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ACTIVITY 1: “TALKING ABOUT ME AND OTHERS “

DESCRIPTIONS

INTEGRANTES:

LINDY NAYERI BAQUERO FERNANDEZ

COMPRENDER TEXTOS EN INGLÉS

INSTRUCTOR: YULY ALEXANDRA RODRÍGUEZ

SERVICIO NACIONAL DE APRENDIZAJE SENA

GESTIÓN DEL TALENTO HUMANO

BOGOTÁ D.C

2018
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The student interacts in simple conversations asking, answering and describing personal
information, places and other familiar items at a slow rate.
CONCEPTUAL REFERENTS
Functions:
 Introduce themselves and others.
 Describe people’s characteristics.

Grammar:
 Simple present verb to be,
 Personal Pronouns.

Vocabulary:
 Nationalities, countries, Qualifying Adjectives (physical description &personality), Days,
professions, Family Members others

EXERCISES
A. She is Angelina Jolie He is Bill Gates She is Margaret Thatcher
She is very pretty He is not very good looking She is around 80
GUESS
She has long black hair He is very smart She has wavy short hair
She has green eyes He wears glasses She is retired politician
WHO ARE He is slim
She is an actress She is short
THEY? She is American He is American She is British
She is around 35 He is around 50 She is around 35
She is average height He has gray hair She is average height
She is married He has dimples She is married
She has big lips He has big lips She has big lips
He is a business man

Words to describe physical appearance.

Height: short, average height, tall, about 160 cm tall

Build: small, average build, skinny slim muscular overweight
Age: around 25, in his 30s, 19 years old
Hair: short, long, straight, wavy, curly, a ponytail, side burns, white, grey, blond,
light/dark brown, red black, medium length, bald
Face: square, round, plain, wide, narrow, moustache, a beard, freckles, mole, wrinkles,
dimples.
Complexion: light, white, olive-skinned, tan, dark
Eyes: green, blue, brown, black, beautiful, big, narrow
General: beautiful, pretty, handsome, sexy, cute, good looking, not very good looking
attractive
Other wears glasses
Personality: Shy, outgoing, talkative, smart, intelligent, silly,

He has round face. He is ugly He is intelligent

He has narrow eyes He has freckles in his face
He has a bear. He is old He has brown eyes
He has short and curly hair.
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She is not very good looking She is white

attractive She has green eyes
She has wrinkles in her face She has long and wavy hair.
He has black eyes She is average height
He has short and curly hair. She is pretty
She is about 160 cm tall

He is good looking He is intelligent

He has moustache in his He isn´t shy
face He has narrow eyes
He has blue eyes He has ponytail hair.
He has short and straight hair.
He has a muscular overweight

USEFUL VOCABULARY

GENERAL APPEARANCE
For men and women (+) For men and women (-)
Strong, athletic, graceful. Elegant, neat Weak, non- athletic, clumsy, sloppy
For women (+) For women (-)
Very attractive, good looking, pretty, beautiful, gorgeous, Non attractive, ugly, homely, plain
sexy, cute
For men (+) For men (-)
Good looking, handsome, attractive, sexy. cute Non attractive, ugly, homely, plain
Short (really/very short)
HEIGHT AGE
Tall (really/very tall) About + number of years
Not tall, not short = average height Middle-aged
young
WEIGTH EYES
Chubby=heavy=overweight=obese=fat Black, dark brown, brown, light brown,
Not fat/not thin= overage weight blue, green,, hazel, grey
Slim=thin very thin= skinny SIZE
Small, big
HAIR PERSONALITY
Length, long- very long, shoulder length Rude, stingy, unfriendly, outgoing, nice,
TYPE shy, smart, boring, cheerful, funny,
Straight, wavy, curly sweet, kind, interesting, grouchy,
COLOR snobbish
Black, dark brown, brown, light brown, blond, red, grey,
white, bald
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Write a composition using the verb to be. Name, profession,

Nationality, physical description and moral description. (15
sentences). About yourself

My name is Lindy Nayeri Baquero Fernandez I am 21 years old, I

live in Colombia I have a big family, I have 4 brothers, I am the
youngest, my mom is called Blanca Fernandez white she works in
sewing, my dad Rafael Baquero and he is a waiter, I like animals
I have a Canary, I like movies, ice cream, dance, sing, I also
sleep and I like to walk on weekends I frequent Monserrat
physically I am tall and thin I have brown eyes I have long hair
and undulated about 1. 5 cm high, I use glasses study a
technology in management of human talent, also study attention
to early childhood and if you had the option to pursue another
career would be criminal law morally I am tolerant, sweet good
friend and very loving I do not like to get up early, nor the
vegetables, nor hospitals or injections, not I like to go to church
but it does not mean that it is atheist, I think in my way, I would
like to live in Argentina and I like children, I have two nieces one
is called Valentina and other Lia I love them very much and I
have the purpose of culminating this technology to be able to
exercise it.
I also like to go out jogging in the mornings, and share with
my grandmother she is called Rosa Rey she is 95 years old
she is Acacias likes poetry and teaches me how to knit and
to be corn arepas.

Write a composition using the verb to be. Name, profession,

Nationality, physical description and moral description. (15
sentences). About your favorite person

My favorite person is my dad the name is Rafael Baquero

was born on March 9, 1952 in Villavicencio, in a small town
called Acacias. He is 66 years old, he is short, he has blue
eyes, short blond hair, very loving sweet good father son
and brother. He had 8 brothers, three of them died. My dad
tells me that in those years, children had fun with anything
they kicked a ball of paper, played with the dishes, ran
behind the animals, took frogs out of the pond and tried to
catch sparrows. The streets were not paved, they were dirty
and, when it rained, they flooded and children played dams
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to get in, until the water did not reach them by the knees,
they did not go out, and then they went to their houses to
bathe and dry themselves. They also went every Saturday
and Sunday to mass. There were three schools in the first
gave first and second of primary, in the second school they
gave third fourth and fifth of primary and in the third school
they gave sixth, seventh and octave of primary. He began to
study for 4 years, he was very good at drawing and history.
At recess they used to play soccer, marbles, and burned
fields. The way in which they taught the classes was very
different, it was a teacher for all the subjects and the
punishments that the teachers put on were very hard, for the
children