Describing people

NA2

Some useful lexical chunks

• He is expected to be/He is required to be/ she is likely to be/ Journalists seem to like other people/ they tend to be polite/ It is easy for them to…/they usually lead busy lives

• Any other?

Describing someone’s age

• He is nearly eighteen months old/ He is in his youth/He must be over 21/…, aged 44, …./In his mid-twenties/At the age of 26 she got married/

By the age of 28 she had lived in 4 different countries/He’s turned thirty/he’s approaching middle-age/ she is in his late forties/

she is older than he looks/he’s coming up to seventy/quite elderly

Describing someone’s appearance

• Hair: fair, darkish, completely white, going grey, losing his hair, almost bald, straight, long, wavy hair, he’s got a crew cut, receding hair, ginger-haired, red-haired

• Weight: a bit thin, overweight, on the plump side, stout, slim (positive), skinny (negative), stocky, well-built

• Height: quite tall, a bit on the short side

• Face: thin-faced, round-faced, chubby face

• Skin: dark-skinned

• General: smart, elegant, well-dressed, scruffy and untidy-looking/messy-looking, good looking, unattractive