Step by Step 3000 第2册 Unit3:All can succeed(3)

 　　Part 3. Good better best

　　A. Keywords. best, qualities.

　　Vocabulary. give a shot, genuinely, considerate.

　　Listen to six people talking about their best qualities and complete the following chart in note form.

　　What are my best qualities?

　　This is a difficult question for someone to answer, I think.

　　But I'll give a shot, I think my best qualities are probably that I have a good sense of humor.

　　I genuinely like people and I like talking to people. And I like to be entertaining if I can possibly be.

　　What is my best quality?

　　I'd say my best quality is my friendliness¹.

　　I always try to be positive and polite and friendly to people who I meet, especially the first time and I try to continue that.

　　But regardless of who they are, I try to give them, you know, treat them friendly.

　　I just, I enjoying be friendly. So it's not really work to me, it's just part of my personality.

　　What are my best qualities?

　　My best qualities are the fact that I am a good friend.

　　I am considerate and caring.

　　I'm a good listener, I can always, I'm always there to hear if my friends having a bad day or just really need to talk.

　　And I think I'm just really nice, even though I'm not always nice to everyone.

　　To the people I really I care and love, I'll always put them into importance.

　　I will always make them very important in my life.

　　So what's my best quality?

　　I think my best quality has to be the ability to laugh at myself.

　　English humor is very much based around laughing at yourself and also laughing with others at themselves.

　　So my best quality definitely is that I can laugh at myself and with others when they laugh at me.

　　What's my best quality?

　　I think it's that I'm very open-minded.

　　So I always, I'm not afraid of new things and nothing shocks me.

　　So I learn new things a lot that most people don't because they are too narrow-minded, I think.

　　OK, what are my best qualities?

　　I guess the one that I think is the most important for me is to be curious.

　　I want to find out new things, I want to go places, I want to have new experience.

　　I don't like to just sit around where I know everything, because it stops being interesting and inspiring after a while.

　　I like to have new things happen to me and meet new people and that is what keeps me creative and I have fresh ideas that way.

　　B. Keywords. qualities, good, student, boss, friend, parent.

　　Vocabulary. delegate², minion³, unconditional⁴, tarnish⁵, quality time.

　　Listen to Matt explaining what he thinks makes a good student, friend, parent and boss.

　　Complete the following chart.

　　So, Matt, We're taking about adjectives this week and, or qualities about people.

　　So let's talk about what makes people good at what they do.

　　First of all, What do you think makes a good student?

　　We're both teachers, so in your mind, what's a good student?

　　I think somebody who is motivated, self-motivated and somebody who takes an interest in what they are doing and works at it.

　　And I mean, as a teacher, I always enjoy people who are outgoing and have a personality.

　　But I know reality is that not every student can be like that.

　　So you just try to... as a student I think that the most important thing is to show interest and participate and work outside of class.

　　Right, I totally agree.

　　OK, so now how about work? What makes a good boss?

　　I've had so many different jobs and so many different bosses.

　　I think a good boss is somebody who knows his... the people that work for him, and he knows strengths

　　and he can communicate or she can communicate what they really want for each worker

　　and somebody who can delegate to responsibility.

　　But that shows that they know and they care about what their minions⁶ are doing for them.

　　Right, OK, now moving on. How about what makes a good friend?

　　A good friend? I think somebody who just can listen and kind of unconditional love almost or like anything that you do,

　　anything that you do, you know, can't tarnish relationship and somebody who is loyal and who is honest basically.

　　OK. and this is the last one. What makes a good parent?

　　A good parent? Not that I would know from firsthand experience.

　　But I think, you know, just somebody who is there always and who takes care of the child and, you know, spends time I think, spends quality time.

　　People who work hard can, you know, tend to forget about their child if they're too focused on other things,

　　and parents who really are there and listen and talk to the kid usually have the greatest success.

　　Right. OK, thanks a lot. Matt. I appreciate your time. (You're welcome, Yeah)

1 friendliness   

n.友谊，亲切，亲密

参考例句：

• Behind the mask of friendliness,I know he really dislikes me.在友善的面具后面，我知道他其实并不喜欢我。
• His manner was a blend of friendliness and respect.他的态度友善且毕恭毕敬。

2 delegate   

n.代表，会议代表；vt.委派...为代表，授权

参考例句：

• They drafted her to serve as their delegate.他们选她当代表。
• The Chinese people delegate their power to the People's Congress.中国人民授权人民代表大会。

3 minion   

n.宠仆；宠爱之人

参考例句：

• At worst some egregious minion had conducted a childish private enterprise.这最多也不过是一批低能的小人物自己干的无聊把戏而已。
• She delegated the job to one of her minions.她把这份工作委派给她的一个手下。

4 unconditional   

adj.无条件的，无限制的，绝对的

参考例句：

• The victorious army demanded unconditional surrender.胜方要求敌人无条件投降。
• My love for all my children is unconditional.我对自己所有孩子的爱都是无条件的。

5 tarnish   

n.晦暗，污点；vt.使失去光泽；玷污

参考例句：

• The affair could tarnish the reputation of the prime minister.这一事件可能有损首相的名誉。
• Stainless steel products won't tarnish.不锈钢产品不会失去光泽。

6 minions   

n.奴颜婢膝的仆从( minion的名词复数 )；走狗；宠儿；受人崇拜者

参考例句：

• She delegated the job to one of her minions. 她把这份工作委派给她的一个手下。 来自辞典例句
• I have been a slave to the vicious-those whom I served were his minions. 我当过那帮坏人的奴隶，我伺候的都是他的爪牙。 来自辞典例句