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Height, Body Build and Age When Describing People, We Use The Verb 'To Be' To Describe Height, Body Build and Age

The document provides examples of how to describe people's physical characteristics and clothing using different verbs. For height, build, and age, use the verb "to be" and adjectives like "tall" and "short". For facial features, use "have" and "has" plus features like "eyes" and "mouth". For clothing, use "wear", "wore", and "wearing" plus items of clothing. Examples are given and exercises provide practice describing people.

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Height, Body Build and Age When Describing People, We Use The Verb 'To Be' To Describe Height, Body Build and Age

The document provides examples of how to describe people's physical characteristics and clothing using different verbs. For height, build, and age, use the verb "to be" and adjectives like "tall" and "short". For facial features, use "have" and "has" plus features like "eyes" and "mouth". For clothing, use "wear", "wore", and "wearing" plus items of clothing. Examples are given and exercises provide practice describing people.

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  • Describing People - Height and Features: Discusses how to use the verb 'to be' for describing height, body build, and age with illustrations and examples.
  • Clothing Descriptions: Explains the use of different verb tenses to describe clothing items people wear with fill-in-the-blank exercises.
  • Descriptive Writing Exercises: Provides exercises aimed at practicing descriptive writing, including cloze tests and paragraph writing prompts.

ESL / EFL RESOUR CES

Height, body build and age

When describing people, we use the verb 'to be' to describe height, body build and
age.

Examples: I am tall and slim.


He is overweight.
Ann is chubby.
You are old and short.
They are young.

A. Write short descriptions of the people in the pictures below using the verb 'to be' and the
adjectives: tall, short, overweight, slim, old, young.

Facial features

We use 'have' and 'has' to describe hair colour, hair length and facial features.

Facial features are eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, lips, ears, chin, etc.

Example:

She has long brown hair.


She has big blue eyes.
She has a small nose.
She has a wide mouth and big red lips.

B. In pairs, take it in turns to describe the people below.


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ESL / EFL RESOUR CES

Clothes

We use the verb 'wear' to talk about the clothes someone has on.

Present simple form Past simple Present continuous


'wear' form 'wore' form 'wearing'
Example: She wears a Example: I wore a T- Example: He is wearing
uniform to school. shirt and jeans a shirt and tie.
yesterday.

C. What other items of clothing can you add to this list? Write your answers in the spaces
below.

T– dre sweat shi _ _

shirt ss er suit rt _ _

jean ski trouse boo _ _


rs
s rt ts

trainers socks shoes

D. What are you wearing now?

E. What did you wear yesterday?

F. describe these two people. Talk about what they look like and what they are wearing.
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ESL / EFL RESOUR CES

G. Complete the following paragraph with the correct verbs.

My friend John (1) _ tall. He exercises a lot and (2) _ very strong. He (3)
_ blue eyes and brown hair. He (4) _ big ears and a small nose. Today,
he (5) _ wearing a blue shirt and jeans.

H. Use the words in the box to complete the paragraph below.

am x 2 is have x 2 has x 2 wear wore wearing China first-year

My name is Miko. I am a (1) _ student. I come from (2) _ . I (3)


_ not tall, and I (4) _ not overweight either. I (5) _ long hair
and a pony tail. Like most Chinese, I (6) _ brown eyes. Today, I am (7) _
my student uniform. Yesterday, I didn't have class, so I didn’t (8) my uniform.
I (9) _ jeans and a yellow T-shirt. I went to a movie with my friend Noi. She (10)
_ tall and (11) _ short hair. She (12) _ a big nose, but I think
she is pretty.

I. Now, write a short paragraph describing yourself.

My name is _
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ESL / EFL RESOUR CES Height, body build and age When describing people, we use the ve
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ESL / EFL RESOUR CES Clothes We use the verb 'wear' to talk about the clothes someone has on. Present simple form 'wear' Exa
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ESL / EFL RESOUR CES G. Complete the following paragraph with the correct verbs. My friend John (1) _ t
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