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Describing PEOPLE FCE

The document provides a table of adjectives and expressions used to describe physical attributes of men and women. It then uses these terms to describe a man who has aged, noting how he used to be athletic and good-looking in his youth but is now overweight, bald, and wrinkled in his middle age due to giving up sports and sitting in an office all day. Finally, it prompts the reader to describe classmates using similar terms and have others try to guess the subjects based on the descriptions.

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Describing PEOPLE FCE

The document provides a table of adjectives and expressions used to describe physical attributes of men and women. It then uses these terms to describe a man who has aged, noting how he used to be athletic and good-looking in his youth but is now overweight, bald, and wrinkled in his middle age due to giving up sports and sitting in an office all day. Finally, it prompts the reader to describe classmates using similar terms and have others try to guess the subjects based on the descriptions.

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PEOPLE: What do they look like?

1. Study the table below, showing adjectives and expressions we use to describe people. I some
cases, these are used only for men or only for women. Note that we seldom use the less attractive
words for people we know and like or we qualify them:`He´s not very tall.´ (He´s rather short.) or
`She´s not very pretty.´(She´s rather plain.)

Men Women
Age Old elderly middle-aged young .... looks about (30)
Height Tall of average (medium)height short
Figure Broad-shouldered ... has a good figure
Muscular well-built
Shape Fat thin (critical) plump slim (favourable)
Hair Bald Blonde brunette
Dark-haired fair-haired red-haired
Long short straight curly wavy
Face Round long square oval wrinkled freckled dimple
Complexion Tanned pale sallow fresh
Nose Long hooked snub(flattened)
Lips Thin full

Ex.: June has blue eyes and fair hair.


June is blue-eyed and fair heared.
June is a blue-eyed, fair-haired girl.

Use adjectives from those listed above to complete this description of a man.
He used to be quite good-looking when he was y______________. He was t___________ and
s________________ -he looked so elegant in evening dress! He used to play a lot of games then, so he
was t___________ from spending so much time in the open air, and of course he was powerfully-built,
m_____________ and b___________- s_____________. He had a mass of c____________ hair and
like most r_________- h_________ people, a pleasant, f____________ face, with a funny little
s__________ nose, and f__________ lips, as if he wanted to kiss you. I´m afraid you wouldn´t recognise
him now! He´s only m____________- a__________ but he looks about 60! Of course when men
losetheir hair and go b__________, it always adds years to their real age, but his face is lined and
w________ now, and since he gave up sport, he has put on a lot of weight, so he´s rather f___________.
Apart from that, sitting in that office all day has given him a p_____________, unhealthy complexion.
Even his lips look t________________ now; I expect he´s got false teeth.

Describe somebody in the class, using the vocabulary you have seen above. Put your descriptions
in a hat, take it in turns to draw them out and say who you think is being described, giving your reasons.

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