Topical vocabulary. Figure: tall, short, middle-sized; stout, thin, slim; straight, stooping

People's Appearance

Figure: tall, short, middle-sized; stout, thin, slim; straight, stooping

Face: thin, plump, fat; oval, round, square; beautiful, handsome, good-looking; lovely, pretty, attractive; common, plain, ugly

Complexion: rosy, pale; fresh, dark, fair

Eyes: blue, brown, hazel, dark, grey; deep-set, close-set, wide-set

(Eye-)lashes: long, short, curving, straight

(Eye-)brows: straight, arched, pencilled, bushy

Forehead: broad, narrow; low, high

Nose: straight, hooked, turned up, snub (bed)

Mouth: large, small, tiny, red.

Lips: thin, full, thick

Hair: long, short; curly, straight; red, brown, dark, fair, grey, chestnut, golden; thick; to wear one's hair long, short; to wear a beard, a moustache

Arms and legs: long, short; shapely, small

to gain (lose) weight; to keep fit

Exercises

I. a) The material below is to be prepared for reading. Mark the stresses and tunes. Concentrate your attention on the sounds. b) Let your fellow-student read the exercise aloud for you to detect his errors in sounds and tell him what must be done to eliminate them:

[Î] 1. To know everything is to know nothing.

2. A good beginning makes a good ending.

3. Better die standing than live kneeling.

4. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

5. Spades for digging, pens for writing.

Ears for hearing, teeth for biting.

Eyes for seeing, legs for walking.

Tongues for tasting and for talking.

II. Before you start working at the text practise the sounds in the following word combinations:

A. 1. [@v] -a sense of humour, the master of the house; a man of fifty; the story of Uncle George.

2. Loss of aspiration: master, story, steady, strong.

3. Loss of plosion: silk Ù dress, Emily married Ù Tom, he had Ù gone to sea, wanted Ù to return, I'd Ù take it.

B. 1. [з:] - certainly, fair and curly, a dozen girls.

2. No glottal stop: quite Ù easy, her mother Ù either, an Ù oval face, with Ù even teeth.

III. a) Listen to the recording of the text "Home". Mark the stresses and tunes. b) Practise the text for test reading. Listen to the recording very carefully until you can say it in exactly the same way.

IV. a) Listen to the recording of the dialogue. Mark the stresses and tunes. b) Practise the dialogue for test reading. Listen to the recording very carefully until you can say it in exactly the same way. c) Memorize the dialogue and dramatize it.

V. Form adjectives from the following nouns adding the suffixes -less, -ous: