Unit 3

Personality
• Campus Conversation
• Academic Listening
• Reading Book Excerpt Keeping your
Confidence Up
• Read, Listen, Speak Categorize two students
according to definitions of types of shyness.
• Writing Describe and explain the most
significant challenges and now effective
strategies related to academic success.
flexible
• Able to change
freshmen

• A student in the first year of college

standing appointment
gifted for
fall behind

• Don’t fall behind in payments

drop
go over
 shyness

• Easily frightened away; timid. Bashful

chronic

• Constant, habitual; having long duration

 awkward
• Uncomfortable;unpleasant, strange
blind date
perform

Achieve, fullfill, develop, act

 run into
• encounter
counter
Something that is opposite or contrary. Avoid
dispositional
• physical inclination or tendency; nature, character, humor. Disposition, temper,
temperament refer to the aspects and habits of mind and emotion
self-esteem
• a realistic respect for or favorable
impression of oneself; self-respect.
depressed
• Sad, gloomy, miserable
lonely
outgoing
• Sociable and responsive to others; friendly:
a warm; extroverted
 Pollyanna
unreasonably or illogically optimistic

It’s OK!!!!
Don’t worry,
it won’t eat
me……
Guide 3rd Partial Exam Nov
• Pre-listening vocabulary Book page 40 and 41
• Reading Keeping your confidence Up 1 to 10
• Type of Shyness Reading and Chart Page 49
• Tips to do well on TOEFL
• Voc Unit 3 Power Point Presentation
• Extra vocabulary
Find out meaning, include it on the slide and add
visuals. This vocabulary will enhance
comprehension on the reading section of your 3rd
Partial Exam.

Hard work leads to success.

Dear students:

Knowledge is
power, but
enthusiasm pulls
the switch.

To accomplish great
things, we must not
only act, but also
dream, not only
plan, but also
believe.
Anatole France

And I believe in
you, I am sure you
can accomplish
great things!
Teacher Diana
nickname
Aldo, please add a picture
funding
• Daniel, please add a picture
boon
• Sergio, please add a picture
unleash
Oscar, please add a picture
undertaken
• Jaime, please add a picture
detriment
• Diego, please add a picture
waterwaves
• Claudia, please add a picture
wit
• Marcela, please add a picture
assertiveness
• Cinthia, please add a picture
wallow in misery
• Fernanda T , please add a picture
commitment
• Fernanda, please add a picture
grouch
• Sandra, please add a picture
behave
• Ana Cecilia, please add a picture