Fill the gaps in the text with suitable words from the box.
| sense | punctual | confident | trust | initiative | miserable |
| timid | sensible | sensitive | shy | cheerful | reserved |
I spent the weekend camping with friends but it wasn’t very successful. Sally is not very (1) ………………. and we had to wait an hour for her to turn up. Apparently she had a problem with a train, but didn’t have the common (2) ………………. to call me on my cell phone and warn me she would be late. Then, when she finally arrived, she had a friend with her, called Jill. She was quite nice, but so (3) ………………. that she didn’t really speak to anyone for the first day. She`d got a bit more self- (4) ………………. by the end of the weekend. However, she didn’t seem to have much (5) ………………. : we were only 400 meters from a farm but Jill said she couldn’t make tea because we had no water! Bill got angry at that, for no real reason, and poor Jill almost started crying. Bill`s problem was that he never really wanted to go camping in the first place, so he was pretty (6) ………………. most of the time.
19. Describing character – What`s he like? Is she nice?
a. Give the definition to every word below.
b. Use the words below to describe what your friends, family and teachers are like.
c. In pairs: one student writes down a description and the other student must guess who it is.
| careful hard-working worried cheerful broad-minded active curious secretive | aggressive tough careless practical sensible independent strong-minded stupid | dull boring imaginative ambitious crafty sensitive gentle naive | generous loyal self-controlled moody trusting modest tolerant friendly | energetic confident selfish shy stubborn reliable clumsy intelligent |
20. Match the following words with their equivalents:
| 1) a strand of hair 2) beard 3) moustache 4) mean 5) generous 6) curly 7) hazel 8) stout 9) skinny 10) plump 11) selfish 12) ambitious 13) absent-minded 14) obstinate 15) patient | a) повний, огрядний b) товстий c) егоїстичний d) впертий e) пасмо волосся f) неуважний g) підлий h) вуса i) честолюбний j) кучерявий k) карі (про очі) l) спокійний m) худий n) борода o) щедрий |
Sort out the adjectives given in the box into the columns with the name of physical features they can usually describe.
| underweight overweight generous thinning turned up | grey stout hazel plump slender | straight square crooked chestnut | dark red fat blue | strong mean blond long | large weak slim short | wavy skinny curly pointed |
| eyes | nose | mouth | chin | hair | size |