How good is your English? Quiz 4.

How good is your English?

Weíre going to have a quiz to find out.

Weíll try to catch you out with some common mistakes.

Letís see how you do.

Weíve made some quiz videos like this before.

Hereís how they work.

We ask a question and you have to answer before the clock stops ticking.

Letís have the first one.

OK, hereís the situation.

This weekend, your friend is planning to go to the seaside.

She means the shore.

But the weather forecast is terrible.

What do you ask your friend?

Is the weather going to effect your plans?

Is the weather going to affect your plans?

Affect is usually a verb and it means to change or influence something

And effect is a noun.

Itís the result of the change or influence.

So verb and noun.

Notice the spelling so you donít muddle them up.

This is a mistake that native English speakers make too.

Well they sound very similar.

Affect.

Effect.

When weíre speaking naturally that /?/ sound becomes like a schwa.

Itís hard to hear the difference.

Hello Kathy.

I canít believe itís still raining.

Yeah, itís terrible.

Really bad.

Whenís it going to stop?

The forecast is not good.

Is it going to affect your plans?

Well, I was thinking of going to the shore this weekend, but now I think I wonít.

There was a really strange man answering all my questions.

OK, next question.

I think this one might be extra tricky for our Brazilian viewers.

Imagine your boss is giving you instructions.

What does she say?

You need to finish this report until Friday.

You need to finish this report till Friday.

You need to finish this report by Friday.

When weíre talking about a deadline, we say ëbyí.

ëByí means at or before a time.

So no later than.

And what about until?

Thatís what we say when weíre talking about a situation that continues up to a time.

You can watch this until nine oíclock, but then weíre going to change channels.

Whatís happening at nine oíclock?

Dancing with the Stars is on.

She loves that program.

Another way of saying until is ëtillí.

It means the same as until, but it sounds a little less formal.

Notice the spelling.

It has two Ls.

Letís see ëbyí and ëuntilí in action.

So when will you be back?

Not until late.

OK.

Iíll probably be in bed by the time you get home.

OK.

Have fun!

See ya!

Yes.

Are you in bed yet?

Yes.

Iíve forgotten my keys.

Yes.

Iíll be back by twelve.

Could you stay awake until I get back?

Hello?

Hello?

If you want to see more examples, hereís a link.

OK our next question is a quick one.

Imagine you have a young nephew and you want to say how old he is.

He has six years.

Heís six years old.

Heís six years.

Heís six.

So we say six years old, or just the number: Heís six.

We donít say ëHeís six yearsí.

Though a lot of my students make that mistake.

How old are you Jay?

Iíve lost count.

What about you?

You should never ask a lady her age!

True.

Weíve made another video about that.

Iíll put the link here.

OK, next question.

Youíve noticed that some things have been getting more expensive because of the corona

virus.

What do you say?

Prices have been rising Prices have been raising.

Stores have been rising their prices.

Stores have been raising their prices.

Both of these verbs describe upward movement, but we use them in different ways.

Raise takes a direct object, so we always raise something.

We can raise our hand or raise our eyebrows, And raise is a regular verb: raise ñ raised

ñ raised.

But rise is an irregular verb.

Rise ñ rose ñ risen.

And rise has no direct object so things just rise.

The sun rises in the east.

Nobody puts it up.

It goes up on its own.

And now ladies and gentlemen, Vicki will rise into the air.

Sheís rising.

Sheís risen.

She rose.

Oooh.

What happened?

I used my magic powers to raise you into the air.

What else can you do with that?

Oh anything.

I can even make you disappear.

Hereís another way to think of it.

Raise is like lift or or put up, and rise is like go up.

If you want some more practice, we have more examples here

OK, another question.

Youíre going out for a meal with a friend and you need to decide on a restaurant.

Youíve heard Victorís Bistro is good.

Here are four phrases, but one sounds strange.

Which one?

I suggest going to Victorís Bistro.

Why donít we try Victorís Bistro?

How about Victorís Bistro?

Letís go to Victorís Bistro.

So theyíre all possible, but ëI suggestí is a bit strange.

Itís because ësuggestí is quite a formal word.

Youíre more likely to write it or to say it in a formal business meeting.

Normally we use a different phrase to make suggestions.

Where do you want to go for dinner tonight?

Why donít we try the Chinese place?

Or how about Victorís Bistro?

Good idea!

Letís book a table.

We use ësuggestí, when we want to be explicit, in other words, extra clear.

Or when weíre reporting what someone else said.

Why donít we look at that?

OK.

Hereís another question.

Imagine you wrote a report for your boss, but she didnít like it and she says ëI think

you should do it again?í Here are 3 sentences.

How many are correct?

She suggested me to do it again.

She suggested to do it again.

She suggested I do it again.

So only one answer was correct there.

ëShe suggested I do it againí.

Itís because you canít use an infinitive form after the verb suggest.

There are other forms you could use, like she suggested doing it again ñ that would

be correct.

But after suggest, you canít say ëto doí.

Hello?

Oh hi, Jennifer.

Hey Jay.

Can you send me that report?

Iím still working on it.

I thought youíd finished it.

Well Vicki suggested that I do it again.

Ah!

Suggest is a tricky verb.

But we have a video about it with more examples.

Iíll put the link here.

And Iíll also add the link to the other quiz videos in this series at the end.

So you can keep testing yourself if you like.

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Bye.

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