The world's most typical person

Before watching the video...

Do you consider yourself typical? average? 
What characteristics make us special or different? What make us ordinary?

Here is an interesting video about what is the most typical person in a world of 7 billion people.



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Children worrying about their body image

This is the article we saw in class...

...as seen by Sky News.

...as seen by the BBC News. It includes a short video interview with Natasha Devon, body image campaigner.

Appearance and Personality

Adjectives describing appearance and personality from Ljubica Ruzinska

Appearance Vocabulary

More practice on the vocabulary to describe people's appearance:

1. Describing people: age, build, colouring, face, being tactful...

2. Adjectives: Definitions and examples

3. Listening exercise: Body Image Survey Results

On public schools

"When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built."

Mark Twain American humorist, writer and lecturer. 1835-1910

Present and Past Habits

Clink on the following links to practice the many ways to express Past and Present Habits.

* Habits: Grammar notes and useful links
* Modals to express habits
* Grammar Notes and Practice of Past Habits
* Grammar Test (and other you might find interesting)

How do you feel today?