Personality Traits

Topic: Describing People

Mode: Interpretive  

Level: Novice

Students will listen to audio descriptions of people’s habits and will choose the best word that describes them.

Components of this activity: Scripts, multiple choice exercise, answer key.

Instructions to the teacher

  1. Record the scripts in the following exercise and save them as audio files. 
  2. Play the audio files in class and ask students to select the right answer for each description. 

Instructions to students

 Listen to the audio descriptions of people’s habits and choose the best word that describes them.  

  1. I like to tell jokes. 

    funny    boring    studious

  1. Tolu and Mansur get excellent grades.

    smart    brave    grumpy

  1. Shakul always tells the truth. 

    honest    brave    studious

  1. Vineet doesn’t like to do anything.

    lazy    funny    generous

  1. Abdullah always says “please” and “thank you”.

    polite    generous    mean

  1. Abhishek’s apartment is always clean and organized. 

    neat    messy    boring

  1. Prateek is not afraid of anything!

    brave    cowardly    kind

  1. Hewa has many good friends.

popular    nerdy    smart

  1. Talip spends hours looking in the mirror.

vain    unlucky    talkative 

  1. Pedram gets upset if he doesn’t win.

    competitive    smart    mean