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HEART-SHAPED FACE
Softness at the temples and fullness just below ear level suits a heart-shaped face best. Avoid a centre
parting because it tends to emphasise your pointed chin.
SQUARE FACE
Fringes and curls flicked forward help to soften "corners". Cut your hair short at the temples. Avoid a
severe hair style.
ROUND FACE
The ideal hair length is just below chin level. Choose a straightish style with a centre parting. Avoid
fringes, curls or waves.
OVAL FACE
An oval face can take most hair styles well. However, do keep your age and personality in mind.
PEAR-SHAPED FACE
Give width to temples and keep hair off the forehead. Short hair looks best.
MAKING-UP
Quite possibly you have an imperfect skin or imperfect features. But do not despair. Make-up applied
well can do wonders for your appearance.
Perfect skin and perfect features are exceedingly rare. Most models in the glamorous beauty and fashion
magazines have in fact quite unremarkable faces. It is make-up that makes them look so eye-catching and
glamorous.
If, however, you are one of the rare and lucky ones to have a perfect skin and perfect features, remember
that good make-up can make you absolutely beautiful.
Everyday make-up should look completely natural. Its primary object should be to correct colour faults of
the complexion, disguise imperfections and accentuate good features.
When your skin is healthy and absolutely clean, make-up can, and should be kept light. Radiance, rather
than a pink and white prettiness, should be your aim.
Use less make-up all the time for a fresher and younger look. 
(Extract from "The Piper Book of Beauty" by Chodev)
I. Read the passage and say what you think of it.
II.
Choose advice which suit your type of face adding advice of your own if necessary.
WEATHER
Text I 
British Weather
"Other countries have a climate; in England we have weather." This statement, often made by
Englishmen to describe the special meteorological conditions of their country, is both typical of the English
and true. In no country other than England can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day!
Day may break as a mild spring morning; an hour or so later black clouds may have appeared from nowhere
and the rain may be pouring down. At midday conditions may be really wintry with the temperature down
by about fifteen degrees. And then, in the late afternoon, the sky will clear, the sun will begin to shine and
for an hour or two before darkness falls, it will be summer.
The problem is that we never can be sure which of the different types of weather we will find. Not only
do we get several different sorts of weather in one day, but we may very well get a spell of winter in summer
and vice versa. The foreigner may laugh when he sees the Englishman setting forth on a brilliantly sunny
morning wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella, but he may well regret his laughter later in the day!
And, of course, the weather's variety provides a constant topic of conversation, and you must be good at dis-
cussing the weather.
(Extract from "Modern English I for Teacher Students" by G. Graustein)
Text II 
British Climate
Britain has a generally mild and temperate climate. It lies in middle latitudes to the north-west west of the
great continental land mass of Eurasia, but the prevailing winds are south westerly. The climate is subject to
frequent changes but to few extremes of temperature. Although it is largely determined by that of the eastern
Atlantic, occasionally during the winter months easterly winds may bring a cold, dry, continental weather
which, once established, may persist for many days or even weeks.
In Britain, south-westerly winds are the most frequent, and those from an easterly quarter the least. Winds
are generally stronger in the north than in the south of the British Isles, stronger on the coasts than inland,
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