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hello this is Emma from English in this
lesson I want to share some of my
favorite English adjectives with you
specifically adjectives that are used to
describe people now saying that someone
is nice or friendly is good but
adjectives like incredible generous or
inspiring are just so much stronger and
more meaningful to be expressive and to
show emotion and feeling and to sound
more interesting when you're speaking
English you need to start pushing your
vocabulary further now this lesson is
sponsored by the in English imitation
lesson and later on I'm going to tell
you how you can build your vocabulary
and your speaking skills to describe
people using these lessons up here okay
so you already know what an adjective is
there are lots of them in English
they're used to describe or to give more
information about a noun they're also a
really exciting and interesting part of
the language they help you to be really
expressive to add colour and emotion to
your English now before we start let me
just remind you about where these
adjectives should go in an English
sentence because this is one of the most
common mistakes that English learners
make in English you need to use your
adjectives like this or and with the
adjective followed by the noun a
remarkable woman a thoughtful child we
can also use adjectives with this
structure a noun or a pronoun with the
be verb and the adjective
he's so generous Sally
is very sophisticated so in this lesson
I'm going to share eight of my favorite
adjectives with you to help you build
your vocabulary for describing people
now I'm including positive and negative
adjectives here and lots of them can be
used to describe places and things too
but the focus in this lesson is on
describing people I'll link to another
lesson about describing places and
things at the end of this lesson
so let's start with exceptional
exceptional say it with me
exceptional notice where the stress is
there on the second syllable exceptional
the stress is always important with
adjectives because pushing down on that
stress syllable will help you to
emphasize it and make the meaning even
stronger when someone's exceptional
they're much greater or much better than
usual especially when you're talking
about their skills or their intelligence
so it's a much stronger way of saying
that someone is good she's an
exceptional student Tom's an exceptional
lawyer
we highly recommend him they are
exceptional musicians I'd love to see
them play again now a synonym for
exceptional is remarkable it has the
same strong meaning so now you've got
two extra adjectives to use exceptional
remarkable what about aggressive
aggressive
now this adjectives definitely describes
negative behavior someone's negative
behavior so when someone is being angry
or rude
and they're doing it in a way that makes
you feel uncomfortable then this is a
good adjective to use now aggressive can
be physical like the one want to hit you
or hurt you or they could be arguing
with you and being angry or rude with
their words
Sara's colleague can be a bit aggressive
don't you think responsible responsible
responsible hear how those unstressed
syllables reduce down responsible
responsible
now this adjective can be used in a few
different ways a responsible person is
someone who can be trusted to do the
right thing they're reliable and
sensible she's very responsible for an
eight-year-old but it can also mean that
someone is in charge of making something
happen or making sure that people are
looked after Ben is responsible for that
project you'll have to ask him or mrs.
Brown is responsible for 28 children in
her classroom generous generous just
generous now being generous is about
giving more than what's expected people
can be generous with money or with gifts
but they can also be generous with their
time and assistance it's not just about
cash thank you for the ticket you're so
generous he's very generous with his
time he'll help you if you need it she
gave some very generous donations to
several charities
Oh independent independent independent
an independent person doesn't rely on
others for money or help they prefer to
do things on their own in their own way
so you can use it to describe children
tom is a very independent boy he likes
to do everything on his own
she's a fiercely independent woman he
was thrilled that he was finally
financially independent sophisticated
sophisticated say it with me
sophisticated now a sophisticated person
is someone who understands and is a part
of the modern world they're often very
up-to-date with the latest trends in
culture and fashion and the arts
sophisticated people tend to be pretty
cool people her daughter is very
sophisticated the public is becoming
more sophisticated when it comes to
drinking coffee intelligent intelligent
intelligent just just jump now you
probably know this adjectives already
but I've included it because I want you
to start using it more it's a synonym of
smart or clever but it's just a more
sophisticated way of saying it it means
that someone is good at thinking quickly
and clearly and understanding complex
ideas pulls a very intelligent guy there
is the most intelligent person on our
team
valuable valuable notice this you hear
when I pronounce this word valuable
everything valuable there is a youth
sound here it's not valuable or valuable
it's valuable label now you often hear
this adjective being used for things
like jewelry or cars or houses to tell
us that something costs a lot of money
or it's important to someone but it's
also an excellent adjective for a person
and it's often used in a professional
context like at work or at your job so
valuable in this context it's not
necessarily about money but about how
useful a person is crystal and Yana
are both valuable members of my team
thanks to our valuable volunteers who
donate their time every year can you
think of someone who's valuable at your
job or at school anyway
they are my favorite adjectives for
describing people what do you think
about that list I'm sure you can think
of some others that you would like to
add so make sure you do it in the
comments below this video now I have a
whole series of imitation lessons
designed to help you improve your
pronunciation and your English
expression by imitating and native
English speaker and I just knew copying
their pronunciation their expression and
luckily for you all of these lessons are
about describing people for your
practice using lots of new vocabulary in
context with the correct pronunciation
and expression and you can learn more
about these lessons by clicking this
link up here but they're really great
ways for improving your
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you in the next lesson bye for now