Describe_a_person.pptVIP

UNIT 6 Describing a Person Introduction  1. Try to describe your physical appearance. 2.What is the most important personality trait of a good boyfriend or girlfriend? Can you explain in details? How to describe a person? (P102) Physical appearance: face, facial expressions, body, clothes Personality: habit, interests, manners, tastes, actions Focus on one or two aspects of a person Produce an overall/dominant impression and your feeling about the person (key word in your topic sentence) How to describe a person? (P102) Ways of Organizing Focus on one quality/feature and depict it by using one or more anecdotes. Describe what the person is like: From appearance to personality Top to bottom / bottom to top Front to back / back to front Right to left / left to right Topic sentence Topic sentence: show the writer’s attitude or impression of the person 1. I’m going to describe Mr. Piper, my history professor. 2. I met a surprisingly handsome young man at the bus stop yesterday. 3. Dr. Smith is a typical middle-aged bachelor. Details Use specific and descriptive details She has long black hair that falls down to the shoulders and surrounds her attractive face, which is usually suntanned. She has dark brown eyebrows over her charming eyes. Her nose is as beautiful as you can imagine, and on the left side of the bottom of her nose, by her nostril, is a small mole. She has lovely mouth, and her teeth are straight and white. There is nothing but extraordinary beauty in her face. Exercise She has charming eyes. He was a gentle man. Her eyes were quick and bright; they were a yellowish brown, about the color of her hair. She had a way of turning them swiftly upon an object and holding them there as if lost in some inward maze of contemplation or thought. He wore glasses. He was of forty, of medium height and rather slender build; he stooped a little. His hair was brown and straight, parted on one side. His beard was neatly