I glossy: shiny and in good condition | [Note: a glossy magazine a well } produced magazine printed on | shiny paper, with lots of colourful pictures} if The dog had bright eyes and a thick, glossy coat, greasy: dirty and olly Greasy hair has to be washed frequent. — lacklustre: lacking life and without shine (Note: a lacklustre performance: @ poor quality and | tunenthusiatc performance) | ‘Blo Shampoo’ - the perfect | remedy for lacklustre hair! 1 tank: thin, straight and unattractive His Jong lank hair needed cutting. ! permed: that has been made curly by | means ofa chemical teeiment It is not recommended that this | ‘product be used on permed hai. tangled: very untidy and, because i has not been combed, full of knots He looked @ mess, unshaven, sent, his hair a tengled mess. lenge ut, earn See combed and probably needs to be cut He smiled, running an unwashed | hand through his unkempt hai. | Fat ‘chubby: fa but in a pleasant, healthy way (often used for children; used to describe a whole body or parts of the body) _ {used to describe a whole body or fparts of the body) He was a chubby litle baby. tose fat where there | be muscle (used to describe _ ‘whole body or parts of parmsfiegs A) I'm getting old and flabby and | could do with some exercise. plump: pleasantly fat (often used | instead of the word fat, because it is not as strong and potentialy offensive a word; used to describe ‘a whole body) ‘She was @ plump, elderly woman ook ae -, wilh rosy cheeks and a welcoming | skinny: very thin (used to describe a smile. whole body or parts of the body) tubby: short and alte fat (often with | skinny legs! ams a large stomach) (used to are ae | feeb boon a tubby man in a pinstripe suit | a se et s) . burly: strong and heavy (used to THN Wee describe a whole body) bony: very thin, so that all you can . sees tashcoveredtone(ieedl6 | yt toon noses and eo Te es ca a stze of tree trunks. ong bony fingers, bony.enkles | stocky: short, heavy and strong frail: thin and very weak (used to | (used to describe a whole body) describe a whole body and often | cooanracponn "| Sosa reel on wrt For Serpil, life is hard. Frail and + strapping: big, tall and strong (used earn Sie Tas Deg excae OKe) Todescrbe'awhele body) up her job because ofl heath, | 8 ME _ lanky: unatractvely tall and thin | but he grew up ino a handsome, (used to describe a whole body | strapping young man. : and often used in the phrase tall ! and lanky) | I was a tall and lanky adolescent. Cora e 1. Group the adjectives into the following categories: HAIR (H), FAT (F), THIN (1), WEAK (W), STRONG (S), writing the appropriate category leter next 10 each word. unkempt glossy chubby skinny: stocky lanky tubby permed greasy trail tangled plump scrawny. strapping burly lacklustre puny lank flabby 3 bony zi2. Read the text and decide whether the statements below are true (1), or false (). Mrs Jones watched as Jimmy. her son, got tohis feet He stood oul ike an unsighly end unexpected weed on @ really tended lawn. He was painfully thin and improbebly tall, He had outgrown his sui, bought the summer before, and he looked like a badly dressed clown, With his jacket ‘training at the shoulders and the bottom of his tousers flapping well above his ankles, he made his ungainly way to the stage, ficking his lank, greasy hair out of his eyes, ‘Mrs Jones smiled at the plump woman next to her. She ‘hadn't seen Mrs Jolly for some time, “Stil on that diet, Phys?” she asked. Mrs Joly blushed and twifed a stand of greying hair around one of her short chubby fingers. gave up,” she sald)"Oh- said Mrs Jones, as she turned to took at her son, who was warty negotiating the stare to the stage. Mr Jones, who was siting on the other side of het, took his ‘glasses off and continued picking at a ‘wayward thread that was working its way loose from one ‘of the many holes in his ancient sult... ‘Mrs Jones was getting emotional; her handkerchief ~ was out ready for the tears that would doubtless come and she had placed it on one.of Mr Jénes' bony knees... ‘Mr Jones looked at her. Funring his fingers throligh Fis \ unkempt hair, he stifled uncomfenably in his already ‘uncomfortable chair. The boy before, Jimmy Jones received his prize from the headmaster, a shor frail man with thinning grey hair who, stooped in his black gown, looked tke a caricature from a Gothic novel. The boy taking his prize, Mrs Joly’s son - strapping, burly, big Ike his mother= dwarfed the headmaster. Jimmy Jones. approached, Mr Jones yawned and Mrs Jones burst . __t Into riveting tears, herbig flabby body shaking from the top of her neatly permed hair to the boitom of her 7+ ‘tick ankles. Jimriy Jones stepped forward, took bis prize, shook hands with his headmaster and wondered , > why he coutdn't have been given @ computer game. An unruly swathe of hair dropped Into his eyes. He left it He could just about see the other end of the stage sind, in any case, his jacket restricted upper body movement +7 to such an extent that, any attempt to remove the ‘offending hair would have been futile and painful, to say the least. He could hear a murmur from, the 4." audience, which he'took to’be adulation. The murmurs «grew fouder with: each step he took. He could Just + make out bis mother. She was crying, of Gourse, and waving her hands. “Whats she doing by the stars?” - “re tough, 2s he stepped into nothing and fell head frst ofl the stage! ¢ | 1 Jimmy Jones is lanky. = 2 Jimmy Jones has thick curly 3. Jimmy Jones probably didn't wash his ir before the ceremony. 4 Mrs Jolly is overweight. 5. Mr Jones is skinny. 6 Mr Jones has neat and tidy hair. 7 The headmaster is a burly man. 8 9 0 i The headmaster is going bald. Mss Jolly’s son is a little puny. Mrs Jones is overweight. Mrs Jones’ hair is a tangled mess, 3. Circle the correct item. 1 Agroup of flabby / chubby litle children were playing in the park, 2. Martin may look small and puny / stocky but he has a black belt in karate. 3 What can be done to improve lacklustre / glossy h 4. You're getting a bit skinny / tubby; your trousers won't do up. 5. At the back of the bus sat three bony / strapping great lads from the countryside. 6 Comb your hair every day so that it doesn't get tangled / unkempt. 7 The man at the door was big and burly / scrawny - built ike a wardrobe. 4. Describe the people's hair and body using verbs from this unit,