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hi everybody my name is alicia in this

lesson i’m going to talk about phrasal

verbs that use go so remember a phrasal

verb is a verb plus a preposition and

then sometimes something extra so today

i’m going to introduce a few common

phrasal verbs with go that maybe you

haven’t heard of there are quite a lot

with this verb so i want to introduce

some that hopefully you can use right

away let’s get started okay the first

phrasal verb i want to talk about is go

ahead go ahead this means permission or

encouragement to do something before

others so i’ve noticed on this channel

for example many viewers like to use go

ahead but they mean please continue go

ahead does not have the meaning of

please continue something it means

feel free to do something before me

so an example of using go ahead might be

go ahead and eat for example i’m going

to be home late today go ahead and eat

dinner so go ahead means before me

so go ahead and do something we’ll

follow go ahead oftentimes with and go

ahead of me and

do something some verb will follow this

so in this case go ahead and eat is a

very common way that we use this one

okay let’s move along to the next

phrasal verb which is

go along with to go along with something

means to temporarily temporarily means

for a short time only to temporarily

believe

something that may be false

so here i put maybe false this could be

a story it could be a plan it could be

like just the way that someone is

behaving but this means to

temporarily believe so yes temporarily

can be a very short time but this could

be over weeks months or years so it’s

something that perhaps has an end point

at some point in time that doesn’t have

to be very soon but you temporarily

believe or you pretend to believe

something here’s an example i don’t want

to go along with this plan i don’t want

to

go along with this plan so here there’s

a noun phrase i don’t want to go along

with this plan means i don’t want to

pretend this plan is okay

so kind of the feeling here of to go

along with something is that you’re

believing it and you’re like pretending

that you’re uh agreeing with that thing

or you’re participating in that thing so

to go along with something it can have a

negative meaning

uh it can also have kind of like a

positive feeling like for example a

surprise birthday party like um

we need her to go along with the idea

that she’s not meeting her friends today

for example like we need her to

temporarily believe she’s not meeting

her friends

but it can have a negative feeling like

here i don’t want to go along with this

plan maybe the plan is bad or the plan

is kind of evil somehow so to go along

with something is to believe something

or to like continue doing something to

pretend uh to agree with something that

may not be true okay so let’s continue

on to the next phrasal verb the next

phrasal verb is to go around to go

around this has two meanings actually

the first is to be enough for a group to

be enough for a group

the second one is one that you probably

or maybe already know which is to move

past something by moving around it so

there’s some obstacle that you face and

you move around that obstacle so that

one is probably a little easier to

understand moving around physically an

obstacle in order to pass the obstacle

however the one i want to focus on for

this lesson is this one to be enough for

a group to go around so in an example

sentence

do we have drinks to go around so here

do we have drinks to go around as a

question means do we have enough drinks

for all the people in our group so go

around is a shorter way to say that so

you can imagine if you have a group of

people in a circle you can like give

each person one of something so that

means to go around there’s enough of

something to go around you will

sometimes hear people include enough in

a phrase like this do we have enough

drinks to go around so this refers to

having enough of something for everyone

in a group okay let’s move along to the

next expression the next phrasal verb is

go away go away this is probably one

that many of you know to go away

is often used as a command without the

to just go away command form so it means

to move away from the current location

like to move away from the white board

for example or to move away from the

camera so you’re moving away from

something so you’re not getting closer

it’s the opposite direction but like i

said we often use it as commands so to

tell someone to go away to tell a pet to

go away

another example i wish these bugs would

go away i wish these bugs would go away

so in other words go away from me go

away from me from the speaker so when we

say go away it’s and it doesn’t have

this kind of um

like reference point it tends to mean

like

from the speaker’s location so i wish

these bugs would go away from me okay

let’s move along to the next phrasal

verb the next one is go back or go back

to so you’ll see these

both used so to go back to

something let’s use that to go back to

something means to return to a previous

location

or you can use it for a phase like a

step in a project or you can use it for

a person to go back to a person

to go back to a certain phase of your

project to go back to a place

so we use this when we’ve made progress

in some way or we’ve changed our life in

some way and we return to something that

we did earlier or we returned to a

person that we associated with earlier

when we use this expression to talk

about people it’s often because we’re

talking about a romantic relationship

like for example

he went back to his ex-girlfriend or she

went back to her former boss for example

so there’s something that like we knew

in the past we knew was true about the

person in the past and they returned to

that point so we can use go back to to

refer to that more commonly perhaps

though is when we just want to return to

something we saw earlier for example

go back to slide two please so if you’re

giving a presentation you could say go

back to slide two please return to slide

two so everyone saw slide two i the

speaker the presenter want to return to

that slide for some reason so go back to

something is to return to something okay

let’s move along to another one that’s

very similar so we talked about go back

or go back to

now let’s look at go back on so to go

back on something is to choose

not to do something as promised so we

tend to use this expression with

promises or agreements of some kind

so to go back on a promise means you

make the promise and then your actions

do not align with the promise so in an

example sentence the president went back

on his promises so to go back on his

promises

this means the president made a promise

and the president’s actions did not

match that promise so for example

the president of the company said he

would give all employees their birthday

off and then

they the president decided not to do

that in the end so he made a choice he

or she made a choice not to make that

birthday policy happen so that would be

an example of the president going back

on his promise so choosing not to do a

thing that you promised to do in some

cases people will do the opposite of

what they promised to do we can use that

as well so to go back on and to go back

two are quite different

keep in mind to go back on always sounds

quite negative

to go back to doesn’t necessarily sound

negative it can depending on

what is being returned to like if you’re

if a person is going back to a negative

relationship for example it could feel

negative um but to go back on does have

that negative feeling of like betrayal

okay so let’s continue on to the next

phrasal verb which is go for to go for

something to go for something means to

try to obtain something or someone to

try to get something or to try to get

someone so when i say to get someone

here

this can mean like to get someone as

like a boyfriend or a girlfriend

or it can mean to try to get someone to

participate in something so you want

someone to join like a party or a

conference or something similar you can

use this expression in that case so

let’s look at an example

she’s going for the gold medal so very

common in the olympics in sporting

events in general she’s going for here i

have the progressive tents she’s going

for that means she’s trying to get the

gold medal she’s going for the gold is

also a way that we say this so in this

case it’s an object

if you want to use it to talk about a

person you could say like ah i tried to

go for that girl or that guy across the

room but he or she wasn’t interested for

example so you’re trying to get or

you’re trying to attract a person

okay let’s move along to the next one

which is go in on to go in on something

careful go back on and go in on or quite

different go in on something to go in on

something means to become one of a group

of people

investing in something

so investing in many cases this means

investing money in something in probably

most cases with this expression so you

and some other people have decided you

all want the same thing and you invest

your resources in that thing an example

i went in on a shared office so here we

have past tense i went in on

a shared office so shared office is the

thing that each person wants in this

group we don’t know how many people but

we use i went in on this shows us that

there are other people who want the same

thing that we don’t have to mention the

other people i went in i went in on a

shared office so i invested money

perhaps time effort resources in order

to get this shared office with other

people so to go in on something

it does have kind of a cooperative

feeling about it it’s neither positive

nor negative really okay

on to the next one the next one is go

off

to go off so to go off when you’re

talking about people to go off means to

lose your temper means like to shout or

to yell angrily to go off

you’ll also hear um when something goes

off it could be like an alarm like the

alarm went off this morning so it has

kind of the same feel though like when a

person goes off they lose their temper

they shout they scream when an alarm

goes off it makes a lot of noise so you

can imagine

it’s sort of like an object losing its

temper or an object making a lot of

noise as well so we can use this for a

few objects but we we use it a lot for

people’s tempers as well their emotions

example a guy went off at a cop so here

you’ll see yes i’ve used it in the past

tense a guy went off at a cop we can use

at after this to show the recipient of

the anger so in this case a cop so cop

is slang for a police officer so a guy

went off lost his temper at a police

officer

i’ve used at here you will also hear on

like my mom went off on me is another

common one or my mom went off at me you

might hear both of those i think i

probably use on more often but you may

hear at as well so to go off on someone

means to lose your temper with someone

okay

on to the next one the next one is to go

out to go out so to go out means just to

leave your home

to leave your home so this can

be used i feel positively to refer to

doing activities outside of your house

it’s like you’re going to do something

fun for example why don’t we go out

tonight why don’t we go out tonight so

this is one that you can use when you’re

thinking about

like planning activities so let’s go out

or we went out to a movie last night for

example so to go out sounds like you’re

out and about doing things okay let’s

move on to the next one then the next

one is the expression go together to go

together so yes this does mean to

physically go to another location

with someone like let’s go together

let’s go to the movies together

um but this also has the meaning of

suiting like to suit

or to combine well to suit or to combine

well so we use this a lot for clothing

actually

so a really common example sentence with

clothing

do these shoes and this shirt go

together so the speaker here is asking

about two things

a pair of shoes these shoes the plural

and this shirt so the speaker is asking

do these two sort of parts to my look go

together so one point to be careful

about go together does not mean match so

to match means two things are exactly

the same 100 the same to go together

means they combine well they combine

nicely they look good together so you’ll

often hear people actually drop this

together

people will sometimes say like do these

shoes and this shirt go do they go

instead of go together so when we say go

in this way it means do they suit each

other like do they combine it nicely so

we use this a lot for talking about our

clothes and for our appearance so keep

an eye out for this one it’s quite

common okay

let’s move on to the next one to go with

something or to go with someone to go

with or to go i’m sorry to go with

something to go with someone means to

choose to choose we use this a lot in

restaurants uh and kind of in any

situation where we’re making plans like

um for example i’m gonna go with the

steak i’m gonna go with the steak so

here i have go with followed by the

object the speaker chooses i’m going to

go with the steak so i chose the steak

or i choose the steak if you’re using

this to talk about a person you might be

planning something like you’re planning

a team like i’m going to go with person

a

for this role in my company or this role

at the event i’m going to go with person

b for this role so when you’re choosing

people or maybe you’re choosing teams

for something you could use go with it

sounds kind of like a casual way of

choosing someone instead of choose like

i choose this person i choose that

person using go with sounds a little bit

lighter a little less

formal okay

so

let’s continue to the last one in this

list which is go without to go without

so to go without something means to do

something without typical items or

typical people so there’s some like

common tasks some kind of well-known

task or well-known activity but you have

to do that thing without something that

you usually use so an example

i had to go without rain gear for my

hike so imagine it’s a rainy day and the

speaker had to go on this hike but

without his or her rain gear with no

rain gear without using this thing that

he or she usually uses so to go without

something

this does have a negative nuance that

this thing that i need or this thing

that i prefer to have that it’s common

to have i did not have that for a task

or an activity that i was doing so to go

without something in another example

like maybe i could say i had to go

without a microphone for this lesson

like it would maybe make it less of a

good experience the experience would not

be as good or it would be difficult to

do things so to go without something

does

tend to sound a little bit more negative

okay so this is a lot of information i

know but this is just a quick

introduction to some phrasal verbs that

use the word go

if you have any other questions or if

you want to know some more about other

phrasal verbs that use go i would highly

recommend checking a dictionary there

are a lot of words a lot of expressions

that use go so please take a look at a

dictionary for some more information

and some more example sentences as well

of course if you have questions or

comments or if you want to practice

making an example sentence please feel

free to do so in the comment section of

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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and i answer them maybe

let’s get to your first question this

week first question this week comes from

henrique hi henrique enrique says how do

we use at in and on correctly thank you

okay very quickly because there are

videos on the channel about how to use

prepositions so please do a search and

check them out very quickly to review

let’s begin with at we use at to mark

specific locations in cities that means

like buildings so for example i’m at the

bank or she’s at the supermarket we can

also use at to refer to specific

locations outside cities like in the

countryside like we’re at the river

today we also use at before times to

mark specific times of day like let’s

meet at 2pm or she arrived at 3 30. we

also use at with night as in at night

please note we do not use at with

morning or afternoon or evening those

are incorrect we only use it with at

night then let’s talk about in we use in

before the names of cities and countries

like she lives in switzerland or he

lives in barcelona or it’s in toronto so

we use it before city names and country

names we can also use in before a length

of time to mark a duration like let’s

meet in 10 minutes or we finish the

project in one hour

we also use in with months for example

she moved in february or i’m going to

europe in june

finally let’s talk about on we use on

with days of the week and to talk about

the weekend as in something we did on

the weekend in some variations of

english you may hear people saying at

the weekend but this is not used in

american english we use on the weekend

so we use on before days of the week as

in let’s meet on tuesday or we had

coffee together on saturday so this is a

very quick introduction to different

ways to use at in and on as i said

please do a quick search of the channel

for prepositions to find other videos

with more details about this topic so i

hope that this helps you thanks for the

question okay let’s move on to our next

question next question comes from

nazanin hello nazanin

says hi alicia what is the difference

between park and garden thank you ah a

park is generally a big open area with

lots of grass you can come to a park and

you can do like a variety of different

activities if you want to have a picnic

or a barbecue or you want to maybe play

a sport or something like that you can

generally do that in a park there’s a

lot of really big open space so maybe we

can show a picture on screen here so you

can see what a park a typical park looks

like a garden on the other hand is

something that’s supposed to be enjoyed

for its design and when i say design i

mean like the landscape design like

maybe there are special flowers inside

the garden or there’s uh maybe special

decorations there’s some kind of like

landscape that is special in the garden

so you might see parks and gardens like

together there might be a garden inside

a park but a garden is generally not a

place that you go to to do a specific

activity like we don’t go to a garden to

have a barbecue or we don’t go to a

garden to play a sport generally we go

to a garden to enjoy the scenery to

enjoy being in the garden like walking

along the paths in the garden so parks

are generally more open spaces where we

can do a variety of activities gardens

are spaces that we use for enjoyment of

that natural space so i hope that this

helps you thanks for the question okay

let’s move on to your next question next

question comes from

sumitha aaron hello sumitha sumita says

i would like to know the difference

between resume and curriculum vitae okay

they are very very similar a curriculum

vitae or cv as it is often called these

are very very similar documents we use

both of them to apply for jobs so a cv

is generally longer than a resume maybe

like three to four pages and it includes

everything you have ever done all of

your professional experience so that’s

like your work experience and your

education experience yes so where you

went to school the degrees that you have

the topics that you studied and so on

but we also on a cv include our

credentials our certification so if you

got some kind of special recognition

if you got a scholarship a grant if

you’ve published anything like a book or

a paper or if you have a thesis

somewhere if you’ve given a presentation

basically anything connected to your

work and your professional experience

will be listed on a cv so a cv is like a

very long list of all of your

achievements all of your professional

and your educational achievements these

are kind of longer documents a resume on

the other hand is generally a little bit

shorter it’s maybe like one to two pages

long and it’s kind of more of a summary

so in addition to including like your

contact information uh you might have a

short career objective like that means

the thing that you are trying to do in

your career you might have that and then

generally with a resume you have a

series of summaries of your past work so

maybe you have three or four companies

or three or four positions on your

resume and you summarize your

accomplishments and your role in each of

those positions so that someone has a

good idea has like a good image of what

kind of work you have done and therefore

how it connects to your current

objective so again a resume tends to be

a bit shorter than a cv maybe one to two

pages but a cva like could be maybe

three to four pages if you have a long

work history in the uk you might find

that nobody actually uses the word

resume so if you’re speaking with a

british english speaker they might only

use the word cv cv generally refers to

the same concept as a resume so i hope

that this helps you thanks very much for

the question okay let’s move on to your

next question next question comes from

siam hello siam siam says what’s the

difference between not and no

i’ll give a very general answer to this

question we use not and no to give

negative responses to things the grammar

of the sentence is what’s important here

so we use not before adjectives and

verbs for example i am not hungry or

she’s not sleeping or they do not work

on saturdays so this comes before

adjectives or verbs no of course is also

used to respond to yes or no questions

with the negative answer you may also

hear not used in kind of a sarcastic way

to reply to someone’s opinion or to

respond to someone’s opinion

for example person a might say i really

liked that movie and person b might

respond with yeah me too

not so this is kind of an old style

humor it’s not it’s actually not very

funny but some people try to use this

not to show contrast to the thing that

they just said so this really means

i’m going to pretend that i agree with

you for a moment but i don’t really so

you might hear some people use not in

this way too so i hope that this helps

you thanks for the question okay let’s

move on to our next question next

question comes from arkan git hello

arkhan arkhan says what’s the difference

between police station and police

department nice question yeah a police

station is a building it’s a physical

place that we can visit so people work

inside a police station a police

department on the other hand is a part

of an organization so the police

department refers to a group of people

working together to do police work this

is the same as like a marketing

department in a company or as like a

sales department in an online store it

refers to a group of people that are

doing the same type of work a police

department so a police department refers

to that group of people the police

station refers to the physical building

where police officers are located so in

sentences you might say something like i

went to the police station to file a

report about my lost wallet or the

police department is working to reduce

crime in our city so i hope that this

helps you thanks very much for the

question okay that is everything that i

have for this week thank you as always

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hi everybody my name is alicia in this

lesson i’m going to talk about using the

past perfect tense i’m also going to

talk about using the past perfect

progressive or past perfect continuous

tense let’s get started okay first let’s

take a look at the past perfect

uh how to make the past perfect this is

a very quick introduction to making a

past perfect statement so when we make

past perfect we use had for positive

statements or had not

for negative statements then we add the

past participle form of a verb so we’ll

use this in a few example sentences

so we use the past perfect tense in a

few different situations

the first two i feel are probably some

of the more common ways to use them

let’s look here first

we use past perfect tense one

to show a past action that happened

before another past action

so to kind of visualize this

i want to look at this part right here

on my timeline i have a timeline that

goes from the past here to the present

now and up to the future so here in this

part i want to look here for this number

one of past perfect

when we want to express that two things

happened in the past

one action happened before another

action we can use the past perfect tense

to show the action that happened further

in the past and simple past tense to

show the action that started more

recently or that happened more recently

rather so let’s look at an example

he hadn’t contacted me for weeks

then suddenly

he invited me for coffee

so here we see hadn’t contacted this is

the negative form of the past perfect

tense hadn’t is the contracted form of

had not contacted is my past participle

verb he hadn’t contacted me for weeks so

this is my past perfect situation so

this is the first point hadn’t contacted

me for weeks this is the situation

then

suddenly he invited me so this is a

simple past tense comment he invited me

for coffee so my simple past thing

happened next so we can show this

progression of actions here in some

cases when it’s very clear like if the

writer or the speaker uses before or

after we don’t always need to be so

strict with using past perfect and

simple past tense but sometimes

especially when writing stories this is

very useful for showing the order of

actions in sentences okay so let’s

continue to the second point with past

perfect tense we use past perfect to

express something that started in the

past and continued to another point in

the past so

to kind of imagine this let’s look at

this part of the timeline here so again

we’re in the past we have something that

started in the past and continued but

also it ended in the past as well so it

does not continue to the present which

would be

the present perfect tense but it

continued to a point in the past and

stopped there so an example sentence

with this

when i got my current job

i had lived in new york for four years

so

here we see again had lived is our past

perfect tense in this case i’m using the

positive form had and lived i had lived

in new york for four years so this is my

continuing action the thing that was

that began in the past and continued to

a point in the past

so

i have again simple past tense here when

i got my current job

this part shows us where this action

kind of stops

so

when i got my current job

i had lived in new york for four years

so this point on the timeline is where

the speaker began living in new york the

point in time the speaker lived in new

york lived in new york and the person

got their job now in this case it

doesn’t mean that the speaker stopped

living in new york we don’t know

but the speaker wants to say at this

point in time so even though the action

doesn’t always stop it’s like there’s

some kind of key point some information

here

that we want to note so this is an

example of that

so a continuing action and then a key

point in the past maybe stop the action

um or that we just want like kind of

mark some importance for us okay so

finally let’s move to the third point uh

for using past perfect we use past

perfect to talk about unreal situations

in the past you might see this used with

things like would have could have and

should have so an example of this

i would have helped you plan the

surprise party if i had known about it

if i had known about it

this use of the past perfect tense shows

us the speaker did not know about it in

the past so this is an unreal situation

if i had to visualize this again we’re

in the past here’s something i’ve used a

dotted line here to show it’s not real

so there’s something back here in the

past that did not happen but that we

want to reference now we want to talk

about it now so if in the past i had

known so i did not know but if i had

known

i would have helped you plan so this is

an unreal situation we can use past

perfect for all of these so let’s

compare this then to the progressive or

the continuous use of past perfect when

we make the progressive or continuous

form we use had yes and had not in the

negative then we add

bin

plus the progressive form of a verb

so

we use this one to show actions that

continue in the past until a point in

the past so yes this is very similar to

this past perfect use that i talked

about but we often use this to express

like an interrupted action an action

that was stopped by another action

so this means for example uh in this

example sentence i had been studying for

an hour

when my mom got home so this is an

interrupted action or there’s some kind

of change in the situation

everything happens in the past though so

here had been studying is my past

perfect progressive tense this is the

continuing action on my timeline here

it’s in blue my continuing action in the

past i had been studying for an hour so

this action continued for an hour was

continuing for an hour

then

the sentence says

when my mom got home so when here

marks the point where the action changes

or the situation changes or is

interrupted so here i’ve marked in red

with this x is the interruption when my

mom got home

we used simple past tense to describe

the interrupting action the thing that

stopped or changed the continuing action

so i had been studying for an hour past

perfect progressive when my mom got home

simple past tense so we used this to

talk about actions that were interrupted

in the past

we can also use this this is kind of

like 1.5 point number 1.5

or 2 i guess for today we can also use

this to talk just about actions that

didn’t necessarily uh

change or get interrupted but we want to

talk about something that was continuing

and then we kind of from the context

from the conversation we understand when

it stopped so a great example of this is

a sentence like this we were exhausted

because we’d been working all night so

here you can see there’s not really a

change like there’s not really a point

where there’s an interruption or

something stops or something new happens

in this case we’re just kind of making

two past tense statements similar to

what i talked about in point one over

here

but we want to emphasize a continuing

action so here i have past tense we were

exhausted we were exhausted exhausted

means very tired we were exhausted

because

weed this part please be careful a good

note here

we

had

we were exhausted because we’ve been

working all night so this working action

had continued all night long we want to

emphasize that

and then after that we were exhausted

but there’s not there’s not a change

there it’s like the speaker is telling a

story maybe so we were exhausted because

we’ve been working all night when we got

home we found out we didn’t have our

keys so you might see a sentence like

this in a story so it’s not a like i

said a specific point where a change

occurs but we kind of understand from

the story or from the situation um

what’s happening so you’ll see this

continuous or the progressive form used

quite commonly in these kinds of

situations

so this is a quick introduction to using

the past perfect tense and the past

perfect progressive tense i hope that

this helps you understand these two

grammar points if you have any questions

or comments or want to practice making

some sentences with this grammar please

feel free to do so in the comment

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hi everybody welcome back to top words

my name is alicia and in this lesson

we’re going to talk about 20 useful

phrases you can use when talking to your

doctor let’s get started

before we start a quick reminder that

you can find free pdf cheat sheets to

download from the link in the

description you can find a bunch of

different topics you can use these to

build your vocabulary you can use them

to find daily conversation expressions

and a lot more so have a look check the

link below the video okay let’s get to

the lesson

i have an appointment today

i have an appointment today

when you arrive at the doctor’s office

you can go to the reception desk or the

person working there who’s receiving

people and you can say i have an

appointment today this means they should

be expecting you you can expect to give

your name and maybe some other personal

information after you say this okay

let’s go to the next expression

how are you feeling today

how are you feeling today

this is a key question that your doctor

will ask you it’s a question about your

condition they’ll say how are you

feeling today or they might ask

something like what seems to be the

problem or asking something else about

your specific symptoms so when your

doctor says how are you feeling today

you can explain you’re feeling good or

not so good depending on what kind of

checkup you’re doing you can express

that something is painful or something

doesn’t feel quite right there are many

different ways to respond to this

question so that’s up to you okay on to

the next phrase not very well

not very well

so not very well is a very general way

to respond to the question how are you

feeling today

when you say not very well you should

expect to provide more detail so why

don’t you feel very well so this means

that you just don’t have a very good

feeling about your body about your

condition

okay on to the next expression

i think i sprained my left ankle

i think i sprained my left ankle

okay so this is an example of a more

specific way of explaining your

condition so in this case a sprain is a

type of sports injury and we tend to see

it around the ankles or maybe around the

wrists too so if you think that you know

what type of injury you’re experiencing

you can express that with something like

this i think i sprained my ankle in this

case okay let’s go to another way to

express your feeling

i feel a sharp pain in my right knee

i feel a sharp pain in my right knee

okay so this is another way that you can

describe something that you’re

experiencing if you’re not sure about

the type of injury for example but you

want to express you are feeling pain you

can do it with something like this

sharp pain is a knife like pain so you

can use i feel a sharp pain in my plus

the body part in this case your right

knee of course you can change that to

any other body part to express that

you’re feeling sharp knife-like pain in

that place okay let’s go to another

example

my knee is aching

my knee is aching

okay so here we have a knee as our

example place again but in this case

we’re using ache so aching refers to a

kind of dull low pain generally that

doesn’t go away so when you say that

something aches it’s different from a

sharp pain which we saw in the previous

example because a sharp pain is like a

very strong knife-like pain an ache is

something that’s kind of constant and

low so you can say my body part is

aching to mean that that’s the feeling

that it has now okay let’s go to the

next expression

my throat hurts a little

my throat hurts a little

okay so most people have experienced a

sore throat so you can say i have a sore

throat or another way to say that is my

throat hurts a little of course you can

change throat to any other body part my

finger hurts a little or my stomach

hurts a little to express that there’s a

little pain or a little discomfort in

that body part okay on to the next one

i have a terrible stomach egg

i have a terrible stomach ache

okay so if you have pain in your stomach

so you feel sick to your stomach you can

express that with stomach ache so we

talked about the word ache earlier that

kind of low constant pain we have that

in our stomach sometimes when we eat

something that we disagree with or when

we have some kind of bacteria in our

stomachs so if you have a really really

bad one if it’s very very uncomfortable

you can express that with a terrible

stomachache i have a terrible

stomachache

okay next expression

i’ve lost my appetite

i’ve lost my appetite

okay this expression means you no longer

want to eat food your appetite is how

hungry you feel when you see food so

usually we want to eat a few times a day

right but if you lose your appetite it

means you’re no longer interested in

food so if you have this experience you

can tell your doctor this you can say

i’ve lost my appetite

okay next expression

i have a rash on my arm

i have a rash on my arm

okay so a rash is a part of your skin

that turns red or maybe even another

color and that’s sometimes itchy or

maybe kind of painful so if you have one

of these spots on your skin you can

express that with i have a rash on my

plus the body part so i have a rash on

my arm i have a rash on my neck and so

on okay next expression

do you have a cough

do you have a cough

this is a question that will come from

the doctor so if they want to check your

symptoms they might ask do you have a

cough or do you have some other symptom

a cough refers to an uncomfortable

feeling where you want to push the air

out of your lungs and this sound

is called a cough so your doctor might

ask you do you have a cough to check

your symptoms

okay next expression

i get tired very quickly

i get tired very quickly

okay so this expression refers to

fatigue or a feeling of having no energy

if your doctor asks about your symptoms

and you want to express that recently

you don’t have much energy you can say i

feel tired very quickly this helps the

doctor understand that there’s been a

recent change in your energy levels okay

next expression

does it hurt when i press here

does it hurt when i press here

this is another question that will come

from the doctor during a physical

examination the doctor may touch parts

of your body and the doctor might ask

you does it hurt when i press here which

means do you feel pain when i press this

spot on your body so just answer yes or

no to respond okay next expression

take this medicine and rest

take this medicine and rest

this is an instruction from the doctor

after your examination your doctor might

tell you to take some medicine so they

might also tell you to get some rest in

this case it’s both take some medicine

and rest it means take the medicine the

doctor is giving you and rest your body

okay next expression

you might need surgery

you might need surgery

okay so this is something that will come

from the doctor after your physical

examination

if your injury or your sickness cannot

be treated just by using medicine you

might have to have an operation or

surgery so there are very simple

surgeries and there are more complex

surgeries so it depends on your

condition but if the doctor thinks you

may need something like this they’ll

tell you with an expression like you

might need surgery okay next expression

i need a medical certificate

i need a medical certificate

if you need a document that describes

your health condition or your medical

history you can ask for one with this

expression i need a medical certificate

you might not have to ask your doctor

specifically for this in many cases you

can simply ask the reception desk for

this information

okay next expression

i’d like to get a second opinion

i’d like to get a second opinion

okay this expression means i’d like to

get a second doctor’s opinion so after

your physical examination if you’re not

sure about this doctor’s conclusion you

might want to talk to another doctor and

get their opinion about your condition

you can express that with i’d like to

get a second opinion okay next

expression

that’s a relief

that’s a relief

okay that’s a relieve is an expression

that you can use when you feel relieved

about the doctor’s conclusion if you

thought you might have a serious illness

but the doctor says you just have a cold

and it’s no problem you can express that

feeling of relief with this expression

that’s a relief it’s just a cold okay

next expression

please come back next week for a checkup

please come back next week for a checkup

this is an instruction you may receive

from your doctor so after your first

examination maybe you receive some

medicine or you have some other kinds of

care or treatment guidelines your doctor

wants to check your condition again in a

week they will say something like this

please come back next week for a checkup

okay next expression

thank you i will confirm the date of my

visit

thank you i will confirm the date of my

visit

all right this is an expression that you

would typically use if you are making a

schedule for upcoming treatment or an

upcoming doctor’s appointment you might

say this on the phone or in person to

someone if you need to check your

schedule before you confirm something

thanks i need to confirm the date of my

visit alright that brings us to the end

of 20 useful phrases you can use when

talking to your doctor what did you

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hi everyone i’m alicia welcome to

conversational phrases we’ve found that

the best way to learn a language is to

speak it from day one and the best way

to start speaking is to learn phrases

that you’ll use in real conversations in

this lesson you’ll learn conversational

phrases to ask and answer the question

how do you say this

after watching this video you’ll be able

to ask someone how a word is pronounced

and if you want to learn more vocabulary

phrases and example sentences you can

use in real life situations click the

link in the description to download your

how to say something pdf cheat sheet for

free

now let’s take a look at some

conversational phrases

listen to the dialogue

how do you say this

it’s

parking lot

listen to it again

how do you say this

it’s

parking lot

first of all you’ll need to learn how to

say

how do you say this

that’s

how do you say this

listen to it again

how do you say this

how do you say this

now how do you answer this question

the pattern is

it’s

word

for example it’s parking lot

it’s

parking

lot

it’s

parking lot

here are a few useful words you can use

with the same pattern

parking lot

parking lot

parking lot

giraffe

giraffe

giraffe

travel

travel

travel

invasion

invasion

invasion

let’s look at some examples listen and

repeat or speak along with the native

speakers

how do you say this

it’s giraffe

how do you say this

it’s travel

how do you say this it’s invasion

okay now it’s your turn

do you remember how to say

how do you say this

how do you say this

imagine it’s the word giraffe

do you remember how to say giraffe

giraffe

giraffe

say it’s giraffe

it’s giraffe

now answer the questions saying it’s

giraffe

how do you say this

it’s giraffe

now imagine the word is travel

do you remember how to say travel

travel

say it’s travel

it’s travel

now answer the question saying it’s

travel

how do you say this

it’s travel

now imagine the word is invasion

do you remember how to say invasion

invasion

invasion

say

it’s invasion

it’s invasion

now answer the question saying it’s

invasion

how do you say this

it’s invasion

in this lesson you learned new

vocabulary and phrases you can use in

your everyday life to ask someone how

something is said

you are now able to ask how to say

something like a native speaker

start by practicing in the comments

below tell us which word do you think is

the hardest to pronounce

lastly don’t forget to click the link in

the description and download your pdf

cheat sheets you’ll get useful phrases

you need for everyday life for free

see you in the next lesson bye

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hi everybody my name is alicia in this

lesson i’m going to talk about the

differences between however nevertheless

and despite i’m also going to talk a

little bit about the expression in spite

of two so let’s begin

the first one that i want to look at is

the word however however

let’s take a look at three different

ways we can use however first

however can mean on the other hand or

but it’s like a more formal way of

saying but something kind of more polite

than just butt

so let’s look at a couple of examples of

however used in this way

first example i wanted to go to a movie

however i stayed home and studied

one more

sorry we don’t have tea

we do however

have coffee

okay so these two examples show how we

use however to mean but

like in this first example it has the

feeling of but

and in this one the second example it’s

more like on the other hand so it’s like

another option is available

we also see that kind of the positioning

of however or the use changes can shift

a little bit

here we see that it’s connecting these

two ideas i wanted to go to a movie a

however so

even though there was this thing i

wanted to go to a movie but

i stayed home and studied so we’re

connecting those two ideas there it can

have kind of the feel of even though but

not as much as some of the other things

we’re going to talk about later

in this sentence you might be surprised

at the positioning of however here sorry

we don’t have t that’s one point we do

however have coffee so this is a pattern

you might hear native speakers use first

we use this do we do

we use this to contrast to give like a

strong opposite to this negative don’t

we don’t have tea

we do

have coffee so this however is like on

the other hand so

you could put this here as i’ve done we

do however have coffee you could put

this before this comment however we do

have coffee that’s also okay so you

might hear

an expression in an expression like this

you might hear the position of however

shift a little bit but these uses are on

the other hand or but

let’s move on to a totally different way

of using however

we can use however to mean to whatever

degree

or

no matter how much no matter how much so

first let’s look at some examples

however hard we tried we couldn’t stop

him from smoking

and

however badly we wanted to win we

couldn’t beat the top team in our league

so

these two uses of however

could be replaced by this expression

right here no matter how much so it

doesn’t matter how much

something for example it doesn’t matter

how hard we tried or in this case past

tense it didn’t matter how hard we tried

we couldn’t stop him from smoking so no

matter what we did it didn’t matter how

hard we tried

this was something we were unable to do

so this is a long expression no matter

how much is a long expression however is

much shorter same thing in the second

sentence however badly we wanted to win

again past tense we couldn’t beat the

top team in our league so no matter how

much we wanted to win is another way to

say this so no matter how much might

sound a little bit more casual however

using however in this way sounds a

little bit more formal so if you want to

express something in a more polite way

you could use however instead of no

matter how much

so you’ll see however you’ll notice here

positioned at the beginning of these

expressions so it’s like you’re no

matter how much statement however comes

at the beginning of that we don’t see it

at the end

okay so with that then let’s continue on

to the last use of however

we use however

to express surprise or shock

like you might know the expression how

on earth so i have here a question mark

and an exclamation point we can

informally uh we can use these two

together to show like surprise and a

question at the same time so this is

kind of a formal expression and it’s a

little uncommon we don’t use this so

much so when we want to express shock

often times about like a negative

situation or like a really surprising

situation we could use this for example

however are we going to get home tonight

the car has been stolen so this is a

really shocking situation

using however here though makes the

speaker’s shock sound rather formal so

i would say this is probably not like a

really the first

this is not kind of the first thing and

most native speakers would say i think

today most native speakers would say

how are we going to get home

however there are some cases where

however could be used um to express

shock like this like a really formal

shock however are we going to get home

you can think of this like how on earth

are we going to get home so it really

kind of elevates it levels up that shock

and surprise feeling

one more example

however did you find the answer to this

question

so again surprise kind of shock we

really want to know how on earth did you

find the answer to this question i’m

really surprised however did you find

so we use these two

for polite shock but again it’s fairly

uncommon this is not a pattern that i

use very much you might see this perhaps

in like movies or tv from time to time

but again not so common in everyday

speech

so these are three ways to use however

with that in mind let’s move on to

nevertheless nevertheless so

nevertheless basically means even though

even though something

something else so even though a b is

kind of the field let’s look at some

examples first

we got lost driving in a new city

nevertheless we made it to the airport

on time

and

many said her dream project couldn’t be

done

nevertheless she continued working to

achieve it so in both of these sentences

we see nevertheless comes at the

beginning of the second sentence

when we use nevertheless in this way it

means even though

the thing previously said so

even though

this thing in sentence one so a

nevertheless comma

b is a very common pattern with

nevertheless

same thing here many said her dream

project couldn’t be done is our a

statement nevertheless so nevertheless

meaning even though

many said her dream project couldn’t be

done

she continued working to achieve it so

what’s the difference why should i use

nevertheless instead of even though

nevertheless sounds a bit more formal

than even though if you want something

to sound a little bit more serious

less casual you could use nevertheless

in a pattern like these

so we essentially keep the meaning of

even though we just make kind of a

different sentence structure there

okay so with this in mind then i want to

go to despite and then we’ll compare

these two so despite just like

nevertheless means even though actually

yes but when we use despite we need to

build different sentence structures so

let’s look at the examples first i ran

out of time to style my hair before an

important meeting despite that my

presentation went well

one more

despite the fact that she arrived late

at the airport she made it to the

conference on time

so you might notice here i’m not using

despite alone in my first example

sentence i’m using despite that

my second sentence despite the fact that

this is a key difference between despite

and nevertheless when we use despite we

have to connect it to a noun phrase when

we use nevertheless we do not

so this is the key difference between

these two

so when i say connect despite to a noun

phrase i mean patterns like these

despite

that where that

is your a statement so despite that

means the statement that came before

that means despite the fact i ran out of

time to style my hair before an

important meeting so even though this

happened my presentation went well

that’s what it means

so we have to use

that or maybe this as well that could be

okay depending on your situation so we

have to use that we cannot use just

despite we can’t do that we must include

that noun phrase

so some common examples of that as i

said despite that or despite the fact

that as i’ve done here

or just despite a

b so i don’t have an example sentence

here but we could change um one of these

sentences

to

use just despite at the beginning of the

sentence

so for example um

despite

my

favorite donut shop being open every day

um

i didn’t go this morning for example so

you could make an example sentence or

you could make a sentence an a statement

here and attach it directly to despite

but essentially it has to be some kind

of noun phrase

we need to use something in direct

connection to despite here so this is a

key difference with nevertheless so we

always follow um nevertheless or i’m

sorry we always introduce our a point

and then introduce nevertheless so it’s

like a nevertheless b it will always

follow that pattern

so one more point i want to mention here

is the very closely related in spite of

in spite of so in spite of

we can actually use this to replace

despite they have the same meaning the

same function just be careful we use in

spite of as a phrase as a set phrase to

mean

despite so for example

in spite of that

or

in spite of the fact that

or in spite of a

b

so if you want to use in spite of you

can you can replace despite with in

spite of

so to summarize all of this over here

nevertheless we can think of

nevertheless like despite that then we

can think of despite as equal to

in spite of

and we can think of nevertheless as in

spite of that

so these are kind of the equivalents the

things that are equal to each other

when we’re using these words so yes they

all mean even though they have the same

meaning but it’s just that the way we

make the sentence is a little bit

different so i hope that this helps i’ll

say too that i feel despite is a little

more commonly used despite that or

despite the fact that is a little more

commonly used than nevertheless or in

spite of

but actually everything is common but i

think the most common perhaps is despite

from this group okay so this is a quick

introduction to however nevertheless and

despite and in spite of if you have any

questions or comments or if there’s

something else you would like to know

about this topic please let us know in

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hi everybody my name is alicia in this

lesson i’m going to talk about using

should i’m going to explain using should

for the past and for the future so i’m

going to introduce how you make

statements and questions for past tense

use of should and i’m going to talk

about the same thing for future tense

uses of shid so let’s begin

i want to start this lesson by talking

about the past tense version

when we use should in the past in a

positive statement we do it to express

regret so regret means a sorry feeling

or a sad feeling so it expresses regret

for something that did not happen so

this is a key point here yes it’s a

positive statement but we’re talking

about something that did not happen and

we feel sad about it so to visualize

this i’ve created a timeline here with

the past over here

now the present our conversation and

future

so if you can imagine

when we make positive statements with

should in the past tense we can imagine

it’s something that did not happen so

it’s before the present before now

did not happen and we feel sad about it

so when we want to make a sentence like

this we can use a pattern such as this

one this is a very basic pattern

we can use subject plus should

plus have and then the past participle

form of a verb so this part right here

this makes it a past tense statement

we’ll see this is quite different when

we’re making future tense statements

so i’ll show some examples of this in

just a moment

let’s compare this then to the negative

form when we make a negative statement

using should in the past it expresses

regret again that sad feeling it

expresses regret for something that

happened so yes it’s a negative sentence

but this action happened it was real

so again to imagine this visually in the

past something actually did happen so i

used a check mark here this is a true

event a real event

and we regret

or there’s some kind of sad feeling

about that thing

so

when we make sentences in the negative

with this grammar point we can use

subject again plus should here we’ll use

should

not and then complete this pattern with

have and the past participle verb so the

only change here is using not when we

make the negative there’s nothing here

so this is the basic kind of statement

structure for

past tense statements with should

then i’ve added here a simple question

structure a simple information question

structure here we can use a wh question

wh means who what when where why how

those kinds of things

so we use a wh question with should

plus our subject

have and the past participle verb

so i’ll explain a few examples of this

in just a moment

with this i want to continue to the next

part over here which is pronunciation

tips

so you’ve noticed perhaps that should

and have and should not have

when people are speaking these become

reduced or these become much shorter so

you’ll hear these two used most commonly

we don’t really say should have or

should not have so clearly when we’re

making positive sentences the most

common reduction is this should’ve

should have so should have this is

should apostrophe v

e should have should have this should

comes from should

have so this have

it’s like we drop the ha part and just

use the v

sound so should’ve should’ve

to make it even shorter you’ll often

hear people use shoulda shoulda so this

uh sound is like taking only this a here

in have but it just becomes very short i

shoulda i should not is the negative

form of this so let’s continue on

as i’ve just said shouldn’t have we

contract this should not here

should not contracts to shouldn’t

shouldn’t shouldn’t have

but to make it even shorter we often say

shouldn’t

shouldn’t

so

positive shoulda

negative shouldn’t

so let’s take a look at some examples

that use these patterns first let’s look

at two positive statements

i should have studied more i should have

studied more and we should have gone to

the store we should have gone to the

store so here we see should is followed

by have and then the past participle

form of the verb in this case studied

and gone so this shows us that we have a

past tense statement these statements

express regret

so when we’re speaking quickly we

probably won’t say i should have studied

more or we should have gone to the store

i would say i should have studied more

and we should have gone to the store so

as i explained this pronunciation is the

most common one shoulda i should have

studied more we should have gone to the

store

let’s compare this to two negative

statements then

she shouldn’t

have done that so here i’ve already

reduced this shouldn’t

she shouldn’t have done that and

you shouldn’t have had so much to drink

so again these two express regret for

something that did happen so in both of

these sentences

that something whatever this is this was

a bad thing the speaker thinks this was

bad

in the second sentence as well the

speaker thinks this was a bad choice so

expressing regret about something that

happened

then again as i talked about here i

would reduce this even more i’ve got

shouldn’t in both of these sentences but

in everyday speech we would probably say

she shouldn’t have done that and you

shouldn’t have had so much to drink you

shouldn’t have done that you shouldn’t

have had so much to drink so this

shouldn’t and shoulda these are key

pronunciation points that will help you

um kind of in your listening and also to

help you sound a little more natural

okay let’s finish this part by looking

at two questions then first

what should we have done differently

what should we have done differently and

where should we have gone where should

we have gone so both of these they

maintain they keep that feeling of

regret

when you’re using a question like this

you’re asking about something

it would have been better to do in the

past so it’s a question that means

an action happened yes and these

questions are about improvements to that

action so here for example what should

we have done differently what should we

have done differently means for example

the speaker or a group

here speaking

made a decision

but perhaps it was not the right

decision or it was a bad decision

so the speaker’s asking

what choice what should we have done

differently is like saying what do you

think

would have been better in the past what

should we have done differently same

thing in the second sentence where

should we have gone where should we have

gone

so maybe the speaker

went to the wrong location and they’re

asking for advice in the past of course

we cannot change this but this is

actually a common way that we ask for

like future advice

so it’s recognizing oh i made a mistake

in the past so maybe next time i have a

similar situation what do you recommend

but we use this kind of grammar to ask

these sorts of questions like okay in

this case where should i have gone what

should we have done differently so that

you can think about that for the future

so these are situations where you might

use questions like these

okay

with that then with past tense let’s

move on to looking at future uses of

should so

let’s begin again with positive

statements so when we make a positive

statement with should

we’re expressing advice actually so we

don’t have that regret feeling here

we’re expressing advice and the speaker

thinks this advice is a good idea so

again to visualize it here we’re looking

at a different point in time with the

past we were talking about something

that finished or something that did not

happen

here we’re talking about an action in

the future so here is my conversation

now when we make a positive statement

with should we’re talking about

something the speaker thinks is a good

idea in the future an upcoming thing so

i’ve marked it with a check to make a

positive statement a simple pattern is

your subject plus should and here the

present tense form of your verb so in

past tense we use this past participle

form here we’re using the present tense

form of the verb so no verb change is

necessary here

now let’s compare this to a negative

statement so a negative statement with

should also expresses advice yes

but the speaker thinks it’s a bad idea

this is a bad idea so positive good idea

negative bad idea with should

then to make a negative statement an

advice statement about the future

we use subject

plus should not and again the present

tense form of the verb so you’ll notice

again this is very similar to the past

tense form

just keep in mind we also don’t use have

there’s no have in present or rather

future forms of this

okay then again let’s finish with a

simple question pattern too

when we make a question like an

information question we can begin with

this wh question word plus should

our subject and then the present tense

form of the verb

so this is a key point for

the difference between these two we’re

using different verb forms for future

and past tenses okay let’s move along

then to some pronunciation points here

this one is much shorter than the past

tense version but

when we’re using should

to make a positive statement there’s not

really a change should

here though i would recommend definitely

use the reduced shouldn’t shouldn’t it’s

going to sound more natural than should

not

so just a quick point here try to use

this shouldn’t sound

okay so let’s look at some examples that

use this

let’s start with some positive

expressions first

you should find a new job you should

find a new job and he should work harder

he should work harder so you’ll notice

here again we have should plus our

present tense verb form so find and work

are both present tense verbs you should

find a new job he should work harder so

the speaker thinks these are good ideas

so these are positive statements

positive advice uh bits i guess

um let’s compare this to some negative

statements then

she shouldn’t give up she shouldn’t give

up and you shouldn’t eat so much junk

food you shouldn’t eat so much junk food

so these two are expressing something

the speaker thinks is a bad idea so in

the first sentence

she shouldn’t give up in other words

to give up is bad or giving up is a bad

idea

in the second sentence you shouldn’t eat

so much junk food

is saying eating a lot of junk food is a

bad idea

so here you’ll notice maybe too i’ve

called this future these are just kind

of general life recommendations i call

it the future here because it’s like

saying from now on from this

conversation on this is my advice for

you so maybe especially in a sentence

like this you shouldn’t eat so much junk

food maybe the speaker is looking at

someone eating a lot of junk food and

they give this advice you shouldn’t eat

so much junk food

okay so let’s finish then with a couple

of questions so common questions first

one what should i do

what should i do a very common advice

question and second

when should we leave when should we

leave so a native pace i would say what

should i do and when should we leave

so these are common questions these are

asking for advice in the future here so

asking what do you think in other words

what’s your opinion

what should i do in other words what do

you think is a good idea for me for the

future and in the second sentence when

should we leave what time do you think

is a good time to leave in the future so

we can make these kinds of questions as

well giving or rather asking for future

advice

okay so that’s a quick introduction to

using should for past tense statements

and questions and for future tense

statements and questions i hope that it

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hi everybody my name is alicia in this

lesson i’m going to talk about the

differences between seams sounds and

looks especially when using the word

like as in seems like or sounds like or

looks like so let’s get started all

right i first want to talk about seems

like seems or seems like we use these in

slightly different ways

first we use seams to make general

guesses about things we cannot confirm

or things we cannot check so when i say

we cannot confirm it’s like something

that we can’t test quickly we can’t

check our guess right away so we use

seams to make guesses about these kinds

of things

second we can use seams directly before

an adjective or an adverb

third we use seems like

before a noun phrase so please keep in

mind

seems no like comes before an adjective

or an adverb seems like comes before a

noun phrase so this is a key difference

and we’ll see this same pattern with the

other words in this lesson too so let’s

look at a few examples

first

you seem tired you seem tired and she

seems nice she seems nice these are

examples where we use seams with an

adjective so tired and nice are

adjectives we just use seam or seams

because we conjugate for this subject

here so when we use it in this way

before an adjective or an adverb we do

not use like

let’s look at this other example

sentence though this seems like a nice

place to stop for lunch a nice place to

stop for lunch so here we have this noun

phrase yes the word nice is in this noun

phrase there’s an adjective in here but

this right here this is a nice place so

we’re talking about the place actually

it’s not just the adjective that this is

modifying so we need to use seams like

to talk about it so that place seems

like a nice place we could say it seems

nice sure but if we’re talking about the

place the actual noun we need to use

seems like to describe that so it seems

like a nice place okay

uh so with this in mind with seams in

mind which we use for general guesses

let’s continue on to the next part which

focuses on sounds sounds so

we use sounds and sounds like

to make guesses about things based on

information we get with our ears so that

means we hear something and we make a

guess

based on the thing that we heard so i

hear something like from another room or

i hear a sound from outside i make a

guess about the situation

based on that sound so i got the

information with my ears

second point which is the same as seems

we use sounds directly before an

adjective or an adverb again and here

also sounds

without the word like we don’t use like

here just sounds or sound

third as we talked about with seams we

use sounds like before a noun phrase so

some examples of sounds

first she sounds sick she sounds sick so

sick is an adjective we’re using sounds

here because our subject is she she

sounds sick you sound sick it’s how we

would use this so sick

we use this adjective here because maybe

the guess is based on like hearing

someone coughing like that

sound you might think hmm that person

sounds sick or maybe they’re sneezing or

maybe they just are making some kind of

awful sound and you think that person

sounds sick so that’s based on

information we get with our ears

second example sentence that sounds

great that sounds great this is a very

useful and very common response to an

idea or a suggestion like for example do

you want to see a movie tonight that

sounds great so it’s like you heard the

suggestion you got that suggestion with

your ears and your response is that

sounds great so

that’s a good idea in other words so

this is a very common way that we use

sounds in this pattern to respond

positively to a suggestion that sounds

great

third

that sounds like a bad idea that sounds

like a bad idea so this is a good

negative response to a suggestion if

someone tells you like let’s stay up all

night drinking energy drinks you could

say that sounds like a bad idea so again

this is for information we got with our

ears and in this case it’s a noun phrase

a bad idea so again there is an

adjective here the adjective is

modifying the noun idea so that sounds

like a bad idea a bad idea is the noun

phrase therefore we have to use sounds

like in this sentence we use like here

that sounds like a bad idea so you’ll

notice sounds like and seems like or

just seams and sounds follow a similar

pattern but sounds is used for

information we get with our ears

okay so with this in mind let’s go to

the last word for this lesson looks or

looks like

looks like is a little different from

seams and sounds because there are two

different ways that we use the look

pattern or the looks like pattern

first

in the same way as we use the other two

words we can use looks for guesses about

things based on information we get with

our eyes so sounds

is specifically for information we get

with our ears looks is used for

information we get with our eyes

so again we use this before an adjective

or an adverb just look or looks

and we use looks like before a noun

phrase some examples of this

first

this hiking trail looks difficult so

here’s my adjective difficult i’ve used

looks here so this hiking trail is my

subject it looks difficult so no like

here so i want to express

like i’m making a guess i think this is

difficult it looks difficult based on

like my visual understanding of it so if

you’re standing in front of the hiking

trail and you look at the hiking trail

and it seems really hard like i just

said seems that’s okay too if it seems

difficult you can say wow this looks

difficult

so another key point for this lesson so

i just used seams to talk about using

like the word looks so

i mentioned that seems is used for like

general guesses about things yes and

it’s okay to use it there’s not a

communication problem to use it for

something you get with your information

you get with your eyes or information

you get with your ears but

if you can use looks or sounds to

describe that thing or to make your

guess it’s probably going to sound a

little more natural to use that so i

just said this hiking trail seems

difficult so that sounds quite general

but if i use this hiking trail looks

difficult it sounds better because the

listener understands i can see the trail

so i’m making a guess based on like the

information in my eyes kind of so i can

see it so that’s why i’m saying this

that’s the reason for this comment so if

you can try to use looks or sounds to

make your guess seems does sound more

general

okay another example with looks so it

looks like it’s gonna rain it looks like

it’s gonna rain this is a very common

actually way to express like a weather

prediction so it looks like it’s gonna

rain or it looks like it’s gonna snow or

it looks like it’s gonna clear up so

clear up means become clear so we use it

to talk about the weather but it looks

like it is gonna rain so it really here

is our noun phrase so looks like

is the expression we use we use like

here

but as i mentioned there are actually

two different ways of using looks like

and so this second one you need to be

careful of

the pattern that we use here is a

looks like b

so this means

a is visually similar to

b

or that means a has an appearance

similar to b so these two things share

an appearance a looks like b they look

the same

examples

that cloud looks like a rabbit so that

cloud a looks like a rabbit so that

means the two things have the same

appearance or this a similar appearance

another example your house looks like a

mansion your house a looks like a

mansion b so the two things have similar

appearances so you can pretty i think

clearly tell you can pretty clearly

understand which meaning

of looks like is intended based on the

situation is the speaker comparing

appearances or is the speaker making a

guess depending on the sentence you can

usually pretty clearly understand which

one the speaker wants to say okay so

finally a couple points here i did

mention yes if you can use looks or

sounds to describe your guess please do

that it’s very clear and second um just

a general point about the word seem is

that we use seam for like very general

feelings and experiences so in my

example sentences i was talking about

people’s emotions or maybe like my

opinion about a place so it’s kind of a

very general situation where we use seam

so this is a quick introduction to how

to use these words i hope that it was

helpful for you but if you have any

questions or comments or if you want to

practice making a sentence with one of

these please feel free to do so in the

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