Reading People: The Science of Dark Personalities
Grammar: Non-defining relative clauses
A Level 4 English lesson exploring psychology.
What's in this lesson
A Level 4 (upper intermediate) ESL lesson on psychology, practising non-defining relative clauses. The worksheet has a reading, target vocabulary and discussion questions.
From the reading: Reading People: The Science of Dark Personalities
In 1980, Professor Robert Hare published a checklist of 20 traits designed to identify psychopathic behaviour. His research, which is still widely used today, was based entirely on prison populations. This gave him a large sample and clear data, but it also created a significant gap: what about the psychopaths who never go to prison? Hare himself admitted as early as 1976 that he did not know how far his findings applied to people outside the criminal justice system.
Vocabulary
- drew on
- high-functioning
- large sample
- widely used
- a game changer
- a win-win
- move the goalposts
- raised the bar
- throw in the towel
Discussion questions
- Do you think you are a good judge of character?
- Can someone be dangerous without ever breaking the law?
- What makes a person truly difficult to work with?
Reading People: The Science of Dark Personalities
Grammar: Non-defining relative clauses
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