Discuss the gif
Prelearn vocab:
20 terms and expressions
Watch:
Work-Life Balance
Discuss:
Are you a generalist or a specialist? (Do you like to get really really good at one thing, or be good enough at lots of things?)
Do you know a person who is a specialist?
Match these verb / noun collocations
write
spear
sit
stay
live
plot
expand
drive
go into
in an ice cave
a fish
in a high rise office
an assassination
very fast down Fifth Avenue
a small business
politics
a novel
single
Grammar point: which of these verbs are transitive and which are intransitive?
Multiple choice questions:
1. According to the speaker. a human is less efficient than a sports car because
A) humans have less clear goals than a sports car
B) sports cars are designed for speed
C) humans are not designed well
2. According to the speaker
A) humans should try to limit their goals in order to be more efficient.
B) by limiting our focus, we increase our chances of efficiency
C) optimal efficiency is a general principle in designing machines
3. According ot the speaker, our brains
A) are moderately intelligent
B) tend to generalise
C) are good at many different things
4. According to the speaker, we
A) pay a price for focussing too much on one thing
B) can't be perfect at everything
C) can't be too general in our focus
5. The reason for our mistakes and failures is that
A) variety matters more than perfection
B) our narrow perfection
C) there's a cost to being the human equivalent of a sports car
6. According to the speaker, work-life balance
A) is elusive
B) is worth fighting for
C) is impossible
7. According to the speaker, feeling that life is chaotic
A) is a healthy sign
B) is a bad sign
C) is a sign that your life has gone wrong
General questions - discuss what you heard.
1. Why is a human less efficient than a sports car?
2. What's easiest way to increase efficiency?
3. What is the brain designed to do?
4. What is the price we pay for being generalists?
5. Why do we sometimes feel depressed at the end of the day?
6. What is the cost of focusing on one thing to the exclusion of all others?
7. Why is work-life balance impossible?
Language focus
What's the scrambled word?
a general piplerinc
a single skta
a wise coihce
an absurd iead
an elusive tnghi
multiple srleo
flawless ufocs
Follow each verb with a likely object
explore a
investigate a
retrieve a
complete a
verify a
supervise a
consider a
sustain a
Listen out for these adverb + adjective collocations:
H____ly efficient
c_______ly inefficient
e________ly clear
o______ly efficient
f__ l____ efficient
m_______ly efficient
m_______ly w___ equipped
l__ than c______ly o_______l performance
p_____ly optimal
Language focus: building flexibility and expanding vocabulary range
Exploring adverbs
What adjective might follow these adverbs?
undeniably
elegantly
profoundly
excessively
weirdly
lovingly
tightly
What do all of these adverbs have in common?
- briskly
- gradually
- hastily
- hurriedly
- immediately
- instantly
- promptly
- quickly
- rapidly
- slowly
- speedily
- swiftly
And these?
- audibly
- deafeningly
- ear-splittingly
- faintly
- loudly
- noiselessly
- noisily
- quietly
- silently
- softly
- soundlessly
- thunderously
And these?
- daily
- eventually
- finally
- frequently
- generally
- hourly
- rarely
- regularly
- seldom
- soon
Which one is best before each adverb?
She spoke
She wept
She walked
She laughed
She stumbled
- accidentally
- awkwardly
- blindly
- crazily
- cruelly
- defiantly
- deliberately
- doubtfully
- dramatically
- excitedly
- mysteriously
- nervously
- seriously
- solemnly
- unexpectedly
- wildly
Is each adverb more likely to be used with a verb or an adjective?
totally
suddenly
swiftly
extremely
Which of these adverbs would usually be used to modify a whole sentence?
unfortunately
somewhat
most of the time
afterwards
on the whole
genuinely
delicately
wrongly
mind you
sweetly
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