Pratica di Shadowing: Let's Learn English! Topic: Change! ๐ ๐๐ช - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about change.
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Change is all around us.
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People change.
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Trees change.
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Even something like your house will change over time.
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A rock out in the wilderness will slowly change as the weather ages it.
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So we are surrounded by things that change and we ourselves also change over time.
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So I thought I would do an English lesson about the verbs we use to talk about change.
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In this lesson, I'll look at a number of different verbs.
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I think about 25 verbs.
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And I will give you a nice picture, an example sentence, and a definition, of course, of what it means.
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And I'll talk about each one for about a minute.
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So once again, welcome to this English lesson about change. To change.
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So this is the general verb meaning to become different or to make something different.
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So something can change over time, but you can also change something by what you do.
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So here we have the classic example.
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The leaves on the trees will change throughout the season.
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So I'm going to have another sip of water here just so that I can keep talking for an hour.
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This might not happen in your part of the world, but in my part of the world,
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we have four distinct seasons and the trees will change.
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the leaves will change.
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It hasn't quite started happening yet, but in about two or three weeks,
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the leaves on the trees will change because it is the season of fall.
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To change, to become different or to make something different.
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And your example sentence, the leaves on the trees will change throughout the seasons.
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I tried to write example sentences for this lesson that were a little more complex.
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You'll probably notice that.
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I usually write very simple examples, but this time I tried to up the difficulty slightly just to challenge you.
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To change into.
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The same verb, but now we have into at the end.
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It kind of has the same meaning, but not exactly.
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Here's the description.
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For something to become different from what it was before.
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And to me, this is the classic example.
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The caterpillar will change into a butterfly.
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Sometimes we just say change to, like the caterpillar will change to a butterfly, but it sounds better to me if we use into,
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and I think that is the most correct way to say it.
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The caterpillar will change into a butterfly, and this does happen quite regularly on our farm.
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In fact, when you walk out at certain times of the year, you will see caterpillars eating Jen's plants.
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And then eventually you will see them make a cocoon and a butterfly or a moth sometimes will come out.
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To turn into, to change and become something different.
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So the rain will turn into snow later today.
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Again, sometimes we just say to, the rain will turn to snow later today.
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And you can even use change into for this.
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Sometimes they're interchangeable, like the rain will turn into snow, the rain will turn to snow,
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the rain will change to snow or change into snow.
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This happens to us later this fall.
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There will be days where you get up and it's raining
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and then eventually the rain will turn into snow because it gets colder as the day goes by.
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To become, to begin to be something different over time.
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I really struggled writing this definition because when you become something, it can happen quickly or it can take a long time,
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but it's not instant necessarily, at least the way I think about it.
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As a child gets older, they become more mature.
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They stop behaving like a child because they become more like an adult.
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So it's something that takes time.
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He went back to school to become a doctor.
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this doesn't happen instantly he needs to spend a number of
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years at school hopefully to become a doctor you can also
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say something like well the day is going to become quite hot
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so it's not instant but over a few hours the temperature will change
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so to become to begin to be something different over time to transform to change something greatly in appearance form or character
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this has been suggested in the comments many time many times
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that Jen and I should do this
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so they transform the old barn into a beautiful banquet hall
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so you can see by the beams and the walls
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that this is probably an old barn but they've decided to transform it
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so instead of being a barn it's now a banquet hall
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so the barn has been transformed that space in the barn has been transformed.
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And just so you know, Jen and I don't plan on doing this because
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that would mean we would have to rent it out
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and then people would come and there would be weddings till two in the morning in our barn.
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I wouldn't enjoy that.
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So we are not going to transform the barn into a banquet hall.
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To adapt, to change your behavior or methods to fit a new situation.
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And then this is actually me right now.
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It will take me a few weeks to adapt to my new workload.
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Summer ended and now I have been in a classroom every day this week.
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Well, not Monday.
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It was still a holiday.
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So now I need to adapt.
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I was used to being more relaxed every day.
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Now I have to be more orderly.
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In order for me to be healthy and to have energy and to be able to get all my work done,
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I need to change my behavior and methods to fit the new situation of being at work.
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So to adapt, to change your behavior methods to fit a new situation, and this is definitely true.
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It will take me a few weeks to adapt to my new workload and definitely true of any teacher.
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And this is true for students as well.
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They need to adapt so that they can do well at school.
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To adjust, we have to make a small change so that something works or feels better.
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You can guess what this person's doing.
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I had to adjust my new chair several times until I got it just right.
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So again, sentences that are a little more complex.
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I had to adjust my chair several times until I got it just right.
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Just right meaning perfect.
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The right height, leaning back the right amount.
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This is actually Jen's chair, but my chair is over there.
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right there.
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It's kind of dark.
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You can't see it.
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But yes, I did have to adjust that chair several times before it was the way it felt good.
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The arms go up and down.
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I had to get them at the right level.
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I had to adjust it many times.
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I had to make a lot of adjustments.
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To modify, to make small changes to something, to improve it or make it more suitable.
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I never had this when I was a dad of little kids,
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but this person, he decided to modify his bike so his kid could ride with him.
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So you can see there's a seat for the dad, there's handlebars for the dad, and there's a little seat for the kid and handlebars for the kid.
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I don't think the kid actually can steer the bike, maybe a little bit.
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But whenever you do something like this, like you can modify a car, you can modify a bike,
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you can modify things so that you improve it or make it more suitable for the situation.
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I can't think of another example right now, but I do know sometimes people get glasses
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and then they modify the part where your nose goes so
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that it works a little bit better for when it's on their face.
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These are a little bit crooked.
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I've had these a long time.
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I've had these as long as I've been doing YouTube, I think.
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So they've, they've stood the test of time.
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There's another English phrase for you.
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To alter, to change something, to change something so that it is slightly different.
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And a classic example would be if you ever buy a piece of clothing and it doesn't quite fit, you might go to a tailor.
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The tailor took his measurements so he could alter his pants.
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Maybe he's going to bring in the waist so that it fits better around the waist.
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Maybe he's going to shorten the, um, the pant legs.
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Um, I don't get my clothes altered, or we also say tailored.
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You can use that as a verb very often.
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If I would, if I was to buy a new suit jacket, I would probably get it tailored or altered.
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If I bought like really nice pants to go with the suit jacket, I would probably have them altered.
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Um, if I bought a shirt to wear with the suit and tie, I would probably have that altered as well.
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To revise, to change something you have written or planned in order to improve it.
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I tend to revise my lesson plans a lot during the first few days of school.
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So when you write something, you can always revise it.
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So if I write a sentence, I can revise the sentence by changing one word and putting a different word in.
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I might change the tense.
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Like in this sentence, I decided to revise it
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because originally I said I revised my lesson plans a lot this past week.
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And I didn't want it to be in the past tense, so I revised it.
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I changed the phrase so
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that it says I tend to revise my lesson plans a lot during the first few days of school.
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So to revise, to change something you have written or planned in order to improve it. To edit.
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To make changes to writing, photos, audio or video to improve the finished product.
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And here you can see someone is editing on their computer.
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I have to edit my videos before uploading them or else they would be quite boring.
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This is very true.
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If I just uploaded the video without editing it, it wouldn't be as exciting.
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I don't do a lot of editing though.
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So usually I can say what I need to say in about a minute, and then I put all of the clips together, which is still considered editing.
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But to edit, to make changes to writing photos, audio, or video to improve the finished product.
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To upgrade, to replace or improve something with a newer or better version.
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I upgraded my computer with faster memory, or you can also say RAM.
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So when you upgrade something, you can upgrade something.
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it usually means that you have something better.
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I'm trying to think if you would say that you would upgrade a car.
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Like I had a 2022 Toyota RAV4 and I'm going to upgrade to a 2024.
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You could say that.
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You probably might just say I'm going to replace it with.
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But if I said to someone, I had a 2022 RAV4 and I bought a 2022 RAV4, but with a nicer trim level,
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someone could say, oh, that's a nice upgrade for you.
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We can use it also as a noun.
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So to upgrade, to replace or improve something with a newer or better version.
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Don't replace me with a newer or better YouTuber to learn English from.
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You don't need to upgrade that.
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Although you should watch other English teachers on YouTube for sure.
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To replace, to remove one thing and put another thing in its place.
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This has happened to me.
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In fact, the last time this happened, it happened to my sister.
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I replaced the car battery with a new one.
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So a couple of years ago, my sister's vehicle wouldn't start and I went to her house and we figured out it was the battery.
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Actually, her vehicle was here.
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How did she get here?
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Yeah.
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Anyways, she needed a new battery.
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So I went to Canadian Tire.
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By the way, that's where I made the short lesson on coffee makers earlier this week at Canadian Tire, a large store that sells everything except food.
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I bought a battery and then I went home and I replaced her car battery with the new battery.
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So to replace, to remove one thing and put another thing in its place, I replaced the car battery with a new one.
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to switch, to stop using or doing one thing and start using or doing another.
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I decided to switch from drinking coffee to drinking tea.
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I decided years ago to switch from drinking coffee to drinking decaffeinated coffee.
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You could say he decided to switch from eating sugar to eating no sugar.
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So it's when you change your behavior or you change something you do to something else.
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You could say he decided he liked English with Lucy or Vanessa better.
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So he switched and instead of watching Bob the Canadian, he watched Lucy and Vanessa, which by the way, are both very good English teachers on YouTube.
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So to switch, to stop using or doing one thing and start using or doing another. To swap.
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I like this one.
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It's fun to say.
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To exchange one thing for another.
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I like apples better than oranges.
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So my colleague and I swapped.
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So let's say you go to work and you have an orange
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and you don't really like oranges and you look over
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and your coworker or colleague has an apple and you really like apples.
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You might swap.
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That means you give them the orange and they give you the apple.
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Did I get that right?
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You could also say trade.
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So you could trade.
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Um, but swap, swap's a good verb.
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Like we have to swap our regular tires for snow tires later this year.
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So the mechanic, or my son might do it, will take the old summer tires off and put the winter tires on.
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So we'll swap tires.
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We're exchanging one thing for another.
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To convert, to change something into a different form or make it suitable for a different use.
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They converted the garage into a bedroom.
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not sure I would be comfortable having a garage door in my bedroom
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but maybe they didn't need the garage anymore they didn't have
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a car to put in the garage maybe they needed an extra room in their house
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because their mom or dad their older mom
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or dad was moving in they could convert the garage to a bedroom
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and I'm just thinking here how is this different to transform
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it's not you could transform a garage into a bedroom as well.
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I have a friend whose parents actually did this.
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They weren't using their garage.
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They actually built a separate building as a garage and a workshop.
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And so they didn't need their garage.
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So they converted their garage into a bedroom.
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They didn't leave the garage door in though.
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They put a wall with a window so that, yeah, it would be weird if you had a garage door in your bedroom.
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But I guess you could drive your car in there if you wanted.
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I don't know why, but you could. To deteriorate.
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To gradually become worse in condition or quality.
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A wooden fence will deteriorate over time.
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I'm saying that word a little quickly.
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Let me say it again. To deteriorate. To deteriorate.
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To gradually become worse in condition or quality.
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If you build a fence out of normal wood, like untreated wood, it will deteriorate over time.
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it will eventually start to rot.
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It will start to fall apart.
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It will become worse than its original condition.
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However, if you build a fence out of treated lumber, it will last much, much longer.
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So to deteriorate to gradually become worse in condition or quality. To ripen.
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Let's make this one really big.
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To become ripe and ready to eat.
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Now I apologize for using the word ripe in the definition, but I couldn't think of any other word to describe to ripen.
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When you pick a green tomato, eventually it will ripen and turn red.
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The tomatoes will ripen over time.
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So when something becomes ripe, it is usually a fruit or vegetable.
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And when you pick it, it's not ready to eat.
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Maybe you pick a banana and the banana is green.
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You want to wait for the banana to start to turn yellow.
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You want it to ripen before you eat it.
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So to ripen, to become ripe and ready to eat.
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To develop, to gradually grow or change, in order to develop stronger muscles,
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you must increase the amount you lift.
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I know you're learning English.
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I'm having trouble pronouncing words this morning for some reason.
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It must have been a long week.
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But anyways, if you go to the gym and you lift a 10 pound weight three times a week for a year, eventually your muscles will not develop.
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They will just stay the same.
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If you want to become stronger, if you want your muscles to become bigger, if you want more strength,
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you have to increase from time to time the amount that you are lifting so that your muscles will develop.
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You want your muscles to continue to develop.
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And you can change how you work out to help your muscles develop as well.
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But to develop, to gradually grow or change. To worsen.
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To become worse than before.
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So once again, I had to use the word to define, a form of the word to define the verb.
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But to worsen, here is your example.
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The weather will worsen throughout the day.
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You can see a storm on the horizon here,
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maybe in the morning it's sunny and the weather forecast says the weather will worsen throughout the day.
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That means if it's summer, you can expect rain.
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It might get windy.
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If it's winter, it means there's probably going to be a lot of snow.
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The weather when it's sunny is nice, but it will worsen, which means it will not be as nice.
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So the weather will worsen throughout today to worsen, to become worse than before.
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To fade, to gradually lose color, brightness, or strength.
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The curtains will fade after years in the sun.
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If you buy curtains and you keep them closed and the sun shines on them every day, the color starts to fade.
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If they were red when you bought them, they'll be very light red after 10 years.
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Things will fade.
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Sound can also fade.
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Like if you, it's the end of a song and you're a DJ, like you can fade the music down.
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And so it just becomes quieter and quieter until no one can hear it.
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And then, and the slider you use is called a fader.
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You fade it down.
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Um, and in a video I can fade out and fade in.
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You'll notice between my clips, it fades to black and comes back.
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If you watch one of my regular videos to fade, to gradually lose color, brightness or strength.
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To shrink, to become smaller in size.
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A cotton shirt will shrink the first time you wash it and put it in the dryer.
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This man bought a shirt and it is not the same size as when he bought it.
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When you wash something that's made of cotton, it will shrink.
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If it's made of polyester or a cotton polyester blend, it will not shrink or shrink less.
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But generally, most clothing is pre-shrunk.
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So the past tense shrunk, like he shrunk his shirt,
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uh, pre-shrunk meaning they already tried to make it shrink a little bit to shrink, to become smaller in size,
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to reverse, to change something to the opposite direction or decision order to the opposite direction, order or decision.
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Sorry, I missed a comma there after direction, the store reversed its decision to close and decided to stay open.
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So they had a sign that said store closing, but they reversed their decision.
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And now it says store will stay open now.
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That's definitely written by AI.
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By the way, I should be transparent about my use of AI for images.
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I pay a licensing fee to get photos from people.
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So 90% or more of my photos are from a website called FreePick,
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where I pay a yearly fee to have permission to use photos that actual human beings have taken.
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In every lesson though, there's usually one or two slides where I can't find the perfect picture.
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And then I will use AI to generate that photo.
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But generally 90, 95%, sometimes a hundred percent of my photos are copyrighted photos
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that I have paid to use to make my lessons better.
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I want to do that because I earn money during doing YouTube.
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I don't want to use AI for all of my images.
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So the store reversed its decision to close and decided to stay open.
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The government often reverses their decisions.
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I'm not sure if you do that, but the government will say, we're going to give everyone a $10,000 rebate this fall.
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And then a week later they say, ah, we've reversed our decision.
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you're getting nothing.
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To increase, to become greater in amount, number, size, or level.
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So the price of gas will increase this week.
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The price of gas will go up this week.
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So I did add go up because it's an equivalent of the two.
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So to increase, to become greater in amount, number, size, or level.
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And I forgot my commas there as well.
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To decrease, to become smaller or less in amounts, number, size, or level.
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I remembered the commas this time.
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I don't think the price of gas is going to decrease anytime soon.
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I don't think the price of gas is going to come down anytime soon.
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So the second sentences here I added because this is the common way to say this.
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The top sentence is the very correct way.
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The second sentence is what we actually say.
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So I would say, oh, the price of gas, it'll go up this week.
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It will go up this week.
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I don't think the price of gas is going to come down any time soon.
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To decrease, to become smaller or less in amount, number, size, or level.
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To age, to become older or change as time passes.
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The wood will begin to age over time.
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I've used this example a couple times.
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When you put wood on the side of a building, it has a certain color.
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It looks fresh and new.
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But after a few years, it will age.
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It will start to get darker.
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It will start to look different.
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Maybe some of the cracks will get a little bit bigger.
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The wood will age over time.
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We also have a verb to weather.
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The wood will weather over time.
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As it's exposed to the sun and rain and snow and water, it will change it will age and it will weather over time.
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So to age, to become older or change as time passes.
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