APPEARANCE

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

1. Are you tall? Do you know your height in feet and inches?

2. Are many people in your country extremely overweight?

3. Would you like to be well-built? What would you need to do to achieve this?
4. Do most of your relatives have dark or fair hair? What about skin?

5. Have you ever changed the colour of your hair?

6. Would you prefer to have straight or curly hair?

stubble fashionable in your country? What about beards?
7. Is

8. What do you think about moustaches? Stylish or weird?

9. Are the older men in your family usually bald?

10. Do most women in your country have shoulder length hair?

11. Do you like to wear fashionable clothes?

12. Where are the best places in your city to go clothes shopping?

13. Is it important to look smart for a job interview?

14. Would you say you usually look friendly?

15. Can you think of agorgeous celebrity? How about a handsome one?
16. Do you look hideous in your passport or ID photo?

VOCABULARY:

overweight (adjective): to be fat stylish (adjective): to look high quality or

well-built (phrasal verb): to have lots of fashionable

muscle on your body weird (adjective): strange, unusual

fair (adjective): pale (skin)/ light yellow smart (adjective): to have a nice
or gold (hair) appearance, with clean and tidy hair,

curly (adjective): a shape including clothes, shoes etc.

circles or curves gorgeous (adjective): to be be very

stubble (noun [u]): short hair on your face beautiful

hideous (adjective): to be very ugly

SPEAKING TASK:

Describe a person that you know who looks good Don't begin with ''I'd like to

You should say: talk about...". Try something

different, for example, "The

who this person is
first thing that comes to mind
when you met the person
when I think about someone
where you met the person
who looks good is..."

and say why you think the person looks good

FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS:

Is it important to have a good appearance?

Can a good appearance help your career?

Do people spend too much money on their appearance?

WRITING TASK 1:

One of the employees in your team regularly comes to In this kind of formal letter

work with an untidy appearance. You must write a you should begin with a

formal opening line. You

letter to ask him/ her to improve his/ her appearance
could use: I am writing with
for work. Write a letter to the employee.
regard to...

In the letter:

explain what the problem is

say why an untidy appearance is not acceptable

suggest how he/ she can improve his/ her

appearance

WRITING TASK 2: Your essay should have two

body paragraphs. Each body

Some people believe that you should judge others on paragraph should begin with

their appearance, while others think that appearance a topic sentence with one

main idea, and then discuss

is not important.
and expand on this idea.

What is your opinion?