How to Talk about People in English Basic English Phrases
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to talk about how to talk about
personalities and appearances so we’re
going to talk about ways to explain like
someone’s personality like how their
character is their behavior is and we’re
going to talk about what they look like
so today I’m going to introduce a few
patterns to explain those things and as
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today’s lesson we’re going to talk about
personalities and attitudes and
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livestream so today we’re going to look
at some new adjectives that you can use
to talk about people in your life we’re
going to talk about a few grammar
patterns and we’re gonna talk about some
kind of general expressions that you can
use to talk about people so let’s begin
alright so the first the first one I
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for today the first one I guess I’ll
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personalities topic one if you’re just
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topic for today number one so this is
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for the day let’s begin
so first let’s introduce a basic
question that many of my students have
trouble with the question is what is
person like what is person like so here
we’ll see it in just a second here
what is a person like so in this example
I have person this we can replace with
any person in your life so a meaning
like what’s your mother like what’s your
friend like what’s your boss like so
this is a simple personality question a
simple personality question so
be careful you should not necessarily
use like in your answer for this I know
the word like is here but we shouldn’t
necessarily use the word like in the
answer so the meaning of this question
is actually what is this person’s
personality what is this person’s
personality so oh I’ve just it’s the
live stream okay I just the computer
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trouble good okay great so we’re back
okay so this question is about
personalities then so the ants the the
meaning of this question is what is this
person’s personality so I want to
introduce a few patterns you can use to
answer this question so very short ones
so let’s take a look I have four
patterns I want to introduce to explain
how to answer this question so let’s
take a look I think they’re coming up
now in just a moment so we’re going to
talk about an adjective pattern a couple
of patterns you can use with adjectives
and maybe one noun phrase pattern that
you can use - okay so let’s see I think
are those yeah that’s great okay so
let’s take a look at these it might be a
little tricky to see okay great so to
answer the question for example like
what’s my father like for example we can
use one of these patterns these are just
a few examples of how we can answer this
so first my so person for example like
my father and then we use is plus the
adjective so for example my father is
calm that’s true my father is very calm
person so my father is calm okay um nice
so another example you can use instead
of repeating like the name of the person
my father my someone is calm we can just
substitute he or she
or she so he is calm here please no I’ve
got the contracted form he’s and she’s
here this apostrophe s is is he is or
she is right here so here I don’t have
is like I do in this sentence let’s use
the contracted form to sound a bit more
natural here so he is or she is calm
okay another one here I have there so
remember they we need to change the verb
the to be verb here so they are in other
words but I have contracted this to make
it their adjectives they are adjectives
so for example my neighbors they are
really talkative for example so another
phrase we can use though these patterns
all use adjectives these all use
adjectives to describe someone’s
personality this however uses a noun
phrase so we need to change the verb we
can’t say he is or she is we have to use
he or she has aa plus your noun phrase
and make sure the noun phrase reflects
like someone’s personality so for
example she has a good sense of humor
she has a good sense of humor so these
are patterns you can use for adjectives
and nouns to talk about people in your
life
yeah Honiton he’s shy good my father is
my hero ah that’s a nice one - my father
is my hero great
Rafael yes this is live it is live okay
so let’s then we’ve talked about some
adjectives patterns here let’s talk
about some vocabulary words you can use
to explain the people in your life so I
don’t want to use only like nice or good
let’s talk about some more specific
vocabulary words you can use to explain
personality so I want to so I first I
introduced a word like calm this word so
this is a good pronunciation point maybe
you can see it here this
home this one CA LM so calm there’s a
kind of soft dish L sound they’re so
calm is one so sort of like um they
don’t really get angry easily so I said
My father is calm yeah so that’s one
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one I want to introduce is the word calm
another good one you can use is
hard-working hard-working actually I
used this to talk about my mom this week
is my mom’s birthday she’s hard-working
so someone who works like has a good
work ethic she has a strong work ethic
for example so someone who is
hard-working works a lot works carefully
they’re very hard-working he’s
hard-working she’s hard-working okay I
already talked about the expression a
good sense of humor that’s a noun phrase
so he or she has a good sense of humor
he or she has a good sense of humor all
right another good one that I like is
the word reliable reliable so reliable
reliable that’s an I sorry
reliable is someone we can rely on
so to rely is like someone you can trust
like they always do what they say
they’re going to do so for example if I
say okay I’m going to do a live stream
every week at 11 o’clock or my job and
every week we do that we are reliable I
hope for example so that’s one way to
use reliable we can trust we can rely on
that thing okay
a similar word then is trustworthy trust
worthy so in this word we see the route
here is trust Trust trust and then we
have worthy so like worthy meaning
deserving of something so in other words
that person is deserving of our
trust Oh producer says she’s gonna zoom
in a little bit maybe on the board okay
so I’ll back up so trustworthy so
someone who we can trust so maybe
someone is reliable and trustworthy they
always do what they say they’re going to
do and we can trust them like with
information or I don’t know secrets
maybe I’m not sure so trustworthy final
when to talk about here some nice
positive one
he’s honest an honest person so someone
who does not lie for example or someone
who always tells the truth so we use
tell the verb to tell the truth so he or
she is honest he or she is honest this
is a couple of good vocabulary positive
vocabulary words we can use to talk
about people okay let’s continue on
though can I steal the mouse or can we
go down on my notes there for a second
thank you okay I want to though explain
some kind of negative vocabulary words
I’ll move this down I’ll talk about this
cheat sheet in just a second so these
are sort of positive vocabulary words up
here but I want to explain maybe a few
negative vocabulary words so we can
actually use the word negative to
describe someone’s personality so the
word negative a negative person a
negative person is someone who has bad
things to say or they always say no or
they don’t want to do something or
they’re just they have a negative kind
of just a bad attitude all the time
that’s a negative person a negative
person so negative is an adjective we
can use to describe personality okay
another one the adjectives mean the
adjectives mean a mean person she’s mean
he’s mean someone who is unkind to other
people so maybe you have like a mean
boss or maybe you have a mean friend
someone who is mean to service staff for
example so a mean person is unkind to
other people yeah like a mean
or a mean older sister she’s mean so be
careful this is different from like what
does it mean this is an adjective so we
use to describe people mean he’s mean
she’s mean yes okay another one we can
use this maybe is negative sometimes the
word is sneaky a sneaky person so a
sneaky person is someone who like
they’re very secretive and there’s maybe
like doing a lot of different things but
they don’t tell people about it so this
can be negative though I suppose
sometimes this is positive so maybe like
spies are sneaky people like a spy could
maybe be a sneaky person or maybe um I
don’t know like a reporter is a sneaky
person sometimes though this sneaky can
have the nuance of being kind of
negative sometimes so do watch out okay
I think I’ll finish there for the
negative adjectives because we need to
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vocabulary and appearance related
sentence patterns so let’s take a look
okay
number two appearance appearance so
appearance means your physical
appearance what do you look like what do
you look like I think that’s our
question actually the base question I
want to answer so what do you look like
what does such and such person look like
hmm so here you can see we have a
similar pattern from our first one what
does your father look like or what does
your teacher look like for example so
here we have look like in the question
however be careful we don’t necessarily
need to use look like in the answer if
we say he looks like or she looks like
it means he resembles or she resembles
something okay so this is this is a very
common way to talk about appearance
appear so today’s topic again
personalities and appearance how to talk
about those two so topic one was
personalities but this is an appearance
only question what does this person look
like what does this person look like
okay so let’s look at some sentence
patterns to answer this one alrighty so
here you can see there are some answer
patterns that are similar if not exactly
the same as the personality patterns we
talked about so for example my person is
and here we can use an adjective but
this should be an adjective of
appearance not an adjective of
personality so in this case like what
does your father look like I could say
my father is tall so this is an
appearance adjective my father is tall
or I can substitute again he or
she as we did for the personality
pattern he or she is plus an appearance
adjectives so she’s quite thin she’s
very thin or he’s really fat something
like that so an appearance adjectives
can go here again if the subject is they
so like your neighbors or your other
family members for example they are plus
and appearance adjectives so like my
neighbors are really fat for example I
don’t know what kind of conversation
that is but their fat we could say that
I don’t know I don’t know what that
conversations but if you need that
sentence there it is okay another one
though so let’s look at a couple of
other ones these two patterns are a
little bit difficult I think sometimes
students run into problems here let’s
look at this he or she has maybe uh and
then noun phrase so I have a here but we
don’t always need to use a so we use
this for like hair or maybe like facial
hair as well or eye color so we use this
to talk about like our personal style
choices so for example in my case I
could say like she has long hair if
someone is talking about me or he has a
mustache so mustache is this hair right
here I do not have a mustache so he has
a mustache she has long hair we could
say that so if you want to talk about
color you can include color remember
though there’s a specific adjective
order so she has long brown hair or he
has short blonde hair we could say or
she has big brown eyes for example so we
can use some other adjectives to
describe like color and like size and
length
yeah garrison Hickerson she has a nice
haircut for example okay and then here
too this one is for something maybe you
know someone who always wears something
specific
hat or glasses or a specific sweater
whatever when you describe that part of
their appearance use the present tense
where’s he or she wears glasses for
example or he or she always wears a
what’s that called a woven hat for
example I know someone who always wears
a hat so he or she wears something so we
use the present tense here because we
use present tense for like regular
regular situations general facts so uh
yeah nice one so he or she wears
contacts if you like so we use present
tense here don’t use the progressive
tense he is wearing she is wearing we
use progressive tense for something
someone is wearing that day so for
example today I’m wearing a grey shirt
I’m wearing black pants today but I
would not use that I wouldn’t say I I’m
wearing grey a grey shirt it’s it’s only
for a temporary situation okay so these
are a few patterns we can use to talk
about appearance so let’s look at some
more vocabulary oh good call yeah
producer says piercings as well if you
want to talk about nose piercings or
like earrings or whatever you can say
like he or she has a pierced a pierced
nose or he or she has pierced ears or
she wears big earrings something like
that we can use it for piercings as well
alrighty let’s go on then to a couple of
vocabulary words I want to mention so
for appearance vocabulary words I talked
about these two already fat and thin I
think maybe most of you know this
already fat and thin fat meaning very
big and thin meaning very small this is
a great pronunciation point by the way
this th in thin thin great chance to
practice that th pronunciation so he is
thin thin good one for pronunciation so
that’s a nice pair
another one I talked about is the tall
and short pair tall and short pair so
this is a these are vocabulary words of
height of height so he is tall she is
short and remember we can use the
comparative forms when we’re done when
we’re talking about people’s appearance
so like he is taller than I am
or she is shorter than me so remember we
can use these in the comparative form as
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channel for more about the comparative
form Hector Hector in the YouTube chat
says she as fat as a whale that’s very
rude that’s a very rude comment it was a
very funny example sentence so don’t
call anyone fat as a whale that’s not
very nice
all right in general a couple more
general ones if you want to talk about
someone you think is attractive we have
these words beautiful and handsome
beautiful and handsome so these words
are typically traditionally it’s women
beautiful men handsome but of course
it’s up to you which word you would like
to use beautiful and handsome are very
general words we can use to talk about
people we think are physically
nice-looking I talked about short and
long hair as well short and long hair by
the way if someone has no hair if
there’s just no hair we say that person
is bald he is bald she is bald so bald
means no hair no hair at all and then I
also talked about a couple of other
words so beard beard is like men
imagine typically I have hair like right
here around the chin we call that
generally that’s beard we use the word
beard to talk about that hair above the
lip is called a moustache a moustache
mustache you might also hear mustache
depending on who you’re speaking to so
mustache or mustache but I say mustache
it’s less silly to me draw what do you
mean draw draw
oh you mean draw a picture oh my gosh
they know I’m not an artist draw a
picture here here is a guy who wears
glasses I guess and here is his amazing
beard there that’s a beard
I don’t know what style he’s going for
but there we have it it’s Santa it’s
Santa in this summer
that’s this guy Santa in this summer oh
my goodness that’s that’s what he does
he doesn’t have to wear the hat in the
summer it’s just the beard he keeps it
but he keeps it trimmed all right well
now we have that recorded so with that
great so those are a few patterns you
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take a break or shall I just continue on
to my last group of sentences actually
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really have time sure
okay great viewers it’s your turn now so
from this we’ve talked about people in
terms of personality and in terms of
appearance so let’s uh ah I see what
you’re saying okay sure sure we can use
that we can use that so let’s use some
of the words and some of the patterns we
have talked about today to explain a
person in your life so think of a person
your friend your family member anybody
and let’s look at to finish today’s live
stream a couple of sentence some very
general patterns we can use to explain a
person these are maybe more personality
so my here is your person so my father
is so funny so you can use so here to
like really emphasize you can draw out
the so sound like my father is so
Oh funny my brother is so smart or
something like that
so my person is so whatever so I hope
you guys think of some things and send
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has finished another one my something
something is such is such this sounds
kind of negative like my boss is such a
jerk so another word I haven’t talked
about is this word ain’t now a jerk a
jerk is a mean person someone who is not
nice is a jerk my boss is a jerk my
neighbor is a jerk those things aren’t
true my bosses and my neighbors are very
nice but a jerk so such a tense - well
it can be used kind of negatively so my
neighbor is such a jerk so I tend to use
negative words with them ah such a slob
yeah nice one so from the control room
the control desk today slob SLO be a
slob well that’s hard to see SLO B thank
you slob a slob Oh B this is a messy
person so someone who has like bad table
manners or does not eat or does not
clean their home properly so that’s a
slob someone who is a slob okay you guys
have good ones my son is so smart my
father is so active my teacher is so
intelligent my nephew is such a brat all
great word who was that that was I’m
sorry your name isn’t Korean I can’t
read it but you have a Cookie Monster
avatar is very nice you said my nephew
is such a brat oh brat is a great word b
ra t is brat so a brat we use brat
usually for children it means a kid who
has like maybe everything he or she
wants and they treat other people very
poorly so they’re mean to other people
so a kid usually a spoiled kid who’s
mean to other people that’s a brat
use of breath good my wife is so pretty
good ah
someone called bang Yas in the YouTube
chat my friend is very swag let’s talk
about this word swag it’s a slang a
slang word swag this is a recent word
we’ve seen we use swag as a noun
swag so instead of my friend is swag we
say my friend has swag
he has swag she has swag swag is used as
a noun
swag with the swag mean it’s like
coolness it’s like a cool I I don’t have
swag I should say like it’s yeah it’s
coolness it’s confidence and it’s like
style as well too so this is a word I
used more by young people I don’t
personally use the word swag because I
have none so let’s let’s use it as a
noun oh please use swag as a noun okay
nice uh Josh Josh and for Facebook jet
says I am handsome alright
congratulations Josh you guys are very
funny you guys are very funny oh man
this is great
so these are just a couple a couple
these are just a handful of words we can
use to talk about people in our lives
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