THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OPTIMISTIC AND PESSIMISTIC PEOPLE – Video Activity | ADVANCED ENGLISH EFL / C1 Cristina's Blog

Posted by: a2cristina | April 28, 2016

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OPTIMISTIC AND PESSIMISTIC PEOPLE – Video Activity

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OPTIMISTIC AND PESSIMISTIC PEOPLE

Not only is being physically healthy essential, but being ________________ is also of great importance.
In order to become truly optimistic, a person must learn to ________________ in many specific ways.
A setback [1]is seen as ________________ by an optimist, whereas a pessimist sees it as ________________.
An optimist sees a negative event as something that is ________________ in time and that will have no ________________ on the future.
The pessimist blames negative impacts on ________________.
Pessimists will think they are not

good enough,
popular,
successful

Pessimists become depressed and obsessed by ________________.
Optimists look at what may go wrong as ________________ events, which will have no other connection with their lives.
Pessimists see ________________ as pervasive[2].
Pessimists interpret events as ________________.
An optimist thinks that unfortunate events are just setbacks over which they have ________________.
If a pessimist is cut off in traffic, they will think the other drivers are ________________ acting to cut them off.
Being fully mature means you have the ability to be ________________ and ________________ when caught up in the inevitable storms of normal life.
A mature personality is capable of interpreting events more ________________ and less ________________.

[1] Setback: a stopping or delay in one’s progress; reverse or defeat. Revés.
[2] Pervasive: existing in every part of something : spreading to all parts of something. Generalizado.

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