Short Stories · Section 10

Personality

Describing people. Personality.

Level: B1 · 12 sentences

Transcript

1. Describing people.
2. Personality.
3. We can make ourselves happier by being around the right kinds of people.
4. Our study showed that people who had kind, helpful friends or colleagues were 75% happier than people who didn't have these kinds of friends.
5. The results also showed...
6. that one of the most important things is that our friends are honest.
7. Lots of people also said that it is very important for their friends to be funny.
8. The most unpopular kinds of friends were selfish and unhappy people.
9. The results also showed that noisy people were often unpopular with neighbors and colleagues.
10. Not everyone we spoke to was friendly.
11. Several people were a little shy and preferred to be alone most of the time.
12. These people said that they preferred to work with people who were polite but not very talkative.