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II. Work in pairs. Look at the list below and using the given information about the Roycrofts ask your
partner the following questions:
1. When was he/she born?
>Use:
to be born
in the forties
in the mid(dle) forties
some time during the forties
2. Approximately how old is he/she now?
>Use:
to be
in one's early/late teens
in one's mid(dle) thirties
in one's early/late forties
under forty
over forty
The Roycroft family:
Alice - 1930/1933 Monica - 1981/1982 Nick - 1965/1967 Fred - 1950/1952 Anthony - 1988/1989 Mark -
1922/1925 Liza - 1955/1956 Lucy - 1947/1949 ill - 1975/1976
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Pattern:
— When was Alice Roycroft born?
— She was born in the thirties.
— Approximately how old is she now?
— She must be in her late sixties.
Exercise 14
I. Judging by the description below say if a person looks his or her age.
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Pattern:
He looks his age.
He looks old for his age.
He does not look old for his age.
He looks young (too young for his age).
1. Brenda's father is only forty but he is bald and rather stout.
2. Though retired John travels a lot and goes in for lawn tennis. He is grey-haired but looking at him and
being aware of his life-style you'll never say he is in his late sixties.
3. Jack's wife was fat and stooping. She walked tottering and used a stick. You couldn't believe that she
was just in her early fifties.
4. Nora is tall and slender and very attractive. Her good looks appealed to me as soon as I saw her. Is she
really in her mid fifties?
5. My brother has grown thinner and his illness took some colour off his cheeks, his hair is touched with
grey at the temples and it makes him look older.
6. I bumped into my old friend yesterday when walking in the park. These seven years have brought
favourable changes in him. Though he is over fifty he looks as if he were forty five.
II. Write a couple of similar paragraphs and let your partner decide if a person looks his or her age.
Exercise 15
Pick out the necessary words and word-combinations which you would choose to describe people in the
pictures below.
1) good-looking/plain/attractive/handsome/ugly/beautiful;
2) to be of medium height/tall/short;
3) slim/slender/stout/plump/fat/stooping/narrow-shouldered /broad-shouldered/long-armed/long-legged;
3) round/oval/pale/red/sallow/pretty/fireckled face;
4) close-set/deep-set/slanting eyes;
5) upturned/fleshy/hooked/aquiline/straight nose;
6) finely-curved/thin/full/plump lips;
7) pointed/round/double/square chin;
8) grey/thin/wavy/curly/straight/short/long hair:
9) wear one's hair combed back/in plaits/done in a knot/ parted in the middle/on the right/left side.