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Place your mouse over them to see what they are (singular and plural form).		Match parts of body
Other exercises are at the bottom of this page.	Jumble - Human Body1 Jumble - Human Body2 Memory Face Choose the opposite (adjectives) Find synonyms Match the vocabulary words on human body with their definition Match the images with the picture Which of the words do these picture illustrate?

HUMAN BODY VOCABULARY

Ankle	Arm	Back	Bottom	Hand

Calf	Chest	Elbow	Finger	Foot

Head	Ear	Eye	Index finger	Heel

Knee	Knuckle	Leg	Nail	Neck

Shoulder	Thigh	Thumb	Toe	Wrist

Blister	Eardrum	Stomach Belly Tummy	Gut	Artery
		My stomach is rumbling.	To have guts (to be brave - aver fegato)
		Don't belly ache (don't complain)

Throat	Cheek	Forehead	Nostril

Lip	Fringe	Bladder	Brain	Heart
		The organ inside the body of a person, where urine is stored before it leaves the body.	The organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings and activity

Kidney	Liver	Lung	Mouth	Skeleton
One of the main jobs of the kidneys is to filter the waste out of the blood	large organ in the body which cleans the blood and produces bile (a bitter yellow liquid which helps to digest fat).	The lungs are one of the largest organs in the body, they work with the respiratory system to take in fresh air, and get rid of stale air.

Spine	Blood	Bone	Chin	Buttock

Eyelash	Eyelid	Fist	Freckle	Nipple

Waist	Hip	Adam's apple	Armpit	Belly-buttom

Esophagus	Forearm	Foreskin	Jaw

ANATOMY

CHEST

FINGER (1ST PICTURE) AND LEG (2ND PICTURE)

KNEE

KNEE - ANATOMY

EAR

ThIGH

ARTERIES

urinary structure

brain and liver

heart

lung

mouth

spine

eyelid


Comb your hair	Shake hands	Blow your nose	Fold your arms	Bite your nails

DESCRIBING PEOPLE - APPEARENCE

What are you like when you get up in the morning?

Are you usually	early late punctual		when you go to school ?

Is you schoolbag or you bedroom			tidy? untidy? messy? clean?

Are you usually	quiet noisy asleep inactive still attentive		after 5 hours at school ?

In a discussion with your friends are you			bossy? calm? impulsive? hot-tempered? tolerant?

Are you	calm nervous concentrated		during an oral or written test at school ?

Your deskmate rings you up and asks for an explanation about a maths problem:

Are you	patient impatient rude kind		with him/her ? to him/her ?

In your family you are	the oldest the middle the youngest an only	child and you	like it do not like it do not bother

Your brather/sister wants your new jacket/tights to go to the disco

Are you	generous helpful unselfish selfish mean envious		and you say yes ? and you say no ?

In a party, with new people, are you usually			amusing? dull? shy? rude? bright?

The man on the left has got avery pale skin (white skin). he also has broad shoulders, with a small scar at the top of his left arm.
The other man has dark skin. He also has beard and moustache and quite a hairy chest and a tattoo.

Asking questions about a person's appearance:

- What does she look like?
- She is tall, with short fair hair.
- How tall is she?
- About 1 metre and 65
- How much does she weight?
- I don't knowand it may be rude to ask.Probably about 45 kilos.

BEAUTIFUL (for women)
HANDSOME (for men)
PRETTY (for women)
UGLY (for men and women)
PLAIN (for men and women)
SLIM = THIN = SKINNY (for men and women)
Slim has a positive meaning == > John is lovely and slim, but his brother is is terribly thin.
Skinny has a very negative meaning
FAT (for men and women) - It's not polite to say someone is fat.
OVERWEIGHT (for men and women) - It is more neutral and polite than fat.
TO YAWN
TO COUGH
TO SNEEZE
TO SIGH
TO HICCOUGH
TO SNORE
TO BURP
TO CHEW
TO RUMBLE
TO SHALLOW
TO SUCK
TO LICK
TO BITE
TO BLINK
TO WINK
TO FROWN
TO GRIN
TO BLUSH
TO SWEAT - TO PERSPIRE
TO TREMBLE
TO SHIVER
TO SHAKE

SKINNY (pelle e ossa, magro)
SKINNY AND BONE (to be skinny and bone - essere pelle e ossa)
BONY
UNDERWEIGHT
THIN
SLIM
PLUMP
ROUND
CHUBBY (babies)
FAT
OBESE
OVERWEIGHT

APPEARANCE

He has got a thin face	She has got an oval face	She has got a round face	He has got a chubby face	She has got rosy cheeks
He has got a chubby face	He has got a sad face	He has got a serious face	He has got a smiling face	He has got an happy face
He goes red in the face (with anger)	He looks worried	He looks frightened	He looks surprised	He has got a big nose
To go red - To blush (with embarassment)
He has got brown eyes	He has got hazel eyes	He has got black eyes	He has got red eyes	He has got bloodshot eyes
He has got crossed-eyed	He is blind She is blind in one eye To go blind	He has got sunken eyes	He has got arched eyebrows	He has got false eyelashes
Buckteeth	Front teeth	Wisdom teeth	To chatter (teeth)	She has got blonde hair
			My teeth are chattering
She has got auburn hair	He has got mousy hair	She has got red-haired	She is a brunette	She has got dyed hair
She has got long hair	He has got short hair	She has got shoulder-length hair	She has a pigtail	She has a ponytail
He has greasy hair	She has thick hair	He has a crew cut	She has a wig	She has got a very good figure
She has got a very good figure	He is plump (a nicer way to say fat)	She is slim	He walks with a limp

DESCRIBING PEOPLE - CHARACTER

POSITIVE	NEGATIVE
warm and friendly	cold and unfriendly
kind	unkind
nice, pleasant	horrible, unpleasant
generous	mean
optimistic	pessimistic
cheerful	miserable (= always seems unhappy)
relaxed and easy-going	tense (= nervous, worries a lot, not calm)
strong	weak
sensitive	insensitive
honest	dishonest
hard-working	lazy
punctual	not very punctual, always late
reliable	unreliable
clever, bright	stupid
flexible	inflexible
ambitious	unambitious

- Jane is always tense at the moment because of her exams, but she's usually quite relaxed and easy-going about most things.
- I think the weather influences me a lot: when it's sunny I feel more cheerful and optimistic, but when it's cold and raining I get very miserable.
- He seemed a bit unfriendly at first, but now I've got to know him I realise he's very warm and kind.
- The shop assistant told me that the dress I tried on looked better on people younger than me. I thought that was insensitive of her, but at least she was being honest, I suppose.
- He is very shy when you first meet him because he finds it difficult to talk to people and make conversation; but when he knows people quite well he is much more self-confident.
- People often say the British are very reserved, but when you get to know them they can be very emotional like anyone else.

GAMES AND EXERCISES

Match parts of body
Jumble - Human Body1
Jumble - Human Body2
Memory Face
Choose the opposite (adjectives)
Find synonyms
Match the vocabulary words on human body with their definition
Match the images with the picture
Which of the words do these picture illustrate?

How much of the picture can you label?

What are they doing? Describe their actions.