Identity

Question 1

tożsamość

Answer 1

identity

• INTERNAL
• [c] !!!
• Your identity is who you are
• often with adjective
• She went through an identity crisis in her teens
• a plan to strengthen the corporate identity of the company
• Their identities were kept secret.

Question 2

wizerunek, obraz, wyobrażenie

Answer 2

image

• EXTERNAL
• [c]!!!
• The image of a person, group, or organization is the way that they appear to other people.
• Wellington controlled his image as carefully as any modern politician.
• The tobacco industry has been trying to improve its image.

Question 3

kształować swoją tożsamość

Answer 3

to shape your identity

-He believes that copying others (kopiowanie innych) helps shape our identity

Question 4

kopiować / imitować innych

Answer 4

to copy / imitate others

-He believes that we become who we are through imitation / only when we stop imitating others

Question 5

naśladować, parodiować, imitować

Answer 5

to mimic

*If someone or something mimics another person or thing, they try to be like them

• Don’t try to mimic anybody. You have to be yourself if you are going to do your best.
• The computer doesn’t mimic human thought; it reaches the same ends by different means.

Question 6

naśladować, próbować dorównać

Answer 6

to emulate

*If you emulate something or someone, you imitate them because you admire them a great deal.

• Sons are traditionally expected to emulate their fathers.
• She hopes to emulate her sister’s sporting achievements.

Question 7

powtarzać (to co ktoś właśnie powiedział lub zrobił)

Answer 7

to echo

• [ekoʊ]
• If you echo someone’s words, you repeat them or express agreement with their attitude or opinion.
• Their views often echo each other.
• ‘That was a truly delicious piece of lamb,’ he said. ‘Yes, wasn’t it?’ echoed Penelope.

Question 8

patrzeć na kogoś z podziwem, podziwiać kogoś, zapatrywać się w kogoś

Answer 8

to look up to sb

-I know she looks up to me so I can’t disappoint her

Question 9

What five things do people make assumptions about?

Answer 9

appearance, gender, race, class, how we look like, where we come from

Question 10

ta fraza jest głęboko wryta w mój umysł

Answer 10

to be etched into sth

• [ecz]
• etched, etched

-This phrase is now etched into my mind clearer than the pin number to my bank card

Question 11

uprzedzenie

Answer 11

prejudice

• [uc]
• [predʒʊdɪs]

*Prejudice is an unreasonable dislike of a particular group of people or things, or a preference for one group of people or things over another.

• There is widespread prejudice against workers over 45.
• He said he hoped the Swiss authorities would investigate the case thoroughly and without prejudice.
• Dangerous prejudice

*syn: bias = stronniczość, uprzedzenie, tendencyjność,
(Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing)

Question 12

przeczyć sobie / przeczyć jedno drugiemu

Answer 12

to contradict one another

*If one statement or piece of evidence contradicts another, the first one makes the second one appear to be wrong

• He often talks in circles, frequently contradicting himself and often ends up saying nothing.
• do the first two experiments in the article contradict one another? Why? Why not?

Question 13

oceniać

Answer 13

to judge

*If you judge something or someone, you form an opinion about them after you have examined the evidence or thought carefully about them.

• the clothing people wear is probably not a reliable way of judging them.
• It’s for other people to judge how much I have improved.
• This may or may not be judged as reasonable

Question 14

1. obecność, pojawienie się

2. wygląd

Answer 14

an appearance

1. [c]
   * When someone makes an appearance at a public event or in a broadcast, they take part in it.
   - It was the president’s second public appearance to date.
   - He makes frequent television appearances.
2. [uc]
   * Someone’s or something’s appearance is the way that they look.
   - He had the appearance of a college student.
   - the power of personal appearance

Question 15

1. wyobrażenie, spostrzeżenie, postrzeganie czegoś [c]

2. percepcja [uc]

Answer 15

1. a perception of

• Your perception of something is the way that you think about it or the impression you have of it.
• He is interested in how our perceptions of death affect the way we live.
• …their perception of foreigners.

2. perception
   * Someone who has perception realizes or notices things that are not obvious.
   - It did not require a great deal of perception to realise the interview was over.

Question 16

zmieniać, modyfikować

Answer 16

to alter

• [oːltə]
• syn: change, turn, transform, modify
• If something alters or if you alter it, it changes
• He didn’t expect me to change or alter my work pattern
• it seems that our clothing doesn’t only alter the way others view us, but also the way we see ourselves.