Sponsored by Chowdhury and Hossain, Advanced PublicationsListen
Unit Five: Personality Types
Lesson 1
What is he like!
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• described the physical appearances of some people
• written down the qualities of some people
• identified a person from a given physical description
• identified the different meanings of 'like'
• written the description of a person
A Look at the following pictures. Work in pairs. How would you describe the physical features of these persons?
Picture
B What qualities do you think are important for being a good student? Tick the ones that seem important to you. Which ones are physical qualities and which ones are personality traits? Make 2 lists.
well-behaved, healthy, well-dressed, serious, quiet, naughty, lively, punctual, jolly, pot-bellied, hard-working, able to sing, able to draw, short-haired, honest, good-looking, patient, tolerant, organised, reasonable, independent worker, group worker, fun-loving, imaginative, creative, tall, short, bald, fair-complexioned, clean-shaved, bearded, pleasant
Can you think of any others? Are there any that a student should not be?
C Work in pairs and tell your partner to select appropriate adjectives to describe you from the list above. Do the same for your partner. Now exchange your lists and see if you agree with your partner's assessment of you.
D What qualities do you think are important for the following people? Fill in the following table taking help from the list above. Put in any other word that you think relevant.
a politician
a teacher
a doctor
a bus driver
a cook
E Read the following description of Mr Robertson and identify him from the pictures given after.
Mr Robertson is a lawyer. He doesn't like people who talk too much. He himself prefers to speak very little. He doesn't have a beard but be has an enormous moustache of which he is very proud. He says it makes him look important. He has a snub nose and a square chin. He doesn't have a lot of hair on his head but he isn't bald either. His hair is not straight but curly. He is in his fifties and loves to eat. In fact trying out different types of food is one of his favourite hobbies. He is a serious person but some-Times he can make you laugh.
Picture
F What is the difference between the following questions?
1 What does Mr Robertson look like?
2 What is Mr Robertson like?
3 What does Mr Robertson like?
Find your answer from the passage above.
G Match an answer in column B with a question in column A.
What is he like?
What does he look like?
What does he like? - short and fat with a beard
- very clever but not very honest
- good-natured and very gentle
- tall, slim and dark-complexioned
- eating biryani
- watching cricket on TV
H Now imagine your uncle has recently got married. Write a letter to your cousin who lives abroad and could not come to the wedding, describing your new aunt in such a way that your cousin gets a fairly good idea of what she is like (and NOT what she looks like).
Focus:
Skills.
Speaking,
intensive
reading, writing.
Functions.
Describing people's appearance,
describing personality.
Grammar/Structure.
Structures with 'like',
words describing appearance,
personality. Vocabulary.
lively, pleasant, bald,
snub-nosed.
This text will be replaced
Unit Five: Personality Types
Lesson 1
What is he like!
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• described the physical appearances of some people
• written down the qualities of some people
• identified a person from a given physical description
• identified the different meanings of 'like'
• written the description of a person
A Look at the following pictures. Work in pairs. How would you describe the physical features of these persons?
Picture
B What qualities do you think are important for being a good student? Tick the ones that seem important to you. Which ones are physical qualities and which ones are personality traits? Make 2 lists.
well-behaved, healthy, well-dressed, serious, quiet, naughty, lively, punctual, jolly, pot-bellied, hard-working, able to sing, able to draw, short-haired, honest, good-looking, patient, tolerant, organised, reasonable, independent worker, group worker, fun-loving, imaginative, creative, tall, short, bald, fair-complexioned, clean-shaved, bearded, pleasant
Can you think of any others? Are there any that a student should not be?
C Work in pairs and tell your partner to select appropriate adjectives to describe you from the list above. Do the same for your partner. Now exchange your lists and see if you agree with your partner's assessment of you.
D What qualities do you think are important for the following people? Fill in the following table taking help from the list above. Put in any other word that you think relevant.
a politician
a teacher
a doctor
a bus driver
a cook
E Read the following description of Mr Robertson and identify him from the pictures given after.
Mr Robertson is a lawyer. He doesn't like people who talk too much. He himself prefers to speak very little. He doesn't have a beard but be has an enormous moustache of which he is very proud. He says it makes him look important. He has a snub nose and a square chin. He doesn't have a lot of hair on his head but he isn't bald either. His hair is not straight but curly. He is in his fifties and loves to eat. In fact trying out different types of food is one of his favourite hobbies. He is a serious person but some-Times he can make you laugh.
Picture
F What is the difference between the following questions?
1 What does Mr Robertson look like?
2 What is Mr Robertson like?
3 What does Mr Robertson like?
Find your answer from the passage above.
G Match an answer in column B with a question in column A.
What is he like?
What does he look like?
What does he like? - short and fat with a beard
- very clever but not very honest
- good-natured and very gentle
- tall, slim and dark-complexioned
- eating biryani
- watching cricket on TV
H Now imagine your uncle has recently got married. Write a letter to your cousin who lives abroad and could not come to the wedding, describing your new aunt in such a way that your cousin gets a fairly good idea of what she is like (and NOT what she looks like).
Focus:
Skills.
Speaking,
intensive
reading, writing.
Functions.
Describing people's appearance,
describing personality.
Grammar/Structure.
Structures with 'like',
words describing appearance,
personality. Vocabulary.
lively, pleasant, bald,
snub-nosed.