DESCRIBING PEOPLE

Appearance and Personality

NOUNS

· height

· weight

ADJECTIVES

· adventurous

· ambitious

· arrogant

· attractive

· average

· beautiful

· bighead

· blond(e)

· boring

· calm

· chatty

· cheerful

· cold

· confident

· curly

· dark

· dishonest

· easy-going

· elegant

· enthusiastic

· fair

· fat

· flexible

· friendly

· funny

· generous

· good-looking

· gorgeous

· happy

· handsome

· hard-working

· heavy

· honest

· impatient

· independent

· interesting

· kind

· lazy

· light brown

· long

· mean

· middle-aged

· moody

· nice

· obese

· old

· optimistic

· ordinary-looking

· outgoing

· patient

· petite

· pessimistic

· pleasant

· plump

· polite

· pretty (often a girl)

· punctual

· quiet

· relaxed

· reliable

· reserved

· self-confident

· selfish

· sensible

· sensitive sensible

· short

· shoulder-length

· shy

· slim

· spiky

· stocky

· straight

· stout

· stubborn

· stupid

· successful

· tall

· teenager

· thin

· ugly

· unfriendly

· unkind

· well-built

· young

EXPRESSIONS

· overall appearance

QUESTIONS

To ask about people´s physical appearance we say:

WHAT + DO/DOES + SUBJECT + LOOK LIKE?

· What do you look like?

· What does he look like?

· What does she look like?

· What do they look like?

To ask about people´s character we say:

WHAT + BE + SUBJECT + LIKE?

· What are you like?

· What is he like?

· What is she like?

· What are they like?

To ask about people´s height we say:

· How tall are you?

· How tall is he?

· How tall is she?

· How tall are they?

To ask about people´s weight we say:

· How much do you weigh?

· How much does he weigh?

· How much does she weigh?

· How much do they weigh?

To ask about people´s age we say:

· How old are you?

· How old is he?

· How old is she?