How does she/he look ?

Tired, fresh, upset, happy, disappointed, sleepy, worried, pale, unwell, healthy, surprised

Substitution drills

1. Substitute the underlined words and phrases in the constructions given below, making use of the active vocabulary. Discuss these with you partner.

A. 1) How shall I recognize her ? - Oh, it's quite easy. She's just like her mother.

2) What does she look like? - A tall, slim girl of 18 with an oval face.

3) She has light-grey eyes, a small snub nose, a big mouth with white even teeth and a pleasant smile. - I'm sure there'll be at least a dozen girls like that at the station.

4) But how am I to recognise her in the crowd? - Oh, I forgot. There's a dimple in her left cheek, she's so lovely that you'll fall in love with her at first sight.

B. 1) I say, who's the boy I've been dancing with most of the time? - Do you mean the lean stooping fellow with an awkward gait a piercing look and a mop of sandy hair?

2. The one I mean isn't like that at all. He's tall and slender with a graceful carriage, earnest eyes and smooth blond hair.

3. Do you really find him as plain as you've made him out? - No, I was joking. He takes after his father, who is still very handsome even though bald and rather stern-looking.

4. Jane was certainly the beauty of the party. - Jane? Don't make me laugh. Perhaps she wouldn't look so bad if she hadn't put on so much weight. As it is she's positively fat and looks rather old for her age.

5. No, not fat, she's just plump. - Anyhow, I quite agree with Will that you're much more attractive than Jane, especially now, when you wear your hair shoulder length parted in the middle.

IV. Additional topical vocabulary appearance

1. General

1. appearance (looks) 2. look (v) 3. look like (resemble smb) 4. take after smb 5. family likeness 6. (not) look oneself 7. look wretched ['ret?id] 8. look one's best 9. look one's age

внешний вид, внешность выглядеть быть похожим на кого-либо быть похожим на кого-либо семейное сходство (не) быть похожим на себя (сильно измениться) иметь несчастный вид прекрасно выглядеть выглядеть не старше своих лет

The human body

attractive unattractive impressive unimpressive good-looking ill favoured pleasant-looking [pleznt] unpleasant looking pretty repulsive charming ugly

привлекательный непривлекательный выразительный невыразительный интересный уродливый приятный неприятный хорошенькая отвратительный очаровательный уродливый

lovely common beautiful plain	восхитительный заурядный красивый заурядный
nice usual handsome unsightly eyesore	миловидный обычный красивый некрасивый отвратительный