Name: Fewer or Less? Bored or Boring? An English Lesson on Confusing Word Pairs!
Uploaded: 2020-06-09T08:44:10.000Z
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Welcome to this English lesson about confusing word pairs.

Adverbs of frequency

When you are learning English, sometimes you will learn

two words that maybe have slightly different meanings.

Maybe they have slightly different pronunciations,

So in this English lesson, I'll go over a number

The first pair I want to start with is the word shade

because it is a sunny day, I am in the shade of the tree.

So the sun hits the tree and it creates this beautiful area

under the tree where there's lots of shade.

If you stand beside a building on a sunny day,

you can also stand in the shade of a building.

If you look on the ground behind me, you can see

You can even see the shadow of the camera a little bit

So again, the difference between the first two

confusing words, shade is something that you find

underneath a tree or beside a building on a sunny day.

And a shadow is what the sun creates on the ground

So the next two words I wanted to talk about

You'll notice we actually spell the word color

But collar and color can be hard for people to pronounce.

They have a slightly different pronunciation.

You'll notice that Oscar is wearing a collar.

I'm not sure he's too happy to show you his collar,

Oscar is where a collar, I am wearing a shirt

And just to confuse things a little bit, my shirt also

So the next two words I wanted to talk to you about

Sometimes when you're listening to a native English speaker,

they'll speak so quickly that you won't be sure if they said

word or world and sometimes when you are speaking English,

it's hard to pronounce each word properly,

and to pronounce them in a way where they sound different

So I think I'll just say each word a few times.

In fact, this bike has a word on the front it says magic.

So this bike has a word on the front and we all live

So the next two words are the words brake and break.

You could see that I was just driving my van

and in order to stop my van, I need to push the brake pedal.

A brake is something that will stop a vehicle

But if I had a stick and I wanted to make the stick smaller,

So when you drive a vehicle and you want to stop,

And when you have a stick or something else

and you want to make it smaller, you can break it.

And I thought I would use this basketball

I have the basketball I can give the basketball to someone.

And if I don't want them to have it anymore,

So once again, give and take, if I have a basketball,

And then if I don't want them to have it anymore,

The next two words are the words high and tall.

When you climb a ladder, you climb a ladder

because you want to go somewhere high in the air.

So when you use the word high, you're talking about

If you use the word tall, though, you're simply talking

I know it's kind of weird we use metric in Canada,

but when we talk about height, we still use feet and inches.

So I'm five foot 11 inches tall, but if I climb this ladder,

The next two words that you might find confusing,

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