How To Use Pretty And That
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm
I think this lesson isn’t that hard in
fact it’s pretty easy let’s get started
a lot of my students use the word very a
lot it’s very delicious
very hot very hard very slow but today I
want to tell you two more words that you
can add to your vocabulary so that you
don’t always have to say very these
words are called intensifiers because
they make what you’re saying more
intense they make it stronger if you
want to say very of course you can say
very hot really hot but what if it’s not
really hot what if it’s a little bit
less than that you can say pretty pretty
and in American English T’s often change
to DS so we could say pretty pretty you
could say last weekend was pretty rainy
or I’m pretty happy that it’s over now
I’m pretty happy that it’s not raining
now pretty it’s pretty hot today it’s
pretty chilly in the fall pretty the
second intensifier is the word that that
usually we use that in a negative
sentence for example you could say it’s
not that hot today I’m not that hungry
yet a lot of my students say I’m not
very hungry yet it’s not very hot today
that’s okay you can say this but the
word that is probably used more often
and I want to give you some more options
so that you aren’t saying the same words
again and again it’s not that hot today
it’s not that hard to use this
expression on my website I’m going to
give some more details and sample
sentences about how to use the words
pretty and that in a natural way so if
you are not on my web
site if you are on YouTube or another
website click the link below this video
so that you can see the full free lesson
and now it’s your turn to write a sample
sentence I want you to write below this
video a sample sentence 1 or 2 using
these intensifiers pretty that I’ll
check your sample sentence and try to
give you some feedback I’m looking
forward to seeing what you write and
I’ll talk to you later bye