Advanced English
Lesson 3 - People
Vocabulary
On This Page
- Words to Describe Personality
- Irregular Past Participles
- Other vocabulary
Words to Describe Personality
Instructions
- Print the vocabulary list.
- Translate the words. (Google Translation - http://translate.google.com/)
- or -
Look up the English definition. (Longman Dictionary - http://www.ldoceonline.com/)
- Do the exercises below. Click on a word to hear the pronunciation.
Practice
Study the list of personality words above then select the words that describe you.
(There are no right or wrong answers.)
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aggressive ambitious cautious competitive confident creative dependable dumb enthusiastic extroverted generous idealistic imaginative intelligent introverted kind logical mean |
nervous observant optimistic outgoing pessimistic quiet rational reckless responsible shy sincere smart sociable stubborn talkative understanding wise |
Select the words that you think are positive personality characteristics and the words that you think are negative. (There are no right or wrong answers.)
| Positive | Negative | Characteristic | Positive | Negative | Characteristic | |
| aggressive | nervous | |||||
| ambitious | observant | |||||
| cautious | optimistic | |||||
| competitive | outgoing | |||||
| confident | pessimistic | |||||
| creative | quiet | |||||
| dependable | rational | |||||
| dumb | reckless | |||||
| enthusiastic | responsible | |||||
| extroverted | shy | |||||
| generous | sincere | |||||
| idealistic | smart | |||||
| imaginative | sociable | |||||
| intelligent | stubborn | |||||
| introverted | talkative | |||||
| kind | understanding | |||||
| logical | wise | |||||
| mean |
Practice
Select the opposite
Select the word that is similar to the listed word.
Past Participles
Below is a list of the irregular verbs from this lesson (including the participle). Study the list below and complete the practice exercises.
| Verb | Past | Participle |
| begin | began | begun |
| break | broke | broken |
| drive | drove | driven |
| fall | fell | fallen |
| fly | flew | flown |
| hit | hit | hit |
| know | knew | known |
| lose | lost | lost |
| read | read | read |
| sit | sat | sat |
Practice
In the spaces provided, use your imagination to write sentences using the irregular verbs from the table above. (Since there are so many possible answers, I can't correct this exercise. This is just for practice.)
example
go - went - gone
Past
Participle
begin - began - begun
Past
Participle
break - broke - broken
Past
Participle
drive - drove - driven
Past
Participle
fall - fell - fallen
Past
Participle
fly - flew - flown
Past
Participle
hit - hit - hit
Past
Participle
know - knew - known
Past
Participle
lose - lost - lost
Past
Participle
read - read - read
Past
Participle
sit - sat - sat
Past
Participle
Practice
Fill out the table below with the irregular verbs. If you write a space after a word, the computer will think that it's an error.
Practice
Write the verb in parentheses in the correct form (present, past or participle) in the sentences below.
example
He's (find) a lot of interesting books at the library.
Other Vocabulary
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Practice
Select the correct word.
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