3rd graders, Unit 2: Physical Descriptions

To describe a person we use the “verb to be: IS” and “the verb to have: HAS”

1. Difference between IS/HAS:

We use IS mainly to talk about general aspects (nationality, job or profession, age, feelings, personality), height and weight. EX: he is American, he is an actor, he is 23 years old, he is happy and very active and he is handsome. He is tall and He is slim.

We use HAS to talk about specific things (body parts or face). EX: he has beautiful big brown eyes, he has long, curly blond hair, etc.

2. Order of your presentation:
First general aspects, using IS
Second specific detail, using HAS

3. To describe someone we need adjectives: tall, fat, thin, short, small, beautiful, etc..

OPINION	SIZE	SHAPE	COLOR	BODY PART
adorable beautiful nice cute horrible clean elegant fancy glamorous handsome magnificent old-fashioned ugly	big short small tall colossal fat gigantic great huge immense large little miniature petite	broad round oval circular square curved deep flat high low narrow round skinny square steep straight wide.	red orange yellow green blue purple gray black white	Hair Eyes Lips Eyelashes Eyebrows Chin Nose Mouth Ears Head Neck Etc…

Order of adjectives
opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origen-material-purpose.

Example: she has adorable, big, round, green eyes

4. Talking about feelings
Describe if the person is happy-sad-tired-thirsty...etc...

Evaluating chart: general things, height, weight, personality and feelings, extra information, ears, nose, eyes, mouth, hair, lips, neck, eyebrows, eyelashes.

Name

G

H

W

F/P

EX

E

N

E

M

H

L

N

EB

EL

EX

T

EV