How Can You Talk About Your Appearance and Abilities?
Social Practice of the Language To describe and compare appearance and ability at different ages. Achievements • Listen to and explore appearance of known people. • Understand descriptions. • Describe own appearance. Product: Line Graph of Development Family and Community Environment
1 Work in pairs.Who is in the photo? Read the text and find out. Complete the diagram with the underlined words. Use the glossary to help you. 109
Hi, I’m Tessa. This is my brother Michael. He’s 10 and I am 11. We are very different. For example, he has short straight hair but mine is long and curly . He is slim and tall but I’m short and a little plump . His eyes are big. Mine are small. He’s very friendly and girls say he’s handsome . As we both like sports, we play football in the same team. I love him very much because he’s my best friend.
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2 What words do you know to describe appearance? Tell each other who you know with these characteristics. 3 Listen and check as many of the words as you hear. How does listening for specific words help you to understand better? 18 4 Listen again and say which pictures are described. 19
5 What are your favorite photos from when you were little? Describe them to each other.
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