What is she like what does she look like разница

What is he like/What does he look like

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Bob is slim.Боб худой.

Rob is fat.Роб толстый.

В английском языке существует два вопроса, которые вызывают путаницу как у новичков, так и у более опытных учеников. Это вопросы What is he like?Какой он? и What does he look like?Как он выглядит? На первый взгляд вопросы кажутся одинаковыми. Но между ними есть существенная разница. Давайте разбираться.

What is he like?

What is he like?Какой он? — Какой он?

He is kind.Он добрый. — Он добрый.

He is friendly.Он приветливый. — Он приветливый.

He is clever.Он умный. — Он умный.

They are friendly.

What does he look like?

Вопрос What does he/she/it look like?Как он/она/оно выглядит? переводится «Какой он/она/оно, как он/она/оно выглядит?». Когда вы слышите этот вопрос — это значит, что собеседника интересует внешность человека. При ответе на этот вопрос мы будем описывать внешние черты человека.

What does he look like?Как он выглядит? — Как он выглядит?

He is handsome.Он симпатичный. — Он симпатичный.

He is tall.Он высокий. — Он высокий.

He has dark hair and green eyes.У него темные волосы и зеленые глаза. — У него темные волосы и зеленые глаза.

Bob is slim and Rob is fat.

What Does She Look Like vs. What is She Like? Distinguishing Between Descriptions

One of the topics ESL learners really enjoy is describing people. It is a universal need and want to be able to talk about the people close to us.

I adore teaching this topic because students are especially creative; it’s a great opportunity to get to know them better. Here are some basic guidelines to get productive results distinguishing between the two main description types.

Distinguishing Between Descriptions

You’ll want to start out with the easier of the two questions in order to build upon it. Begin with physical description and let them practice and arrive comfortably at natural usage before moving on to the more complex issue of describing personality.

What Does She Look Like?

To us native speakers it feels quite obvious what this question is asking, but for ESL students it may be easily confused with the more idiomatic question of What is she like?

What does he or she look like is a question that is a perfect jumping off point for some combined grammar practice. At once, you will teach and practice new vocabulary, subject-verb agreement, adjective placement, and question and sentence formats.

You can break this all down if you would like or try a more combined method. I find it easiest to start out by discussing the meaning of the question and providing some concrete examples weaved in with explanations. Keep excess language to a minimum and describe the concept of appearance and describing people and objects. You can use students in the class as examples and begin with basic appearance subjects such as: hair color, eye color, height and weight, and then move into the more general subjects that describe overall appearance with opposites. You’ll want to draw out from the class what they know and then build on it with more information. Here are some examples of what you’ll want to include:

Also some opposites to include:

You can continue to add to this list and split it up into different lessons if need be. Once they have some of the basic vocabulary they can begin practicing usage in any number of ways. You could have them do question and answer in rounds about family members or people in the class. You could also have them play guessing games like 20 questions or I spy. There are lots of interactive ways to practice describing objects and people, and you can be the best judge of when they are ready to move on to further descriptions.

You may also want to review the basic grammar of subject-verb agreement using the usual example for “to be” which is as follows:

What Is She like?

This question sounds similar to the one above but has a totally different meaning. Explain to students that we are no longer focusing on physical appearance, but character. This is referring to someone’s personality. Ask the students for examples of personality traits they already know. Some of their examples may resemble states of being (sad, happy, tired), so be sure to point out that while describing someone as happy is not incorrect, it means that the person is generally happy all the time, not just at that moment. Here are some good adjectives to start with and add to. As always provide clear definitions with concrete examples:

After comprehension checks, you’ll want to begin practicing, utilizing the same subject-verb agreement example from above.

Some ideas for practicing describing personalities are:
— Have students answer questions about their best friends or family members (Does your friend work hard);
— Give them a list of several of the new adjectives and have them describe how someone they know shows that characteristic or more simply, come up with a list of (famous) people that has each particular trait; create some worksheets or matching activities;
— Have the students describe a famous person and have everyone guess who it is. There are numerous ways in which you can practice this point that can really get students interacting and sharing.

Distinguish Between the Two Descriptions

The last step in solidifying the use of these two types of descriptions is to distinguish between the two of them. Do some activities that combine the two points together in order to compare and contrast. Give them opportunities to describe people they know both by how they look and how they behave. You can do more surveys here to reinforce the language and to add to the ever-growing list of new vocabulary. One of my favorite activities to practice the two together is by providing the students with a blind date scenario. Put them in pairs and tell them that they are going to match up one of their friends or classmates with their partner. The partner can ask questions about the friend/classmate and can then decide if they would like to have a blind date. You can take it one step further and do a dating role play or get into discussions regarding meeting new people and relationships.

Distinguishing between physical appearance descriptions and personality traits are entertaining and often enlightening lessons for everyone involved.

It’s also a topic that can be re-visited often and offers innumerable opportunities for practice and discussion.

Look like и внешность

Видеоурок

Вопросительное предложение

В вопросительных предложениях look like обычно имеет значение “выглядеть”.

What does he look like?
Как он выглядит?

Ответ

При этом отвечать на этот вопрос нужно прямым описание внешности человека, уже без употребления глагола look like. Следовательно, если вопрос задается с помощью глагола look like, то в ответе этого глагола быть не может, а должен быть, например, глагол to be.

Ошибка

What does he look like?
He looks like tall and slim with fair hair.

Ответ в данном случае должен быть: He is + описание внешности.

Утвердительное предложение

Если мы употребляем look like в утвердительном предложении, то глагол приобретает значение «быть похожим на»:

She looks like her elder sister.
Она похожа на свою старшую сестру.

Проводя сравнение между look like и look в утвердительных предложениях, мы можем заметить, что look like имеет значение “похож”, в то время как look сообщает нам о том, как кто-то выглядит.

What does she look?
Как она сегодня выглядит?

She looks very good today.
Она сегодня хорошо выглядит.

What does she look like / What is she like

nicole0087

Member

Is there any differece between the meaning «What does she look like?» and «What is she like?» How can I answer them?

mjscott

Senior Member

Old Novice

Senior Member

Is there any differece between the meaning

«What does she look like?» [What is her physical appearance?]

and «What is she like?» [What are her personal characteristics? Is she strong / nice / pretty / friendly / happy etc.? Tell me about her.]

How can I answer them?

la reine victoria

Banned

Is there any differece between the meaning «What does she look like?» and «What is she like?» How can I answer them?

Yes, there is a difference.

«What does she look like?» refers to her physical characteristics. She may be pretty, have brown hair, a nice smile. be slim, tall, short, etc. etc.

«What is she like?» can still refer to the above but, more usually, asks about her character and personality. She might be friendly, talkative, shy, kind-hearted, etc.

Hope this helps.

nicole0087

Member

Senior Member

I have a question: Could you say «What do his eyes/lips/etc look like?» or just «How are his eyes?»

nicole0087

Member

I have a question: Could you say «What do his eyes/lips/etc look like?» or just «How are his eyes?»

Senior Member

sergiofreeman

Senior Member

Making a search I hit with this post, I would like a native’s reply to Arai’s question.

Thanks in advance.

Old Novice

Senior Member

Making a search I hit with this post, I would like a native’s reply to Arai’s question.

Thanks in advance.

JamesM

Senior Member

I have a question: Could you say «What do his eyes/lips/etc look like?» or just «How are his eyes?»

«How are his eyes?» would mean, to me, how well are his eyes functioning.

I suppose you could say, «What do her eyes/lips look like?» but I think I would tend to say «What kind of lips/eyes does she have?»

gckkk

Member

I have a question: Could you say «What do his eyes/lips/etc look like?» or just «How are his eyes?»

dadane

Senior Member

This is generally the case but, as usual, much depends on context.

As a counter-example, consider this hypothetical conversation between two women:

«Have you seen the new window cleaner»?
«He looks a bit of a hunk, nice bum, I haven’t seen him up close though».
«Oh, I have»!
«Really, how are his eyes»?

Edit. The real meaning of the last question is «Are his eyes as attractive as his bum is»?, but in fewer words.

What does she look like? vs How does she look?

PetroniusArbiter

Member

How can I explain to someone why we have to use «like» if the question begins with «What» and why we don’t if the question begins with «How»?

What does she look like?
What was Italy like?
What was dinner like?

How does she look?
How was Italy?
How was dinner?

Do both constructions sound natural, or is one more common than the other?

sandpiperlily

Senior Member

These are very different questions. Let me show you in pairs.

What does she look like? = describe her physical appearance, generally.
How does she look? = describe her physical appearance, right now. For example, «She looks beautiful today, with her hair done up.»

What was Italy like? = describe Italy to me
How was Italy? = did you have a good experience in Italy?

What was dinner like? = What was the experience of eating dinner like?
How was dinner? = did you have a good dinner?

PetroniusArbiter

Member

What does she look like? = describe her physical appearance, generally.
How does she look? = describe her physical appearance, right now. For example, «She looks beautiful today, with her hair done up.»

What was Italy like? = describe Italy to me
How was Italy? = did you have a good experience in Italy?

What was dinner like? = What was the experience of eating dinner like?
How was dinner? = did you have a good dinner?

The difference between the first pair is clear, but not so much the second and third.

Here’s another example where the difference is indiscernible, at least to me:

How was the weather?
What was the weather like?

Myridon

Senior Member

Context is always important.

What was the weather like?
It was warm and sunny.

How was the weather? (for a day at the beach)
It was wonderful.

How was the weather? (for skiing at a ski resort where the sun melted all the snow)
It was awful.

panjandrum

Lapsed Moderator

These are very different questions. Let me show you in pairs.

What does she look like? = describe her physical appearance, generally.
How does she look? = describe her physical appearance, right now. For example, «She looks beautiful today, with her hair done up.»

In some contexts, I would agree absolutely.
In some other contexts «How does she look?» is not solely a question about appearance. It is asking for my interpretation of her state of health based on how she looked.

For the other questions, I agree with sandpiperlily. The «What» questions call for an objective assessment, the «How» questions are about your experience.

What was Italy like? = describe Italy to me
How was Italy? = did you have a good experience in Italy?

What was dinner like? = What was the experience of eating dinner like?
How was dinner? = did you have a good dinner?[/QUOTE]

Egmont

Senior Member

idialegre

Senior Member

«What. like» and «how» do overlap a great deal, at least in colloquial usage, so it is tricky to understand the differences, but I’ll try to give you a few helpful examples.

«Like» in the sense you are asking about means (more or less) «similar to», and is often, although not always, followed by a noun.

«He looks like a dancer.»
«Your friend looks a lot like my brother.»

It generally indicates description, i.e., when you ask what Italy was like, or what dinner was like, you are asking for a description.

«Italy was warm, chaotic, full of wonderful architecture. »
«Dinner was a long, boring event with a lot of boring people making boring speeches.»

The word «how» is so strongly associated with the phrase «How are you?» that it is very frequently used to ask if something was, in the broadest sense, good or bad.

«How was Italy?»
«Oh, we had a great time!»

«How was dinner?»
«Delicious.»

«How does she look?»
«She looks tired/sick/great/healthy. «

«What does she look like?»
«She’s tall and thin, with grey hair.»

But as I said, there is a lot of overlap, and Americans, at least, often don’t pay too much attention to the difference. So it’s perfectly possible to answer «How was dinner?» with a complete rundown of the menu, or to ask «What does she look like?» and mean, «How does she look?»