1. Автор: АХМЕТОВА Г.К.
преподаватель английского языка Павлодарского педагогического колледжа им.Б.Ахметова

2. Are these people of different age? Are they of different sex?
Are they of different nationalities? Are they alike?

3. Appearance People’s 1. Warm up. Good morning, boys and girls!
Sit down, please!
I’m glad to see you again.
Get ready for the lesson.
Today we are going to talk about people’s appearance
and parts of the body.

4. (for first-year students)
PEOPLE’S APPEARANCE
(for first-year students) 1

5. Focus on phonetics
Chin, oval, stepson, eye, mustache, handsome, tall, straight, before, invent, portrait, head, nickname, predict, mouth, body.
chin
oval
mustache
eye
stepson
before
Focus on phonetics.
As usual we begin our lesson with practice your phonetic. Look at the screen.
Listen and divide the words into following columns according to their intonation pattern.
Chin, oval, stepson, eye, mustache, handsome, tall, straight, before, invent, portrait, head, nickname, predict, mouth, body.
First of all choose and read monosyllabic words.
Now find and read the words with two syllables, in which the first syllable is stressed.
Now find and read the words with two syllables, in which the second syllable is stressed.
tall
handsome
invent
straight
portrait
predict
head
nickname
mouth
body

6. What do people usually describe if they want to get a clear portrait of a person?
Appearance ?

7. What do people usually describe if they want to get a clear portrait of a person?
Appearance
nose
hair
weight
general appearance
other details
height
age

8. Match these words with their meanings:
1. It is used for breathing and smelling eyes
2. This grows under a man’s nose lips
3. It grows on a person’s head a beard
4. People wear these to help them see better an ear
5. This grows on a man’s chin a mustache
6. The organ of hearing a nose
7. A pair of organs of sight hair
8. We can use them for kissing spectacles
Vocabulary Work 1
  a) Match these words with their meanings. What is this?

9. Hair: … Nose: … Weight: … Age: … Height: … Other details: …
Teenager, overweight, hook, fair, curly, ugly, handsome, snub, slim, a scar, a beard, short, good-looking, long, a fringe, a birth-mark, beautiful, plain, middle-aged, fat, wrinkles, tall, young, freckles, a moustache, pimples, a pony-tail, chestnut, a dark complexion
Hair: …
Nose: …
Weight: …
Age: …
Height: …
Other details: …
General appearance: …

10. What’s this? Match the left column to the right
1. a dark complexion 2. a scar 3. a birth-mark 4. pimples 5. a pony-tail 6. chestnut
small, hard spots on the skin
a kind of hair style
a natural dark colour of the skin or face
the result of injury or illness
a mark on the body at or from one’s birth
colour of hair (reddish-brown)

11. The right answers
Hair: fair, curly, long, a fringe, a pony-tail, chestnut
Nose: hook, snub
Weight: overweight, slim, fat
Age: teenager, middle-aged, young
Height: short, tall
Other details: a scar, a beard, a birth-mark, wrinkles, freckles, a moustache, pimples, a dark complexion
General appearance: ugly, handsome, plain, good-looking, beautiful

12. Order the words from ‘General Appearance’ as shown below

13. Order the words from ‘General Appearance’
ugly plain good-looking beautiful
handsome

14. Match the sentences to the picturesB
He has a dark complexion, dark hair and a scar on his face.
He is young with dark short hair and brown eyes. He is rather handsome.
These are middle-aged men. They are plain and unattractive.
She’s young and beautiful with fair hair. Her smile is charming.
She is smiling. She has blond hair and a small birth-mark above her lips. D C E F

15. Finish the sentences This man is only 1 metre 52. He’s quite … .
Every morning she makes her hair into a … .
Models are usually … and … .
Her skin is not light, she has dark … .
After a car crash Michael has a … on his face.
He’s from Africa, he’s got … hair.
Fat people usually have a huge stomach and a … chin.
Teenagers often have … on their faces.
John is proud of his wonderful … , he cares about it a lot: cut and brush it every morning.
She has a small … nose, like a knob.

16. Finish the sentences This man is only 1 metre 52. He’s quite short.
Every morning she makes her hair into a pony-tail.
Models are usually slim and tall.
Her skin is not light, she has dark complexion.
After a car crash Michael has a scar on his face.
He’s from Africa, he’s got curly hair.
Fat people usually have a huge stomach and a double chin.
Teenagers often have pimples on their faces.
John is proud of his wonderful moustache, he cares about it a lot: cut and brush it every morning.
She has a small snub nose, like a knob.

17. What do they look like?

18. Read the texts and find out what they are
a novel
an instruction
an article
a police report
a letter
a lecture
an essay

19. Read the police report. What information is given in the police report?
_______

20. What information is given in the police report?
a date and time
a place
an incident (what happened)
a person
the appearance of the person

21. What of appearance is described in the police report?
_______

22. What of appearance is described in the police report?
sex (female/male)
age
height
build
hair (if it’s possible)
eyes (if it’s possible)
clothes

23. The final task
Work in groups of four. Each group has a picture of a person. This person is wanted by the police. Help the police to get his or her clear portrait and the details of the incident. You have 15 minutes. If the police get all information, they will find the person.

24. Использованные ресурсы:
Маслыко Е. А Настольная книга преподавателя иностранного языка. – Минск: Высшая школа, 2004.
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