Unit 1 | Session 1

What’s your personality? - True friends

, people’s personalities, and
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Talk about
ask and answer questions about people you know
 Unit 1 | Session 1
What’s your personality?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Talk about people’s personalities and ask and
answer questions about people you know

Lesson overview

1 GET STARTED: First Impressions

2 PREPARE: Describing personality
3 SPEAKING: What words describe you?
4 PREPARE: I’d like to know…
5 SPEAKING: Can you tell me about them?
6 PROGRESS CHECK
GET STARTED
First impressions
When you first meet someone, what is
important to you?

• nice clothes
• an honest face
• a friendly voice
• a cheerful personality
• something else
PREPARE
Describing personality
Which words describe the people in the photos? More than one answer is possible.

cheerful easygoing generous helpful

intelligent nervous serious sociable

1 2
SPEAKING
What words describe you?
Tell your partner three words that describe you and give reasons for your choices. Can you find a
word below that does not describe you?

brave cheerful easygoing generous

helpful honest intelligent nervous
reliable selfish serious sociable

I’m serious, reliable, and easygoing. I’m

easygoing because I don’t argue with other
people. I’m not selfish. I have three brothers,
and we share everything!
PREPARE
I’d like to know…
Ask and answer indirect questions about the
woman in the photo.

I wonder… where she went.

I’d like to know… who she’s with.
I’d like to find out… what she’s doing.
when…
how…
why…
I’d like to find out
who she’s with.

I think she went with a

photography club.
SPEAKING
Can you tell me about them?
Follow the directions to role-play the
situation.
Student A: Ask indirect questions to find out about
Student B’s new friend / teacher / neighbor / boss.
Student B: Answer Student A’s questions about
your new new friend / teacher / neighbor / boss.

Then switch.

Do you know where she was born?

She’s from Colombia, but

she grew up in Orlando.
PROGRESS CHECK

Now I can...

❑ talk about people’s personalities.

❑ ask and answer questions about people I know

 Unit 1 | Session 1
What’s your personality?
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Talk about people’s personalities, and answer
questions about people you know

Thank you!