Lesson 2 - Appearance and Personality

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APPEARANCE AND

PERSONALITY
Appearance and Personality
Introduction Introduction

DESCRIBING people is not as simple as it sounds.

When is it necessary to describe oneself or someone else? Let’s


face it. It’s not something that comes up in everyday conversation;
there are a limited number of situations in which we are required to
describe people:

1. When we are getting to know someone, we may mention and


describe someone in our family.

2. When someone has to meet someone they’ve never met before face
to face (they’re picking them up at the airport.

3. When we’re trying to get someone to meet someone else (to go on a


date, for example).

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Appearance and Personality
Vocabulary
APPEARANCE
Describing People

What does he/she look like?

HEIGHT BUILD AGE FACE EYES HAIR


Tall Slim Young Round Big round Bald
Short Thin Elderly Oval blue eyes, Straight
Medium Plump Middle- Square large, Curly
height Fat aged With scars small, Spiky
Skinny Teenager Wrinkles bright, Wavy
Well-built In 20’s, Freckles narrow
30’s, 40’s Sun-tanned
Pale

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Appearance and Personality
Exercise 1 Activity

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Appearance and Personality
Activity

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Appearance and Personality
Activity
Exercise 2

1. He has a long ___ because he hasn't shaved in 7 years!


2.You need to cut your ___, they are too long.
3. I'm too ___ to play basketball.
4. Her eyes are so ___ they almost look black.
5. Many men go ___ when they get older.
6. My cousin has ___ length hair.
7. My niece has ___ hair.
8. The prisoner didn't eat anything so he became very ___.
9.You need to have a shower, you're very ___.
10. Teenagers like to squeeze their ___.
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Appearance and Personality
Activity
11. I can't kiss her because I have bad ___.
12. Witches have ___ at the end of their noses.
13. She doesn't need braces because she has ___ teeth.
14. My grandmother has a lot of ___.
15. I have ___ feet because I don't change my socks.
16. He has a face like a rotten apple. He is very ___.
17. I ___ glasses.
18. I ___ contact lenses.
19. My sister hit me and now I have a ___.
20.You can't keep saying you are ___. You're 70 years old.

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Appearance and Personality
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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Appearance and Personality
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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Appearance and Personality
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

2. Pass me the ________ cups. 7. She is a ________ supermodel.


plastic big blue beautiful slim Brazilian
big blue plastic Brazilian beautiful slim
big plastic blue slim Brazilian beautiful

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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Appearance and Personality
Vocabulary
Describe each word and give the opposite word.

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Appearance and Personality
Vocabulary

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Appearance and Personality
Reading
PERSONALITY

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Appearance and Personality
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:

Describe your best friend.

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Appearance and Personality
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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Appearance and Personality
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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Appearance and Personality
Key Expressions

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Appearance and Personality
Key Expressions

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Appearance and Personality
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!

For example: My best friend is sincere, sensitive, and trustworthy. He or she


makes me feel relaxed

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Appearance and Personality
Activity
A. What is the best . . .
1. spouse like?
2. neighbor like?
3. boss like?
4. friend like?
5. you like?

Why?

B. What is the worst . . .

1. spouse like?
2. neighbor like?
3. boss like?
4. friend like?
5. you like?

Why?
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Appearance and Personality
Activity

C. Describe one person you really know and like.


Who is it? What are some things you like about
him or her? How does he or she make you
feel?

D. Describe one person you really know and don’t


like. Who is it? What are some of the reasons
you don’t like him or her? How does he or she
make you feel?

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Appearance and Personality
Activity
Talking about types of people.

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Appearance and Personality
Activity

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Appearance and Personality
Speaking Activity

1. What are some characteristics of your personality?


2. What makes you happy?
3. What are some things that make you angry?
4. Are you happy with your personality?
5. Would you like to be different?
6. Are you a determined person? Are you a stubborn person?
7. Are you shy ? In which occasions are you shy?
8. Is your personality suited to your job?
9. In what way has your personality changed? Why has it changed?
10. Do you think you have an unusual personality? Why?
11. If you could change any aspect of your personality, what would it be?
12. What personality traits do you consider important in a good friend / a boss
/ a partner?
14. Do you consider yourself to be even-tempered?
15. What is one thing that many people don't know about you?
16. Do you think birth order makes a difference in your personality?

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Appearance and Personality
Idioms

Plain Jane A plain Jane is


a woman who isn't
As cold as ice This idiom particularly attractive.
can be used to describe a
person who does not
show any emotion.

Two-faced Someone who


Average Joe An average is two-faced will say one
Joe is an ordinary person thing to your face and
without anything another when you're not
exceptional about them. there.

Cry-baby A cry-baby is a
person who gets
emotional and cries too
easily.
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Appearance and Personality
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.

Bold as brass Someone


Dumb as a rock If you are
who is as bold as brass is
dumb as a rock, you have
very confident and not
no common sense and are
worried about how other
stupid.
people will respond or
Bark is worse than their about being caught.
bite Someone who's bark
is worse than their bite
may well get angry and
shout, but doesn't take
action.
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Minimal Pairs
/ɪ/ sit /i:/ seat /ɪ/ sit /i:/ seat
Pitch Peach Hip Heap
Shill She’ll Kid Keyed
Sick She’ll Knit Neat
Sick Seek Lick Leak
Sin Seen Piss Peace
Still Steal Risen Reason
Chick Cheek Shit Sheet
Chit Cheat Sill Seal
Dill Deal Sim Seem
Gin Gene Sin Scene
Grid Greed Still Steel

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The End

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