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Personality Types Guessing Game

The document describes a personality guessing game activity where students are divided into groups and take turns describing personality adjectives on cards without saying the word, and the other students have to guess the adjective. The game aims to help students describe and guess different personality adjectives.

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Personality Types Guessing Game

The document describes a personality guessing game activity where students are divided into groups and take turns describing personality adjectives on cards without saying the word, and the other students have to guess the adjective. The game aims to help students describe and guess different personality adjectives.

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Lisa Carpitelli
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TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Personality Types Guessing Game

Activity Type Introduction


Reading, listening and In this fun personality adjectives game, students define and guess
speaking activity, group adjectives related to personality.
work
Procedure
Language Focus Divide the students into groups of three.
Adjectives of personality
Give each group a set of cards.

Ask the students to shuffle the cards and place them face down
Aim
in a pile on the desk.
To describe and guess
personality adjectives. Students then take it in turns to pick up a card from the pile.

The student with the card describes the personality adjective in


Preparation bold to the other students, without saying the adjective or using
the underlined words on the card.
Make one copy of the
cards for each group
The student is also not allowed to say variations of the disallowed
of three and cut as
words on the card, e.g. charm, charmed, etc.
indicated.
The first student to successfully guess the personality adjective
Level being described wins and keeps the card.

Intermediate (A2-B1) Students continue taking it in turns to describe an adjective of


personality until all the cards have been used.

Time The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins.
25 minutes

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DESCRIBING CHARACTER AND PERSONALITY

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Personality Types Guessing Game

charming ambitious
A person who is very attractive and pleasant. A person who wants to be successful.
It's the opposite of repulsive. It's the opposite of unambitious.

intelligent reliable
A person who is clever and learns things quickly. A person who is dependable and can be trusted.
It's the opposite of stupid. It's the opposite of unreliable.

clumsy patient
A person who often drops or breaks things. A person who doesn't mind waiting.
It's the opposite of graceful. It's the opposite of impatient.

bossy cheerful
A person who always tells people what to do. A person who is always happy and optimistic.
It's the opposite of modest. It's the opposite of miserable.

generous stubborn
A person who likes giving things to others. A person who refuses to change their mind.
It's the opposite of selfish or stingy. It's the opposite of flexible.

polite easy-going
A person who has good manners. A person who is relaxed and calm.
It's the opposite of impolite or rude. It's the opposite of uptight or intolerant.

honest hardworking
A person who always tells the truth. A person who puts effort and care into their
work.
It's the opposite of dishonest.
It's the opposite of lazy.

sociable creative
A person who likes to meet and spend time A person who has original ideas to create
with people. something.
It's the opposite of unsociable. It's the opposite of unimaginative.

daring considerate
A person who does things which might be A person who is caring and respectful of
dangerous. others.
It's the opposite of cautious. It's the opposite of inconsiderate.

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