1. Pre-Intermediate Lesson 3
Talking about friends
Pre-Intermediate Lesson 3

2. Today we are going to learn:
Vocabulary to talk about people’s appearance
Vocabulary to talk about people’s personality

3. In English you can say:
He is my best friend.
He is my close friend.
She is a friend of mine.

4. Physical appearance
Personality

5. What does he/she look like. (appearance) What is he/she like
What does he/she look like? (appearance) What is he/she like? (personality)
He is really nice, really open. He is very intelligent. And ambitious, too.
He is tall and slim, his hair is fair and he’s got a modern hairstyle. He is well-dressed.

6. Talking about Appearance
He is handsome. He’s got a modern hairstyle. He has a tattoo and he wears glasses.
The verb to be He is nice. He is tall and slim.
The verb have got He’s got a modern hairstyle. He’s got short fair hair.
Present Simple He wears glasses. He doesn’t have any special features.

7. special features
a scar
tattoos
glasses

8. What does he look like?
He is handsome. He is tall and slim. He’s got short fair hair with a modern hairstyle. He is well-dressed. He has got a nice smile.

9. What does she look like?
She is beautiful and stylish. She’s got long fair hair. She wears glasses and she is well-dressed. She is in her fifties.

10. In English we say beautiful about a woman and handsome about a man.
We can say good-looking about both men and women.
We usually say pretty about young girls.
We can say cute about a child.

11. people have different opinions and like different things
Tastes differ
people have different opinions and like different things

12. Talking about people’s age How old is he/she
Talking about people’s age How old is he/she? I don’t know exactly but he is in his early twenties she her mid thirties late fifties
young/middle-aged/elderly

13. Talking about Personality
He is really nice, really open. He is very intelligent. And ambitious, too.
There are many other words to describe personality. Try to think of one beginning with each letter of the alphabet.

14. Here are our suggestions: A – ambitious B – brave C – creative, clever D – decisive E – emotional, energetic F – friendly G – generous H – hard-working, honest

15. I – intelligent J – joyful K – kind L – loyal M – modest N – nice O – optimistic P – polite Q – quiet

16. R – romantic S – shy T – truthful U – understanding V – versatile W – warmhearted

17. Match these positive personality adjectives with their opposites: For example: hard-working – lazy 1. decisive generous friendly 4. polite shy honest a. dishonest b. talkative c. unfriendly d. impolite e. mean f. indecisive
1. F E C D B A

18. We can use negative prefixes to make adjectives negative: UN ambitious – unambitious emotional – unemotional intelligent – unintelligent kind – unkind IM modest – immodest polite – impolite

19. Today we have learned: Vocabulary to talk about people’s appearance
Vocabulary to talk about people’s personality