Unit 3- Lesson 4- I’m pretty, she is not.

This lesson talks about opposites. An opposite is something contrary to one another or to a thing specified. We have them all around us. You can notice tall people and short people. You can be happy or sad and those are opposites, too. If you watch a movie that you like, you are interested and if you are watching television in a channel you don’t like, you will feel bored.
All of these are opposites.
And we use opposites to describe people, places, animals and/or things. This is the second part of the lesson. So please read the following information which talks about physical characteristics.

“Examples of Physical Characteristics

Physical characteristics can include a variety of things. Hairstyles and facial features play a big role, but aren’t the main ones. Physical characteristics are what you see with the naked eye. They include anything you can describe about a person or group of people.

Physical Characteristics: What You Notice First

Physical characteristics are defining traits or features about your body.

The first thing you see when you look at someone could be their hair, clothes, nose, or figure. These are all examples of physical characteristics. To get good examples of physical characteristics you should look at a person’s face, how tall they are, and what they are wearing.

There are many ways to describe a person’s appearance. Here is a list of some of the most common words used to describe someone.

Build Characteristics	Height Characteristics	Complexion Characteristics	Hair Characteristics
Plump	Short	Dark	Blond
Stocky	Tall	Light	Fair
Overweight	Petite	Fair	Red
Fat	Average height	Pale	Brown
Slim		Tan	Black
Trim		Freckles	Grey
Skinny		Spots	White
Well built		Pimples	Long
			Short
			Curly

 

Improving Your Physical Characteristics

Your physical characteristics can help the way that you are treated. While many physical characteristics can’t be changed, you can improve your physical characteristics to look better.

Small things that you can do can change a person’s idea about you:
By making sure you showered and wear  clean clothes, you can show others you’re a little bit classier.
Even just a smile can show you’re friendly.
Not all characteristics can or should be improved. There are certain physical characteristics that you are born with.

You can tell that the vocabulary that you have to describe someone is a lot. You don’t have to memorize all of them, but try to practice. Soon you will see yourself using them all the time, without any problems at all.

Taken and modified from http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-physical-characteristics.html

Unit 3- lesson 3- He has green eyes.

One of the many ways that any language has to talk about something or someone  are descriptions. And something we describe often are people. There are thin people, tall people, short people, people with long hair, short hair and so on.

And to describe a persona, we need to know the use of two main verbs used for describing: Be and Have.

If you keep reading you will find some information relating to describing people. This information can be found in  http://www.vocabulary.cl/Lists/Physical_Descriptions.htm so if you want to learn more, go ahead and visit that website.

Physical Descriptions

English Vocabulary

The language for physical descriptions in English is quite specific depending on the physical characteristic you are describing.

When giving physical descriptions, the two most common verbs to use are BE and HAVE, however, they are quite specific.

We use BE for: height, weight, skin colour.

We use HAVE for: hair (length), hair (style), hair (colour) and facial features.

 

Height

Short – Medium height – Tall

Weight

Skinny – Thin – Slim – Medium weight – chubby – fat – overweight – obese

Skin Colour

Fair-skinned – Tanned – Dark-skinned

Hair (Length)

Short – Medium length – Long

Hair (Style)

Straight – Wavy – Curly

Facial Features

Beard – Black Eye – Moustache – Pimples

Other Features

Mole – Scar – Wart – Wrinkles

Examples:

Chris is medium height.

Tanya has blonde hair.

Albert is overweight.

Donna has curly hair and is tanned.

Patrick has a long beard and he also has a black eye right now.

Tony is tall and has medium length hair.

 

If you want to combine hair characteristics together in the same sentence, then the structure is:

Length + Style + Color + Hair

Michael has short curly black hair.

Mary has long wavy brown hair

These words will help you increase your english vocabulary. If you want to learn more, you can visit this site:

http://www.vocabulary.cl/Lists/Physical_Descriptions.htm

Unit 3- lesson 2- A new skirt.

The determined and undetermined article is one of the most basic concepts in the English language. It is quite simple, but not of less importance than the rest of the topics.

Check out this brief explanation about determined and undetermined article so that you can work in this lesson with ease.

“A Historic or an Historic

While we’re talking about different pronunciations, let’s talk about a historic. Some Americans argue that it should be an historic, but I come down firmly on the side that says it should be a historic event. One of the most contentious interactions I had at a book signing was over this point.

Here’s my reasoning: If you have an odd accent for an American and pronounce historic as “istoric,” you can make an argument for writing an historic, but it’s a stretch since the standard American pronunciation of historic is with the h-sound: “historic.” So even if you pronounce it “istoric,” most of your readers won’t.

If you’re feeling argumentative about this point, I’ll direct you to Bill Walsh’s website, The Slot, which has an exhaustive review of how different style guides deal with historic. But you should know that after reviewing many style guides, he also stands behind a historic being the correct choice.

 

Definite and Indefinite Articles

A and an are called indefinite articles. The is called a definite article. The difference is that a and an don’t say anything special about the words that follow. For example, think about the sentence, “I need a horse.” You’ll take any horse—just a horse will do. But if you say, “I need the horse,” then you want a specific horse. That’s why the is called a definite article—you want something definite. At least that’s how I remember the names.”

This information is part of an article published at http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/a-versus-an.aspx

You can view the link and find out more about definite and indefinite article. Like many of the topics in English language, it is important to practice as much as you can.

Unit 3- lesson 1- That blouse!

In this lesson you are going to learn about the use of this, that, these and those. To help you have a good idea about what the lesson is about, we provide the following short explanation.
Please pay attention. This video will certainly help you with this topic.

Now that you have an idea about using this and that, go ahead and aswer the questions.