Speak Like a Manager: 10 Adjectives + 10 Adverbs

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