Personality 1 WHAT ARE THEY LIKE? a Complete the definitions with the adjectives. affectionate aggressive ambitious 0 anxious /kios bossy charming competitive. kn independent ‘nd Jealous "tseh moody rebellious // belies) reliable selfish cli) sensible ‘sensobl! sensitive “senso sociable spoilt stubborn 1 Selfish people think abour themselves and nor about other people 2 A___persomalways wanes to win, children behave hadly because they are given everything they want. 4 An fighting and person gets angry quickly and likes ing, 5 __ people have an attractive personality and make people like them, 6A person has common sense and is practical 7A person is friendly and enjoys being ‘with other people 8 people are often worried or stressed oA person is happy one minuteand sad the next, and is often bad-tempered 10 ___people like doing things on their own, without help. nA person likes giving orders to other people. 12 An person shows thar they love or like people very much 138A person thinks that someone loves another person more than them, or wants what other people have. WA person can be easily hurt or offended, 15 An person wants to he sucessful in life 1A person is someone who you can trust ordepend on A person doesn’t like obeying rules. Is A person never changes his (or her) opinion or attitude about something b /23}) Listen and check. © Cover the definitions and look at the adjectives Remember the definitions. VOCABULARY BANK 2 OPPOSITES a Match the adjectives and their opposites. hard-working mean ini ‘outgoing jwwigouin’ self-confident sell ‘kona stupid talkative ‘to:kou Opposite clever generous quiet shy b (224) Listen and check. Then cover the opposites and test yourself © With partner, look at the adjectives again in 1 and 2. Do you think they are positive characteristics? sgative, or neutral 3 NEGATIVE PREFIXES @ Which prefix do you use with these adjectives? Put them in the corréct column. ambitiovs friendly honest imaginative kind mature organized patient reliable fesponsible selfish sensitive sociable tidy arr unambitious b 25} Listen and check. Which of the new adjectives has. positive meaning? © Cover the columns. Test yourself, PD false tienes Some wordsin English ae very simiar to wordsin other languages, but have different meanings Sensible looks very similar to sensible in Spanish and French, butin fact in English it means someone who has common sense and s practical The Spanish / French word sensible translates as sensitive n English (to describe a person whois easy hurt) ‘Sympathetic does nat mean the same as sympatycenyin Palsh or sempatikin Turkish (which mean nice, friendly) in English, sympathetic means a person who understands ather people's Feelings, eg. My bestfriend was very sympathetic when failed my exam last week. pil