Speak Like a Manager: 10 Adjectives + 10 Adverbs

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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