Contents
=> “10 New People Types” - vocabulary
=> “People Type Sentences” - gap-fill excercise
=> “People Type Skits” - a writing, role play activity
=> “Review of Earlier People Types” - a matching activity
=> In the Next Issue

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“10 New People Types” - vocabulary
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1. CLASS ACT = an admirable, noble person, full of class

2. FLAKE = an unreliable person

3. HEADCASE = a neurotic, eccentric, or crazy person

4. HEARTTHROB = a person who’s adored by lots of people (often “teen heartthrob,” like Ricky Martin)

5. KLUTZ = a clumsy person

6. LUSH = a person with a weakness for drink

7. PARTY ANIMAL = someone who loves partying, drinking, and acting crazy.

8. PRUDE = a person with conservative morals who wants to appear righteous and modest.

9. SCATTERBRAIN = an absentminded person

10. SISSY = a weak, cowardly, and effeminate guy

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“People Type Sentences” - gap-fill excercise
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Put the correct “people type” in the blank.
(Answers after “People Type Skit Activity”)

1. When she sees two people kissing in the movies, she turns her head away. She’s such a _______________.

2. Fifty years ago girls adored Frank Sinatra. Later it was the Beatles. Today Brad Pitt is a big _________________.

3. My brother was afraid to jump off the rocks into the lake. I called him a _____________ but he still wouldn’t jump.

4. Mr. Poosheesty never knows where things are. He always puts papers in the wrong places. What a _______________!

5. Once she has the first glass of champagne, she’ll want more. She’s a total _______________.

6. He always admits when he’s wrong. I admire that. The guy is a ___________________.

7. She’s always dropping things, bumping into things, breaking things and crashing her car. What a ______________!

8. I wouldn’t count on her coming to your party, even if she promised to. You see, she’s a _____________.

9. That guy needs to go see a psychiatrist. What a ____________!

10. That guy goes to clubs every night and acts crazy till 5:00 a.m. He’s a ____________________.

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“People Type Skits” - a writing, role play activity
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Once students get a feel for the above words, put them in groups of 3 or 4. Each student will choose a “people type.” Each group will design a short skit (one or two minutes long) in which a “people type” is demonstrated but not mentioned outright. After the performance, the rest of the class will guess which
student represented which type.

Try setting the skit at a New Years party!

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Answers to People Type Gap-Fill
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1. prude
2. heartthrob
3. sissy
4. scatterbrain
5. lush
6. class act
7. klutz
8. flake
9. headcase
10. party animal

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“Review of Earlier People Types” - a matching activity
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“ETs in Russia” #4 and #5 gave you the first 20 People Types. Here’s a review. Match the People Type from the top, numbered column with the lettered definition in the column below.

People Types 1

1. GOOD SPORT
2. EGGHEAD
3. GO-GETTER
4. JERK
5. SMART-ALECK
6. BLABBERMOUTH
7. WORRY-WART
8. HAS-BEEN
9. CHICKEN
10. SHOW-OFF

A. is afraid. A scaredy-cat
B. worries about everything
C. doesn’t complain when he loses
D. likes attention; wants to people to watch him
E. is active and initiative and busy
F. was once talented and esteemed but not any more
G. is intellectual, knowledgeable and bookish
H. is rude, inconsiderate, sometimes cruel
I. can’t keep a secret; tells everybody
J. thinks he’s really clever and lets you know it through sarcasm

(answers farther down)
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People Types 2

1. CRY-BABY
2. KNOW-IT-ALL
3. LOSER
4. PARTY-POOPER
5. SLACKER
6. SLOB
7. SLUT
8. STRAIGHT-ARROW
9. WALLFLOWER
10. WEIRDO

A. ruins everyone’s spirit by refusing to join in the fun
B. messy, untidy, slovenly person
C. avoids work; a lazy person
D. a girl who, from shyness or unpopularity, stays by herself (usually at a dance)
E. knows everything–or just thinks that he knows everything.
F. is abnormal, weird, strange
G. a promiscuous woman. (Not a nice word, but common. Be careful with it!)
H. complains in a childish way,or gets upset too easily
I. nothing works out for him; is doomed to failure
J. is moral, decent and conventional and probably a little boring

Answers to People Types 1
1. C
2. G
3. E
4. H
5. J
6. I
7. B
8. F
9. A
10. D

Answers to People Types 2
1. H
2. E
3. I
4. A
5. C
6. B
7. G
8. J
9. D
10. F

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In the Next Issue (about Jan. 13th)
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Maybe: Tips on the Google search engine!
Or: What’s was the A.R.A?
Or: Who knows? You think I’m a fortune teller or something?

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Copyright 2002 Kevin McCaughey & I.M. Poosheesty
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