- •1 Responsible, quick-tempered and generous are adjectives which describe people's character. Can you think of any more adjectives?
- •2 Read the adjectives under each picture, then listen to the tape and tick ( √ ) the adjectives you hear.
- •3 Five sentences have been removed from the following article. Read it and choose from the sentences a - e the one which fits each gap. How to be an American
- •Vocabulary & grammar
- •10 Read the text and:
- •11 A Look at these famous people's lips and talk about their characters for 1-2 minutes.
- •12 Which of the following adjectives are positive and which are negative?
- •13 Join the ideas using: and (also), but, however, on the other hand.
- •14 Look at the list of adjectives in activity 10 and make sentences about people you know using: and, also, as well, but, however, on the other hand.
- •15 Work in pairs. Choose five words to describe yourself. Use a dictionary if necessary.
- •17 Study the forming adjectives box. Fill in the gaps with the correct words derived from the words in bold.
- •18 A Look the photo of Aunt Emily. What does she look like? What can you say about her personality? …Her daily life?
- •My aunt Emily fair active tolerant warm late attractive
- •24 Imagine you are a reporter. You have to write an article in about 100 words describing some famous person. You will find the paragraph plan in the work book.
- •25 Choose two people you know well and compare their appearance and character. Use the comparative and superlative adjectives. Write about 100 words.
18 A Look the photo of Aunt Emily. What does she look like? What can you say about her personality? …Her daily life?
b Read the description of Aunt Emily and complete the spaces with the words below.
My aunt Emily fair active tolerant warm late attractive
Of all my relatives, I like my Aunt Emily the best. She’s my mother’s youngest sister. She has never married, and she lives alone in a small village near Bath. She’s in her (1) fifties, but she’s still quite young in spirit. She has a (2) complexion, thick brown hair which she wears in a bun, and dark brown eyes. She has a kind face, and when you meet her, the first thing you notice is her lovely, (3) smile. Her face is a little wrinkled now, but I think she is still rather (4) . She is the sort of person you can always go to if you have a problem.
She likes reading and gardening, and she goes for long walks over the hills with her dog, Buster. She’s a very (5) person. Either she’s making something, or mending something, or doing something to help others. She does the shopping for some of the old people in the village. She’s extremely generous, but not very (6) with people who don’t agree with her. I hope that I am as happy and contented as she is when I’m her age.
19 Go through the text again and underline like this:
a the parts which describe her physical appearance
b the parts which describe her character
c the parts which describe her habits
20 Find the following words in the text: quite, a little, rather, very, extremely. How do they change the meaning of the adjectives which follow them?
21 She’s ‘not very tolerant’. This is a nice way of saying she is ‘intolerant’. Sometimes we try to be polite by not using a negative adjective. We can say not very + the opposite adjective.
Use a tactful way to describe someone who is:
a rude d ugly
b boring e cruel
c mean f stupid
SPEAKING
22 Work in pairs and describe to each other your best friend or your relative. Mention some personal details, such as his/her name, age, where he/she lives, then describe his/her appearance and character. Speak for about three minutes.
23 Role play
Two students in the class are police detectives. The others are witnesses who saw a very dangerous criminal when he was trying to rob the bank. All the witnesses saw different details of the criminal’s appearance. The police want to find the criminal, but first they have to draw his portrait. They have only 1 minute for each witness.
Police detectives: ask witnesses questions about all the details of criminal’s appearance, and draw his portrait.
Witnesses: answer the detectives’ questions.
WRITING