DESCRIBING PEOPLE UNIT:

PERSONALITIES
What are you like?
Asking someone for his / her personality.

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WHAT ARE YOU LIKE?

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Figure out your personality

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Match the adjectives below with the questions in the quiz. which describe you and your partner?

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Who do you feel close to in your family ?

I feel close to_________________

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Listen to four people talking about who they feel closest to in their
family. Complete the chart with the relationship and then and

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Re write theses sentences using your own information.

_____________ (of two people) be continually arguing with one another.

_____________ a succession of both good and bad experiences.

_____________  to agree with someone or share the same opinion on

something.
_____________ to make someone upset or annoyed:
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Re write theses sentences using your own information.

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 Talking about you...

 Name the person you feel close to in your family and explain
why?
For example: Tess says she feel closest to her sister Charlotte because even though
they are different (sometimes her sister drives her crazy and argue a lot with her. She
knows she can always count on her – she can trust on her sister.

Simon says he feels closest to his granddad because they have a lot of things in
common. They share same interest and love for wildlife – nature- plants and animals.
They ofen go walking to the countryside and sometimes they go camping as well.

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 Talking about you...

Can you also describe someone´s personality ?

For example:

Ellie says she feels closest to her mon because she is the kind of person you can
talk about anything. She is very easy going and sociable. Her mom is very
understanding and not old fashioned at alll.

Nick says he is closest to his twin brother. They have a lot of thing in commom. They
like same football team, same kind of music and share same friends. Although chris is
more calm and easy going like his mom. His brother is moddy and bad tempered as his
father.

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COMPARATIVES.
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Comparatives adjectives than

• Tess´s sister is more sociable than Tess.

• Tess is shier than her sister

• Charlotte is more cheerful and funnier than Tess

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COMPARATIVES ADJECTIVES
.

Comparatives adjectives than

1. Use a comparative adjective + than to compare two people, places, or

things.
• Lydia is taller than Alex. Superiority
• My granddad is younger at heart than me. (más que)

2. You can use less + adjective when the comparison indicate inferiority
Alex us less tall than Lydia.
I am less young at heart than my granddad

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 DISCOVER. COMPLETE THE EXERCISES TO LEARN
ABOUT THE GRAMMAR IN THIS LESSON.

B. Look at the words you wrote in exercise A. Then circle the correct word to
complete each rule.

1. For long / short adjectives, put more before the

adjective to form the comparative.

2. For long / short adjectives, add -er to the end of the

adjective to form the comparative

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ADJECTIVES

• Most one syllable • two syllable

adjectives adjectives

Short Long
adjective adjective
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ADJECTIVES

• One syllable • two syllable

adjectives adjectives

nice dangerous
modern
long reliable
strong short
efficient
tall weak popular
attractive
hot
large courageous
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Use the word more to make the comparative form

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COMPARATIVES ADJECTIVES
.

Comparatives adjectives than

3. Some two-syllable adjectives are used with either -er or more to form the
comparative.
• Quiet = quieter / more quiet
• Simple = simpler / more simple

4. Some adjectives have an irregular comparative form.

Good better
bad worse
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 COMPARATIVE

 GOOD Some people think that a consumer society

provides people with better lives.

 BAD Linear Algebra is worse than Calculus.

These are activities that go further than learning

 FAR opportunities, but rather have been well accepted
by the university community
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