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Unit 1 • Lesson A: People in a hurry

Vocabulary
Manner
automatically (adv)
badly (adv)
carefully (adv)
differently (adv)
easily (adv)
fast (adv)
hard (adv)
immediately (adv)
late (adv)
nicely (adv)
on time (adv)
patiently (adv)
properly (adv)
quickly (adv)
quietly (adv)
recklessly (adv)
seriously (adv)
slowly (adv)
strongly (adv)
well (adv)

Positive qualities
outgoing (adj)
polite (adj)
quiet (adj)
shy (adj)

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Negative qualities
impatient (adj)
reckless (adj)
rude (adj)

Other words
balance work and play (v)
drive recklessly (v)
feel strongly about something (v)
get impatient (v)
honk your horn (v)
interrupt people (v)
slow down (v)
take (school / work) seriously (v)

Grammar
Adjectives vs. manner adverbs
Adjective + noun

You can use adjectives to describe nouns:

I'm a patient person. She's a careful driver.

Verb + manner adverb

You can use adverbs to describe verbs. Manner adverbs describe how people do things:

I wait patiently in lines. She drives carefully.

Regular -ly adverbs

Regular adverbs are adjective + -ly:

patient patiently careful carefully

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For adjectives ending in -y, change the y to i and add -ly:

easy easily

For adjectives ending in -ic, add -ally:

automatic automatically

Irregular adverbs

Some adverbs are irregular. They do not end in -ly:

good well

For example:

He's not a good singer. He doesn't sing very well.

Some irregular adverbs are the same as the adjective:

late late fast fast hard hard

For example:

He's a fast driver. He drives very fast.

be, feel, get, etc., + adjective

Don't use adverbs after verbs like be, feel, get, and sound. Use adjectives:

I'm patient.

I feel safe with her.

He gets reckless sometimes.

His voice sounds terrible.

But, when the verb feel means "have an opinion about", use an adverb:

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I feel strongly about it.

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Unit 1 • Lesson B: Personality and character

Vocabulary
Positive qualities
considerate (adj)
creative (adj)
down-to-earth (adj)
easygoing (adj)
generous (adj)
helpful (adj)
(completely) honest (adj)
laid-back (adj)
patient (adj)
practical (adj)
(totally) reliable (adj)
safe (adj)
(incredibly) talented (adj)
(absolutely) wonderful (adj)

Negative qualities
arrogant (adj)
competitive (adj)
dishonest (adj)
disorganized (adj)
inconsiderate (adj)
selfish (adj)
unfriendly (adj)
unhappy (adj)
unreliable (adj)

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Intensifiers
absolutely (adv)
completely (adv)
extremely (adv)
fairly (adv)
incredibly (adv)
not at all (adv)
pretty (adv)
really (adv)
so (adv)
totally (adv)
very (adv)

Other words
basically (adv)
correctly (adv)
admire someone (v)
count on someone (v)
have a (great) sense of humor (v)
tell the truth (v)
trust someone (v)

Grammar
Adverbs before adjectives and adverbs
You can use some adverbs before adjectives and adverbs. Use these adverbs to make some
adjectives and adverbs stronger:

extremely incredibly really so very

She's extremely generous.

She's incredibly talented.

He's a really cool guy.

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We get along very well.

Use pretty and fairly to mean "more than a little":

He's pretty easygoing.

He's fairly laid-back.

Use absolutely or really (but not very) with adjectives that are already very strong:

She's absolutely wonderful.

He's really fantastic.

Use the expression at all to make negatives stronger. At all usually goes after the adjective:

She's not selfish at all.

Use completely and totally to mean 100%:

He's completely honest.

She's totally reliable.

Adjective prefixes
A prefix is a group of letters like dis, un, etc. at the beginning of a word. They add meaning to
the word.

You can use prefixes to make adjectives with opposite meanings. Different adjectives have
different prefixes:

patient impatient
considerate inconsiderate
friendly unfriendly
reliable unreliable
honest dishonest
organized disorganized

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Unit 1 • Lesson C: He's always wasting time.

Vocabulary
borrow something (v)
talk about people behind their backs (v)
try hard to (v)

Conversation strategies
Describing individual habits
You can use always and a continuous verb to talk about:

• things people do a lot or more than is usual

He's always wasting time.

• an annoying habit

He was always talking about people behind their backs.

• a funny or special habit

He's always smiling.

at least
You can use the expression at least to point out the positive side of a situation:

A He's always standing around and talking.

B Well, at least he's pleasant. (at least = "The good thing is . . . ")

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Unit 1 • Lesson D: Is that a fact?

Vocabulary
Positive qualities
accomplished (adj)
even-tempered (adj)
humble (adj)
introverted (adj)

Other words
safe (adj)
fluently (adv)
have impeccable taste (in clothes) (v)
make the most of (v)

Writing
Useful expressions for your personal profile
Here are some useful expressions you can use when you write a profile about someone:

• I was born and raised in . . .

I was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey.

(= I was born there and I lived there when I was young.)

• At the age of . . .

At the age of 17, I moved to New York.

• I can be . . .

I can be pretty shy and introverted and studying online feels safe somehow.

• I work for a company called . . .

Right now I'm working for a small production company called Film Fast.

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• I'm an accomplished . . .

I'm an accomplished accordion player.

(= I play the accordion very well.)

• I started playing . . .

I started playing the accordion at the age of eight.

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