What Is She Like? Personality and Feelings Adjectives

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A complete Grade 6 ESL vocabulary pack on describing people: personality adjectives (generous, reliable, shy, confident, patient, bossy and more), their opposites with un-, im- and dis-, and the difference between personality (what someone is usually like) and feelings (how someone feels now). Students match, sort, give evidence and describe someone they admire. Includes slides, a lesson plan, worksheet, quiz, homework, flashcards, a rubric and answer keys.

Overview

Students build a rich set of adjectives for describing people. They learn personality adjectives such as generous, reliable, patient, confident, shy, honest, lazy and bossy, and form opposites with prefixes (patient – impatient, honest – dishonest, reliable – unreliable). They learn the important difference between personality, which describes what a person is usually like ("She is generous"), and feelings, which describe how a person feels at one moment ("She feels nervous today"). Students practice the questions What is he like? and How does she feel?, support adjectives with examples of behavior, and write a description of someone they admire.

Resource Details

Subject: ESL
Topic: Feelings and Personality Adjectives
Category: Vocabulary
File Type: PDF
File Size: 379.5 KB
Published: 09 Nov 2026
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Grade 6 ESL (ages 11–12), A2–B1 50 minutes Vocabulary prefixes speaking writing descriptions giving examples

Learning Objectives

Use at least twelve personality adjectives accurately.
Form opposites of personality adjectives with un-, im- and dis-.
Tell personality (What is she like?) from feelings (How does she feel?) and support adjectives with examples.

How to Use This Resource

Start with the slides: describe a mystery classmate's personality and let students guess who it is.
Teach the adjectives with the slides and flashcards, then do worksheet activities 1 and 2 together.
Students complete activities 3 to 6, then use the quiz and send the homework description home.

Classroom Activity Ideas

Who am I? A student reads three adjectives with examples about a famous character; the class guesses.
Adjective mime: one student mimes a behavior (sharing snacks, giving orders); others name the adjective.
Opposite snap: students race to match an adjective card with its opposite.

Differentiation

Support: give an adjective bank with picture clues and the sentence frame "She is ___ because she ___." Challenge: students use softeners and intensifiers (a bit shy, really generous, not very patient) and write a balanced description with positive and negative traits.

Assessment

Use the worksheet and quiz to check meaning, opposites and the personality–feelings difference. Use the rubric to assess the homework description.

Teacher Tips

Students often confuse What is she like? (personality) with How is she? (health or feelings) and What does she like? (preferences). Write all three on the board with answers and keep them visible.

What's Included

10-page printable PDF lesson pack: teacher lesson plan with timings, materials and differentiation
Key vocabulary list (8 words with meanings and examples)
Student worksheet (6 activities)
Quiz / assessment (3 parts)
Homework practice page
Printable flashcards: 8 A5 picture cards (separate PDF)
Assessment rubric (4 levels)
Lesson slides (editable PowerPoint)
Editable Word version of all student pages
Complete answer key (also as a separate PDF)

Additional Files

Lesson Slides (PPTX)
Editable Student Pages and Lesson Plan (DOCX)
A5 Flashcards (PDF)
Answer Key (PDF)

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