大学英语资料：Useful Expressions for Personal Description

1、Useful Expressions for Personal Description Enlarge your vocabulary1.2Writing and revisingAdditional readingWarming-up activitiesCharacter and personal qualitiesPersonality: warm, friendly, kind, nice, pleasant, easy-going, generous, sensitive, sensible, strong, sociable, ambitious, determined, thri

2、fty, frank, reliable, confident, emotional, broad-minded, inquiring, even-tempered, rude, cold, mean, arrogant, aggressive, extravagant, nosy Ability: intelligent, bright, clever, smart, gifted, talented, flexible, hard-working, average, simple, slow-witted, stupid, foolish, brainless, cunning, slyA

3、ttitude:optimistic, pessimistic, extroverted, introverted, enthusiastic, eager, motivated, down-to-earth, passive, argumentative, ill-mannered, courteous, trustworthy, sincere, jealous, envious, cruel Preparing for your writingEnlarge your vocabulary1.3Exercise BThe following translation practice fr

4、om Chinese into English could also help you acquire more words that are often used to describe people. Writing and revisingAdditional readingWarming-up activitiesunfriendly不友善的unpleasant不讨人喜欢的unambitious无抱负的unsociable不爱/善于交际的unreliable不可靠的Preparing for your writingEnlarge your vocabulary1.4Writing a

5、nd revisingAdditional readingWarming-up activitiesinflexible刻板的insensitive麻木不仁的dishonest不诚实的discourteous粗鲁的impolite不礼貌的Preparing for your writingEnlarge your vocabulary1.5Writing and revisingAdditional readingWarming-up activitiesExercise CThe table below lists words that are often used to describe

6、peoples appearances. Look at the words and select those that you can appropriately use when you describe someone in your class in a small-group activity.good-looking, beautiful, elegant, handsome, untidy-looking, unattractive generaltall, tallish, short, average, medium height, slim, stout, overweig

7、htheight and buildPreparing for your writingEnlarge your vocabulary1.6Writing and revisingAdditional readingWarming-up activitiesblack, blond, brown red, light brown, dark brown, shiny, dyed, straight, wavy, curly, bald, red-hairedhairattractive, plain, ugly, round, square, long, oval, thin-faced, round-facedfacebig, small, round, black, brown, blue, grey, brig