Describing 2 people
and comparing them
Use your own photos…ask for permission to
your friends…
Look in google images
When we describe a person,
we need to talk about:
What they look like (Physical Description):
Hair, eyes, nose, mouth, face, shoulders, height, built,
age, expression and general appearance.
What they are like (Personality and Character)
If we are describing a photograph, we can also
talk/write about their clothes and what they are doing.
1. Introduction
“If I could meet anyone in the world, I would like to meet
I have chosen these people because ….”
“ One of the people I admire the most is ….”
2. Physical description: “He/She is …”
3. Description of character and personality.
5. Describe shortly the second person
6. compare them both.
REMEMBER: This organization is flexible, but you need to
follow some order, and the information in each
paragraph must be clear and different from the others.
You need to prepare your presentation
HAIR: long, medium-length, short; straight, curly, wavy; blond(e), fair, dark, brown, black, red,
grey, going grey, white, thinning; a beard, a moustache, bushy eyebrows; bald; receding
hairline.
EYES: green, blue, brown, greenish-blue, grey, big, round, bright.
NOSE: long, turned-up, pointed
MOUTH: wide, generous; thin lips, full lips
CHIN: pointed, firm, weak
FACE: oval, round, long; high cheekbones; a scar, a beard, moustache, clean-shaven, freckled,
wrinkled,
FOREHEAD: high, low
EARS: big, small, pointed, sticky-out
SHOULDERS: broad, narrow
BUILD: skinny, thin, fit, slim, slender, muscular, well-built, heavily-built, strong, plump,
overweight, chubby, fat, obese.
HEIGHT: tall, of medium height, short, petite.
AGE: young, middle-aged, elderly, old; in his early thirties; in her mid-fifties; in their late forties
EXPRESSION: serious, cheerful, worried, friendly
GENERAL APPEARANCE: good-looking, pretty, handsome, beautiful, gorgeous, attractive, ugly,
plain;
CLOTHES: baggy, comfortable, fitted, skin-tight, checked, stripy, conservative, daring, cotton,
denim, woollen, embroidered, fashionable, sophisticated, sporty, well dressed, casually
dressed, trendy, scruffy, untidy, shabby,
Physical Description
What does he/ she look like?
Height Build Age
tall, short,
slim, thin, plump, fat, young, elderly, middle-aged,
medium
skinny, well-built teenager, in 20s, 30s, 40s
height
Face Eyes Hair
bald,
round, oval,
big round blue straight,
square, with scars,
eyes, large, small, curly,
wrinkles, freckles,
bright, narrow spiky,
sun-tanned, pale
wavy
Adjectives:
Affectionate, aggressive, boring, calm, caring, cheerful,
cold, deceitful, dull, easy-going, emotional, extroverted,
friendly, generous, honest, interesting, kind, mean, modest,
moody, nervy, out-going. optimistic, patient, pessimistic,
polite, practical, reserved, rude, selfish, self-confident,
sensitive, serious, shy, sociable, unkind, vain.
Compound adjectives:
We put two words together using a hyphen (-) and –ed after
the second word: bad-tempered, narrow-minded, open-
minded, two-faced
Negative adjectives Positive adjectives
•Bad-tempered • Easy-going
• Big-headed •Hard-working
•Bossy • Humble
•Cheeky •Loyal
• Clingy •Charming
• Clumsy •Sporty
•Mean • Sympathetic
•Narrow-minded • Talkative
• Immature • Naughty
•Quarrelsome • Open-minded
•Snivelling • Quick-witted
•Spoilt • Reliable
•Stubborn • Sensible
•Two-faced • Sensitive
•Weird
Adjective
Length type of hair colour Noun
Long curly brown hair
Short wavy blond hair
big/small blue/green eyes
The photo shows…
In the picture we can see…
In this picture there is/are…
While you think: “Umm” “Uhh”…
I mean… / I think…
Let’s see / Let me see
So…
Well / Ok
