Giao Vien 4
HEIGHT & WEIGHT
I. HEIGHT (noun) - TALL/HIGH (adjective)
1. To ask about people´s HEIGHT we say:
HOW TALL + AM/IS/ARE/WAS/WERE + SUBJECT?
WHAT + IS/WAS + Adjective Possessive + HEIGHT?
How tall are you? ( = What is your height?)
How tall is he? (= What is his height?)
How tall is she? (= What is her height?)
How tall are they? (= What is their height?)
Q: What's your height?
A: I'm 5 feet, 4 inches tall./ I'm 5 feet 4 inches in height.
Q: How tall are you?
A: I'm 5 feet, 11 inches tall. (I'm 5' 11".)
Q: What's his height?
A: He's six one. (It's possible to eliminate the use of "feet" or "inches" completely.)
Q: How tall is she?
A: She doesn't know. She has to measure herself.
2. To ask about the HEIGHT of a thing or things, we say:
HOW TALL/HIGH + IS/ARE/WAS/WERE + IT/THEY?
WHAT + IS/WAS + the/adjective Possessive (their/its) + HEIGHT?
Singular Plural
How tall is it? How tall are they?
What's its height? How high are they?
Or => How many stories is the building?
Q: How tall is that apartment building?
A: It's three stories tall.
Q: How tall are these stones?
A: They're about 15 feet high.
Q: How tall are those skyscrapers?
A: They're over 40 stories tall.
Q: What is the buidling's height?
A: Its height is about 100 feet./ It's about 100 feet in height.
II. WEIGHT (noun) - WEIGH (verb) - HEAVY (adjective)
1. To ask about people´s WEIGHT we say:
HOW MUCH/WHAT + DO/DOES/DID + SUBJECT + WEIGH?
WHAT + IS/WAS + adjective Possessive + WEIGHT?
How much do you weigh? (= What's your weight?)
How much does he weigh? (= What's his weight?)
How much do they weigh? (= What's their weight?)
Note:
* Height is not as sensitive a topic as weight in the U.S. It's okay to ask about a person's height but not a person's weight.
* It's possible to ask, "How much do I weigh?" or "What's my weight?" But in most situations it isn't necessary unless you are repeating another person's question. The examples below might help:
Q: How much do I weigh?
A: I don't know. Why don't you weigh yourself?
Q: How much do you weigh?
A: I weigh 191 pounds.
Q: What does he weigh?
A: He weighs about 175 pounds.
Q: How much does she weigh?
A: She doesn't know. She has to weigh herself.
1 pound (lb.) = 0.4536 kilograms (kg)
He weighs 170 pounds. (Pronounced as "one hundred and seventy pounds" or "one hundred seventy pounds".)
He weighs 77 kilograms. (Pronounced as "seventy-seven kilograms".)
What is her weight?
Her weight is 132 pounds. (one hundred thirty-two pounds)/She is 132 pounds in weight.
Her weight is 59.9 kilograms. (fifty-nine point nine kilograms)
Her weight is about 60 kilograms. (sixty kilograms)
2. To ask about the WEIGHT of a thing or things, we say:
HOW MUCH/WHAT + DO/DOES + SUBJECT + WEIGH?
HOW HEAVY + IS/ARE/WAS/WERE + SUBJECT?
WHAT + IS/WAS + adjective Possessive + WEIGHT?
Singular Plural
How much does this weigh? How much do these weigh?
What does this weigh? What do these weigh?
How heavy is this? How heavy are these?
Q: How heavy is this?
A: It's about 10 pounds.
Q: How heavy are these stones?
A: They're very heavy.
Q: How much do these apples weigh?
A: They're almost four pounds.
Note:
* Don't say => How much pounds?
What weight is it?
* 1 inch (in.) = 2.54 centimeters (cm)
1 foot (ft.) = 12 in. = 30.48 cm = 0.3048 m
He is six feet tall. He is 183 centimeters tall. (one hundred eighty-three centimeters)
She is five feet three inches tall. She is five foot three (in height).
She is 160 centimeters tall. (one hundred sixty centimeters)
Her 12-year-old son is about 5 feet tall and weighs about 88 pounds. (eighty-eight pounds)
Her twelve-year-old son is about a hundred and fifty centimeters tall and weighs about forty kilograms.
Note: Those structures above are also used with LENGTH, WIDTH and DEPTH.
LENGTH (noun) - LONG (adjective)
The boat was 16 feet in length. - The boat was 16 feet long.
WIDTH (noun) - WIDE (adjective)
The path is about two metres in width. - The path is about two metres wide.
DEPTH (noun) - DEEP (adjective)
The pool is about 4 metres in depth. - The pool is about 4 metres deep.