Models for your discriptions

Donna

Well, she’s quite a lively, talkative person in her …in her late teens. She is fairly tall with a….a good figure. She’s got a heart-shaped face with a small, sort of turned nose. It’s very attractive really. She’s got long, black wavy hair and er... blue eyes with very long eyelashes. Her complexion is... well, she's olive-skinned. Her lips are very full... and she's got dimples … dimples in her cheeks.

Colin

He's a very big guy, you know, well-built with very broad shoulders. Not fat, really, really... just well-built. He's in his early thirties. He's got a long face with thin lips. Oh, and a small scar on his chin. He's got very short, fair hair but with long sideburns and a moustache. Eyes... I haven't really noticed the colour, he wears glasses. He's got thick eyebrows and a kind of a long, straight nose. He's fairly reserved, thoughtful, sometimes even moody.

Janet

She's sophisticated. Well-dressed, expensive hairstyle and so on. I'd say she was in her late thirties or early forties, but she looks younger. She's about average height and very slim. Her hair's very blonde, dyed, I think, but I'm not sure about that. It's always very neat, not long. She's got pale grey eyes with thin eyebrows. Her face is always sunburnt and very well made up. It's an attractive face... not really beautiful, but very attractive, you know what I mean. High cheekbones, small chin... oh and yes, there's a beauty spot on her left cheek. She's a very calm and reliable sort of person, very sociable and always very, very polite.

Robert

Robert's a wonderful person really. He's elderly but not old... still very lively and amusing. He's probably in his early seventies. He's got white hair, receding a bit, and a small white beard. He's medium build, a little overweight perhaps. He's got very nice, large, brown eyes and he always seems to be smiling... lots of wrinkles round the eyes, laughter lines I think you can call them. He's got a very high, lined forehead which makes him look very intelligent, which he is, of course.

1. Jack is my cousin. He is a nine-year-old boy. He likes noisy games and his teacher says he can't behave in class. Sometimes even his mother can't manage him. He is lazy about doing his homework and he sometimes lies. In spite of all his faults everybody likes him.

2. This man is always complaining about everything around. It gets on my nerves. He is a real bore and has't got any sense of humour at all. If you spend more than five minutes with him you just want to sleep.

3. Jane is a practical young woman. She is good at housekeeping. She is an excellent cook and is happy to do housework. Jane is a sociable person and makes friends easily. She is a very good companion.

4. Betty is a pretty girl, very graceful and quick. Her home environment is a permissive one. She is free to go out with boys, to go to movies, to dances, etc. She is never punished, and she isn't afraid of her parents like some of the girls are. In summary, Betty is mature for her age physically, emotionally, intellectually. She is self-confident and unusually secure in her social relations.

5. Daniel is rather a colourless boy, both in appearance and personality. He is of average height, neither handsome nor attractive. There is nothing about his behaviour, either negative or positive, that serves to differentiate him to a casual observer. He is shy and passive. He is an insignificant member of the school group.

6. My neighbour is a man of 40, not good-looking and not yet ugly. He is nearly bald and the hair that remains is reddish. His eyes are small, blue or grey. He looks commonplace. He is just a good, dull, honest, plain man, a pretty bore. One can admire his quality but avoid his company.

7. She is attractive. She has got lovely hair but the trouble is she knows it as well. She thinks she is the greatest. She always thinks she is the best at everything. All she ever thinks about is herself. She can't stand criticism of herself.

8. He saw a tall, handsome woman dressed with careful and expensive informality in a black cashmere sweater with a silk scarf at the throat and fawn trousers... It was a distinguished face with deep-set eyes beneath straight brows, a well-shaped, rather secretive mouth and strong, greying hair swept upwards and curled into a chignon.

Note: chignon — a type of hairstyle popular with older women. The hair is twisted into a kind of knot at the back of the head.

9. She wore a pale blue sweater and a gray flannel skirt, schoolgirl's clothes, which made her seem younger than her age. She was about twenty-five. Her face was framed by thick hair, in a colour midway between blonde and brown, and held back by a black velvet band. The skin was fine and she had large, rather beautiful dark blue eyes, with long colourless lashes.

10. Temple was a small stocky man in his early forties. His jaw line had long ago disappeared into one of his chins. His pepper and salt hair was cut short with a parting in the middle and he had a dark bushy drooping moustache that grew well over his top lip. His nose was small, almost snub, and his eyes were pale.

Note: pepper and salt hair — hair which has both black and gray mixed in it.

Grammar (Грамматика)

 

 

Lesson 6

Rule 1. The Possessive case of nouns