VOCABULARY: Appearance, personality and relationships (Exercises to practice)

PRACTICING VOCABULARY

Appearance and personality

1 Complete the sentences with suitable adjectives.
If you …
sunbathe a lot, you get tanned.
1 tell the truth, people will say you are ____________________ .
2 don’t comb your hair and wear very casual clothes, people will say you are
____________________ .
3 get upset easily, you are probably quite ____________________ .
4 aren’t very tall or short, you’re of ____________________ .
5 never do any work, you’re ____________________ .
6 haven’t got a moustache or a beard, you’re ____________________ or female!

2 Complete the sentences with the words in the list.

glamorous bald freckled pale thick well-

dressed wrinkled
A man who hasn’t got any hair on his head is _________________
1 A person who’s ____________________ has got small brown spots on his or her skin, especially
the face.
2 An older person who’s got lots of small lines on his or her face is ____________________ .
3 Spanish people think that northern Europeans have got ____________________ skin.
4 Someone who’s attractive in an exciting, special way is ____________________ .
5 If someone has got lots of hair, we say it is ____________________ .
6 Someone who wears attractive, stylish clothes is ____________________ .

3 Complete the text with the words in the list.

 casual clean-shaven good-
looking scruffy medium height skinny slim spiky tanned
My best friend James is eighteen years old. He’s always clean-shaven and he’s got short,
(1) ____________________ hair that stands up on his head. He loves playing basketball, although
he’s only of (2) ____________________ . He’s quite (3) ____________________ because he plays
a lot of sport, although he isn’t (4) ____________________ because he likes eating a lot too! He’s
always (5) ____________________ in the summer because he spends so long outside in the sun.
When he’s not in sports clothes, he wears (6) ____________________ clothes like jeans and T-
shirts, although he’s never (7) ____________________ and he always looks clean and tidy. All the
girls in my class think he’s very (8) ____________________ !

4 Complete the sentences with antonyms for the underlined words.

Jack isn’t lazy. He’s really hard-working.
1 Kirsty isn’t very outgoing. She’s quiet and __________________ .
2 It isn’t true that the English are __________________ . They’re quite friendly when you get to
know them.
3 Fun-loving? Oliver? He’s __________________ and never smiles!
4 He seems like a __________________ person at first, but he’s really cold and only cares about
himself.
5 Peter isn’t stupid. He’s __________________ and always does the right thing.
6 Some people think she’s insensitive, but it’s not true. She always helps other people and is very
_____________ .

Relationships
1 Write a relationship word for each definition.
A person who lives next door or very near to you.
neighbour
1 A person whose job is to give orders to others at work. __________________
2 A mother or father of a person. __________________
3 A person who you know but is not a close friend. __________________
4 A member of your family. __________________

5 A person who works at the same place as you. __________________

6 A person who’s in the same class as you at school. __________________
2 Correct the underlined mistakes in the sentences.
They said they would get on well after the interview, but I haven’t heard from them yet.
in touch
1 My classmate never cleans up the kitchen after she’s used it. It’s the big problem with
sharing a flat! __________________
2 We were going out together, but now he’s my acquaintance, I can’t stand him!
__________________
3 Mia doesn’t get together with her sister. They’re always arguing. __________________
4 I like getting in touch with my family at the weekends. We usually have a meal at my
mum’s house. __________________

3 Read the text and complete the sentences with the names of types of
relationships.
My name’s Tom and I share a flat in London with Kevin. I met Kevin because he’s going
out with my cousin, Sara. Sara and I work for the same company. Actually, it’s a family
business and it’s owned by my dad and Sara’s mum. When I’m not working, I spend most
of my time playing football. I’m in the same team as Dave, a guy who I used to be in the
same class with at school. When we were kids, he lived in the house next door to mine
and now we’re almost as close as brothers.
Kevin is Tom’s flatmate.
1 Sara is Kevin’s _______________ .
2 Sara is Tom’s _______________ at work.
3 Tom’s dad is one of Tom’s _______________ and also his _______________ at work.
4 Dave used to be Tom’s _______________ and _______________ , and now he is his
_______________ .