FRIENDSHIP

1 How important are friends to you?

2 What exactly do you mean by a friend?

3 Are you very good at keeping in touch with friends if you don’t see them regularly?

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

Put the following words to the right box according to what they describe.

Teenager       wrinkled         wavy                           elderly person           nondescript  

Tall                 even teeth     medium height           slim                             bald headed  

Fat                  stout              hooked                       plump                          good-looking 

handsome       tanned                        attractive                  pretty                        middle aged

curly               skinny             straight                     fringe                         round

oval                 look thirty     adult                           straight                     be overweight

short               pale                 charming                    dark                           a brace

cross-eyed    

age	height	figure	good looks	hair
face	nose	mouth	complexion	defects

 Activities

1 What does your husband/brother/sister/daughter/son look like?

2 Write down a description of one of your classmates. Read it aloud and the rest of the class will try to guess whom you were describing.

3 What does an ideal beauty look like?

4 What did an ideal beauty looked like in a/ baroque  b/ in 1950s?

5 Is appearance important to you? What do you do to look nice?

6 What do you think about the possibilities of changing one’s appearance?

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION

1 Match the qualities in the left columns with the descriptions in the right column.

dull                              undecided, hesitating

self-confident               hates spending money

irresolute                      slow in understanding

stern                             doing something at the time fixed, neither early nor late

irritable            sharing the feelings of others, feeling pity or tenderness

mean                            believeing in one’s own abilities

conceited                     obstinate, keeping one’s own opinion without regard to reality

sympathetic                  easily annoyed or made angry

stubborn                      having too high opinion of oneself, feeling too much pride in oneself

curious                         eager to learn

punctual                       demanding obedience and discipline

2 Form antonyms with prefixes and suffixes.

Obedient          ……………………..             pleasant           ……………………..

Helpful ……………………..             careful              ……………………..

Polite               ……………………..             resolute            ……………………..

Honest             ……………………..             sincere             ……………………..

Patient             ……………………..             tidy                  ……………………..

3 Discuss the qualities of an ideal husband, wife, boss, secretary, teacher, mother, father, mother-in-law, good friend.

4 Say what the four people are like.

�   I really like Susan. She always does what she has promised and always comes on time. She likes being with people and people like her a lot. She is also good at her work as she puts a lot of energy into it. The only thing is that sometimes she talks too much for my liking and also sometimes I’m not sure whether she means what she is saying or whether she is just being polite.

‚  Peter is very clever. He is good at making decisions and he is always ready to help his friends. Another good thing about Peter is that he always says what he really thinks. But when you come to his room, it’s a terrible mess. Also Peter is evious when other people are better than him and sometimes he gets annoyed easily.  

�  Henry is a strange person. When I meet him on the street he doesn’t even say hello. He thinks he is the most intelligent, most handsome and most entertaing man in the world. But in fact he is not ver y smart, nor particularly handsome in my opinion and he seem to think about himself only. He isn’t very hard-working, actually he is rather the opposite.  He also wants everything right now and if he has to wait he gets really furious.

5 Write a similar characteristics of a person. Describe the behaviour but do not use the direct adjectives.