English Vocabulary Exercises | Personality
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Exercise 11
Complete the dialogues with the following sentences:
very kind | very tactful | a bit clumsy | very rude
1. I invited Sue and Gerry for dinner. They turned up an hour and a half late and didn’t even apologise!
> Really, that was of them, wasn’t it?
2. Sarah spilt coffee all over the carpet. It made a terrible mess.
> Oh dear. That was of her, wasn’t it?
3. Mary knew how busy I was, so she offered to collect the kids from school for me.
> That was of her.
4. Sue said she had a headache, but she knew that Chris, her first husband, was going to be at the party.
> That was of her. It would have been very embarrassing if she’d turned up.
ANSWERS
- very rude
- a bit clumsy
- very kind
- very tactful