Learn the English Heteronym LIVE with Pronunciation and Practice Sentences
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Hello, everyone.
My name is Fiona.
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Today, we are going to be
looking at two words that
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will really help with your English
listening and pronunciation skills.
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You can see that they look the same,
but how do they sound?
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And what's the difference?
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Keep watching to find out why.
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Are you ready?
Let's begin.
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First, I will say the sentence quickly.
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So really listen well.
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‘I make live videos where I live.’
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Second time slower.
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‘I make live videos where I live.’
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Okay, let me show you the sentence.
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‘I make live videos where I live.’
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What two words go in the blanks here?
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Can you tell me?
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Well, the answer is
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‘I make live videos where I live.’
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I know. I know.
They look the same but they're two different words.
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Let me tell you why.
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Let's have a look at our two words in more detail.
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We have ‘live’ and ‘live’.
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The spelling is the same 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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It's where you have two words,
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where the spelling is the same,
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but the meanings and the pronunciations are different.
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Let's have a look at the meaning and the pronunciation of our two words.
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I’ll start with ‘live’.
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‘live’ is an adjective.
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It means something that is happening right now.
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You can go and see it with your own eyes.
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Like a broadcast or a concert.
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Here are two sentences to show you this.
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The first one,
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‘The live debate is happening right now.’
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The live debate is happening right this second.
You can go and watch it.
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And number two.
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‘I like watching live streams on the internet.’
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I like watching people broadcast themselves on
the internet live right now as it's happening.
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Let's practice pronunciation.
Repeat after me.
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‘live’
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‘live’
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Our second word is ‘live’.
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‘live’ is a verb.
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It means to make your home somewhere.
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And I have two sentences to show you this.
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‘I live in America.’
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It's where I live. The country where my home is.
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And sentence number two,
‘They live across the street from me.’
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I live here - my house.
They live across the street.
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Their house is across the street from my house.
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Okay, let's practice pronunciation.
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‘live’
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‘live’
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Now let's go back to our main sentence.
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‘I make live videos where I live.’
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I make live videos that are happening right now.
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‘I make live videos where I live.’ - where my home is.
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‘I make live videos where I live.’
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Okay let's practice pronunciation.
We'll go slowly to start,
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and then we'll speed up like a native speaker.
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Repeat after me.
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‘I make live videos where I live.’
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Okay, a little bit faster now.
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‘I make live videos where I live.’
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Well done.
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Great job today, guys.
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You had some really great practice in English listening and pronunciation.
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