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Discuss the following words with your teacher and class.

Write down the translation in case you need it.

1. dark skin /dɑːk/ /dɑːrk//skɪn/

2. fair skin /feər / /fer/ /skɪn/

3. face /feɪs/

4. eyes /ˈaɪz/

5. head /hed/

6. beard /bɪəd/ /bɪrd/

7. moustache /mʊˈstɑːʃ/ /ˈmʌs.tæʃ/

8. hair /heər/ /her

9. long hair /lɒŋ/ /lɑːŋ/

10. short hair /ʃɔːt/ /ʃɔːrt/

11. medium length /ˈmiː.di.əm/ /leŋk θ/

12. ponytail /ˈpəʊ.ni.teɪl/ /ˈpoʊ.ni.teɪl/

13. height (how tall are you?) /haɪt/

14. medium height /ˈmiː.di.əm/

15. tall /tɔːl/ /tɑːl/

16. short /ʃɔːt/ /ʃɔːrt/

17. weight (how much do you weight?) /weɪt/

18. overweight /ˌəʊ.vəˈweɪt/, /ˈ-/ /ˌoʊ.vɚ-/

19. fat /fæt/

20. slim /slɪm/

21. thin /θɪn/

22. old (how old are you?) /əʊld/ /oʊld/

23. young /jʌŋ/

24. middle-aged /ˌmɪd.l ˈeɪd d/

25. beautiful /ˈbjuː.tɪ.fəl/ /-t ɪ-/

26. handsome /ˈhæn.səm/

27. good-looking /ˌgʊdˈlʊk.ɪŋ/

28. ordinary-looking /ˈɔː.dɪ.nə.ri/ /ˈɔːr.dən.er-/ /ˈlʊk.ɪŋ/

29. pretty /ˈprɪt.i/ /ˈprɪt -/

30. ugly /ˈʌg.li/


Fill in the appropriate word from the wordlist above.

1. _________________ unpleasant to look at


2. _________________ how tall or high something or someone is
3. _________________ a line of hair that some men grow above their mouths
4. _________________ the front part of the head where the eyes, nose, and mouth are, or the expression on this
part
5. _________________ an attractive man
6. _________________ someone who is thin in an attractive way
7. _________________ hair tied at the back of your head so that it hangs down like a horse's tail
8. _________________ how heavy someone or something is
9. _________________ in the middle of your life before you are old
10. _________________ the hair that grows on a man's chin
11. _________________ very attractive
12. _________________ having lived or existed for only a short time and not old
13. _________________ too heavy or too fat
14. _________________ one of the two organs in your face, which you use to see with
15. _________________ the outer layer of a person or animal's body
16. _________________ having a small distance from one end to the other
17. _________________ the thin, thread-like parts that grow on your head
18. _________________ pleasant to look at, or (especially of girls or women or things connected with them)
attractive or charming in a delicate way
19. _________________ (of skin) pale, or (of hair) pale yellow or golden
20. _________________ of more than average height, or of a particular height

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