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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and i answer them
maybe okay let's get to your first
question this week
first question this week comes from
hamza hi hamza
hamza says hello alicia thank you so
much for your great efforts my question
how do i tell time in informal speech
okay the simplest way is just to say
it's
number plus number so two numbers
if however you're at the top of the hour
which means like the minute hand and
the hour hand are at the top of the
clock then you can just say
it's plus number like it's 12 or it's 6
or it's 7.
so for example you could say it's 2 45
or it's 6 15 or it's 8.
this is the simplest way to describe the
time to share the time in
informal speech it's not necessarily
more formal to use expressions like
quarter till
or quarter after or half past and so on
it's not more formal to do that it's
just a different way of expressing it so
please feel free to use those
expressions like it's a quarter after
two or it's a quarter till six those are
fine
you can use those i will say however
that we don't use
a clock very much we don't really say
like seven o'clock
that much we tend to just say it's seven
or it's eight
again it's not incorrect to use these by
any means you can
totally use them feel free to use them
but i would say the most direct way
to tell the time is just to say it's
plus the number so i hope that this
helps you thanks for the question
okay let's move on to your next question
next question
comes from chris hi chris chris says hi
alicia
i would like to know what that's that
sorted means
this may be more common in british
english i try to google it but i can't
find its meaning can you please explain
thanks sure we can talk about it so
first let's take a look at the word
sorted so sorted comes from originally
the expression
sorted out so as you mentioned this is
more commonly used in british english
so sorted out or to sort something out
means to take
care of something usually like to solve
a problem
or like to finish a task or like take
care of some kind of
challenging or difficult activity so
sorted comes from
sorted out so even though we're using
just sorted here it still
keeps that same meaning of to take care
of something
sorted so let's add one word here so
that's sorted means that task is sorted
or
that task is taken care of or i took
care of
that task then we add this that's
to the beginning of this so that's that
sorted so
that's refers to a situation
like okay by doing this or through this
situation
that task was taken care of so this may
be easier to understand if we have a
situation
let's imagine you need to give a report
to your boss
and the report has some negative
information in it so you don't really
want to do it
but it's your responsibility so you go
meet with your boss you share the
information
after the meeting you tell your
co-worker well that's that's sorted
which means that task has been taken
care of or
with this action that task has been
taken care of
so that's that sorted is a as you said
kind of british way to express this
feeling so i hope that this helps you
thanks for an interesting question okay
let's move on to our next question
next question comes from raya akaputra
hi raya
raya says what are the differences among
perhaps
probably and maybe okay let's talk about
probably
first we use probably to refer to
actions that have a very
high chance of happening like 80 or so
we often use probably with future tense
expressions with like will
or going to like i'll probably go
jogging tonight
or we'll probably watch a movie later or
we're probably going to go to the beach
this weekend so we're expressing a
high chance of something with probably
perhaps and maybe on the other hand
refer to something that just has a
chance of happening we're very unsure
about that thing
in terms of meaning these two are the
same they have the same meaning
but perhaps sounds more formal than
maybe we use maybe in everyday speech we
use perhaps
in like writing for example if you want
to write a more formal letter you want
to sound a little bit more polite
you might use perhaps you can also use
perhaps in speech too to sound a little
bit more polite
but again these have the same meaning
they just sound a little bit different
in terms of their formality so some
examples
perhaps we can talk about this next week
maybe we can discuss this after lunch
okay so i hope that this helps you
understand the differences between
probably
maybe and perhaps thanks for the
question okay let's move on to your next
question
next question comes from so van hi
sylvan
so van says i have a question about
these two sentences
should i say i went to the store this
morning
or i went to the store last morning i'm
wondering if
this can be used with past tense ah yeah
nice question we use this before morning
afternoon and evening with those time of
day expressions like this morning this
afternoon this evening
we can also use it with future tense
expressions like future tense time of
day expressions
we can also use it with a future week or
day or month
expressions too we do not however
use last with time of day expressions we
don't say
last morning or last afternoon or
last evening instead when we're talking
about
the day before we just use yesterday
like yesterday morning or yesterday
afternoon or yesterday evening
so when you're talking about today
something that happened today
and you want to talk about something
from that day's morning use
this make sure you use this in contrast
then you can use
last when you're talking about almost
any other time period so you can use
this with a day of the week like last
monday last tuesday
you can use it with a weekend last
weekend you can use it with a month like
last month
like that or you can use it with the
name of a month last april
last september you can use it with years
last year or
decades last decade if you want to for
some reason but we use
this when we're talking about a time
period
in the day this morning this afternoon
this evening and we also will use this
to talk about future time periods to
know the difference we just depend on
the context we look
at the context clues to understand if
it's a
sentence or an expression about
something that happened that day
or something in the future so i hope
that this helps you thanks for the
question
okay let's move on to our next question
next question comes from
samuel hi samuel samuel says how do i
improve
spelling read reading is the most
important thing you can do i think to
improve your spelling
so especially with english english words
are often
not spelled the way that they sound and
so reading words in books
will help you to identify over time the
correct way to spell
a variety of different words and a
variety of different sounds as well
so think of it not just as reading like
one word at a time and memorizing the
way that that one word is spelled which
sometimes is useful as you read you'll
start to identify or you'll start to
find
patterns in the ways certain sounds are
spelled so over time you'll start to
notice some things are spelled similarly
some things are just totally irregular
but one thing that you can do that will
really really help your spelling
is read the other thing you can do is
write so after you read
make sure you spend some time writing
those words
so writing will help things stick a
little bit better in your brain take the
time maybe to write a note
or to write something down write an idea
down that uses that word
so just make sure that you practice
reading and writing this will help you
with your spelling
i hope that this helps you thanks very
much for the question okay
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第一个问题 本周第一个问题来自
hamza 嗨 hamza
hamza 说你好 alicia
非常感谢你的努力 我的问题
我如何在非正式演讲中告诉时间
好吧最简单的方法就是说
数字加数字所以两个数字
如果你在小时的顶部，
这意味着分针
和时针在时钟的顶部，
那么你可以
说它是加号，比如它是 12 或它是 6
或它
- 例如，您可以说是 2 45
或 6 15 或 8。
这是描述在非正式演讲中分享时间的最简单方法
，使用 quarte 之类的表达方式不一定更正式
r 直到
或四分之一之后或半点半等等 这样
做并不正式，这
只是表达它的一种不同方式，所以
请随意使用这些
表达方式，比如两点之后的
一刻或六点之后的一刻，这些都
很好，
你 可以使用那些我会说
但是我们不经常
使用时钟我们并没有真正说
像七点钟
那样我们倾向于只是说它是七点
或者
它又是八点无论如何使用这些都是不正确
的 你可以
完全使用它们随意使用它们，
但我会说最直接的方式
来告诉时间就是说它
加上数字所以我希望这
可以帮助你谢谢你的问题
好吧让我们继续你的下一个问题
问题
来自克里斯嗨克里斯克里斯说嗨
艾丽西亚
我想知道这是什么
排序意味着
这可能在英国
英语中更常见我尝试用谷歌搜索但我
找不到它的意思你能解释一下
谢谢肯定我们可以谈谈 所以
首先让我们来看看 看这个词
sorted so sorted 最初来自
这个表达
sorted so 正如你提到的 这
在英式英语中更常用
so sorted out or to sort something out
意思是
照顾一些事情，通常喜欢
解决问题
或喜欢完成 一项任务或类似
处理某种
具有挑战性或困难的活动 so
sorted 来自
sorted 所以即使我们在
这里使用 just sorted 它仍然
保持相同的含义 to
care something
sorted 所以让我们在这里添加一个词所以
that's sorted 表示任务已排序
或
该任务已处理或我已
处理
该任务然后我们将 this 添加到
this 的开头，所以这就是排序的，
所以
它指的是这样的情况，
通过这样做或通过这种
情况
该任务已完成，因此
如果我们遇到这种情况，这可能更容易理解
让我们假设您需要
向您的老板
报告并且报告中有一些负面
信息，所以您 你真的
不想这样做，
但这是你的责任，所以你
去见你的老板你
在会后分享信息你告诉你
的同事很好，这就是排序
，这意味着任务已经
处理或采取
了这个行动 这项任务已经
完成，
所以这就是你所说的
那种表达这种感觉的英国方式，
所以我希望这可以帮助你
感谢一个有趣的问题，好吧，
让我们继续我们的下一个问题
下一个问题来自 raya akaputra
嗨 raya
raya 说
也许
可能和也许好吧之间有什么区别让我们先谈谈
可能吧，
我们用可能来指代
很有可能发生的动作，
比如 80 左右，所以
我们经常将可能与将来时态的
表达方式一起使用，比如 will
或 会喜欢我今晚可能会去
慢跑，
或者我们可能会稍后看电影，或者
我们可能会在这个周末去海滩，
所以我们表示
很有可能会做某事 g with probably
and maybe 另一方面
指的是有
可能发生的事情 我们非常
不确定这件事
的含义 这两个是
相同的 他们具有相同的含义
但也许听起来比
也许我们更正式 在日常用语中使用 Maybe
在类似写作中使用 例如如果你
想写一封更正式的信 你
想让听起来更有礼貌
你可以使用 Maybe 你也可以在演讲中使用 Maybe 来让你
听起来更有礼貌
但是这些具有相同的含义，
它们只是在形式上听起来有点不同
，所以一些
例子
也许我们可以在下周
讨论这个也许我们可以在午餐后讨论这个，
好吧，所以我希望这可以帮助你
理解可能之间的区别
也许也许谢谢你的
问题好吧让我们继续你的下一个
问题
下一个问题来自so van hi
sylvan
所以van说我对这两个句子有疑问
我应该说我今天
早上
去商店还是我昨天早上去商店我
想知道
这是否可以与过去时一起使用啊是的
很好的问题我们在早上
下午和晚上之前用这样的
一天中的时间表达 早上今天
下午今天晚上
我们也可以将它与未来时态表达一起使用，
例如未来时
态表达
我们也可以将它与未来一周、
一天或一个月的
表达一起使用，但是我们不
使用 last 和我们不使用的时间表达
' 不要说
昨天早上或昨天下午或
昨晚，而是当我们谈论
前一天时，我们只是使用昨天，
例如昨天早上或昨天
下午或昨天晚上，
所以当您谈论今天时，您想谈论今天
发生的事情
关于
那天早上的某些事情，请
确保您使用它，
然后您可以
在谈论几乎
任何其他时间段时使用最后一个，这样您就可以使用
这个wi 一周中的某一天，例如
上个星期一 上个星期二，
您可以将其与周末一起
使用
如果您出于某种原因想使用去年的几年或过去十年的几十年，
但我们
在今天早上今天下午
今天晚上谈论当天的时间段时使用它，我们也将使用它
来谈论未来的时间段 要
知道差异，我们只依赖
于上下文我们
查看上下文线索以了解
它是
关于
当天发生的某事
或将来某事的句子或表达，所以我
希望这对您有所帮助，谢谢您的
问题
好吧，让我们开始吧 关于我们的下一个问题
下一个问题来自
samuel 嗨 samuel samuel 说我如何
提高
拼写阅读阅读是
你能做的最重要的事情我认为
提高你的
拼写尤其是英语 rds
的
拼写通常不是它们的发音方式，
因此阅读书中的单词
将帮助您随着时间的推移确定
拼写各种不同单词和
各种不同声音的正确方法，
所以不要把它想象成阅读
一次一个单词并
记住该单词的拼写方式，这
有时在您阅读时很有用
您将开始识别或开始以
某些声音的拼写方式找到模式，
因此随着时间的流逝您会开始
注意有些东西拼写相似
有些东西完全不规则，
但是你可以做的一件事
真的会帮助你的
拼写阅读你可以做的另一件事是
写，所以在你阅读之后
确保你花一些时间写
这些单词
所以写作会帮助
你的大脑更好地坚持一些事情 花
时间写一个笔记
或写下一些东西
写下一个使用这个词的想法
所以只要确保你练习
阅读和 写这篇文章将有助于你
的拼写
我希望这对你有帮助
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