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The document provides guidelines on how to describe people, focusing on physical attributes such as hair color, eye shape, height, and weight. It encourages specificity in descriptions and suggests using a thesaurus for alternative vocabulary. Additionally, it highlights the importance of considering personality traits and includes a practice exercise for describing a well-known figure.

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Adjective

The document provides guidelines on how to describe people, focusing on physical attributes such as hair color, eye shape, height, and weight. It encourages specificity in descriptions and suggests using a thesaurus for alternative vocabulary. Additionally, it highlights the importance of considering personality traits and includes a practice exercise for describing a well-known figure.

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Adjective

Describing

Describing People, Places & Things


How do we describe people?

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• Begin with the physical attributes:
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• Colour of eyes hair skin
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• The shape of the eyes, nose and eyebrows
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• Height and weight
Try to be as specific as possible.
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• So rather than just saying that she has blonde hair and white skin, think what shade of blonde hair
does she have? Light blonde? Ash blonde? What shade of skin does she have? Lightly tanned?
Freckled? Etc.
Think of the vocabulary you know and want to use and then look them up in a dictionary and see if
there are any new words or alternative words you can use.
How would you describe the following - give three
alternative words for the following:

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• 1.Weight___________________________
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• 2.Height____________________________
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• 3.Looks__________________________
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• 4.Eye colour______________________
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• 5.Nose___________________________
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Are they happy? Lucky? Angry? Rude? Etc.
Are they funny? Morose? Boring? (Look up all the words you do not know)

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• Then consider the person’s personality and character.
Remember!!!
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• pronouns and the verb “to be” so:

• I am; he / she is; they are and so on.


Practice 1: (In Pairs)
• 1.You are on the phone to a friend and talking about Angelina Jolie, an Americanactress. Your friend
is not too sure who she is, and so you are trying to describe herto them. Use your imagination or
your own opinion as to their personality andcharacter. Write a short conversation between you,
including at least three sentencesdescribing Angelina Jolie and practice talking on the phone with
your partner.

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