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My name is Marco. My name is Catherine, and today we have a very descriptive lesson for you.
That's right, we have an elementary lesson for everyone, and we are going to talk about facial hair.
Okay, so, Marker, you don't have any facial hair?
I don't, well I like to shave every other day, but yeah, that's what facial hair is, hair that you have on your face.
Okay so we're at the police station in this dialogue let's take a listen and find out why.
Okay Sally we have an artist here to help us.
We'll ask you questions about the bank robber you saw and Paul will draw a picture.
Are you ready? Yes well he brown hair?
long hair? and he had some facial hair?
it was brown too! good!
ok the facial hair was it a beard or a mustache?
but his mustache was very short and thin just on the top of his lip uh huh hmm like this?
yes that's the mustache but the beard isn't right I mean it didn't cover his whole face.
I think it was just on his chin ago, team, was it like Paul's?
Ah, yes that's it. He had a go team.
Okay, now what about cybers?
Did he have cybers?
Um, yes. They were long and thick, like yours.
Alright. There, was this the man you saw?
Yes, that's him. Mm, it looks a lot like you.
Hmm, why yes he does.
Paul, where were you on Friday afternoon?
What? That's ridiculous!
It wasn't me? I didn't do anything.
I was over there doing the thing, the best man, hoota -doo.
Alright, we're back, so as you can see the woman is describing a bank robber and one of the ways that she's describing him is by the facial hair that he had.
So there are a lot of very interesting words and phrases here we take a look at some of them in language takeaway.
Language takeaway. Okay, so in language takeaway today we have some really good description words and nouns, things that people have on their face.
Facial hair because there's not just one kind of facial hair, there are many different these kinds.
Right. Alright, our first one is, are we going to skip facial hair because we're going to get Yeah, we're going to skip my hair.
Our first one is mustache.
Okay. A mustache. And this is I think one of the more popular forms of facial hair.
I think it's a style, right?
All these styles of facial hair.
That's right. And so a mustache is basically some hair on top of your lip.
Mhmm. It's above your lip.
And it's usually it can be thin or thick.
It comes in different sizes, but this is not your whole face, it's just above your lip.
Alright, so for example, a famous person or a famous mustache was Charlie Chaplain, right?
That's right, Charlie Chaplain had a mustache just a little bit of hair above his lip, but also Theodore Roosevelt had a very big bushy mustache.
That's right. Interesting fact, you might hear someone say stash instead of mustache this is a short way to say it mhm so oh he's growing a stash right and also the spelling can be a little bit uh...
difficult to understand how you pronounce it because it's m u s t a c h e so there's not really s h sound like she but you pronounce it must dash mustache yeah so that's one kind of facial hair but there are many others the the next one we've got for you is a beard a beard, okay.
This is a really good one, a beard. I think a beard keeps men warm.
I think a beard keeps the man warm in the winter.
Yeah definitely. This is the most hair.
So basically a beard you have a hair on your lip and also all over your face, basically.
So a beard you have all over your face.
Right your cheeks, your chin and above your lip.
Okay, very good. So a famous person with a beard, Santa Claus.
Santa Claus has a very big beard. Yeah, Santa Claus has a big beard. Right, a big white beard. Okay, so that's a beard. I think that's that's the easiest to have because you don't need to cut anything or shaving it.
Oh, you need to draw an ear.
Yeah, you need to. If you don't trim it looks kind of bad.
Right. Well, now moving on to our next style of facial hair, we have a goaty.
Okay. This might be confusing for some people because it's not a beard. And it's not a mustache.
It's basically hair around your mouth.
Mm -hmm. On your chin and your lip.
So, I think, for Sean Connery, he has a very famous goatee.
And Brad, hit right now, has a really big goatee.
Okay. A long goatee.
Lots of hair. So, it's, as you say, it's around your mouth, so you're lip and you're chin.
That's right. A goatee.
Okay, so that's our third style of facial hair and now moving on to our last style.
we have sideburns. Okay so think about the word here, sideburns, side.
You're on the side.
They're on the side, so near the ears, there is usually some space where a man can grow some hair, not with a beard or necessarily mustache, though, it can be just the hair on the jawline, near the jaw, near the ears.
So I think this was a very famous style in the sixties in 70s, you would let you have long sideburns all along your face.
That's right. That's right.
And that the longer, maybe, the sexier you are.
The sexier, no. But these days, it's not as popular, but you do see people who have sideburns.
I think nowadays people have sideburns, but they're not as thick, they're just thin, little sideburns.
Yeah, that's right.
All right. So, all of these are the different sorts and styles of facial hair.
Of course, there are a lot more.
I think what we were looking for this on the internet, we found a lot of other styles that came up like mutton chops and things like this.
But these are probably the most popular ones.
That's right. These are the ones you're going to hear about the most. Why don't we go back and listen to our dialogue again and we'll be back with fluency builder.
We have an artist here to help us.
Well, I'll ask you questions about the bank robber you saw, and Paul will draw a picture.
Are you ready? Yes, well, he had brown hair, long hair, and he had some facial hair.
It was brown, too. Good, okay, the facial hair.
Was it a beard or a mustache?
Both. His mustache was very short and thin.
Just on the top of his lip.
Ah ha, hmmm, like this?
Yes that's the mustache, but the beard isn't right.
I mean it didn't cover his whole face I think it was just on his chin a goatee was it like Paul's Ah yes that's it he had a goatee Okay now what about sirens did he have siren?
Um yes they were long and thick like yours all right there was this the man you saw Yes, that's him.
Hmmm, it looks a lot like you.
Hmm. Why? Yes, he does.
Paul, where were you on Friday afternoon?
What?! That's ridiculous!
It wasn't me. I didn't do anything.
I was over there doing the thing the best man who to do.
Alright, so today in Fluency Builder we are not really talking about phrases as much as we're talking about.
So words you can use to describe facial hair.
When the girl was describing facial hair for example she said the mustache was very short and thin.
In a short and thin mustache, so you think about it you can have a very thick mustache, that's the opposite.
That means very hairy, very wide.
A thin mustache is like a line.
Okay, so for example Charlie Chaplin he had a short mustache, but it wasn't in it was a little bit thick That's right.
It's kind of wide, but you think of you know when you see someone who's drawing a mustache on a sign at a restaurant or In a newspaper right that's usually very thin right?
Silly looking Right, so those are different adjectives to describe not only a mustache So basically we can use these to describe any sort of hair, for example the hair on your head, you can say he's got short hair?
That's right, or I could say I have long hair.
Long hair. Or mark it because you have thick hair.
So if you have an abundance of hair that you would say it's thick.
That's right. It's like if you put your hand in it, it feels like there's a lot, that's very thick hair.
Some people have thin hair so they don't have a lot of hair.
Okay. Good. And well, moving on to the parts of the face we described it before as to where a mustache is, where a go T is.
But let's take a closer look at that.
For example, a mustache is on your upper lip.
Right. So just above your lip, under your nose, that's where a mustache goes.
So that's the upper lip, but if we're talking about a go T, it's not just on your upper lip.
It's also where. On your chin, your chin.
So that's the very bottom point of your face.
So you have your chin, your upper lip.
And also when we talked about, for example, the side burns, we talked about the job, but also it could be part of the cheek.
Right. So every person has two cheeks, one on the left and one on the right, and those are a very big part of your face on the sides of your nose.
So you have your chin, you have your cheeks, you have your upper lip.
I think that's pretty much the only places where you can grow also on your neck, yes, and people have it on their neck or on the back?
Well, no, it's not going that.
Some people also have it on their neck, yeah.
Right. very good. A lot of different words to describe facial hair.
Why don't we go back, listen to the dialogue one last time and we'll be back to talk some more.
Okay Sally, we have an artist here to help us.
We'll ask you questions about the bank robber you saw and Paul will draw the picture.
Are you ready? Yes, well he had Brown hair, long hair and he had some facial hair.
It was brown too. Good, okay the facial hair was it a beard or a mustache?
both his mustache was very short and thin just on the top of his lip Aha, hmm, like this Yes, that's the mustache but the beard isn't right I mean, it didn't cover his whole face I think it was just on his chin A goatea, was it like paws?
Yes, that's it He had a goatea Okay, now what about sideburns?
Did he have sideburns?
Um, yes, they were long and thick Like yours alright there was this the man you saw yes that's him it looks a lot like you hmm why yes he does Paul where were you on Friday afternoon what that's ridiculous it wasn't me I didn't do anything I was over there doing the thing the best man Alright, so it's talking about facial hair, cavern.
Do you like men that have facial hair?
Yes. You like moustaches, beards, goatees?
Well, it really depends.
I really like sideburns, but sometimes people don't do them correctly, so I don't like them.
But I like beards. And, yeah, goatee.
I like the facial hair.
You like facial hair.
What is it about facial hair on men that you like?
Manly, man. I don't know, there's something kind of rough about it.
Rough, yeah. Yeah, I don't like the very manicured, very carefully cut facial hair.
I kind of like it a little bit more on the rough side.
Oh, OK. It's interesting because it's interesting to see also facial hair on a long facial hair.
Like, for example, the guys from ZZ top, yeah, you know, they have like really long beards.
I wonder how long it takes to grow something like this.
I'm sure we could find out on the Internet, but, uh, yeah, no they have competitions.
There's a world mustache competition, for example, and they have the world's longest mustache, and so the man, you know, they measure his mustache.
It's three or four meters or something.
I feel really long.
Yeah, so I think your hair keeps growing, it just depends on when you decide to cut it.
I think it's also a very cultural thing, right?
Some cultures are able to grow a lot of facial hair and like to do it.
Others really don't.
For example, you don't really see many Asians with facial hair, with gotees or mustaches.
I think you see more gotees than you see full beards, actually.
But yeah, definitely East Asia.
It's not as common. Although India, you see a lot of more facial hair.
A lot of mustaches there.
Yeah. So, this is an interesting question, tell us how popular it is in your country, or if you like men with facial hair.
If you're a guy, do you like to have a beard mustache or a goatee?
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