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What does it do? / How does it work? What is it used to?

It’s used for peeling, writing, holding, carrying.../ it’s used to keep, protect)

(it’s made of ... / it’s made from ... / it’s made by ... in ....)
 aluminium  brass  carbon fibre  cardboard  clay  copper  cotton  denim  fabric  fur  glass 
gold – golden  iron  leather  metal  paper  plastic  porcelain  rubber  silk  silver – silvered 
steel  stone  wax  wool – woollen  wood – wooden 

(Use as many of your five senses as possible)


 How big is it?
Size: big, huge, tiny (it’s the same size as a... / it’s as little as... / it’s similar to...)
Dimension: height - high/length - long/width - wide / depth - deep / breadth - broad)
 What colour is it? (+ pattern / texture) (it’s ... in colour = its colour is ...)
 How much does it weigh?
(Weight: heavy, light, it’s lighter / heavier than, not too heavy, very light ...)
 What shape has it got? (it’s shaped like a ... / it is ... in shape)
round, square, circle –circular, cube – cubic, triangle – triangular, rectangle – rectangular, cone –
conic, cylinder - cylindrical, oval / oblong / egg-shaped, diamond, concave, convex, crescent,
formless...
 Property: straight, curved, fragile, thick, sharp, pointed, flat, smelly...

It consists of ... and ... / It’s made up of ... and ... / it’s composed of ... and ... / it includes a ...)
Some verbs that signal the connection of the components or parts are:
attach, join, connect, support, fix, fit, link,…
We can also add the Position of the parts (inner and outer parts):
(at the top, at the bottom, at the back, at the front, in the middle, on the right / left (of), between, beside,
near, by, above, below, behind, in front of, inside, outside...)

price / value, trademark, design, origin, opinion, other uses...

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