Complete these sentences in a suitable way. More than one answer may be possible.

C o u n t r y S t u d y

FORMS OF ADDRESS

Mr., Mrs., Ms, Miss.... What am I?

"Mr." is for a man. It used to be for an adult male and "Master" was used for children, but it isn't used much any more.

"Mrs." is an abbreviation for Misses and is used to denote a married woman.

“Miss” is not an abbreviation and, therefore, should never have a period after it. It is used to denote an unmarried woman.

"Ms" is also not an abbreviation and is used to denote a woman, married or unmarried. During the Women's Liberation movement of the early 1970s, it was thought that it was biased to give a title representing a woman's marital status whereas men have a title that does not reveal this information.

All these titles are used with the last name or with the full name (usually in formal written speech), but never with the first name of a person.

Other forms of address include:

Sir / Madam [sɜː] / ['mædəm]	are used to politely address a person whose name you don’t know
Officer	is used to address a policeman
Doctor	is used to address a doctor
Professor (with or without a surname)	to address a university lecturer
Dr. Brown	to address a scientist who has a PhD

Sometimes instead of addressing a person by name, the British prefer to say “Excuse me (please)?” (Извините). This phrase is also used to attract attention of a stranger.

Also to attract someone’s attention it is possible to say:

Pardon me….	Простите…
I say ….	Послушайте…
Look here…	Послушайте…(Минутку!)

To reply to any address you can simply say “Yes?” (Да? Я слушаю)

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1B Personal details, please!

V o c a b u l a r y

Describing appearance

General

Positive: beautiful is generally used to describe women; handsome is used to describe men; good-looking is used for both; pretty is another positive word to describe a woman or a girl.

Negative: ugly is the most negative word to describe someone; plain is more polite.

Height and build

tall and slim medium height and build short and overweight very muscular

Hair

straight wavy curly  

Speaking about the colour, we can say that the hair is blonde, light or dark brown, red, auburn, black and grey/white.

Adding some special features we can say if a person wears a beard or a moustache, has got a scar, a tattoo or a birthmark.

Complete these sentences in a suitable way. More than one answer may be possible.

1. She’s got blonde ………………………………………...

2. I would say he was medium …………………………….

3. He’s got very muscular ………………………………..

4. Both men were very good-……………………………..

5. She’s not tall, she’s …………………………………….

6. I can’t say he’s good-looking, he is ……………………...

7. She eats too many cakes, that’s why she is ……………..

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