Responding to Visual Prompts/Describing People
Describing people is often a subjective impression.
- Watch the video.
- Make a mindmap and collect words you can use to decribe people.
- There are many possibilities to watch people: in the train, at the doctor's office or in the waiting room, in magazines - Try to describe them as exact as possible.
- Do the interactive exercises on the bottom of the page.
Interactive Exercises
Appearance
In pictures you'll first notice the physical appearance - the looks:
almond-shaped, ambitious, arrogant, bald, beard, big, blond, blue, braid(s), brave, brown, clever, clumsy, curly, cut short, dark, dyed, egoistic, fair, freckles, friendly, fringe, glasses, green, grey, handsome, helpful, lazy, light, long, moustache, nice, noisy, overweight, pony-tail, quiet, short, shy, slim, small, straight, stupid, sturdy, talkative, tall, thick, thin, tiny, unfriendly
Age
If you know the birthday or the exact age that's good. Otherwise you can make an educated guess:
In my opinion this man is in his thirties.
He' s about thirty years old.
Well, that's difficult to guess. He must be as old as my father.
He's thirtyish.
Hair
Put in the correct words:
It's always good to talk about someone's hairstyle:
"Have you been to the hairdresser's? - It looks really beautiful.
Eyes
Put in the correct words:
Build
Put in the correct words:
A big woman is not only tall but also large. It's very impolite to call somebody fat because he's overweight.
If you talk about the thickness of a board you can use the adjective thick. If you say this to a man, you call him stupid!
Most young people are slim or slender, some are too skinny.
Mannerism
Character
Emotions
Weblinks
- Describing people in Englisch (fluentu.com)
- Describing People (exam English B1 Listening)
