Lesson 3 - People
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This page: Learn words to describe personality in English.
Click on the word to hear its pronunciation and repeat it.
Study the list of personality-describing words above. Then, select the words that describe your personality. (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 personality traits you consider positive and those you consider negative. (There are no right or wrong answers.)
| Positive | Negative | Characteristic |
|---|---|---|
| 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 opposite.
Select a word that is similar to the word written.
The past participle of the verb is used with the present perfect tense. The past participle is generally formed by adding the letters -ed to the end of the verb (the same way we form the simple past). However, there are many irregular past participle forms. Sometimes the past tense and the past participle are the same, and sometimes they are different. In each of the first lessons of the Advanced Level, we will learn some of the irregular past participle forms. The following table contains a list of some irregular past participle forms and their corresponding past tense forms for review.
| 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 |
Use your imagination to write sentences in the blanks using irregular verbs. (Since there are so many possible answers, this exercise cannot be corrected.)
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
Fill in the table with the irregular verbs and then click the CHECK button. (If you type a space after the word, the computer will interpret it as an error when checking.)
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.
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