Personality Opposites Miming Games

Choose one pair of opposites below and mime both sides of the table until your partner
guesses at least two words there. If they can’t guess, let them look at the list below.

affectionate/ warm cold/ cold blooded/ unaffectionate

badly behaved/ naughty well behaved

big-headed/ boastful/ proud humble/ modest

bold/ brave/ courageous cowardly/ timid

careful careless/ clumsy

cheerful grumpy

cruel kind

energetic/ hard working lazy/ unenergetic

foolish/ silly sensible/ serious

friendly/ sociable unfriendly/ unsociable

generous mean

impatient patient

impolite/ rude polite

laidback/ relaxed stressed/ uptight

loud/ noisy/ talkative quiet/ silent/ softly spoken

messy/ untidy neat/ tidy

sympathetic unsympathetic

Do the same, but this time only letting your partner look at one side of the table. Then do it
with also the person miming only being able to see one side of the table.

Read out an adjective above and see who can mime that and its opposite first, saying both
words.

Test each other orally on the synonyms and antonyms above.

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2017
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