What’s she like? (different uses of ‘like’)

Joe | Jun 15, 2025Sep 09, 2025

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

• practise different uses of ‘like’;
• share facts about themselves and the people they know;
• practise asking and answering ‘like’ questions.

With this lesson, students learn and practise uses of ‘like’ (e.g. What activities do you like to do in the evening?, Who do you look like in your family?). They review vocabulary for appearance, personality and preferences (e.g. green eyes, intelligent, pop music), talk about themselves and people they know and describe people in pictures. Students also ask and answer questions using ‘like’ in personal conversations.

WARM-UP AND GRAMMAR

This lesson starts with a warm-up. Students think of people they know and say two things about them. After that, they read questions with different uses of ‘like’ (e.g. What does your sister look like?, What is your mother like?) and match them with their answers. Moving on, students look at the sentences from the previous task again. They identify question types and review how to form questions about likes, appearance and personality using ‘like’. Afterwards, students look at questions and answers and choose the correct form of ‘like’. They then discuss the questions (e.g. What activities do you like to do in the evening). Then, students complete sentences about different topics with one word (e.g. She looks like her mum). Afterwards, they look at underlined words and phrases and write the questions that match them. 

PRACTISING DIFFERENT USES OF ‘LIKE’

Following that, students decide which words and phrases (e.g., blonde hair, cartoons, shy) are used in response to different questions (e.g., What do you look like?, What do you like?). They then write more examples for each one. Afterwards, students look at photos of people and describe each person with different uses of ‘like’ (e.g. What do they like?). Next, they choose a point (e.g. a character that you are like) from a category (celebrities, family or film and TV) and talk about it. Students give details. Finally, they work in pairs. Student A chooses a topic (e.g. the person you were at 5, your first boss, your first partner) and says three things about it. Student B asks three follow-up questions using ‘like.’ Then, they swap roles.

HOMEWORK/REVISION

This lesson plan also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students find and correct mistakes in questions that use the word ‘like’. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.

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