Describing People's Appearance in English - Visual Vocabulary Lesson

In this new visual vocabulary lesson, get useful phrases for describing people's appearance in English. You'll see a variety of words and phrases, with images, which you can use when describing appearance of people you know in clear, accurate English.
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Contents:
1. Describing Bodies 0:34
2. Describing Faces 3:11
3. Describing Hair 5:31
This lesson will help you:
- Understand which adjectives you can use to describe bodies when talking about people's appearance.
- Learn how to describe faces when describing people's appearance.
- Get useful vocabulary for features like skin, shape, size, and more.
- See how you can talk about hair when describing people's appearance.
- Understand ways to describe hair length, style, color, and more.
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[@Oxfordonlineenglish1]

Thanks for watching the lesson and sharing your response, Yan! Here are a few suggestions for you: 1) '...stylish hair,' not, 'stylished.' 2) 'shape,' not, 'shap.' 3) You might have meant, 'at the top of her high forehead,' or, 'in the middle of her high forehead,' rather than, 'in front of.' Hope this helps you!

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Hello my name is Veha. Today I’m going to talk about my friend. His name is Rathanak. He is 17 years old. He is quite tall. He has black short hair. He is very skinny. He chiseled features with high cheekbones . He has freckles on his cheek and nose. I want to talk about him a lot but now I’m busy. Thank for reading my paragraph and don’t forget to correct my writing.

[@Oxfordonlineenglish1]

Thanks for sharing, Veha! Nicely written response. Here are a few suggestions for you: 1) 'He has short black hair,' not, 'He has black short hair'. 2) 'He has chiseled features with high cheekbones,' not, 'He chiseled features with high cheekbones'. Hope this helps you!

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Thank you very much for this useful vocabulary. This is a passage to describe my friend. My friend is Jack, he is 19 approximately 19 years old. He has a curly black hair. His hair is shaved at the back and the two side, and swept to one side on left side. He has well-definded face looking. He has a faint winkle at his forehead as well as his cheek. When he smiles, he creates dimple which looks so lovely. He used to have a gut. However, as far as I know, he has been maintaining his healthy daily activities from eating, taking physical exercise and call it a day early. Recently, he owns himself muscular physique

[@Oxfordonlineenglish1]

Hi Vinh. Thank you for watching and sharing your response. Here are some corrections for you: 1) 'He has curly black hair,' not, 'He has a curly black hair.' 2) '...the two sides,' not, '...the two side.' 3) 'He has a well-defined face,' not, 'He has well-definded face looking.' Hope this is useful for you!

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Part - I My brother Jane is well-built with broad shoulders, and my friend John is muscular . My sister is in good shape ( fit), not thin and skinny. She is also slim. My uncle has a big gut ( big belly) but he do not like people who said that he is fat. Part-II My brother has faint wrinkles in his eyebrow but not freckles on his face. He also has dimples on his cheeks when he smiles. My uncle has double chin because he is fat. His fascial feature is round .My younger brother is stocky built and has chiselled features with high cheekbones. Part-III My uncle has a goatee. It is going grey and his head is going bald. Sometimes, His face went bright red when he tell a lie somebody. My sister has curly black hair. it is shoulder length, not straight.

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Thanks for sharing these great responses! Here are some corrections for you: 1) '...but he does not like it when people say he is fat,' not, '...but he do not like people who said that he is fat.'. 2) '...wrinkles near his eyebrows...' not, '...wrinkles in his eyebrow'. 3) 'My uncle has a double chin,' not, 'My uncle has double chin' Hope this helps you!

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Thank you for these video! My best friend has a well-built. She´s in good shape. She has a long face and long blond hair.

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Nice response, Margarete. Here are a few suggestions for you: 1) '...this video...' or, '...these videos...' not, 'these.' 2) 'My best friend is well-built,' not, 'has.' 3) Use the apostrophe here: 'She's in good...' not, 'She`s in...' Hope this helps you!

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Thank you very much for this lesson which is very helpful. I have three questions: Q1 if someone generally is not overweight but has got a big belly, could I say "He has a medium build with a big belly"? YES Q2 could I say "He's going bald and has a receding hairline"? He's going bald./ He has a receding hairline. Q3 How do you describe someone's height? Could I say he is very tall, over six feet three"? Correction: He's very tall, over six foot three. Thank you.

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Nice questions! Yes, you can say someone has a 'big belly' if their belly is big, but they're not necessarily fat. Your second question is good, though I would pick one or the other. For the third question, that is correct. However, the expression for height is: 'six foot three' and not 'feet'.

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What different between 'jaw' and 'chin' ?

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Hi there. The jaw is the whole structure of bone that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. The chin is the center part of the jaw in front, right below your bottom front teeth. Hope this helps you!

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I have a square face,shoulder-long black straight hair. I like sweeping my hair into a ponytail. I have freckles because my skin is thin. Currently, I got a gut.

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Nice response. Here are a few suggestions for you: 1) '...face and straight, black, shoulder-length hair,' not, '...face,shoulder-long black straight hair.' 2) 'Currently, I've got a gut,' or, 'I have a gut,' not, 'I got a gut'. Hope this is useful for you!

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My father is short but well-built. He has a big gut because he drank a lot of beer. He is a farmer and works on the field all day so his skin is tanned. He has round face and deep wrinkles in his forhead. He is over 60 this year. This makes his hair go white so quickly that he has to use hair dye quite often.

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Thanks for sharing, Bui! Here are some corrections for you: 1) 'He has a round face,' not, 'He has round face'. 2) '...on his forehead,' not, 'in'. Hope this helps you!

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Thanks so much for your lesson! 🙂 Here is my example: I would like to talk about my friend. Her name is Ivy. She has a round face with a high forehead and double chin. She looks very young and no one in my class thinks that she is a university student. She has a lovely complexion and thick shoulder-length straight hair. She looks very charming with her snaggletooth. She has a well-proportioned body because she goes to the gym to work out on a daily basis.

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Almost my family members are fat, but my older sister is really beautiful. She is well-built because she does exercise hard. She has a long-to-waist straight blonde hair. Her face is impressive because it has dimples every time she smiles. Plus, her forehead is high, which makes her looks so intelligent.

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Thanks for another good answer, Diana. Here are some tips: 1) 'Almost all of my family members are fat,' or, 'Most of my family members are fat,' not, 'Almost my family members...'. 2) '...because she exercises hard,' not, 'does exercise hard'. 3) 'She has blonde hair down to her waist,' not, 'She has a long-to-waist straight blonde hair'. Hope this helps!

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Part I: Describing bodies 0:34; Part II: Describing faces 3:13; Part III: Describing hair 5:33

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My sister is quite short in size..she has wavy medium length copper color hair..hse has chiseled features with cheek bones...she gets a dimple when she smile..she has fair skin which go red when she laughs...

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is there any order to describe physical appearance?

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Hi there. If you are describing a person's complete appearance, it's common to begin with the general features first and then move to the more specific features. For example, start with the body overall, then the hair, then the face. Hope this helps you!

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