CHARACTER’S

DESCRIPTION
‣ vERB TO BE – ADJECTIVE order
CLASS OBJECTIVES

 Learning objective: Students use the verbs, to be and to

have with some adjectives, properly to describe their
characters
 Communicative: Students describe the character they
play in the TV series
 Strategies: Listening for specific information

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VOCABULARY
TIME
 Watch the following video and match the vocabulary to the right person.

Good looking Beautiful

Brown hair blonde
serious funny
bad tempered outgoing

CLAIRE
PHIL
Good looking – Beautiful – blonde – Brown hair – serious – funny – bad tempered
- outgoing

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WHAT IS AN ADJECTIVE?
 adjectives are used to identify or quantify individual people and unique things,
they are usually positioned before the noun or pronoun that they modify.

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ADJECTIVE ORDER?
 YES! Different from English, adjectives must be written in a specific order!
 When you have two nouns together, the first noun becomes the adjective of the
next one.
Flower vase

ADJECTIVE+NOUN
a decorative
container without
handles to put
Vase flowers in it.
Flower
NOUN
NOUN
a decorative
A kind of container
plant without handles

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ADJECTIVE ORDER

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ADJECTIVE ORDER PRACTICE

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ADJECTIVE PHRASE?
 YES! Adjective phrases are parts of a sentence which have their own meaning even
if you read/write it apart.
 Adjective phrases structure is made of:
Determiner (article/number) + adjective(s) + noun (person or object)

Examples:

 A beautiful and tall girl

 Two new red cars
 The old hospital.

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VERB ¨ TO BE ¨ TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE

 Structure: Person (pronoun)+ Verb to be + complement (adjective to describe

people)

 I am tall / short / beautiful / expressive

 He is outgoing / jealous / chubby
 She is slim / young / old

 Short forms:
 I am = I’m tall
 He is = He’s outgoing
 She is = She’s slim

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VERB ¨ TO BE ¨ TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE +ADJECTIVE
PHRASE

 We can also write complex sentences using adjective phrases, they can be the subject
of the sentence as well the complement:

 Person (pronoun)+ Verb to be + adjective phrase

 Adjective phrase + Verb to be + complement

Examples:
 She is a beautiful American girl.
 That old black car is behind the house.

Using adjective phrases can help you to give more information in one sentence!

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WHAT IS HE/SHE LIKE?
WHAT DOES SHE LOOK LIKE?
AND HOW IS SHE?
 Write three sentences describing Haley
3. How is she?
1. What’s she like?
This question is to describe a
This question is to describe person in terms of state in the
a person in terms of moment.
PERSONALITY.

2. What does she look

like?
1. She is an outgoing girl.

This question is to describe 2. She’s a Slim short girl.

a person in terms of
PHYSICAL
APPAREANCE. 3. She is happy.

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SOME ADJECTIVES FOR PERSONALITY
VERB ¨ TO HAVE ¨ TO DESCRIBE
PHYSICAL FEATURES
 Structure: Person (pronoun)+ Verb to have (have/has) + adjective phrase
(using physical features)

Attention!
Examples:
Sometimes in the adjective phrase
 I have short black hair with the physical feature is not
 She has small brown eyes neccesary to use a determiner

 He has dark skin

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PHYSICAL FEATURES: THE FACE

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TYPES OF HAIR

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TYPES OF HAIR

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TYPES OF EYES AND EYEBROWS

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TYPES OF NOSE AND EARS

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TYPES OF FACE

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PHYSICAL FEATURES

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PHYSICAL FEATURES

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TYPES OF BODY

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LET’S PRACTICE

tall slim outgoing extrovert

straight young expressive
beautiful talkative jealous
sexy

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LET’S PRACTICE

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