Using the table above fill in the gaps in the following sentences.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 460.

Some features of character may have a positive or negative meaning. Look at these words and define what words have positive meanings or negative? Find their synonyms in the second column.

Vocabulary Focus

Part 1

1.1 Work in groups Discuss these questions with your partners:

• What impression do you try to give to the people you deal with in business?

• Add some more adjectives to these lists:

I try to be: pleasant sincere efficient....................................

• What impression do you try not to give?

• Add some more adjectives to these lists:

I try NOT to be: unfriendly shy aggressive ..............................

1. If you describe a person or their behaviour as ……, you mean that they deal with things, or say things, quickly and shortly, so that they seem to be rude.

2. He's got some ……. ideas to buy a boat and to live in it.

3. ……. people alarmed him because they try in a forceful way to get things done as they would like

4. She is ……… because she is tolerant or liberal in her views and reactions.

5. His poems reveal an intensely ……… mind

6. If you describe someone as ………., you disapprove of them because they seem to hate spending money, and to spend as little as possible.

7. Someone who is ………… or who behaves in a ………….. way is determined to do what they want and is very unwilling to change their mind.

8. If you describe someone as …………, you think they lack experience and so expect things to be easy or people to be honest or kind.

9. Someone who is ……….. spends more money than they can afford or uses more of something than is reasonable.

10. If you are ……….., you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.

11. Someone who is …………. behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others.