We have already learnt how to talk about weight, diet, together with some good phrases for telling what might be happening during this time. Now we’re going to learn how to express height.

Listen carefully to the video.

How tall are you? I’m 183 cm tall.

or

What’s your height? My height is 183 cm.

We use tall mostly for people, trees, buildings with many floors, and a few other things like factory chimneys or electricity pylons, which are higher than they are wide.

How tall are you?

There are some beautiful tall trees in the park.

In other cases we usually prefer high.

Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain in Europe.

The garden has very high walls.

But in measurements, we use tall for people, and we prefer high for things.

I’m 5’5″ tall.

That tree is about 30m high.

Got it? 😉