Study sheet: Personality and Hypothetical Situations

📋 Course Outline

1. Personality Traits and Animal Metaphors
2. Leila’s Profile and Hypothesis

📖 1. Personality Traits and Animal Metaphors

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Happy-go-lucky : someone who is not worried about the future and lets things come

★ Must-know

• Personality traits can be intensified using the expressions “not at all,” “not very,” “a bit,” “quite,” “extremely,” and “too.”

• The positive personality adjectives are:

  • responsible
  • patient
  • caring
  • outgoing
  • honest
  • flexible
  • easy-going
  • hard-working
  • polite
  • bold

• The negative personality adjectives are:

  • impatient
  • irresponsible
  • selfish
  • shy
  • dishonest
  • stubborn
  • touchy
  • lazy
  • impolite or rude
  • easily scared

Further detail

• A lion represents a born leader, while a dove represents someone with a happy-go-lucky approach to life.

💡 Memory Hook

Positive traits such as responsible and caring contrast with negative traits such as irresponsible and selfish.

📖 2. Leila’s Profile and Hypothesis

★ Must-know

• Leila is quiet, irresponsible sometimes, a little touchy, quite outgoing, silly, and easily scared.

📌 Leila would be a dove because she has a happy-go-lucky approach to life.

📌 The hypothetical structure “If she, he, or it were …, she, he, or it would + base verb” expresses a hypothetical situation.

Further detail

• Leila has loads of dreams and secrets.

• Leila enjoys finding out and learning about anything and everything.

• On a Saturday, Leila likes listening to music and hanging out with her friends.

• The pronunciation targets are:

  • dishonest
  • stubborn
  • patient
  • responsible
  • bold
  • rude
  • impolite
  • irresponsible
  • touchy
  • impatient

💡 Memory Hook

A happy-go-lucky attitude leads to the dove comparison.

📊 Synthesis Tables

Animal Personality Comparisons

Animal	Personality meaning
Lion	A born leader
Dove	A happy-go-lucky approach to life