Discussion and Speech Exercises

Ex.30. Answer the following questions:

1. What colour of eyes do you like most?

2. What is the difference between a near-sighted person and a far-sighted one?

3. How do you wear your hair?

4. What can happen to a person’s voice if he shouts too loudly or too long?

5. What complexion do blond people usually have?

6. With which fingers do we hold a pen or a pencil?

7. What happens to a child’s milk teeth?

8. How does hard manual work affect people’s hands?

9. What do we call people who lost their hair?

10. To what part of the ear are earrings attached?

11. What does a person deserving to be called well-preserved look like?

12. When do men’s cheeks become stubby?

13. What is the difference between a sunburnt and swarthy face?

14. What kind of gate do old people often have?

Ex.31. There was a bank robbery in Western London. Suppose you are a witness to this crime and help the Police to identify the robber. Use the following key words and phrases to describe him.

1. Age: elderly, middle-aged, young, under 30, past 40 … .

2. Height: tall, short, over 5 feet 6 inches, of middle height … .

3. Build: slim, stout, thick neck, broad-shouldered … .

4. Face: long, round, thin, wrinkled, oval … .

5. Hair: long, straight, curly, blond, bald-headed, bobbed … .

6. Eyes: close-set, dark-eyed, bulging, small … .

7. Nose: straight, hooked, blunt … .

8. Ears: stick out ... .

9. Distinctive marks: freckles, hunchback, a mole on his right check, beard, moustache … .

Ex.32. Act out a dialogue between a policeman, who will investigate the crime and a man, who saw the criminal. The policeman asks the man about the criminal’s appearance.

Section IV

Vocabulary and Pre-reading Work

Ex.1. Read and translate the following words:

Figure: fat, slim, graceful, lovely, pretty, clumsy, ugly, thin, slender, graceless

Eye: eyelid, iris, pupil, deep, eyebrow, white, oriental, clear, wide, to wink, to blink, eyelash

Nose: straight, aquiline, snub, flat, to breathe, to smell, to sneeze, to blow one’s nose

Hair: wavy, straight, curly, bald, to plait, to dye, to cut, to have a hair-do, to style the hair

Ex.2. Fill in the blanks using the vocabulary above:

1. The little girl’s hair was … .

2. The witch had an … face.

3. Her sister has a … figure.

4. Your uncle doesn’t have any hair, he is … .

5. The child is … and … .

6. An eye consists of …, …, and … .

7. Her hair is not wavy, it is … .

8. She … her hair in chestnut colour.

9. This … girl with … hair has oriental … under thick long eyelashes.

10. The child was ill and often … his nose.

Ex.3. Translate the following sentences into Russian:

1) He caught a cold and was badly sneezing. 2) She used to style her hair at the hairdresser’s. 3) She was as clumsy as can be. 4) Her nose was snub and very funny. 5) Babies are usually fat. 6) A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. 7) He winked towards Nicholas with a degree of familiarity. 8) Without even batting an eyelid a rich gentleman lost all his property playing cards. 9) Steve had such a high opinion of his own abilities that he hardly blinked at winning the first prize. 10) Soon you'll leave school and go out into the big wide world. 11) A dog just takes a smell at a missing thing and can easily find it. 12) They don't want inexperienced young things for the job. They want people who have had a smell of powder. 13) In the morning I open the window wide and breathe in deeply. 14) A sense of calm breathed from the landscape. 15) A better fellow does not breathe. 16) Don't worry; I wouldn't breathe a word of your secret. 16) This offer may not be what you desire, but it's not to be sneezed at.

Ex.4. Say what can be: straight, ugly, clear, wavy, curly, bald, fat, stout, snub, aquiline.