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Learn about appearances

Height

He is tall. He is short. He is normal height.

He is very tall. He is quite short. He is relatively normal height.

Build

She is skinny. (negative) She is fat. (negative)

She is underweight. (negative) She is overweight. (negative)

She is thin. (negative) She is plump. (neutral)

She is slim. (positive) She is stocky. (neutral)

She is slender. (positive) She is bonny. (positive) ^

Hair

blonde/fair hair brown hair red hair black hair grey hair

blonde brunette redhead - -

Eyes

grey eyes green eyes blue eyes brown eyes dark eyes

!Note!

This is a black eye!

!Note - if a man is fat (especially round the waist) we often say he has a beer belly.

Type of hair

She

has long

hair.

She has short

hair.

He has no hair.

= He is bald.

She has medium

length hair.

She has medium

length hair. She has short hair.

She has

long,

black hair.

She has short,

black hair. -

She has medium

length

, blonde hair.

She has medium

length, red hair.

She has short,

blonde hair.

She has

long,

straight,

black hair.

She has short,

straight, black

hair.

-

She has medium

length, straight,

blonde hair.

She has medium

length, wavy, red

hair.

She has short,

curly, blonde hair.

Her hair

is long,

straight and

black.

Her hair is

short, straight

and black.

-

Her hair

is medium length,

straight and

blonde.

Her hair is medium

length, wavy and

red.

Her hair is short,

curly and blonde.

She wears glasses.

Type of complexión

He is asian. He has

light-brown skin.

She is black.

She has dark

skin.

He is white. He

has fair skin.

She is white. She has

lightly tanned skin.

She is white. She

has very pale skin.

Other features

Point your cursor over the named feature, if you're correct the word will appear.

moustache beard chin forehead nostrils

eyebrows cheeks fringe lips teeth

Describing character

Dates

En inglés se utilizan los números ordinales (first, second, third, etc.) para expresar las fechas, a

diferencia del español en que se emplean los números cardinales (uno, dos, tres, etc.).

Today is the 2nd of June / hoy es el 2 de junio

Para expresar los días utilizamos la preposición 'on'. En cambio, para expresar meses o años se

utiliza la preposición 'in'.

You came on the 12th of May / viniste el 12 de mayo

You came in May / viniste en mayo

You came in 1995 / viniste en 1995

En inglés, a diferencia del español, los meses y los días se escriben con mayúscula.

March / marzo Monday / lunes

Los días de la semana son:

Sunday / domingo Monday / lunes Tuesday / martes Wednesday / miércoles

Thursday / jueves Friday / viernes Saturday / sábado

Los meses del año son:

January / enero February / febrero

March / marzo April / abril

May / mayo June / junio July / julio

August / agosto September / septiembre

October / octubre November / noviembre December / diciembre

Las estaciones del año son:

spring / primavera summer / verano

autumn (U.K.) fall (USA) / otoño winter / invierno

Normalmente, las fechas se escriben en el siguiente orden: mes / día / año

June, 20th 1997 / 20 de junio de 1997 March, 3rd 2001 / 3 de marzo de 2001

Podemos omitir las letras de orden (-st, -nd, -rd, -th)

September 2, 1999 / 2 de septiembre de 1999

Podemos abreviar los nombres de los meses:

Jan / enero Feb / febrero....

Al igual que en español, las fechas pueden escribirse únicamente con números refiriendo mes, día y

año. En este caso, hay que tener presente que el formato de fecha USA es mes/día/año mientras que

el formato de fecha U.K. (Gran Bretaña) es, como en español, día/mes/año

20 de junio de 1999 USA= 6/20/1999 UK= 20/6/1999

Algunos otros términos relacionados:

date = fecha calendar = calendario weekday = día de la semana

working-day = día laborable holiday = festivo (holidays = vacaciones)

day = día month = mes year = año yesterday = ayer tomorrow = mañana

References

http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/appearances.htm

http://www.mansioningles.com/gram48.htm