G.12A/B - Personal characteristics vocabulary

Type your name, surname, grade and student number below. A. Meghan is Personal Officer in a busy hospital. She has just interviewed five people for the position of Senior Nurse. Read her notes and choose two (2) adjectives to describe each candidate. SARAH: I liked her because she seemed very friendly and positive: she smiled a lot during the interview and she even made a few jokes. I got the impression that she didn't like being told what to do, as she kept telling me about how she couldn't agree with her previous boss.1. humorous 2. rebelliousJUAN: At first I thought what a nice man - seemed very confident and outgoing, but then when I asked him why he'd left his last job and if he had had any problems he got quite angry. We can't have someone who can't control their emotions.1. extrovert 2. hot-temperedMARA: Very popular with her previous colleagues and easy to get on with. When I posed some hypothetical problems to her, she dealt with them efficiently without panicking.1. good in a team 2. calmLAURA: No. She seemed to think we should be begging her to join us ... a big ego. She seemed to feel that she didn't always get enough credit or praise for what she said were her ideas, too.1. arrogant 2. attention-seekingJIM: Seemed very shy and uncomfortable around other people. I think he'd be a problem because he kept asking a lot of questions about basic things. I think he'd need a lot of support.1. introvert 2. needy B. Additional personal characteristic adjectives.Please use a dictionary to match the meaning to the correct adjective.1. Unhappy because someone else has something which you want. argumentative jealous resilient 2. Easy to talk to, finds it easy to express ideas. communicative talkative absent-minded 3. Likes arguing, often tries to be controversial. self-sufficient argumentative individualistic 4. Always talking. Never quiet. obnoxious humorless talkative 5. Independent, doesn't rely on other people. self-sufficient absent-minded uncommunicative 6. Serious, doesn't find things funny. obnoxious humorless argumentative 7. Does things in his own way, has different opinions from other people. absent-minded resilient individualistic 8. Strong, able to recover easily from a difficult situation or problem. resilient uncommunicative talkative 9. An extremely rude person. argumentative obnoxious individualistic 10. Very forgetful, inattentive disposition. self-sufficient absent-minded humorless C. Choose whether the following adjectives are positive or negative. Just click on the word, then click on Positive adjective or negative adjective. Positive adjectives resilient humorous extrovert good in a team calm self-sufficient individualistic communicative Negative adjectives jealous talkative rebellious hot-tempered arrogant attention-seeking introvert needy argumentative humorless abnoxious absent-minded