This lesson will teach you to describe the colors and appearance of people and things in English. Learn to express whether something is big or small, red or green, beautiful of ugly.

This lesson is part of the chapter “Learning English“.

Basic Words & Phrases: Colors

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Colors

EnglishPronunciation
(Audio)
light
clear
dark
colorcolor
colors
coloredcolored
whitewhite
blackblack
yellowyellow
orangeorange
redred
pinkpink
violetviolet
blueblue
greengreen
brownbrown
greygrey

Appearance & attributes

EnglishPronunciation
(Audio)
new
old
small
large
big
young
kind
pleasant
unkind
unpleasant
patient
tall (When talking about people)
middle sized (When talking about people)
small (When talking about people)
fat
thin
slim
nice
pretty
beautiful
ugly
ill
sick
healthy
happy
cheerful
sad
sporty
ambitioned
intelligent
creative
active
sentimental
rational
emotional
natural
romantic
nice
amiable
spontaneous
energetic
stressed (out)
relaxed
frustrated
talented

Questions & phrases

EnglishPronunciation
(Audio)
What does he look like?
What does she look like?
What is he like?
What is she like?

Notes:

1 When talking about people2 When talking about people3 When talking about people

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