14. Video:

A. Watch the video “The face and hair” and get ready to discuss it at the lesson.

B. Watch the video “7 adjectives for describing people in English” and get ready to discuss it at the lesson.

15. Writing

1. Write about the appearence of a famous person or your groupmate for 10 minutes. Don`t give the name of this person. Let your groupmates guess it. Correct your partner’s paper.

2. Your relative comes to Khabarovsk in a few days but unfortunately you can`t meet him. Write a message to your friend and ask him to meet your relative. Your friend has never seen that person. Try to give all peculiarities of your relative`s appearance.

3. Describe the appearance of your best friend.

4. Get some pictures and describe the people in them.

5. Write a paragraph.

A) These two paragraphs come from a story. The middle paragraph is missing. Write a paragraph of about 40 words describing Kate to complete the story. Try to use adjectives, adverbs and interesting words.

Everybody knew that a new girl was starting at our school. We had heard that her name was Kate. The desk next to me was empty and I knew she would probably sit there. When I got to school on Monday morning, I quickly hung my coat up and went to my desk. There was the new girl. She was ...

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Lessons started and I found out that she was excellent at maths. She even helped me with one or two of the problems. I knew we were going to be great friends from that day on.

B) Read your partner's writing.

Swap paragraphs and read what your partner has written. Using your partner's paragraph, answer the following questions.

1. What adjectives has my partner used?

2. What adverbs has my partner used?

3. What interesting vocabulary has my partner used?

Discuss

Read your paragraph to the class, or listen to paragraphs other people have written.

How could you make your writing even more descriptive?

Language functions Addressing People

There are several ways of addressing people in English. The most universal ones that can be used when speaking to strangers as well as to people you know are: Mr. – to a man, Mr. Brown; Mrs. – to a married woman, Mrs. Brown; Miss – to an unmarried woman, Miss Brown; Ms. – to a woman whose marital status is unknown (mostly used in the written form, Ms. Brown). Mr., Miss, etc. are never used without the person's second name.

Other forms of address are:

Sir – used to a man who is clearly older or more senior than oneself. Sir is also used:

1. By shop assistants, waiters, etc. to their male customers;

2. By schoolchildren to men-teachers;

3. In the armed forces, to an (a superior) officer;

4. As a title (for knights and baronets), followed by the first name, for example, Sir William.

5. Sometimes as a polite form of address to a stranger, even if not older or more senior. However, this is not common nowadays in Britain, where the usual way of addressing a stranger (either a man or a woman) is Excuse me, please.

Madam – used by shop assistants, waiters, etc. to their female custom­ers. Except for this type of situation, however, madam is less widely used than sir. It is not used when addressing women-teachers (here Mrs./Miss with the surname is used), nor when addressing an older or more senior woman. It is only rarely used to address a stranger. "Excuse me, please" is the usual form.

People who have a scientific degree – PhD, ScD – are to be addressed Dr., Doctor Brown, whereas medical practitioners, i.e., doctors who cure people are simply Doctors (no name is necessary). Professors can also be addressed by the title only.

You'd better use officer – addressing a policeman. If one knows his rank, one may also address him as, for example, Constable, or Inspector. In practice, however, most people approaching a policeman for information or help use Excuse me, (please), without any form of address.

People in certain occupations can be called Waiter / Waitress / Porter/ Nurse, etc. Commercial and administrative titles such as director, manager are never used as forms of address.

When addressing a King or a Queen you say Your Majesty. Address­ing a group of people or audience you use Ladies and Gentlemen. In fact people in the English-speaking countries prefer calling each other by the first name: Peter, Ann, etc.