Level: All levels- will depend on the text

Teacher's notes:

1. Ask the students to discuss, in pairs, relationships i.e. what makes a good partnership.
2. Show them pictures of your family/partner etc.
   
3. Then ask the students to look at these words to describe people:
   
   

   shy	easygoing	generous	perceptive
   thoughtful	lively	imaginative	practical
   sensitive	confident

   
   
4. Try to elicit some of the above after the students have discussed relationships.
   
5. Ask the students to find opposites or synonyms with the above using their dictionaries and with your help.
   
6. Then read out this text to the students. As you are reading they should stand up when they hear the above words.
   
   Jon was a very shy, easygoing man, he usually left everything for his
   generous, perceptive wife to do and simply lived his own life without worry. At first his generous and perceptive wife did not mind this. When she first met shy but easygoing Jon she was so in love with him that he could do no wrong and she tended to take control.
   She ignored all his faults and simply accepted him for who he was: shy but
   easygoing and very practical.
   However, things began to annoy her and little irritations
   began to cause arguments. She felt as though they couldn't agree about
   anything. She began to shout at him. She felt angry and as though she had to do everything.
   She told shy but easygoing Jon to leave the house. "Oh no", he cried, "I'm
   so easygoing and practical! Why do you want me to go?"
   The generous, perceptive and sweet wife said, "Jon, I love another lively,
   imaginative, sensitive, confident and thoughtful man, I'm sorry"
   
   
   
7. After this ask the students to decide which are the most important characteristics in their opinions.
8. Then ask them to describe the type of person that they could spend their lives with.