Describing people: collocations, idioms

Match the following

• of work

• a pain

• as nails

• as hard

• of gold

• as good

• as gold

• a heart

• in the neck

• a nasty piece

Match the following

• not suffer from vertigo

• have your head screwed on

• be good at maths

• have your head in the clouds

• unaware of reality

• have a head like a sieve

• be sensible, informal

• have a head for heights

• bad memory

• have a good head for figures

What do we call the person who is the teacher's favourite?

What do we call a person who is very lazy?

What do we call the one who gets the best marks?

What do we call an irritating person who knows everything?

How do we describe someone who says everything without considering people's feelings?

Gregarious is ...

• more common in written than in spoken English

• more common in spoken than in written English

Laid-back is...

• more common in written than in spoken English

• more common in spoken than in written English

• could be used either in spoken or written English

Select synonyms of "impolite"

• ill-mannered

• discourteous

• sadistic

• quarrelsome