Physical

description
activities

Learning Unit 1
Additional vocabulary for describing
people
Additional vocabulary for
describing people
 Important information…
• The words we use for describing people appearance are
adjectives; adjectives state characteristics of nouns (names of
people, things or animals).

• Adjectives have a predictable order in English: They

appear before the noun they describe.
E.g. blue sky.

• Sometimes we need to order a series of adjectives to

describe something or someone. In that situation we can
use the following reference:
 Order of Adjectives
Determiner Opinion Size Shape Age Color Origin Material Purpose Noun

A efficie small square Recent red Rome plastic travel suitcase

nt
The Comfortable median liza new blue UK silk clothe t-shirt
An ugly Medium cubic used Brown Egypt wooden to rest chair
This Useful spacious round new Black Egypt wood kitchen table
with
brown
A comfortable medium tight new black UK velvet celebration dress
s
 What do they look like?
Complete the chart with information about the appearance
of these people.

1.80 cm 1.50 cm 1.60 cm 1.65 cm 1.70 cm

Weight
stocky filled Thin slim fat

Height
tall short Medium short Average

sHair
Bald straight wavy perfect Long Blonde
hair
Eyes
Brown Green Torn Dark Blue
 Homework:

Bring a single slide PowerPoint presentation in which you

show a PICTURE OF YOU so you can use it to talk about
YOUR (physical description/ identification).