IV. Work in pairs. Describe each other.

V. Things to do:

1) Describe one of your relatives.

2) Describe your favourite actor (singer, sportsman, etc.)

3)You’ve just met a most handsome man (pretty woman). Describe him (her) to your friends.

4) You are going to get married. Describe your future wife (husband).

5) Describe the way you (your family, your friend, your group-mate, etc.) will look like in 20 years.

VI. Study the following speech patterns:

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What does he look like?	He is tall like me and well-built.
How does he look after his exams?	Oh, he looks bad.
Is he tall?	No, he isn't. He's middle-sized.
Who do you take after?	I take after my mother. = I look like my mother. = I'm like my mother.
Who does she take after?	She has much in common with her Grandma.
Does he take after his father?	Nothing of the kind. He is very much unlike his dad. = He doesn’t take after his father in any way.

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What colour is his hair?	He has grey hair. = His hair is grey.
What is her hair like?	Her hair is straight and thick. = She has straight, thick hair.
What can you say about his face?	He has an oval face, rather unpleasant one.
Will (can) you describe her face?	She has a beautiful round face with big grey eyes.
And what about her complexion?	She is of dark complexion.
What about her nose?	She has a small, turned up nose.

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How is he usually dressed?	As a rule, he wears formal dress.
What does he usually wear?	He likes to dress casually.
Does he wear fashionable clothes?	I doubt it. He doesn't follow the fashion.
What kind of clothes do you usually wear?	I prefer fashionable clothes.
Does she often use make-up?	She doesn't make-up, I'm sure.

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Do you always follow the fashion?	Well, I try to.
How do you manage to look so nice?	I try to keep my figure.
How does she manage to look much younger than she is?	She keeps her figure.
Do you find him plain?	No, I don’t. He’s very good-looking.
Do you like the way she has her hair done (cut)?	Sure. It becomes her well. I'm afraid I don't. It doesn't become her.
Do you like the way she looks?	It’s great!
Do you like the way she is usually dressed?	She’s very different. But I love it.
Do you like the way she wears her dress?

VII. Answer the questions:

1. What does your mother (father, best friend) look like?

2. How do you usually look after your exams? (when you have your birthday)?

3. Who do you take after?

4. What colour are your mother’s (father’s) eyes?

5. What is your sister's (brother's) hair like?

6. What can you say about your best friend's face?

7. How are your parents usually dressed?

8. What do you usually wear?

9. Do you use make-up?

10. Do you wear jewellery?

11. Do you like the way you look like?

VIII. Write down the special questions to which the following sentences are the answers.

1. My cousin has much in common with his dad.

2. He has broad shoulders, strong arms and long legs.

3. My mother has chestnut hair.

4. My mother's hair is thin.

5. He looks very unhappy today.

6. My father doesn't wear formal dress.

7. He is well-built because he keeps his figure.

8. She looks elegant because she follows the fashion.

9. My sister has a high forehead, dark eyebrows, big brown eyes and pretty dimples on her cheeks.

10. He is a blue-eyed young man.

IX. Translate into English.

1) - На кого ты похожа?

- Мама говорит, я похожа на мою бабушку.

- А как она выглядит?

- Она среднего роста, полная, с приятным лицом.

- Какого цвета у неё волосы?

- У неё седые волосы, но раньше бабушка была брюнеткой.

2) - Какую одежду ты предпочитаешь носить?

- Я люблю одеваться свободно. А ты?

- А я всегда слежу за модой, но ношу одежду, которая мне к лицу.

3) - Ты находишь его красивым?

- Да, он выглядит очень элегантно.

4) - Тебе нравится, как одевается твоя сестра?

- Да, она всегда выглядит очаровательно. Как ей удается так выглядеть?

- Она старается следить за своей фигурой.

X. Work in pairs. Make up a dialogue about the appearance of your relatives.

XI. Translate the fragments from books by well-known English writers in written form:

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They are apparently father and daughter. The gentleman is 50, tall, well-preserved and of upright carriage. His imposing style, with his strong aquiline nose and resolute clean-shaven mouth, gives him an air of importance.

His daughter is well-dressed, well-fed, good-looking, strong-minded young woman, presentably ladylike. But still her father's daughter.

(from “Widower's Houses” by B. Shaw)

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Harry, imagine a girl, hardly seventeen of age, with a little flower-like face, a small Greek head with plaited coils of dark-brown hair, eyes that were violet wells of passion, lips that were like the petals of a rose. She was the loveliest thing I had ever seen in my life.

(from “The Picture of Dorian Grey” by O. Wilde)

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His face was deeply sunburnt, but the sun had not taken the healthy colour from his cheeks. She liked the little curly moustache which did not conceal his full red lips. He had black hair, short and brushed very sleek. But, of course, his eyes, under thick bushy eyebrows, were his best feature.

(from "The Painted Veil" by S. Maugham)

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In the centre of the room… stood the head of the family, old Jolyon himself, eighty years of age, white hair, his dome-like forehead, his little dark grey eyes, and an immense white moustache, which drooped and spread below the level of his strong jaw, he had a patriarchal look, and in spite of lean cheeks and hollows at his temples, seemed master of perennial youth. He held himself upright, end his shrewd, steady eyes lost none of their clear shining. Thus he gave an impression of superiority to the doubts and dislikes of smaller men.

(from “The Man of Property” by J. Galsworthy)

XII. Find the Russian equivalents of the following proverbs:

1) Handsome is as handsome does. 6) As ugly as sin.

2) Appearances are deceitful. 7) Neat as a new pin.

3) As like as two peas. 8) Neither fish nor flesh.

4) As like as chalk and cheese. 9) Tastes differ.

5) As thin as a rake.

Joke

Two elderly Englishmen were talking about young people in our day. One of them said, “young-people now are so different from what we were thirty years ago. Look at that young person with short hair smoking a cigarette and wearing jeans. What is it - a boy or a girl? It's impossible to say”.

“It's a girl”, said a middle-aged person sitting near them on a bench.

“I'm sorry, sir”, said the first Englishman. “I suppose you are her father”.

“I'm not”, was the answer. “I'm her mother”.