Boost Up Your English Skills | English Podcast Conversation | Episode 23 |

[Music] hello everyone and welcome to English pod 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 a 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 and personality wise and stuff like that their character that's right so let's take a listen to today's dialogue for the first time and we'll be 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 read mine 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 wless 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 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 tests are baloney all right we're back so we're going to 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 you think of the word out uh that means moving out going out outgoing means someone is very comfortable talking to strangers or talking to people that they don't know very well U 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 right opposite okay so outgoing and uh then it also described this person as being a little superstitious okay superstitious is very interesting because uh 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 mhm 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 no interesting 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 this 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 rain frogs tomorrow no way really yeah really if if Marco believes me he's naive that means that you know probably not going to rain frogs 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 uh so you have to be careful when you say this okay moving on we also had an interesting adjective uh that described another person and it was to be Reckless I can also be Reckless Reckless okay so someone who is reckless uh 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 mhm okay that means that you're not thinking

about safety right so a person that is reckless is a 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 uh it was all about young stud students at high school who are clumsy and so they should buy this this special folder for their their um

their schoolwork uh to help them cuz they're so clumsy and 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 um if I drop something on the floor and break it my mother might say you're so clumsy you should be more careful yeah so clumsy is this insulting if you say oh you're so clumsy no it's not so bad okay um there there are worse things to say um but if someone often drops things you can call them clumsy or

you can also say you're such a butter fingers butter fingers that means that your fingers are like butter they're very slippery you drop everything okay so clumsy and Reckless they are negative 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 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 [Music] 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 extro means going out mhm out 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 meets

strangers talks to strangers again it's like being outgoing someone who's comfortable with with new people and uh what about the opposite so we said that shy is the opposite of outgoing what would be the opposite for extroverted extroverted opposite is introverted intro means in not out so that means someone who's very shy who is uncomfortable with new people okay and uh 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 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 it kind of sounds like monogamy but it's magnanimous magnanimous all right magnanimous this is a great word uh 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 well-being and the health and the um the lives of others so it would be a person that likes to share or a person that's not selfish right so if you donate half of your salary this month to victims of a an earthquake I would say Marco that's so magnanimous of you you're so magnanimous okay awesome and apart from being magnanimous

uh if a person is eloquent I guess that's also a positive attribute oh yeah this is another really good one um someone who is eloquent is a very good speaker okay this means that when they talk talk they sound very very good you know someone who's eloquent uses big words but is also very good at making other people listen okay so it's usually about speaking so he you would say 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 uh description for

personalities and uh the way people are is a person that's daring well this can be a good thing or a bad thing it depends on on who you're talking about um because sometimes daring people are also Reckless and this can be dangerous but uh 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 uh dares to take risks right you are very daring you Marco are daring because recently you jumped out of an airplane right you did

some skydiving so that would be considered daring that's very daring 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 are a great way to describe yourself maybe if you're at a job interview they you know sometimes a typical question is how would you describe yourself in three using three adjectives I'm extroverted I'm diligent and I'm openminded yeah that's awesome see you sound really professional when you say things like this give me the job

yeah exactly so and even if you took a look at some of the negative adjectives that we used it's also a typical job interview question is like what are your biggest faults so you can say well maybe I am uh superstitious and naive right you wouldn't want to say that in in job interview but I mean 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 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 [Music] 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 read mine okay go ahead it says here that I am adventur outgoing and easygoing 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 I'll go 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 tests are baloney all right 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 like one of the main things that really irritate you about someone maybe they if they are clumsy it really bothers you that people are clumsy or Reckless maybe ah I see what you're saying well I really like extroverted hardworking people uh but in English we have a word to describe someone who is too extroverted too hardworking and we call this person a type A personality type A type A the letter a and this means someone who works very very hard who is

very very serious but who's always anxious always needs to get things done right um and so these people can be very hard to work with because they're controlling and they're never calm so they're not easygoing no they're not easygoing they always want to do what they want to do they're usually not very good listeners and so this type A personality is something that I would say uh I'm not a big fan of at work uh or even when we're going out because 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 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 do.com let us know more about you okay

we'll see everyone there bye everyone [Music] bye the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word ignorant naive having or showing no regard for danger Reckless be careless lacking skill or physical coordinate clumsy easy to entertain new ideas open-minded be quiet settle down showing faith in magic or chance ignorant of laws superstitious a person concerned more with practical realities extrovert Express Yourself clearly and effectively eloquent let's try that faster easy to entertain new ideas open-minded showing faith in magic or chance ignorant of laws superstitious having or showing no regard for

danger Reckless Express Yourself clearly and effectively eloquent be careless lacking skill or physical cord clumsy ignorant naive a person concerned more with practical realities extrovert be quiet settle down now say the word and hear it in a sentence naive Jake is so naive na he believes anything you tell him naive many websites try to take advantage of naive people naive stop being so naive you cannot believe everything you see on TV Reckless Stanley was was arrested for reckless driving reckless you are so reckless you have to be more careful Reckless my wife was Reckless with

our finances and so now we are broke open-minded I always keep an open mind towards trying new things open-minded I think Europeans are more open-minded than Latin Americans open-minded Shirley is a very open-minded girl you can talk to her about anything clumsy I am so clumsy I accidentally hit my head with the door clumsy he is very clumsy he is always dropping things clumsy I can't hold delicate things in my hands I have clumsy fingers eloquent he has an eloquent way of speaking eloquent the priest gave an eloquent sermon About Love Today eloquent he made

a very eloquent speech over dinner today [Music]