Chapter 9-What Does She Look Like

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The chapter discusses different ways to describe people's appearance, age, height and other physical attributes. It also covers combining sentences using participles and prepositions.

Some ways to describe people's appearance mentioned are what they look like, whether they wear glasses, their hair length and color.

Questions used to describe people's age and height include 'How old is she/he?' and 'How tall is she/he?'

Chapter 9-What does she look like?

Appearance and dress; clothing and clothing styles; people

Goals for this chapter

Speaking: Asking about and describing peoples appearance; identifying people Grammar: Questions for describing people: Whatlook like, how old, how tall, how long, and what color Pronunciation/Listening: Listening to descriptions of people; identifying people; identifying styles Writing/Reading: Writing an e-mail describing people

Describe this person


What does she look like? How old is she? How tall do you think she is? What color is hair?

Describe this person

Describe these people

Appearance
Hair Age Looks (handsome, good-looking, pretty) Height

Can you think of three more words or expressions to describe people?

Your Turn
Choose at least four expressions to describe yourself and your partner.
Compare Do you agree with your partners description?

Conversation: Shes very tall


Listen and practice. Listen to the rest of the conversation.

What else do you learn about Ashley?

Questions

Come up with questions to describe this person.

Describing People
Questions that we use to describe people General appearance- What and Does Ex. What does she look like? Shes tall, gorgeous, and has red hair. Ex. Does he wear glasses? Yes, and he has a beard.
Can you think of other examples?

Describing People
Age and Height- How Ex. How old is she? How old is he? Shes about 32 years old. Hes in his twenties. Ex. How tall is he? Hes quite short.
Can you think of other examples?

Describing People
Hair- How and What
Ex. How long is her hair? Its medium length. Ex. What color is his hair? Its dark/light brown. Can you think of other examples?

Clothes-1

Clothes 1 Answers
1. Cap 8. Dress 2. Tie 9. Hat 3. Belt 10. Tennis Shoes 4. Pants 11. Jacket 5. Scarf 12. Jeans 6. Boxers 13. Bathing Suit 7. Bra 14. Shirt and Tie 15. Shirt

Clothes 2

Clothes 2 Answers
1.
2. 3. 4. 5.

6.
7. 8.

High-heeled shoes 9. Undershirt Bikini 10. Underwear Coat 11.Glove Shoes 12. Shorts Suit 13. Socks Scarf 14. Boots Dress 15. Vest Underwear

Your Fashion Style


Which clothing items do you wear almost every day? Circle the items. What are three more things you like to wear? What is your style? Is it classic? Cool and casual? Funky? Something else?

Whos Raoul?
How can we make these two sentences into one? 1. Raoul is a man. 2. Raoul is wearing a green shirt.

Modifiers with participles


We can combine sentences using both participles and prepositions.
Which one is Raoul? 1. He is the one. 2. He is talking to Liz Hes the one talking to Liz.

Modifiers with Participles


Prepositions:
Whos Liz? 1. Shes a woman. 2. She has short black hair. Shes the woman with short black hair.

Modifiers with Prepositions


Try these examples:
Which one is Julie? 1. Shes the tall woman 2. Shes in jeans. Who are the Smiths? 1. They are people. 2. They are next to the window.

Contrastive stress in responses


When you are comparing and contrasting two things, you stress the contrast.
Example: Is Anthony the one wearing the red shirt? No, hes the one wearing the black shirt. Is Judy the woman on the couch? No, Diana is the woman on the couch.

Contrastive Stress Practice


Write 5 sentences that are false (not true). Read your sentences to your partner. Your partner will correct your sentences.

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