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    DESCRIBING PEOPLE

    When you want to describe a person physically or personality.


    In that case, consider the question: What ---- like?

    ASPECTS TO CONSIDER.
    This is a suggested order on how to describe people.

    AGE HEIGHT WEIGHT HAIR EYES


    (edad) (altura, (peso) (cabello) (ojos)
    estatura)
    LENGHT FORM COLOR
    (largo) (forma) (color)

    Old Tall Fat Long Curly Black Blue


    Young Average Chubby Short Wavy Brown Green
    Child height Slim Straight Blond Brown
    teenager Fairly short Thin Red Hazel
    Short Skinny White Gray
    Black

    EXAMPLES:
    *What is your girlfriend like?
    She is young, fairly short but slim; she has beautiful long, wavy brown hair and she has
    brown eyes too.

    *What is your father like?


    My father is 62 years old; he is tall and chubby because he doesn´t make exercise; he has
    short wavy gray hair and black eyes.

    APPEARANCE

    blue / green / grey / brown eyes


    tall freckles
    small a beard
    I am overweight, a full beard
    fat a moustache
    slim a goatee
    young a stubbly beard
    old blond hair
    beautiful / pretty red hair
    handsome I have brown hair
    sun-tanned black hair
    pale dyed hair
    blond highlights
    short hair
    long hair
    straight hair
    curly hair / curls
    a bald head
    a square / round / oval face
    a big / small / long nose
    big / small ears

    MORE INFO:
    Some interesting vocabulary and exercises about people descriptions.
    https://www.learnenglish.de/basics/appearances.html

    here you have a list of 40 adjectives to describe people.


    https://7esl.com/describing-people-appearance/

    CHARACTER TRAIT DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES


    Taken from: https://7esl.com/adjectives-that-describe-personality/

    Adventurous Determined
    Ambitious Diplomatic
    Anxious Discreet
    Attentive Dishonest
    Bad-tempered Disobedient
    Bossy Distracted
    Brave Dynamic
    Broad-minded Easygoing
    Calm Emotional
    Careful Energetic
    Careless Enthusiastic
    Cheeky Fair-minded
    Cheerful Faithful
    Compassionate Fearless
    Confident Frank
    Conscientious Friendly
    Courageous Funny
    Courteous Generous
    Crazy Gentle
    Creative Good-tempered
    Happy Popular
    Hard-working Proud
    Helpful Rational
    Honest Reliable
    Humble Reserved
    Humorous Romantic
    Hypocritical Rude
    Imaginative Scared
    Impartial Self-confident
    Impatient Self-disciplined
    Intellectual Selfish
    Intelligent Sensible
    Jealous Sensitive
    Kind Serious
    Lazy Shy
    Lively Silly
    Loving Sincere
    Loyal Smart
    Mean Sociable
    Messy Straightforward
    Modest Stubborn
    Naughty Supportive
    Neat Talkative
    Nervous Thoughtful
    Nice Tidy
    Obedient Timid
    Optimistic Unfriendly
    Passionate Unpleasant
    Patient Untidy
    Persistent Versatile
    Pessimistic Warm-hearted
    Plucky Worried
    Polite

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