG AND HANDSOME

6. HOW TO DESCRIBE SOMEONE´S APPEARANCE
HAIR
COLOUR: blonde dark brown red black grey
SHAPE : curly straight bold wavy
LENGTH: short long medium –length bold

7. She has got medium-length, blond, wavy hair
Her hair is long, bown and straight

8. HOW TO DESCRIBE SOMEONE´S APPEARANCE
OTHER FEATURES.
MOUSTACHE
FRECKLES
BEARD
SCAR
TATOO
GLASSES
He has got a moustache.
He wears glasses.
He has got thick eyebrows.

9. PERSONALITY
POSSITIVE NEGATIVE
Generous Unreliable
Creative Short tempered
Reliable Selfish
Outgoing Childish
Sociable Careless
Cheerful Impatient
Polite
Helpful
Understanding

10. Donald duck is bad-tempered, selfish,
careless and impatient.
She looks generous, outgoing, cheerful
and helpful.