Part 3. Good better best

A. Keywords. best, qualities.

Vocabulary. give a shot, genuinely, considerate.

Listen to six people talking about their best qualities and complete the following chart in note form.

What are my best qualities?

This is a difficult question for someone to answer, I think.

But I'll give a shot, I think my best qualities are probably that I have a good sense of humor.

I genuinely like people and I like talking to people. And I like to be entertaining if I can possibly be.

What is my best quality?

I'd say my best quality is my friendliness.

I always try to be positive and polite and friendly to people who I meet, especially the first time and I try to continue that.

But regardless of who they are, I try to give them, you know, treat them friendly.

I just, I enjoying be friendly. So it's not really work to me, it's just part of my personality.

What are my best qualities?

My best qualities are the fact that I am a good friend.

I am considerate and caring.

I'm a good listener, I can always, I'm always there to hear if my friends having a bad day or just really need to talk.

And I think I'm just really nice, even though I'm not always nice to everyone.

To the people I really I care and love, I'll always put them into importance.

I will always make them very important in my life.

So what's my best quality?

I think my best quality has to be the ability to laugh at myself.

English humor is very much based around laughing at yourself and also laughing with others at themselves.

So my best quality definitely is that I can laugh at myself and with others when they laugh at me.

What's my best quality?

I think it's that I'm very open-minded.

So I always, I'm not afraid of new things and nothing shocks me.

So I learn new things a lot that most people don't because they are too narrow-minded, I think.

OK, what are my best qualities?

I guess the one that I think is the most important for me is to be curious.

I want to find out new things, I want to go places, I want to have new experience.

I don't like to just sit around where I know everything, because it stops being interesting and inspiring after a while.

I like to have new things happen to me and meet new people and that is what keeps me creative and I have fresh ideas that way.

B. Keywords. qualities, good, student, boss, friend, parent.

Vocabulary. delegate, minion, unconditional, tarnish, quality time.

Listen to Matt explaining what he thinks makes a good student, friend, parent and boss.

Complete the following chart.

So, Matt, We're taking about adjectives this week and, or qualities about people.

So let's talk about what makes people good at what they do.

First of all, What do you think makes a good student?

We're both teachers, so in your mind, what's a good student?

I think somebody who is motivated, self-motivated and somebody who takes an interest in what they are doing and works at it.

And I mean, as a teacher, I always enjoy people who are outgoing and have a personality.

But I know reality is that not every student can be like that.

So you just try to... as a student I think that the most important thing is to show interest and participate and work outside of class.

Right, I totally agree.

OK, so now how about work? What makes a good boss?

I've had so many different jobs and so many different bosses.

I think a good boss is somebody who knows his... the people that work for him, and he knows strengths

and he can communicate or she can communicate what they really want for each worker

and somebody who can delegate to responsibility.

But that shows that they know and they care about what their minions are doing for them.

Right, OK, now moving on. How about what makes a good friend?

A good friend? I think somebody who just can listen and kind of unconditional love almost or like anything that you do,

anything that you do, you know, can't tarnish relationship and somebody who is loyal and who is honest basically.

OK. and this is the last one. What makes a good parent?

A good parent? Not that I would know from firsthand experience.

But I think, you know, just somebody who is there always and who takes care of the child and, you know, spends time I think, spends quality time.

People who work hard can, you know, tend to forget about their child if they're too focused on other things,

and parents who really are there and listen and talk to the kid usually have the greatest success.

Right. OK, thanks a lot. Matt. I appreciate your time. (You're welcome, Yeah)