Personality Words- Bluffing Game
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
A fun personalised lying game to practise character adjectives, including personality words with the same and opposite meanings.
Lesson Plan Content:
Personality words bluffing game
with personality adjective synonyms and opposites
Choose one of the personality words below and tell your partner which you chose. Tell a story to illustrate how that is true about your personality, e.g. “I once shouted at a bus driver for being five minutes late” for “Impatient”. If you can’t think of a real story, you can make one up. Your partners will ask questions to find out more about that story and/ or about that aspect of your personality. They will then try to guess if your story is true, and if you are a… person.
- adaptable/ flexible – unadaptable/ inflexible
- ambitious – unambitious
- amusing/ humorous/ funny – serious
- careful – careless
- confident – nervous
- conservative/ traditional – adventurous/ radical
- creative – uncreative
- direct – indirect/ diplomatic
- dynamic/ a self-starter – passive
- energetic – tired
- friendly – unfriendly
- hard working – lazy
- helpful – unhelpful
- intelligent/ smart – unintelligent
- knowledgeable – ignorant
- moody/ unpredictable
- motivated/ driven – unmotivated
- optimistic – pessimistic
- polite – impolite/ rude
- positive – negative
- practical – impractical
- punctual – unpunctual
- relaxed – stressed
- reliable – unreliable
- shy – outgoing
- sociable – unsociable
- strict – easy-going
- superstitious – unsuperstitious
Ask about any words above which you don’t understand, discussing if that is really your personality and/ or making suitable stories to match that word each time.
Change groups. Do the same, but this time picking adjectives above for the other person to tell a (true or false) personal story about.
Personality adjectives synonyms and opposites presentation
Without looking above for now, write at least one word in each gaps below.
- adaptable/ flexible – _______________/ ___________________
- ambitious – ___________________
- amusing/ humorous/ funny – __________________
- careful – ______________________
- confident – ______________________
- conservative/ traditional – _________________/ radical
- creative – _________________________
- direct – _______________________/ diplomatic
- _________________/ a self-starter – passive
- _____________ – tired
- friendly – __________________
- hard working – _______________
- helpful – _________________
- intelligent/ _______________ - unintelligent
- ___________________ – ignorant
- moody/ __________________
- motivated/ driven – _____________________
- optimistic – ___________________
- polite – impolite/ _____________
- positive – _______________
- practical – __________________
- punctual – _________________
- relaxed – _________________
- reliable – ___________________
- ______________ – outgoing
- sociable – _______________
- ________________ – easy-going
- superstitious – _________________
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Mixed answers
Put the words below into the right gaps above and use the suffixes to make opposites.
in…/ un…/ …less adventurous
dynamic energetic
knowledgeable lazy
negative nervous
pessimistic rude
serious shy
stressed strict
unpredictable
Check above. Other answers are possible, so please check if you wrote something different.
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