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Vocabulary: touch, our skin...

The surface of an adult's skin is a meter and a half to two square meters, and it weighs between three and five kilograms. 

The colour of our skin varies and becomes tanned (or burnt ) in the sun. Our complexion is an indicator of the good health of our skin, and, in fact, of our whole body. 

The skin (here, tatooed)	Structure of our skin	To touch each other	Fingerprints

1) Touching enables us to apprehend and understand our environment. Thanks to it, we can distinguish the shape of things, their nature, their temperature, their aspect etc.

Thanks to our skin and of the nerve endings it contains, we can feel sensations (often expressed by adjectives qualifying the objects around us). 

Smooth/ Rough	Soft/ Hard
An uneven tan	Clammy hands
Greasy	Slippery
Sticky	Fluffy

2) Thanks to our skin, and to our whole body, we can make a lot of movements and do many different actions, which are often expressed by verbs: here are a few...

To squeeze	To brush	To scratch
To palpate	To massage	To applaud
To knock	to tap (tap dance)	To kiss
To cuddle	To cradle	To handle with care
To rub	To stroke	To tickle

 Here you are! With those few words, you should be able to enter a conversation if "touching" is concerned! Good luck for the test! 

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1. The burglars have left clammy handsscratchingsfingerprintsI don't know all over the place and detectives are lifting them for identification.


2. Don't forget to knocksqueezecuddleI don't know at the door before entering her office. She'll scream if you don't.


3. She was scared and intimidated. Her fingerprintsclammy handsscratchesI don't know needed to be wiped dry.


4. Rush hours are terrible in every underground in the world. Commuters are tickledcuddledsqueezedI don't know into carriages and the air is unbreathable.


5. Mothers love cuddlingscratchingsqueezingI don't know and admiring their newborn babies, and it's a lasting desire!


6. We're moving tomorrow, but I'll take care of a few boxes which must be squeezedcuddledhandled with careI don't know. They're so precious to me.


7. I hate waving at my friends and handlingticklingkissingI don't know them on a platform or in airports. I'm no good at saying goodbye.


8. She was wriggling like a worm because her friend was ticklingtap dancingscratchingI don't know her and they were both laughing.


9. Those kitchen tiles are smoothslipperystickyI don't know for easy cleaning.


10. I'm fed up with this cat squeezingslippingscratchingI don't know the furniture... I don't think I can prevent it.



11. The mom was scratchingstrokinggreasingI don't know her kid's cheek to wake him up quietly.


12. Take great care when driving. The roads are very handledslipperystickyI don't know because of the snow.