Describing Appearances with 'be' and 'have'

Describing appearance with be and have guess the person game

Describe what one of the people below looks like until your partner guesses who it is, using language like the phrases on the next page. They can only guess once for each hint. 

• Charlie Brown
• I/ me
• James Bond/ 007
• Mr Bean
• a Disney character
• a baby
• a basketball player
• a doctor
• a female wrestler
• a model
• a newsreader
• a prince
• a princess
• a punk
• a rapper
• a receptionist
• a singer
• a skateboarder
• a snowboarder
• a sumo wrestler
• a television presenter
• a very beautiful woman
• a very cute baby
• a very handsome man
• a witch
• an actor
• my English teacher
• my aunt
• my brother
• my coach
• my cousin
• my dad/ my father
• my doll
• my favourite character
• my grandfather
• my grandmother
• my mum/ my mother
• my music teacher
• my pet
• my school teacher
• my sister
• my sports teacher
• my uncle
• you

He is/ She is

He has/ She has (got)

bald balding beautiful chubby cool cute fashionable fat handsome medium build old pretty scruffy short slim smartly dressed strong tall thin ugly young

a beard a moustache a perm a scar a ponytail bunches a big mouth/ (a) big… a hairy chest/ hairy legs/ (a) hairy… a long nose/ long eyelashes/ (a) long… a round face/ (a) round... a small mouth/ (a) small… a square face/ (a) square… a tattoo/ tattoos black hair/ (a) black… blond hair blue eyes brown hair/ (a) brown… curly hair dark brown eyes/ dark brown… dyed hair/ dyed… fat cheeks/ (a) fat… ginger hair green eyes grey hair medium-length hair pierced ears/ pierced… red lips/ red… short hair/ (a) short… straight hair/ (a) straight… thick eyebrows/ thick… wavy hair white hair/ white… … arms … hair … hands … legs … skin a… body a… nose

 

Be and have with appearance words presentation

Without looking above, put “(He/ She) is” or “(He/ She) has (got)” in front of each of these:

a beard

a big mouth

a hairy chest

hairy legs

a moustache

a perm

a scar

a square face

a… body

a…

tattoos

dark brown eyes

fat cheeks

…cheeks

… eyes

…s

bald

beautiful/ handsome

black hair

curly hair

… hair

chubby

cool

cute

fashionable

fat

thin/ slim

medium build

old

pierced ears

pretty

scruffy

short

smartly dressed

straight hair/ (a) straight…

strong

tall

thick eyebrows

ugly

 

Check your answers with the previous page. What are the patterns/ rules in the use of “have” and “be”?

Be and have with appearance words freer speaking

Describing people brainstorming

Without looking above, choose someone who you both know and take turns making true sentences about how they look. If anyone repeats a description, says something not true or gives up, the other person gets one point. Do the same about different people until your teacher stops the game.

 

Describing people with be and have brainstorming dice game

Do the same for a different person, but this time roll the dice before you make each sentence. Depending on what number you roll, you must use this verb in your sentence:

• 1 or 2 – is
• 3 or 4 – has (got)
• 5 – isn’t
• 6 – hasn’t (got)

 

Make your own person with be and have game

Take turns describing an imaginary person. When you have said or written at least ten sentences, try to draw that person. If you made negative sentences, draw that thing next to the person with a cross (X) through it.

When you have finished the drawing, ask someone from another group to describe the person who you have drawn. Is their description the same as yours was?

 

Make your own person with be and have dice game

Play the same describing and drawing game as before, but this time rolling a dice to decide which verb you must use in each sentence:

• 1 or 2 – is
• 3 or 4 – has (got)
• 5 – isn’t
• 6 – hasn’t (got)

If you made negative sentences, draw that thing next to the person with a cross (X) through it.

Then ask someone from another group to describe the person who you have drawn, and see if their description the same as yours was or not.