Language Focus: Describing People

Language Focus: Describing People

English IV: Building Confidence in Communication

Multiple Choice

Choose the opposite:

dark

• curly

• straight

• tall

• light

Multiple Choice

Choose the opposite:

curly

• short

• straight

• light

• long

Multiple Choice

This is NOT an expression we use to describe age.

• medium height

• middle-aged

• old

• young

Multiple Select

Choose the expressions you can use to describe height.

• shoulder length

• tall

• short

• straight

• medium height

Open Ended

How tall are you? Write your height using the imperial system (foot and inches).

Example: I am five foot eight inches tall.

General appearance (I, we, you, they)

What do you look like?

I’m medium height. I have short black hair and medium-sized dark brown eyes.

Multiple Choice

Choose the question that matches the statement.

My father is 52 years old.

• What color is your father's hair?

• How tall is your father?

• How old is your father?

Multiple Choice

Choose the question that matches the statement.

I am a meter sixty-seven tall.

• How tall are you?

• How long is your hair?

• What kind of clothes do you normally wear?

Multiple Choice

Choose the question that matches the statement.

My cousin's hair is dark brown.

• How long is your cousin's hair?

• What color is your cousin's hair?

• Does your cousin have a beard and a moustache?

Multiple Choice

Choose the question that matches the statement.

Scarlett Johansson is fairly short, but she is very beautiful. She has blonde hair and green eyes.

• How old is Scarlett Johansson?

• How long is Scarlett Johansson's hair?

• What does Scarlett Johansson look like?

Multiple Choice

Choose the question that matches the statement.

No, I don't have a beard or a mustache.

• Do you have a beard and a mustache?

• Do you wear glasses?

• Do you have light brown eyes?

Open Ended

How tall are your parents? Write their heights using the metric system.

Example: My dad is a meter sixty-eight tall and my mom is one meter fifty-six tall.

General appearance (he, she, it)

What does your girlfriend look like?

She’s fairly short but she’s really pretty. She has long red hair and big light brown eyes.

Multiple Choice

Unscramble the question.

he blue does have eyes

• Does he eyes have blue?

• He does blue have eyes?

• Does he have blue eyes?

Multiple Choice

Unscramble the question.

what hair his color is

• What color is his hair?

• Color hair what his is?

• His hair is color what?

Multiple Choice

Unscramble the question.

glasses do wear you

• Glasses wear you do?

• Do you wear glasses?

• Do glasses wear you?

Multiple Choice

Unscramble the question.

parents what do your like look

• What do your parents look like?

• Look like your parents do what?

• What parents your do like look?

Open Ended

What does your best friend look like? Use at least four expressions to describe him/her.