VOCABULARY: PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES

You can use personality adjectives:

* before a noun, e.g. He is a caring friend,

* after the verb be, e.g. My friend is caring.

My dad is usually cheerful. He's not a miserable man.

 significado  significado

clever stupid
funny serious

negative positive
kind unkind

interesting boring
caring selfish

outgoing shy
hardworking lazy

modest arrogant
cheerful miserable

sensible crazy

Negative prefixes un-, in-, ir-, dis-

___popular ___fit
__ fair ___healthy
__ honest ___loyal
__ experienced ___ sensitive

__ responsible ___cooperative
___ successful

Adjective + preposition

Passionate interested responsible involved good keen serious disappointed

about at for in on with

clever boring negative funny stupid unkind positive interesting kind serious

 

1 You were serious I negative I stupid to walk home on your own late at night. Next time call your parents.

2 Chris is clever I boring I serious. He never has anything interesting to say because he spends all his time playing computer
games.

3 Megan is so interesting I clever I unkind. She's only three and she can already count to fifty.

4 Joe complains about everything There is always l something wrong. He's very boring I positive I negative.

5 I think it was very kind I positive I funny to help Abi with her homework, Luke. Thank you.

arrogant caring cheerful crazy hard-working miserable modest

outgoing selfish sensible shy lazy

 Positive  Negative

1 He's really ___________, you know, always happy and smiling.

2 My brother only thinks about himself. He's so _______________ .

3 Sheila thinks she's the best at everything. She's really ___________.

4 Peter doesn't like parties. He's very _______. I´m the opposite. I´m really_________________.

5. He's very _____________ . He wants to be a teacher and he does lots of studying in the evenings.

GRAMMAR: PRESENT TENSES, QUESTIONS

 In object questions where we want to find information about the object, we use the auxiliary verb do/does

PRESENT SIMPLE BE: Am I crazy?

 Is she at home?
Are they teachers?

Do you live in a house?

Does he work in a bank?

 In subject questions where we want to find information about the subject, we do not use the auxiliary verb do/does
 John broke a window.

This sentence has a subject (John), a verb (broke) and an object (window).

Now when we make questions to find this information, there are two possibilities.

object-----If we want to make a question where the answer is ‘window’, the question would be:

What did John break? John broke a window.

subject-----Now if we want to make a question where the answer is ‘John’, the question would be

‘Who broke the window?’ ‘John broke the window.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS Am I sleeping well?

V- ING Is she doing her homework?
Are they working now?

PRESENT PERFECT Have you ever been to Mexico?

Has he gone to New York?

Be – was. Were – been

Go- went - gone

Do – did - done

* Complete the questions with the correct form of do, be or have.

0 Why ____ you always so selfish?

1 ______ Carl ever been involved in a fight?

2 What ___________ an appropriate birthday present for my five-year-old nephew?

3 ____________doctors need to be good at Maths?

4 Why ___________ Kelly so miserable today?

5 Which sports _ __ you keen on?

6 How much_________________ they pay for their children's dance lessons?

Read the sentences and complete the questions about the subject and the object.
1 •Edward has eaten chips

a Who's_____________?

b What __________?

2 •Lawrence and Lucy are living in London.

a Who __________?

b Where ____________?

3 ·Katie reads about running marathons.

a Who ___________?

b What _____________?

4 •Charles has chosen hamburgers for lunch.

a Who _____________ ?

b What ______________?

Read the answer and write a question about the underlined part.

0 What_________?

They're talking about Emily's birthday party.

1 What _____?

I spend my money on clothes and music.

2 Who _____?

She's waiting for Ken.

3 What_______?

Oscar has read about Istanbul.

4 Which hotel _____________?

Liz has heard about the Regent Hotel in London.

5 Which team ____?

We play for the school team.

Conversation 1

A: Who________________?

B: My brother is interested in writing.

A: What 1 _____________ ?

B: He's writing a short story now.

A: Why 2 _____________?

B: He's writing it because he wants to win a competition at school.

A: Do 3 ___________ ?

B: Yes, I like writing.

4 ________________?

B: No, I haven't written a story for the competition.

A: What 5 __________________ ?

B: I'm baking a cake.

k Who 6 _____________ ?

B: I'm baking it for my mum.

k Why 7 _____________ ?

B: lt's brown because it's a chocolate cake.

A: Have'______________?

B: No, I haven't baked a cake before.