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
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