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1. Part 1 – Style questions.

Examiner: Do you look like any other people in your family?

Carlo: No … not at all … take my brother for example … he has short cropped hair and has quite a pointed face … he’s also quite fair-skinned compared to me …

Examiner: Tell me about your family.

Andrea: My father’s getting on a bit … he’s in his 60s … but he looks very young for his age … he still does lots of exercise and is quite well-built …

Examiner: What does your best friend look like?

Mandy: She’s the same age as me … she has shoulder-length hair … fair hair … she has a slim figure and is medium height …

2. Part 2 – Style task.

Describe a person whose appearance you like. You should say:

• who this person is.

• what their relationship is to you.

• what they look like.

and say what it is about their appearance you like.

Monique: OK … I’d like to talk about my aunt … her name’s Marta and she’s quite a character … she’s middle-aged but has a very youthful appearance … she’s a little overweight I suppose but not too much … she has a friendly round face framed by thick blonde hair … she has a lovely complexion and she’s always well-turned out …

She actually always looks like she’s going out for the evening to somewhere special … there’s never a hair out of place … I’ve always thought she bears a striking resemblance to someone on TV … I can’t remember the name now … she wears glasses and always seems to have a different pair on every time I see her … I like the way she looks because she wears clothes that are right for her age and manages to look glamorous without it looking like she’s too done up … yes … I’ll be happy if I look like her when I’m her age …

3. Part 3 – Style questions.

Examiner:  Is it important to dress well whenever we go out?

Mark: It depends where you’re going … I know some people get done up just to go to the shops … but I don’t see the point … you shouldn’t go out looking scruffy with disheveled hair but I really don’t see the point in getting dressed up to the nines unless you’re going somewhere special …

Examiner: Do people worry too much about their appearance as they get older?

Mira: I’m sure they do … yes … but it happens to all of us doesn’t it … we all go grey eventually and get hard of hearing … we start to lose our figure … that’s why plastic surgery is so popular … personally I think we just need to grow old gracefully and not worry too much about how we look …

Examiner: Is attractiveness a quality worthwhile aiming for?

Phoebe: I’d like to say no … it shouldn’t matter what we look like in terms of our physical appearance … but unfortunately it seems women especially are taken more seriously if they are good looking with a slender figure with perfect make up and so on …

4. Từ vựng chủ đề Physical Appearance.

• to bear a striking resemblance: trông rất giống với ai đó.
• cropped hair: tóc rất ngắn.
• disheveled hair: tóc rối bù.
• to dress up to the nines: ăn mặc sang chảnh, ăn mặc rất thông minh hoặc lộng lẫy.
• fair hair: tóc sáng màu.
• to be fair-skinned: làn da sáng.
• to get done up: ăn mặc thông minh.
• to be getting on a bit: già đi.
• to go grey: để tóc chuyển sang màu xám.
• to be good looking: hấp dẫn, ưu nhìn.
• to grow old gracefully: già đi một cách duyên dáng: hành động theo cách bao trùm thực tế bạn đang già đi.
• to be hard of hearing: cảm thấy khó nghe.
• in his/her 30s/40s: ở độ tuổi 30/40 của anh ấy/cô ấy.
• scruffy: ăn mặc lôi thôi.
• to look young for your age: trông trẻ hơn tuổi.
• to lose one’s figure: không giữ được dáng.
• complexion: nước da, màu da tự nhiên.
• make up: trang điểm.
• medium height: chiều cao trung bình.
• middle-aged: tuổi trung niên, khoảng từ 45-65 tuổi.
• to never have a hair out of place: mái tóc được tạo kiểu hoàn hảo.
• to be overweight: thừa cân.
• pointed face: mặt nhọn.
• shoulder-length hair: tóc dài ngang vai.
• slender figure: dáng người mảnh mai.
• slim figure: dáng người mảnh khảnh.
• thick hair: tóc dày.
• to wear glasses: đeo kính.
• to be well-built: cơ bắp.
• to be well-turned out: nhìn thông minh.
• youthful appearance: trông trẻ trung.

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