Hello everyone and welcome to EnglishPod.
My name is Marco. My name is Katherine.
And today we've got a very very interesting lesson for you all about building your vocabulary.
So we're trying to describe the personalities you're going to learn tons of new words.
Exactly. And as you said, we're going to describe people's personality.
So not their physical attributes.
We're going to concentrate on how they are in personality wise and stuff like They're character.
That's right. So let's take a listen to today's dialogue for the first time and we'll back in a moment to talk about some of these great words.
Okay, class settle down.
I have the results of your individual personality tests.
I am going to hand them out and if you'd like you can read them out loud to the rest of the class.
I'll remind!! Okay, go ahead.
It says here that I am adventurous, outgoing, and easy going.
It says that I'm a little superstitious and occasionally naive.
That's not true. Well, the test isn't 100 % accurate.
Is that all it says?
No. It also says that I'm open -minded with great ambition, but that I can also be reckless and clumsy.
This is stupid! Okay, anyone else wants to read theirs?
Okay. It says that I'm an extroverted, well -balanced person it says I am generous outspoken and very diligent This is so true.
It also says that I am a magnanimous eloquent and daring this is totally me Whatever these tester baloney All right, we're back So we're gonna divide this up into language takeaway parts one and two so let's start with five key words now on language takeaway.
Language takeaway. The first adjective that came up was, uh, adventurous and outgoing, outgoing, that's a good one.
outgoing is a great one.
So think of the word out, uh, that means moving out going, outgoing means someone is very comfortable talking to strangers or talking to people that they don't know very well.
For example, my brother is very outgoing.
He loves meeting new people.
He loves starting conversations with strangers.
So the opposite would be shy.
That's the opposite, okay.
So outgoing. And then it also described this person as being a little superstitious.
Okay. Superstitious is very interesting because it's hard to describe since everyone's superstitions are different.
In many cultures there are different superstitions.
So, for example, in America we say that walking under a ladder is bad luck.
Okay, or opening an umbrella inside is bad luck.
So, if you believe that your actions will bring you bad luck, you're probably superstitious.
Okay, very good. So, if you are superstitious, you believe in superstitions.
That's right. So, Marco, are you superstitious?
Do you think that black cats bring bad luck?
No, not at all. No. all right and this is also an interesting word a way to describe people who are very believing a person that is naive okay you said us already naive means that someone generally believes most things that you tell them right so if I told you Marco hey did you know that it's supposed to reign frogs tomorrow no way really yeah really if Marco believes me he's naive that means that you know probably not going to rain frost tomorrow, but he, he, he believes everything I say, so he's a little bit naive or inexperienced.
So naive is not really a bad way of describing a person, is it?
No, but it can be. So you want to be careful.
You know, some people, if you say that they're being naive, it's offensive, so you have to be careful when you say this.
Okay. Moving on, we also had an interesting Additive that described another person and it was to be reckless.
Can also be reckless.
So someone who is reckless often does things without thinking.
Sometimes things that are dangerous.
For example, Marco, I think that driving a car without wearing your seat belt is very reckless.
That means that you're not thinking about safety.
So a person that is reckless is kind of a synonym of being a little bit dangerous to be around That's right, or someone who does things without thinking about their consequences, their results Okay, and also along with reckless the test said that this person was clumsy Oh, I love this word. There was a very famous commercial when I was growing up in America on the television It was all about young students at high school who are clumsy, and so they should buy this special folder for their schoolwork to help them because they're so clumsy.
They're dropping their papers and their books.
Exactly. So someone who is clumsy often falls down or hits their head or trips or drops their things.
If I drop something on the floor and break it, my mother might say, you're so clumsy, easy to be more careful.
Yeah, so clumsy is this insulting if you say oh you're so clumsy.
No it's not so bad There there are worse things to say But if someone often drops things you can call them clumsy where you can also say you're such a butter fingers Flatter fingers.
That means that your fingers are like butter.
They're very slippery.
You drop everything Okay, so clumsy and reckless they are They get of adjectives, right?
They're saying that you do things in wrong.
So it's not really a good thing to be reckless or clumsy.
No, it's not really a good thing, these are not positive characteristics.
Okay, good. So we took a look at those five which are very good about one of the people that took the test, let's move on now to more language and more adjectives on language takeaway part two.
Language takeaway. All right, so in this part, we're going to take a look at positive attributes about a person, right?
They're all good things about someone.
That's right. And this first one is very good, extroverted.
Extroverted. A person that's extroverted.
So a synonym of this word is outgoing, okay?
So it's pretty much the same thing.
That's right, because extra means going out, mm -hmm.
So in this case, someone who is extroverted often meets new people, goes out and does social things, goes to the movies, goes out with friends meets strangers, talks to strangers, again it's like being outgoing.
Someone who is comfortable with new people.
And what about the opposite?
So we said that shy is the opposite of outgoing, what would be the opposite for extroverted?
Extroverted's opposite is introverted, intro means in, not out.
So that means someone who is very shy, who is uncomfortable with new people.
And well apart from being extroverted, the test also said that this person is very diligent.
Ooh, diligent is a great word. This is a word you want to hear from your teachers and your bosses.
Okay? If someone says Marco you are very diligent at work.
What does that mean?
Means you're very careful.
You always do things very thoroughly.
and also quickly, right, when you tell them to do something, they do it immediately.
That's right. So a diligent worker always does a good job and does it in a timely manner.
Okay. And moving on to our third adjective, this one is kind of strange, it kind of sounds like monogamy.
But it's magnanimous.
Magnanimous. Alright.
This is a great word. We hear this a lot in the newspaper or on TV about usually famous people.
He did something very magnanimous or it was a magnanimous gesture.
This describes a person who does things for the benefit of other people, someone who is thinking about the wellbeing and the health and the lives of others.
So it would be a person that likes to share or a person that's not selfish.
So if you donate half of your salary this month to victims of an earthquake, I would say Marco, that's so magnanimous of you.
Your so magnanimous.
OK, awesome. And apart from being magnanimous, if a person is eloquent, I guess that's also a positive attribute.
Oh yeah, this is another really good one.
Someone who is eloquent is a very good speaker.
Okay, this means that when they talk, they sound very very good.
You know, someone who is eloquent uses big words, but is also very good at making other people listen.
Okay, so it's usually about speaking.
So he used it so he's an eloquent speaker.
That's right. So someone who is eloquent is fun or good or interesting to listen to.
Okay, and our last description for personalities and the way people are is a person that's daring.
Well, this can be a good thing, or a bad thing.
It depends on who you're talking about because sometimes daring people are also reckless.
And this can be dangerous.
But sometimes someone who is daring can be doing good things.
Like, a daring business person might take risks that other people don't take.
Okay. So a person that's daring, theres to take risks.
You are very daring.
You, Marko, are daring because recently you jumped out of an airplane.
Right, you did some sky diving.
So that would be considered daring.
That's very daring.
I'm not daring like that because I would never jump out of an airplane.
Right, okay, so we took a look at basically 10 key words here – a lot of adjectives, but they're a great way to describe yourself.
Maybe if you're at a job interview, you know sometimes a typical question is, how would you I'm extroverted.
I'm diligent and I'm open -minded.
Yeah, that's awesome.
See you sound really professional when you say things Meet the job.
Yeah The interview question is like what are your biggest faults so you can say well maybe I am superstitious and Nive, right.
You wouldn't want to say that at the end of job interview but I mean maybe I don't know maybe because you have to say something right you do but i would say um sometimes i'm a bit too daring or sometimes uh i take things personally uh so well we can talk about that another time but i think for now it'd be good if we listen to today's dialogue one more time and really got a good sense of how to use these words Okay, class that'll be down.
I have the results of your individual personality tests.
I am going to hand them out and if you like, you can read them out loud to the rest of the class.
I'll read mine. Okay.
Go ahead. It says here that I am adventurous, outgoing, and easygoing.
It says that I am a little superstitious and occasionally naive.
That's not true. Well, the test isn't 100 % accurate.
Is that all it says?
No, it also says that I'm open -minded with great ambition, but that I can also be reckless and clumsy.
This is stupid. Okay.
Anyone else wants to read theirs?
I'll go. It says that I'm an extroverted well -balanced person.
It says I'm generous, outspoken, and very diligent.
This is so true. It also says that I am a magnanimous, eloquent and daring.
This is totally me.
Whatever. These test are baloney Alright, we're back.
So now going into descriptions what are three adjectives that you would use to describe someone that is that you hate the most?
So going back to describing people.
How would you describe it?
Like, one of the main things that really irritate you about someone, maybe if they are clumsy it really bothers you that people are clumsy or reckless maybe.
I see what you're saying well.
I really like extroverted hardworking people.
But in English, we have a word to describe someone who is too extroverted, too hardworking.
Now, we call this person a type A personality, type A, the letter A.
and this means someone who works very, very hard, who is very serious, but who's always anxious, always needs to get things done, right?
And so these people can be very hard to work with because they're controlling and they're never calm, so they're not easy going.
No, they're not easy going, they always want to do what they want to do.
They're usually not very good listeners and so, this type of personality is something that I would say, I'm not a big fan of at work, or even when we're going out because you know with friends.
It's hard to be around someone who always has to control you this is very interesting and I'm sure our listeners have a lot of different ways to describe things that irritate them maybe about people or maybe attributes that they really admire about someone.
That's right and I want to give everybody a little bit of homework today go home or if you're at home To look up a word in the dictionary that describes yourself.
An adjective to describe yourself?
I think this is a really good homework assignment because you'll be improving your vocabulary and then put it on our website EnglishPod .com.
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