Model: I enjoy staying home on week days because it’s the only time I can relax.
I avoid speaking in front of large groups as it makes me nervous.
Ex. 14 Read the personality profiles. Which person would you most like to meet? Which person is most like you?
Student: talkative and fun, pet lover, hates to cook, goes to big parties
Musician:ambitious artist, dedicated stamp collector, enjoys playing rugby
Lawyer: very organized, fan of old movies, loves to travel
Computer programmer: incurable romantic, nature lover, interested in learning a new language.
Ex. 15 Look at the adjectives for discussing people and match them to the definitions.
1. hard working 6. loyal
2. generous 7. open-minded
3. stubborn 8. naughty
4. self-confident 9. sensitive
5. reliable 10. ambitious
a) willing to give money, help and kindness
b) having a strong desire to be successful, powerful, or rich
c) willing to consider new ideas and new opinions
d) unwilling to change one's attitude or position on something
e) dedicating a lot of time and energy to work
f) 1. that may be trusted, dependable
2. that you may trust to perform well at all times
g) behaving badly, or not obeying a parent, teacher or set of rules
h) having a belief in one’s own value and abilities
i) faithful to people, places or things
j) easily offended and upset
Ex. 16 a) Match these words with their opposites.
To make an opposite adjective we can use prefixes:
anti- (=against) anti-war, anti-social
in- (=opposite) inconvenient, intolerant
il- (=opposite) illegal, illiterate
ir- (=opposite) irrelevant
un- (=opposite) untidy
Also, there are some other adjectives which are the opposites to the given ones.
1. clever a) introverted
2. extroverted b) tight-fisted
3. rude c) polite
4. generous d) sociable
5. unsociable e) heavy-minded
b) Give your own examples of opposite adjectives.
Ex. 17 Choose one adjective from ex. 15 to describe each of the following people.
Model: Once Hans decided to do something, it’s impossible to make him change his mind.—He is stubborn.
1. Anita is very slow at thinking. Her boss has to tell her several times what to do.
2. Paul is the sort of person who is ready to discuss his personal problems with everybody.
3. Helen finds it difficult to speak with other people
4. When you go out for a meal with Pierre, he always insists on paying.
5. Tom never buys his girl a drink at a bar.
6. Ivy likes to meet different people and chat with them.
Ex. 18 Writing. Write a personality profile for yourself. Do not write your name. Your teacher will mix up the profiles and distribute them among the students who will need to guess whose profile they have. Go round the class and ask each student questions to match the profile you have with its writer.
Model: Do you enjoy listening to classical music?
Ex. 19 Writing. Write a paragraph about your positive and/or negative qualities (not more than 80 words). Use the model.
Model 1: I think my most positive quality is that I am very practical. I’m the kind of person who enjoys solving difficult problems, and I love discovering solutions to things. People always come to me when they don’t know how to fix something. For example, two days ago my father’s computer suddenly stopped working, and he asked me to find the problem. His computer is a powerful one. It took me only 15 minutes. I loved every minute of it.
Model 2: My most negative quality is that I’m an extremely disorganized person. My apartment is always a mess, and I can never find anything. My sister is very neat. Last week I finished my homework assignment and then misplaced it. I could not find it, so I had to redo it. My disorganization gets to be a big problem in my life. I’d love to change, but I don’t really know where to begin.
Ex. 20 Speaking.
