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Complete these sentences using one of the compound adjectives in the box
| Easy-going old-fashioned absent-minded big-headed self-centered strong-willed broad-minded self-confident hard-working well-meaning |
1 There’s a boy in our class who thinks the world resolves around him. He’s so__________________; he never thinks of anyone else.
2 The ________________ professor always forgot where he had put his hat.
3 She’s a very _________________ person and never gives up when she has made up her mind to do something.
4 Our next-door neighbour can be irritating but her intentions are good. She’s ______________.
5 John is a ______________ type and always does well in interviews; always feel really nervous.
6 My parents are very _______________ they even work at weekends.
7 John is so ______________ he’s always boasting about his achievements.
8 I can say anything in front of my grandmother, she’s not easily shocked. She’s open to new ideas and very________________.
9 My sister’s an _______________ person. She gets on well with people and makes friends easily.
10 My uncle has got stuck in the nineteenth century – his ideas are so _______!
For questions 1-14 read the text.Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the small line.
The greatest writer of all time
| Graphology is the study and (1) ____________ of handwriting as a way of telling you about the writer’s (2) _____________. In order to carry out a (3) _____________ study of someone’s character, graphologists need a full-page specimen of someone’s handwriting. This has to be (4)______________ spontaneously under normal conditions. One of the most widely analysed (5)_____________ is that of the greatest English writer of all time, William Shakespeare. The only examples we have of Shakespeare’s (6)____________ to write are six examples of his signature. (7)________________, experts do not agree on whether he wrote them at all. If he did, he could (8)____________ have been the writer who ‘never blotted a line’. The signatures are nearly (9)______________ and it can be seen that the name is spelt in several (10)______________ ways and written in several different styles. The three most (11)_______________ signatures are those on Shakespeare’s will. Their shaky letters may be a symptom of writer’s (12)_______________. Graphologists claim that these signatures were not written by Shakespeare at all, but by his (13)_______________. One graphologist, Durning-Lawrence, claims with (14)___________ that the greatest writer of all time could not so much as manage to scrawl his own name. | analyse person success write sign able fortunate hard legible differ controversy weak law certain |
Write down the names of famous people with the following characteristics.
1 pale-skinned___________________________________
2 long-legged____________________________________
3 square-faced___________________________________
4 green-eyed_____________________________________
5 square-shouldered_______________________________
6 left-handed_____________________________________
7 blond-haired____________________________________
We often use compound adjectives to describe people. They are formed by joining an adjective and a ‘body noun’ which looks like a past participle, e.g. red-faced, long-haired.
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