How to Talk about People in English - Basic English Phrases

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to see so thank you guys again so so much for all your support from me and from the whole team as well it's a really exciting milestone for us so with that let's begin then today's lesson so today's lesson we're going to talk about personalities and attitudes and appearances so as you join please don't forget to hit the like button share the video - it will be super super helpful for us - to get more people to watch the 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 want to talk about the first category for today the first one I guess I'll write it up here first we'll talk about personalities topic one if you're just joining personalities will be our first topic for today number one so this is where we're at in our live stream agenda 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 went down is it okay mmm just a moment we've got a little bit of a technical 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 example yeah and also like we're trying we're trying this new setup today so if you guys like this setup if this is nice for you please let us know hit the like button to let us know somehow so first 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 take a break all right so um yeah and again if you 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amazing alright but let's go on to the second part of today's stream one hi I am great I am warm-ups here on the YouTube chat may I get the link so I can download them yes the link on youtube if you're watching this video on youtube the link for these things the link is below the video on youtube it says download your free PDF cheat sheets to learn English something like that so please check the link below the video if you're watching on youtube please check the link above the video if you're watching on Facebook alright let's move on then to the second part so part two I want to talk about appearance so I'm going to erase this now if you missed it don't worry this is a video we're recording this video so you can watch this later so the second part for today I'm going to talk about appearance related 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 well you can check the videos on the 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 can use if you missed it you can go back watch this video again on Facebook YouTube twitch Twitter you can check this video again to take a look at some of the sentence patterns that be introduced there all right good shall I take a break or shall I just continue on to my last group of sentences actually should I ask him a question no we don't 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 them in the chat then - Bry where can you find the vocabulary you can watch this video again after the live stream 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 but unfortunately I have to finish there for today so thank you so much for sending everything through the Facebook and YouTube chats and I'll check I'll check the chat logs after this lesson so if you have any questions please let me know send it in the chat and of course if you liked the video don't forget to hit the like button and share it and all that good stuff we really really appreciate it so I'm going to finish today's livestream there so you can watch this video back if you missed anything but we are going to be back again next week we will have this livestream next week at the same time same time same place next weeks whoo we have a big banner now next week's live stream will be March 28th that's Wednesday Wednesday March 28th so the topic will be how to teach some to do something how to teach someone to do something by this this I mean like explaining the process of explaining things to people so like first do this next do that after that then so I think that this is good for conversation yes but this is also good for written explanation so sending instructions via email so this will be next week's topic so join us next week March 28th 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time that's New York City time New York City time so if you don't know what time this is in your time zone just google it just use your Google skills and whom be here next week so we'll finish there for today 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Published: Wed Mar 21 2018