Whats the Difference Between England Britain and the U.K.
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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 Duong do two it hum I hope I said
that right
Duong do says hi Alicia how do I
practice listening to English better I
would say make sure you’re doing active
listening not passive listening so
passive listening is like just turning
your phone on or turning your computer
on to something English like an English
movie or an English video on YouTube or
English audio and you leave it and you
go do something else like cleaning or
cooking or doing your homework or
whatever so you’re not paying attention
to the audio you’re not paying attention
to the video at all so you’re just
listening to the background noise
they’re active listening on the other
hand is really focusing in on the things
that you’re hearing so to practice good
active listening of course you can just
listen to audio but I would recommend
trying to read along with the things the
speakers are saying so I think really
fun ways to do this are to use movies
and videos so movies turn on the
subtitles in English to do this and turn
on like YouTube captions as well you can
do that with some of the videos on our
channel and I think that there are some
auto-generated captions that you can use
on our YouTube channel as well so I
would recommend reading along as you
listen so this helps you because it can
help you identify the pronunciations of
unfamiliar words so words that you don’t
know you can learn how to pronounce them
you can also hear the different ways
that native speakers connect words in
everyday speech you can learn how words
are stressed in everyday speech and you
can just pick up new vocabulary words
and work on some grammar patterns too so
I would recommend you practice active
listening not just passive listening
passive listening is fun and easy but
try to do active listening as well so
that you’re really focusing on gaining
new things I hope that this helps you
and good luck with your continued
listening studies okay let’s move on to
your next question next question comes
from Barrett VIN hello bahut bin Fahad
bin says what is the difference between
England British and United Kingdom okay
England is a country one country it is a
noun for example I went to England last
year have you ever been to England
British is an adjective
something that is British is something
or someone that comes from Great Britain
so Great Britain is the largest of the
islands in the British Isles examples my
roommate is British do you speak British
or American English I speak American
English the United Kingdom or the UK is
an area that’s made up of most of the
islands in the British Isles including
Great Britain and it’s made up of a
small part of the northeastern part of
Ireland as well as a few other small
islands in the area this is referred to
as the United Kingdom or the UK examples
have you ever been to the UK I hear it’s
rainy in the United Kingdom okay so I
hope that this helps you understand the
differences between these words thanks
very much for the question all right
moving along to your next question this
week next question comes from Alex hi
Alex Alex says hi what’s the difference
between bush and forest thanks okay in
American English Bush and forest are
quite different however in Australian
English the word Bush could be used to
mean something kind of similar to forest
so first let’s look at how Bush is used
in American English in American English
bush is used to refer to like a shrub
it’s one single plant that is low to the
ground people usually have them in front
of their houses or in a forest among the
trees you might see bushes uh like below
trees so they’re usually not very big
maybe this size or so it depends it
depends on the type of plant but a bush
is a single unit
it’s a single plant examples my
grandparents have lots of bushes in
their yard there’s a row of bushes
leading up to the castle so some of you
may know that this word does have
another slang meaning but it is totally
unrelated to plant life so you can
google that if you like so Bush can also
refer to like an area of wild lands like
untamed creatures and just free growing
plants but that’s something that we only
use in Australian English American
English speakers and to my knowledge
British English speakers do not use this
word forest on the other hand refers to
a huge huge huge area of trees and
creatures and all kinds of wildlife so
for example the Amazon rainforest is a
huge forest so it’s not just one unit
not just one tree or one group of
animals but it’s the whole area all the
plants all the wildlife everything in
that area that’s a forest area so I hope
that this helps you understand the
differences between these words thanks
for an interesting question okay let’s
move on to your next question next
question comes from that’s a sloth hi
spot is love I hope I said that
correctly so that is lots s hi Alicia
could you explain the difference between
other and another okay I talked about
this in a previous episode of ask Alicia
so if you want some more example
sentences and a little bit of a
different explanation you can check out
that video so we use other when we’re
referring to the known alternative in a
situation so if for example our camera
person offers me these two markers and
he offers me the red one but I can see
the blue one I can say no I want the
other one I want this one I want the
other marker so I use the other because
I see that there are two choices in the
situation I am offered one but I say no
I want the other one in the situation we
use another when we want to refer to
something outside the known situation so
here if I’m offer
a red marker and a blue marker and I
don’t want either I can say do you have
another color and maybe I’ll get the
black marker so it’s outside of my
existing options it’s outside of the
known situation another one so for
another example of how we use another
and the other you can check out the
previous episode of ask Alisha that I
talked about I hope that that gives you
another example and another explanation
that can help you understand the
differences between these words so I
hope that that helps you thanks very
much for this question okay let’s move
on to your next question next question
comes from Emma hi Emma
Emma says hi Alicia I’m wondering what I
should say when people ask me what my
job is and I’m just a housewife and
raising kids is it okay to say I have no
job I’m just a housewife well yes but I
definitely wouldn’t say just or I have
no job because I think many people now
today recognized that being a housewife
is a like a kind of job so you could say
yes I’m just a housewife but because
there’s a lot of work related to taking
care of a house and taking care of
children I would say don’t use just just
say I’m a housewife and explain I take
care of my home and my children so I
hope that this helps you yes using
housewife is a great way to describe
what you do thanks very much for your
question okay that is everything that I
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