English Speaking Practice VOCABULARY

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English Coach Chad


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okay now we are going to practice speaking  English with lots of vocabulary the purpose  
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is to prepare you for the next lesson called  facing her fear we'll do the fluency Story  
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the shadowing story today repeat after me and  listening vocabulary practice let's jump into  
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it here's our first vocabulary phrase  bite the bullet and it means to endure  
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a difficult or unpleasant situation with  resolve despite fear or hesitation okay  
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so you might be afraid you might be hesitating  but you go ahead and you do it anyway you bite  
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the bullet all right now I'm going to give you  an example sentence and I want you to listen  
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carefully and repeat after me Emily had to  bite the bullet and face her fear of the
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dentist all right here it is Emily had to bite  the bullet and face her fear of the dentist say it
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again okay our next word is  Harbor and this means to keep  
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in one's mind to keep a thought maybe  or a feeling in one's mind especially  
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secretly to keep a secret you Harbor it you  Harbor it in your heart maybe all right here's  
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an example sentence listen carefully Kathy  harbored a longstanding fear of visiting the
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dentist Kathy harbored a longstanding  fear of visiting the dentist
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a longstanding you know what that means it  means a long time it's been standing for a  
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long time it's been a long it's been a fe it's  been a fear for a long time a long-standing  
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fear and she harbored it all right let's look  at our next word apprehensive apprehensive is  
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uneasy or fearful about something that  might happen it might happen I'm very
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apprehensive Emily was apprehensive  about scheduling a dental
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appointment Emily was apprehensive  about scheduling a dental
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appointment dissipate that's our next word  dissipate and it means to dis disappear or  
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caused to disappear especially in terms of  feelings or pain so your feeling uh maybe  
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your your sadness dissipates or your pain  dissipates dissipate dissipates all right  
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listen carefully Emily hoped her tooth pain  would dissipate without needing treatment
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Emily hoped her tooth pain  would dissipate without needing
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treatment good good our next word  is deteriorate deteriorate means  
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to become progressively worse it gets  worse and worse it's deteriorating Lucy  
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warned Emily that her condition  would deteriorate if left untr
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treated Lucy warned Emily that her  condition would deteriorate if left
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untreated that's right if you don't  do something about it if you leave  
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it untreated you don't do anything  about it it will get worse it will
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deteriorate confide if you confide  in confide in then you tell someone  
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a secret or Private Matter while trusting  them not to repeat it keep it a secret I'm  
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confiding in you all right example Emily  confided in her friend about her fear of
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dentists Emily confided in her  friend about her fear of dentists
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empathetically empathetically in a matter  showing an ability to understand and share  
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the feelings of others of of another  of another person so you know the word  
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emphasize or I empathize if you empathize  with someone you you it's empath okay I'm  
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getting confused here empathetically you're  showing that you have empathy showing that  
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you have empathy empathetically so um yeah  I'm not doing a good job of explaining it  
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empathetically it's difficult to explain this  word it's just showing emotion listening show  
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her that you care and here we go with the example  sentence Lucy listened empathetically to Emily's
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concerns Lucy listened empathetically to Emily's
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concerns all right I tried to make that  one too difficult it's pretty simple  
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right it's you listen to someone's  concerns with empathy empathetically
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yeah we got it summon so if you summon  it's together or bring together let me  
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summon the meeting summon all the people of  the Kingdom together especially courage or  
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energy okay yeah it's used with  these to to summon courage to  
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summon energy so you summon all the  energy you have you summon strength
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Emily had to summon her  courage to make the dentist
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appointment wow Emily really does  not want to go to the dentist she  
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had to summon her courage Emily had to  summon her courage to make the dentist
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appointment okay our next uh vocabulary  word is alleviate to make suffering or  
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a problem less severe to make it less severe
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alleviate all right example the dentist's  calm demeanor helped alleviate Emily's
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anxiety the dentist's calm demeanor  helped alleviate Emily's anxiety
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escalate to increase in severity  especially in terms of problems  
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or conflicts if a problem escalates it  gets worse it increases in how severe it
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is if Emily hadn't acted her dental issue  could have escalated into something more
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serious if Emily hadn't acted her dental  issue could have escalated into something more
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serious intense oh that's easy extreme  force degree or strength intense Emily's  
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fear of the dentist was so intense  that she avoided checkups for years
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Emily's fear of the dentist was so  intense that she avoided checkups for
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years for many years she avoided checkups  because she had such an intense fear of the
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dentist all right traumatic deeply  disturbing or distressing traumatic  
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trauma Emily's traumatic childhood  experience left her scared of dental
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visits okay now it's starting  to make sense Emily's traumatic  
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childhood experience left  her scared of dental visits
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okay I I totally understand that I will tell  you about a traumatic childhood experience  
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that I had when I was a child um kidergarten  Age first right before first grade I lived  
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in Mexico and I got um a tape worm or worms  in my intestines from bad bad water and at  
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that time this is this is a long time ago  they have better methods today but at that  
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time the doctor had me take a shot um every  day for 30 days to kill all of the in all of  
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the uh tapeworms that were infecting me so  every day my mother would get a syringe a  
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shot and she had to give me a shot right in my  butt in my in my back section and I my mother  
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would be in the kitchen preparing the shot and  she would say Chad it's time for your shot and  
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I would have to get my injection every day every  morning and I was always so scared it was such a  
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traumatic experience for me that now even as an  adult I have difficulty getting a simple shot  
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for example when I got my covid shot I was scared  whenever I get blood taken from me ah it's it's  
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it still affects me to this day that traumatic  childhood experience all right side side quest  
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persistent continuing to exist or endure over a  prolonged period so continue to endure you you are  
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persistent example Emily experienced persistent  pain in her tooth that she could could no longer
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ignore Emily experienced persistent pain  in her tooth that she could no longer
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ignore she could no longer ignore the pain that  was in her the persistent pain that was in her  
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tooth all right consume to eat drink or ingest the  pain worsened whenever Emily consumed cold food or
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drinks the pain worsened whenever  Emily consumed cold food or
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drinks dismiss to treat something  as Unworthy of consideration it's  
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Unworthy of me considering  it it's I I will dismiss it
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initially Emily dismissed the pain  thinking it would go away on its [Music]
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own initially Emily dismissed the  pain thinking it would go away on its
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own did we cover the word uh go away  dissipate have we done that one yet  
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let's see I I'm not sure I know it's in  here but um oops I hit the wrong one go  
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away dissipate so the pain dissipates did  we cover that one already ah this lesson's  
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getting too long anyways let's look at  the next word Progressive happening or  
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developing gradually or in stages the pain in  Emily's tooth progressively intensified over
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time the pain in Emily's tooth  progressively intensified over
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time endure to suffer something difficult  something painful or difficult and to do  
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it patiently to endure means to suffer  patiently endure are you enduring this  
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lesson with me I'm sorry it's a long  one here's the here's the uh sentence  
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listen Emily had to endure her dental  anxiety to finally address her tooth
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pain Emily had to endure her dental  anxiety to finally address her tooth
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pain got it confront to face up to and deal with a  
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difficult situation Emily decided to  confront her fear and make a dental
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appointment Emily decided to  confront her fear and make a dental
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appointment good good demeanor the way someone  behaves or appears typically calm and composed  
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so the way someone behaves or appears  is their demeanor what's his demeanor  
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he has a calm demeanor a composed demeanor  so what does he look like how is he acting  
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the dentist's calm and kind demeanor helped  Emily feel more at ease during the procedure
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the dentist's calm and kind demeanor helped Emily  feel more at ease during the procedure you say
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it all right hopefully my calm and kind  demeanor teaching this lesson helped you  
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to feel more at ease during the practice  session I don't know I just made that up  
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boom good workout guys we did it we made it  to the end keep moving forward one step at  
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a time the next lesson is going to be  a fluency practice we're not going to  
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stop and Do vocabulary we're just going to  speak English all right I'll see you there
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