Thursday, April 12, 2012

INT B: Describing a Person


"What does he/she look like?"
-Here is a website that talks about describing a person's physical appearance
 http://justmesuzanne.hubpages.com/hub/ESL-Describing-a-Person
-A short list of physical appearance adjectives
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/appearance/vocab1.html

"What is he/she like?"

A short list of personality adjectives
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/personality/words-for-describing-personality.html

Today in class, we discussed how to say negative things more politely. For example, instead of rude, we can say not very polite and instead of boring, we can say not very interesting. It is important to know which words have a positive (+) or a negative (-) connotation. Be careful with your words!

3 comments:

  1. hi. vicent
    i am hyunuk ..
    this conents are very useful for me.
    i wish one thing.!
    when you uploading phrasal verb on site.. please
    add to some setences..
    example)
    come up with
    I'll try to come up with some ideas to solve the problem.

    thank you..

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  2. sorry .. i wrote wrong word..vicent -> vincent.. and conents ->contents ..

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  3. thanks for your comment Hyunuk! Yes I'm trying to figure out how to do the phrasal verbs section better. I think I will make a separate section soon..

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