Name: ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH: Confusing Words
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T18:35:04.000Z
Duration: 18 min 43 s
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Past simple

Modal verbs - A2

Um A few people have said I make really long videos and a few people's actually it wasn't a few people e here said I couldn't make a short video if my life depended on it.

I have a pocket watch with a stopper and I got a lesson plan.

Well kind of you see I'm going to teach individual parts in one minute so it's not really one minute english and then I'm going to do three parts.

So that's more like three minutes and I've already taken one minute to explain so it's more like four but I promise I'm gonna try and do Each segment in one minute.

All joking aside is I'm going to speak quite quickly and give us give some definitions.

And I want to I want to help you with your comprehension that you focus on what I'm saying.

Be able to tell the differences even though their home a phones because these are the common hama phones that even native speakers make mistakes with that you can clearly you won't hear a difference but you'll get the meaning difference.

So when we do the quiz after, you should be able to know which goes where right So I'm gonna be speaking quickly.

I might say some kind of funny cute little jokes about things is that's why I did this lesson and I'm going to try and do each segment Which would normally about five minutes into one minute now, if you're ready, I've got the clock.

I got my lesson because I can't remember all my jokes and we're gonna get started.

So are you ready comin home a phones that people make mistakes with and especially native speakers when they write it down on paper.

Okay so the first thing we're gonna do is add and add ad is short for addition and his user from mathematics for two plus two which equals four that would be adding to join something else.

So if you have a house and let's just say you're a woman who's got, I've got, I've got 45 seconds you want to put on your the breadwinner so you make money and you want to put on a new bedroom, you can say honey, we need to add on a new bedroom to our house, that's to join something.

Two bedrooms together to put in, you need to add sugar to the mixture to make a cake.

Okay, so put in an ad is short for advertisement.

I was watching a beer advertisement the other day and it wasn't that good.

So the difference between these two is in this case we can use it for mathematics to join things together and this one we talk about TV ads that we like to watch during the super bowl in north America And Boo Yah, that was 40, seconds.

I got two to go gets more complicated now because I'm gonna be adding on.

You see sweat running down my breath cause I'm working hard.

I hope you got the comprehension because on the quiz you have to know the difference between these ready.

Okay, so B b and B bee is an insect that makes honey and it hums while it's working.

You know, it's like to be singing isn't so happy making honey in my hive bee insect number one auxiliary verb used to refer to existence 15 seconds down.

Well, one of my favorite sayings from philosophy is cognito ergo sum, which means to be, I think therefore I am B is an irregular verb that sometimes difficult for people because it can be used for description as well as action in the continuous form present, continuous, past, continuous and future, continuous when you add I N G.

Sometimes people say we need to go from A and to be before we talk about C.

Meeting and you know, like the points on the line also it's in uh something called Sesame Street.

They have a song called letter B by the Beatles and they look like little beetles is really cute.

Second word word in the alphabet, letter in the alphabet, letter B.

If you're a beginner student, I'm sorry I lost the bet.

I've done to explain two things in two minutes.

This one's a little bit harder because it's going to be home.

A phones Plus one That's not, which is sometimes confused by native speakers and I'm going to start now.

Okay, Bear bear and beer, They're different.

But sometimes people have a hard time saying them.

So if I took off my shirt and bared my chest, it needs to uncover.

That cute memo you see in the forest uh if you're going camping it might kill you and eat you.

But they can be cute when you have a teddy bear and you put it on your bed at night bear.

Also means to carry, I'm from the United States of America.

In that case it what it means that I'm allowed to carry a gun son.

Okay, now this is often confused with the word beer.

This one is not, it actually sounds a little different.

However, beer is a very good drink to have on a hot summer's day and what I'm doing during this video, I'm going to have one or two myself.

Three definitions of homophone showing you something that's not a homophone.

Talking about the alphabet and even talking about Well, beer ads, I did my job.

So Mr Ee and you have a quiz to do in the next coming minutes and we're back.

It's supposed to be a minute lesson, remember?

Okay, well keeping in the speed, I'm gonna slow down now.

The first part was just more for your comprehension.

So if you remember what I said to you, I was speaking basically normal speed maybe a little faster to see what you could actually take out of it.