Learn English with a POEM (Advanced American English Lesson 🇺🇲)

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In this lesson, we're going to  review the pronunciation poem,  
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but we're going to look only at the  vocabulary and the meaning of the words.
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So if you haven't already watched  my review on the pronunciation poem,  
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make sure you stop this video  and watch the other video.
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Because in that other video  I explain the pronunciation,  
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I explain each word, and we  review the poem in detail.
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In this lesson, we're only focusing on the  vocabulary, the grammar, the expressions.
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We're not talking about pronunciation.
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Welcome back to JForrest
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English, Of course.
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I'm Jennifer.
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Now let's get started.
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The pronunciation poem.
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I take it you already know right here.
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This is a really great expression.
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I take it you already know the  expression is I take it, I take it.
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And then you need a clause.
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A clause is just a subject, verb, and  then maybe an object if necessary.
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So the clause is.
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You already know.
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This alone is a complete sentence.
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You already know.
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I take it, you already know.
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I take it.
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In this case means, I assume.
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I assume you already know.
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So for example, let's say you see your coworker  and she or he looks really really happy.
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You could say, oh you look happy.
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I take it you heard about the bonuses.
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Now this is the reason why  your coworker is really happy.
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And by using I take it  you're saying, oh, I assume.
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I assume you heard about the bonuses and  this is the reason why you're really happy.
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Now you could use this with a negative emotion.
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You look sad.
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I take it you heard about the layoffs,  which means you might lose your job.
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So you can use this in any with any  emotion and it means the same as I  
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assume you can also use this in  a more everyday social situation.
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For example, I take it they're going to the party.
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I assume they're going to the party.
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So remember this is our clause.
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The clause doesn't have to be with a you,  
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but generally the subject is I I don't hear  this very much with we take it, she takes it.
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So for now I would recommend  using it with I take it.
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I assume that let's continue.
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I take it you already know of  tough and bow and cough and dough.
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OK, tough.
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This is another way of  saying difficult, difficult.
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We also use it as an adjective to describe  someone who is very physically strong.
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She's really tough.
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He's really tough, which means like  physically they can handle themselves in,  
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in situations where they need to  handle themselves physically now.
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So you might use it more in  a sports context where it's  
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important for an athlete to be tough,  like another way of saying strong.
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But in a more everyday you and  I usage, it means difficult.
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Oh, that exam was really tough.
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That exam was difficult.
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Now remember, this poem is  specific for pronunciation,  
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so they're choosing words to show  you how pronunciation changes.
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This word.
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I had no idea what it was and I had  to look it up in the dictionary.
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The pronunciation is Bao.
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Let me write that bow, which is the  same as this motion what I'm doing.
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Let's say you're you're meeting  the queen or the king or royalty.
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You would bow when you lower  your head and your upper body.
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I can't do it fully because of the  microphone here, but you get it.
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You bow or before you pray you would  bow your head to pray in some cultures.
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So that's bow.
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Now what is?
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That's the pronunciation.
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But what is this?
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It's a large branch of a tree and bow.
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I had no idea.
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A large branch of a tree.
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I have never said the word bow in  my life, nor do I think you will.
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So just ignore this.
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But I did teach you what bow means.
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Cough dough is a mixture of flour,  
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eggs, water that is used to make  bread, pasta, many other things.
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So it's the mixture before it becomes the  bread or the pasta you have the dough.
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So those are the ingredients combined together.
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But they're not cooked yet.
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They're the raw ingredients.
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Let's continue.
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Others may stumble.
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Now when you stumble, let's say you're walking  and then you maybe move in a weird way,  
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or there's an uneven surface and you trip a  little but you don't fall, but you almost fall.
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You call that a stumble?
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So whoa, but you don't fall.
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So to walk in an awkward way and  you almost fall, but you don't fall.
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Now we also use this with languages when you  make a mistake, especially with speaking.
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Oh, I always stumble on my words.
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So just like you're walking  and whoa, you almost fall,  
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you're speaking and you you can't think  of a word you say, the wrong word.
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You mispronounce a word you can say.
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I stumbled on my words.
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I hope I don't stumble on my  words during the presentation.
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I wrote that there for you.
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Others may stumble, but not you.
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And honestly, if you're speaking during  a presentation and you do stumble,  
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don't worry, You just need to move on.
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OK, let's continue on hiccup.
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Hiccup.
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Let me read these first on hiccup.
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Thorough laugh and through.
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OK, so remember, these were for pronunciation.
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I'm sure you know what they mean,  but do you know what hiccup means?
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Just remember, in American  English this is spelled hiccup,  
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which is a lot easier to  guess the pronunciation of it.
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So when you hiccup, you make a noise  in your throat, but it's unintentional,  
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which means you don't want to make it.
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And often the noise will happen every 10 seconds,  
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20 seconds, every 30 seconds for a period  of time, maybe 10 minutes or 5 minutes.
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This is a hiccup.
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That's the hiccups.
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So we say, oh, I have the hiccups.
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I have the hiccups.
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I actually get the hiccups quite frequently.
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I have the hiccups.
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I'm going to use the American spelling.
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I have the hiccups now.
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I don't know in your culture,  actually, this is an interesting point.
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In your culture, do they have  a a remedy for the hiccups?
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A way to get rid of the hiccups?
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So, oh, I have the hiccups.
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What would your friend or family member  or coworker tell you to get rid of them?
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In North America, at least  generally, we say drink some water.
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Oh, I have the hiccups.
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Drink some water.
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That will get rid of them.
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But we have this other remedy where when someone  has the hiccups, you're supposed to scare them.
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And then they're supposed  to get rid of the hiccups.
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Likely because when you're scared, you  take in a really, really big breath.
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And that probably big breath of air helps to  clear your throat and get rid of the hiccups.
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So if you have the hiccups in North  America, someone might try to scare you.
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Does that exist in your culture?
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OK, so on hiccup, thorough,  thorough means completely.
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So you could say I I had a  thorough conversation with my boss.
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So you had a complete  conversation, a full a detailed.
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You discussed absolutely  everything you needed to discuss.
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We had a thorough conversation,  discussion, meeting.
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Now this is commonly used in the adverb form,  
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so you could say we discussed  the issue thoroughly, thoroughly.
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You could also add it here  because adverbs are flexible.
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We thoroughly discussed the issue.
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To be honest, you can remember it  here because it's always easier  
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to remember that adverb verb, and  that's correct most of the time.
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So let me change the placement for you.
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We thoroughly discussed the issue.
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We had a thorough conversation.
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So this is an ad, adjective adjective  because it modifies the noun.
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Conversation is the noun,  and then we have the adverb.
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It is more commonly used as an adverb than  an adjective, but obviously it's possible.
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And remember, this is specific for pronunciation.
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Let's continue.
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I'll highlight these for  you and then we'll continue.
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And don't worry about taking  all of these notes because I  
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summarize everything in a free lesson PDF.
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So you can look for the link in the  description to download the PDF.
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Let's continue.
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And cork and work and card and ward.
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OK, cork, this is a cork.
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It is the top of a wine bottle, so  this is the top of a wine bottle.
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I have a lot of these in my house  because my cats love playing with these.
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I throw them and they go crazy  for them and they don't play with  
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any of the expensive toys I've bought for them.
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They play with a cork that I got for free,  so this is a cork and work and card and ward.
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A ward is an area of a hospital or a  prison, likely other things as well,  
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but these are the two that I'm familiar with.
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For example, there's a children's ward in a  hospital, so an area of the hospital that's  
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only for children during the pandemic and  likely still today there's a COVID ward.
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There's an area of the hospital  specific for people who have COVID,  
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and honestly I don't know what the  different areas of a prison are.
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I don't know much about prisons.
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However, this is interesting.
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I just thought of it because the the the  person in charge of a prison is called  
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the warden, the warden, and that's  probably where that word came from.
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Ward warden.
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I never thought about that because like I said,  I don't think about prisons too frequently.
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But Warden Ward, the warden, is the  person in charge of the entire prison.
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Or like the CEO of the prison.
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OK, let's continue and font  and front and word and sword.
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I don't think there's anything  you wouldn't know here.
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Well done.
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And now, if you wish.
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Perhaps, perhaps is another word for  maybe they mean exactly the same thing.
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Perhaps the only difference is maybe.
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The only difference is is that  perhaps is a little more formal.
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I wouldn't necessarily say it's  the formal version of maybe,  
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but it just sounds slightly more  formal and maybe just sounds everyday.
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Maybe does not sound slang or informal at all,  
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but when you see them side by side,  it sounds slightly more formal.
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Otherwise it's the same meaning.
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Perhaps I'll go to the the party.
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Maybe I'll go to the party to learn  of less familiar traps, a trap.
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This is a useful expression because it represents  a a difficult situation without an escape.
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An escape meaning you can't get  out of that difficult situation.
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For example, when I was a kid, I would  often complain to my dad that I was bored.
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I'm bored.
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I have nothing to do because I wanted him to  entertain me or suggest a way to entertain myself.
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But every time I said that I'm  bored, I have nothing to do.
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He would always say, well I  have some chores for you to do.
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You can clean the floors, you can  vacuum, you can prepare dinner and  
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he would always give me something  obviously a kid does not want to do.
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This is when I was 13 years old.
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And of course I don't want to do chores.
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So that's the difficult situation, having  to do chores, cleaning the bathroom,  
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the kitchen, and there's no escape.
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How can I escape it?
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I just told my dad I have nothing to do,  so I can't say, oh actually I have homework  
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because I just told him I don't have anything  to do so I have no reason not to do the chore.
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So after I can say, oh, I can't  believe I fell for that trap.
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Now to fall for it means that you  weren't expecting it to happen.
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So this could happen in a situation at work where  maybe you're telling you your Co worker says, oh,  
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do you have any plans after work  on Thursday and you say, Oh no,  
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just going home, just gonna  watch a movie, nothing to do.
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And then your Co worker could say,  
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Oh well I really could use your  help on finishing the report.
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And since you don't have anything  to do, why don't you help me?
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And then you could say I can't  believe I fell for that trap.
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So it's a fun expression that you can use.
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OK, let's continue.
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Beware of heard a dreadful word that  looks like beard and sounds like birds.
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So of course a beard is the hair on a man's face.
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Well, not all over his face, just  in a concentrated area of his chin.
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That would be the beard that looks like  beard and sounds like bird and dad.
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It said like bed not bead.
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OK, a bead.
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This is used to make a lot of jewelry.
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You could use it to make a  pillow or or other items as well.
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But the individual balls and you can put them  
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through a string and you can form a  necklace or you can form a bracelet.
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Those would be beads.
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It's way easier to explain with  a picture, so here are pictures.
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This is an individual bead and then  you use many beads to make a necklace,  
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make a bracelet, or make some other art and craft.
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Generally used to make jewelry.
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But like I said, you could make  a pillow entirely out of beads.
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Actually, I believe there are some beads on  the very colorful flower pillow behind me.
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I believe there's some beads as well.
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So that's a bead.
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I'm sure you own some beaded  jewelry or beaded items.
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I think every single person has  something made out of beads,  
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or has made something out of  beads at one point in their life.
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For goodness sakes, don't call it deed.
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This is an expression.
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Maybe you've heard it for Goodness sake is  used to express either a positive emotion  
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or a negative emotion, but it is more used in  in negative emotions, frustration, annoyance.
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Let's say you're with a friend,  a coworker, husband, wife,  
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family member, and you're at a a store  that sells jewelry all made out of beads.
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And the person you're with is taking a  really long time to pick out a necklace.
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And after 20-30 minutes, you say for  goodness sake, just pick a necklace.
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So you're using that to show your frustration,  your annoyance with the situation.
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Now in the poem it has it in the plural form,  
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which I do hear, but just know that it  is more common in the singular form.
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And technically there is a possessive in the  writing because the sake belongs to goodness.
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So technically there's a possessive here,  
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but you wouldn't hear that in pronunciation,  and generally it's in the singular form.
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For goodness sake, just pick a necklace.
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For goodness sakes, don't call it deed.
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Let's talk about deed.
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Because you may have heard of a  good deed, you should do good deeds.
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A deed is simply an intentional act,  so an action that you do intentionally,  
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which means on purpose you plan to do it.
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Now some people, and I think  this is an amazing initiative,  
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is they try to do at least one good deed a day.
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So they try to do something  positive for another person,  
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and they do it intentionally  on purpose every single day.
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So maybe you're at the grocery store and you see  an elderly man struggling with his groceries,  
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and you could help him take  those groceries to the gar,  
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to the car, and then you could say  I've done my good deed for the day.
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You don't technically have to say  good I've done my deed for the day,  
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but because deed can also be a negative act.
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We generally specify my good deed.
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I try to do one good deed a day.
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I try to do 5 good deeds a day.
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Why limit it to one?
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I've done my good deed for the day.
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Watch out for meat and grate and threat.
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So remember we're focusing on vocabulary.
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I don't think there's anything we  need to discuss for vocabulary.
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They rhyme with sweet and straight and debt.
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OK, suite.
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This is a room at a hotel.
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They refer to that as a suite.
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I booked a suite for three nights, for example,  so I booked a room at the hotel for three nights.
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I booked a suite first three nights.
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Now we also use this to identify an apartment  or condo building, usually for mail purposes.
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So let's say your your address is on Main Street.
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This is the name of your street  and your apartment building.
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Your condo building is 100 Main  Street, but you live in Suite 304,  
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which means apartment number, unit number Ste.
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number three O 4.
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So generally that's on the third floor and it's  the fourth unit, the 4th suite on the third floor.
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So we also use this for apartments and condos.
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Apartments, condos and hotels.
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To say the unit a moth is not a moth  in mother, so a moth is an insect.
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An insect with wings, like an ugly  butterfly, I guess not to say it's ugly,  
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the poor Moss, but compared to a  butterfly, it's not as beautiful.
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They're usually white or  brown and they have wings.
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So I'll just write that for you.
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Insect, flying insect, flying insect.
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They really like light, like most all insects.
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So they're the ones that are always around  your lights when you're trying to go to sleep.
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Maybe a moth.
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A moth is not a moth in  mother, nor both in bother.
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Broth in brother.
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So again, for pronunciation purposes, But broth.
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This is the liquid used to form a soup.
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So you could have chicken broth, which  is the the liquid in your chicken soup.
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Or it doesn't have to be  chicken, it could be anything.
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It could be vegetable broth,  meat broth, mushroom broth.
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It can be a specific type of vegetable,  
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Even so that's broth, the liquid  generally used to make soup.
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A chicken broth.
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Liquid in soup, broth.
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So you can say this broth is delicious.
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Did you make this broth yourself?
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And here is not a match for there  and dear and fear for bear and pear.
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OK, again, I don't think there's  anything for vocabulary here.
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And then there's dose and rose and lose.
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OK.
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So dose, this is a medical term and it's how much  the quantity of a medication, that's the dosage.
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So you could say I'm on a low dose of aspirin.
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So dose is the measurement of that medication.
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So maybe that represents 100 milligrams, but the  person wouldn't know whoever you're talking to.
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So you would have to, if you wanted to know,  you would have to ask them, oh how much is it?
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But it's just the measurement  used for medication and then lose.
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This is of course the opposite of win.
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So opposite of win, for example, we lost the game.
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That's the past simple.
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We lost the game.
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Just look them up and goose and choose  and do and go then Thwart and cart.
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OK, let's talk about Thwart.
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Thwart is a verb, and when something thwarts  something, it prevents it from happening.
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For example, the rain.
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The rain thwarted my plans.
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Remember, thwart is a verb, so  here is conjugated in the past.
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Simple.
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The rain always thwarts my plans.
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So here is conjugated in the present simple  and this is the something the rain and this  
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something prevents, which is the verb  thwart something else from happening.
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The rain thwarted my plans.
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The rain always thwarts my plans.
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Come, come.
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I've hardly made a start.
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Hardly is another way of saying barely, barely.
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So it means a small amount.
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If I say I've hardly made a start,  it means I have made a start.
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To make a start just means start.
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There's no difference here.
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So you can say to put it in an  easier to understand way, started.
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I've hardly started.
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I've barely started.
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So you have started but just a very small amount.
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Sometimes students will say  I hardly worked this weekend.
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Now this actually means I worked  a small amount this weekend.
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A very small amount.
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But what they actually wanted to say was I worked  
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hard this weekend because they  forgot that hard is the adverb.
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So hardly does not mean hard, hardly means a small  amount, which is actually the opposite of hard.
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So English can be confusing with pronunciation,  but it can also be confusing with vocabulary.
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So if you want to impress your boss,  
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don't say I hardly worked this,  let's say week instead of weekend.
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I hardly worked this week.
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Your boss will be very upset if you say this.
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You wanna tell your boss I worked hard this week.
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This will impress your boss, so I'll write that.
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Just so you remember, I'll write.
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Not a lot.
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Not a lot.
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So a small amount of.
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That's what hardly works.
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I'll write that here as well because  barely hardly means the same thing.
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A small amount of or not a lot.
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Whatever is easier for you to remember.
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I did a small amount of work this week.
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I did not a lot of work this week.
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I hardly worked this week.
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I worked hard this week.
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You worked a lot this week.
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That's what this one means, A dreadful language.
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Let's talk about dreadful.
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This is the second time we're seeing it,  but I didn't explain it at the beginning.
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A dreadful language.
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Dreadful means very unpleasant  or very bad quality.
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So here a dreadful language.
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The poem is suggesting that English,  
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the English language is very unpleasant  because of how difficult it is to pronounce,  
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and also because of how difficult vocabulary  and grammar can be as well a dreadful language.
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Hopefully you don't think that about English, but  you could say, for example the movie was dreadful.
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Your friend asked you how is the movie  dreadful, which means very unpleasant.
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But remember it also means  bad quality, poor quality.
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So if someone asks you how was the restaurant now  
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you could say the food was dreadful  to focus on the quality of the food.
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But you could also talk about  the quality of the service.
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The the service was dreadful.
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The decoration was dreadful.
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So there could be different elements.
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But we'll just say food or  service, the two most common ones.
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The food was dreadful.
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We use this to describe the weather a lot.
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Oh, the weather was dreadful today.
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It thwarted my plans.
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The dreadful weather thwarted my plans.
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So I hardly worked.
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Ah, we're using all of it together now, OK?
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A dreadful language.
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Man alive.
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I'd mastered it when I was 5.
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And yet to write it.
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The more I sigh.
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Huh.
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That's a sigh.
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Huh.
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I sigh.
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Huh.
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OK.
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And yet to write it.
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The more I sigh, I'll not  learn how until the day I die.
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OK, Notice here I'll not learn.
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So this is a contraction.
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I will.
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But let me rate this for you.
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I will.
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I will not learn how until the day I die.
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So this is correct.
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I will not learn how, but when  we form a contraction with the  
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future simple in the negative,  we don't form it like this.
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This is considered outdated English.
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This poem was written a long time ago,  
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so at the time of the poem I'm sure  that this was modern usage of the word.
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But today this is not modern usage.
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It's grammatically correct but not used today.
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So it's outdated.
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It's not modern, not used today.
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You should not use it.
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It will sound awkward.
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You should say I.
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Do you know what you should say?
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I won't learn how I won't.
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So this is the modern usage of how we  form a contraction today, used today.
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So again, if you say this, sure  you'll be grammatically correct,  
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but you will sound very weird.
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Don't say it.
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Say I won't learn how until the day I die.
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And if you ever forget,  
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just don't use the contraction and say I  will not learn how until the day I die.
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So now you know both the pronunciation of the  
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pronunciation poem and you know the  vocabulary in the pronunciation poem.
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So now you can say, Oh no, English isn't a  dreadful language, you just need to learn it.
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And you have a great teacher.
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Hopefully you think so, a great  teacher to help you master it.
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So now you've mastered the pronunciation poem.
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Amazing job.
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You've mastered the pronunciation poem.
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Congratulations.
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In a previous lesson you  mastered the pronunciation,  
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and in this lesson you've mastered the vocabulary.
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So now you can tell everyone that  you know the pronunciation poem,  
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and you can quiz them, see if they know the  pronunciation, see if they know the vocabulary.
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And that will make you realize how  advanced you are with your English.
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So amazing job.
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Celebrate this accomplishment.
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Put woohoo.
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Put woohoo in the comments because  you've mastered the pronunciation poem.
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Put woohoo in the comments and  you can get this free speaking  
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guide where I share 6 tips on how to  speak English fluently and confidently.
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You can click here to download it or  look for the link in the description.
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And you can keep improving your  English with this lesson right now.
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