Luyện ngữ pháp - English Collocations in Use - Intermediate ((Unit 5: Topics: People and relationships))


People: physical appearance

Words describing people’s physical appearance

Read these quotations taken from essays where students were asked to describe their family members.
My father has a round face and a droopy1 moustache. My mother has a more pointed face and a straight nose. My younger sister is more like my father. She has an oval2 face and an upturned nose. My older sister is like a model. She has a slim figure and a slender3 waist. She has a lovely complexion4 and beautiful sleek5, shoulder-length hair, and sheʼs always immaculately groomed6. I feel so ordinary next to her – Iʼve got coarse7 hair and rather broad hips, but she always says I look nice.

1 long and hanging down heavily
2 shaped like an egg
3 attractively slim (a rather formal, poetic word)
4 the natural colour and quality of a person’s skin
5 smooth and shiny
6 her appearance is always tidy and looked after with great care
7 rough, and not smooth or soft

My father and my two older brothers are all well-built8 with broad shoulders. My father is going bald but he still has a very youthful appearance for someone who is over forty. My brothers both have thick hair and bushy9 eyebrows. My younger brother is only two, but he’s very cute, with chubby cheeks10. My mother’s side of the family mostly have dark hair – in fact my mother had jet-black hair11 when she was younger, before she went grey – but on my father’s side, some have fair hair and some have ginger12 hair.

8 have strong, attractive bodies
9 very thick
10 fat in a pleasant and attractive way
11 completely black
12 a red or orange-brown colour; used of people’s hair

- Lesson 17: Exercise 17.4 - Lesson 18: B. More collocations describing appearance


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