language learning center · A2 · Lesson 8
Describing people
Describe someone’s personality and appearance without confusing the two questions.
Step 1 of 8 — Dialogue
~3 min~25 min total
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?
Max
She's friendly, patient, and very easy to talk to.
Ella
What does she look like?
Max
She's quite tall, and she has short, curly hair.
Understand a natural example and learn a small set of useful words, phrases, and patterns.
These items were selected by the lesson curriculum for practical use—not extracted as an every-word list.
What's … like?
What's … like?
She's friendly and…
She's friendly and…
What does … look like?
What does … look like?
She's quite…
She's quite tall, and she has short, curly hair.
She has… hair.
She has… hair.
Which question asks about personality?
Listen, then choose what you heard.
Write your own sentence using this item.
This is self-practice. It is not automatically scored as correct or incorrect.
Answer in your own words. Record yourself, listen back, and then compare your response with the model answer.
Describe one person with two personality details and two appearance details.
Choose someone you know and use respectful, neutral descriptions.
Describe someone clearly and respectfully
Daily goal
0 / 3 activities
Each activity counts once a day. A correct answer, a completed writing task, or a positive speaking reflection counts toward your goal. One activity keeps your streak going.
- 1. What's … like?
- 2. She's friendly and…
- 3. What does … look like?
- 4. She's quite…
- 5. She has… hair.