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Describe

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I start to learn the article “Describing people”.

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Height [hait] and weight [weit]

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What’s about your height and weight?

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Tall

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My girlfriend isn’t tall, but she’s a very slim person.

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Quite

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Work not quite done;
It’s quite cold.
{NOT ENOUGH}

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Short

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The man is quite short.

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Medium height

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If you aren’t short or tall, you’re of medium height.

The boy is of medium height.

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Slim

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That woman is very slim.

“Slim” is more polite than “thin”

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Thin

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I was very thin when I was IN HOSPITAL.

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Polite

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“Overweight” is much more polite (вежливый;утонченный) than “fat”.
“Fat” we can say only about animals: my cat is very fat.

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Overweight

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Weigh too much

An overweight man holding a fat cat opened the door.

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Brown

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Suri has brown eyes. (Коричневый; карий)

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Blonde (Fair)

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His sister doesn’t have blonde hair, but she’s got fair (white) skin.

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Moustache (mustache) [məsˈtɑ:ʃ]

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My uncle’s got a dark moustache (mustache) and short hair.

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Handsome / beautiful

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My mother is a very beautiful woman.

My father is a very handsome man.

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Good-looking (man+woman

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My dad’s a very good-looking man.

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Pretty (only girl/woman)

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Pretty garden; pretty voice and song.

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Ugly

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The opposite [ˈɔpəzɪt] of “beautiful” or “good-looking”.

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Average-looking

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I’m not ugly and beautiful, but I’m average-looking.

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Beard [bɪəd]

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My colleague’s got a beard and long hair. He has blue eyes.

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Apologize (TO smb.) FOR smth.

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I’d like to apologize to you for my mistakes.

Do you want to apologize for your wrong opinion?

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Middle-aged

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My father is 56. He’s middle-aged, but would like to be younger!

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Elderly [ˈeldəlɪ]

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This hospital is for elderly people.

“Elderly” more polite than “old”

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Meter [ˈmi:tə] / centimeters [ˈsentɪˌmi:tə

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My height is 1 meter and seventy-eight centimeters.

24
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What does {he/she/your sister} look like?

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She’s tall and slim. She’s very pretty.