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Study the table. Say whether the information given is true about you.
| ARIES (The Ram) March 21 - April 20 | strong, enthusiastic, positive, optimistic, ambitious | tactless, stubborn, unreasonable, irritable |
| TAURUS (The Bull) April 21 - May 20 | honest, reliable, cautious, thorough | unforgiving, stubborn, materialistic, doesn't listen to others |
| GEMINI (The Twins) May 21 - June 20 | bright, creative, charming, adaptable, intellectual | shallow, unreliable, doesn't concentrate, easily-bored |
| CANCER (The Crab) June 21 - July 20 | home-loving, sympathetic, kind, loyal, patient | timid, unambitious, lazy, retiring |
| LEO (The Lion) July 21 - August 21 | leading, organizing, generous, hospitable, popular | arrogant, rude, conceited, materialistic |
| VIRGO (The Virgin) August 22 - September 22 | hard-working,responsible, moderate, trustworthy, open | critical, cold, tootidy, miserly |
| LIBRA (The Scales) September 23 - October 22 | fair-minded, harmonious, considerate, artistic | insincere, escapist, vain, jealous |
| SCORPIO (The Scorpion) October 23 - November 22 | brave, strong-willed, highly-principled, determined | boastful, sly, ruthless, vengeful |
| SAGITTARIUS (The Archer) November 23 - December 20 | honest,broad-minded, practical, trusting | restless, risk-taking, tactless, undisciplined |
| CAPRICORN (The Goat) December 21 - January 19 | patient,serious, business-like, hard-working, self-controlled | bossy, narrow-minded, critical, materialistic |
| AQUARIUS (The Water Carrier) January 20 - February 18 | individualistic, honest, humanitarian, | fanatical, eccentric, temperamental, impractical |
| PISCES (The Fish) February 19 - March 20 | idealistic, sympathetic, loving, trusting | depressive, gloomy, lazy, easily-led |
Exercises:
I. Point out the adjectives that have a) a positive meaning; b) a negative meaning.
Idealistic, independent, creative, tactless, shallow, strong-willed, high-principled, individualistic, artistic, lazy, retiring, determined, sensible, miserly, sociable, tactful, secretive, narrow-minded, reasonable, friendly, conceited, considerate, reliable, positive, vain, open, serious, hard-working, generous, thoughtful, dependable, optimistic, harmonious, loyal, sly, vengeful, faithful, broad- minded, self-controlled, undisciplined, cunning, unforgiving.
II. Write out words that are opposite in meaning to the following ones:
open, tactful, serious, hard- working, retiring, generous, broad- minded, self- controlled.
III. Find words that are synonymous with the following adjectives:
idealistic, independent, creative, strong- willed, reasonable, considerate, reliable, positive, vain, loyal, harmonious, cunning, unforgiving.
IV. Form the opposite adjectives using prefixes: un-, dis-, im-, in- , ir-:
1. Ambitious, patient, loyal, reasonable, honest, reliable, forgiving, hospitable, popular, responsible, considerate, sincere, practical.
2. Build nouns from the following adjectives making use of the suffixes: - ness,-(i)ty, -ance, -(at)ion.
Arrogant, rude, responsible, considerate, popular, timid, creative, thorough, irritable, generous, sly, determined, serious, impractical, honest, harmonious.
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