PERSONALITY TYPES SONG (intermediate)

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION (intermediate)

What do you look like?
What would you like to look like?

If your answer was the same for both questions, you are satisfied with your appearance. But that is not often the case. Most people would like to have a smaller nose, bigger eyes or a flat stomach. They would like to be taller or look like a famous model or singer. These are days of an intense cult to the body, and that makes many go to the gym or even undergo cosmetic surgery to get the body of their dreams.

How far can one go? Take a look at the following video.

Can you describe her? (hair and hairdo, eyes, lips, waist, clothes, etc.)

Give your impressions about her appearance.

(You can find information on how to describe people here and here).

PERSONALITY (Upper intermediate)

OMG! Don't miss this site if you want to know about the weirdest personalities on the net. And be careful! You could come across them any time, on social networks, forums or chat rooms. They are everywhere! (I wonder, could I be one of them ...? Nah, not me...).

Click on the image to enter.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION (elementary)

Visit this fantastic site and learn lots of new words to describe faces.

englishflashgames.blogspot.com Now, listen to the instructions:

 Drag and drop each item to make new faces according to each description.

This is what you can do:

Enjoy and learn!

PERSONALITY (intermediate)

It's so difficult to choose sometimes... John or Mark? Let's see..

I don't know, what do you think? Who is nicer?

CREATE A CHARACTER (elementary)

Create a cartoon, it can be a friend, an imaginary person or even yourself! Give it a name, save it to your computer and describe it for the class.

This is the link you need:

                                                 http://www.cartoonize.im/

This is what you'll find. Go through all the options, there are a lot!

This is the character I created:

Read her description:

My name is Ann. I am 15 years old. I have long hair, it is black and straight. My face is round. I have large grey eyes, a small nose and a big smile. My skin is pale and I have some freckles on my cheeks. I have a fringe covering my forehead and a golden piercing under my mouth.

I am wearing a yellow shirt.

People say I am friendly and fun. I love reading and having a good time with my friends.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION INTERACTIVE BOOK (elementary)

An excellent resource to learn how to describe people's appearance. You can hear the words, find matching activities and lots more in this interactive book. I bet you'll master people's description in no time after going trough all the exercises in these pages!

 

               

This is just a glimpse of what you can find:

[Created by Mme. Haquet and posted at Collège Marc Chagall's site at http://chagall-col.spip.ac-rouen.fr/spip.php?article222].

DESCRIBING PEOPLE I (elementary)

This worksheet will help you practise people's description. You have to find the best description and match it with the correct person.  You can also see the difference between two very different questions which include the word "LIKE" but have nothing to do with "being fond of". Hope you find it useful!
 (Answer key is included).

Click here to download it:

DESCRIPTION OF PEOPLE: Personality & Appearance (Intermediate)

Download this powerpoint to read some tips about describing people. If you wish, you can see its contents before in the video below.

                      

Click here to download the powerpoint.  

                                                            

                                                             

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION (intermediate worksheet)

In this worksheet you will find some ideas and lots of words that might come in handy when describing someone's physical appearance.

                                                         

                                                            

                               (Artwork by Phillip Martin: http://www.phillipmartin.info/clipart/homepage.htm)