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    1. The document discusses describing people and recognizing adjectives that can be used to describe people in relationships such as clients, colleagues, employers, parents, siblings, and spouses. 2. It provides a list of adjectives commonly used to describe people including autonomous, consistent, conventional, cooperative, efficient, flexible, idealistic, and tolerant. 3. The document includes practice exercises where the reader circles relationship terms, underlines professional relationship terms, and identifies adjectives used to describe people in a listening exercise.

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    1. The document discusses describing people and recognizing adjectives that can be used to describe people in relationships such as clients, colleagues, employers, parents, siblings, and spouses. 2. It provides a list of adjectives commonly used to describe people including autonomous, consistent, conventional, cooperative, efficient, flexible, idealistic, and tolerant. 3. The document includes practice exercises where the reader circles relationship terms, underlines professional relationship terms, and identifies adjectives used to describe people in a listening exercise.

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    1. The document discusses describing people and recognizing adjectives that can be used to describe people in relationships such as clients, colleagues, employers, parents, siblings, and spouses. 2. It provides a list of adjectives commonly used to describe people including autonomous, consistent, conventional, cooperative, efficient, flexible, idealistic, and tolerant. 3. The document includes practice exercises where the reader circles relationship terms, underlines professional relationship terms, and identifies adjectives used to describe people in a listening exercise.

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    1 People and relationships

    D escrib in g people I R ecognizing a d je ctive s I W o rk in g out m eaning fro m co n te xt

    Vocabulary
    People in relationship: Describing people:
    • client (clients) • autonomous
    NOUN A client of a professional person ADJECTIVE An autonomous person
    o r organization is a person that receives a makes th e ir own decisions ra th e r than
    service from them in return fo r payment. ■ a being influenced by someone else ■ They
    solicitor and his client ■ The company requires proudly declared themselves p art of a new
    clients to pay substantial fees in advance. autonomous province. ■ the liberal idea of the
    • colleague (colleagues) autonomous individual
    NOUN Your colleagues are the people you • consistent
    w ork w ith, especially in a professional job. ADJECTIVE Someone who is consistent
    ■ Female academics are s till paid less than always behaves in the same way, has the
    their male colleagues. ■ In the corporate same attitudes tow ards people or things,
    world, the best sources of business are your or achieves the same level of success in
    form er colleagues. som ething. ■ Becker has never been the most
    • employer (employers) consistent of players anyway. ■ his consistent
    NOUN Your employer is the person or support of free trade ■ a consistent character
    organization that you w ork for. ■ employers with a m ajor thematic function
    who hire illegal workers ■ The telephone • conventional
    company is the country's largest employer. ADJECTIVE Someone who is conventional
    • parent (parents) has behaviour and opinions that are
    NOUN Your parents are your m other and ordinary and norm al. ■ a respectable
    father. ■ Children need their parents. ■ When m arried woman with conventional opinions
    you become a parent the things you once ■ this close, fairly conventional English family
    cared about seem to have less value. • co-operative also cooperative
    • sibling (siblings) ADJECTIVE If you say that someone is
    NOUN Your siblings are your brothers and co-operative, you mean that they do what
    sisters. [FORMAL] ■ Some studies have found you ask them w ithout com plaining or
    that children are more friendly to younger arguing. ■ The president said the visit would
    siblings of the same sex. ■ Sibling rivalry often develop friendly and co-operative relations
    causes parents anxieties. between the two countries. ■ a contented and
    • spouse (spouses) co-operative workforce
    NOUN Someone’s spouse is the person they • efficient
    are married to. Husbands and wives do not have ADJECTIVE If som ething or someone
    to pay any inheritance tax when their spouse dies. is efficient, they are able to do tasks

    Vocabulary for IELTS


    successfully, w ithout wasting tim e or if this may be impractical. ■ Idealistic young
    energy. ■ With today’s more efficient people died for the cause. ■ an over-simplistic
    contraception women can plan their families and idealistic vision of family dynamics
    and careers. ■ Technological advances allow • tolerant
    more efficient use of labour. ■ an efficient way
    ADJECTIVE If you describe someone as
    of testing thousands of compounds
    tolerant, you approve of the fact that they
    • flexible allow other people to say and do as they like,
    ADJECTIVE Something or someone that is even if they do not agree with or like it. ■ [+of]
    flexible is able to change easily and adapt They need to be tolerant of different points of
    to different conditions and circum stances. view. ■ Other changes include more tolerant
    ■ more flexible arrangements to allow access attitudes to unmarried couples having children.
    to services a fte r normal working hours • We • vulnerable
    encourage flexible working. ADJECTIVE Someone who is vulnerable
    • idealistic is weak and w ithout protection, w ith the
    ADJECTIVE If you describe someone as re su lt that they are easily hurt physically
    idealistic, you mean that they have ideals, and or em otionally. ■ Old people are particularly
    base their behaviour on these ideals, even vulnerable members of our society.

    Practice exercises

    C ircle the w ords that you associate w ith fa m ily relationships. U nderline the w ords you
    associate w ith professional relationships.

    a client d colleague
    b parent e spouse
    c sibling f em ployer

    Listen to three speakers ta lkin g about people who have been im po rta n t to them . Indicate
    the person each speaker describes by w ritin g a le tte r a - f fro m Exercise 1 in each space.

    1
    2
    3

    j Exam tip:
    i • You can often recognize w hether a word is a noun, verb, adjective or adverb
    from its ending.
    : • Adjectives can have many different endings, but these are common.

    -a b le /-ib le vulnerable, flexible -ic idealistic


    -al conventional -ive co-operative
    -a n t/-e n t tolerant, consistent, efficient -ous autonomous

    j • Learn to recognize these.

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    5i 3 Listen again to the th re e speakers and w rite down the adjectives fro m the table above
    01 th a t you hear. Listen fo r the w ord endings: -able, -ib le , -a l, -ant, -ent, -ic, -ive, -ous.

    1
    2
    3

    Exam tip: In Part 4 of the IELTS Listening exam you have to listen to a ta lk on a topic of
    general academic interest.
    You do not need to know a ll of the vocabulary.
    If you hear a word you don’t know, listen fo r expressions like:
    a i.e.
    b in other w ords
    c that is
    d by ... I mean
    e that is to say
    The text that follow s these expressions helps you understand the word.
    Example: Employers value conscientious workers, that is workers who complete tasks
    with care.

    Listen to the e xtra ct fro m a lectu re about only ch ild re n and notice the expression the
    02 speaker uses to indicate she is defining the key expressions 1-6 below. Look back at the
    Exam tip and w rite a le tte r a -e in each space.

    1 only children
    2 parental resources
    3 to le ran t ......
    4 rn-nperative
    5 autonom y
    6 unconventional

    0 5 Listen to the e xtra ct again and com plete the d e finitio n s the speaker gives fo r w ords 1-6
    02 above. W rite one w ord in each space.

    1 only children - ‘children w ith o u t____________ ’


    2 parental resources - ‘not ju st money, but a ls o ____________ a n d ____________ ’
    3 to le ra n t - ‘able to a c c e p t___________ ’
    4 co-operative - ‘able to w o r k ____________ w it h --------------------- ’
    5 autonom y - ‘ability t o ____________ th e ir o w n --------------------- ’
    6 unconventional - ‘not q u ite ____________ in social te rm s ’

    8 Vocabulary for IELTS


    Unit 1

    Exam practice: Listening exam Section 4

    O Listen to the lecture extract about birth ord er and personality and answ er
    03 questions 1 -5 by choosing the correct le tte r A, B or C.

    Exam tip: Listen fo r key adjectives and clues in the context fo r what they mean.

    1 What does the speaker discuss in relation to personality?


    A Family size
    B The relationship between children and th e ir parents
    C People’s position in the fam ily

    2 What does the speaker im ply about anxiety?


    A It is a positive tra it.
    B It is a negative trait.
    C It is experienced by younger siblings.

    3 What do some researchers say about youngest children?


    A They form relationships easily.
    B They agree w ith the opinions of other people.
    C They like it if people agree w ith them.

    4 Why are m iddle children considered to be rebellious?


    A They don’t like to be told w hat to do.
    B They don’t know how to be agreeable.
    C They like to be different from others.

    5 What does the speaker say about the quality of research on birth order?
    A Most research has been done correctly.
    B Most research has been done incorrectly.
    C Most research has come to a clear conclusion.

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