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.
