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.

Date: 2015-12-17; view: 850

<== previous page	\|	next page ==>
Picky, Picky, Picky	\|	Match the descriptions to the signs.

doclecture.net - lectures - 2014-2025 year. Copyright infringement or personal data (0.006 sec.)