Hi!

Im Mara,
your English
teacher, the
fairy that
will take you
along

What are people like?

1. Sex
2. Age
3. Face

Im afraid, not
too different
from chimps

4. Hair
5. Other distinguishing
features
6. General appearance:
height and build
7. Clothes
8. Personality

Gallery

Woman

Man

Age Categories
Baby
Toddler
Child
Teenager
Young person
Middle-aged person
Elderly person

2.1 Age Categories

Baby

Toddler

Teenager

Middled-aged person

Child
Young person

Elderly person

Some useful tips to talk about peoples age

Notice the use of the verb to be
I am 134 years old
Imprecise ages
She is in her early /mid /late twenties
He is in his forties / You are in your teens
She is about sixty

eyebrows
nose
forehead

mouth

eyelashes

Face description

lips

chin

Roundish face
Receeding hairline
Bald
1
5

2
7

Long neck
Double chin
portruding teeth
Long nose
Full lips

10

11

12

Pointed chin
Large forehead
Sideburns
Hooked nose

Describing somebody

Shes a beautiful young woman

in her early twenties. Shes got
short, fair hair, blue eyes, thin
eyebrows and pale complexion.
Shes wearing strange make up
in her eyes (Her eyelashes are
extended as if they were
snakes or insect legs)

Length

Type

Long/ Short

Straight

Medium-length

Wavy

Shoulder-length

Curly
Spiky

Style

Colour

A fringe/sideburns

Fair/Dark

A side/centre parting

Black/Blond

In a plait/ pony tail

Brown/Red/White/Grey
(light/medium/dark)

In pigtails
Dreadlocks

Highlights

Whats their hair like?

Hes got short grey
hair and a receeding
hairline

Shes got shoulder length

red straight hair with a
fringe and centre parting.

Whats her hair like?

Shes got long,blonde wavy hair

Shes got long,blonde straight

hair

Whats their hair like?

Shes got shoulder
length blonde wavy hair

Theyve got a Mohican

hair style

Whats their hair like?

Hes bold

Hes got dreadlocks

Whats their hair like?

Shes got long dark
curly hair

Hes got short dark

curly hair and a beard

I love
long
blonde
hair...

Winslet
Binoche

I love
short,
dark-haired
women.......

Kate

Juliete

Hes wearing tattoos all over his

body

Hes got an eye

patch

Shes got a piercing

in her lower lip

Image Gallery

Shape
Round/long/square/oval
Complexion
Tanned/pale/dark/fair

Eyes

Shape
Round/almond/slanting
Colour
Blue/green/brown/hazel

Wrinkled/fresh/spotty

Nose
Long/hooked/snub
Lips
Full/thin
Teeth
Even/portruding

Distinguishing features
A beard/a goatee
A moustache
Clean-shaven
cheekbones