Unit I. Appearance and character grammar: complex object. Adverbial clauses of time

Ex. 22. Answer the questions.

1. 
   Are there any universal emotions?
   
2. 
   What emotion is expressed differently in two different cultures according to the text? What other examples can you give?
   
3. 
   How can people give other people the opposite impression of the feeling they are really trying to express?
   
4. 
   Which particular feeling is the most difficult to recognise?
   
5. 
   In what situations do you show your emotions and when do you try to conceal them?
   

DESCRIBING PEOPLE’S APPEARANCE


Positive: beautiful is generally used to describe women, handsome is used to describe men; good-looking is used for both; pretty is another positive word to describe a woman (often a girl) meaning ‘attractive and nice to look at ‘
Negative: ugly is the most negative word to describe someone; plain is more polite.
Note: Another word for slim is thin, but slim has a more positive meaning, e. g. John is lovely and slim, but his brother is terribly thin. Skinny also has the same meaning but is very negative. It is not very polite to say someone is fat; overweight is more neutral and polite. A sporty person can offen be described as muscular.
tall slim

h eight medium height build medium build

short fat

When you want somebody to describe the appearance of someone you have never seen you ask: What does he(she) look like?

hair hair

straight wavy curly long short shoulder-length


hair


fair dark red grey