Adjectives for Describing Personal Appearance Name: Grade: • Date: What is an adjective? Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence Its main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's referent In order to describe people we can find adjectives for describing personality and adjectives for describing personal appearance, but now we are going to learn the second classification: adjectives for describing personal appearance, in terms of height, size, hair and eyes, among others List of adjectives for describing personal appearance: -General appearance: fair dark pretty good-looking handsome plain ugly -Height tall medium-height short -Size: big small fat thin slim -Hair color: blonde fair dark red grey brown -Hair style: short long straight wavy curly bald -Eyes: blue brown grey green -Other features: beard moustache glasses He is tall normal-height She is slim He is short He is She is fat He is bald He has no hair • Describing People  What’s she/he like? She/he is tall She/he is very friendly *(What’s she/he like? Can refer to personality as well as appearance)  What does she look like? She/he is quite good-looking *(Order of the description: Height, Size and General appearance)  What colour/what sort of hair has she got? She’s got long, dark, curly hair She has short, blonde, straight hair *(Order of the description: Length, color and style)  Does she/he wear glasses? No, she/he doesn’t • Exercises 1) Put the following sentences in the correct order  long - hair- She – red – has – wavy _  Mark – good-looking – is – very – a – man _  Is – woman – tall – slim – Kelly – pretty - a _  Men – ugly – fat – short – Dylan – a – is _ 2) Look at the pictures below and describe them in terms of hair style and hair color, and in terms of eyes: She has _, , _ hair She has _ eyes She has _, , _ hair She has _ eyes He has _, , _ hair He has _ eyes He has _, , _ hair He has _ eyes 3) Look at the pictures in the whiteboard and choose one of them in order to describe it in terms of height, size, general appearance, hair and eyes  _ Now you have to present what you have done in front of the class Their task will be to guess which picture is being described Thanks for your attention!!