Урок 13. People’s appearance
Предмет: Английский язык, 7 класс

Урок 13

People’s appearance

In this lesson:

You will learn how to describe something or somebody.
You will be able to speak about someone’s feelings using -ed/ -ing participles.

Ключевые слова: build, age, hair, height, face, special features, bald, beard, curly, elderly, middle-aged, shoulder-length, tan

Речевой материал

Грамматика

Причастия настоящего и прошедшего времени, оканчивающиеся на -ed/ -ing. Причастия, оканчивающиеся на –ing, употребляются для описания существительного и соответствует по значению действительным причастиям в русском языке. На русский часто переводятся как прилагательные.

Причастия, оканчивающиеся на –ed, употребляются для описания чьих-либо чувств и соответствуют по значению страдательным причастиям в русском языке. На русский часто переводятся как прилагательные.

Порядок имен прилагательных.

Прилагательные, выражающие мнение/отношение, предшествуют прилагательным, выражающим объективные характеристики.

Когда в предложении есть два и более прилагательных, обозначающих объективные характеристики, они обычно используются в следующем порядке: размер, возраст, форма, цвет, происхождение, материал.

Match the phrases with the translations.

little blond girl

маленькая девочка со светлыми волосами

old woman with the grey hair

высокий мальчик с темными волосами;

tall boy with the dark hair

мужчина с бородой

man with a beard

бабушка с седыми волосами

Основное содержание урока:

Teacher: Today we are going to talk about our students’ favourite storybook characters. Those who they love or hate. So let’s start with you, Danny.

Danny: Well, my favourite character is Dorothy from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. She is a cute, young girl, with lots of freckles and the long brown hair that she wears in pigtails.

Danny: And her enemy is the Wicked Witch, who is old and ugly, with a horrible thin face.

Teacher: Thanks, Danny. What about you, Tim?

Tim: Yes, and I like Bob Cratchit from “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. He is very poor, quite skinny because he can’t afford much food. He is in his thirties and he is a nice, blond man.

Tim: And Scrooge is a nasty elderly man. Thin with the little grey hair, but mainly bold.

Teacher: Thanks, Tim. Now Michael.

Michael: And I love Peter Pan. He is such a happy boy with a smiley face. He is slim and has short red hair.

Michael: Captain Hook is always chasing him. He is a horrible middle-aged man, with the dark, curly, shoulder-length hair. He has a dark tan and a beard. And a scar on his face.

Teacher: Sounds scary. And now your turn, Lisa.

Lisa: My favourite character is Alice from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. She is very slim and pretty. She has long, straight, blonde hair. And she is a teenager like me.

Lisa: She meets a lot of weird characters and one of them is the Dutchess. She is big and fat. With a huge round face. She shouts a lot.

When describing people, mind the order of adjectives.

He is a horrible middle-aged man.

Lana is a talented, young, English singer.

When we describe something or somebody, we use the Present Participle (a word formed from a verb and used as an adjective в русском языке причастие): The film is boring.

When we describe someone’s feelings, we use the Past Participle: We are tired.

Choose the correct word.

Mary looks boring/bored.
Lisa is so beautiful with her long blond hair. I’m so exciting/excited, I’m going to the cinema with her.
I hate this class. The last lecture was so disappointed/disappointing.
This book is interesting/interested. It’s about adventures.
This old house is so scaring/scared.

Тренировочные упражнения

Упражнение 1

Complete the sentences with the correct words: slim, ugly, in her forties, cute, scar, curly.

The Wicked Witch was so ......... So she scared me.
She is on a diet. She wants to be ........ .
My aunt looks like a teenager. But she is ........ .
My little sister is so ........ on this picture.
When I was a teenager, I had straight blond hair. Now I have dark ........ hair.
Last summer I fell from my bike and I have a small ........ on my leg.

Упражнение 2

Choose the correct word.

I am so interesting/interested in travelling to London.
His new book is so boring/bored. I didn’t like it.
All those sport activities were so tired/tiring. I need some rest.
I felt so exciting/excited when I met her.

Упражнение 3

Put the adjectives in the correct order.

1) My teacher is a(n) (Italian, kind, young) lady.

2) That’s Maria. The (funny, Spanish, young) girl from my yoga class.

3) Can you introduce me to that (tall, cute, English) girl.?

4) She is wearing that (Italian, beautiful) coat.

Упражнение 4

Make up sentences using a link verb and the words below:

Mr Martin: consultant, old, good, American
Lora: nurse, serious, middle-aged, Scottish
Andre: golf-player, French, handsome

Упражнение 5

Put the words in brackets in the correct form.

1) John was very ........ (tire) after the football match.

2) I was really ........ (bore) watching that film.

3) Helen is ........ (scare) of snakes.

4) Mum said she was really ........ (disappoint) in us.

Упражнение 6

Choose the correct answer.

John is the young boy with the curly/skinny blond hair.
Mum and Dad both have dark appearances/tans.
Claudia has a pretty face with the brown, wavy eyes/hair.
My baby sister has cute pigtails/beard.

Упражнение 7

Put the words into the correct group: blonde, short, tall, elderly, skinny, bald, pretty, cute, teenager, round, grey, middle-aged, dark tan, straight, fat, freckles, medium, height, young, slim, ugly, dark, old, scar, curly, beard, thin.

Build

Age

Hair

Height

Face

Special features

Упражнение 8

Read the dialog and mark the sentences after it as true or false.

Leny: Your school play was so exciting. Thank you for inviting me, Matt.

Matt: I’m glad you liked it. my classmates worked hard to stage “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.

Leny: Yeah, but I can’t tell who is who. I only remember their costumes.

Matt: OK. The short boy over there with the blond hair is Mike. He played the White Rabbit.

Leny: Oh, the one with the curly blonde hair. OK. So he was the White Rabbit.

Matt: And the boy next to the vending machine with the short brown hair played Cheshire Cat.

Leny: I see. And let me guess. That beautiful girl near the window played Alice?

Matt: Nope, her name is Sarah and she played the Dutchess. she had a huge costume.

Leny: Wow, she is so cute, can you introduce me to her?

Leny didn’t like the play.
Leny doesn’t remember the actors.
Mike played the Cheshire Cat.
Sarah is short and cute.
Sarah played the White Rabbit.

Контрольные задания

Вариант 1

Задание 1

Use the words in brackets to form words that fit the spaces.

That play was so ........ (bore). All people were in their phones. Nobody was watching.
Jane is always ........ (tire) after work.
Jack is ........ (scare) of spiders.
The movie was really ........ (interest).

Задание 2

Put the adjectives in the correct order to complete the phrases.

1) English / nice / middle-aged

a(n) ........ ........ ........ writer

2) Japanese / young /interesting

a(n) ........ ........ ........ student

3) famous / Russian /well-built

a ........ ........ ........ boxer

4) tall / French / easy-going

a(n) ........ ........ ........ actor

5) talented / teenage / Italian

a(n) ........ ........ ........ artist

Задание 3

Choose the correct word.

Mina is a beautiful young girl with the straight/fat dark hair.
Kenny and Lola are volleyball players. They are both very wavy/ tall.
Sally has beautiful deep blue ears/eyes.
Her grandfather is a lovely old man with grey/fat hair.

Вариант 2

Задание 1

Use the words in brackets to form words that fit the spaces.

She feels so ........ (stress) after that meeting.
This music is very ........ (relax). I like it.
I watched a ........ (frighten) horror movie today. I don’t want to stay home alone.
My teacher was ........ (shock) by my make up.

Задание 2

Put the adjectives in the correct order to complete the phrases.

1) German / old / beautiful

a(n) ........ ........ ........ clock

2) Tall / charming / Spanish

a ........ ........ ........ actress

3) short-haired / cute / Chinese

a ........ ........ ........ singer

4) old / brown / Japanese

a(n) ........ ........ ........ table

5) slim / French / old

a(n) ........ ........ ........ dress

Задание 3

Choose the correct word.

Carla is a well-known American model with the long straight/short blonde hair and blue eyes.
Jenny is a professional runner with a well-built/curly body.
Peter and Tom are brothers. But Peter has blonde/eyes hair and Tom is red-haired.
Her Mom is a beautiful woman in her shoulder-length/forties.