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Writing

A description of a person

1 Read the description. W hat is Shakira's hobby?

. She's 37 years old and
My favourite singer is
she's from Colombia. She's got brown eyes and quite long, wavy fair
hair. She's not very tall but she's very pretty. She's also very intelligent.
She speaks Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic and Portuguese!
Shakira is a singer and she's got a lot of prizes for her music. But
she's also a really amazing dancer. Her husband is the FC Barcelona
footballer Gerard Pique and they've got the same birthday,
3 February. They've also got a son called Milan. Her hobby is
collecting rings - she's got over 200 of them. She's also got tw o
organisations that help children. I love Shakira!

2 Read the description again. Answ er the 4 Put the w ords in the correct order to make
questions. phrases.
1 What nationality is Shakira? 1 very / girl / а / pretty
A very pretty girl__________________________
2 Flow many languages does she speak? 2 intelligent / really / woman / a

3 When is her birthday? 3 really/footballer/a/am azing

4 What's her son's name? 4 hair/ not very /long

5 Flow many organisations does she have? 5 funny / he's / quite

5 W rite five sentences about people you know
U s e fu l la n g u a g e M odifiers
w ith the m odifiers in A and the adjectives in B.
A
Read the description again. W hich w ords go
before these adjectives? not very quite really very
1 ____________ long
2 ____________ tall В
3 ____________ pretty
long tall young pretty intelligent funny
4 ______ intelligent
5 ____________ amazing 1 My friend Carolina has got quite long hair.

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