Hi. I'm Rebecca from engVid. Sometimes in English, when we don't have the exact
word that we need, we tend to use a lot of words to say one thing. Have you ever
done that? I'm sure you have; we all do that, whenever we're learning a new
language. So, in this lesson, what we're going to do is we're going to take a lot
of simple words, and see how we can describe that idea in one business-like
word. Okay? So, we're moving from general English to business English, and
we're also saving a lot of words and sounding much more professional. All
right? So, let's do that now.
So, we're going to start with our friends here, John and Mary. So, let's
suppose that someone's English is not yet very good. So, the idea they're
trying to communicate is that John arrives on time. So, what is one
word...? Maybe you already know these words. Okay? So, play with me. The quiz
is already here. All right? So, if you want to say that John arrives on time,
and you want to use one word that starts with a "p", do you know what that word
means? Or sorry, what that word is? He arrives on time. John is... It's called
"punctual". Okay? It's spelt like this. Say it after me: "John is punctual",
"punctual". Okay? It's a little bit weird to say it — the "tu": "punctual".
John is punctual. John is always punctual. He always comes on time. He
arrives before he... he's never late. Okay? All right. Let's go to number two:
Mary makes decisions easily, and confidently, and boldly. So, how...?
What is one word, one adjective? These are all adjectives, here. What is one
word that we could use to describe Mary? We could say: "Mary makes decisions
easily, and confidently, and clearly, and boldly." Or we could say: "Mary is
decisive." Okay? That's the word. Say it after me: "decisive", "decisive". Good.
Okay.
Let's talk about John again. John speaks very well, very clearly, very fluently.
There's a word that starts with "a", which means all of that. What is it?
John is "articulate", "articulate". John is articulate. Okay? And that means that
he can... somebody who can speak really well, really clearly, expresses ideas
very well — he's articulate. Next, number four: Mary does whatever she
promises. If she says she's going to do something, you can count on her; she
will do it. So, Mary is... The word starts with "r". Do you know what it is?
Mary is "reliable". Good. "Reliable". Mary is reliable. Say it after me:
"Reliable". Good. Number five: John can work very well alone by himself. He
doesn't need super... supervision; he knows what to do. So, which word — it's
rather a long word that starts with "i" — expresses that idea? Do you know what
it is? John is "independent". Yes, right. I heard you. Okay. "Independent".
Okay? A long word. Say it after me: "Independent". Good. You're doing really
well.
Let's go on now to number six: Mary pays attention to detail. She doesn't make
mistakes; she's really careful with her work. So, she is something that starts
with "a". We can say: "Mary is" — do you know the word? — "accurate". Good. Okay?
Sorry, this is a "c". Mary is accurate. Okay? Say it after me: "Accurate,
accurate". Good. Let's do number seven: John does things very quickly and very
well, in a very organized way. Everybody in the office wants to be like this or
most people do, and certainly your manager wants you to be this way. So, we
could say something that starts with "e". John is "efficient". Say it after
me: "Efficient". Okay? So, this is spelt like this. Okay? Be careful. Pay
attention to the fact that it has two "f's" when you write it: "efficient".
Okay? Good. Look at all these wonderful words that you're picking up — a lot of
very useful business words. Okay? You can use them to describe people, you can
use them to describe your own self when you're doing a self-assessment, which
many employees need to do at different times of year. Okay?
Let's look at number eight now, so: Mary works easily with others. Okay? Helps
others, works very easily without having any problems, helps others. So, Mary
is... Starts with "c". She is "cooperative", "cooperative". Okay? So,
again, here there are two "o's". Okay? Be careful of that. "Cooperative". Okay?
Good. And John wants to be better than others, he wants to win; it's really
important to him that he wins, and that other people don't. Right? So, this kind
of person is very, what? Also starts with a "c". It's kind of like the
opposite of "cooperative". So, this person is "competitive". Good.
"Competitive". Okay? "Competitive". Let's say these two words together —
okay? — "cooperative", "competitive". Good. And the last one we have here:
Mary speaks nicely to others. Okay? If you don't have the exact word, then you
might use something like this, and it's just a simple way of expressing the same
idea. There's nothing wrong with what we said here; it's just not as professional
as it can be. And when you use the adjectives we're learning here, you're
going to sound so much more advanced in your English, you're going to sound more
professional, you're going to write more professionally, because the words that
you're using will be more accurate, more exact. Okay? So, what is this word we're
looking for? That Mary's very kind to others. She's very... she speaks
respectfully to others. She speaks nicely. And she speaks... What? She is,
what? It starts with "p". I almost said it by mistake. Okay? Mary is very
"polite". Good. "Polite". Say it after me: "Polite". It's not "polite"; it's
"polite". Okay?
So, now let's go over these. Let's go over the pronunciation. Okay? Because if
you're going to use them, you want to make sure you're also saying them
correctly. So, repeat after me: "punctual", "decisive", "articulate",
"reliable", "independent", "accurate", "efficient", "cooperative",
"competitive", and "polite". So, what happened now? You learned ten
adjectives. But here's a surprise: Now you're going to learn ten more words
based on these words. So, we're going to take these adjectives and we're going to
turn them into adverbs. And how do we do that? Very easily. Basically, we add an
"ly". Okay? "ly" to the end of these words. Okay? So, just... I'm not going
to do it for all of them, but I'll just give you an example, here. So, for
example, we could say: "John arrives", how? An adverb always tells us how
something is done. Okay? So, we would say: "John is punctual, but John arrives
punctually." Okay? So, we're just going to add an "ly". I'm not going to do it;
because you can do that, too. Let's look at the next one. Okay? So, Mary acts
how? "decisively". Good. John speaks how? "articulately". Good. Mary works
"reliably". Okay? "reliably". Now, here, it will be... We're taking this out, and
we just add the "y" there. Okay? John works "independently". Good. Mary
writes... Let's say: "Mary writes accurately. John works efficiently."
Okay? And: "Mary works cooperatively. John works competitively or behaves...
behaves competitively, behaves cooperatively." Right? We could use
those. We're just adding "ly" to those words to make them into adverbs. And the
last one: Mary's speaks... How does she speak? "politely".
So, what happened? Basically, you took the adjectives, you added "ly", and now
you have ten more words that you can use, and those are adverbs. So, adverbs
usually go after the verb in English. So, that's why we said: "speaks
politely", "acts decisively" — right? — "works independently", and so on. So,
you've learned twenty new words; ten were adjectives and ten were adverbs. If
you'd like to master these, you know where to go — go to our website,
www.engvid.com. And there, you can do a test and a quiz to kind of really make
sure that you know these words — okay? — really, really well, because you want to
be able to use them because you spent the time to watch this lesson, for which
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