Vocabulary. average — средний, обычный, нормальный tall — высокий short — низкорослый average height — среднего

average — средний, обычный, нормальный
tall — высокий
short — низкорослый
average height — среднего роста
fat — толстый
weak — слабый
skinny — тощий, кожа да кости
strong — сильный, крепкий, здоровый
well-built — крепкий, хорошо сложенный
shoulder — плечо
chest — грудная клетка
neither... nor ['naið∂... no:] — ни... ни
broad — широкий
narrow — узкий
thin — худой
slim — стройный
overweight [,∂uv∂'weit] — излишек веса, избыточный вес
waist — талия
foot (мн. ч. feet) — ступня
hip — бедро

Questions
1. What is the average height for men and women in your country? Is it changing?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being either very tall or very short?
3. Can you think of some ways of taking care of your heart, lungs, skin, bones, muscles?
4. Describe some ways of losing weight.
Exercise
Replace the underlined word in each sentence with a word which is either more suitable or more polite. Use the following: thin, beautiful/pretty, good-looking/handsome, overweight, plain.
1. He told me he met a handsome girl in the disco last night.
2. She's beautiful but her younger sister is really quite ugly.
3. I think Peter is getting a bit fat, don't you?
4. Most people want to stay slim, but not as skinny as that girl over there.
5. I think she's hoping she'll meet a few beautiful men at the tennis club.
Task
Write down the names of three people you know. Then write about:
— their height (tall, short, medium height)
— their hair (colour, long, short, beard)
— their eyes (colour)
— their looks (ordinary, handsome, etc.)

Appearance: Parts of the Face

People who can't hear often learn to understand a spoken language with their eyes. They watch the mouth of the person talking and follow the movement of his lips. This is called lip-reading. Some people think the distance between your hair and your eyebrow is a sign of how intelligent you are. The bigger your forehead is, the more intelligent you are supposed to be.

Nowadays, a person who doesn't like his or her nose can have it changed with plastic surgery. Plastic surgeons can change your face in many other ways too. They can make your cheeks a little rounder. If you don't like your chin, a plastic surgeon can break your jaw and re-make the whole lower half of your face. If you think your skin looks too old and wrinkled, he can take: the wrinkles away and make you look twenty years younger.

Women often disagree about men having beards and moustache. Bu some women think that hair on a man's chin makes him look more attractive. Usually, only women wear make-up. They are lucky. They can put a little black mascara on their eyelashes and some eye shadow on their eyelids, and look fresh and attractive, even when they are really tired.

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