People: physical appearance
Exercise 18.3
Fill the gaps with appropriate collocations. You are sometimes given the first letter(s).
I hadn’t seen Owen since he was just a baby, so I was surprised to see that he was now a
tall young man. He was (1) , smart and elegant. He
was with a pretty young woman with (2) -black, (3) shoulder-
hair and a (4) . She could have been a model, she
had such a (5) . He had his arm round her
(6) . With them was a (7)
, who looked as though he enjoyed good food, and who was probably
her father. When I introduced myself to Owen, he smiled. ‘Of course, I remember you,’
he said. ‘You used to work with my father. But you haven’t aged at all! You have a
much more (8) a than my father now does. Dad has
(9) very grey.’ I felt very pleased when he said that; he obviously didn’t
notice I was beginning to (10) bald. Everyone likes to think they look
young when they get older.
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