language learning center · A2 · Lesson 8
Describing people
Describe someone’s personality and appearance without confusing the two questions.
Understand and learn
Work from a natural example to useful language, one small pattern, a spoken attempt, and a response that is relevant to your life.
Ella
What's your new colleague like?
Ella asks about personality and general character.
Max
She's friendly, patient, and very easy to talk to.
Max describes personality.
Ella
What does she look like?
Ella now asks about appearance.
Max
She's quite tall, and she has short, curly hair.
Max gives physical details.
Notice, try, and speak
Understand a natural example and learn a small set of useful words, phrases, and patterns.
Useful words and phrases
These items were selected by the lesson curriculum for practical use—not extracted as an every-word list.
What's … like?
Ask about character.
What's … like?
She's friendly and…
Describe personality.
She's friendly and…
What does … look like?
Ask about appearance.
What does … look like?
She's quite…
Modify an adjective.
She's quite tall, and she has short, curly hair.
She has… hair.
Describe hair.
She has… hair.
Notice, try, and speak
Which question asks about personality?
Make it yours
Describe one person with two personality details and two appearance details.
Choose someone you know and use respectful, neutral descriptions.
Use it with someone
Describe someone clearly and respectfully
- 1. What's … like?
- 2. She's friendly and…
- 3. What does … look like?
- 4. She's quite…
- 5. She has… hair.