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  • Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's lesson, we are going to talk about personalities,

  • we're going to talk about looks, we're going to talk about all the ways you can describe

  • the girl of your dreams. Okay? The woman you like, the person you have a crush on. So,

  • we're going to talk specifically about women and how guys can talk about them to their

  • friends.

  • So, imagine this: you're sitting in your English class and a new girl walks in, and immediately,

  • you've fallen in love. You think this girl is great, maybe you want to go on a date with

  • her, you tell your friends about it. So, your friend will ask you: "Oh, tell me what the

  • girl's like. Tell me, what's she like?" Okay? "Tell me what she's like." And your response,

  • you're going to tell them a whole bunch of descriptive words. So, I have some words about

  • looks, I have some words about personality, and I have some other expressions.

  • So, let's get started. Okay? One way you can describe someone you like, of course, is what

  • they look like. You can say a girl is "hot". Okay? This isn't just temperature. We use

  • it a lot. Well, guys use it a lot when they talk about girls. "Ah, she's hot." Okay?

  • You can say: "She's gorgeous." Gorgeous, not georgeous, gor, gorgeous. It's like beautiful.

  • Okay, so she's hot, she's gorgeous, she's "fine". You know in English, we say: -"How

  • are you?" -"I'm fine"? Well, when you say a girl is fine, you're saying she's hot; she

  • looks good.

  • "Oh, she's cute.", "She's sexy.", "She's smoking hot." Or just: "She's smoking." Okay? All

  • of these expressions mean-I'm going to draw a picture-when you see her, you feel like

  • this because the way she looks is so good.

  • You can also... Don't say this in front of the girl. Okay? Whatever you do, don't say

  • this in front of the girl, but when you're with your friends, you can also give her a

  • number. Some guys say: "Oh, she's a ten." Meaning: she's perfect. "She's a nine." She's

  • still good. "She's an eight." Enh. If you like the girl, you're probably not going to

  • say she's a three; that wouldn't be nice. But this is sometimes how guys talk to her

  • friends, they say: "Oh, she's a ten. She's great."

  • You can also describe a woman based on her hair colour. "Oh, she's a blonde." Okay? I'm

  • a blonde. "She's a red-head." If the girl has red hair, she's a red-head. What about

  • somebody with dark brown hair? We would call them "a brunette". Okay? So, we have "a blonde",

  • and notice the "a", "a red-head", and-I guess I didn't write it-"brunette" is someone with

  • brown hair. Okay? Also, when I said: "a ten", "a nine", "an eight", you need "a". All right,

  • great.

  • So, after you tell your friends about how beautiful she is. "She's gorgeous, she's hot,

  • she's sexy." After you tell them this, you will probably talk about personality, if you

  • don't talk about it first. So, personality, what are some personality words you might

  • use to describe the girl you like? Well, this one isn't the nicest word, but some guys like

  • girls who are "high-maintenance". These are the girls that they want the man to pay for

  • everything, they expect presents every birthday. Well, not just birthdays; people expect presents

  • on their birthdays. Maybe every day they want a present, every day they need you to tell

  • them how much you love them. These are the girls that you have to work hard to keep.

  • Okay? They're the girls that want you to buy them maybe a diamond ring, a diamond necklace.

  • So you have to pay a lot of attention to these girls, they are high-maintenance. They are

  • not easy to be with; you have to work hard.

  • The opposite of high-maintenance is someone who is "low-maintenance". This is somebody

  • who if you don't give them a present, they don't really care, it's okay. They're easygoing.

  • They... You don't have to spend all your time with them. If you forget to call them on the

  • phone, they're not going to get very angry. They're easygoing, they're low-maintenance.

  • You can also call a girl "sporty". "Oh, she's sporty." You probably know the word "sport",

  • if a girl is "sporty" it means she likes sports.

  • You can also say a girl is "talkative". Someone who is talkative talks a lot. I'm a very talkative

  • person.

  • "Social", she's social. If she is social it means that she likes to be around people,

  • she has many friends, she's always hanging out with her friends. She spends a lot of

  • time with her friends, she's social.

  • A girl can also be "laid-back". If she's laid-back it means she's very relaxed, she's easygoing,

  • she's relaxed, she's low-maintenance. You don't feel stressed when you're with her,

  • she's laid-back.

  • Sometimes we will just say a girl, "Oh, she's cool. She's cool." Maybe she dresses nice.

  • She's just a good person, easy to talk to, she's cool.

  • A girl can also be "a tomboy". A tomboy is a girl who's very much like a boy in terms

  • of the fact that she loves sports, maybe she doesn't wear dresses, she wears t-shirts,

  • she's very athletic, she likes to drink beer and watch football. We would say she's a tomboy.

  • We can also talk about party girls. If she's "a party girl", she loves to party. She goes

  • to the parties and she drinks, she dances. She's a party girl, she loves to party.

  • There's also a "girly girl". "Yeah, she's a girly girl" means she loves the colour pink,

  • she loves shopping, she loves watching romance movies, she likes to do things that are very

  • stereotypically girly. She likes girly things, she's a girly girl.

  • You might also describe a woman, if you're adventurous, as "freaky". So it's an "e" sound,

  • "freaky". If she's freaky, she's a little strange, but maybe that excites you. A freaky

  • girl can be very exciting.

  • We also have the words... When we're talking about specific... About the body, you can

  • use the word: "killer". "Killer" you might think "enh, enh, enh", no, that's not what

  • I'm talking about. When I say: "killer", I mean it means very good. Okay? In this case,

  • "killer" means very good. So, you can say: "She has killer legs. She has a killer smile.

  • She has a killer body." Okay? Guys often talk about looks, and so they will often say: "She

  • has a killer", whatever. You probably wouldn't say something like: "She has killer feet",

  • that might be a little strange. You would probably say: "Killer legs, body, smile".

  • You can also, if you're very much in love with this girl, you think she's incredible,

  • you can say: "She's something else." So: "She's something else." Meaning: you can't even describe

  • her, she's just something else. I actually really like this one, I think this one's the

  • sweetest. All right?

  • So these are all great expressions to use when you are describing the girl you like

  • to your friends. I hope you come visit our website at www.engvid.com. There, you can

  • practice these words on our quiz. You can see: do you know the difference between a

  • brunette and a blonde? What's the difference between a ten and an eight? What does it mean

  • to be smoking or sporty? So come visit our website to double check you got all of the

  • meanings for these words. Until next time, take care.

Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's lesson, we are going to talk about personalities,

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