Учебнометодическое пособие по аспекту Устная речь для студентов III курса факультета английского языка
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AppearanceWhen we speak of somebody’s appearance, we mean his or her figure, hands, feet, hair, face. A man or woman may be heavily built, delicately built, or well – made. The figure may be slender, or stooping, thin or stout, fat or plump. A person may be: tall, short or of medium height. As for a person’s arms, they may be short, long, rounded, thin, slender or shapely. Some people have small, thin and shapely hands. The hand may also be large, plump or bony. We usually find good-looking people with long shapely or slender legs. But if a person has short legs we find him ugly. We also pay attention to a person’s walk or gait. One’s steps may be light heavy, firm, though old people usually shuffle their feet, they have a shuffling gait. When we describe a person’s appearance we usually mention his or her hair, which may be: black, dark, red, chestnut, brown, fair, golden, gray, white. According to the fashion woman’s hair may be cut, plaited or done in a knot at the back of her head. Some women wear a fringe. Women have their hair cut or done in various styles at the hairdressers. Men have a shave and have their haircut, and their beards and moustaches trimmed at the barber’s. Some men lose their hair and go bald. The face may be square, oval, round, long, thin, slump, angled. People’s complexion may be dark, fair, olive, ruddy. A person may have regular or irregular features. He may also have large, delicate clean – cut features. He may also have a large broad or narrow, high or low forehead and his eyebrows may be thin, thick, bushy, penciled, dark or fair. I won’t be mistaken if I say that each girl wants to have large wide-set eyes with long, thick curving eyelashes. The eyes may be of different colours: dark, black, hazel, brown, blue, grey, green. The nose is considered to be good-looking if it is not large and it is straight. A plump face with a snub nose and dimples on cheeks also looks rather nice. The nose may also be hooked or aquiline. The mouth may be big, small, wide, and narrow. The shape of the lips makes it well-cut, firm, thin. The teeth may be even, uneven, large, small, tiny and pearly. When a woman’s face and figure delight us we say that she is beautiful, handsome or good-looking. If she is pleasant to look at we say that she is attractive or pretty. But a person’s appearance may be common or even ugly. A lot of women want to lose weight and only few want to put on weight. When a person resembles somebody we say that he takes after his father or mother. We may also say: he is the very image of his mother. We say that a person looks his age when he looks neither older nor younger than he is in reality. He may look young for his age or look old for his age. We often say that the face is the index of the mind. Besides, we should remember that sometimes appearances are deceptive and a fair face might hide a foul heart. Glossary appearance, n – the way a person or thing looks to other people heavily built, adj – weighing a lot; needing effort to move or lift delicately built, adj – pleasantly soft or light; not strong slender, adj – thin and delicate, often in a way that is attractive stooping, adj – when someone stands or walks with their head and shoulders bent slightly forwards and down stout, adj – (especially of older people) quite fat and solid-looking, especially around the waist plump, adj – having a pleasantly soft rounded body or shape, POLITE WORD FOR fat shapely, adj – used to describe something that has an attractive form, especially a woman's body or parts of a woman's body bony, adj – very thin gait, n FORMAL- a particular way of walking shuffle, v – to walk by pulling your feet slowly along the ground rather than lifting them chestnut, adj – reddish-brown in colour plaited, adj – three or more lengths of hair or string-like material joined by putting them over each other in a special pattern fringe, n – an area of hair hanging over the forehead that is cut shorter than the rest of the hair trim, v – to make something tidier or more level by cutting a small amount off it bald, adj – with little or no hair on the head slump, adj – having a retreating forehead complexion, n – the natural appearance of the skin on a person's face, especially its colour or quality ruddy, adj – red snub, adj – a nose that is short and turns upwards at the end dimple, n – a small hollow place, especially one which appears on a person's face when they smile hooked, adj – describes a nose which is large and curved aquiline, adj – a nose curved like an eagle's beak delight, v – to give someone great pleasure or satisfaction resemble, v – to look like or be like someone or something deceptive, adj – making you believe something that is not true Discussion
Comment (agree or disagree, say why) upon the following quotations by famous people:
* Petrarch (Italian scholar, poet, and humanist) Use the words below to describe one of your group mates and let other students guess who it is Describing appearance
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