Lesson 2 - Appearance and Personality
Lesson 2 - Appearance and Personality
Lesson 2 - Appearance and Personality
PERSONALITY
Appearance and Personality
Introduction Introduction
2. When someone has to meet someone they’ve never met before face
to face (they’re picking them up at the airport.
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Vocabulary
APPEARANCE
Describing People
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Exercise 1 Activity
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Activity
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Activity
Exercise 2
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Grammar Focus
ENGLISH ADJECTIVES
Adjectives can be used to describe lots of things, from
physical size, age, shape, color, material, to more abstract
things like opinion, origin and purpose.
We can use adjectives together to give a detailed
description of something.
Adjectives that express opinions usually come before all
others, but it can sometimes depend on what exactly you
want to emphasize.
For example:
"That's a nice, big, blue bag." (You like the bag.) "That's a
nice blue." (You like the color.)
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Grammar Focus
When we group adjectives together there is a general (sometimes flexible) rule
for the position of each type of adjective, these are:
You might swap adjectives that express an opinion and an adjective based on fact depending
on what you wish to emphasize:-
For example:
"She had a long, ugly nose." emphasizing the length of her nose.
"He was a silly, little man." emphasizing that the man was silly.
This is just for fun as you wouldn't normally see so many adjectives in one description.
For example:
"She had a big, ugly, old, baggy, blue, stripey, cotton, British, knitting bag."
Does it matter if you get it wrong? Well outside of exams and tests, it won't kill you, but
people reading or listening to you will find it odd if you mix up the order.
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Put the adjectives in order Grammar Focus
1. He was wearing a ________ shirt. 6. This is a ________ movie.
dirty old flannel new Italian wonderful
flannel old dirty wonderful Italian new
old dirty flannel wonderful new Italian
3. All the girls fell in love with the ________ 8. It's in the ________ container.
teacher. large blue metal
handsome new American blue large metal
American new handsome blue metal large
new handsome American
9. He sat behind a ________ desk.
4. I used to drive ________ car. big wooden brown
a blue old German big brown wooden
an old German blue wooden big brown
an old blue German
10. She gave him a ________ vase.
5. He recently married a ________ woman. small Egyptian black
young beautiful Greek black Egyptian small
beautiful young Greek small black Egyptian
beautiful Greek young
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Vocabulary
Describe each word and give the opposite word.
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Vocabulary
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Reading
PERSONALITY
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Reading
Comprehension Check
1. What kind of family did Ernesto come from?
2. What does “educated family” mean?
3. What do “well-dressed” and “well-behaved” mean?
4. Why do his teachers have a high opinion about him?
5. Why do you think Ernesto has a well-built body?
6. What musical instrument does he play?
ACTIVITY:
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Vocabulary Building
Matching Type:
Meaning Personality
Good at learning things nervous
Someone who talks a lot. clever
Someone who is easy to get a long with wise
Bad-tempered neat
Someone who talks really loudly vain
Someone who is too fond of their looks loud
Someone with a lot of common sense easy-going
and knowledge
A mean, unpleasant person grumpy
Someone who is easily startled by things chatty
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Vocabulary Building
Matching Type:
Meaning Personality
Can change easily motivated
Waits calmly; doesn’t get upset creative
Is serious about job flexible
Neat and tidy in appearance punctual
Complete and detailed well-groomed
Exact; without mistakes patient
Eager and interested thorough
Makes and invents new things accurate
On time conscientious
Having a good deal of knowledge knowledgeable
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Key Expressions
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Key Expressions
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Activity
Talkative Survey
1. Why are some people very talkative?
2. Do you usually like talkative person? Explain.
3. Where do you dislike talkative person?
4. When are you talkative?
5. What are you talkative about?
Discussion:
With a partner, come up with a description of the best
and worst person in each category. Add an emotional component to your
description. How does he or she make you feel? DON’T WRITE! TALK!
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Activity
A. What is the best . . .
1. spouse like?
2. neighbor like?
3. boss like?
4. friend like?
5. you like?
Why?
1. spouse like?
2. neighbor like?
3. boss like?
4. friend like?
5. you like?
Why?
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Activity
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Activity
Talking about types of people.
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Activity
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Speaking Activity
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Idioms
Cry-baby A cry-baby is a
person who gets
emotional and cries too
easily.
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Idioms
Good-for-nothing A lazy
person who doesn't do
anything useful is a good-
Bald as a coot A person for-nothing.
who is completely bald is
as bald as a coot.
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The End