Complete First Unit 9
Write as many suitable words as you can in each category below, using the listening transcript if your teacher says that you can.
Similar words to “intelligent”/ Words related to “intelligent”
Mental problems
Positive personality words
Negative personality words
Neutral personality words/ Personality words that can be both positive and negative
Actions that your brain does/ Verbs related to thinking
Check as a class and/ or below,
Make questions about those words using questions stems like these:
- How… are you?
- Are any of your friends…?
- Are you generally…?
- Would you describe yourself as…?
- Would you say that you…?
- Do you like to…?
- Do you spend a lot of time…?
- How important is it to be… (in modern society)?
- What do you think the disadvantages of being … are?
- What do you think the advantages of… are?
Many more answers are possible, especially personality words.
Similar words to “intelligent”/ Words related to “intelligent”
- Brainy/ Clever/ Smart
- Genius/ Gifted/ Prodigy
- High IQ
- Savant
Mental problems
- Anxiety
- Autistic
- Depression/ Depressed/ (Manic) depressive/ Bipolar
- Hallucination
- Lack of social skills
- Obsessive/ Obsessive compulsive/ OCD
- Paranoid/ Paranoia
- Phobia/ Phobic (claustrophobia, agoraphobia, vertigo, etc)
- Psychopath
- PTSD
- Sociopath
- Stress/ Stressed
- Voices in your head
Positive personality words
- Cheerful
- Considerate
- Friendly
- Hard working
- Outgoing
- Sensitive
- Sociable
Negative personality words
- A loner
- Demanding/ Difficult
- Domineering/ Dominating
- Irritable
- Quiet
- Weird/ Odd/ Strange
Neutral personality words/ Personality words that can be both positive and negative
- Cautious
Actions that your brain does/ Verbs related to thinking
- Comprehend/ (Mis)understand
- Concentrate/ Focus – Wander off/ Switch off/ Drift off/ Be distracted/ Daydream
- Contemplate/ Ponder/ Wonder
- Dream
- Memorise
- Obsess about
- Remember/ Recall – Forget
- Think back
- Worry (subconsciously)
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