LEARN 105 ENGLISH VOCABULARY WORDS | DAY 22

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We're in the home stretch, guys! It's day 22  of our very awesome, very useful 30 Day English  
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Vocabulary Challenge. Yes! This month, we're  learning 105 words from the academic word list,  
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words that will help you have  sophisticated English conversations,  
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words you need to know if you're preparing for  an exam like IELTS or TOEFL. I've been watching  
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the posts you've been making about this challenge,  it's incredible, inspiring. Make up a sentence to  
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word you learn and post it on social. Don't  forget to like and subscribe, and don't forget  
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to download the study guide that goes with this 30  day challenge. You can do that by clicking here or  
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the link in the video description. Learn  the words, ace the quizzes, you've got this!
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Our first word today is a word  with two different pronunciations,  
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depending on the part of speech. As a verb, we  have SURVEY, a word with second syllable stress.  
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As a noun, you'll hear it with first  syllable stress. Survey.
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Noun, survey, an activity where many people  answer questions about what they do or think,  
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a poll. We did an online survey to see  which services our customers prefer.  
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As a verb, survey, it means to ask many people,  probably a question or a series of questions  
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in order to gather information about what  most people do or think about something.  
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Let's survey the group to see what kind of pizza  they want. It also means to look at and examine  
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all parts of something. He surveyed the  room to see if anything was out of place.  
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Let's look again up close and in  slow motion at both pronunciations. 
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples. That same survey showed that 90 percent of your  
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friends want to know if they've  done something to upset you. 
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Survey as a noun, a questionnaire  filled out to get people's opinions. 
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That same survey showed that 90 percent of  your friends want to know if they've done  
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something to upset you. Here's another example. 
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For example, we did a major survey for  the department of health in the city. 
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A major survey. This means they asked a lot  of people, they gathered a lot of information. 
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For example, we did a major survey for  the department of health in the city. 
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Here's another example. So we did a survey,  
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we did a survey rather than just  guessing at what people want.  
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We asked them with the survey, we  got their opinions and preferences.
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Sometimes, i do a survey on social media. For  example, i posted on Instagram saying that i'm  
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working on a video on election vocabulary. This  was last year in 2020 and i wanted to know what  
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terms people find confusing, and i got a lot of  responses in the comments. I used a lot of those  
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ideas when writing the video. That made it a much  better video than if i just guessed at what words  
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and phrases my students wanted to know. So we did a survey. 
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Another example. When we survey, for example,  
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students and teachers, we find that something  like 90 percent of them or over 90 percent  
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of people believe that they have a learning  style. When we survey, when we ask students  
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and teachers about learning styles, a verb. When we survey, for example, students and  
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teachers, we find that something like 90 of  them or over 90 of people believe that they  
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have a learning style. Our last example. 
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I took my general survey  class maybe in my junior year. 
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General survey class. This is a class  that provides a general view, an overview  
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of an academic subject looking at  all different parts of something,  
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not focused in on a detail. In college, i took a  class called survey of music literature. It was an  
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overview over many time periods, not for example,  focusing on the times and life of Beethoven. 
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I took my general survey  class maybe in my junior year. 
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Our next word. PARTICIPATION. Now, in the  dictionary, you'll see the first syllable has  
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the AH vowel. Par—par-- but it's common to say it  with the schwa too. Per, per, per—participation.  
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Participate. In either pronunciation, per or par,  make sure the first syllable is said quickly,  
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that it's unstressed. Participation. As  a noun, it means involvement with others  
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in doing something together. The show  had a lot of audience participation.  
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This means the audience joined in it, answered  questions, and so on. Maybe a few people got on  
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stage, it did not just sit and watch. Let's  look again up close and in slow motion. 
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples. 
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So this is the audience participation part.  I want to invite people, their microphones. 
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The audience can ask questions  now, can participate and be  
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involved rather than just listening. So this is the audience participation  
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part. I want to invite people, their microphones. Here's another example. 
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She had a real barrier against  any kind of participation. 
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Against any kind of participation. She did not want to be involved in this. 
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She had a real barrier against  any kind of participation. 
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Here's another example. And it basically said that  
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um, participation in the arts is down  dramatically over the last 20 years. 
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Participation in the arts. People being  involved in the arts. Going to the ballet,  
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to the orchestra, visiting museums, people are  doing that much less than they did 20 years ago. 
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And it basically said that participation in the  arts is down dramatically over the last 20 years. 
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Another example. Well, New York decided to come to terms  
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with its participation in the cotton industry  and the slavery that also existed in New York. 
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Its participation in, its involvement  in the cotton industry and slavery. To  
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come to terms with something means to  accept it. You had kind of denied it  
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and now, you're facing it, accepting it,  coming to terms with it, dealing with it. 
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Well, New York decided to come to terms with  its participation in the cotton industry and the  
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slavery that also existed in New York. Our last example. 
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And this is really important in the MBA classroom  because participation counts for half a grade. 
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Participation in class counts for half the  grade. So it's not just tests and essays,  
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it's how you interact with others in the  classroom, how you add to the conversation. 
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And this is really important in the MBA classroom  because participation counts for half a grade. 
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Our last word today is SELECT. Select. It's a  verb, it means to choose someone or something from  
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a group. Please select one item from the list.  As an adjective, it means chosen from a group,  
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to include the best people or things. Only a  select few will be accepted into the program.  
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Let's look again up close and in slow motion. And now, we'll go to Youglish for five examples. 
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I, um, select teenagers, teenage  girls here in Sacramento. 
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She's talking about a leadership program to take  young people and put them through a training  
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process in leadership skills, project management,  and so on, to develop them and give them useful  
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skills. She focuses on teenage girls. She  chooses them out of all of the people who  
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might be interested for her specific program. I, um, select teenagers, teenage girls  
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here in Sacramento. Here's another example. 
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They can select vendors that  have really high standards. 
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They can select vendors. They can buy what  they need from vendors with high standards.  
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They can choose the best vendors. Vendors  is usually used in business to talk about  
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companies you buy things from for  your business. For example, let's say,  
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I own a gym and I want to provide some food  and drink. I’m not going to make that myself,  
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I’m going to buy it. I can call various  vendors of granola bars, protein shakes,  
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pressed juice, and this kind of thing. I can  compare the prices and quality of product from  
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these different vendors. If five different  vendors make celebrity juice, I’m going to  
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choose the one that's the best fit for my gym  based on nutrition, packaging, taste, and so on. 
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They can select vendors that  have really high standards. 
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Here's another example. So our art is to help select and evaluate talent. 
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Choose the right people, select  and evaluate who has the right  
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skills and talent for a particular task or job. So our art is to help select and evaluate talent. 
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Another example. You select the kind  
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of thing you want notifications about. You select, you choose the notifications  
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you want. All apps on your phone want to send  you notifications. I personally don't need that.  
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I select just the important  apps to send me notifications. 
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You select the kind of thing  you want notifications about. 
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Our last example. I would like to use the remaining time just  
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to take you through some of the select chapters. Select chapters. Not all of them,  
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not the whole book, but some chapters that have  been chosen for this particular presentation. 
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I would like to use the remaining time just to  take you through some of the select chapters. 
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Seeing all the real-life examples can really help  you understand how to use these words, can't it?  
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I have a challenge for you now. Make  up a sentence with one of these words.  
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Make a short video of your sentence, and  post it to social media. Tag me and use  
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the hashtag #rachelsenglish30daychallenge Don't be shy. You can do this. I love seeing  
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what you've posted so far. Our  next video comes out tomorrow,  
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at 10 AM Philadelphia time. Come on back to learn  three more vocabulary words. In the meantime,  
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keep your studies going with this video, and check  out my online courses at Rachel's English Academy.  
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You'll become a more confident English  speaker. And please do remember to subscribe.  
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I love being your English teacher. That's it  and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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