How to Describe People in English - Basic Phrases

rolling cool hi everybody welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about how to describe people this is a great lesson for beginners and of course have for review too I'm going to talk about some patterns you can use basic patterns for describing appearance number one then I'm going to talk about patterns to use for personality expressions and finally I'm going to do some grammar reviews so how to use relative clauses to give some more details about people this is really really useful when you want to specify someone so for example if there's someone across the room that you're trying to point out to someone you can use this grammar point to do that so today I'm going to fill up the board with lots of example sentences please send your example sentences along in the chat - oh okay I see many people in the chat today hello YouTube Pablo dot and cull Khaleesi maybe hi hey Lia Daniel meanie Markinson Mauricio hello and our Facebook some people 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to express people's appearance that means the way a person looks I'm going to talk about the patterns we use to talk about like hair or eye color and to talk about the adjectives we use relating to of the body so let's begin and of course throughout this please feel free to send your own example sentences in the chat that would be great to include some of your examples on the board as well so let's get started first appearance appearance related expressions so I'm going to focus on using half and has and is and are so we're going to make some very basic sentences to talk about people's appearance first if our subject is I you we or they will use this pattern to make it negative will use don't this is the reduced form of do not and then we'll use have plus a noun phrase so for me for an example of this I would say I I am the subject I have brown hair so a very simple expression to describe my appearance here's my subject I have so this is a positive sentence and my noun phrase here is brown hair I have brown hair to make it negative I could say something like I don't have blonde hair so this is how we make this basic appearance related statement with a noun phrase so no adjectives used here if however your subject is he or she you probably won't use it to describe a person if you want to describe an animal maybe you could use it but for talking about people will use he or she and in this sentence if you want to make it negative we need to use doesn't doesn't he or she doesn't Plus have plus known phrase so in this case for example let's see I could say control desk today he doesn't have to make a negative he doesn't have black hair he doesn't have black hair so again we're using a noun phrase I've made this negative with doesn't doesn't if however so I've made this into a negative form have made this negative pattern here if however your sentence is positive please remember that instead of have we need to use has so for a positive sentence meaning no doesn't we need to use has he has premiere or she has blonde hair so some examples are in here ah why not hairs why not hairs when we're talking someone asked that question pasta Kim asked that question in the YouTube chat we use a hair hair notice to talk about all of this on our head we use hair alone to refer to all of this we use hairs when we see a few pieces somewhere like oh there are some hairs on the floor over there where did those come from when you're talking about all the hair on your head we use hair not hairs okay example is from one of our members probably no hello she doesn't have brown hair very nice example sentence some of you are saying things not related to appearance good so she doesn't have money is correct please remember today we're focusing on appearance so how does a person look that's what we want to practice today to send your example sentences in high noon says she has an oval face yeah good so you can talk about face shape face shape with this so an oval face are like a square face good or a round face good Andrew says he doesn't have red eyes but he has blue eyes okay good Dennis says he doesn't have he doesn't have long ears make sure when you use a negative he doesn't have he doesn't have so when you make a negative sentence the verb following does not change when you make a positive sentence has needs to change hmm okay good good good good she has blue eyes as Silva Alexandra on Facebook great great Antonio says she has a mean look oh interesting okay very nice Kyra says she has brown skin very nice okay great great examples everyone so we can talk about eye color skin color hair color and so on with a very simple sentence and this is actually it scuse me this is actually how native speakers do it it does not need to be complicated so let's go to the second part here the second part is using this pattern using is and are plus an adjective so remember an adjective is a word that we use to describe a noun we use it to give more information about a noun so we can use three different patterns when we want to talk about ourselves use this pattern I am NOT plus adjective so for example I am NOT tall I am not tell if I write it down here you can't see ya so for example I am NOT tall so notice in this sentence my adjectives here is tall when you choose an adjective make sure it's an appearance related adjective so don't choose something that's related to like their work necessarily make sure it's something that expresses their appearance something that expresses their appearance so I am NOT tall this is a good one that's true actually of course to make this sentence positive simply remove not I am tall I am tall and to make this even more natural reduce I am - I'm I'm I'm not tall or I'm tall and so on so this is the pattern we use when you're talking about yourself this is an eye subjective type however excuse me if your subject is you we or they so you want to talk about your friend or you want to talk about your group or if you want to talk about a group of people outside you follow this pattern you are to make it negative not and an adjective again I haven't seen any examples there yet so I'll make my own sentence so for example mmm I want to talk about my friend I might say you are short you are short so if I want to express something like that in a positive sentence I would use u & R so R is used for these three subjects we are short maybe you and your friend are short together you want to express that or they are short as well to some good examples are coming in I am short okay someone says I'm not sexy okay I am not fat okay I am NOT tall very nice ones okay ah do you need hot tea yes I've been drinking lots of hot tea my voice is a little out of it you are slim another good one slim slim very nice examples finally then Leah says I'm not sure I'm vertically challenged next one Leah let's go to the last pattern for this one he or she if he or she is your subject you want to talk about a friend or a family member you could say he or she and here the verb is is he is or she is adjective he is tall she is pretty he is handsome and so on to make it negative use not so he is not handsome or she is not pretty and so on my friend is not tall a great example hamza on youtube so in this i've used i you we they he she you can also express a person in this position and use this pattern so my friend is not tall or my mother is short and so on to use a person the name of a person use this final pattern here great she is pretty perfect perfect nice one she is beautiful good good good good excellent she is a nervous so nervous is maybe about a condition we'll talk about in this part for this pattern i wanted to focus on practicing appearance related vocabulary words it looks great looks great thanks very much for your example everybody okay we'll take one short break and then we'll go to part two for today's lesson part two will focus on these personality and condition expressions which uses this pattern actually so I think we'll go to the the camera cool let me find the one I wanted to show you for today which was about your family there it is good so I thought this would be a perfect PDF to show you again today this is the family and relatives PDF it does include family vocabulary some very common family vocabulary so we can use this actually in part two my question for you in part two is about describing someone in your life on the back are some expressions to use for the first time you meet someone as well so I thought this would be a nice one to review also this holiday Thanksgiving is coming soon so this is one PDF I thought would be good to review for today's practice and to practice today's grammar point as well so this is one thing you can find from the link below the video there are many many more so please make sure to check the link if you have not for awhile there's a lot of new stuff so find these from the link if you're watching on YouTube there's a link in the description box if you're watching on Facebook there's a link above the video in the description box if you are watching on Instagram please check the YouTube or Facebook to get these and sorry I cannot see your comments live alrighty let's go to part 2 for today's lesson if you are just joining today's topic is how to describe people how to describe people with relative clauses a little bit so the last point is going to be about relative clauses okay let's get to part two though so in part two I want to talk about personalities and conditions so when I say personality and condition I mean the adjective you choose so in part one we pract just adjectives about appearance yeah like tall short slim pretty handsome appearance related adjectives here we're going to focus on personality and condition related adjectives so please consider your adjective choice when you prepare your example sentences here let's take a look you'll notice very quickly these patterns are exactly the same as the ones I introduced over here we just need to create a different expression by changing the type of adjectives so for example when I use the I subject pattern I am if I want to say not to make it negative I can plus an adjective so for example I am sick that's true I have a bit of a cold I am sick so sick means not healthy this expresses a condition this is my condition I am sick or I am a little sick I'm a bit sick this expresses condition if we want to make a you or we or they sentence we follow it with our and we use not plus adjective so for example you are hardworking so here hardworking is my adjective hard-working refers to a personality trait someone who works very hard we can describe them with the adjective hard-working I am hardworking you are hard-working mayor on that on YouTube says I am starving great and great I'm starving nice one some other examples are coming and I'm tired I am lazy good I'm not sick good examples everybody y'all says I am brave on Facebook good ones okay let's go to this he and she pattern again this is the same pattern as the person so when you want to talk about a family member or a friend you can use their title kind of mom or my dad or my friend or my roommate we use the same pattern for both of these plus is to make the sentence negative will include not and an adjective so for example he is not funny he's not funny he is not funny or something similar so again a funny is an adjective that refers to someone's personality so that means maybe his jokes I'm not very good he is not funny or maybe I could to use this pattern my mother hey mom is very talkative my mother is very talkative so talkative means someone who likes to talk a lot we can include very before our adjective to add emphasis okay Gertrude is said my sister is pregnancy very close pregnancy is a noun my sister is pregnant pregnant is the word my sister is pregnant is correct good examples he is talented excellent examples excellent example so I'll include a list of your adjectives over here you can help each other talented nice one ernesto says what does starving mean ah starving means I'm very very very very hungry I'm starving I'm starving I'm starving super super hungry hmm someone says I'm not funny okay he is not friendly oh okay he is not big big is maybe an appearance related adjectives let's try to make a list of so we can't quite see this one thank you let's try to make a short list of some personality and condition related adjectives here that's a good one to practice together uh personality ones someone wrote up Paulino said he is a good student he is a good student that one is about a person's condition like personality type I suppose - we can use that as well I'm focusing a bit on adjectives for this lesson he is annoying good example annoying annoying you mean someone usually who does like the same thing over and over and over again like little kids maybe like my brother and I were very annoying when we were kids we would like hit each other in the car for example very annoying very annoying other examples my father is not talkative someone says what is an adjective an adjective adjective is a grammar word adjective means a word that describes a noun it gives us more information about the noun all right nice examples Oh Vicky said my brother is an outgoing person good so you can say my brother is an or a plus noun phrase so a something something something making a noun phrase there is great or just my brother is outgoing is also nice so outgoing outgoing you can imagine I would just like your personality goes out so you want to share a lot and talk a lot that's an outgoing person they're good at talking to people okay uh we only have a few minutes left so I think I'll finish up there so just keep in mind your adjective choice when you're describing someone make sure to consider your adjectives there are some personality and condition adjectives and there are also appearance related adjectives to consider but for today I want to conclude by talking about using relative clauses to specify and maybe I have one quick minute to remind you I won't show up close I don't think but if you have not please do make sure to check the link below the video if you're watching on youtube or if you're watching on facebook check the link above the video to find our free PDFs for vocabulary and expressions related to everyday this one I showed earlier it's about family maybe another good time to practice today's grammar point is when you're shopping - so this is shopping related expressions okey-dokey let's go to the last part for today the last part as I said is using relative clauses to specify things so we practice relative clauses in a live stream about three weeks ago remember relative clauses give us extra information about a noun and we practiced something called reduced relative clauses so making the clause shorter and when to do them so here is how we can do this when we're describing people so in a sentence like he or she is the man or woman who is something something IMG you'll see a pattern like this so let's take a look at some examples let's say person a in a conversation asked asks you a question so I meet you and I ask you a question I'm at your school or something I say who is your teacher who is your teacher and you look around the room and you say in response let's go with she she is the woman who is talking to the students she is the woman who is talking to the students so in this sentence I've used this who is talking to the students this part over here so we learned from our relative clauses lesson a couple weeks ago that when we find relative pronouns followed by the to be verb as in this case we can remove it from the sentence this is especially common when the relative pronoun and the two beaver are followed by a verb in the ing form we see that pattern here that means we can remove it she is the woman who's talking to the students so when we want to like specifies the specify means make something clear when we want to make it clear who a certain person in the room is we can point and use a relative clause to describe this oh who's your teacher she's the woman who's talking to the students over there so let's try it let's see I think we have a little bit of time for one more example so let me grab excuse me my note real quick and we'll take a look okay so again let's maybe let's I wanted to introduce one that's maybe good for emergency situations so for example if you're on the street with a friend you might say something like look see that guy who is running I think he stole something so here's another situation where you can use this grammar point so let's break this down you're with a friend and you see something suddenly and you want to express quickly a specific person look see that guy again the same grammar point who is running so someone is running see that guy who is running I think he stole something so in like an emergency situation here again we can remove who is in this case it's probably best to remove the who is because we want to share this information as quickly as possible it's an emergency situation we want to say it as fast as possible so we remove this part this who is part so again when you have a relative pronoun who which or that followed by a to be verb is was are and so on you can remove it we see this with verbs ending in ing and also with prepositional phrases so let's look let's see we have a couple more minutes I have time to share maybe one more example and then we'll conclude today's lesson excuse me ok so let's take a look uh maybe let's do with this one where we cannot reduce the sentence so for example let's say you meet me somewhere on the street one day and you come up to me and you say excuse me are you the person who teaches English on the internet so here is a sentence we cannot reduce we cannot reduce this sentence so I know are you the person who teaches so in this case I cannot remove this because this is not followed by is I cannot do that so please keep this in mind if your verb is not followed I'm sorry if your relative pronoun is not followed by is you cannot remove it in this case so if you see me are you the person who teaches English on the Internet I might say yes I am nice to meet you so let's take a look at some of your examples I see many I'll start on YouTube that guy who is running is my friend he is a thief this is Edgard okay that's a little serving good good example ok um some other examples Wayne says hey man who is the girl who is looking at the sign good ok who is the girl who is looking at the sign perfect you can reduce it who is the girl looking at the sign good good example some other ones Julian says she is the woman who is swimming great and again we can reduce it she is the woman swimming nice one uh ok Khan while Jeet has a great example on YouTube the girl standing over there wearing a black sweater is my classmate great example so that person let's see I'm a little out of space here so maybe person Plus over there is a great way to introduce it the girl over there in I'm sorry the girl over there in clothing is something something something this is another really good pattern you can use the person or the guy or the girl over there in is the prep that we use in a red sweater in a red jacket so we use this to talk about the clothing you can use wearing is also good great great great some other examples uh she is the girl with long hair good ah sang from Facebook sounds great some other examples who is the person who helped you okay so try to build these big sentences that share lots and lots of information so when you point across the room at someone you can easily understand that okay so I get to go for a little bit longer today people let's see I get a little extra time today so I'll share one more example something else I wanted to talk to you about um let's see what else can I share with you let me choose another example sentence to talk about okay uh let's try this one if you want to if you're with like a group of people so you go to like a conference or maybe a competition of some kind and you want to be clear about your own team members you can use our to begin the sentence so where can I'll write it here maybe so we can see so another way to consider how you can specify someone is by changing the person at the beginning of the sentence for example our team leader is the person who's the person who is giving the opening speech the opening speech okay the opening speech so our team leader is the person who is giving the opening speech so again I've used this same relative pronoun plus be verb again our team leader is the person who is giving the opening speech at the conference so I've shown someone belongs to my group our our team leader our team leader I can reduce the sentence even more our team leader is the person giving the opening speech at the conference so these are just a few ways a few samples of how you can make these very specific sentences to describe a person or to show that someone belongs to your group and we can do this with these relative clauses maybe I'll finish today with one more very useful one and then we'll call it we'll call it good I'll have one more them okay when you are shopping or maybe you're at an event of some kind and you're looking for help or you're looking for like a manager you can use this sentence where do I have room where can you see I'll put it I'll put it it's very good okay I'll put it here so maybe our last example I'm out of space for the day this is a good question to use are you the person who is in charge for example of this event or of this party question question this is a question so you're looking for some help you're looking for like a manager or something like that are you excuse me it's how you would begin the sentence excuse me are you the person who is in charge of the event so again we can remove this who is you don't have to but we can in this case I'm not using an ING form you'll notice that but we use in charge of something so when we have these prepositional phrases remember a preposition is in at bayan for those little tiny words when we follow this with the prepositional phrase we can drop as well so are you the person who's in charge of the event I have a question so you can use this when you're looking for someone to help you - so these are a few examples of expressions that you can use with relative whew Alan's a long listen I got some extra time today yeah okay but I have to finish up so let's wrap it up thank you for all of your excellent excellent example sentences today that was fantastic wow there's so many people who joined great so please if you have if you are just joining for the first time today welcome of course but I have to sign off unfortunately so thank you for coming and thank you for coming this week and please join us next week as well next week oh my gosh November 21st already Wow okay November 21st next week Wednesday 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time the topic will be how to make requests and offers how to make requests and offers I've been getting a lot of questions from you about using will and she'll and so on so we're going to talk and practice about making requests asking for something and offers so sharing something so please join us again next week 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time that is New York City time please use your Google skills to find your local time or you can set a reminder on Facebook or YouTube so that you don't miss us live so please check that out also please please please don't forget if you have not already to go download your free stuff you are free PDF cheat sheets vocabulary and expressions for many different things in your life you can find these from the link below the video if you're watching on YouTube or above the video if you're watching on Facebook they are free from English class 101.com if you do not have 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Published: Wed Nov 13 2019