This document provides prompts and examples for describing personal characteristics such as name, age, family, appearance, qualities, hobbies, likes/dislikes, education history, current school/subjects, and future plans. It includes questions about name, family, physical description, personality traits, free time activities, favorite/disliked items, education background from kindergarten to current secondary school, reasons for choosing the current school, favorite/disliked subjects, and aspirations for future education and career. The purpose is to help someone write about themselves in English.

1. Personal Characteristics
(Osobní charakteristika)

2. Personal Characteristic
 Introduction (name/age/date and place of birth)
 Your family (parents, siblings - name/age/job)
 Your appearance (height/face/hair/eyes)
 Your good and bad qualities
 Your hobbies, free-time activities
 Your likes and dislikes

3. Personal Characteristic
 Your favourite clothes, accessories
 Kindergarten
 Elementary school – favourite subjects
 Studying at this school/subjects
 Your future job
 Your future life

4. What is your name, how old are you? When
and where were you born? What do you do?
Examples of answers:
My name is Jan Novák, I am 17 years old and I was
born on the 27th of January 2005 in Pardubice.
I am a student of the second grade of the Secondary
Automotive School Holice in the field Road
transport/Autotronic.

5. Can you describe your family in short?
Examples of answers
I live with my family in the village Horní Ředice.
My mother´s name is Iva, she is 38 years old
and she works as a shop-assistant.

6. Can you describe your family in short?
My father´s name is Zdeněk, he is 42 years old
and he works as a driver.
I have got one older sister, her name is Míša
and she studies at the University in Prague.

7. How would you describe yourself in short?
What do you look like?
Examples of answers:
I am tall and slim, I have got oval face,
short brown hair and blue eyes.
I am of medium build, I have got long curly hair
and I wear glasses.

8. What are you like? What qualities do you
have?
Examples of answers:
I am friendly and optimistic, but sometimes
I am rather lazy.
I am hard-working and quiet, but sometimes
I am a bit shy and stubborn.
I am reliable and responsible, but I am also
a bit talkative and quarrelsome.

9. What do you do in your free time? What are
your hobbies? Do you have any weekend or
summer jobs?
Examples of answers:
I like playing football and volleyball and I also repair
my car in my free time. Every Saturday and during
holidays I work in a tire-service.
My hobbies are fishing and hanging out with friends.
I sometimes help my father in his shop – he has
a shop with spare parts.

10. What do you like? What don´t you like?
Is anything you hate?
Examples of answers:
I like swimming and the sea, but I don´t like
thundrestorms. And I hate spiders.
I really like chocolate and ice-cream,
I hate spinach.

11. What do you usually wear? Do you wear
glasses/ any accessories?
Examples of answers:
I usually wear a t-shirt and a pair of jeans,
and a sweatshirt in colder days.
I wear glasses or sometimes contact lens.
My typical accessory is piercing.

12. How and where did you spend your first years?
Did you go to the kindergarten? Where did you
attend the elementary school?
Examples of answers:
From the age of three to the age of six I went
to the kindergarten and in the year 2011 I started
to attend the elementary school in Ředice.
I never went to kindergarten, I was at home with
my mum and at the age of six I started
my compulsory school attendance.

13. What were your favourite subjects and
teachers? When did you finish your
elementary school?
Examples of answers:
My favourite subjects at elementary school
were geography and physics, I didn’t like math,
because our math teacher was very strict.

14. What were your favourite subjects and
teachers? When did you finish your
elementary school?
Examples of answers:
My favourite teacher was our biology teacher;
she was very funny and kind.
I finished elementary school at the age of fifteen,
in the year 2020.

15. Why did you decide to go study at the school
in Holice?
Examples of answers:
I have been interested in cars and motorcycles
since childhood.
I visited this school with my parents
at „The Open Doors“ and I liked it here very much.
My choice was easy– I live not far from school
and I am interested in cars very much.
My parents helped me with the choice.

16. Why did you decide to go study at the
school in Holice?
Examples of answers:
The first reason was that I am interested in cars; the
second one was that this school has
a very good reputation.
At the basic school I was interested
in technical subjects and I had good marks.
I would like to work
in automobile (automotive) industry.

17. When did you start studying here at this
school? Did you have any problems in the
beginning?
Examples of answers:
I started to study at this school in the year 2010 and at
the beginning I had a lot of problems with maths.
The most difficult subject for me was
technical drawing.
The biggest problem for me was
that I wasn’t used to learn.

18. Subject at our school
 Czech languague
 Technical drawing
 English languague
 Engineering
 Math
 Electrical engineering
 Physics
 Parts of machines
 Road vehicles
 P.E.
 Measurement checks
 ICT
 Mechanics
 Practical training
 Economics
 Citizenship

19. What are your favourite subjects here? Are
there any subjects that you don’t like
much?
Examples of answers:
I like technical subjects and PE, but I don´t like
English – it is too difficult for me.
I like Czech and English language, but I don´t like
mathematics and I hate computers – our teacher
is very demanding.

20. What would you like to do in the future?
Examples of answers:
After graduation I would like to study
at a technical university.
After graduation I would like to travel and visit
the biggest European cities.

21. What would you like to do in the future?
Examples of answers:
In the future I would like to find a job abroad
and earn a lot of money.
I would like to live in a big city – there are more
job opportunities there.

22. What would you like to do in the future?
Examples of answers:
I would like to live in a village, life in the village is
more peaceful (quieter, calmer) and there is
beautiful nature there.
I would like to find a nice and good woman (wife),
build a house in a village and have two children –
a daughter and a son.
I would like to find an interesting and well-paid job
in automotive industry.

23. Useful vocabulary
Road Transport silniční doprava Autotronic autotronik
be used to být zvyklý abroad v zahraničí
of medium build střední postavy field obor
talkative upovídaný job opportunities pracovní příležitosti
shy plachý responsible zodpovědý
stubborn tvrdohlavý reliable spolehlivý
kindergarten školka well-paid dobře placený
attend school chodit do školy reputation pověst
from the age of three od tří let to the age of six do šesti let
Compulsory school attendance povinná školní docházka
The Open Doors Den otevřených dveří