Focus 1
Unit 4, vocabulary
1 Choose the correct option.
1 He’s bald / well-built. He looks like an athlete.
2 You must cut your ponytail / fringe. It gets into your eyes.
3 Simon is a very shy / sociable person. He likes meeting new people and going to
parties.
4 You should wear a comfortable tracksuit / suit to do sports.
5 My uncle is very relaxed / generous. He often gives me expensive presents.
6 Your new shirt looks very top / tight. Do you feel comfortable in it?
2. Complete the sentences with the words.
hair, eyes, ears, lips, forehead, head, nose, neck, mouth, eyebrows, eyelashes
This is a description of a person's 1_______ from top to bottom. 2_____
grows on the head. It can be short, long, curly or straight. You can even have
dreadlocks. At the front of the head is the 3_____ . If you have a fringe (short
hair), it can cover a lot or all of this. Under this are the 4______. We see with our
5______ and, just above these are the 6_______ – short hairs that protect them.
At the side of the head, we have two 7______. We can hear things with these. In
the centre of the face, we have a 8______ with two holes in it which we use to
breathe and to smell things. Under this is the 9_____ where we put food when
we eat it. Around the mouth, we have two 10______. Under the face, we have a
11 ______ which joins the head to the body.
3 Choose the correct option.
She's very trendy. She's wearing a hat / scarf / top on her head,
sunglasses and she's got a big hat / scarf / sweater round her neck. It's
difficult to see what kind of top / jacket / suit she's wearing under her
leather jumper / coat / jacket – is it a thin skirt / jacket / jumper? I
don't think it's a T-shirt / suit / tracksuit. She's wearing very close-
fitting trousers / tracksuits / dresses – I think they are black jeans. On
her feet … are they jeans / shoes / socks or trousers / tracksuits /
trainers? It's difficult to say for sure. They aren't boots. They're too
small.
She looks cool – and she knows it!
4. Choose the correct answers.
1.Janet's sister is quite young/short/middle-aged. I think she's fourteen.
2.Emily's got short,curly,dark/curly,dark,short/dark,curly,short hair. I think it
looks great.
3.Mark does a lot of exercise. He is really well-built/tall/sociable.
4.What is/does/has the new English teacher look like?
5.Grandpa hasn't got any hair – he's wavy/curly/bald.
6.Poor Colin never does well in his exams. He tries hard but he isn't very
positive/interesting/clever.
7.It's difficult for Jackie to make friends at university because she is so
shy/kind/sociable.
8.Paul never laughs. He is always so confident/serious/funny. He's so different to
his brother.
9.What's your new teacher look/look like/like?
10.My mum's hair isn't curly and it isn't straight. It's bald/wavy/blond.