What does your favorite athlete look like?
Key sentences
| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| What does your (person) look like?
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They're (adjective).
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| How tall are they?
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They're (adjective).
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| What is their build?
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They're (adjective).
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| What does their hair look like?
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It's (adjective).
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| How old are they?
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They're in their (decade).
They're (adjective).
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Drills
Say these sentences without looking.
What does your (person) look like?
| person
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sentence
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| friend
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What does your friend look like?
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| coworker
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What does your coworker look like?
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| teacher
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What does your teacher look like?
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| favorite actor
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What does your favorite actor look like?
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They're (adjective).
| adjective
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sentence
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| tall, thin, and blonde
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They're tall, thin, and blonde.
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| short and thin
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They're short and thin.
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| tall with black hair
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They're tall with black hair.
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| short and a little overweight with brown hair
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They're short and a little overweight with brown hair.
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They're (adjective).
| adjective
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sentence
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| quite tall
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They're quite tall.
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| average height
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They're average height.
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| a little short
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They're a little short.
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| very short
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They're very short.
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They're (adjective).
| adjective
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sentence
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| thin
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They're thin.
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| a little heavy
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They're a little heavy.
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| of average build
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They're of average build.
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| well built
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They're well built.
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It's (adjective).
| adjective
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sentence
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| long, straight, and blonde
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It's long, straight, and blonde.
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| short, wavy, and black
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It's short, wavy, and black.
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| shoulder-length, curly, and red
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It's shoulder-length, curly, and red.
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| brown and kinky
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It's brown and kinky.
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They're in their (decade).
| decade
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sentence
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| teens
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They're in their teens.
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| early 20s
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They're in their early 20s.
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| mid 30s
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They're in their mid 30s.
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| late 40s
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They're in their late 40s.
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Example
Practice this conversation.
| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| What does your (friend) look like?
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They're (tall, thin, and blonde).
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| How tall are they?
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They're (quite tall).
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| What is their build?
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They're (thin).
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| What does their hair look like?
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It's (long, straight, and blonde).
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| How old are they?
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They're in their (teens).
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Change partners. Use your imagination and change the sentences.
Exercise
Use your imagination. Make your own conversation.
| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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What does your ... look like?
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They're ... .
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| How tall are they?
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They're ....
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| What is their build?
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They're ....
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| What does their hair look like?
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It's ....
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| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| How old are they?
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They're in their ....
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Change partners. Use your imagination and make another conversation.
Practice
| Asking about someone
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Talking about someone
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| Think of someone. Ask your partner what that person looks like.
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Answer your partner's questions.
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Further study
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Resource type: this resource is a lesson in English as a second language. |
