Prepositions of Time

Prepositions of Time

Instructions: The prepositions "in", "on", and "at" are used with different time expressions.

IN - used for months, years, decades, seasons, and times of the day (morning, afternoon, evening).

ON - used for specific days and dates.

AT - used for a specific hour and also the night. 

Present Continuous Practice - Student B

Present Continuous Practice - Student B

Exercise 1: Answer your partner's questions to help them discover the names of the people at the party. Only answer the question they ask you. Do not give additional information.

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Exercise 2: Look at the picture below. Imagine you are at University Recreation Center and you do not know the names of any of these people. Ask your partner questions to discover the names of the people. Write the number next to their names.

You only have one rule. You cannot ask a question like "Who is Dave?" or "Which person is John?" or "What is Sally doing?". You have to ask "Who is the person who is dancing and wearing a red hat?" or "Is Sally using the computer?"

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Present Continuous Practice - Student A

Present Continuous Practice - Student A

Exercise 1: Look at the picture below. Imagine you are at this party and you do not know the names of any of these people. Ask your partner questions to discover the names of the people. Write the number next to their names.

You only have one rule. You cannot ask a question like "Who is Dave?" or "Which person is John?" or "What is Sally doing?". You have to ask "Who is the person who is dancing and wearing a red hat? or "Is Sally using the computer?"

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Exercise 2: Now your partner will ask you questions to learn the names of the people in the University Recreation Center. Don't give additional information. Only answer what your partner asks you. 

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Reviewing Personality Types

Reviewing Personality Types

Instructions: In this activity you will review the vocabulary related to personality types from last class. Look at the picture and answer the questions below. CLICK the image to see a larger version.

Task 1: Discussion Questions

• What characters do you recognize? How do you know them?
• Are there any characters that you don't recognize?
• Choose two characters that you feel share some of your personality traits. Say how you are similar and how you are different.
• Choose two characters that have very different personalities to you. Say why.
• Imagine all of the characters lived in the real world. What characters would have compatible personalities? Why?
• Which characters would definately be incompatible? Why?

Task 2: Critical Thinking

• Why do you think people have the personality traits they have? Are we born with them? Are they genetic? Are they shaped by life experience? Are there other factors? Is it a combination of all of these reasons?
• There is a famous idiomatic expression in English that says, "a tiger never changes his stripes", meaning that a person cannot change his/her essential nature. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Do you think it is possible for a person to change an aspect of their personality?

Psychological Profile

Psychological Profile 

Instructions: In this activity you will make a psychological profile to make a detailed description two famous characters. Think of two characters from a TV show, movie, cartoon, or popular story that you think everyone in the class will be familiar with. Pretend you are FBI psychologists and you have to make a psychological profile of these characters to describe their personality traits, their habits and routines, and a list of jobs that are compatible and incompatible with their profiles.

Vocabulary about Personalities

Vocabulary about Personalities

Instructions: There are many useful vocabulary words that we can use to describe someone's personality. 

Task 1: Vocabulary Builder

Look at the word lists as quickly as you can and identify at least 5 words that you have never used before. Do you know what they mean? Can you think of a famous person or fictional character that you can associate with this word? Why did you make this association? CLICK the picture to see a larger version.

Task 2: Making Associations

Now look through the words again and search for the best 5 words that you most associate with these three personality types: Extrovert, Introvert, and Ambivert.

Task 3: Thinking about Yourself

Look at the words again and make two lists. What are the 5 words that best describe you? Why? What are the 5 words that do not describe you at all? Why?

The Big 5 Personality Traits

The Big 5 Personality Traits

Introduction: Personality is a very complex subject that psychologists have been studying for years. Probably the most popular model to describe personality is the Big Five model that says that our individual personalities are composed of a combination of five factors. In this activity you will learn about these five dimensions and use them to describe your own personality. 

Instructions: Each of the five factors is a kind of scale. Read the descriptions of the factors and tell your partner what number you are on the scale and give some reasons and examples for your choice. If you are not sure what number to choose, just tell your partner why it is difficult for you to make a decision.

Discussion: Now that you have finished analyzing the Big 5 personality dimensions model, discuss the following questions with your partner. 

• Describe how you felt as you completed the different sections. Was it easy for you to decide what number to give yourself? Why or why not?
• Do you know a person that you would give a very high or very low score in one of the 5 dimensions?
• Do you think it is important for a person to understand their own personality?
• How could this awareness help them?
• Do you think it is possible for people with very different personality characteristics to be close friends? What about romantic partners?  
• Think about the 5 dimensions above. Which one do you think could cause the most problems in a romantic relationship if the two people had very different scores? Why do you say this?