Dove vs Dove | Heteronym | Improve Your English Vocabulary and Pronunciation

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Hello, everyone.
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My name is Fiona.
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Today, we're going to be looking at these two words.
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And knowing the difference is really going to help your English pronunciation and language skills.
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Keep watching to find out what it is.
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Let's begin.
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First, I'm going to say the sentence really quickly.
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So you have to listen carefully.
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Are you ready?
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‘The dove dove into the lake.’
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Oh-ho, that one's tough, I know.
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So I'll slow down.
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‘The dove dove into the lake.’
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Did you get it?
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Okay, I'll show you the sentence.
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Here we go.
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‘The dove dove into the lake.’
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What two words go in these blanks?
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Well, the answer is,
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‘The dove dove into the lake.’
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They look like the same word. I know, I know.
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But there are two different words, I promise.
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Okay, Let's have a look at our two words a little bit closer.
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We have ‘dove’ and ‘dove’.
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They're spelled the same way, but the pronunciation and the meaning is different.
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It's a Heteronym.
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What's a Heteronym?
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Well, it's where we have two words that are spelled the same,
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but have different meanings and different pronunciations.
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Let's look at the meaning and pronunciation of our two words.
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First is ‘dove’.
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‘dove’ is a noun.
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It's a small white bird, similar to a pigeon.
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You might see many in the sky.
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And I have two sentences to show you this in use.
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‘I saw a dove fly in the sky.’
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I saw a dove, a small bird, fly in the sky.
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And sentence number two.
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‘The poor dove flew into the window.’
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Oh dear.
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The small bird, white bird, flew into the window.
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Okay, let's practice pronunciation.
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Repeat after me.
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‘dove’
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‘dove’
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Okay, let's look at our second word.
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‘dove’ ‘dove’ is a verb.
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It's past tense, so already happened of ‘dive’.
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‘dive’ means to suddenly and steeply go down into something.
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Could be the air.
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Sometimes, it's water.
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Okay, let's have a look at two sentences to show this.
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Number one.
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‘The airplane dove to avoid hitting the other airplane.’
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The airplane went down suddenly in the air to avoid hitting another airplane.
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And sentence number two,
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'She dove into the swimming pool.'
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She jumped steeply into the swimming pool.
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She went down into the water.
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Okay, let's look at pronunciation.
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Repeat after me.
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‘dove’ ‘dove’
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Now, let's look at our main sentence again.
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‘The dove dove into the lake.’
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‘The dove, the small white bird, dove, went down steeply, into the lake.’
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‘The dove dove into the lake.’
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Okay, let's practice pronunciation together.
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First, we'll go slow.
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Are you ready?
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‘The dove dove into the lake.’
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Now faster like a native speaker.
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‘The dove dove into the lake.’
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Well done.
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Great job, guys.
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You got some awesome listening and pronunciation practice in today.
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If you want to leave a comment to let me know what you thought of this video,
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Leave them down below.
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And as always, I'm really really thankful for my students’ support.
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I'll see you in the next video!
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