Wednesday 3 March 2021

10.4.- Listening: personality adjectives and part 4



Personality adjectives


What personality adjectives do you know?

Brainstorming on menti.com about personality adjectives known by the students


Sentences with the Personality Adjectives suggested in our Textbook

• Almost overnight, that sweet little child had turned into an antisocial monster.

• She was a conscientious worker and I’ll miss her.

• If you have to deal with a difficult customer, try to stay cool.

• It was courageous of her to challenge the CEO's decision.

  Most sales people need to be extrovert.

 She supports a number of idealistic causes.

• The architects have made imaginative use of glass and transparent plastic.

 I wonder what it was about her upbringing that made her so insecure.

• It was a bit insensitive of Fiona to talk about fat people when she knows Mandy is desperate to lose weight.

 He's very modest about his achievements.

 She was very naive to believe that he'd stay with her.

  He has a natural talent for sports.

 If you are unable to accept someone else’s ideas, you are narrow-minded.

 Sales reps need to be outgoing, because they are constantly meeting customers.

  He's far too self-centered to care what you do.

• He looked uncomfortable, like a self-conscious adolescent.

• In this job we need someone who is entirely trustworthy.

 He has an unconventional attitude toward work.

 The team is very well-balanced.


Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/


Collaborative exercise 1 on page 84 on Wordwall

https://wordwall.net/resource/31928877



Listening exam task on page 84


Individual Personality Test

https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test


What new adjectives of personality did you learn?


Say who your best friend is, how you met him/her, and describe his/her personality in five adjectives.


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