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words my name is Alisha and today we’re

gonna talk about 10 ways to help improve

your pronunciation this is gonna be a

good one I think so let’s go sing along

to a favorite song alright so the first

tip for improving your pronunciation is

to sing along to a favorite song so if

you should add though this favourite

song should be in your target language

so if you’re studying English pick a

favorite English song and sing along to

that song or try to sing to the song

just from memory too so singing along to

your favorite song can help you with

pronunciation can help you with the

rhythm sometimes of the language you’re

trying to learn so it can be really fun

and it can be a good way to practice

your pronunciation in a sentence I like

singing along to my favorite songs read

out loud the next tip for your

pronunciation is to read out loud so

reading out loud you can choose

something that’s interesting for you and

you’re in English if english is the

language you’re studying so pick

something maybe it’s a news article or

maybe it’s a book you’re interested in

maybe there’s an author you’re

interested in find something in your

target language in English and try

reading it out loud so don’t just read

in your mind but read the words out loud

speak them so that you can get

comfortable pronouncing those words and

you can try reading the same passage or

the same sentence multiple times to make

it smoother so this can be a really good

tip for and I think it also improves

your natural ability to pick up grammar

too because if you’re reading something

like in a book for example you can kind

of pick up the natural rhythm of grammar

and you also slowly get a feeling for

the correct ways that words should

connect together so this I think is a

really good tip in a sentence I

sometimes read out loud to practice

pronunciation

that’s true repeat lines you hear in

TV shows the next tip is to repeat lines

you hear or the words you hear in TV

shows or movies things like that so this

means not only words don’t only repeat

single vocabulary words yes maybe you

find a vocabulary word that is really

interesting or it sounds funny or

something like that but by repeating a

full sentence or a full line in a TV

show or in a movie you’re putting the

words together so not just one word but

making a whole sentence so feeling kind

of the flow of your language that you’re

studying so this can be a better way to

actually practice making sentences and

repeating sentences instead of just

words so you can repeat after characters

and TV shows I sometimes do this when

I’m like watching Japanese TV ah and

then I try and spit it back out it’s

hard to do sometimes when it’s like the

first time you’ve heard a word or the

first time you’ve heard a grammar point

but you can still understand that

sentence it’s interesting so try to say

it and it’s kind of fun actually I think

in a sentence try repeating lines from

TV shows to practice practice speaking

in phrases not single vocabulary words

the next tip this is very similar to my

TV show tip is to practice speaking in

phrases not in vocabulary words not just

single vocabulary words even if you’re

not repeating lines from TV shows when

you practice speaking don’t just speak

in noun so sometimes for example I’ll

hear people just use noun like they’ll

use a noun and maybe a verb like I

tomorrow beach something like that and

yes we can probably guess based on that

how like the the meaning the speaker’s

meaning but you need to practice making

a whole sentence so yes you know those

words I tomorrow and beach and the

listener can probably guess what you

mean

but you need to practice all those

little words in the middle like like I’m

going to the beach tomorrow so make a

full sentence practice making full

sentences don’t only prac

single vocabulary words make the whole

line it’s really good sometimes I think

my students get irritated like they’ll

like I forced them to practice full

sentences like so I’ll say like mmm have

you ever been to Germany and they’ll say

yes I’m like okay for the purposes of

practice can you make a full sentence

and they’ll say I have been to Germany

like that’s an extreme example but like

I try to push that you know making the

full sentence it’s it’s silly sometimes

but just trying to do that okay so in a

sentence

speaking in entire phrases is helpful

for practicing the rhythm of a new

language speak a lot with your teacher

and ask them to be strict with you on

words okay so the next tip is to speak a

lot with your teacher and ask them to be

strict with you so this is kind of two

tips in 1 1 speak with your teacher so

if you have a teacher make sure you’re

speaking in their class if you if

wherever possible sometimes I’ll have

students join my class and maybe they

feel shy or whatever and they don’t

speak very much but please speak with

your teacher so that your teacher can

correct you your teacher can give you at

least if they’re a native speaker or

maybe even if they aren’t a native

speaker your teacher can give you

corrections and if you don’t speak your

teacher cannot help you in most cases so

please speak with your teacher and if

you like you can tell them please be

strict about my pronunciation so

sometimes people will say please help me

with my pronunciation specifically and

then I can stop them every time they

make a mistake and we practice that

sound especially 80h sounds like that

like using using your mouth a little bit

differently can be really uncomfortable

for some people but if you’re a teacher

can point out those things like th

sounds the this that B’s those those th

sounds ending ER sound practicing those

with your teacher can be a really good

way to work on your pronunciation hmm so

in a sentence speak a lot with your

teacher they can correct you and help

you improve try recording yourself

speaking and

lay it back the next tip for practicing

your pronunciation is to try recording

yourself speaking and listen to it play

it back and listen to it so this it

might sound a little bit strange but

when we’re speaking maybe we don’t hear

certain things that certain maybe our

little idiosyncrasies or our the little

special things that we do when we speak

maybe we don’t hear them as we speak but

when we listen to ourselves later we

notice them so for example when I watch

this video when I watch any of these

videos I notice little things that I

didn’t notice at now when I’m filming

the video so the same can apply to your

pronunciation when you listen to

yourself speak you might hear something

that you don’t notice when you’re

speaking so this can be a good way to to

kind of remove yourself to go outside

your body a little bit and listen to

yourself from the listeners perspective

so this might be a tip to try in a

sentence sometimes you hear yourself

more clearly on a recording do shadowing

exercises all right the next tip for

pronunciation is to do shadowing

exercises so a shadowing exercise there

are text books and and I think resources

on the web so on the website I’m

actually I think you could use the

website any English listening or

anything in your target language when

you listen to that as the speaker is

speaking you quickly repeat back what

the speaker is saying so as you’re

listening to it you repeat it almost

immediately so you’re trying to to match

their pronunciation as closely as

accurately as possible this is called a

shadowing exercise so I’ve seen some

cases where people are textbooks will

recommend doing you know 15 minutes of

shadowing each day or something like

that or maybe you can do a shadowing

exercise listening to a podcast or

listening to the news or something you

might find on the website here so that’s

a really good way to work on your

pronunciation and to get familiar with

using

those sounds kind of more naturally the

way a native speaker would so this can

be a good tip to improve your

pronunciation in a sentence

try shadowing a native speaker to

improve your pronunciation chat with

native speakers so yeah the next tip is

to chat with native speakers so chatting

with native speakers of course is a

great way to make friends

be to pick up new vocabulary see to get

familiar with grammar and slang but also

it can help your pronunciation not all

native speakers speak with exactly the

same pronunciation so you might hear

slight differences depending on the

country depending on the region in the

country and native speaker comes from so

there are many different kinds of

pronunciations or many different there

are many different pronunciations but

when you chat with native speakers you

can kind of understand the different

pronunciations that are out there and

maybe it can help you be more consistent

in your presentation in your

pronunciation too so this could be a

good way to improve your pronunciation

but of course it’s important in general

for learning a language I think in a

sentence chatting with native speakers

is an important part of learning a

language do pronunciation drills the

next tip is to do pronunciation drills

so if you know that there’s a sound if

you know that there’s something that you

always struggle with try drilling it so

a drill to drill something means to

repeat a lot so you might hear this word

used for like like sports and fitness

like you drill a skill you which means

to practice something a lot and

intensively so if you know that there’s

like the th sound it’s really difficult

for you maybe take ten minutes and do a

pronunciation drill on those sounds for

you know every day for a month or

something so if you know that there’s a

specific sound that’s difficult for you

consider trying just some very specific

pronunciation drills so that can mean

just making that sound repeatedly or

maybe reading at

out loud that has a lot of that kind of

pronunciation I think you can find a few

different ways to drill to practice

intensively those parts of pronunciation

that are difficult for you so in a

sentence

try doing pronunciation drills for the

sounds you have trouble making find

words that are particularly interesting

to you so I think maybe this is the last

tip is to find words that are

particularly interesting to you so maybe

there’s a word that sounds really funny

or maybe you found a really long word in

English or a really interesting word a

word that has an interesting history

whatever if you can find words that are

interesting to you then maybe you can

put some extra emphasis on pronouncing

them correctly so if you’re actually

enjoying the words that you’re learning

then I think it’ll become more important

for you to express that accurately in

your speech and so focusing on those

words maybe and and in pronouncing those

words correctly perhaps that can help

you apply that same pronunciation in

this interesting word

maybe the pronunciation of that word or

some of the parts of that word you can

find that in other words in other places

throughout your target language so if

you enjoy a particular word and focus on

expressing that word pronouncing that

word accurately it can help you maybe

apply that pronunciation in other parts

of the language so give it a try

in a sentence take extra care to

pronounce words of particular interest

correctly that’s the end so those are

ten tips to help you improve your

pronunciation if there’s anything else

that you do to work on your

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everybody and welcome back to english

class 101 coms youtube channel my name

is Alisha and today I’m going to give a

short explanation of the difference

between look watch and

see so let’s get started okay the first

verb that I want to talk about is look

we use look when we simply want to

explain that we are moving our eyes to

something just moving the eyes is to

look at something there’s no expectation

that the item or the object we are

looking at is going to change there’s no

expectation that some change is going to

happen

we’re simply moving our eyes to

something finally when you use look and

an object follows the verb you need to

follow look with at so for example look

at that look at me look at that - look

at her look at him all of these use at

because an object follows the verb look

so look at that thing when you use an

expression like look over there there’s

no object there so only when there’s an

object after the word look you need to

use at to connect the two okay so

remember look is used when you’re simply

moving your eyes to something okay

let’s talk then about the verb watch so

we use watch when we want to focus our

attention on something so focusing your

attention can be on something happening

in front of you like a performance can

be movie TV but the nuance with watch is

you are watching something that is

changing or moving something is going to

happen there’s an expectation of change

or movement evolution in some way we use

watch in those cases focused attention

on something that is changing or

something that is moving is when we use

watch then finally see the verb see is

used when we just notice something we

happen to notice something maybe a

person has come into the room and we see

that person we notice something but

we’re not necessarily focusing so maybe

we see it our eyes catch it but we don’t

focus on that thing that is when we use

so to recap we use look just to move our

eyes to something we use watch for

focused attention on something that is

moving or something that is changing and

we you see when we just notice something

but we don’t necessarily focus on it

okay so this is the basic use of these

three verbs but there are a couple of

exceptions so here I have special cases

especially for performances so for

example movies TV shows concerts

sporting events and so on these have

slightly different rules we will only

use watch or see for these cases please

do not use look in these cases please

use watch or see if you’re having

trouble deciding when to use watch or

see a good rule or a good guideline is

if it’s something outside the house

something outside your home your

apartment use the verb see if you’re at

home doing something at home like

watching a movie for example use the

verb watch so for example over here you

would see a movie in a movie theater see

a baseball game watch a DVD at home or

watch the awards show at home so these

are at home actions and these are

outside the home action so we use C and

watch in these cases okay but let’s try

to choose the correct verb in these

example sentences that I’ve prepared so

first one tonight I’m going to

something-something game of Thrones Game

of Thrones is a popular TV show so we

should use watch because we learned that

watch is used for things outside or I’m

sorry because we learned that watch is

used for actions at home things we do at

home it’s more natural to use watch I’m

going to watch Game of Thrones ok the

next sentence I want to something

something that new movie new movie

probably means going to a movie theater

so we should use the verb see I want to

see

new movie is the correct verb here

something something up ahead traffic is

terrible so up ahead means in front of

you in front of the car in this case

it’s car it’s traffic related so up

ahead in this case the speaker is asking

the listener to move his or her eyes in

front of them to to go up ahead with

their eyes so you can use the verb look

look up ahead

traffic is terrible so move your eyes up

ahead is the command okay next one last

night I stayed in and something

something a football game so stayed in

means stayed home I stayed at home we

use the expression stayed in so I stayed

in and watch this is an at home action

past tense I watched a football game

last night okay next one I can’t wait to

something something my favorite band

next week so again this is a performance

outside the house my favorite band so

we’ll use see I can’t wait to see my

favorite band next week okay next

sentence when I something something into

the forest I something something a deer

okay there are two verbs in this

sentence we’re going to use looked so

when I moved my eyes into the forest

I moved my direction my my my eyes moved

in the direction of the forest and I

something something a deer so we noticed

something I saw a deer I saw a deer a

deer entered my eyes as a weird way to

say it but that’s the nuance here I

happened to notice I wasn’t focusing but

I saw this in my eye I saw a deer okay

let’s look at a really difficult one I

something something up from my book and

something something you you were

something something a video on your

phone

okay so similar here I something

something up I looked up I moved my eyes

up from my book so I was reading I moved

my eyes up from my book and something

something you

so here I noticed I saw past tense I saw

you then here you were something

something a video on your phone a video

on your phone so maybe we need to use

the verb watch because the person has

focused their attention on their phone

on the video you were watching past

progressive tense you were watching a

video on your phone so here in this

situation we have all three verbs

finally let’s use it in a question when

did you last something something your

roommate so when did you last notice

your roommate we would use the verb see

when did you last see your roommate when

was the last time you saw your roommate

you noticed your roommate so these are

some great examples of sentences where

it might be difficult to guess should I

use look should I use see should I use

watch but keep these rules in mind so

remember when you move your eyes to

something use look don’t forget to use

at when an object follows the verb to

when you want to focus your attention or

talk about something that’s changing and

moving use watch like movies and TV

shows when you want to just talk about

noticing something but not focusing your

attention use see so this is a basic

introduction to the differences between

look see and watch I hope it was useful

for you if you like you can try to leave

a comment with one of these verbs in

your sentence or if you have any

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name is Alisha welcome to know your

verbs in this episode we’re going to

talk about the verb see so let’s get

started

so the basic definition of C is to

perceive with your eyes so this really

means to use your eyes to get

information you use your eyes to look at

things to maybe understand things to

gain knowledge by looking at things by

using your eyes focusing your eyes on

things you can learn things or gain

information gain knowledge so this is to

perceive but the basic the basic

definition though is just to perceive

with your eyes to use your eyes to

perceive to gain information to gain

knowledge okay let’s see the

conjugations for the verb C C C’s saw

seen seeing

let’s talk about a few additional

meanings of the verb see first one to

form a mental picture of to form a

mental picture of means to use your mind

to create an image so see has the

meaning of creating an image in your

mind for example I can see my childhood

home clearly it was one story and had a

big yard what do you see when you close

your eyes so in these examples sentences

we’re not actually using our eyes to see

something in this use of the word see we

are imagining it and in our minds we are

making a picture so we’re not actually

using our eyes to see these items

instead maybe there are things we saw in

the past and we are imagining them

mentally we are creating a mental image

of something so when I say I can see my

house clearly my childhood house it

means in my mind I can form a clear

image of the house in my mind in the

question what do you see it means when

you close your eyes

what’s the mental image that appears in

your mind so see is used to create

mental images to refer to creating

mental images here next is to examine or

to watch so in this use of the verb see

there’s sort of the nuance of an

expectation we want to use our eyes to

watch something as it changes or to

examine a change as it happens to

examine a behavior let’s see how the

team does in today’s match

I can’t wait to see what the neighbors

do when they realize we bought a pool in

the example of let’s see how the team

does in today’s match we are talking

about using our eyes our actual eyes

perhaps if we are actually watching the

match if we go to the game where we see

the match on TV perhaps we are using our

eyes however if we don’t go to the match

and we read the score from the game

or we hear on the radio something about

the game or we hear the results of the

game we can still use the verb si si has

this nuance of examining something so

we’re expecting some results so let’s

see in this case doesn’t only mean using

your eyes to examine it can mean to

examine maybe the results of an hour are

the results of something to examine the

outcome of something in the second

example sentence let’s see how the

neighbors react we see the same thing so

it’s the same it’s the same sort of

nuance we are expecting a reaction we

are going to watch for a reaction from

the neighbors when they realize we

bought a pool so we want to examine

their reaction we want to examine an

outcome we can use the verb see though

maybe we use our ears like if the

neighbor says oh my gosh they bought a

pool that’s sort of examining your

you’re waiting for a reaction there we

can still use the verb let’s see the

expression let’s see to talk about that

so let’s see what happens next for

example next one to make sure to make

sure please see that this task is

finished he saw that all the

arrangements had been made in these

sentences the verb si is used to mean

make sure or to confirm something to

ensure something in the first one please

see that this task is finished we could

replace the verb see with make sure

please make sure that this task is

finished so that’s a very clear sentence

please see is just a shortened way of

saying make sure please see that this

task is finished please ensure that this

task is finished we can replace the verb

here the second example sentence is the

same he saw that all the arrangements

had been made so he made sure that all

the arrangements had been made and in

these example sentences si is replacing

the expression make sure or ensure so we

can use C to mean the same thing it’s

just a shorter way of saying

make sure next to find acceptable or

attractive what do you see in him what

do you see in her I don’t understand

what you see in this restaurant

it’s terrible what are the qualities you

perceive in that person or the qualities

that you can detect in that situation

what are the good points you identify

there we can use the word see to sort of

communicate that quickly and easily so

what do you see in him what do you see

in her is a much shorter way of saying

what do you find attractive about him or

her what do you find appealing about him

or her or what characteristics of that

person attract you to that person saying

what do you see in him what do you see

in her is a much shorter way of saying

what qualities do you find attractive in

that person the same thing in the

restaurant example I don’t understand

what you see in this restaurant means I

don’t understand what it is that you

like about this restaurant I think it’s

bad so instead we shorten it to I don’t

understand what you see in this

restaurant so see means finding

something attractive or interesting or

appealing in some way

now let’s talk about some variations so

some slight changes or some additions to

the verb see that changed the meaning

first is see-through see-through

see-through means to understand the true

nature of something to understand the

real characteristics of something he saw

through my attempts to work with him and

asked me on a date my boss saw through

my lie and scolded me for faking

sickness so here we see the use in the

past tense in the first example sentence

he saw through my attempts to work with

him meaning he saw the true nature of

what I was doing so he saw through my

attempts to work with him and asked me

on a date so in the situation maybe the

person the speaker was trying to spend

time with the he in this situation and

was asking maybe to work together a lot

but he in the situation saw through saw

to the true nature of the speaker’s

request saw the true characteristics or

the actual desire there and asked the

speaker on a date so in this sentence we

understand that there was a different

motivation so something below the

surface of the of the initial action

that was happening so the the other

person in the situation understood the

other motivation the motivation below

the surface motivation and so we use saw

through or see through to communicate

that so I he saw through my attempts to

work with him and he understood there

was something else I wanted to do in the

second example sentence my boss saw

through my lie and scolded me for faking

sickness so again we see in past tense

my boss saw through my lie so saw that I

was lying in other words saw through my

lie so saw the true character of my lie

saw the true nature of my statement and

scolded me so my boss understood I lied

and scolded me for faking sickness so I

got in trouble be

as I was faking an illness faking

sickness my boss saw through my behavior

saw the true character understood the

true nature of my of my statement next

is see eye to eye see eye to eye this

means to have a common viewpoint or to

agree we don’t see eye to eye most of

the time I’m glad we see eye to eye

about this so maybe this one is an easy

one to visualize so to see eye to eye

with someone else means you agree with

them you share a viewpoint with them so

you can kind of imagine maybe two people

standing across from one another and if

they see eye to eye

maybe they match their line of sight

matches much in the way that their

viewpoints or their opinions match

exactly exactly so they have kind of the

same viewpoint they can see eye to eye

so they’re there their eyesight maybe

matches their opinions match so to see

eye to eye and we can say I’m glad we

see eye to eye about this meaning I’m

happy we agree about this or in a

negative we don’t see eye to eye most of

the time means we don’t agree most of

the time or we have different opinions

most of the time all right so I hope

that this video helped you level up your

knowledge of the verb see a little bit

if you have any questions or comments or

if you know another way of using the

verb see let us know in the comments

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Harley passes hard Harley pusle pusle

pasar II hardly asks what is the use of

get + adverb or preposition for example

I get down this is a question about

phrasal verbs with get we can use a lot

of different things after the word yet

in your example to get down we use it

when dancing for example like I want to

get down this weekend it’s sort of an

old-fashioned expression though to get

down we can use a lot of different words

after the verb yet though for example

get into to get into something means to

become interested in something you might

hear to get at like get at me or get at

your professor to get at means to reach

out to or to communicate with but it’s a

very casual expression you can say get

after like I need to get after my

homework for example it means to like

chase after or try to do something also

to get in like to get into a club to get

into a restaurant to get into a party

the nuance is that something is

challenging but you can gain access to

that thing like I got into the party

last night but I wasn’t on the list

there are a lot of different uses of the

word yet I can’t talk about all of them

in this video because there are so many

so if you’re curious about the various

phrasal verbs that we can use with the

word yet check out a dictionary that’s a

really good place to start next question

next question comes from long and long

and asks what is the difference between

simple past tense and past continuous

tense or past progressive tense simple

past tense we use for actions that

started and ended in the past so the

beginning of the action and the end of

the action happened in the past so for

example the sentence I ate breakfast is

a simple past tense

statement I ate breakfast ate is a

simple past tense the past continuous

tense however or the past progressive

tense is something we used to talk about

an action that was continuing at a

specific point in time in the past if I

want to use the past progressive tense I

can say I was eating breakfast using

that continuous tense using that

progressive tense implies I want to

explain something else that happened at

that time or maybe I want to add some

more information so for example I was

eating breakfast at 8 o’clock this

morning or I was eating breakfast when

the phone rang or I was eating breakfast

and watching TV at the same time I was

eating breakfast while studying today by

using the past progressive I am

explaining that an action was continuing

at a specific point in time as in the

example I was eating breakfast at 8

o’clock or I can use past progressive to

show one action was happening at the

same time as another action in the past

if I use just the simple past tense I’m

just saying a simple fact in other words

this action happened I ate breakfast at

8 o’clock if I want to emphasize the

continuous nature of the action for some

reason like I was eating breakfast at 8

o’clock I can use the past progressive

tense in that case it might be in

response to a question like what were

you doing at 8 o’clock this morning so

if someone wants to ask maybe what you

were doing at a specific point in time

like someone is suspicious if you like

what were you doing last night you can

say like oh I was having dinner with my

friends last night but past tense simple

past tense is something we use for

actions which start and finish in the

past but progressive the progressive

tense in past can be used to emphasize

the continuing nature of that situation

or that action next question next

question comes from yes in yeah yes II

yes in from very sorry what’s the

difference between on time and in time

is it you arrived just on time or you

arrived just in time we use on time to

refer to doing something at the correct

time doing something at a scheduled time

so for example I need to

to work on time meaning at the correct

time or did you make it to your

appointment on time in time however is

used when we want to kind of give a

nuance of rushing or hurrying for

something I need to leave my house now

to get to the airport in time for my

flight I need to study for my test now

if I want to be in time for the party

later you should probably leave now if

you want to be in time for the movie in

time for something else so I want to do

action a to make my schedule meet this

other condition this other thing I would

like to do with this other thing I need

to do in time for has the nuance of a

deadline we can use this expression in

like a panic like oh my gosh I’m not

going to make it in time like to submit

a paper I’m not going to make it in time

in time means like before the deadline

whereas on time has the meaning of

completing an action or completing

something at a scheduled time next

question the next question comes from

gearson Silva hi what is the difference

between shade and shadow oh great this

is a great question

both of these words can be used to refer

to a place that is darker than its

surroundings because there’s an object

that is blocking the light we can say

there’s shade over there or there’s a

shadow over there in that sentence they

are used the same however shadow refers

to the dark shape only so a person can

cast a shadow we use cast the verb cast

with a shadow I cast a shadow when I

stand in the Sun for example shade

however as a noun refers to or has the

nuance of a kind of shelter so shelter

provided by some other object shelter

from the light shelter from the Sun so

we would say stand in the shade because

shade has the nuance of shelter we would

not say stand in the shadow shadow does

not carry the nuance of shelter in the

way that shade does

interestingly enough though shade and

shadow are both used as verbs as well to

shadow of something needs to follow

something closely to shadow someone at

work means to follow someone at work and

try to understand their job for example

shade is used as a verb to mean to

create shelter from light for example

the canopy shaded us from the Sun shade

also has some interesting uses you might

hear the slang phrase to throw shade

throwing shade is a really interesting

slang expression that we use which means

to communicate disrespect or to

communicate like contempt bad feelings

for something when you’re speaking

generally in most cases when you want to

talk about a dark cool area we should

say shade stand in the shade when you

want to talk only about the dark area

that dark object use shadow next

question actually two questions from

Danny hi Danny Danny’s first question is

you talked about lit as slang yes I

talked about lit in episode 2 so 1

episode 2 I’ve asked Alisha

can you please talk about the verb light

and using it an active and passive sure

light means to start a fire so to light

a fire to light a candle some examples

of active and passive voice with this

verb then why don’t we light some

candles for dinner tonight all the

candles in the restaurant were live on

our camping trip my neighbors lit a fire

and we brought hamburgers to me a fire

was lit in the campsite while we were

gone I was going to light a fire but I

fell asleep so to light means to start a

fire he lit the house on fire we can say

to light la blah blah on fire so there

are a few different examples of using

the verb light in active and in passive

past tense

future tense as well so I hope that

that’s helpful Danny’s second question

can you talk about ride and its uses

like take someone for a ride can I take

a ride Ryan is another verb that has a

lot of different uses you use the

example to take someone for a ride means

to drive together with someone to go for

a ride has the nuance of doing something

just for fun

it’s just for fun I want to take a ride

to a location I want to take a ride to

the mountains this weekend or take a

ride to the beach but to take someone

for a ride means to invite someone to

drive somewhere with you in a car that’s

one way to use ride you can also say

give me a ride can you give me a ride so

this is a request

I don’t have a car my friend has a car I

want my friend to take me in their car

to a location I can say can you give me

a ride to the movie theater can you give

me a ride to the lake give me a ride is

a request so give me a ride in your car

so there are a lot of uses of ride if

you want to see all of them or if you

want to see more of them I recommend

checking a dictionary there are quite a

few and I can’t talk about them all in

this video so please check a dictionary

next question okay next question is from

sin femme of M

what does your too good to be true mean

is it good or not maybe you’ve heard

this in a famous song you’re too good to

be true can’t take my eyes off of you in

that case it’s a good meaning a

different way to say this expression is

you are so good you are so amazing that

I can’t believe you’re real so in other

words something must be wrong there must

be some problem with you it’s not

possible for you to be real because you

are so good you are so great so you’re

too good to be true it’s like wow I’m

amazed by you so it’s a good expression

if however maybe in a more uncommon

situation someone said like this guy is

too good to be true like maybe reviewing

a job application for example this girl

she’s too good to be true like if it’s

said in that way

maybe there’s something suspicious about

that person this doesn’t seem right

there’s just too much good information

here there must be some problem with

this person depending on the intonation

it can portray either a very positive

meaning or a very suspicious meaning in

most cases however it’s a positive

meaning

so if you heard this in a song for

example it’s probably a very positive

kind of romantically nuanced phrase

thanks very much for that question femme

next one next question Rabia Arshad rate

Rabia Arshad Rabia are ferrous iron

what’s the difference between can and

may I saw this on the dining like a

champ cheat sheet and noticed these

words were used for requests what’s the

difference can and may for requests in

modern English men modern American

English are used the same if I use them

in a state

can refers to ability may refers to

permission please just be careful can

and may are only used in the same way to

make requests in modern American English

next question is from Taylor oh hi again

Taylor are where are you from and where

were you born the same oh great question

where are you from where were you born

nope not necessarily not necessarily

where where you born is only the place

where you were physically brought into

the world maybe your hometown the place

you identify as your hometown is

different from the place where you were

born maybe you were born in Spain but

you grew up in the USA your family moved

after that so you could say I was born

in Spain but I grew up in New York City

if someone asks you where are you from

it might be a good idea to say I was

born in blah blah blah but I was raised

in blah blah blah in a different place

if the two places are different next

question next question is from Hassan

Hassan says how do we use Dada in the

negative form so we did a live stream

about half two and got two and need to

on the YouTube channel and on Facebook a

while ago Dada is a contraction a very

casual contraction of got and two it’s

not a real word gada is just the sound

that we make when we say got to very

quickly like I gotta go to school today

or I gotta finish my homework or I gotta

get to sleep I’m so tired

in American English we do not use gotta

in the negative instead we use have to

or need to

I don’t have to go to work tomorrow I

don’t need to go to work tomorrow

I don’t need to go to sleep right now

but American English does not use Dada

in the negative form next question next

question is from Saddam I need to

improve my spoken English and my

vocabulary how do I do that I think

there’s a tool on the website where you

can record your voice speaking English

and compare it to a native speaker

saying the same thing so I think that’s

a that’s a feature on the website so

check that out if you haven’t been it’s

in English class 101.com

there should be a recording function

there where you can record your voice

and compare

to a native speaker and keep practicing

that until your voice and your

pronunciation matches the native

speakers pronunciation so you’ll see

like little waveforms there even on the

recording page so you can try to match

your voice to a native speaker so of

course practicing with native speakers

where possible repeating so creating

your own speech is important to

practicing with like recording tools

voice recording tool when you record

yourself you suddenly hear so many

problems in your speech

so recording yourself can be another

good tool but in terms of building your

vocabulary first I need to define a goal

what do I want to talk about if I want

to talk about food I should look for

materials in my target language talking

about food and I should study those so

think about what it is that you want to

do and try to be specific try to narrow

your goal down to you know what are the

words that I need to do and try focusing

there and then maybe you can widen the

focus to other interests here and there

too but start maybe with the things that

are going to help you communicate the

things that you really want to say so

always think about your goals what do I

want to learn how to say next question

from Ricardo villa row oh hey Ricardo

welcome back is it correct to learn

several languages at the same time ooh

is it correct I can’t answer that

whether it’s correct or not so I’ve

heard that if you want to try for

whatever your reason is if you want to

try to study more than one language at

the same time it’s better to try to

choose languages that are quite

different so that there’s less chance of

you making mistakes or getting confused

in your studies the other thing that I

think I would say is if you’re studying

more than one language at the same time

your progress might be a bit slower than

if you studied just one language yeah is

it correct I don’t know I can’t answer

that that’s up to you to decide so those

are all the questions that I want to

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spoiler a spoiler is secret information

key information about your media your

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movie if you have not seen the TV show

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everybody and welcome back to top words

my name is Alisha and today we’re going

to be talking about ten ways to ask for

help help me help me ask for help let’s

go can you

can you blah blah blah so can you give

me that pen can you turn off the fan can

you give me a sandwich for lunch I

forgot mine in this sentence can you

send me your email address so very

simple requests you can use can you blah

blah blah with them could you give me a

hand with the next expression is could

you give me a hand with blah blah blah

meaning I need you like I need

physically I need your hands to help me

maybe or I need something I need you to

help me with something

could you give me a hand with this

computer could you give me a hand with

this furniture so it’s you can use it to

talk about like moving something heavy

or you can also use it for like a task

like could you give me a hand with this

report I don’t know this information so

you can use it for ya physical tasks or

for mental tasks too could you give me a

hand with something in this sentence

could you give me a hand moving this

sofa can you show me how to the next

expression is can you show me how to can

you show me how to bla bla bla this

means please teach me something so can

you please show me how to use this

computer can you show me how to use this

software can you show me how to book a

ticket so these are all ways to ask for

help

with how to do something this is a very

useful expression I think can you help

me out with the next expression is can

you help me out with can you help me out

with something

so before we talked about can you give

me a hand with this is very similar can

you help me out with some tasks you can

use it for physical activities or mental

activities here so can you help me out

with this project can you help me out

with cleaning this house I don’t know in

this sentence can you help me out with

my homework I need help

the next

is I need help la blah blah so you can

use the expression I need help that’s

fine but if you want to be specific

which I recommend I need help

blah blah blah I need help with my

homework

I need help doing the dishes I need help

cleaning the yard I need help something

something something very clear very

direct it’s a little bit casual I

suppose but yeah you can use this in

most situation where you need help

the sentence I need help making dinner

tonight

could you the next expression is could

you so the first expression we saw in

this lesson was can you you can also use

could you Timmy could you sounds a

little bit more formal than can you so

can you love wha is it’s a good kind of

neutral everyday way to ask for help

could you sounds just a little bit more

polite a little bit more formal so could

you please send me that file

could you please stop smoking here in

this expression could you send me the

project files will you so the next

expression is will you so this is used

kind of for light maybe you just thought

of something you just thought of

something you need help with so it’s

probably a small task or a small favor

that you need so for example will you

get some milk at the store on your way

home it’s like something you just

thought of for the future so will you

help me with my homework

will you give me a moment of your time

it’s something very small very quick so

in this sentence will you let me know

when you’re free how do I the next

expression is how do i how do i this is

somewhat similar to the earlier

expression we talked about can you show

me how to love love law but this one is

how do I and how do I get to the beach

from here how do I get to the station

how do I turn on this computer how do I

make new friends how do I study English

all of these are

ways to ask for help or ask for advice

ask for directions this is a very nice

and easy to remember way to ask for help

how do I something help the next

expression is just help

so I’ve here sometimes students say

please help me or just help and I want

to point out that these expressions are

usually used in emergency situations for

example there’s an accident or there’s a

dangerous person near you or maybe

you’re injured or hurt some emergency so

please help me alone sounds to a native

speaker may be like a serious situation

or an emergency situation help is

similar to so of course if you’re an

emergency situation absolutely you

should use the words help and please

help me or just help me as well too but

be careful because they sound very

serious I don’t recommend using them for

like light casual everyday situations

where you need help instead please use

one of the other expressions we talked

about in this lesson

so help is great for emergencies but

maybe only for emergencies so yeah in a

sentence maybe for example in the

kitchen there’s that you have a small

accident in the kitchen you can shout to

your roommate or your family member help

me and they’ll come running if something

to check and see if you’re okay I need

your help with the next expression is I

need your help with blah blah blah the

expression I need your help with sounds

like you are required for this task I

need you maybe you have special

knowledge or special experience with

this thing or you are better equipped

like you can do a better job than I can

with this task so I need you for some

reason so I need your help preparing

this information I need your help

reaching that tall glass like that’s a

really what I like I’m short so if I

need something up high I might say to a

tall person I

your help reaching that glass up there

you can use this yes someone is better

at doing something than you are you can

say I need your help with Papa buff in

this sentence I need your help with this

project that’s the end so those are 10

words and 10 phrases really that you can

use to ask for help if you have any

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everybody and welcome back to english

topics my name is Alisha and I’m joined

again by hi I’m Davey welcome back and

today we’re going to be talking about

ways to remember ten times more

vocabulary so these are gonna be some

methods that we think are helpful in

remembering vocabulary and studying

vocabulary and applying your new

vocabulary so let’s get started alright

my first method here is to keep a diary

and use the new words that you are

studying so this tip and actually my

other tips as well all have a similar

kind of strategy which is you have to

build new vocabulary into your existing

framework of vocabulary so learning a

language is difficult and you need a

certain amount of words to be able to

start using the language but once you

start to build a really solid foundation

it’s easier to build more words on top

of it and so doing something like

keeping a diary will help you build

those new words into the structure the

existing vocabulary set of words that

you already have mm-hmm um so you have

to use it and you have to use it with

words that you know and keeping a diary

and using those new words is a good way

because it keeps you in a habit

it’s meaningful for you you know you’re

right about right about your day right

about your life so that way those words

have meaning for you

mm-hmm I totally agree I had the same

the same tip essentially which was to

use the words you’re studying to create

and I had speech or text either one

create something with the words that

you’re learning so a diary is a great

example of how to do that make sure

you’re not just studying the words but

you’re actually creating something new

using those words that you’ve put in

your head if it’s only input and never

output there’s gonna be a block there I

think I’ve experienced that where it’s

only input for words that I’m trying to

learn or expressions I’m trying to learn

and until I learn to create with those

new words with those new expressions it

doesn’t stick I can’t actually use it

until I’m I’m comfortable using it like

it takes it takes a long time in my case

yes yes so absolutely so creating making

a diary whatever it is for you a blog

could be another thing like a second

language blog I don’t know a Twitter

feed maybe an Instagram account social

medias great way to do that these days

yeah lots of people do that

lots of people actually follow or lots

of people who follow this channel also

have like like Twitter feeds or

Instagram feeds that there have devoted

to their English studies I’ve noticed

that so like I like people will follow

me and I’ll see like oh they’re studying

English and they specifically only tweet

in English which is really cool so they

just as you’re saying they use that as a

way to keep like an easy diary of their

day in their language you can tweet at

people or tweet using those new words

you can also search you could do a

Twitter search for words that you’re

using and see how other people use them

and that will help you look learn the

context of those words as well yeah so

there’s a lot that you can do especially

yeah with these new tools as well social

media is a great tool nice all right

yeah the same one for one issue all

right okay my next tip is to devote 30

minutes a day to vocabulary so again

this is just a rough number but I’ve

noticed that when I’m studying

vocabulary if I just devote in my case I

would devote 15 minutes in the morning

and 15 minutes in the evening just to

studying vocabulary and my vocabulary

would improve steadily slowly but

steadily and then when I don’t do this

in times when I get

busy or I stopped studying in the

morning and in the evening I noticed I

just plateau I flatten out so if you

take like 30 minutes a day morning and

evening I find is best in my case is

best for me to study vocabulary review

the vocabulary that you had studied the

previous day for example that can be

extremely helpful one to remember the

words that you studied you know in the

week prior or whatever and to just to

make sure that you continue to pick up

new words so even if you’re not doing

anything work-related like that allows

you to use English or to use your target

language you’re still able to through

your studies pick up new vocabulary

words that you might encounter in the

future so this is something that I have

found and I’m guilty of not always

following this rule but this is

something I have found that really does

work well and there are a lot of tools

to do this - so like flash cards and

like vocabulary word banks whatever is

useful for you right yep yeah do you

study your vocabulary I do I study a lot

of vocabulary and I completely agree

with you it’s something you have to have

built into your routine and as you said

you you do this in the morning or in the

evening it’s good to know that about

yourself what time of the day is good

for you to study that kind of things

that you’ll help retain it for me it’s

morning as well and afternoons actually

mm-hmm in the evenings I’m a little

fuzzy maybe but yes I try and study a

lot of vocabulary mm-hmm but it doesn’t

always stick I don’t always use it I

have to use it for it to stick yep I

agree angry okay nice what’s your next

tip my next one again is similar to the

tip that I said before all my tips have

to do with kind of building that that

net or that scaffolding and it’s to use

with thesaurus so this would be if

you’re doing something like writing a

diary or using Twitter or just what you

want to study the meanings of words and

get a sense for the nuance or the

different shades of meaning between

words that have a very similar meaning

use something like the Saurus because if

you learn if you can learn five or ten

different words that means sad or happy

those words will start to stick together

in your mind you’ll associate those

words with each other and that makes

them easier to

call because again you’re building a

framework you’re building a net of

different word meanings in your mind the

more vocabulary that you have built so I

think using it the source when you’re

writing can be really helpful for

understanding not only the differences

in meaning but helping those related

words to stick right and I think that

that’s a tip that if you can apply that

effectively and learn like in your

example of many different words that

have similar meanings like about like

words sad or like words that mean happy

for example if you can do that it’s

going to make your writing and your

speaking much deeper in meaning you’re

going to sound much more fluent if you

can use deeper vocabulary words if you

always rely on the same vocabulary words

it’s going to limit you a lot in your

reading and in your speaking yes so if

you can use it thesaurus effectively to

understand the series of words that have

similar or associated meanings it’s

going to open up a lot of opportunities

for you totally great one okay thank you

nice ones what do you have next my next

tip is this is something that I use

actually it is reading things in your

target language related to your work and

your hobbies so one of the things that I

struggled with it when I was studying

when I do study one of the things that’s

difficult for me is that I have trouble

I have trouble identifying or maybe

understanding how I’m going to use the

things in the textbook in my life like

how often do I need to call my pen pal

or my I don’t know my exchange partner

whatever I know I need to maybe study

English or for this job sure but if I

read about my hobbies in my target

language if I’m studying English and I

want to read about my hobbies in English

I’m much more interested in that topic

and I’m going to learn the vocabulary

words a lot more quickly so for example

in my case what I found really useful

going back to the SNS example is I I was

interested in music or I am interested

in music and so I would pay attention to

like my favorite musicians what are the

kinds of words that they’re writing what

are the sort of phrases that they use

how do I use those same words

phrases to talk about the things that

they’re talking about so because I was

using people that I was interested in as

my base for my understanding I was able

to pick up those words those specific

words that I needed for my hobbies in my

life much more quickly like it would

have been difficult for me to go to my

teacher and say hey how does a like how

does a musician explain this feeling or

what what’s the best word I could use to

describe this or that aspect of

performance it was something very

specific to my interests and so by going

directly to the people who were using

those words in expressions I could find

them immediately over time it took a

little bit of time to get used to the

way they spoke or the way that they

wrote on the Internet

but I could pick up things that I wanted

to know and words that the people around

them we’re also using so this was

something that I found very very useful

and I continue to find useful so things

that are specific to you specific to

your life and the things that you need

to do and that you want to accomplish in

terms of your language goals right and

at least with regard to hobbies maybe

not work as much but could be but

especially with hobbies you’ll be more

motivated to read about that in English

or in your target language because

that’s something that you’d read in your

your first language anyway and so to be

motivated to read that will help you

because if you’re interested in it

you’re motivated to do it you’ll read

more you’ll get more language and then

you’ll get language that you’ll use in

that situation you know for example if

you are a skier you know if you love to

go skiing and you read skiing magazines

in English and then when you go skiing

you’re in a situation where you can use

those words so I think I think that’s a

really good tip facing vocabulary around

your hobby or your work right right nice

okay what’s your next one and next one

is similar to the last one but maybe a

little bit different take on it and it’s

word association and of course using

something like a thesaurus helps you

make word associations but what I meant

with this tip is to do exercises to help

you with word association so you know

drawing like bubble Maps idea Maps

linking up vocabulary words with similar

words playing a word association game

with a study partner you know

just if I say a word and then you know

your partner gives a word back to you

that makes them it makes them think of

another word and that’s a nice way just

to to drill vocabulary but also as I was

saying before to build association

between words which which helps those

those words stick in your mind

mm-hmm so different word association

games I should say I see okay so maybe

we can try one so when you say you said

you would say a word and then the the

partner playing the game would just

respond with a word that they associate

with the first word you could set rules

on it you could say similar meaning

opposite meanings you know you could do

antonyms or synonym or right oh there’s

another game that I remember I used to

play when I was a kid which was going

through the alphabet my family and I

used to play us on road trips we had to

think of words that began with each

letter of the alphabet so for example it

would be like an animal so we had to

think of an animal that started with an

A like anteater and then you’d go to B

but you had to say ay first before you

can move to be so anteater buffalo an

anteater buffalo cat and go through each

letter of the alphabet with that

category of course Q and X always got a

little bit difficult that’s a nice idea

though too because that’s a memory game

and remembering vocabulary requires a

strong memory so that’s that’s a nice

way to kind of build those skills

together okay so there are a lot of

things I think you can do to improve

your word association for sure but of

course these aren’t the only ways to

remember vocabulary but perhaps some

things at least that have helped us and

that are maybe easy for people to do

anybody can do these everybody I think

watching this video will have access to

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Happy New Year let’s talk about present

perfect tense hi everybody welcome back

to ask Alicia the weekly series where

you ask me questions and I answer them

maybe as always remember you can submit

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this question comes from Zahra play

Alicia I have a question about present

perfect tense in my native language

there isn’t a tense called present

perfect tense I am confused because I

don’t know the differences between

present perfect tense and simple past

tense well let’s begin with an in-depth

explanation of these two grammar points

and the differences between them okay to

begin let’s begin with a simple timeline

here we have the past now which is the

star on the timeline and the future so

we’re going to focus on the past and the

now points let’s focus on those so first

let’s look at the simple past tense we

use the simple past tense for actions

which started and ended in the past so

at a point in time before the present a

point in time before now in other words

on our timeline then let’s imagine there

are two points a start point and an end

point for that action ok so here I’ve

made a start point and an end point on

the timeline so in the past you can see

there are two points the start and the

end of the action both are in the past

you’ll see both of them are in the past

that’s the first point about the simple

past tense also these are for actions

that we did at a specific point in time

we can assign a specific point in time

to these actions for example this

morning last year last week yesterday

there’s a specific point in time we can

attach to these actions okay so let’s

talk now about the present perfect tense

present perfect tense has a couple of

different uses the first use of present

perfect tense I want to explain is using

the grammar point to explain a life

experience let’s take a look at how

visually this is different from the

simple past tense

so now on the timeline in blue you can

see this sort of dotted line that I made

with a question mark so the dotted line

begins in the past and it ends now it

ends at the current point in time this

is because we use present perfect tense

to talk about things that happened at

some point in the past but the specific

point is unimportant or unknown we don’t

need to explain when the action happened

we only want to state we have had or

have not had that experience so we use

this when we want to talk about our life

experiences for example travel

experience or work experience like I

have never been to France or I’ve eaten

fuh my parents have never been outside

the country for example we use this to

talk about life experience but we don’t

include a specific point in time when we

talk about these experiences it’s just

some time before the present the

specific point in time is not important

in that sentence you might follow up

this sentence with a specific point in

time

in which case you use simple past so

let’s talk about one more use of the

present perfect tense this is the one we

use with the words for and since and we

can also use the continuous tense with

this use the black line on the timeline

here shows an action that started in the

past and continues to the present or

it’s an effect of an action that

continues to the present we use this to

talk about our studies for example or

the places where we live like I have

been studying English for three years or

I have lived in Brazil for ten years for

example so remember that we use the

words for and since along with this form

of the present perfect tense we use for

before a length of time like I’ve

studied for three years I’ve lived in

Brazil for five years and we used since

before a period of time so I have lived

I’ve been studying since 2009 or I have

lived here since 2013 for example so

please keep this in mind the present

perfect tense is used for actions that

started in the past

and continue to the present simple past

tense is used for actions which started

and ended in the past next question this

question comes from Maxine hi Maxine

what’s the difference between one year

and a year for example I’ve lived here

for a year or I’ve lived here for of one

year in this sentence no difference

honestly when you’re talking about time

periods a year and one year a minute one

minute they don’t mean anything

different they mean the same thing

thanks for the question though next

question next question comes from Wang

Zhang it Quang Jiang it which one is

correct

I work out for one to two hours a day I

work out for one or two hours a day I

drink coffee two to three times a day I

drink coffee two or three times a day

ah both of these are correct actually in

this case there are very very small

differences between these 1 to 2 hours a

day means between one and two hours if

you say I’ve worked out for one or two

hours a day

it means it’s determined like one hour

only for a workout or two hours only for

a workout so the difference here is are

you determining are you deciding 1 hour

or 2 cups of coffee or 3 cups of coffee

or is it between those two amounts so

using 1 to 2 or 2 to 3 means between

those two amounts using four shows it’s

either A or B but not between those two

this is the difference between 2 and or

next question next question comes from

Huang Sena Wang Wang say not once ina

I’m very sorry I’m very sorry I’ve never

been to Japan I’ve never been to Japan

before I’ve never eaten horse I’ve never

eaten horse before my question is if you

put before at the end of those sentences

does it mean you are in Japan right now

or you are eating horse right now no not

necessarily

think of before at the end of the

sentence as before now I’ve never eaten

horse before now in other words you

could use this beef just before you eat

horse or just before you go to Japan if

you like as an emphasis phrase but it

doesn’t necessarily

they really mean that you are in Japan

now or that you’re eating horse now you

could use it in that way sure but it

doesn’t necessarily mean it if you’d

like to emphasize it like if you’re

about to eat horse for example and I’ve

never eaten horse before you could show

your interest or perhaps to show maybe

some anxiety or nervous feelings about

what you’re about to do but know it does

not necessarily mean you are in that

place like for example you could just be

having a conversation

have you eaten horse before no I’ve

never eaten horse before it could just

be a conversation about it but really

before it just means before now next

question next question comes from Russia

Russia Russia Russia okay where do we

use wanna and gonna and how ahh this

question is about the casual contracted

forms of want to and going to so what to

becomes wanna going to becomes gonna in

casual speech we use them in exactly the

same way we would use I want to I’m

going to he wants to she wants to he’s

going to she’s going to we use them in

exactly the same way which means we use

them in casual situations like I want to

take a day off or I’m gonna go to the

beach this weekend or do you want to see

a movie tonight we use them in exactly

the same way we use want to and going to

but we use them in speech typically we

don’t write these unless we’re writing

very casual messages like text messages

to our friends or something next

question next question comes from

garrison Silva again Gerson when can I

use the expression take for granted take

for granted this is an expression which

we typically use in the negative like

don’t take something something for

granted don’t take walk a block for

granted it means don’t forget to

appreciate this thing or this person so

for example don’t take your parents for

granted or don’t take this opportunity

for granted these expressions mean don’t

forget to appreciate these things or

don’t just disregard your parents or

don’t read disregard this opportunity to

recognize the importance

of something so if you are given a good

opportunity for example or someone gives

you good advice or a very nice gift

perhaps we would typically use this with

the negative don’t take something

something for granted you don’t forget

to show your appreciation for that thing

or for that person next question next

question next question comes from Daniel

silver oh hi Daniel Daniel asks what is

the difference between wish and desire

greetings from Paraguay hey what is the

difference between wish and desire wish

is used to express a a wants when you

want something that is different from

the present situation so we often use it

with I wish I were or I wish I could

something we we want or an ability we

want but that we do not have now

something for the future so I wish I

could speak seven languages or I wish I

had a million dollars or I wish I were

taking more time off every week for

example something that is different from

the present condition the present

situation we use wish or I wish it would

call me for example I wish you would or

I wish you could to express something

that is not happening now desire on the

other hand desire tends to be used more

formally and it also can carry more

romantic nuances it’s not used as much

conversationally as the word wish is

wish is used to express once things that

we want that are not true now desire is

used more in romantic situations like to

desire another person or he desired more

of her time for example but it sounds

unnecessarily formal I feel you might

use it in a in a more formal like a

business context like our client desires

more information about the situation

that could be a different use of the

word desire but in general it sounds a

bit more formal and a bit more

romantically charged at times depending

on the situation when it’s used if

you’re talking about a person as well

like if you say for example I

desire you it sounds them actually quite

odd at least in American English if you

want to use the word desire I think in

romantic situation it might be applied

in a phrase like he was filled with

desire or she was filled with desire

used more as a noun than as a verb so I

would recommend not using desire so much

to talk about your wants as it can sound

a little bit too formal or can give

perhaps the wrong nuance to the

situation but wish is used to express a

a hope for something or wanting

something that is different from the

present situation so I hope that helps

next question next question from Han

Yong he hanpan eonni eonni we’re sorry

hey Alisha what’s the difference between

maybe probably perhaps and possibly

great question maybe probably perhaps

possibly okay maybe probably perhaps and

possibly these are all adverbs they have

the same grammatical function maybe

probably perhaps and possibly maybe and

perhaps are very closely related maybe

and perhaps are they have the same

meaning but just different levels of

formality maybe is like the lower level

the more casual version of the word

perhaps

so maybe I’ll go to the beach this

weekend and perhaps I’ll go to the beach

this weekend

they have really the same meaning but

perhaps sounds more formal probably

however is different probably expresses

a higher level of possibility than the

other words on this list I’ll probably

go to the beach this weekend is like a

75 to 80% chance the speaker is going to

go to the beach this weekend possibly

however possibly has more of a nuance of

just that something can be done it is

possible to do something we use possibly

more in requests like could you possibly

blah blah blah for me could you possibly

send me this file possibly sounds a

little too formal for casual

conversations and invitations but if

you’re using it at work for example

could you possibly meet me later this

week instead of could you maybe meet me

so the difference between maybe and

possibly and perhaps their possible has

that route yeah possible able to so

maybe and perhaps don’t have that

nuanced possibly sounds like is it

possible is it are you able to do this

thing

maybe and perhaps don’t contain that

nuance

so to recap maybe and perhaps are used

to express the same thing a chance of

something happening perhaps is more

formal possibly is used in a similar way

however it refers more to simple

possibility than is it is are you able

to do that thing probably expresses a

high chance of something thanks so much

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watching this episode of ask Alicia I

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but now have you ever thought about how

much you think about thinking hi

everybody my name is Alicia

welcome to know your verbs in this

episode we’re going to talk about the

verb think so let’s get started

the basic definition of think is to have

in the mind so something you can keep in

your mind like an idea or an image some

thing you keep in your head something in

your mind something in your brain so to

keep in the mind is think to think this

is the basic definition of think so

let’s look at the conjugations of the

verb think present tense think thanks

past tense

thought past participle thought

progressive or continuous tense thinking

think thinks thought thought thinking

okay let’s look at some additional

meanings of the verb think first is to

consider or to reflect on or to ponder

it means consider something carefully or

spend time considering something so

ponder means to think for a long time or

to think hard about something so

consider carefully reflect on examples

can I have a day to think about this

he’s thinking about what to do next

so in these examples sentences can I

have a day to think about this taking

one day to reflect on something like

before you make a decision is a pretty

common thing to do before like a big

decision so can I have a day to think

about this means can I have a day to

consider this carefully or can I have a

day to ponder this in a second example

sentence he’s thinking about what to do

next

means he’s considering carefully his

next step he’s considering carefully

what he should do next

so thinking is used in the progressive

tense here to show that he is currently

at this time considering something

carefully but to consider carefully we

can make shorter and use the verb

thinking he’s thinking about what to do

next okay next is to create something by

thinking or to create something by

considering we usually use this with the

word up

Derr the verb think we thought up so

many crazy party ideas in college she

thought up a plan for product promotion

so both of these example sentences mean

to create something by considering it in

your mind so in the first example

sentence we thought up crazy ideas for

parties in college means we design

something using our brains we considered

something and created an idea we created

something by thinking so to think up bla

bla bla so we thought up crazy party

ideas so we designed crazy party ideas

by thinking about them by considering

things in our minds in the second

example sentence we see the same meaning

but for a business situation she thought

up a plan for product promotion so in

this case past tense she thought up she

designed a plan for product promotion

but when we say designed it sounds maybe

like she planned something on a computer

perhaps when we use she thought up it

means she used her mind she considered

the ideas she had and created a plan in

her mind for promotion of the product so

thought up uses the mind to create

something next is to have as an

expectation to have as an expectation to

expect something I didn’t think you’d

arrive so quickly we thought it would

take a lot longer to finish dinner so in

the first example sentence we didn’t

think you’d arrive so quickly it means

the speaker expects that the listener

would take longer to arrive for the

listener was going to arrive later than

they actually did so the speaker the

speaker in this case had the expectation

that the listener was going to arrive

later so they used the negative we

didn’t think you’d arrive so quickly so

we didn’t think we didn’t expect you’d

arrive so quickly we can replace the

verb think with expect here and it

creates the same meaning the same nuance

really but think sounds a little bit

less formal than expect so we didn’t

think you’d arrive so quickly

the second example sentence is

thought I would take a lot longer to

finish dinner again we expected we had

the expectation it would take a lot

longer to finish dinner we can replace

the verb thought past tense with the

past tense expected we expected it would

take a lot longer to finish dinner so in

this way think we’re in past tense

thought is used in exactly the same way

as expected here the next meaning is to

consider suitability to consider

suitability let’s look at some examples

I’ve never thought of him like a manager

we’re thinking of her for a higher

position so in the first sentence I’ve

never thought of him like a manager in

this way thought means I’ve never

understood him to be suitable for the

position of manager that’s a very long

way of explaining this sentence but to

condense everything we use the word

thought I’ve never thought of him as a

manager means I’ve never considered him

to potentially be suitable as a manager

in the second example sentence we’re

thinking of her for a higher position it

means we’re considering whether or not

she is suitable for a higher position at

her job or a higher position at her

company so in this way thinking in the

progressive tense means we are

considering her suitability for a

position a higher-level position so

you’ll notice that the two example

sentences included here are related to

work you’ll see though that this this

meaning tends to be used a lot with jobs

and mu political positions so kind of

something maybe promotion related so

promotion related or kind of hierarchy

related you’ll often hear this in work

situations employment situations

let’s look at some variations some other

words we can attach to think to create

different meanings first is think better

of think better of think better of means

to reconsider and make a better decision

or make an improved decision it means to

consider something again and change your

decision hopefully to make a an improved

decision examples I wanted to say

something but I thought better of it and

kept my mouth shut will think better of

you if you tell the truth so in both of

these sentences there’s a

reconsideration someone is considering

something again and making an improved

decision because of that reconsideration

so in the first example sentence I

wanted to say something we see in past

tense I wanted to say something but I

thought better of it so it in this case

is the thing I wanted to say in the

first part of the sentence I thought

better of it means I reconsidered it and

decided against my first inclination I

decided not to do the first thing I was

thinking about and I kept my mouth shut

so in this case my mouth remained closed

in other words I reconsidered my initial

action that action I initially wanted to

do in the second sentence will think

better of you if you tell the truth we

see it’s it’s used for future we will

think better of you if you tell the

truth meaning if you tell the truth our

opinion of you will improve we will

think better of you

so tell the truth and will consider you

again essentially and our opinion of you

will improve if you do this the next

variation is think much of think much of

this means to have a positive view of or

to approve of examples

he doesn’t think much of his professor

we didn’t think much of last night’s

dinner we see in the first example

sentence he didn’t think much of his

professor means he didn’t really approve

of his professor or he didn’t have a

very positive view of his professor so a

shorter wait

to explain that feeling is he didn’t

think much of his professor in the

second example sentence we didn’t think

much of last night’s dinner this means

again we didn’t really approve of last

night’s dinner or we don’t have a very

positive view or a very positive opinion

of last night’s dinner these are rather

long so we can condense it too we didn’t

think much of last night’s dinner so I

hope that this video helped you level up

your knowledge of how to use the verb

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