Learn the Top 10 American English Phrases for Bad Students - English Vocabulary

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This is why we do what we do, to make you a better person.
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Hi, everybody, welcome back to Top Words.
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My name is Alisha, and today we're going to be talking about ten phrases for bad students.
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So these are probably some things that you should not do, let's get into it.
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to bully This is a common problem in schools.
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To bully someone means to be mean to another person, this might also happen in the workplace
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from time to time.
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to bully someone is to put pressure on them unnecessarily, or to be violent towards them,
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or to hit people.
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It's really not a good thing to do no matter what stage of life you're in.
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Don't bully people, don't be mean to people.
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In a sentence, bullying is a very common problem at school.
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A bully is a person who bullies others, a bully is a person who is mean to other people
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for no reason, that's called a bully.
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to fail a class
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Oh! The next expression is to fail a class.
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To fail a class; if you don't do your homework, if you don't study for tests, if you don't
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do the projects that you're assigned, if you don't come to class, you may fail.
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So meaning you do not pass the class; you do not finish the class, you fail.
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Don't fail your classes, please don't fail your classes!
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Do the work that you need to do.
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In a sentence, I failed a class last semester, I can't believe it, my parents are going to
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be so mad at me!
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I've never failed a class.
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to procrastinate
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To procrastinate, yes! I am a professional procrastinator!
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Like bully, procrastinate can also be used as a noun as in procrastinator.
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A procrastinator is someone who always puts things off.
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In a sentence, I procrastinated last week, all last week, and now I don't have time to
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study for my test. Ah!
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to skip class
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To skip class, don't skip class!
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To skip class means to not go to class.
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To skip, so imagine like your class is a rock, and you go, you skip.
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I'm not gonna do that, that's a weird thing that I just did.
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Okay, just, skip class just means not to go.
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You have class, you have the opportunity to go to class and you just don't go; you skip.
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That's typically not a good thing to do because your teacher, in theory, is giving you important
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information in your class, and you should probably be there to listen, to take notes,
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ask questions about that information, so don't skip class.
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In a sentence, want to skip class with me tomorrow?
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No, stay at school, kids!
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I always went to class, especially in college, I was like, I'm paying for this, like, my
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family is paying for this.
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I'm not going to skip class, like, if I skip class, I'm just throwing money away.
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to tease
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The next verb is to tease.
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To tease could be strongly related, I feel, to the word to bully.
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So bullying often has the connotation, or bullying often has the nuance of maybe physical
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violence; to tease is to hurt someone, or to make fun of someone with your words.
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So maybe someone has a questionable haircut, or someone smells bad, or maybe they don't,
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maybe you're just, you just want to tease people.
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I will say though, that teasing is very common among friends; if, you know, you want to make
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fun of your friend a little bit, it shows that you have a close relationship, and that's
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fine.
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Or maybe you tease your family members or your siblings.
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Typically it's not good to just to go around just teasing people or making fun of them.
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Stop teasing all the students in class, Stevens, you jerk.
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plagiarism
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Oh yeah! The next word is plagiarism.
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Plagiarism.
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I like to give lectures about plagiarism, that is true.
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Plagiarism refers to taking someone else's work, someone else's image, someone else's
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text, someone else's words, and using it as your own, don't do it.
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It is so much trouble for you and the people around you.
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Oh my gosh, stop!
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Just stop doing it!
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It's so stupid.
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I think that this happens because students procrastinate, students don't take enough
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time to research and to properly document their notes, and to find their own materials
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or to develop their own materials, and so they use someone else's data in their paper.
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They get caught and they get in trouble; in some cases, this can result in fines, it can
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result in getting suspended or expelled from school.
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If you're publishing an academic paper it could be revoked, you could have a degree
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revoked, you could be removed from your institution, you could lose your job.
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Oh wow!
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Why would you ever do this?
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It's just silly.
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In a sentence, plagiarism is much more trouble than it's worth.
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Please don't plagiarize other authors.
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to start a fight
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So we talked about the word bully before, or to bully or even to tease, but if the bullying
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or the teasing continues, it might start a fight, a physical fight, or a verbal fight, as well.
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We use the same word fight both for verbal and for physical arguments or confrontations.
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So in a sentence, Timmy was bullying Billy at school, and it started a fight.
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truant
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Truant is a noun; it's used for people who
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do not do the things that they are responsible for doing.
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So if you skip class, or you skip school, you can be called a truant.
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The administration is cracking down on truancy in the school.
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Truant can be used as an adjective which means again not doing the things that you're supposed
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to do.
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Jimmy was suspended from school for being truant.
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to cheat on a test
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Okay, the next expression is to cheat on a test.
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To cheat on a test means either to look at someone else's test and copy their answers;
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it can mean to maybe have your own answers written on, I don't know, your hat, or your
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arm, or maybe you're using your phone during the test to check the answers, I don't know.
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In some way, you are not doing your own work, you're not using your own brain to complete
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the test, and this is called cheating on a test.
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Why would you cheat on a test?
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You're trying to test your own knowledge, if you don't do something well, then the test
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results will show you that, and you can improve on it, like, duh!
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My teacher caught some students who were cheating on the test last week.
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detention
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Detention is, in school anyway, it's the place
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where you are sent if you are a bad student; if you bully, if you tease, if you’re late,
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if you are truant, if you cheat on a test, if you do... if you commit plagiarism, perhaps;
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if you have bad behavior at school you may be sent to detention.
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So detention is typically held in a classroom, for example, after school.
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You have to stay late after school with the other bad students, and you just have to sit
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there, or you have to, maybe in some cases, do some studying, or you have to do some extra work.
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It's a punishment for being a bad student, so you don't want to go to detention.
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I got sent to detention last week because I threw a paper airplane at my teacher.
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So that's the end!
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Those are ten phrases for bad students, I hope that you never need to use these phrases,
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but you might need to use them to describe the people around you.
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Thanks very much for watching this episode of Top Words, and we'll see you again soon.
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Bye bye!
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The more you know, the less you will mess up.
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Dare to be different.
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We're on a basic instructs, we're in a race for allies, we've got a run, but again it's
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a race that we're gonna win.
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Yeah oh yeah!
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