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The document discusses the impact of birth order on personality, featuring quotations about sisters and their relationships. It includes activities for speaking and listening, where students analyze the influence of siblings on character traits and discuss personal experiences related to birth order. Additionally, it incorporates vocabulary exercises related to personality traits.

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Birth order

The document discusses the impact of birth order on personality, featuring quotations about sisters and their relationships. It includes activities for speaking and listening, where students analyze the influence of siblings on character traits and discuss personal experiences related to birth order. Additionally, it incorporates vocabulary exercises related to personality traits.

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Departamento de Inglés IDENTITY C1

Birth order
SPEAKING LISTENING

1 Work in small groups. Read the quotations 1 2.28 You are going to hear a conversation between three friends.
about sisters and discuss these questions They are talking about brothers and sisters, and how the order in which
about each one: they are born, their 'birth order', helps to determine their personality.
• What point is it making? Listen to the conversation and choose the correct alternative to
• Could it apply equally well to brothers? complete each sentence.
Why or why not?
• To what extent do you agree with the 1 Rob read that many first-born children are more intelligent than their
siblings I copy their parents' behaviour/ spend too much time with
sentiments expressed?
their parents.

l A sister is a little bit of childhood that 2 In her late teens Christina was unhappy about her parents' high
can never be lost. Marion c. Garretty expectations/ her relationship with her brother/ her choice of subject at
university.
2 A sister is both your mirror and your 3 Ann is not entirely convinced that she is a very good artist/ the article
opposite. Elizabeth Fishel is based on fact / she fits the description in the article.
4 Christina's brother developed a career as an actor/ accounting skills /
3 You can kid the world. But not your strategies to attract attention.
sister. Charlotte Gray 5 Ann says that her sister is often ill/ worries unnecessarily/ is a light
sleeper.
4 If you don't understand how a woman
could both love her sister dearly and 6 Rob says he enjoys receiving attention/ helping to solve problems/
want to wring her neck at the same having arguments.
time, then you were probably an only 7 Birth order is thought to influence people's chances of becoming
child. Linda Sunshine famous I banking procedures/ consumers' buying habits.

S Having a sister is like having a best 2 Work in small groups. Discuss the following.
friend you can't get rid of. You know • To what extent do you feel that birth order, or being an only child or a
whatever you do, they'll still be there.
twin, has affected your personality?
Amy Li • How important do you think the following are in determining
personality?

gender genetics sibling relationships astrology


the attitude and behaviour of parents life events

VOCABULARY: character traits


1 Complete the sentences from the listening with a noun from the box.

nature lack types sense tendency attitude streak

1 First-borns are more likely to be hard-working, conscientious

2 How would you complete the sentences? 2 Their younger brothers and sisters have a more rebellious ____
Compare your thoughts with the rest of 3 That accounts for that very bubbly, outgoing _____ of his.
the group. 4 Younger children have a more relaxed _____ to life.
5 She has a real _____ to fuss.
l Having a brother or sister means 6 She suffers from a _____ of confidence.
7 Some first-borns develop a of anxiety when a brother or
2 Being an only child means sister is born.

EOI ALCALÁ DE GUADAÍRA

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