English Speaking Practice VOCABULARY

okay now we are going to practice speaking  English with lots of vocabulary the purpose  

is to prepare you for the next lesson called  facing her fear we'll do the fluency Story  

the shadowing story today repeat after me and  listening vocabulary practice let's jump into  

it here's our first vocabulary phrase  bite the bullet and it means to endure  

a difficult or unpleasant situation with  resolve despite fear or hesitation okay  

so you might be afraid you might be hesitating  but you go ahead and you do it anyway you bite  

the bullet all right now I'm going to give you  an example sentence and I want you to listen  

carefully and repeat after me Emily had to  bite the bullet and face her fear of the

dentist all right here it is Emily had to bite  the bullet and face her fear of the dentist say it

again okay our next word is  Harbor and this means to keep  

in one's mind to keep a thought maybe  or a feeling in one's mind especially  

secretly to keep a secret you Harbor it you  Harbor it in your heart maybe all right here's  

an example sentence listen carefully Kathy  harbored a longstanding fear of visiting the

dentist Kathy harbored a longstanding  fear of visiting the dentist

a longstanding you know what that means it  means a long time it's been standing for a  

long time it's been a long it's been a fe it's  been a fear for a long time a long-standing  

fear and she harbored it all right let's look  at our next word apprehensive apprehensive is  

uneasy or fearful about something that  might happen it might happen I'm very

apprehensive Emily was apprehensive  about scheduling a dental

appointment Emily was apprehensive  about scheduling a dental

appointment dissipate that's our next word  dissipate and it means to dis disappear or  

caused to disappear especially in terms of  feelings or pain so your feeling uh maybe  

your your sadness dissipates or your pain  dissipates dissipate dissipates all right  

listen carefully Emily hoped her tooth pain  would dissipate without needing treatment

Emily hoped her tooth pain  would dissipate without needing

treatment good good our next word  is deteriorate deteriorate means  

to become progressively worse it gets  worse and worse it's deteriorating Lucy  

warned Emily that her condition  would deteriorate if left untr

treated Lucy warned Emily that her  condition would deteriorate if left

untreated that's right if you don't  do something about it if you leave  

it untreated you don't do anything  about it it will get worse it will

deteriorate confide if you confide  in confide in then you tell someone  

a secret or Private Matter while trusting  them not to repeat it keep it a secret I'm  

confiding in you all right example Emily  confided in her friend about her fear of

dentists Emily confided in her  friend about her fear of dentists

empathetically empathetically in a matter  showing an ability to understand and share  

the feelings of others of of another  of another person so you know the word  

emphasize or I empathize if you empathize  with someone you you it's empath okay I'm  

getting confused here empathetically you're  showing that you have empathy showing that  

you have empathy empathetically so um yeah  I'm not doing a good job of explaining it  

empathetically it's difficult to explain this  word it's just showing emotion listening show  

her that you care and here we go with the example  sentence Lucy listened empathetically to Emily's

concerns Lucy listened empathetically to Emily's

concerns all right I tried to make that  one too difficult it's pretty simple  

right it's you listen to someone's  concerns with empathy empathetically

yeah we got it summon so if you summon  it's together or bring together let me  

summon the meeting summon all the people of  the Kingdom together especially courage or  

energy okay yeah it's used with  these to to summon courage to  

summon energy so you summon all the  energy you have you summon strength

Emily had to summon her  courage to make the dentist

appointment wow Emily really does  not want to go to the dentist she  

had to summon her courage Emily had to  summon her courage to make the dentist

appointment okay our next uh vocabulary  word is alleviate to make suffering or  

a problem less severe to make it less severe

alleviate all right example the dentist's  calm demeanor helped alleviate Emily's

anxiety the dentist's calm demeanor  helped alleviate Emily's anxiety

escalate to increase in severity  especially in terms of problems  

or conflicts if a problem escalates it  gets worse it increases in how severe it

is if Emily hadn't acted her dental issue  could have escalated into something more

serious if Emily hadn't acted her dental  issue could have escalated into something more

serious intense oh that's easy extreme  force degree or strength intense Emily's  

fear of the dentist was so intense  that she avoided checkups for years

Emily's fear of the dentist was so  intense that she avoided checkups for

years for many years she avoided checkups  because she had such an intense fear of the

dentist all right traumatic deeply  disturbing or distressing traumatic  

trauma Emily's traumatic childhood  experience left her scared of dental

visits okay now it's starting  to make sense Emily's traumatic  

childhood experience left  her scared of dental visits

okay I I totally understand that I will tell  you about a traumatic childhood experience  

that I had when I was a child um kidergarten  Age first right before first grade I lived  

in Mexico and I got um a tape worm or worms  in my intestines from bad bad water and at  

that time this is this is a long time ago  they have better methods today but at that  

time the doctor had me take a shot um every  day for 30 days to kill all of the in all of  

the uh tapeworms that were infecting me so  every day my mother would get a syringe a  

shot and she had to give me a shot right in my  butt in my in my back section and I my mother  

would be in the kitchen preparing the shot and  she would say Chad it's time for your shot and  

I would have to get my injection every day every  morning and I was always so scared it was such a  

traumatic experience for me that now even as an  adult I have difficulty getting a simple shot  

for example when I got my covid shot I was scared  whenever I get blood taken from me ah it's it's  

it still affects me to this day that traumatic  childhood experience all right side side quest  

persistent continuing to exist or endure over a  prolonged period so continue to endure you you are  

persistent example Emily experienced persistent  pain in her tooth that she could could no longer

ignore Emily experienced persistent pain  in her tooth that she could no longer

ignore she could no longer ignore the pain that  was in her the persistent pain that was in her  

tooth all right consume to eat drink or ingest the  pain worsened whenever Emily consumed cold food or

drinks the pain worsened whenever  Emily consumed cold food or

drinks dismiss to treat something  as Unworthy of consideration it's  

Unworthy of me considering  it it's I I will dismiss it

initially Emily dismissed the pain  thinking it would go away on its [Music]

own initially Emily dismissed the  pain thinking it would go away on its

own did we cover the word uh go away  dissipate have we done that one yet  

let's see I I'm not sure I know it's in  here but um oops I hit the wrong one go  

away dissipate so the pain dissipates did  we cover that one already ah this lesson's  

getting too long anyways let's look at  the next word Progressive happening or  

developing gradually or in stages the pain in  Emily's tooth progressively intensified over

time the pain in Emily's tooth  progressively intensified over

time endure to suffer something difficult  something painful or difficult and to do  

it patiently to endure means to suffer  patiently endure are you enduring this  

lesson with me I'm sorry it's a long  one here's the here's the uh sentence  

listen Emily had to endure her dental  anxiety to finally address her tooth

pain Emily had to endure her dental  anxiety to finally address her tooth

pain got it confront to face up to and deal with a  

difficult situation Emily decided to  confront her fear and make a dental

appointment Emily decided to  confront her fear and make a dental

appointment good good demeanor the way someone  behaves or appears typically calm and composed  

so the way someone behaves or appears  is their demeanor what's his demeanor  

he has a calm demeanor a composed demeanor  so what does he look like how is he acting  

the dentist's calm and kind demeanor helped  Emily feel more at ease during the procedure

the dentist's calm and kind demeanor helped Emily  feel more at ease during the procedure you say

it all right hopefully my calm and kind  demeanor teaching this lesson helped you  

to feel more at ease during the practice  session I don't know I just made that up  

boom good workout guys we did it we made it  to the end keep moving forward one step at  

a time the next lesson is going to be  a fluency practice we're not going to  

stop and Do vocabulary we're just going to  speak English all right I'll see you there