Vocabulary: A new model

VDescribing people

1Match the sentence halves. 

Twenty years ago, Dad had long hair

I was a bit overweight, so

My sister's got lots of freckles

I was blonde when I was little

Jake is medium height –

I'm not fat or thin –

Naturally, my sister's got brown hair,

We went on holiday to Spain and

• but now he's bald.
• I'm medium weight.
• but now I've got brown hair.
• but now she's got dyed hair – it's black.
• we all came back tanned.
• I started to exercise more.
• on her nose.
• he's about 175cm tall.

 VDescribing people

2Which word in each group is the odd one out? 

• 1medium heightoverweightmedium weightthin

• 2dyedblondetannedbald

• 3moustachebeardbaldglasses

• 4thinfrecklesmedium weightoverweight

Vinsightlike

3Study the information about brother and sister, Andy and Jen. Then complete the sentences using the correct forms of be like, look like or like. 

	Andy	Jen
Personality	friendly lazy	friendly hard-working
Appearance	tall thin blonde, curly hair freckles	short medium weight dark, curly hair tanned
Hobbies	sport – playing and watching football, playing tennis and basketball, cycling art – painting	music – singing, acting and dancing art – painting cycling not into sport

• 1In some ways, they  each other in personality. For example, they are both friendly.

• 2But in other ways they  each other: Andy is lazy and Jen is hard-working.

• 3Andy  Jen. He's tall and she's short, he's thin and she's medium weight.

• 4Andy and Jen  art, especially painting.

• 5Jen  football, but Andy  it.

VMaterials

4Put the materials next to the clues. Use the words in the box. 

MOVE
• leather
• marble
• metal
• plastic
• wood

• 1It's found in the ground. We use it to make plates and bowls. 

• clay

• 2Michelangelo, the famous Italian sculptor, used this to make his statues.  

• 3Knives, forks and spoons are made from this.  

• 4This is made from chemicals. It can be soft or hard. It is used for children's toys, bags, cups and computers.  

• 5Shoes and boots are usually made from this. It comes from animals.  

• 6This is a natural material. We get it from trees. People make furniture with it.  

VMaterials

5Choose the correct words to complete the text. 

Look through the 

¹glassmarble

 

window of any clothes shop and you will see a model which 

²likeslooks like

 

a person wearing the latest fashions. It's a mannequin of course and some mannequins are very realistic. They have hair and their faces have eyes, noses and mouths - some even have 

³frecklesblonde.

 

Other mannequins don't have details on their faces and they are often 

⁴baldmedium,

 

with no hair at all.

Today mannequins are usually made of fibreglass - a mixture of glass and plastic. But in the mid-1800s, they were often made of 

⁵stonewax

 

– which was a problem when they got hot under lights because they changed shape and melted! They didn't 

⁶likelook like

 

people then!

6  Write a short description of the sculpture and the models in it. Use the questions to help you plan your description.

• What material do you think the sculpture is made of?
• Who are the models and what are they doing?
• Do you like the models? Why / why not?

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