The 5 Personality Traits

In this lesson, your students will:

• Learn and practice key personality adjectives through context and personalization.
• Listen to an HR manager discuss the Big Five model and identify key traits for workplace success.
• Complete controlled and guided tasks to build accuracy in vocabulary and preposition use.
• Practice describing themselves and others using real-life contexts and structured prompts.
• Compare, contrast, and reflect on different personality profiles in spoken interaction.

This lesson includes 15 interactive exercises that develop students’ listening comprehension skills in the context of workplace personality traits and hiring practices, and expand their lexical resource through a focus on descriptive adjectives and collocations used to talk about personality and behavior.

Vocabulary: determined, open-minded, etc

Additional resources: LearningApps, Wordwall, Quizlet