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Vocabulary about personality adjectives

VOCABULARY about personality adjectives 


Answer these puzzles for warm up.

1 She’s Spanish. She’s from … . 

2 He’s Chinese. He’s from Beijing in … . 

3  They aren’t Mexican. They’re British. They’re from … . 

4 He’s Japanese. He’s from … . 

5 They’re Korean. They’re from Seoul in … . 

6 She isn’t German. She’s French. She’s from … . 

7 They’re Canadian. They’re from … . 

8 She’s Thai. She’s from Bangkok in … . 

9 He isn’t Filipino. He’s Malaysian. He’s from … . 

10. I'm not from ....


Read and underline the personality adjectives used in the 

conversations.


Conversation 1 

A This is my good friend Roman. He’s really friendly. 

B Is he from Poland? 

A Yes, he is. 


Conversation 2 

A These are my friends Mia and Diego. They’re really great. 

B Are they married? 

A Yes, they are. 

B Are they Spanish? 

A No, they aren’t. They’re from Mexico.


Conversation 3 

A This is my friend, Laura. She’s really cool. 

B Is she Italian? 

A No, she isn’t. She’s from Spain.


Pronunciation practice

Write these words on the board with the letters underlined as shown:

board, bored, coffee , concert, daughter, four, not, orange, sport, your.

Ask students to classify them into two groups, those which have /ɒ/ 

like modern (coffee, concert, not, orange) and those which have /ɔː/,

like poor (board, bored, daughter, four, sport, your). 


GRAMMAR be: questions and short answers 


Questions (?)  and Short answers 

Are you Australian? 
Are you Spanish? 
Is he/she Turkish? 
Are they Russian? 

Yes, I am. Yes, we are. Yes, he/she is. Yes, they are.

No, I’m not. No, we aren’t. No, he/she isn’t. No, they aren’t.


CAREFUL! 

The most common student mistake with be questions and short 
answers is for students to use it rather than that in Yes/No questions which ask if something is OK, e.g. 

Is it ok? (Correct form = Is that OK?), 

or Is it good for you? (Correct form = Six o’clock at the cinema. Is that good for you?). 

Students may also have problems with the inversion required to form questions, possibly because there is no change in the word order for questions in their own language, e.g. 

Claudia is Spanish? (Correct form = Is Claudia Spanish?).



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