UNIT 1: HUMAN

NATURE
Character, psychology
Work In Pairs
1. What are some characteristics of your
personality?
Một số tính cách đặc biệt của bạn là gì?
2. What makes you happy?
Điều gì khiến bạn hạnh phúc?
3. What are some things that make you
angry?
Điều gì khiến bạn tức giận?
Objectives
In this lesson…
• I can talk about character and psychology.
• I can use different vocabulary words in
speaking and writing.
• I can improve my comprehension and
listening skills.
Listening

neighbour eccentric
friend clumsy cheerful
Colleague indecisive
Team-mate
Co-worker
 Assertive Anxious
Charming Apprehensive
Cheerful Clumsy
Self-confident Cynical
Sensible Egotistical
Tactful Gullible
Well-liked Self-conscious

absorbed, assured, centered, confident, congratulatory, deprecating, important, reliant

Adjusted, behaved, bred, brought-up, dressed, educated, informed, mannered, rounded

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Vocabulary Wordlist
 • Assertive - quả quyết
• Charming - duyên dáng
• Cheerful - vui vẻ
• Self-confident - tự tin
• Sensible - hợp lý
• Tactful - khéo léo
• Well-liked - được yêu thích
Vocabulary
• Anxious - lo lắng
• Apprehensive - E sợ
• Clumsy - hậu đậu
• Cynical - Hoài nghi
• Egotistical - tự cao tự đại
• Gullible - dễ tin người
• Self-conscious - tự ý thức
Speaking practice
 personality

characteristics

character

personalities

characteristics
SPEAKING PRACTICE
 1. It found that adolescents saw being popular and
being well-liked as two very different thing.

2. Young people may not see popularity as

a desirable trait

3. Having an attitude of superiority.

4. Disrupting the classroom.

False 5. This was contrasted with well-liked students,
who were much less likely to belong to groups
False of well-liked peers.

True 6. Being popular is about the group that

you fit into, whereas being well-liked is
True about the individual person’s inherent
False characteristics.

True 7. We are not told

whether a single
Not Given
student has more
power than the others.
To be as thick as thieves: to be very close or friendly
E.g.: He and Auntie Lou were as thick as thieves
To bury the hatchet – to end a conflict
E.g.: After many quarrelling years, the two political parties finally decided to
bury the hatchet.
To clear the air – to diffuse the tension
E.g.: I had a massive argument with Sue, but at least it has cleared the air.
A shoulder to cry on – someone’s who listens to your problems
E.g.: I wish you'd been here when my mother passed away and I needed a
shoulder to cry on.
Have friends in high places – have friends who have an important or
influential position
E.g.: She got the job because she has friends in high places.
To build bridges – to promote friendly relations
E.g.: A local charity is working to build bridges between different ethnic
groups in the area.
SPEAKING PRACTICE
Part 2
• What personality (or character) traits are most important (or,
most valued) in your country?
• What would you say are the most distinct personality/character
traits of the people in your country?
• What would you say are the most interesting
personality/character traits of the people in your country? (Why
are they interesting?)
• Do you think that people from different countries have "national"
personality traits?
• Do you think the culture of a country affects the personality of the
people in that country (or is it vice-versa)?
• How do these two (culture and 'national personality traits') affect
each other?
Listening TIPS
Section 4: a monologue on academic subject.
It is the most difficult section. There is no break in the middle, the speaker
talks quite quickly and uses a wide range of vocabulary.
Examples: lecture about endangered species, talk on bringing up children
subject, speech about global warming and its effects, lecture about forest
reserve etc.
In Section 4, focus on given facts, key ideas and speaker's opinions and
attitudes
 Question Types that DO NOT come in order
READING TIPS
 Question Types that come in order

READING TIPS
HOMEWORK

Review Unit 1 and answer the following exercises in Unit 2 - pages 12-14 .
• 1.1 – prepare your answers for recitation/speaking practice
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.5
• 4.6 -and page14 – prepare your answers for recitation/speaking practice
• TEST PRACTICE – Reading
• Memorize the idioms
THANK YOU!