DESCRIBING PHYSICAL

APPEARANCE

INSTITUTO DE IDIOMAS
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1 HEIGHT
Ana is tall.

Brenda is of medium/average height.

Carmen is short.

How tall are you?

Ana Brenda Carmen • Ana is 1.85 m tall.
How tall is he/she?
• Brenda is 1.70 m tall.
• Carmen is 1.59 m tall.
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2 WEIGHT

thin slim well-built plump chubby overweight

athletic fat
muscular
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3 AGE

young middle-aged old

in his/her early/mid/late teens

twenties
thirties
forties, etc.

Paula is in her forties. Jose is in his eighties.

(40-49) (80-89)
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4 HAIR

long shoulder-length short

straight wavy curly

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4 HAIR

red brown blond(e)

black grey (Br) white dark fair

gray (Am)
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4 HAIR

dyed spiky a receding hairline

a shaved head dreadlocks bald

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5 EYES

hazel (it combines brown/gold or green)

brown

green blue

amber (with a yellow-copper tint) violet

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6 LIPS

thin full
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4 HAIR
a bun
pigtails
a plait (Br)
a braid (Am)
• Ana is wearing her hair in a ponytail.
• Ana is wearing her hair in plaits.

• Ana wears her hair in a ponytail.

• Ana wears her hair in plaits.

a ponytail
plaits (Br)
braids (Am)
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7 OTHER

a beard a mustache (Am) a beauty mark

a moustache (Br) a beauty spot

wrinkles freckles dimples

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7 OTHER
hearing-impaired
visually impaired (with a hearing aid)

a deaf-mute girl with

blind deaf-mute a cochlear implant
 What does he/she look like?

Erick is tall, overweight and young.

He has short, straight blond hair,
brown eyes and thin lips.

Helen

This is Helen. She’s tall, slim and

middle-aged with shoulder-length
brown hair, dark eyes and thin lips.
Erick
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Erick is of medium height, well-

built and young.
He has short, straight blond hair,
blue eyes and full lips.

Paul

Mike
This is Paul. He’s short and thin.
He’s in his early twenties. He has
short wavy brown hair, green eyes
and thin lips.
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