Describing Characters

How to describe people?

* In English there are words that describe people’s

character, and others to describe their physical
appearance. These words are called “adjectives”.

Remember:
-The Adjective is a word we use to tell us more about the noun.
- It comes:
a. before the noun: such as "a fat boy."
b. after the verb "be": such as "Ahmad is thin."
- The adjective can be:
a. short adjective: if it has one or two syllables (fast – heavy)
b. long adjective: if it has more than two syllables (beautiful – dangerous)

Example:
- Grandpa is an old man, but he walks slowly.
(In this case, the adjective “old” modifies the word “man”).

* When you describe any character, you’re going to do the following:

a) Describe people’s character:
 People’s physical description and appearance:

- Face: oval – round – square – cheeks – lips – chin – freckles

- Hair: wavy – curly – frizzy – straight – long – short – bald
pony tail – dark (black/dark brown) – fair (blonde/light brown)
- Skin: dark – fair – soft

Examples:
  Others:
 Body: skinny – thin – slim – chubby – plump - fat – well-built (strong) - tall –
short

skinny thin slim chubby plump fat

Examples:
 More adjectives: pretty – beautiful – good-looking - attractive – handsome – ugly

handsome attractive not very good looking pretty

“ugly”

 Clothes