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back to our weekly live stream my name
is alicia and today we're going to talk
about how to describe people this is a
great lesson for beginners and of course
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
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today i'm going to start by talking
about uh appearance related expressions
so i'm going to cover some very very
basic phrases
i'm going to cover some basic phrases
you can use 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 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 have 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
we'll 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
uh 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 uh 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
we'll 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 noun 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 i've 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
brown hair 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 uh pasta kim
asked that question uh in the youtube
chat we use a haired
hair no s to talk about all of this on
our head we use a 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
examples from one of our members paulino
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 so send your example sentences in
uh hi nguyen says she has an oval face
yeah good so you can talk about face
shape face shape with this so an oval
face or like a square
face
good or a round face good
andrew says andrew
he doesn't have red eyes but he has blue
eyes okay good uh 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
okay good good good good uh she has blue
eyes says silva alexandre on facebook
great great
antonio says she has a mean look oh
interesting okay very nice uh 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 excuse 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 tall if i write it down here
you can't see it yeah so for example i
am not
tall
so notice
in this sentence my adjective 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 uh 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
to 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
i subject pattern
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
if i want to talk about my friend
i might say uh you
are short
you are short
so if i want to express something like
that
in a positive sentence i would use u and
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 too
some good examples are coming in i am
short okay someone says i'm not sexy
okay uh i am not fat okay
uh i am not tall very nice ones okay
uh
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 short i'm
vertically challenged nice one leah
um
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 uh 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 oh great example
hamza on youtube so in this i've used uh
i you we 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 ah 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 examples 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 uh 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 uh 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
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live alrighty let's go to part two 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
adjectives you choose so in part one we
practiced adjectives about appearance
yeah like uh 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
adjective 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 u or we or they
sentence we follow it with r
and we use not plus adjective
so for example
you
are
hard working
so here
hard working 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 hard-working you are
hard-working
mayor on youtube says i am starving
great great i'm starving nice one
uh
some other examples are coming and i'm
tired i am lazy good i'm not sick good
examples everybody
uh
kyo 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 my 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 is 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 are 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
uh gertrude 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
uh good examples he is talented
excellent examples excellent examples 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 i'm super super hungry
hmm someone says i'm not funny okay uh
he is not friendly oh okay uh
he is not big big is maybe an appearance
related adjective let's try to make a
list of so oh we can't quite see this
one thank you
let's try to make a short list of some
uh personality and condition
related adjectives here that's a good
one to practice together
uh
personality ones uh someone wrote
paulino said he is a good student he is
a good student that one is about a
person's condition a person's like
personality type i suppose too
we can use that as well i'm focusing a
bit on adjectives for this lesson uh 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
um
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
a 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
uh 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 ouch 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 uh 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 b maybe i have one quick
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shopping related expressions okie dokie
let's go to the last part for today the
last part
as i said is using relative clauses to
specify things
so we practiced relative clauses in a
live stream uh 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 that
so
here is how we can do this
uh when we're describing people
so in a sentence like
he or she
is the man or woman who is something
something ing you'll see a pattern like
this
so let's take a look at some examples
let's say
person a in a conversation
asks
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
uh 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 2b verb
as in this case
we can remove it from the sentence
this is especially common
when
the relative pronoun and the to be verb
are followed by a verb in the ing form
we see that pattern here
that means we can remove it
she's the woman who's talking to the
students so when we want to like uh
specify so 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 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 uh 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
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 r
and so on you can remove it
we see this with verbs ending in ing and
also uh 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
okay
so let's take a look uh
maybe let's do 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 says edgard okay
that's a little disturbing good good
example okay
um some other examples
wayne says hey man who is the girl who
is looking at the sign good okay 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
uh some other ones uh julian says she is
the woman who is swimming great and
again we can reduce it she is the woman
swimming nice one
uh
okay
kanwal jit 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 oops 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 preposition 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 zang
from facebook sounds great
uh 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
uh okay
so i get to go for a little bit longer
today okay cool
uh 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
um 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 uh the person at the beginning
of the sentence for example
our team leader
is
the person oops the person
who is giving
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 this 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 of
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 is here 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
is 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
we 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 by on
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 question so you can use this when
you're looking for someone to help you
too
so these are a few examples of
expressions that you can use
with relative clauses phew that was a
long lesson i got some extra time today
yay okay but i have to finish up so
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