English lecture about personality

1. Your personality
Part 1
Who are you?

2. What we’ll learn today:
• Positive and negative characteristics / personality traits
• What are your positive and negative traits
• Allergies (Which people don’t you like?)

3. Characteristics / Personality traits

4. • Independent: Not relying on another or others for aid or support.
• Generous: Liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish.
• Optimistic: Hopeful and confident about the future.
• Enthusiastic: Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
• Courageous: Not deterred by danger or pain; brave.
• Dependable: Capable of being depend on; worthy of trust; reliable.
• Persistent: Persisting, especially in spite of opposition, obstacles, discouragement,
etc.; persevering.
• Loyal: Giving or showing firm and constant support or allegiance to a person or
institution.
• Patient: Able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without
becoming annoyed or anxious.
• Energetic: Showing or involving great activity or vitality.
• Clever: Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
• Imaginative: Having or showing creativity or inventiveness.
• Witty: Showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humor.
• Adaptable: Able to adjust to new conditions.
• Caring: Displaying kindness and concern for others.
• Responsible: Having an obligation to do something

5. Optimistic
Clever
Generous

6. • Confident: Feeling or showing confidence in oneself or one’s abilities or qualities.
• Ambitious: Having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.
• Encouraging: Giving someone support or confidence; supportive.
• Analytical: Relating to or using analysis or logical reasoning.
• Observant: Quick to notice or perceive things.
• Helpful: Giving or ready to give help.
• Reliable: Consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted.
• Passionate: Strong feelings or beliefs.
• Resourceful: Having the ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties.
• Dynamic: Positive in attitude and full of energy and new ideas.
• Humorous: Causing laughter and amusement; comic.
• Inventive: Having the ability to create or design new things or to think originally.
• Original: Not dependent on other people’s ideas; inventive or novel.
• Compassionate: Feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others.
• Accepting: Being open for suggestions.
• Devoted: Very loving or loyal.

7. Humorous
Ambitious
Helpful

8. Characteristics / Personality traits

9. My 6 positive personality traits
• Optimistic
• Enthusiastic
• Adaptable
• Witty
• Clever
• Observant
• Helpful
• Humorous
• Compassionate
• Accepting
Optimistic Observant
Adaptable Helpful
Clever Humorous

10. Characteristics / Personality traits

11. • Lazy: Unwilling to work or use energy.
• Possessive: Demanding someone’s total attention and love.
• Materialistic: Excessively concerned with material possessions; money-oriented.
• Self-indulgent: Allowing oneself to have or do the things that they enjoy very much.
• Superficial: Having little understanding of anything serious or important.
• Impulsive: Doing things suddenly without thinking about them carefully first.
• Indecisive: Finding it difficult to make decisions.
• Clingy: Holding on to a person very tightly.
• Self-pitying: easily feeling sorry for yourself and your problems.
• Oversensitive: excessively responsive to or aware of feelings, reactions, etc.
• Pretentious: Trying to seem more important and significant then you are.
• Melodramatic: Being exaggerating and overemotional.
• Stubborn: Being determined to do what you want and refuses to change your mind.
• Skeptical: Always having doubts about things.
• Inflexible: Not willing to change or be altered, even if the situation changes.
• Cold: Not effected by emotion.
• Lazy: Unwilling to work or use energy.
• Possessive: Demanding someone’s total attention and love.
• Materialistic: Excessively concerned with material possessions; money-oriented.
• Self-indulgent: Allowing oneself to have or do the things that they enjoy very much.
• Superficial: Having little understanding of anything serious or important.
• Impulsive: Doing things suddenly without thinking about them carefully first.
• Indecisive: Finding it difficult to make decisions.
• Clingy: Holding on to a person very tightly.
• Self-pitying: easily feeling sorry for yourself and your problems.
• Oversensitive: excessively responsive to or aware of feelings, reactions, etc.
• Pretentious: Trying to seem more important and significant then you are.
• Melodramatic: Being exaggerating and overemotional.
• Stubborn: Being determined to do what you want and refuses to change your mind.
• Skeptical: Always having doubts about things.
• Inflexible: Not willing to change or be altered, even if the situation changes.
• Cold: Not effected by emotion.

12. Lazy
Clingy
Stubborn

13. • Jealous: Angry feeling because they think that another person is trying to take away
someone or something that they love.
• Obsessive: Not being able to stop doing a particular thing or behaving in a particular
way.
• Suspicious: Not being able to trust people. Feeling like others are up to no good.
• Manipulative: Controlling or influencing people to produce a particular result.
• Unemotional: Not capable of showing emotion.
• Inhibited: Finding it hard to behave naturally or show feelings.
• Conceited: Having an exaggerated opinion about oneself.
• Distrusting: Not being able to trust people.
• Unimaginative: Lacking in imagination or imaginative thought; dull.
• Escapist: Providing or seeking distraction and relief from unpleasant realities,
especially in the form of entertainment or fantasy.
• Moody: Easily depressed or angry without a warning.
• Short-tempered: Easily moved to anger.
• Self-involved: Wrapped-up in oneself or one’s own thoughts.
• Impulsive: Acting or done without forethought.
• Impatient: Easily annoyed when having to wait for something.

14. Moody
Jealous
Obsessive

15. Characteristics / Personality traits

16. My 6 Negative personality traits
• Impulsive
• Lazy
• Escapist
• Indecisive
• Oversensitive
• Manipulative
• Self involved
Impulsive Lazy
Escapist Indecisive
Oversensitive Manipulative

17. Overview personality traits
Impulsive Lazy
Escapist Indecisive
Oversensitive Manipulative
Optimistic Observant
Adaptable Helpful
Clever Humorous

18. Allergy: Antonyms / opposites
Pessimistic Careless
Inflexible Unhelpful
Stupid Serious
Optimistic Observant
Adaptable Helpful
Clever Humorous

19. I hope to see you next
time!