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Source: Google1. What virtues, for example ‘honesty’, are important to you for being a good person?
Make a list, (using a dictionary if you need to) of 6 virtues.
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2. Look at the following adjectives and decide if the noun form ends in ‘-ness’, ‘-ity’, ‘-ice’ or ‘-ce’.
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Adjective → Noun
Dignified → Dign (ity)
Resilient → Resilien (ce)
Patient → Patien (ce)
Respectable → Respectabil (ity)
Sacrificial → Sacrif (ice)
Polite → Polite (ness)
Self-aware → Self-aware (ness)
Forgiving → Forgive (ness)
Just → Just (ice)
dutiful → dutiful (ness)
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Adjective → Noun
Are any of the virtues above on your list? If you had to take 2 off your list and replace them with virtues from the last exercise, which would you choose and why?
3. Read about virtues in Roman times and see how may more words can you find with the suffixes from exercise 2. Roman Virtues (PDF opens on new page.)
4. Were any of the virtues you read about the same as those on your list? Do you think any of the virtues are not as relevant today as they were for the Romans?
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5. Before you watch the video below, decide which virtues are important for living in the modern world.
6. Now watch the video and compare the virtues with your ideas.
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7. Watch the video again and order the expressions below with the same meaning, from top to bottom.
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It seems weird and creepy to spend our time and efforts on being nice.
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This virtue is about continuing through difficult times when we feel like giving up and staying calm with the belief that we can succeed if we stay strong.
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Imagining and then feeling emotionally what other people are going through in an attempt to understand them, we also discover more about ourselves.
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We need to accept that things don't always go the way we want them to, and stay relaxed when they don't turn out perfectly.
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While putting others before ourselves goes against our innate sense of survival, it is a quality that makes us human and is necessary for our species to survive.
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Being nice to others, though apparently superficial, helps us to put up with each other when the alternative would be confrontation.
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If it's a matter of laughing or crying, it's often best to put on a smile and see the funny side of a bad situation instead of taking it to heart.
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Instead of looking at the outside world as responsible for all the things we're unhappy with, it's good to look within ourselves to have a clear view of who we are and what's best for us.
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We all make mistakes, and as other people have tolerated ours, so should we with theirs if we want to live happily together.
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It's easy to give up thinking life could be better than it is. With age comes cynicism and gloom. But it doesn't have to be like that.
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Fear of failure is the biggest failing in life. Life's short. And what is there to really lose, anyway?
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8. Match the expressions below with the phrases from the video.
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- weird and creepy
- strong
- become annoyed
- putting up with something
- not taking it to heart
- things we're not happy about
- tolerating us
- remain aware of them
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bizarre and eerie
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tough
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lose our temper
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tolerance
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seeing the funny side
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one's troubles and moods
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cutting us some slack
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keep these in mind
9. Now look at the transcript (click on the link below) and paraphrase the description of each virtue including the expressions from exercise 8.
Can you remember the name of each virtue from your notes?
When you’ve finished, check again with the transcript.
Transcript (Opens on new page.)
Practice
10. Write your answers to questions from this class on the board below.
You can also upload a text file or record your voice and upload the mp3.