Prática de Shadowing: 12 Vocabulary Words to Talk about People's Character - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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Hi everyone, I'm Jenna and this is Learn Academic English.
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Before I get into this video, I just want to take a moment to apologize for not having made videos for a while.
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Last semester in my job as a professor at a college here in California, I was given an extra job position.
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And I just ended up being much busier than usual.
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And it just became really hard for me to juggle everything that I had to do.
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But I'm back and in today's video, I'm going to talk about English vocabulary to describe people's character.
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This is really useful vocabulary that you can use in a variety of situations.
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Before we get into that, I'd like to remind you to please give this video a like if you find it helpful, leave a comment below, and subscribe.
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Also, if you're interested in taking classes with me, check the description box below for information about my online course.
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Okay, let's get into that vocabulary.
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In today's video, I'm going to talk about how to talk about character, specifically how to talk about virtues.
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Virtues are good points of your character.
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Another way that we could talk about character is to look at traits or qualities.
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These are characteristics of your personality or characteristics of who you are.
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And we can describe those in two different categories, virtues, and flaws.
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Virtues are positive characteristics.
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These are positive qualities that you have.
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And flaws are weaknesses or negative characteristics.
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So today we're going to focus on virtues.
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And the first virtue is compassion.
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The definition is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others.
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and to respond with kindness and support.
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Compassion.
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Compassion is the noun.
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Compassionate is the adjective.
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Compassionate.
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Notice that the ATE sounds like "ut" with the schwa vowel, compassionate.
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We don't say compassionate.
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And here's an example: One common complaint about US healthcare is a lack of compassion.
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He is a compassionate person.
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He's always thinking about others and helping people out.
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Okay, let's look at the next one.
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Empathy.
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Empathy is the ability to understand other people's feelings and problems.
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Okay, this is a little bit different from sympathy.
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Sympathy means that you can feel sorry for someone.
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But empathy is really the ability to understand how that person is feeling or to try to put yourself in their shoes.
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Empathetic is the adjective.
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As children grow and mature, they develop empathy.
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allowing them to make choices while considering the needs of others.
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Okay, so he is an empathetic person, but empathy is the quality that a person has.
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Okay.
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Next.
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Patience.
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We know this word, but this is a really important virtue, isn't it?
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The ability to continue waiting or doing something for a long time without becoming angry or anxious.
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Teachers need a lot of patience to deal with all the different personalities in their classrooms.
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Okay, the adjective is patient.
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And this is the same word as a person who is staying in a hospital, right?
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A hospital patient.
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That's a noun, but the adjective of this word is patient.
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They sound the same, they are spelled the same.
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And the virtue is Patience.
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Creativity.
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Creativity, the ability to use your imagination to produce new ideas or things,
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to solve problems, etc. Creative is the adjective.
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She is a creative person.
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She has creativity.
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When education focuses too much on rote learning,
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students lack creativity to develop unique solutions to problems.
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Okay, a couple things here.
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First of all, do you know what rote learning means?
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Rote learning is like memorizing when we learn.
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Just memorizing and showing that information on tests.
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Rote learning.
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Creativity is different.
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Creativity means that you can use your ideas to create solutions to problems or to create projects to do other creative work.
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Now a lot of people focus on the meaning of creativity in an artistic way, right?
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They think about a creative person as being good at art or imagination.
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But creativity is more than that.
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It's also the ability to see a new situation and use your creativity or your imagination to think of solutions or approaches.
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Okay, next we have integrity.
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Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
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We talk about this word a lot when we talk about ethics.
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People who have ethics have integrity.
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She was known for her integrity.
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She kept her word and treated everyone fairly.
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A leader who lacks integrity is dangerous for the country.
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Thank you.
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Okay?
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Next, Resilience.
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Resilience.
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Notice that the S here sounds like a Z.
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Resilience.
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The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.
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Toughness.
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The adjective is "resilient".
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Despite facing many setbacks, his resilience helped him succeed in the end.
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Okay, he had a lot of challenges, but he kept going.
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Resilience.
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We often say that children are resilient because children have to face a lot of different situations that are new for them, but they keep going.
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Okay, next we have perseverance.
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Perseverance.
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This comes from the verb to persevere.
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Perseverance is steadfastness.
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What is steadfastness?
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It's the ability to keep going.
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You keep your eye on the goal and you keep going.
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Steadfastness in doing things despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
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Her perseverance through years of challenging studies eventually earned her a PhD.
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She didn't give up.
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She kept going.
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Now, what's the difference between perseverance and resilience?
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They are actually quite similar.
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I would say that resilience is more of the emotional ability to face difficulties and to keep going,
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whereas perseverance is more like just dedication and discipline to keep doing it.
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Alright, next.
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Humility.
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Humility.
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Humility is a modest or low view of one's importance.
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The adjective is humble.
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Humble.
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Okay, so this means that you don't brag.
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that you don't show off.
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that you don't try to show people how great you are.
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Instead, you keep a modest view of yourself.
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And this is considered a positive trait by most people.
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and For example: "Even after achieving great success,
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"his humility remained intact." and he always credited his team.
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Okay, he didn't take the credit for the success.
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Instead, he gave the credit to his team.
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He was humble.
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All right, next we have generosity.
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Generosity.
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The quality of being kind by often giving more than expected.
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The adjective is generous.
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His generosity was evident when he donated a large portion of his winnings to charity.
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Now, we often think of generosity when we think of money, right?
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A person who gives big gifts or a person who,
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you know, it's time to chip in to get a gift for someone's new baby and they give a lot of money.
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That's being generous.
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But generous can also be generous with your time, right?
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A generous person likes to help people, is selfless.
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They think about others when they give their time, their energy, when they give gifts.
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et cetera.
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Okay, next we have loyalty.
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Loyalty.
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The quality of being supportive and faithful to someone or something.
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Loyal.
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Despite an array of challenges, his loyalty to his company was unbreakable.
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He was loyal to his company.
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You can be loyal to your family, loyal to your parents, loyal to your partner, loyal to your pets.
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One of my children is a very loyal person and he was very loyal to our dog who passed away.
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Okay?
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To be loyal to your friends.
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to be loyal to your team, to your company.
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Okay, you are faithful.
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You are always thinking of them,
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helping them, and not thinking of others in place of the person who you are loyal to.
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Okay, next we have truthfulness.
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Truthfulness is the quality of being consistently honest.
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The adjective is truthful, but we could also use honest.
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Very similar to honesty.
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The witness was chosen for her truthfulness to ensure justice was served in the trial.
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Okay, she was a truthful or honest person.
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Okay, and the last one is discipline.
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Discipline.
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Discipline is the ability to control your own behavior so that you do what you are expected to do.
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Disciplined is the adjective that we can use for the person.
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Okay?
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So for example, to take online classes, you need a lot of discipline.
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She is a disciplined person.
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See the picture?
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She is getting ready to run.
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She runs three times a week.
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She's very disciplined.
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Thank you.
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For example, working from home requires a good deal of discipline.
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Don't you think?
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If we don't have discipline, we end up watching TV or scrolling on our phones or taking a nap.
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No, we have to have discipline.
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We have to get our things done.
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Okay, so we had 12 words that we saw today.
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We have virtues like discipline,
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truthfulness, compassion, generosity, patience, perseverance, resilience, Humility.
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Now, let's practice with those.
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The first practice is: What virtues are especially needed in the following occupations?
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So how about for a teacher?
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What virtues does a teacher need?
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A teacher needs patience for sure, right?
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How about compassion?
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What other virtues might a teacher need to have?
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You can think of others that I didn't present today as well, like knowledge or intelligence.
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How about a doctor?
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Thank you.
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A politician.
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A politician should have integrity, What other virtues does a politician need?
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Thank you and an artist.
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What virtues does an artist need to have.
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Creativity is one of them.
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So I just wanted to mention that when I teach the class online, it's called Speak Up, and we have five classes a week with different teachers.
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I teach the advanced class.
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Now when I teach my students things like this, we work in groups to practice the vocabulary that we have learned.
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I answer questions.
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So some people might have questions about the pronunciation of a word or what's the difference between two different words.
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Or, can you give me another example of compassion?
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Can you use the word resilience in another sentence?
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And then I ask them to work with one or two other students to practice some discussion questions.
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And they usually talk for a long time because they love to practice their speaking.
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Okay, let's try one more practice to help you learn this vocabulary in context.
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What are some of your good qualities or your virtues?
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Okay, so let me know your answer in the comments.
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So I hope you enjoyed learning this vocabulary.
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If you would like to practice, check the description box below for a couple of questions that you can use to leave a comment and practice below.
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I hope to see you back here again very soon.
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In the meantime, take care and best of luck with your English studies.
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O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.