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Hi there. This is Harry, and welcome to my podcast, where tried to help you to understand and get a better understanding off the English language. And I help you by understanding the grammar Fraser, verbs, expressions, a Jim's everything connected with the English language. And there's always if you want to contact me, you'll get the details at the end of this particular podcast. So what are we going to talk about today? Well, in the podcast now, we're goingto take a look at some adjectives. And the particular adjectives we have for today are those adjectives that might describe people on the way they behave the way they are. Okay, so something might be a little different. So hopefully you will enjoy these. As always. I'll give you the expression of the adjective that'll give you an example. Number one, she is completely incompetent or he is completely incompetent. Completely incompetent means unable to do something satisfactorily, okay, completely incompetent. Just unable to do anything basic that you ask. So you ask somebody to complete a spreadsheet, Excel spreadsheet. They don't know how to do it. You ask them to, right a few e mails they've never used aim email before you ask them to set up a Skype call. They don't know how to use Skype. So you look them up and down, so Oh, my God, You're completely incompetent. You're completely unable to do all of the basics. You said in your CV that you have computer skills. You have no computer skills. You are incompetent, unable to do the basics incompetent. Okay, so when somebody is incompetent, it means yes, unable to carry out basic functions completely incompetent means totally. Okay, So just we're just emphasising then that not only they incompetent there are completely or totally incompetent. Okay, Number two, she is very direct. She's very direct. This means that she speaks or he speaks exactly what is on their mind. They don't cover or secrete or hide what they want to say. The very direct I don't like your shirt. I don't like your hairstyle. I really don't like those shoes so very direct. If you wanted to be a little bit indirect, you might say, Are you sure that shirt suits you? Are you sure that hair style is the way you wanted it to be? Might you think about putting on a different pair of shoes in direct. So direct. Somebody who gets straight to the point doesn't waste any time. Lets you know exactly what they are thinking. Or as we sometimes say in English, gives it to you through both barrels. Like a shot gun has two barrels. So they give it you through both barrels. They don't hold back. They just fire. I don't like the shirt. I don't like this food. I don't like the colour on the wall. Okay, So very, very direct. I like people who are direct. I'm quite direct, but some people don't always react kindly to directness. So to be direct or sometimes to be a little bit more sensitive on DH to be less direct. Okay, she is or he is very direct. She is such a snob, while a snob is somebody who may not be in the wealthy category or they may not be super rich, but they I think they are. They they like on ly to where things that are have a label on them. They she will not be seen inside a McDonald's restaurant. She wouldn't like to be seen walking in certain parts of the city. She would never be seen wearing a pair of denim jeans and the hoody. Okay, so we would describe this person as a snob. Of course it can be he or she's I'm not making a sexist in anyway, of course. But he or she, they are such a snob. Okay, So it can be to do with the things that you wear. It can be to do with the places you will go to all the places you won't go to. It can be to do with the people you will talk to or be friends with. So any action in your life where you judge others based on perhaps their social rank. Oh, she's such a snob. She wouldn't go to the meeting because I had these people come from the wrong side of the city in case she is such a snob. So we can always call people a little snobbish or they walk around with their nose in the air. This is another way to describe somebody who was a little bit of a snob to walk around pretentious way with the nose in the air. She is such a snob. Next he or she is quite absent minded, quite absent minded. To be absent minded means you forget things and you forget things easily. So we are all prone to this problem from time to time, particularly for under stress. Or we've got a lot of work to do. We can forget something, but to be absent minded usually is part of your character. Yeah, So you forget meetings. You forget to call somebody. You forget the car keys all the time. You forget where you parked the car. You forget to pick up the laundry. Just generally absent minded. There's a very funny movie made many years ago, years ago called the absent minded professor. And there was a remake of it on. As far as I can remember, the remake was with Eddie Murphy as the absent minded professor. So somebody who was constantly forgetting things Very clever. Very bright, but absent minded. Yeah. So, for example, you go into the kitchen, you switch on the the oven, you're going to make yourself on omelettes and you walk out of the room and you come back 10 minutes later to find out that the pan is burnt because you forgot your absent minded. You went into the room, you got occupied with something else, and you forgot that you had switched on the oven. And therefore, you've ruined your best pan in which your wife will be so happy with. Yep, sort to be absent minded. Okay, She's quite hard work. She's quite hard work. That doesn't mean that she works hard. Okay, She's a hard worker. That would be meaning. She works hard, but when we say she or he is quite hard, work means it's difficult to have a conversation with them. They're not so extroverts that you can have a good conversation with them. It's very hard to get some information out of them on DH. It's actually very hard, even Teo, like the person. So you're gonna have a conversation with the person and you get monosyllabic answers. Yes, no, perhaps whatever. Yes, so you keep asking the questions. You keep trying to get the conversation going, but you get little in return so you can see Wow, that person. She's quite hard work. It's very difficult to have a conversation is very difficult to get to like them. I'm sure she's a nice person, but I wouldn't like to be stuck in the corner at a party with her because what are you going to do? So she is quite hard work. She's different. Difficult person, not friendly, not open on DH. Very definitely not relaxed. So she is quite hard work. She's really bitchy. When somebody is bitchy, they make snide or not nice comments on a regular basis about other people. Oh, have you seen the girl on the second floor? Have you seen her hair today? Have you seen what she's wearing? Have you noticed how she speaks to some people? Have you seen how she walks? Have you seen how she she eats? So when somebody starts making very personal comments way regard that as a little bit bitchy, not being so pleasant, not being so nice. So we tried to avoid being bitchy with one another. We tried to avoid being bitchy with anybody else on DH. Not always nice to hear bitchy comments made by one person about another, particularly if then they don't happen to be there quite a problem with them. People who have with their neighbours. So somebody who doesn't particularly like the neighbour can often be referred them in a bitchy way or this lady next door. Have you seen the the coach he wears? Or have you seen the clothes on the washing line? Or have you seen the colour off her, her walls and bitchy comments? So not so pleasant? Okay, next she's very laid back. When somebody is laid back means they are relaxed, but sometimes in a in a very, very relaxing way more than you would expect. So nothing seems to worry the person. I don't worry about Mary. She's so laid back. If she if she was laid back anymore, she would be horizontal. Abso she's so laid back. So when somebody is laid back, they are ultra relaxed. They are nothing seems to worry them. Nothing seems to stress them on DH. They don't get upset about anything. Yeah, yeah, he she's married like that. She's always the same. She's has been laid back since I have known her. She takes everything in her stride. She doesn't get upset. She doesn't get worried. OK, so a nice way to be to be laid back, but and sometimes not always good to be too laid back because there are times when We have to be a little bit emotional and a little bit focused so that we can get the work done, because often people look on people who are laid back on. They might see them is a little bit lazy, which in fact they're not. They're just a little bit more relaxed than the average person. Okay, next she seems very principled. She seems very principled. So when somebody is principled, it means that they are morally looking things in in a lot more detail. And they wouldn't do something without considering all its implications. So to be principled is to have somebody who has high principles that, for example, they wouldn't buy clothes that were definitely made in 1/3 World country because you wouldn't like to be supporting payments on the the exploitation ofthe child labour. So that would be somebody who'll be very principled. She wouldn't buy certain goods from certain countries that perhaps didn't respect women's rights, so she would be very principled in that way. She was very principled in relation to religion on DH. Perhaps wouldn't send her Children to a school that didn't offer religious schooling or religious education. So somebody with principles somebody who has principles or somebody who has high moral principles in relation to everything from religion, sex, education, how to deal with the poor. Anything that she's feels that is right, that governments should take a little bit more seriously to be very principled on next to be very strong willed. Well, tohave a will means to do things the way you want to do them. That where you see that is appropriate. Yeah, on when you are strong willed, it means that you you don't let people dictate to you. You don't let people tell you what to do, so you can be a little bit obstinate or a little bit stubborn. So when we are strong willed were very determined people, so we don't give up easily. Yeah, we don't allow people to tell us what cannot be done on DH. We stick to something until we achieve it. Yeah, Okay, so in the current climate, we have to be a little bit strong willed about how we approach things. We we have to focus on the present, but also see how we can get through this virus issue. And if your strong willed you will not give in. You will not give in to the temptation to be a little bit depressed. You will find your way through it to be strong willed and then finally thick skinned, she or he or thick skinned. When you have a thick skin, it's actually quite important because if you have a thick skin, then it means that when people either insult you or say something to you that others might find somewhat insulting, it doesn't bother you because you are thick skinned, like a kn elephant or rhinoceros. Yes, the skin of a rhinoceros or the elephant is very, very thick. So if you have a thick skin or you develop a thick skin, it means that you're a little bit impervious to people's insults or difficulties. Okay, so if you are a woman working in what would be perceived as a man's world, somebody might say to you, Well, you either have to have a thick skin, or you have to develop a thick skin to work in that environment because it can be a little bit sexist. Okay, so you develop a thick skin or somebody says something, and your friends as well did you hear that, or you're not a little bit insulted. I don't worry. I'm thick skinned. It doesn't matter to me. Sales people. People who work in sales should be a little bit thick skin because often they get rejected by their approaches to different potential customers. But they know that sooner or later, somebody is going to buy the product they have. And they would be a lot happier. So they have a thick skin. Okay, accent. So these are adjectives describing people. So let me just run through them quickly, again to be completely incompetent, to be very direct. To be such a snob. Quite absent minded, quite hard work, really bitchy, Very laid back to be very principled or to be appear or seem very principled. Very strong willed on DH. Quite thick skinned. Okay, so all adjectives describing people and the way that they can act on the type of personality. Okay, well, thanks for listening again. And if you have any questions or you want to contact me well, of course, then you can do so at www dot English lesson via skype dot com. I'm always happy to hear from you on. Always happy to help you with anything that you need. So, as always, thanks for listening, Johnny. Against. Okay, so why I have you here? I want you to give you some information about the easy peasy English club. So when you find your way onto my web page, look out for the link to the easy peasy English club. It's effective and efficient on economic way for you and your friends to learn the English language for us. Very small subscription fee. You get access to me one lesson each week. 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