My Appearance.

Modern youth does not pay much attention to its own inner world, its character, and behavior. Unfortunately nowadays it becomes better to be good-looking, fashionable and rich than to be kind, honest, generous etc.

I don’t like to discuss myself: either my character or my appearance. I am sure that nobody’s perfect and I am not perfect as well. Many young people as wella as I, of course, pay much attention to people’s appearance, realizing in the same time that it is wrong.

And now I will try to describe you my appearance. First of all I want to tell you about my height and build. I am medium height – 162 cm. But I would really like to be taller. And my mother says that it is not very good to be tall because it is more difficult to find a boy-friend for tall girls. Maybe it is really so. Secondly I’ve got medium build. I’m not slim but I always dreamt about this. My younger brother says that I am overweight. Of course I feel insulted a little bit but in summer it is really so. When I’m in the village I just can’t refuse delicious dishes my granny prepares.

I have a round face, straight nose, big brown eyes and small lips. My hair is short because last week I was in the hairdressing saloon where I’ve got a new hair-do. Generally I like it. My nature color of hair is light brown. But a few days ago I dyed my hair and now it is dark-brown with a cherry shade. My grandfather does not like either my hair-do or the color of my hair but I don’t care. My hair is straight and thick, but when I was a little girl I had curly hair. I like to be different and occasionally to change something in my appearance.

I am often told that I look like my granny. But it seems to me that I look like my mum a bit. Generally I can’t say that I am beautiful but I also don’t consider that I am ugly. Maybe I am pretty for somebody and plain, ordinary for others. Everyone thinks in his own way.

Vocabulary

inner world – внутрішній світ

character – характер

behavior – поведінка

to be good-looking – мати гарний вигляд

fashionable – стильний

honest – чесний

generous – щедрий

height – зріст

tall/of medium height /short – середнього зросту

build – будова тіла

lips – губи

to dye – фарбувати (волосся)

shade – відтінок

to look like – виглядати

pretty/beautiful – гарний

ugly – потворний

plain/ordinary/common appearance – звичайна зовнішність

Exercise 4. Complete the sentences with the words from the text: