#61 "He is tall" vs "He has hair" 🧍♂️ | Essential English Descriptions (A1) #learnenglish #podcast
Welcome to Lesson 61 of our Beginner English series! Today, we are learning a very useful topic: Describing People (Appe
📝 Transcript
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You are probably sitting there right now, comfortable in your own body, completely unaware that the English language considers your eyes to be a piece of property.
Wait, property like legally. Grammatically, yes, a piece of property. But your height, that is well, that's basically your soul.
I mean, it sounds like an absurd premise when you say it out loud like that. It really does. But we use these frameworks every single day. You know, we look in the mirror, we describe ourselves, we describe our friends, and we just we never stop to think about the invisible philosophical lines we are drawing across the human body
because native speakers don't have to think about it. The architecture of the language is uh it's already built into our subconscious.
Exactly. But what happens when you have to explain that architecture to someone who has literally never seen it before?
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📖 Vocabulary
Key vocabulary from this episode with part of speech, meaning, and example sentences. Practice along with the video above.
two pieces of special glass in a frame, worn in front of the eyes to help you see better
She wears glasses to read.
simple and fundamental; forming the main or essential part
We learned some basic English words.
| Word | Type | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| tall | adjective | having a greater than average height | My brother is very tall. |
| short | adjective | having less than average height | The girl is short for her age. |
| hair | noun | the fine threads that grow on the head | She has long, brown hair. |
| eyes | noun | the parts of the body that you see with | He has blue eyes. |
| blonde | adjective | (of hair) light yellow in color | Her hair is blonde. |
| bald | adjective | having little or no hair on the head | My uncle is bald. |
| glasses | noun | two pieces of special glass in a frame, worn in front of the eyes to help you see better | She wears glasses to read. |
| basic | adjective | simple and fundamental; forming the main or essential part | We learned some basic English words. |
| unaware | adjective | not knowing or realizing something | He was unaware of the problem. |
| essential | adjective | completely necessary or important | Water is essential for life. |
✏️ Exercises
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He ___ very tall.
She ___ long, blonde hair.
My friend ___ blue eyes.
The man ___ bald.
She wears ___ to help her see.
He is not tall, he is ___.
What color ___ her hair? It's blonde.
My sister ___ beautiful eyes.
A person with no hair is ___.
We learned some ___ words in our first English lesson.
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