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Unit 8: What is John like? Language goal In this unit students learn to talk about what people are like. New language Whos that? Thats Mike. Whats he like? Hes shy. Whats she like? Shes unfriendly. Section A Additional materials to bring to class: pictures from newspapers and magazines for Follow-up activity 1 . Ask a student to stand in front of the class. Ask students questions about this student using language they already know. For example, Whats his/her name? Where is be/she from? Whats his/her address? Whats his/her favorite kind of music? Then say, In this unit were going to learn to say more about people. Write the six new words from page 47 on the board and use one or two of the words to describe the student standing in front of the class. For example,Hes/Shes friendly. Hes/Shes smart. Use gestures, facial expressions and/or translation to clarify the meaning of each statement. Point to each word on the board as you use it to describe the student. 1 a This activity introduces the key vocabulary. Focus attention on the picture. Ask students to tell what the people look like. They may mention that some one is tall, has blond hair, etc. Then point to a person in the picture, name the kind of personality he or she represents (smart, funny, serious, friendly, shy, or unfriendly) and ask students to repeat each word. Say a sentence or two about each kind of personality. Shes smart. She studies a lot. She getsAs in all her classes. | 
