Describing Personality

In this ESL beginner-level lesson, you will learn grammar, adjectives, and phrases to talk about everyday English topics: an English conversation lesson for describing the personalities of people that you know.

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This ESL video lesson for daily English will help ESL students learn vocabulary, grammar, improve listening and be confident English speakers.

Practical English for everyday situations. Don’t stop learning with this lesson. Keep going and go back and review the lessons on School & Work and describe their personality and then practice more by talking about and describing your Friends and Family

Describing Personality

Warm Up Questions

1

How would you describe your personality?



2

Are you shy or outgoing? Explain.



3

Describe your colleagues and/or classmates.



4

What makes you happy?



5

Do you like and get along with your neighbors?



6

Are you a funny or serious person? Do you like to hang out with funny or serious people? Explain.



Watch, Read or Listen

ESL Video

Watch the following ESL YouTube video about Describing Personality.

Listening Questions

Watch the ESL YouTube video and answer the following questions.

Colleagues

1

How can we be happier?



2

What does their study show?



3

What is one of the most important things about friends?



4

According to lots of other people, what else is important?



5

What are the most unpopular kinds of friends?



6

What kind of people are unpopular with neighbors and colleagues?



7

Were all the people they spoke to friendly?



8

What kind of people do shy people like to work with?



Speaking Activity

Use the illustrations to talk about personality.

Describing



Good Day



Me



Personality



Shouting





Word Bank

Word Bank

alone | colleague | friendly | friend | funny
helpful | honest | important | kind | neighbor
noisy | polite | prefer | result | selfish | shy
talkative | unhappy | unpopular

Matching

Match the words on the left with the meanings on the right.

Dislike

1. alone (adj)

A. to care only about yourself

2. honest (adj)

B. not liked or enjoyed by many people

3. talkative (adj)

C. to like one thing or person better than another or others

4. selfish (adj)

D. always tell the truth; can be trusted

5. shy (adj)

E. loud and unpleasant

6. prefer (v)

F. nervous and uncomfortable with other people

7. polite (adj)

G. chatty; talks a lot

8. unpopular (adj)

H. to have good manners and behave in a way that is socially correct

9. noisy (adj)

I. the information you get from something

10. result (n)

J. without other people

Sentence Structure

Put the following sentences in the correct order.

Document
  1. ourselves / by / of / make / around / being / can / We / people / right / happier / the / kinds / .
  2. honest / are / The / of / the / showed / that / one / is / that / things / results / most / also / our / friends / important / .
  3. people / to / said / of / is / Lots / funny / also / be / that / friends / it / very / important / their / for / .
  4. and / most / unpopular / friends / were / people / kinds / The / of / unhappy / selfish / .
  5. be / most / preferred / a / to / people / and / time / alone / were / little / the / shy / Several / of / .
  6. talkative / polite / with / prefer / These / said / very / that / not / but / were / work / to / people / who / they / people / .

Missing Words

Watch the video again and complete the sentences.

Checklist

We can make _________________ 1 happier by being around the right kinds of people.
Our study showed that people who had kind, ________________ 2 friends or colleagues were 75% happier than people who didn’t have these kinds of _________________ 3.
The results also showed that one of the most important things is that our friends are ________________ 4. Lots of people also said that it is very important for their friends to be funny.
The most unpopular kinds of friends were ________________ 5 and unhappy people. The results also showed that noisy people were often ____________________ 6 with neighbors and colleagues.
Not everyone we spoke to was friendly. Several people were a little shy and _________________ 7 to be alone most of the time. These people said that they prefer to work with people who were polite but not very ________________ 8.

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