Looking in the mirror

Reading

Match the synonyms and give them Russian equivalents.

Decide which of the words in Exercise 5.3 are adjectives and which are nouns. Then choose two or three of the words to fit in each sentence.

Add the following words to the diagram. Use a dictionary if necessary.

Text 3

Text 2

Text 1

He saw a tall, handsome woman dressed with careful and expensive informality in a black cashmere sweater with a silk scarf at the throat and fawn trousers. It was a distinguished face with deep-set, widely-spaced eyes beneath straight brows, a well-shaped, rather secretive mouth and strong, graying hair swept upwards and curled into a chignon.

(Adapted from Devices and Desires by P. D. James)

She wore a pale blue sweater and a grey flannel skirt, schoolgirl’s clothes, which made her seem younger than her age. She was about twenty-five. Her face was framed by thick hair, in a colour midway between blonde and brown, and held back by a black velvet band. The skin was fine and she had large, rather beautiful dark blue eyes, with long colourless lashes.

(Adapted from Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner)

Temple was a small stocky man in his early forties. His jaw line had long ago disappeared into one of his chins. His pepper and salt hair was cut short with a parting in the middle and he had a dark bushy drooping moustache that grew well over his top lip. His nose was small, almost snub, and his eyes were pale.

(Adapted from The Icecream War by William Boyd)

Glossary Browseyebrows Chignona type of hairstyle popular with older women. The hair is twisted into a kind of knot at the back of the head. Lasheseyelashes Pepper and salt hairhair which has both black and grey mixed in it Fawn beige

Wavy pretty ponytail pale straight plain overweight plait wrinkles beautiful curly skinny balding shoulder-length well-built ugly sun-tanned spots freckles broad-shouldered bun

Example

1. She wears her hair in a …

She wears her hair in a ponytail/plait/bun.

2. His/Her hair is…

3. She doesn’t like her skin because she’s got…

4. She’s on a special diet because she is…

5. Unlike his brother, who’s rather thin, he’s tall and …

6. The best models always seem to be…

A 1 neat 2 sturdy 3 delicate 4 ordinary 5 bony 6 thick 7 turned up 8 chubby 9 hollow

B a sunken b graceful c rugged d plump e snub f skinny g slight h abundant I plain

5.6 Read the extract from the book by Jack London. How does he describe:

a) Martin’s hair? b) Martin’s eyes? c) Martin’s mouth?

Do you think the author likes his hero or doesn’t like him? Prove your point.

He got up and tried to see himself in the dirty looking glass over the washstand. He saw the head and face of a young fellow of twenty. Above a square-domed forehead he saw a mop of brown hair, nut-brown, with a wave to it and hints of curls, making hands tingle to stroke it. But he passed it by, and dwelt long and thoughtfully on the high square forehead. What kind of brain lay behind it?

He wondered if there was soul in those steel-grey eyes that were often quite blue of colour and that were strong with the salty air of the sea. Well, they were honest eyes, he concluded. The brown sunburn of his face surprised him.

His mouth might have been an angel’s mouth, had not the full, sensuous lips a habit of drawing firmly across the teeth. At times so tightly did they draw, the mouth became stern and harsh. The chin and jaw were strong and just hinting of square aggressiveness. And between the lips were teeth that were white and strong and regular.

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