eng5-V1· Vocabulary· ~13 min

Personal Details & Feelings

Words to describe yourself, your personality and how you feel.

This lesson teaches you words to talk about yourself and how you feel. You will learn personality words like 'kind' and 'shy', and feeling words like 'happy' and 'tired'. These words help you describe people and share your emotions in everyday conversations.

Key terms

kind — caring about others and wanting to help them
shy — not comfortable talking to new people
brave — not afraid of danger or difficult things
excited — very happy about something that will happen
worried — feeling that something bad might happen
favourite — the one you like the most
Words and Their Opposites
WordOpposite
happysad
bravescared
excitedbored
politerude

Common personality and feeling words with their opposites

✎Choosing the Right Feeling Word
  1. 1Situation: Your best friend is moving to another city.
  2. 2Step 1: Think about how you feel. Do you feel good or bad about this?
  3. 3Step 2: You feel bad because you will miss your friend.
  4. 4Step 3: The best word is 'sad'. You say: 'I am sad that you are moving away.'
🚫Common mistake

Learners often confuse 'bored' and 'boring'. 'Bored' is how YOU feel: 'I am bored.' 'Boring' describes the thing: 'This film is boring.'

⚠️Caution

The word 'funny' can mean 'making you laugh' or 'strange'. In this lesson it means 'making you laugh'.

💡Note

You can use 'very' before most of these words: 'very happy', 'very tired', 'very kind'.

Rules

  1. 1Personality words (kind, shy, funny, brave, polite, lazy, friendly, clever) describe what a person is like — they do not change quickly.
  2. 2Feeling words (happy, sad, tired, angry, excited, bored, scared, hungry, thirsty, worried) describe how you feel right now — they can change quickly.
  3. 3Use 'I am' or 'He is' / 'She is' before both types: 'I am happy' (feeling), 'She is kind' (personality).
  4. 4Some words have clear opposites: happy ↔ sad, brave ↔ scared, polite ↔ rude.
  5. 5'Favourite' is not a feeling or a personality word — it tells what you like best.
  6. 6Do not confuse 'bored' (how you feel) with 'boring' (what makes you feel that way).

Practice

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