Communicative English Skills 2

1. Communicative English Skills 2 Week 2

2. Appearance Appearance = The way someone looks. APPEARANCE • Hair – example: Length, style, color. • Height – example: Tall, short, average height. • Color –example: Blue eyes, black hair. • Body build – example: Slim, athletic, large. • Age – example: Very young, middle aged, old.

3. Body build : Description Athletic Large Thin Always remember: Subject + be + adjective So: HeisLarge

4. Height We are all different heights. So how do we communicate this to other people in English? First, remember to start the sentence with ‘she’ or ‘he’, when describing one person. She is….. He is……

5. Male and female: Description She is a woman. He is a man. Remember: ‘She’ or ‘He’ = one person. Remember: ‘They’ = more than one person. They are women. They are men.

6. Height :description He is short He is tall Remember body build? ‘He is tall and thin’ He is average height

7. Height: Description ‘She is tall’ ‘He is short’ ‘He is tall’ ‘She is small’ Also: ‘She is tall compared to him’. Also: ‘She is small compared to him’. เปรียบเทียบ

8. งานกลุ่ม Height Activity In groups of three, describe the height of each person. • What is your height? ‘I would describe my height as being ……....’ • Who is the tallest person in the group? ‘The tallest person in our group is …………’ • Who is the smallest person in the group? ‘The smallest person in our group is ….........’

9. Agedescription Middle aged ‘She is a middle aged woman’. Old ‘He is an old man’. Very young ‘He is a very young boy’. Young ‘ They are young men’. Young ‘He is a young man’. Very old ‘He is a very old man’.

10. Age description ‘She is a young woman’ ‘I think she is 19 years old’ ‘He is a very old man’ ‘I think he is 77 years old’ If you know his age you would say ‘He is 77 years old’.

11. Age What age do you think these people are?

12. Color – Hair Black hair ‘She has mid length black hair’ Brown hair ‘She has long brown hair’ No hair ‘He has no hair, he is bald’ Grey hair ‘He has short grey hair’ Blonde hair ‘She has mid length blonde hair’

13. Describing people 1. ___has short _______ hair. 1. ___ has ______blonde _______. 1. __ is wearing _________.2. ___is wearing _________. 2. ___ has blue ________. 2. __ has a _____________.3. ___is wearing a _______. 3. ___ is _________. 3. __ is _________. B A C he teeth scarf smartface hair moustache very youngshe glasses old eyesclothes black long bald

14. Describing people A B C 1. She has _______ _______hair. 1. He is ______. 1. She has _______ eyes.2. She is very ___________ 2. He is wearing ______clothes. 2. She is very _________.3. She is wearing ________. 3. He has brown ______. 3. She has _______ hair. blue teeth dress smartface hair moustache youngmakeup short thin eyesbrown black long large

15. How would you describe these individuals?

16. Describing each other Work in pairs and answer the following question….. Describe your friend 3. Eyes He has blue eyes She has Brown eyes 1.This is Wipada She is 32 years old. 4. He has shortbrown hair She has longblonde hair 2. Body build He is large/Athletic/thin She is large/Athletic/thin 5. He is tall She is short He is average height ..

17. Personality Personality is how a person behaves. Match the Thai Personality words to the correct English personality words. Calm adventurous happy argumentative funny Intelligent kind lazy sensible silly selfish friendly serious boring

18. Personality Which words describe your personality? ‘I would describe my personality as being ………..…….’

19. Appearance or personality What is more important for you, appearance or personality? Friends - 1. Would you be friends with the man in picture A? 2. Would you choose your friends based on appearance or personality? Lover - 3. Does your boyfriend/girlfriend need to be beautiful? 4. Is personality more important than the way they look? A B