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So in this first segment, what I'd like to do is review some vocabulary words,
right? So this is episode four of Bill Me podcast Learning English. In today's episode,
we'll start with some vocabulary words to help boost your English skills.
Let's dive in. Right next to
it, you'll see the phonetic pronunciation.
The funny words, you know, next to abolition, that's the phonetic, how it sounds.
So in this segment, we have vocabulary words. Remember these vocabulary words are from the lessons
that I've already taught. That's where
these words come from. So again, welcome to episode four of the Bill Me podcast.
Learning English. And so in today's episode, we'll start with some vocabulary words to boost your English skills. So
you see abolition. The meaning. The act of
officially ending or stopping something, such as a system or practice. Example
correct usage. The abolition of slavery mark
a significant change in history. Example incorrect usage. She
practiced abolition her dance moves. Incorrect because abolition
isn't used for action in this way in this sense. I guess you could say
she practiced abolishing her dance moves. But I wouldn't use that word there but you could say it like that.
Adaptability, adaptability.
You can see the pronunciation there. Adaptability meaning.
The ability to adjust to new conditions. Example correct usage. Adaptability
is essential in a rapidly changing world. Example incorrect usage. It's
adaptability of the painting was praised. This is
incorrect usage because Adaptability doesn't describe the characteristic
of the object. Painting.
Adaptability of painting. Painting can't adapt. Personal adapts.
Painting is inanimate. So we might say this is something we call Anthropomorphism.
Trying to make something inanimate. Like a person. Alignment
meaning. I say that word again. Alignment meaning.
Arrangement. An astrate line. More correct relative positions.
Alignment. The alignment. Example correct usage.
The alignment of the planet's created a stunning visual effect.
Incorrect usage. She alignment her books neatly.
Incorrect usage because it used in this way. Alignment. It's not actually in a verbal verb form there.
We could say she aligned. She did that. She aligned it. Some action.
She aligned her books neatly. Amendment.
Amendment. Meaning.
A change or addition to a document or law. For example, sentence
correct usage. The new amendment improve the constitution. Example incorrect
usage. He amendment his schedule yesterday. Again,
he used in this form. Amendment is not an action, right? But we could say he amended
his schedule yesterday. He amended. He amended it. He did that. He amended
it. Of course, I might just use the word changed. Appliances.
Appliances. See the phonetic pronunciation. Appliances. Meaning
the biases or machines use in households
for specific tasks. For example, sentence correct
usage. The kitchen appliances include a refrigerant,
a fridge, and a microwave. The kitchen appliances include a fridge and
a microwave. Example sentence incorrect usage. They appliances
the dinner table and correct usage. So in this sense, appliances
is not a verb subject verb and then something kind of
object. They appliances the dinner table.
Yeah. This one's just totally wrong. We could say the appliances
were next to the dinner table. The appliances.
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two, words to work on. So normally when I have a lesson, what'll
happen is, and I keep saying that lesson. Let's go look at what I mean by having a lesson.
So when I say have a
lesson, you can see here we have many lessons. We can have more.
If you, I have a list. If you don't see anything on your list or if there's something specific
to what you're doing like cooking or maybe you want
another subject, you know, growing some vegetables or wine or something.
I can create lessons. Before example, we have some lessons here. The
Framers, Lesson 92, the Framers and Burley America. Maintaining
fitness at home or the gym. Writing professional emails are some more.
Discussing efficiency and productivity. The joy of road trips,
Route 66 adventure, hot ballooning, safaris, to stuff on Japan, New Zealand,
woodworking, cabinet making, and many more. So that's
where these lessons come from. So again, this
segment is on words to work on. All right, so let's work on
some of these words that the learners during the lesson may have some problem where they thought they
were tricky, for example. Vacuum, again, if you look at the phonetic pronunciation, Vacuum,
Vacuum, meaning a space or void
of matter or a cleaning device that uses suction. I'm in
problems if it's a spelling, right? Sometimes what you'll see is
the spelling, B-A-C-U-M or B-A-C-C-U-M instead of
B-A-C-U-U-M vacuum. Example, correct usage. He used the
Vacuum to clean the carpet. Incorrect
usage. The room was in a vacuum of ideas, right?
I got to use this word, "Antropoomorphism" again, "Antropoomorphism."
That's assigning human-like qualities to an object.
So the Vacuum for the room is not living. It's an
inanimate object, not living. So you can't assign a human-quality,
like a vacuum of ideas. The room can have ideas.
Antropoomorphism, assigning human-like qualities
to something that's not real, that's inanimate. Transcents meaning
to go beyond the limits of something to transcend. Common
problem misuse as transcends in the past tense,
right? For example, since use it
correctly, her performance transcends all expectations. Presently
transcends all trans, or expectations.
In-correct uses, he transcends it yesterday, because it's a present tense,
not yesterday. Simply, again, look at the phonetic pronunciation. Simplify,
simplify, meaning to make something less
complicated or easier to understand. I'm all about that,
if I can. Common problem,
confused with simple,
right? Maybe I could say, simplify it, make it simple.
Example correct symptoms. The teacher tried to simplify the concept.
Example symptoms and correct uses. The problem was simple, simplified. No, it's
wrong spelling, right? We could
say it's very simple, or I could say, please simplify it for me.
Resilience, again, look at the phonetic
pronunciation. Resilience, resilience,
meaning the ability to recover quickly from difficulties,
common problem. Confused with resilient, right?
He is very resilient, for example, the example sentence here. Her resilience helped her
overcome the setback, her resilient. I could say she is
very resilient. Example sentence
incorrect usage. His resilient is unmatched,
right? Resilient is a state, not an action. I could say his
resilience, resilience.
Okay, let's look at this short article. So in my lessons,
I normally state the objectives.
Usually have some decent art and then one of the first things that we do is a vocabulary
section. And well, why don't I just show you? We'll have an intro and then
I'll have some kind of video that you can actually watch. Some objectives,
some vocabulary words, a reading activity, or two,
and I'll also put the audio there so that during the lesson,
you can listen to it before you read it or if you to the point where you don't really need that,
you can just do, you can just do the reading and you can refer to the audio after.
So I only have two articles, these are kind of long, they're not usually that long. And some kind of gap-filled
exercise based on the reading and the vocabulary, where you have to fill in the words, I don't only put the words there,
not necessarily in order though, and then a role-play activity. So in this case, this is the
debate about the Constitution. We have Madison, Sherman,
Alexander Hamilton, and Patterns. Pretty interesting. Again, you could
sign up and get these. Just give me, just email me, I'll put my email address there.
So you can email me, we can set that up, do Zoom meeting, and maybe PayPal for some other method.
And discussion, if we have a group, we can do discussion, or might just be a
single person, and sometimes it'll be just a writing assignment, where we learn how to write, and then there's a quiz,
and we summarize the lesson. Okay,
so going back to where we were, we were actually going over a
short article for reading. I like to do reading because I like to hear the student
read, and maybe listen, they can also listen. I can check pronunciation,
fluency, and then I can ask afterwards for, okay, you understand,
the meaning of the word here are the issues. So let's just get into it.
In history, abolition was a movement that requires significant resilience and adaptability.
Leaders work tirelessly, aiming their efforts and introducing
amendments to laws. Today, this historical example inspires individuals to simplify
complex issues and transcend limits in various fields.
Okay, so what we tried to do there was use as many of the vocabulary words and things
from the article. This next segment got filled,
we'll give an example of this. So complete the sentence using the correct word from the second
let's talk about the blank of slavery, mark the turning
point, and human rights history. So what word would go there?
Remember the words, vocabulary words,
right? The abolition of slavery, mark the turning point, and human rights history. To stay
relevant in the workplace, one must show, right,
resilience. Her
ability to blank expectations was truly inspiring. Her ability
to transcend expectations was truly inspiring. They introduced
blank to improve the law. Think about it. They
introduced amendment to improve the law. A blank is
essential for household tasks, like cleaning, right? Maybe you're
thinking appliance, but if we look here, it says, "A, not am,
I'm appliance." So we would say vacuum, maybe that'll work. A vacuum
is essential for household tasks, like cleaning. Section five or something
like that, I usually have a quiz, maybe five. You only have three here. Choose the correct
option for each question. Which word means to recover quickly
from difficulties? To recover quickly
from difficulties. What I like to
do is, instead of jumping on the correct answer, right away, what I think is the correct answer, I eliminate
what it can't be and what's left. Maybe I have just one answer
or maybe I have two, it's a 50/50. So to recover quickly from difficulties,
well, definitely not vacuum. To recover quickly from difficulties,
it's probably not simplified, so I'm left with resilience, right?
See other works? What is the correct spelling for a
cleaning device? Back here, vacuum,
vacuum, vacuum, vacuuming over. Well,
see doesn't look right, so now I have a 50/50 chance. See how it works,
eliminate first. And see, oh no,
I eliminated see, so it must be B. To go beyond limits
is defined as, yeah. It definitely not applied, definitely not adaptability,
it must be transcendence.
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