This document provides information about using "What...like?" and "What...look like?" questions. It discusses: - Using "What...like?" to ask about personality and "What...look like?" to ask about appearance. - Answering these questions using adjectives to describe people. Adjectives usually follow verbs like "be" or come before nouns. - The order of adjectives is usually size, age, shape, color when describing appearances. - It provides examples of questions and responses using these structures and lists adjectives for describing personalities and appearances.

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Language summary
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Grammar
What . . . like? and What . . . look like?
What . . . like? What . . . look like?
What are you like?
What am I like?
What is he like?
What is she like?
What is it like?
What are we like?
What are they like?
What do you look like?
What do I look like?
What does he look like?
What does she look like?
What does it look like?
What do we look like?
What do they look like?
• Use What . . . like? to ask about personality.
• Use What . . . look like? to ask about appearance.
• We use adjectives to answer these questions.
Be + adjective (+ noun)
Be + adjective Be + adjective + noun
I am talkative.
You are friendly.
He is serious.
She is confident.
It is hardworking.
We are creative.
They are generous.
I am a talkative guy.
You are a friendly person.
He is a serious teacher.
She is a confident girl.
It is a hardworking class.
We are creative students.
They are generous people.
• Adjectives explain how people look or act.
• Adjectives usually follow the verb be or come before a noun.
• More than one adjective can be used in a sentence
I’m tall and thin.
Order of adjectives
Size, age, shape, color
She has long brown hair.
He has little square glasses.
I have new pink glasses.
My sister and I have curly black hair.
• Use adjectives in the order of size, age, shape, and color.
She has long red hair. NOT She has red long hair.
Vocabulary
Personality
adjectives
confident
creative
friendly
funny
generous
hardworking
serious
shy
talkative
Appearance
bald
blonde
curly
elderly
little round glasses
long gray hair
medium height
middle-aged
mustache
overweight
red hair
short
short white beard
shoulder-length hair
straight brown hair
tall
wavy
young
Functions
Saying you think something
is true
I think so.
I believe so.
I guess so.
Saying you think something
isn’t true
I don’t think so.
I don’t believe so.
I’m not really sure.
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