chapter 3

Chapter 3

1.  Describing some one

When we ask someone’s height, weight, age, we ussualy use the question words “how” or “what”. To describe person’s height, weight, or age, we sometimes have to give the exact measurement.

See these examples below.

A : how tall are you ?

B : I’m 1.70 meters tall.

A : what’s your weight ?

B : my weight is 50 kilo grams.

When we don’t know for sure the exact measurement, we may describe someone by distinguishing features using following physical and non-physical appearances :

v  Body : tall, short, fat, thin.

v  Age : young, old.

v  Face : oval, round, dimple.

v  Hair : black, gray, short, blonde.

v  Eyes : brown, black , blue, slight.

v  Nose : flat, pointer, fairly.

v  Maunth : thin lips, full lips.

v  Chin : pointer, firm, weak.

v  Ears : big, small.

v  Forehead : high, low.

v  Shoulders : narrow, broad.

v  Physical appearance : handsome, beautifull, ugly, cute, sweet.

v  Non-physical appearences : humorous.

2.  Nationality

There many countries, language and natipnalities around the word. All country names are unique. They are not similar to languages or nationality names are often, but not always similar. For example :

French – the language , and America-the nationality are not the same in the case of the united states. Look at the following sentence .

-          Luna comes from the united states.

she is an America

she speaks English

3.  Profession

Many kinds of professions you can do based on your qualifications or skills, such as a doctor, a lawyer, an astronaut, a teacher, a web programmer.

4.  Synonyms

Synonyms are words or phrases which have the same or nearly the same meaning as other words or phrases in the same language : the words ‘ small’ and ‘ little’ are synonyms.

5.  Antonyms or opposites

An antonym is a word which means the opposite of another word. Antonyms ar also called opposites. Two opposites of ; liht’ are ‘dark’ and ‘heavy’.