Алексеенко Егор гр.

3530202/20001 Осень 2022-2023

Monologue PERSONALITY

The text of the monologue Vocabulary,

Grammar
Structures,
Linking Words
and Phrases
Step 1. Introduction “Maybe that's what a person's Furthermore
1. Start with a hook sentence that will personality is: the difference between Personality
attract the listener’s attention, a quote,
a proverb, etc.
the inside and outside.” When we When we
2. Lead your speech steadily to the studied English at university, I have studied
main part of your talk. started to ask myself: what is I have started to
3. The introduction may consist of 3-6 personality? What personality do I ask
sentences. have? It would seem that these questions many people do
are pretty simple, but in reality, many not understand
people do not understand what what personality
personality is and furthermore, do not is
know what personality they have and I
am not the exception.

Step 2. Personality Types First of all, I would like to talk about First of all
2.1. Speak about two personality types basic personality types, such as On the one hand
(extroverts and introverts). What tells
you more about a person’s personality:
extroverts and introverts. These terms On the other
their clothes, their body language, their are used in many psychological theories hand
voice, their tastes or something else? and this is considered as the basic As for me
division of human character into two Also
2.2. What personality types would opposite parts. On the one hand, such as
some jobs (e.g. a computer
programmer, a researcher, etc.) attract
extroverts usually are easy-going, open- because
and why? hearted people, they are friendly, especially
talkative and self-confident. On the on the contrary
other hand, we have totally opposite But for me
introverts, people who do not like being personality
in public so much, they would rather types
stay at home and be alone with their extroverts
thoughts. They are usually shy, quiet introverts
and lacking confidence. psychological
As for me, I consider myself as an theories
extrovert. All my life I wanted to be in easy-going
the spotlight. I like to talk to people, open-hearted
meet new friends, be in public and etc. I friendly
also tried to do stand-up and it is talkative
amazing feeling, when you make crowd self-confident
laugh. be alone with
their thoughts
I think being an extrovert can help you shy, quiet
at work, because personal traits, that lacking
they have is helpful, especially when confidence
you are working as a team - you can be be in the
a good team player, or run your own spotlight
company. I am not saying that introverts personal traits
are bad at work, on the contrary, their a good team
 ability to work under pressure, high player
concentration is in demand in ambitious,
professions like IT-specialist, or many talkative
others, that require your perseverance. sociable
But for me, being ambitious, talkative I would like
and sociable are one of the most These terms are
important traits a person can have at used in
work. they would
rather stay at
home
I consider
myself as an
All my life I
wanted to
I think being an
extrovert can
help you at work
Step 3. Exploring Personality Just because we all have different In fact
3.1 How can they judge a person’s personality, I don’t think people can Because
character?
judge each other’s character, they can have different
3.2. Speak about personality tests as a compare it to know how they are personality
way of measuring personality. similar, but judging is hypocritic. judge each
other’s character
At the moment I started studying personality tests
personality, I thought about whether it is valid
possible to determine the personality of whether it is
a person and with the help of what this possible to
is done. In fact, there are many determine
personality tests in the world. But most If you do this
of them are useless. These tests cannot kind of tests two
determine your personality, because times, it will
they are subjective and not valid. If you show you
do this kind of tests two times, it will different results
show you different results. Someone
could say, that is these tests are helpful,
when company tries to hire new people,
but I can disagree on that either. They
can simply destroy your passion just by
saying, that this profession is not for
you. So erroneous test can ruin your
future and it is not how it supposed to
be.
Step 4. Charisma Even though most of personality tests I Even though
4.1. What is charisma? Give an consider useless, some of them can As I said earlier
example of a charismatic personality
and explain why you find him/her
show you your type, or maybe how Charismatic
charismatic. charismatic you are. So, what is the Charisma
definition of the word “charisma”? it is to inspire people
4.2. Is charisma the most important compelling attractiveness or charm that encourage
quality to possess if you want to be can inspire devotion in others. As I said is not similar to
successful in your career? If not, what
other qualities are important?
earlier, I was telling jokes from the what some pop
stage, so my friends calling me stars has
charismatic and I am pleased to hear for people, who
that, because even though charisma is manages
not similar to what some pop stars has, workers
being charismatic is rare quality, that

Step 5. CREATIVE THINKING
Introduce your own extra idea(s) on introverts is only basic and in reality, it
the topic that hasn’t / haven’t been
mentioned before. Justify your choice.
Step 6. Conclusion
Summarise the ideas of steps 2,3,4,5.
Total: 718
Grammar structures: 6
Active vocabulary: 33
Linkers: 17
not everybody has. For me, it is ability
to inspire people and attract them. It is
like leadership quality, when you
encourage people and they listen to you.
This kind of quality can also help you at
work, furthermore, having charisma is
perfect ability for people, who manages
workers.
However, topic about extroverts and However
As we know
is way harder. As we know, everybody Unique
has their unique personality, character Individuals
and so on. This is why we called person can have
individuals. We cannot just divide both extrovert
people in two groups. A person can have and introvert
both extrovert and introvert characteristics
characteristics at the same time, his behavior can
behavior can depend on his mood. depend on
In the conclusion, I would like to say, In the
that even though I tried to study what conclusion
personality is, this topic still remains As I said earlier
unclear. As I said earlier, this is large Psychologists
and complicated topic, that different unique
psychologists have been devoting for
decades. And this only emphasizes the
fact, that we are all different unique
people.