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Intermediate Italian: describing people
Intermediate Italian: describing people

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Describing people's faces

In this first activity you will work on the vocabulary and structures you will need to use in order to describe people.

Attività 1

Step 1

Listen and repeat.

Ascoltate e ripetete.

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Listen to the words used for features of the face and head.

1 la bocca

2 gli occhi

3 i capelli

4 il mento

5 la fronte

6 il sopracciglio

7 l’orecchio

8 il viso

9 i baffi

10 gli occhiali

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Step 2

Match these words to the correct part of the face.

Abbinate le parole alla parte del viso a cui si riferiscono.

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This image is a close-up of a young man (in his late twenties). He has dark, curly hair, and a dark beard and a mustache. He is wearing spectacles.

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Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 8 items in each list.

  1. i capelli

  2. la fronte

  3. il sopracciglio

  4. gli occhi

  5. gli occhiali

  6. il naso

  7. la bocca

  8. la barba

Match each of the previous list items with an item from the following list:

  • a.(a)

  • b.(e)

  • c.(h)

  • d.(f)

  • e.(d)

  • f.(c)

  • g.(g)

  • h.(b)

The correct answers are:
  • 1 = a,
  • 2 = h,
  • 3 = f,
  • 4 = e,
  • 5 = b,
  • 6 = d,
  • 7 = g,
  • 8 = c