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It's day 20! We're two-thirds of the way done with our 30-Day English Vocabulary Challenge.
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One video a day, every day, for 30 days. We're learning 105 words from the academic word list.
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Words that will help you have sophisticated English conversations,
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words you need to know if you're preparing for the IELTS or TOEFL exams. I've been watching the
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posts you've been making about this challenge, it's incredible, inspiring. Make up a sentence
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to a word you learn and post it on social. Don't forget to like and subscribe, and don't forget to
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download the study guide that goes with this 30 day challenge. You can do that by clicking here
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or the link in the video description. Learn the words, ace the quizzes, you've got this.
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Today, we start with CHAPTER. Chapter. The T in a PT cluster is very weak, it's not
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pt—but pt— Chapter. Chapter. It can almost sound like a D. Chapter. Chapter. There's not as much
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air in it as a regular true T. It's a noun, it means one of the main sections of a book.
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Please read the first two chapters of your textbook for our next class.
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Or it means a period of time that is very different from the period of time before it.
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That was a difficult chapter in my life. Let's look again up close and in slow motion.
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And now, we'll go to Youglish for five examples. You can read this in the first chapter or
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second chapter of my book. This example and the next
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one uses chapters as a section of a book. You can read this in the first chapter or
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second chapter of my book. Here's another example.
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It's not something that she's covering in every single chapter.
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Not covering throughout the book. It's not something that she's covering
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in every single chapter. Here's another example.
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This chapter in our life has ended, so how do we turn the page?
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Now here, the word is being used to talk about a period of time, a chapter in your life can be
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defined by a big change, like the chapter when you were single and the chapter when you were married,
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or the chapter when you were in graduate school, and the chapter when you got your first job.
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This chapter in our life has ended, so how do we turn the page?
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Another example. I wanna, I wanna read a section from, um, chapter
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five, uh, which is where we focus on culture. Again, talking about a section of a book.
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I wanna, I wanna read a section from, um, chapter five, uh, which is where we focus on culture.
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Our last example. I mean, they have
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just seen chapter and verse over the last five years of really bad behavior by these banks.
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Chapter and verse. This is an idiom that means full and precise information. She
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says they've seen chapter and verse, they've seen very precisely, the bad behavior of banks.
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I mean, they have just seen chapter and verse over the last five years
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of really bad behavior by these banks. Our next word is JOURNAL.
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Journal. It's a noun, a book in which you write down your personal experiences and thoughts. I
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write down my dreams in a journal. It can also be a newspaper or magazine that reports on things of
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special interest. My mom subscribes to The Wall Street Journal. This is also a verb and it means
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to write down personal experiences and thoughts. I journal about the meaning of my dreams.
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Let's look again up close and in slow motion.
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples.
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My own perspective, however, follows an argument made by Jill Fields in a 2012
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article in Frontier's women's studies journal. In a particular journal, a publication that
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reports on this specialized subject. My own perspective, however,
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follows an argument made by Jill Fields in a 2012 article in Frontier's women's studies journal.
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Here's another example. A couple of weeks ago, I assigned
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my college students a one-page journal entry. The students were supposed to write out
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personal experiences and thoughts likely on a particular topic.
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A couple of weeks ago I assigned my college students a one-page journal entry.
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Here's another example. Oprah likes to keep a
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gratitude journal and says it's the single most important thing she's ever done.
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Gratitude journal. A place to write down your thoughts on what you're thankful for,
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what you feel lucky to have. Oprah likes to keep a gratitude
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journal and says it's the single most important thing she's ever done.
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Another example. So I do regularly journal.
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Here, it's being used as a verb, to write down personal experiences and thoughts.
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So I do regularly journal. Our last example.
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Francis is published in every journal you can imagine.
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Every journal, every newspaper and magazine you can think of.
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Francis is published in every journal you can imagine.
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Our last word today is TEXT. Text. All three of our words today relate to writing, don't they?
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This is a noun, the original words of a piece of writing or speech. You can find
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the full text of his speech on his website. As a verb, it means to send someone a text message.
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We texted for an hour last night. Let's look again up close and in slow motion.
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Notice that to make that true T at the beginning, the teeth have to come together.
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples. Someone breaking up with you via text message,
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that's like a different emotion. Breaking up with you, ending your
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relationship via text message. That's harsh. I'd much rather have that conversation in person.
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Someone breaking up with you via text message, that's like a different emotion.
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Here's another example. We would read some text in feminist
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theory and have a conversation about it. Some text, some original piece of writing.
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We would read some text in feminist theory and have a conversation about it.
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Here's another example. Please use footnotes for your in-text citations.
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In-text citation. When you're writing a book or article, and you quote someone or use information
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or ideas developed by someone else, you need to cite that, you need to say who the original source
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was. So an in-text citation is where you put that citation right there in your paper. This
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is different from a citation that happens at the end of a paper or article. This
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is an example of an in-text citation that I got from the web, it has two in-text citations.
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Please use footnotes for your in-text citations. Another example.
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The evidence from the text and artifact tell a new story.
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Evidence from the text, from the original piece of writing.
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The evidence from the text and artifact tell a new story.
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Our last example. And you go to text one of your friends
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and they don't text back right away. You text a friend, pull out your phone, send a
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message. We all know what texting is, don't we? And you go to text one of your friends
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and they don't text back right away. Seeing all the real-life examples can really help
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you understand how to use these words, can't it? I have a challenge for you now. Make up a sentence
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with one of these words. Make a short video of your sentence, and post it to social media. Tag me
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and use the hashtag #rachelsenglish30daychallenge Don't be shy. You can do this. I love seeing
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what you've posted so far. Our next video comes out tomorrow, at 10 AM
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Philadelphia time. Come on back to learn three more vocabulary words. In the meantime,
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keep your studies going with this video, and check out my online courses at Rachel's English Academy.
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You'll become a more confident English speaker. And please do remember to subscribe.
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I love being your English teacher. That's it and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.