People

INI5101 Lesson 1A: Describing people

DUOC UC 2021-2

​Lesson Objective

• ​Describing people's appearance and personality

​Describing people: 3 different questions

• ​Notice:

• ​"How are you?"= asks for a non-permanent state.

• I'm fine!

• ​I'm very well, thanks!

• ​I'm great, and you?

• ​I'm ok/not bad, you?

• ​I'm not great.

• ​I'm terrible

​Describing people: 3 different questions

• ​Notice:

• ​"What do you look like?"= asks for a physical description

• height= I am + very tall, tall, medium height, short, very short.

• ​build= I am big (tall and fat), overweight, medium build, slim, thin, skinny.

• ​hair: long, medium lenght, short, hair. *I am bald (no hair)

• ​hair: I have straight /streit/, wavy, curly, hair.

• ​Hair: dark, light, black, blond, red, green, blue, grey, etc.

• *I have dyed /daid/ hair= I changed my color hair.

• ​*I have a moustache, beard, piercing, tatoo, glasses.

​​Describing people: 3 different questions

​​Notice:

• ​"What are you like?"= asks for the personality

​Good aspects:

​friendly

​joyful/cheerful

*nice /funny / fun

​generous

​kind

​intelligent/clever/*smart

​extroverted

​hard-working

​easy-going

​talkative

​Flaws:

​unfriendly

​unhappy, sad, grumpy

​unpleasent / serious / boring

​selfish/cheap

​unkind

​stupid

​shy

​lazy

​stressed

​quiet

​Short quiz: Vocabulary of personalities

​Select or write the correct word

Multiple Choice

A person who is open and warm to others is:

• extroverted

• talkative

• cheerful

• friendly

Multiple Choice

Lucy likes giving things and money to people in need, she is so:

• cheap

• smart

• generous

• kind

Multiple Choice

Mark tells real good jokes. He is very:

• fun

• nice

• funny

• talkative