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. WRITING
A DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON
A. Discuss. B. Read the description of the girl and compare your
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A person I’ve recently met
Amy is a new girl at college. She started two weeks
ago but she already seems to have many friends.
She’s tall and slim with long dark brown hair and
brown eyes. She usually wears really trendy clothes
and she always looks good.
Amy is very popular because she is clever and
confident and she always gets good marks at
school. She is also outgoing and has a good sense
of humour. Of course, she tries to be friendly with
everyone, but I’m not so sure she is very honest.
Also when I work with her on assignments, she can
be very quick-tempered. She often gets angry for
silly reasons.
I don’t think Amy and I are going to become best
friends because we don’t always get along well.
However, she is good fun to be with, and whenever
we work together, we get good marks, so that’s
something.
C. Read the statements and tick () the ones that WRITING TASK
apply to the description of Amy in activity 4B. D. Write a description of a person you have recently
met. Your description should be between 100-
The writer: 120 words.
1. uses a variety of adjectives
2. gives details about how they met
3. uses the past tense only
4. suggests how this person can change When writing a description of a person:
personality  group related ideas together. Organise your description
5. groups related ideas together into paragraphs as shown in activity 4B.
6. gives his/her general opinion about the  use a variety of adjectives to describe the person’s
person appearance and personality.
7. gives some examples to explain what  use examples to explain what you mean.
 give your general opinion about this person in the
he/she means last paragraph.
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