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    What Are They Like?: Describing People

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    This document provides descriptions of people's physical appearances and personalities. It lists common physical traits like height, weight, hair color and style. Personality traits are categorized as friendly, helpful, and hard working or alternatively as unfriendly, unreliable and lazy. The document also lists some celebrities and provides examples of comparing celebrities using contrast words like "but", "however", and "unlike". It includes exercises for readers to practice describing people and comparing celebrities using these contrast words.

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    This document provides descriptions of people's physical appearances and personalities. It lists common physical traits like height, weight, hair color and style. Personality traits are categorized as friendly, helpful, and hard working or alternatively as unfriendly, unreliable and lazy. The document also lists some celebrities and provides examples of comparing celebrities using contrast words like "but", "however", and "unlike". It includes exercises for readers to practice describing people and comparing celebrities using these contrast words.

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    WHAT ARE THEY LIKE?


    DESCRIBING PEOPLE
    Physical Appearance
    Tall-short-medium height
    Pretty/beautiful/good-looking # ugly
    Thin plump fat/overweight
    Strong# weak
    Young-old-middle aged
    Slim
    Pale- dark-skinned - tanned
    HAIR
    Fair
    Blonde
    dark
    Long Short - Shoulder- length
    Straight-wavy-curlyRed-haired, grey, bald-headed- dyed
    Ponytails- highlights- sideburns-fringe

    Nature and Personality

    Friendly
    Polite
    Outgoing
    Funny
    Sincere
    Helpful
    Reliable
    Generous/giving
    Well-balanced
    Hard-working
    Smart/ intelligent

    Unfriendly
    Rude/ Impolite
    Shy
    Boring
    Lying
    Unhelpful
    unreliable
    Selfish/ mean
    Unbalanced
    Lazy
    dumb

    CELEBRITIES.-

    Oprah,

    Shai Labeouf,

    K-Fed,

    Mel Gibson,

    Britney,

    D. Beckham,

    But, ===== Pero


    However ===== Sin embargo
    Unlike ===== Al contrario de

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    Lindsay,

    Ice-T,

    Reese,

    Coco,

    Rosie

    W Houston

    Oprah is fat, but Lindsey is thin


    Beckham is handsome; however Shai is ugly
    Unlike Reese, Britney has long hair

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    EXERCISES:
    1.- WRITE 10 SENTENCES BY COMPARING DIFFERENT CELEBRITIES
    USE THE VERBS BE, HAVE GOT, WEAR,
    1..
    2.-
    3.-
    4.-
    5.-
    6.-
    7.-
    8.-
    9.-
    10.- .
    2.- TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH.1.- Mi hermano es gordo, pero mi hermana es delgada.

    2.- Cmo es ella? Ella es simptica y trabajadora

    3.- Marta es muy inteligente; sin embargo, es vaga

    4.- Al contrario de Juan, Luis es muy educado

    5.- Melanie es muy guapa, pero Alma es muy fea


    .
    6.- Esta pelcula es muy divertida; sin embargo los documentales son aburridos
    .
    3.- YOU AND YOUR HEROE.- Draw a caricature of yourself and your heroine. Then write 10
    sentences using the contrast forms: but, however, and unlike
    YOU

    YOUR HERO / HEROINE

    1.-
    2.-
    3.-
    4.-
    5.-
    6.-
    7.-
    8.-
    9.-
    10.- ..

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