Improve your Vocabulary: Stop saying VERY!

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"Getting from here to there, it's been a long while."
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Oh, hi.
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My time is finally here.
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James from engVid.
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I can't believe this, this is like the Mirror Universe.
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If you watch Star Trek, you'll understand; if not, go watch Mirror Universe with Star
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Trek.
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I have two, look at them, I have two Mr. Es.
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In the first one Mr. E is hot, and the first one Mr. E is cold.
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Let's go to the board.
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E, what's up?
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"It's very hot.
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35 degrees centigrade."
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You're right.
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I see you're wearing your Bermuda shorts.
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And the second E is saying he's very cold: "It's minus 30 degrees centigrade."
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Ow, this isn't good.
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I feel for you.
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But don't you think there are better ways to say it's very hot or it's very cold?
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I think so, and in today's lesson I'm going to teach some of you...
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Not some of you.
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I'm going to teach all of you how to get rid of the word "very" to describe everything,
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and use other words which give more information, which will make you sound more like a native
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speaker and make your writing phenomenal.
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Oh, "phenomenal"?
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That's a word for "very good".
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Are you ready?
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Let's go to the board.
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So, today's lesson is on "very".
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"Very" is a very good word, that's why we use it, but when you're writing, to hear somebody
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say: "Very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very" is what we call monotonous, it
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means "mono" as one, "tonous", one tone, one sound - very boring.
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So let's change that from you being...
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You know, using "very" because I teach and I notice a lot of students saying things,
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like: "Teacher, today it's very cold outside."
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I'm like: -"Yeah, it is."
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-"And I'm very tired and very hungry."
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I'm like: "Okay, okay."
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It's like being punched in the face again and again, and I just want to say: "Stop with
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the 'very'.
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Use a different word."
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But it's not fair because "very" is a very good word-there, I did it again-we just need
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to find other words to make your language sound richer to improve it so you sound more
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like a native English speaker, and to make it more interesting for you because it will
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express more of who you are and your ideas in a better way.
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It makes you unique.
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You ready?
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Let's go to the board.
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You'll notice I put "very" in red because this is something we don't want to do, we
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don't want to keep saying: "very".
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We want to change that up.
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And I'm going to give you a list of words that people or students usually say when they
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say "very" that I've heard many, many times.
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And maybe you've done this.
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And today I'm going to give you singular words to use instead.
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I'll explain them, just in case they're difficult.
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Let's start with the first one.
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People say: "Very rude", instead of saying that, you can say: "vulgar".
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"Vulgar" means very rude, and if somebody says to me: "Your language is vulgar", I'll
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probably stop talking because it means it's not right, it's inappropriate, it's very bad.
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Vulgar.
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"I don't like your vulgar tone", your rude tone.
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It's strong.
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"Very short", another word we say is "brief", which means small.
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We had a very brief...
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We had a very brief conversation, a very short conversation.
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Cool?
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"Boring".
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When you say: "Class was very boring today", you can say: "dull".
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"Dull" means very boring.
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It also means... See?
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Here's a bonus when you use these words, stupid.
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If you say someone is dull, you can say they're very boring, or dull meaning they're stupid.
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Don't use it like that too often; people don't like being called stupid.
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And if you say: "He's rather dull, isn't he?"
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I have to listen for context to mean stupid or boring.
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Next one, everybody's favourite: "Very good".
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"Teacher, the food is very good.
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The lesson is very good.
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I like this, it's very good."
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Why don't we change that to the word "superb"?
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Look carefully at the word "superb", you have the word "super" written inside it.
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"Super" means what?
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Above average, excellent, or superb, very good.
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"The food was superb."
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People don't usually use this word, so if you tell me when I cook for you that it's
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superb, I'm telling you right now I will take that as such an amazing compliment.
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Gentlemen, if you tell a woman she looks superb, she'll be like: "Thank you.
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Really?"
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Because no one says it.
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All right?
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"Freezing", you can say: "It's very cold outside", but in minus 35, it's freezing.
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I can put meat outside and it will turn to ice, it's freezing, that's how cold it is.
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And if you tell me it's freezing, I'm going to get a jacket and another coat, and a hat,
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and a scarf because I know it's very, very cold.
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You don't have to say: "It's very, very cold today."
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Say: "It's freezing."
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Next, here's a nice word, this is what we call a $10 word.
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Cha-ching.
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"Ravenous".
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Even when you say it, there's: "Arr, arr".
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When you're ravenous, you're not hungry.
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If you walk into a restaurant and say: "I'm ravenous", they will get all the cooks together
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and start cooking right away, immediately, knowing that they have to feed you because
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you'll eat everything.
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You can use this about l'amour, the love.
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"I'm ravenous for l'amour.
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I love it.
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I'm hungry for it.
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I want it desperately."
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It's a great word.
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You can be ravenous about reading, it means: "I want to eat it and take all of it."
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Nice word, I like this word, even the: "Arr", it's so sexy.
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Sorry.
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"Sluggish".
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In the morning when I get up I move very slowly, you know?
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Like, real, word, if you're in Toronto the TTC is rather sluggish in the morning.
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You know what I'm saying?
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You're always late.
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It means very slow.
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But in the morning I'm usually sluggish, I'm moving slow, you know?
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Slow, sluggish, like a slug, like a bug.
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Slow.
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His sluggish reaction.
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Slow reaction.
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This one has an asterisk: "Very fast", when something's very fast.
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I read many of your comments and it's like: "He speaks: 'Blah-blah-blah-blah'.
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He speaks so quickly, so rapidly.
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I don't understand anything."
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Yes, James is a rapid speaker.
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I speak very quickly or I speak very fast.
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They moved quickly or you say they moved at a rapid pace, very quickly, very fast.
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So, instead of saying: "Very quickly, very fast", you can use the word: "rapid" or "rapidly".
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Right?
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Adverb.
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You can say: "rapidly".
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Okay?
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I told you I'm going to give you lots of information so you can really change up your vocabulary
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and sound amazing.
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Sound superb.
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When you're tired, you're coming home from work, you can say: "I'm so tired.
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I'm very, very tired.
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I'm always very tired."
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Use the word "exhausted".
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That means done, finished, totalled, toast, no more.
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I'm exhausted.
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Cool?
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It means you want to go to sleep now.
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Or if you're exhausted of this conversation, then no more, I can't do any more, I'm done,
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it's over.
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"Poor", a lot of people like to use the word "poor".
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Most native speakers don't even use the word I'm going to teach you because it's so strong.
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If you say: "I'm very poor" it means I have no money.
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If I'm destitute, you live on the street, my friend, you eat with the rats.
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Okay?
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You and the rats share Kentucky Fried Chicken out of garbage at night.
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All right?
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I'm just saying.
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But if you say: "I'm destitute", it means: "I'm very poor."
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You want to remember this word for the next time your English friend says: -"Hey, Jimmy.
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Can I borrow 5 dollars?"
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-"Sorry, dude.
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I'm destitute."
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He will give you 5 dollars and be like: "I didn't know it was so bad.
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You're so poor, you're destitute?"
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It means my house is...
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I live on the street.
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My house, I have nothing.
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I'm destitute.
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After the divorce, most people are destitute.
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Don't get divorced.
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Okay, next.
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"Rich", "very rich".
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I know, students love to: "I'm studying English because one day I hope to be very, very rich.
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I'm telling you I'm going to be rich.
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You know?
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I'm going to be very rich."
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And I go: "You want to be rich?
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I want to be wealthy."
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And they say: "Teacher, what's the difference?
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'Very rich' means I have everything."
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So I say: "Okay, so, you know Michael Jordan?"
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They go: "Yes, yes, he's a very rich man", I go: -"Yeah, he's very rich."
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-"They pay him millions of dollars."
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I go: "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
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I say: "I want to be the man who pays Michael Jordan -- that guy's wealthy."
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Sudden silence, and then their vocabulary changes instantly: "I would like to be wealthy,
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yes, I think it would be superb to be wealthy.
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In fact, I'm looking for a rapid change in my environment so I can become wealthy."
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I go: "Oh, you understand."
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Change your vocabulary, change your brain, change your life.
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Right?
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Okay, anyway, before I go on that, I don't want to become dull going over the same points
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again and again.
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I'm going to try to keep it brief, okay?
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Ah, I do want to talk about one difference here, that's why I have it.
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We talked about hot, "scalding" and "scorching", they're not quite the same.
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These both mean very hot, but usually we use "scolding" for liquids, like water.
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Right?
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The water is scolding, it will burn you it's so hot.
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And we say "scorching" for hot for heat like the summer sun.
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So you say, if the water...
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If the coffee is scolding, it will burn you because it's a liquid; but it's scorching
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outside, it's hot from the fire or the sun.
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They're similar, it's just we use it a little differently.
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Okay?
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You wouldn't probably say: "It's scolding outside."
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People would go: "Huh?
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Is there water that I'm going to step in?"
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You go: "No, no, no.
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It's scorching, very hot, 35 degrees.
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But don't go and put your foot in the water, it's scolding.
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It will burn you and send you to the hospital."
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Cool?
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All right.
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I'll see you in a second.
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[Snaps]
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Okay, so if you're ready, I want you to pay attention.
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Remember I taught you a lot of words, you know: "very happy", "very tired", and we're
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going to see how well you understood it by two speeches that I have on the board.
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And the first speech I'm going to read it to you and I want you to identify where I've
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used "very" and another word together, like an adjective like "hot" or "cold", and tell
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me where they are.
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Because if you can't identify them, we can't fix them and use the new vocabulary.
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You will probably also notice that the story seems or the speech seems very repetitive
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as I keep saying "very, very", and why I said that, once we get rid of that word and use
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other words, not only your writing because this is writing, but your vocabulary and speech
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will seem much more natural and fluent.
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Are you ready?
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Let's go to the board.
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Okay, so: "My name is Tiago."
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By the way, Tiago is James in Brazil, so my Brazilian friends and the three Tiagos I've
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met, how you doing?
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Okay, so: "My name is Tiago.
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I live in a very poor"...
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Or, sorry.
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"...a very poor part of Toronto.
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I have to work long hours, so I am usually very tired.
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My home has a very good view of the city, but my apartment is often very cold in the
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winter and very hot in the summer.
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I work hard so one day I will be very rich."
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It's not a bad speech or story, but I would say that's about a grade 3 or grade 4, that's
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children's classes in Canada.
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You don't want to sound like that.
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So why don't we add a few words, some seasoning, some masala?
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Make it same thing, but now we'll sound much more interesting to the ear.
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You'll notice you'll have to work a little harder with your vocabulary so you'll get
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better at speech, and people will like what...
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You know, like listening to you more.
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Are you ready?
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Now let's go to the board.
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The first thing we're going to do is identify the parts that we want to change.
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So, again, we go: "My name is Tiago", got it.
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"I live in a very poor", see?
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We have this and we did learn another word to say it for that.
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Right?
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What's the next one?
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"I have to work long hours so I'm usually very tired", there's another one we want to
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change.
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"My home has a very good view", oh, I think we've said two sentences and "very" three
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times.
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Okay? "...but my apartment is often very cold in the winter and very hot"-there we go-"in
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the summer.
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And I work very hard because I..."
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Or, sorry.
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"I work hard because I want to be very rich."
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That's a lot of them.
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So, take a look and you can see how we use the word "very" a lot of times in a very small
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area.
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Right?
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Let's change it up now that we have identified what we want to change, and look for better
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words.
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Well, I've taught you the better words, so why don't we just...?
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Why don't we just put them in there?
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You ready?
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So the first part is: "My name is Tiago.
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I live in a _________ poor part of Toronto."
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What was the word we used for "very poor", almost homeless?
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That's right: "destitute".
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When you're destitute, you're very poor, so in this case: "I live in a very poor part
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of Toronto".
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"I have to work long hours, so I am usually _________..."
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Another word for "very tired".
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"Exhausted", that's right, I'm very tired, exhausted.
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"My home has a _________ view of the city."
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Do you know what my favourite...?
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Well, my favourite hero is this guy here, the bat, but his best friend is who?
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Ah, remember I told you, "superb"?
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"Super" is in that word because it's super.
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"A superb view of the city."
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"...but my apartment is often _________ in the winter..."
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What would it be in the winter?
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Not "very cold"...
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"freezing", it means very cold.
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"...and in the summer _________..."
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You have to be careful because I taught you two words, remember?
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Both start with S. Which one would it be?
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Not "scolding", but "scorching".
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Scorching hot, scorching.
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And finally, do you remember I told you the story about Michael Jordan and the man who
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pays Michael Jordan, or the woman?
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Oprah's rich, she can pay him, too.
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I don't want to be a rich man, I want to be a wealthy man.
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Now, if you look at the story now...
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Let's read it.
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"My name is Tiago.
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I live in a destitute part of Toronto.
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I have to work long hours, so I am usually exhausted.
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My home has a superb view of the city, but my apartment is often freezing in the winter
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and scorching in the summer.
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I work hard because one day I want to be a wealthy man."
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Sounds a little better, doesn't it?
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Yeah, I thought so.
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Good.
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So, you...
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You know me, I'm not doing this for free.
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I have a bonus for you.
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I'll teach you the bonus, but you notice that we can change the statement and make it much
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more interesting, okay?
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You're going to work your tongue to work on better pronunciation and vocabulary, saying
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words like: "superb", "destitute", okay?
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Much better than: "very", "very".
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But as a bonus because I like you so much, I'm going to go through another five words.
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Now, I call these level two words.
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And you're saying: "Level two, what?"
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Well, level two because these are words Canadians don't even use a lot of the time, so when
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you pull out this word, let's say you're speaking like this, see?
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And you say: "I'm rather jubilant about this situation", people will go: "What the hell?"
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like that.
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"You know, I'm very happy about what's going on here.
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How are you feeling about it, huh?"
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You know?
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"I see you seem very anxious about what's going to go on, but don't worry, I'm rather
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parched.
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Could you please get me a beer?"
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They're going to go: "Whoa.
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Where's this person coming from, so educated, so eloquent?"
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This will be you, so let's go to level two.
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"Jubilant" means very happy.
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If you're feeling jubilant, you're very happy.
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I'm telling you right now: 90% of Canadians don't use this word at all.
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They know it, but they don't use it.
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How about you?
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When you're very nervous, you're very nervous, you say: "anxious".
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It means I'm waiting for something to happen and I feel very strongly about it in a nervous
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way.
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"Parched", it's a nice word, use it at a bar.
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You get points for that one.
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"I'm rather parched", very thirsty.
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The earth can be parched, and when you see the earth is parched there's usually holes
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or cracks in the ground, it means it needs water.
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You know where you put your flowers, and it's like cracks?
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You say the water...
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The earth is parched, it means it's extremely thirsty.
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So, trust me, when you go to the bar and say: "parched", they'll get you drinks right away.
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"Squalid", this means very dirty.
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And believe me, if an English person walks in your house and says: "Your house is squalid"...
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Let me rephrase that.
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If an English person says your house is squalid, they will not walk in your house.
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They might call people to come and take you out and take down the building.
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Okay?
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So when you say that, someone might cry, you're like: "Your place is squalid and you live
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in a destitute fashion."
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I mean that's going to make me cry, because that's worse than saying bad words, trust
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me.
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Okay?
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And if you...
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If you have kids you can use this or if you're an employer at work, or you know, anyone's
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getting on your nerves, you can say: "I need this place spotless before you go."
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That's not just clean, that means nothing exists in that area; there's not germs, nothing.
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Spotless.
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Do you understand me?
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Very strong.
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All right?
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So these are your bonus level two words, save them, put them in your back pocket for when
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you have to correct some English speaker.
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Okay?
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Show them you do speak English and you know it well.
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Of course we have homework.
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So, before you go, I want you to do this, I want you to think of five other "very" collocations,
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because this is collocations, words that go with "very" that you use, and I want you to
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share them on engVid.
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Do you say: "very cheap", do you say: "very..."?
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I don't know.
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I don't know what you say, that's the whole point.
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After you do the quiz there's usually comments, go there, leave a comment and say: "I use
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these ones", and see what other people say, maybe they have another word that can help
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you improve your English or maybe you'll surprise people, and maybe even someone like myself
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will stop by and go: "Whoa, you can't say that.
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You have to say that" or: "That's not even English."
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Community is a good thing.
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Anyway, I got to go.
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I need you to subscribe, there's something around here, the "Subscribe" button, press
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it.
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A bell should come up.
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You know, a little bell?
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Like Taco Bell.
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Just ding that bell and you'll get the latest and greatest that comes out from engVid from
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myself and other teachers.
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You won't have to worry, it'll come on your cellphone, or your laptop, or what have you.
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Anyway, you have a good one.
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I have probably given you something to be jubulous about.
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Jubulous...
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Jubilant about, and I'll see you soon.
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Thanks a lot.
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