Name: How to describe APPEARANCE in English
Uploaded: 2018-03-17T03:56:38.000Z
Duration: 14 min 56 s
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- Hello everyone, and welcome
back to English with Lucy.

Today, I've got a slightly
longer video lesson for you.

We're going to be
talking about vocabulary,

and more specifically, how to
describe people's appearances.

Now, this is a really,
really important topic.

It's normally one of the
first things that you learn

Normally, people are able to
describe basic appearances.

I want to teach you slightly
more advanced vocabulary

so that you can really give
an accurate description

If you find understanding
me slightly difficult,

you can switch on subtitles,
and so you'll be able to

see the words at the bottom of the screen.

Quickly, before we get started,
this video will help you

with your speaking and your
writing and your vocabulary.

It will also help you with your listening,

and your pronunciation to the next level,

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If you download books in
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with British accents.

So, firstly, we're going to
talk about people's bodies.

talking about height,
how tall somebody is.

So you might already
know these basic terms,

But what about if somebody
is a normal height?

Well, there are a couple of
ways that you can express this.

or feet and inches, you can say, "around".

So I would say I am around five foot six.

I'm actually five foot
five and a half, but

Other words that you can
include are very or quite.

So, he is very tall,
or she is quite short.

when describing somebody's
body type or their weight,

So firstly, I'm going to give
you some positive adjectives

to describe somebody's
weight, and then afterwards,

so that you can understand
when or when not to use them.

But, I will warn you, weight,
in the UK, especially,

it's often best not to
say anything at all.

But that's not my role here,
I'm teaching you words.

These are generally considered
to be negative words.

So let's talk about some
positive alternatives.

For thin, you can describe
somebody as slender or slim.

If somebody called me slender
or slim, I'd be flattered.

It's a positive word, because
it means they're in shape.

They're muscly, there's no
fat on them, they're lean.

You can also call
somebody petite, and this

who have small shoulders,
they're quite short.

If somebody is very thin,
you can call them slight.

This means that somebody
is tall and very thin.

If somebody has got a bit of meat on them,

you don't want to call them
fat, but some nice words

you can use are curvy, this
means that women have curves.

Curvaceous, as well, womanly, voluptuous,

They're normally flattering
when used in a non-creepy way.