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Listen again. Repeat the sentences.

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The words in Exercise 1 describe a person's appearance. To talk about a person's appearance, we say:

What does he look like?

He is short and he has glasses.

Look at the difference between the question and answer:

What does he look like? What does she look like?

He is tall and he has brown hair. She is short and she has blue eyes.

Work with a study partner. Look at the photographs. Use the words in Exercise 1 to talk about each person.

What does the Chief Officer look like?

What does the Cook look like?

What do the children look like?

What does she look like?

What do you look like?

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4 What is he wearing?

Look at the picture. The words below the picture are all clothes. Check the words in a

dictionary. Write the correct words in the spaces. Note: You do not need to use all of the

words.

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Compare the two seafarers. Write sentences.

Example :

They both have short hair.

They have different colour hair.

The engineer is shorter than the cadet.

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Look at the pictures. Listen to the cassette. Which man is the Captain?

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8 What is he like?

The adjectives in the box describe character or personality. Check the words in a dictionary.

To talk about a person's character we say:

What is he like?	He is grumpy.
What is she like?	She is serious.

Compare these questions:

What is he like? (asking about character)

What does he look like? (asking about appearances)

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