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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
this video
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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
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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
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different topics you can use these to
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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
helped you of course if you have any
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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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