Fill the gaps in the text with suitable words from the box.
sense
punctual
confident
trust
initiative
miserable
timid
sensible
sensitive
shy
cheerful
reserved
I spent the weekend camping with friends but it wasn’t very successful. Sally is not very (1) ………………. and we had to wait an hour for her to turn up. Apparently she had a problem with a train, but didn’t have the common (2) ………………. to call me on my cell phone and warn me she would be late. Then, when she finally arrived, she had a friend with her, called Jill. She was quite nice, but so (3) ………………. that she didn’t really speak to anyone for the first day. She`d got a bit more self- (4) ………………. by the end of the weekend. However, she didn’t seem to have much (5) ………………. : we were only 400 meters from a farm but Jill said she couldn’t make tea because we had no water! Bill got angry at that, for no real reason, and poor Jill almost started crying. Bill`s problem was that he never really wanted to go camping in the first place, so he was pretty (6) ………………. most of the time.
19. Describing character – What`s he like? Is she nice?
a. Give the definition to every word below.
b. Use the words below to describe what your friends, family and teachers are like.
c. In pairs: one student writes down a description and the other student must guess who it is.
careful
hard-working
worried
cheerful
broad-minded
active
curious
secretive