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    The document provides vocabulary about personality adjectives and traits. It includes definitions of adjectives like shy, curious, and confident. It then has exercises matching adjectives to definitions, choosing traits for good friends and students, using prefixes to form opposites, and completing a crossword and sentences. The final section matches personality vocabulary like generous, talkative, and impatient to pictures. It concludes with questions asking about one's own personality traits.

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    VOCABULARY 2. Adjectives of Personality

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    UNIT 1. WHAT ARE YOU LIKE?

    VOCABULARY 2: Adjectives of personality


    1. Write the words in the box under the correct definition.

    shy furious selfish honest miserable


    extrovert sensible curious confident

    a person who is reasonable a person who a person who


    and practical. doesn’t tell lies or thinks only 1
    cheat people about himself
    3

    sensible 2 honest
    3 selfish

    a person who is
    nervous in the a person who likes a person who
    company of 4 to spend time in wants to find out
    others activities with other about something
    people than being
    quiet and alone

    shy 5 extrovert 6 curious

    a person
    someone who someone who
    who is
    is extremely strongly believes
    extremely
    unhappy in his own
    angry
    abilities

    7
    miserable 8
    furious 9 confident

    2. Choose some personality adjectives which you think best describe the character of a good
    friend and a good student.

    - A good friend is…

    faithful stubborn sensitive shy cheerful extrovert selfish honest


    modest upset rude reliable sincere pretty generous flexible brave

    - A good student is…


    lazy polite hard-working sensible nervous honest curious confident
    stupid inventive talkative loyal intelligent ambitious modest patient

    3. What prefix forms the opposite of each of these words? (You need 4 different prefixes)

    Honest: Dishonest  Active: inactive 

    Reliable: unreliable  Selfish: unselfish

    Patient: impatient Kind: unkind

    Intelligent:unintelligent  Sincere: insincere 

    Sensitive: insensitive  Happy: unhappy 

    Polite: impolite  Lucky: unlucky

    Modest: immodest  Loyal: disloyal

    4. Read the following definitions to complete the crossword.

    Across Down

    3. Determined to 1G 1. Willing to give


    be successful, money, help,
    rich, famous etc E kindness, etc.,
    2 N especially more
    5. Thinking you are than is usual or
    better or more E expected
    important than R
    other people 2. Thinking about
    O
    the needs and
    3 4 U
    7. Able to wait for feelings of
    a long time or S other people
    deal with a
    difficult situation 4. Unwilling to talk
    without 5 6 about your
    becoming angry abilities or
    or upset achievements
    7

    8. Not caring or 6. Behaving in an


    worrying about angry or rude
    the possible bad way, as if you
    or dangerous 8 want to fight or
    results of your attack
    actions someone
    9

    9. Continuing to
    support 10
    someone or be
    their friend,
    even in a
    difficult situation

    10. Behaving in a
    happy friendly
    way
    5. Now use the same personality adjectives to complete the following sentences.

    1. I’m sure you’ll get a reply soon. Just try to be patient


    2. She is trying to be cheerful despite her problems.
    3. When I disagreed with him, he became aggressive and started shouting.
    4. He is very modest about his role in the success of the film.
    5. My aunt always gives me expensive presents. She’s so generous
    6. He is extremely ambitious He wants to become prime minister one day.
    7. He was so arrogan the thought he could not possibly lose.
    8. It was very considerateof you to offer to drive us to the airport.
    9. He is such a reckless driver that he has had two accidents over the past month.
    10. While he was ill, his faithful servant stayed at his bedside day and night.

    6. Personality vocabulary for friends. Match the vocabulary to the pictures.

    generous impolite insecure talkative optimistic outgoing


    self-centered pessimistic impatient forgetful reserved charming

    1 imploite 2 optimistic 3 generous

    4 insecure 5 talktitive 6 reserved


    7 outgoing 8 forgetful 9 charming

    10 pesimistic
    11 impatient 12 self-centered

    7. Answer the questions giving examples.

    a) When do you feel insecure?

    b) Are you outgoing?

    c) Are you often forgetful?

    d) Do you think it’s ok to be self-centered? Why/why not?

    e) Are you usually pessimistic or optimistic?

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