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Appearance

I.V.Kritskaya

I. What does Me mean to me?

It’s fun to watch myself in a mirror. A mirror shows me what I look like. A mirror helps me learn about myself. It’s fun to play in front of a mirror. I can make up a poem about that.

In the mirror I can see

A copycat who plays with me.

I wrinkle my nose and he does, too.

His mouth gets round when I say, “ !”

I waggle my tongue like this and that.

And so does he, that copycat.

He has my teeth, me ears, my eyes,

And everything is just my size.

Who is that copycat I see?

That copycat I see is me!

Wrinkle – [rikl] – n, морщина

Waggle – [wægl] – v, разг., вилять, махать (хвостом)

To get round – надуть

Read and study these words:

figure face nose

well-made oval pointed

graceful square straight

perfect round snub

slight thin fleshy

fat freckled turned-up

well-fed

hair eyes eyebrows

long hazel straight

short pale bushy

grey hazel-eyed arched

chestnut bulging pencilled

wide-set

close-set

mouth chin cheeks

firm double- with dimples

large pointed stubby

strong-willed decided pale

stern rosy

clean-shaven

Ex.4. Give Russian equivalents to the following a) graceful figure, b) bushy eyebrows, c) oval face, d) fleshy nose, e) expressive eyes, f) sweet smile, g) broad shoulders, i) ash-blond hair, j) perfect teeth, k) freckled face, l) hazel-eyed, m) a long chestnut hair, n) pointed chin, o) stern mouth.

Ex.5. Make up sentences using this model:

Model: He (She) is/was … She was a tall lady with dark hair and blue eyes.

He (She) has/had … He had a firm mouth.

Ex. 6. Fill in the blanks with the words given in brackets.

1. Alice is thirteen years old. She is tall for her … . Her hair is … and … . Her eyes are … and her cheeks are … , she has a … mouth and pretty … teeth. But she has a … nose and she does not like it.

(white, turned-up, rosy, soft, fair, age, grey, small)

2. The girl was between nine and ten years old. She had … legs and … arms, two … pig-tails, a freckled … that turned-up and eyes that were almost green and almost brown.

(yellow, long, nose)

3. Near the park I saw a man on horseback. I saw at once that he was a stranger. He was very tall, dressed in rich clothes, with a gold chain hanging about his … and seemed to be about forty years old. His face was … and … , the eyes were … and …, the mouth was small with a cruel … on it, the forehead … and marked with a scar. The man’s complexion was … , his hair like my own was … . He had a beard and moustache.

(wavy, dark, long, thin, large, shining, smile, neck, high, black)

Ex.7. Read and translate the passages.

A.

The colonel is a fine-looking man. His hair is white. So is his moustache. His face is cleanly shaven showing a bronzed complexion. The expression of his face is kind though firm.

The colonel has three sons. Basil, the eldest of the boys, is seventeen years of age. He is a fine-looking lad though not handsome. He looks very brave and strong. His hair is straight and black. He is, in fact, the son of his father.

How very unlike him is Lucien, the second of age. Lucien is delicate, with a light complexion and very fair hair. He is more like what his mother was, for she was a blonde. The colonel’s youngest son is a quick-witted, curly-haired boy – cheerful at all times.

B.

Among the passengers there were two who interested me very much. One, a man of about thirty, was one of the tallest men I ever saw. He had yellow hair, a thick yellow beard, a handsome face and large eyes. His face made me think of someone I had seen before but at the time I could not remember who it was. The big man’s name was Sir Haggard.

The other man was short, stout and dark. He was always very neat and clean-shaven, he always wore an eye-glass in his right eye, and he never took it out. At first I thought he even slept in it, but afterwards found that this was not so. He put it in his trousers pocket when he went to bed, together with his false teeth, of which he had two beautiful sets. (H.R.Haggard)

C.

Cedric was not tall, but broad-shouldered, long-armed and powerfully-made. His face was broad with large blue eyes, open and frank features, fine teeth and a well-formed head. He was frank but of a nasty temper. There was pride and jealousy in his eyes, for his life had been spent in maintaining his rights. His long yellow hair was not very grey, although he was almost sixty. (W.Scott)

Ex.8. Answer the following questions:

1. What colour of eyes do you like most? 2. What is the difference between a near-sighted person and a far-sighted one? 3. How do you wear your hair? 4. What can happen to a person’s voice if he shouts too loudly or too long? 5. What complexion do blond people usually have? 6. With which fingers do we hold a pen or a pencil? 7. What happens to a child’s milk teeth? 8. How does hard manual work affect people’s hands? 9. What do we call people who lost their hair? 10. To what part of the ear are earrings attached? 11. What does a person deserving to be called well-preserved look like? 12. When do men’s cheeks become stubbly? 13. What is the difference between a sunburnt and a swarthy face? 14. What kind of gait do old people often have?

Ex.9. There was a bank robbery in Western London. Suppose you are a witness to this crime and help the Police to identify the robber. Use the following key words and phrases to describe him.

1. Age: elderly, middle-aged, young, under 30, past 40 … 2. Height: tall, short, over 5 feet 6 inches, of middle height … 3. Build: slim, stout, thick neck, broad-shouldered … 4. Face: long, round, thin, wrinkled, oval … 5. Hair: long, straight, curly, blond, bald-headed, bobbed … 6. Eyes: close-set, dark-eyed, bulging, small … 7. Nose: straight, hooked, blunt … 8. Ears: stick out … 9. Distinctive marks: freckles, hunchback, a mole on his right cheek, beard, moustache …s: freckles, hunchback, a mole on his right cheek, beard, moustache …

Ex.10. Listen to the dialogue and try to understand it. Dramatize the dialogue.

Dialogue 1

If you are not too busy, come one evening and have dinner with us. I’ll introduce you to all.

• Is your family large?

• Yes, our family is quite a big one. There are five of us. I have two sisters and three brothers.

• Are your sisters as pretty as you are?

• Oh, they are both prettier than I am. Ruth is the prettiest girl I know. They both have long fair hair, but Ruth’s hair is longer and fairer than Margaret’s. Margaret is father that Ruth. She doesn’t like you to say she is fat; and we tell her she will get thinner when she gets older.

• Tell me about the others in your family.

• Well, the youngest and the smallest one is Fred; he is the baby of the family. He is only four. Then there are Hans and Peter, the twins. They are exactly as tall as each other, and they are so much alive that people can hardly tell one from the other.

Dialogue 2

• You are sure to know Mr. Green. John is his son. In fact, John is a younger edition of his father; he resembles his father greatly. Do you happen to know Mr. Green’s daughter, Mabel?

• I’m afraid not. Is she pretty?

• She is far from pretty, but she looks very attractive. It’s her eyes. They are brown, with a straight and eager glance. She has dark fine hair and a pale expressive face. Will you be present at Ruth’s wedding tonight?

• By all means. I have already received an invitation card.

• You’ll have a chance to get acquainted with them all.

• Oh, how nice!

Dialogue 3

• The face of that man is familiar to me. I seem to know him.

• Who exactly?

• That tall man of fourty-four, perhaps, with coarse features.

• That one who has very red hair with a bald patch on the crown?

• No.

• Is it the man in uniform with a tooth-brush moustache?

• Wrong again! Look to the right at the man of your size in a brown suit with broad shoulders. He has a very uncommon face.

• Do you mean the stout gentleman with a fleshy and pale face touched with colour only at the thick hanging lobes of his ears? The one who has just broken out into laughter?

• Just that very man! Don’t you find there’s something about him that makes him look sleepy?

• It is his heavy-lidded eyes and the disorder of his scanty hair.

Dialogue 4

• Whom does a young man fall in love with?

• With the Only Girl in the World.

• Describe the Only Girl in the World.

• Her eyes are like stars, her teeth are like pearls, her lips are ruby, her cheeks are damask, her form is divine.

• Have you forgotten something?

• Eyes, teeth, lips, cheeks, form – no, sir. I don’t think so.

• Her hair?

• Oh, certainly. How stupid of me. She has hair like spun gold.

• Very good. Now, will you describe the Only Man?

• He is a blond Viking, a he-man and a square shooter who plays the game. There is something fine about him that rings true, and he has kept himself pure and clean so that when he meets the girl of his choice, the future mother of his children, he can look her in the eye.

• Are all the Only Men blond Vikings?

• Oh, no! Some of them are dark, handsome chaps who have sown their wild oats. This sort of Only Man has a way with a maid, and there is a devil in his eye. But he is not a cad; he would not play fast and loose with and Only Girl’s affections. He has a heart of gold. He is diamond in the rough. He tells the Only Girl frankly about his past. She understands – and forgives.

• And marries him?

• And marries him.

• Why?

• To reform him.

• Does she reform him?

• Seldom, if ever.

Ex.11. Describe the members of your family.

Ex.12. Read and translate the text:

Henry Brown has a wiry, well-trained, elastic figure, a stiff military throw-black of his head, and a springing step, which makes him appear much younger than he is. His eldest daughter looks almost as old as himself, and betrayed the fact that his real is more that his apparent age.

Ann Brown must have been forty; she has a sickly, pained, careworn expression on her face, and looks as if the gaiety of youth has long faded out of sight. Even when young she must have been plain and hard-featured. Miss Jessie Brown is ten years younger that her sister, and twenty shades prettier. Her face is round and dimpled. Miss Jenkyns once said, in a passion against Captain Brown that she thought it was time for Miss Jessie to leave off her dimples, and not always to be trying to look like a child. It is true there is something child like in her face; and there will be, I think, till she dies, though, she should live to a hundred. Her eyes are large blue wondering eyes, looking straight at you; her nose is unformed and snub, and her lips are red and dewy; she wore her hair, too, in little rows of curls, which heightened this appearance. I do not know whether she is pretty or not; but I like her face, and so do everybody, and I do not think she could help her dimples. She has something of her father’s jauntiness of gait and manner, and any female observer might defect a slight difference in the attire of the two sisters – that of Miss Jessie being about two pounds per annum more expensive that Miss Brown’s. Two pounds are a large sum in Captain Brown’s annual disbursements.