Parts of the body and physical features

Konu Anlatımı

What Will We Learn in This Lesson?

In this lesson you will learn the following:

• Name the main parts of the body in English.
• Describe hair with words like long, short, curly and straight.
• Use 'has got' and 'is' to talk about how a person looks.
• Compare two people and say who is taller or shorter.
• Ask and answer simple questions about a body part.

Prior Knowledge

Bu konuyu anlamak için önce My Hobbies and Feelings konusunu bilmen gerekir. Bu konuda hobilerimizi 'I like reading' yapısıyla ve duygularımızı 'I feel happy' kalıbıyla anlatmayı öğrendik.

• Hobilerini like ve like ve -ing yapısıyla anlatır.
• Temel duygu sıfatlarını happy, sad ve tired doğru biçimde kullanır.
• How do you feel? sorusuna I feel... ile cevap verir.

What is this topic about?

This topic is about parts of the body and physical features. A physical feature is the way a person looks: his or her height, hair and eyes. We learn the names of the body parts and we learn how to say what a person is like.

Look at yourself in a mirror. You can point to your head, your eyes, your nose, your mouth, your hands and your feet. Then say the sentences out loud.

How do we describe a person?

We use has got with he, she and it. We say: 'She has got long hair.' We never say 'she have got'.

We use is for height, age and body shape. We say: 'He is tall.' 'My sister is eight years old.' 'The cat is small.'

Useful words and rules

• Hair is uncountable. We say long hair, not 'long hairs'.
• Two eyes, two ears, two hands and two feet are normal for every person.
• Tooth becomes teeth and foot becomes feet in the plural form.
• Big and small describe eyes, ears, hands and feet. Tall and short describe height.
• For the colour of hair we use 'is': 'My hair is brown and straight.'

Read the list two times. First read only the words, then read the short examples.

Word table

Read the table with your teacher. Cover the English column and try to say the Turkish meaning.

Example

Kerem is a new pupil in our class. He is eleven years old. Write four sentences about him.

1. Say his age first: 'Kerem is eleven years old.'
2. For his body use 'has got': 'Kerem has got big brown eyes.'
3. Add hair and height: 'He has got short black hair. He is tall.'

Now read all four sentences in one go. This is a small text about a person.

A Simple Example

Let us start with a simple example.

Example 1: Completing a description

Deniz is a pupil. Fill in the blank: Deniz has got ____ hair.

1. Read the sentence and find the empty place after 'has got'.
2. For the length of the hair we use the words long, short or curly.
3. Write the full sentence: Deniz has got long hair.

Answer: Deniz has got long hair.

A Harder Example

Now let us solve a harder example together.

Example 5: Writing the plural words

Write the plural forms of tooth, foot and child in your notebook.

1. Tooth is one tooth and the plural is two teeth.
2. Foot is one foot and the plural is two feet.
3. Check the spelling: teeth and feet both end with the letters ee.

Answer: teeth, feet, children

Solved Examples Step by Step

Let us solve two examples step by step.

Answer: Deniz has got long hair.

Example 2: Tall and short

Mert is nine years old and he is taller than his sister Ela. Write two sentences about them.

1. Look at the two children in the picture and compare their height.
2. Mert is taller than Ela, so Mert is tall and Ela is short.
3. Write the two sentences with the word 'is' after each name.

Answer: Mert is tall. Ela is short.

Concept Comparison Table

Let us put the concepts of this lesson side by side and compare them.

Numbers and Units

Here are the numbers and units you will meet in this lesson.

Özet

Bu derste vücut parçalarının ve dış görünüşün İngilizcelerini öğreniyoruz. Görünüş için 'has got', boy ve yaş için 'is' kullanılır. Saç tekil kalır; dişin çoğulu 'teeth', ayağın çoğulu 'feet' olur. Örnek cümle: 'She has got long curly hair and big eyes.'

Sık Yapılan Hatalar

• 'She have got' yerine 'She has got' denir.
• Saç için 'hairs' yazılmaz, sadece 'hair' yazılır.
• Ayak çoğulu 'feet' olur; 'foots' yanlıştır.

Test Yourself

Read the three sentences below and decide whether each one is correct.

1. The word 'hair' has no plural form; we say 'long hair', not 'long hairs'. — correct or not?
2. 'Tooth' becomes 'teeth' in the plural; 'foot' becomes 'feet'. — correct or not?
3. For hair length we use 'has got', but for the colour we use 'is'. — correct or not?

Answer key: 1) Correct. He / She / It + has got + body part. 2) Correct. Long hair = saç uzun, curly hair = kıvırcık saç. 3) Correct. He / She is + tall, short, thin or young.

Then try: solve the open-ended task of this topic and check your answer with the scoring key.

Related Topics

To learn this topic better, you can study it together with these topics:

• personal characters Bu konuda bir kişinin karakterini İngilizce anlatmayı öğreniriz.
• My Hobbies and Feelings Bu konuda hobilerimizi 'I like reading' yapısıyla ve duygularımızı 'I feel happy' kalıbıyla anlatmayı öğrendik.
• weather conditions Bu konuda hava durumunu İngilizce anlatmayı öğreniriz.

Ne Öğreneceğiz

Body parts and the way people look: head, hair, eyes, arms, legs, tall, short, long hair. Bu konuda ögrenme çıktıları:

• Name the main parts of the body in English.
• Describe hair with words like long, short, curly and straight.
• Use 'has got' and 'is' to talk about how a person looks.
• Compare two people and say who is taller or shorter.
• Ask and answer simple questions about a body part.

Ön Bilgi

Bu konuya başlamadan önce temel kavram ve ön koşulları kavramanız yardımcı olacaktır. Konunun çerçevesinde şu kavramlar dikkat ister:

• The word 'hair' has no plural form; we say 'long hair', not 'long hairs'.
• 'Tooth' becomes 'teeth' in the plural; 'foot' becomes 'feet'.
• For hair length we use 'has got', but for the colour we use 'is'.
• We say 'big eyes' and 'small hands'; we do not say 'big eye'.
• Tall and short describe height; thin and fat describe the body shape.
• Always use 'has got' with he, she and it, never with 'have'.

Basit Örnek ve Günlük Yaşam

Günlük yaşamda ve mesleki bağlamda bir uygulama:

Soru: Deniz is a pupil. Fill in the blank: Deniz has got ____ hair.

1. Read the sentence and find the empty place after 'has got'.
2. For the length of the hair we use the words long, short or curly.
3. Write the full sentence: Deniz has got long hair.

Sonuç/cevap: Deniz has got long hair.

İleri Örnek

Daha ileri bir uygulama:

Soru: Write the plural forms of tooth, foot and child in your notebook.

1. Tooth is one tooth and the plural is two teeth.
2. Foot is one foot and the plural is two feet.
3. Check the spelling: teeth and feet both end with the letters ee.

Sonuç/cevap: teeth, feet, children

Adım Adım Çözülmüş Örnek

Example 1: Completing a description konusunun adımları:

1. Read the sentence and find the empty place after 'has got'.
2. For the length of the hair we use the words long, short or curly.
3. Write the full sentence: Deniz has got long hair.

Karşılaştırma Tablosu

Kendini Dene

Soru: Kendini tarif et: başının, saçının ve gözlerinin özelliklerini yaz.

Örnek cevap: Puanlama anahtarı: 'I have got' veya 'My' ile başlayan kalıbın doğru kullanılması 3 puan. Baş, saç ve gözden en az ikisinin doğru yazılması 3 puan. Saç tipi ya da renk bilgisi (long, curly, brown gibi) verilmesi 2 puan. Yazım, büyük harf ve noktalama doğruysa 2 puan.