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This document provides a workbook activity to help students practice using descriptive adjectives when introducing themselves. It includes lists of adjectives describing appearance, personality, feelings, shape, size, time, quantity, sound, taste, touch, and color. Students are instructed to choose adjectives that describe themselves and their families/friends/interests and provide an example to clarify the meaning. The goal is to help students feel more comfortable describing themselves using descriptive words.
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- 1. WorkbookActivity: Students often findthemselves at a loss of words when they need to introduce themselves to the interviewer. Trainers often get the query around the vocabulary enhancement. Howeverthe more important thing to remember here is, that more than the knowledge of the word it is the usage that creates the impact. The followingactivity is designed to bridge the gap between knowledge and usage. Listed below you wouldfind wordsthat describe the characteristic traits of personality. Refer to the dictionary forthe meanings of these words. For further clarification,if required, consult the trainer. Once clear with the meaning, try and associate these wordswith your ownpersonality. Try and use as many words as possible. While describing your characteristic traits by the help of these words, cite an example to further clarify the meaning. For example: “I believeI am suitableforthisjobbecauseI am prudent”. Meaningofthe word:Wise/Far-sighted. Clarification: “My profileincludedinteractionwiththecustomers,duringmy last industrial training.So Itookan innovativeapproachanddecidedalong with the otherexecutivesto wear a smileybatch. Thisdidn’tonlymakethe officeenvironmentpleasantforthecustomers,but also made it lessstressful forthe employees.“ It is encouraged that students use as many words as possible. They could choose to use the same list of words to describe their family members, friends, relatives, movies, role models, favorite companies, places, et al. Descriptive Adjectives List List of Descriptive Adjectives DescribingAppearance List of Descriptive Adjectives DescribingPersonality List of Descriptive Adjectives DescribingFeelings Adorable Aggressive Afraid Attractive Ambitious Angry Alluring Amused Anxious Beautiful Brave Bad Bew ildered Bright Bored Confident Cruel Calm Cheerful Combative Confused Cultured Co-operative Comfortable Clumsy Cow ardly Creepy Drab Dangerous Depressed Dull Diligent Disturbed Dynamic Determined Dominating
- 2. Disillusioned Disagreeable Deceitful ElegantEvil Envious Fair Frank Faithful Filthy Fearless Fine Gentle Generous Good Glamorous Gifted Grieving Handsome Helpful Horrible Homely Harmonious Happy Hurt Hesitant Hungry Ill-mannered Instinctive Ill Jolly Jealous Jovial Kind-hearted Know ledgeable Kind Lovely Loner Lively Magnificent Mysterious Mature Nervous Naughty Nice Pleasant Pleasing Proud Perfect Placid Peaceful Plucky Punctual Protective Smiling Successful Sorrow ful Splendid Sedate Silly Self-assured Sincere Sombre Snobbish Selfish Sore Thoughtful Talented Tired Tense Thrifty Troubled Timid Truculent Testy Upset Unbiased Unw ell Vivacious Voracious Vengeful Wonderful Witty Wicked Worried Wise Weary Wild Warm Wrong Zaftig Zany Zestful eg- What an adorable baby! eg- He w as a brave knight. eg- She w as in a jovial mood. Follow ing is a list of descriptive adjectives that describe shape, sound, size, time and quantity. List of Descriptive Adjectives Describing Shape List of Descriptive Adjectives Describing Size List of Descriptive Adjectives Describing Time List of Descriptive Adjectives Describing Quantity Broad Big Ancient Abundant Crooked Colossal Annual Bountiful Circular Great Brief Cumbersome Distorted Gigantic Early Empty Flat Huge Fast Extra Hollow Large Late Few
- 3. Narrow Miniature ModernHeavy Round Mammoth Old Myriad Square Petite Rapid Many Skinny Tall Sw ift Multiple Steep Thin Slow Numerous Wide Tiny Young Substantial eg- A skinnyboy eg- A miniature train eg- An ancient manuscript eg- Myriad stars The follow ing descriptive adjectiveslist qualify nouns related to sound, taste, touch and color. List of Descriptive Adjectives Describing Sound List of Descriptive Adjectives Describing Taste List of Descriptive Adjectives Describing Touch List of Descriptive Adjectives Describing Color Blaring Bitter Hard Azure Cooing Delicious Loose Aqua Deafening Fresh Rough Blue Loud Hot Smooth Black Melancholic Icy Slippery Crimson Noisy Juicy Sticky Cyan Soft Spicy Sharp Gold Shrill Sw eet Scattered Green Squeaking Sour Soft Magenta Silent Salty Tender Orange Thundering Tasty Uneven Pink Whispering Tasteless Wet Turquoise eg- Blaring loudspeaker eg- Delicious pastry eg- Rough surface eg- Green diamond