Hi i'm andrew and welcome to this latest IELTS video this IELTS video is about
describing somebody's appearance it's also great for anybody who wants to
learn how to use things like idioms and phrasal verbs in English if you like
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part 2 question describe somebody whose appearance you like we all have somebody
whose appearance we like right so it's a tough choice but I'm going to plump for
my friend Jane she's one of those people who can just effortlessly carry off
almost any look and she often does she's always changing up her look but
somehow looks great whatever she does with her hair and whatever she wears I
couldn't honestly tell you her natural hair color because she's run the full
gamut of shades from bright pink through blue to the deepest shade of red and she
mixes up the style as well as the color she's had a beehive she's had Platts
she's had a bob cut and she's even had bunches about the only thing I've not
seen is dreadlocks cloves wise she has understated elegance she never wears
anything skimpy but her cloves always show off her shapely figure she normally
wears conservative colors but accessorizes them with vivid jewelry for
example she wears this long silky black dress with a turquoise brooch the brooch
really sets off her piercing blue eyes I often think that Jane would not have
looked out of place in 1950s Hollywood or something like that
so let's have a look at some of these expressions phrasal verbs
to plug for means to choose to select you could also news to go for another
phrasal verb to carry off if you carry something off you do it successfully to
change up to change something often in a way that improves something to set off
this has lots of different meanings in English but in the context of this
particular answer it sets off her piercing blue eyes it means that it
makes something look more attractive so the cloves set off her eyes now some
of the rarer vocabulary these are all vocabulary to do with hairstyles plats
bunches a beehive and a bob cut a turquoise broach turquoise is a color
you can see that color here a brooch is an item of jewelry that you pin unto
your clothing okay skimpy skimpy clothes show a lot of flesh like this lady in
the picture to accessorize to accessorize means to match things like
jewelry or a handbag to cloaks we only use this to talk about women
collocations a shapely figure if you describe somebody as having a shapely
figure it means that you find their figure pleasing understated elegance
this means that somebody looks really good or stylish without trying too hard
conservative colors conservative in this context means the opposite of bright or
vivid so black brown gray dark colors dark blue dark green piercing blue eyes
the idea here is that these are eyes which seemed as though they are looking
right through you you can only use this adjectives in English for blue or green
eyes never news this to talk about dark eyes it doesn't make sense in English so
I'm going to leave you with a picture of some piercing blue eyes and remind you
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and I will then write a description for you that you could use to describe that
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