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hi everybody welcome back to ask Alisha
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and I answer them maybe first
question this week comes from a scar hi
a scar Oscar says hi Alicia could you
please explain the meaning of this
phrase for me a woman 20 years his
senior
yeah this means a woman 20 years older
than him the he in this situation so we
use a number of years his or her junior
or senior to express a difference in age
so if you want to talk about someone
younger
you use the word junior to talk about
someone who is older you use the word
senior some more examples she’s working
with a team of people 10 years her
junior the manager is 5 years his senior
ok so I hope that that helps you with
your understanding of this phrase thanks
very much for the question let’s move on
to your next question next question
comes from Maxime yang hi Maxine Maxime
says hi Alicia I was wondering I heard
that the verb proposed is used for
marriage proposals only I thought I
would use the verb suggest instead but I
saw proposed used in several movies for
example I propose we go forward what’s
the truth can I use proposed or not yes
you can absolutely use the word proposed
for something other than a marriage
proposal so yes for marriage proposals
when we ask someone to marry us we do
use the word propose to propose or to
ask someone to get married those are the
two verbs we use propose however outside
of this case just means like to suggest
an idea to put something forward and it
is very commonly used in business
situations I propose we break for lunch
I propose we begin searching for a new
creative director we also very commonly
use this in the expression I’d like to
propose a toast when you’re in like
formal parties often someone like will
decide to make a speech and they’ll be
in the speech by like usually lifting up
their glass and saying I’d like to
propose a toast which means like they’re
going to present some kind of like
positive or congratulatory message to
everyone and then everybody agrees and
like cheers that kind of thing so yes
please feel free to use the word propose
outside of marriage proposal situations
thanks very much for an interesting
question
okay let’s move on to your next question
next question comes from silver way hi
silver way silver way says hi Alicia
would you please tell me the difference
between the verbs recognize admit and
acknowledge yes these words have
multiple meanings so I’ll try to
introduce the meanings that might be
kind of confusing or difficult to
understand the differences between let’s
start with the word recognize so to
recognize something means like to be
able to notice or to be able to
understand something for example I cut
my hair and the boss didn’t recognize me
I recognized you from across the room
another meaning of recognize is to
accept or to understand as acceptable
the university recognizes credits earned
in overseas courses do you recognize
qualifications from independent
organizations so the verb to admit can
mean to tell the truth about bad
behavior he admitted he broke the glass
she’s going to admit she stole the money
so to admit can also mean to allow or to
permit we often use this when we are
entering a building or like we’re
entering an organization for example I
was admitted to my first choice
University we don’t admit new students
until autumn so finally acknowledge can
mean like to recognize someone’s status
or to recognize that someone helped you
in some way it’s like an expression of
gratitude as well some examples we
acknowledge the hard work of our team he
acknowledged us as his best clients so
this is a very brief introduction
into these words if you want to know
more about the meanings and if you want
to know more about the additional
meanings of these words you can check
out a dictionary and look for some
example sentences that use these words
so you can kind of start to notice the
ways and the situations in which these
are used so thanks very much for this
question all right let’s move on to your
next question next question comes from
Jimmy hi Jimmy Jimmy says hi Alicia I
would like to know how I can teach
English to my kid a five year old boy
I’m not a native English speaker and I
don’t live in an english-speaking
country it’d be great if you could give
me some advice sure um when I was
teaching kids a really great way to
teach them was through singing and
through playing games by making the
learning process fun like kids often
didn’t even realize they were studying
it just became like an enjoyable way to
spend time a couple things to be careful
about when you’re using songs make sure
that the student that your kid
understands the correct pronunciation of
each word in the song so for example if
you’re learning the ABCs song make sure
that the student or your child
understands that each word each sound is
a letter in the alphabet so something
that I heard among little kids
especially is they would kind of
understand the melody of a song but they
would just sort of make sounds that
sounded similar to what they were
hearing so like for example when I heard
kids get to the LMNOP part of the
alphabet song which a native speaker
sings as LMNOP the kids would just go
have it because they would sort of make
these like weird sounds that weren’t
actually letters so make sure that the
kids understand exactly what they’re
doing so it’s not just like making
sounds that sounds kind of fun you’re
actually singing a song so that’s
something that you can study together
another thing you can do is use games as
part of your study materials a really
great way to do that is with flashcards
so you can make flashcards together with
your child if you want or if you’re
teaching kids you can make your
flashcards with those students
this was really good to do when there
was a picture for the kid to color and
something to write as well so if your
student is at a high enough level where
they can write the word that they’ve
drawn that’s great because they can
practice like writing the letters
themselves but having that visual and
having a word is a great way to practice
so some things that we would do we would
play just like a simple you know throw a
ball into a plastic like bucket sort of
thing like try to score points if you
get the answer right by like guessing
the correct word on the flashcard for
example so we were kind of just using
this as a way to study vocabulary that
was fun so I would say make it fun use
games and just make sure that they
understand that they’re also learning a
tool and if you have the chance to kind
of try to show them how they could maybe
use it in the future so it’s not just
fun with mom and dad but it’s also
something that they can use outside of
the home too so I hope that this helps
you and good luck with your studies with
your child thanks very much for this
question okay let’s move on to your next
question next question comes from
Marcelo Oliviero hi again Marcello
Marcello says hi Alicia what’s up could
you help me with the meaning of the
expression jump on the bandwagon yeah
jump on the bandwagon means to do the
same thing that everyone else is doing
so this comes from the expression
bandwagon so if we break down this word
band and wagon a band like a traveling
you know musician group used to or in
some cases traveled in a wagon so like a
big open kind of nut before cars a big
and open like structure on wheels so it
could like attract a lot of attention
there are lots of people there’s maybe
music and so on so you know maybe
they’re kind of popular because they
look like they’re a lot of fun so a
bandwagon to jump on the bandwagon would
mean to join that group to become a part
of that group in some way so in today’s
English to jump on the bandwagon means
to finally participate in something or
to just join a group that looks really
popular or something that is gaining a
lot of support so some examples my
friends all
jumped on the Pokemon go bandwagon right
away I finally jumped on the Netflix
bandwagon last year so if you want to be
specific about which bandwagon
you’re jumping on like which thing
you’re supporting or which like kind of
popular group you’ve joined you can put
the name of that right before bandwagon
as I did in these example sentences so I
hope that this helps you understand that
expression thanks very much for the
question okay that’s everything that I
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