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  • Hi everybody.

  • I'm Esther and in this video, I want to talk with you about the word lag.

  • Now lag means to do something very slowly or to be very slow.

  • Okay, so the word lag is appear on the board now, the pronunciation, It's hard.

  • I know, but you have to try and practice lag lag.

  • Okay, so let's look at these examples.

  • She's lagging.

  • She's lagging.

  • This means she is taking a long time to do something.

  • She's doing something very slowly.

  • She's lagging.

  • The next one is stop lagging.

  • Stop lagging.

  • You're telling somebody hurry up, stop being slow.

  • Okay, the next one is a very common problem.

  • My computer is lagging, my computer is lagging.

  • That means my computer is slow.

  • It's slow.

  • I'm trying to do something, but it's lagging.

  • It's slow.

  • And the last one is I have jet lag.

  • I have jet lag.

  • You might hear this a lot, especially from people who are traveling.

  • So if you travel around the world may be too far away country that you're gonna be changing time zones.

  • So the time will be different and you'll feel very tired.

  • Your body will feel slow and tired and your body is taking a long time to adjust to the new time zone.

  • Your body is slow to adjust.

  • So you have to say I have jet lag.

  • Okay, let's look at some more examples together.

  • Okay, let's look at a few examples.

  • The first one, she's always late because she lags, she's always late because she lags.

  • The next one.

  • I wish you wouldn't lack so much.

  • I wish you wouldn't lag so much.

  • Next.

  • I can't open the program because my computer is lagging.

  • I can't open the program because my computer is lagging the last one.

  • My jet lag is terrible.

  • I keep falling asleep.

  • My jet lag is terrible, I keep falling asleep.

  • Okay, so in this video we learned that we use the word lag to describe an action that is very, very slow.

  • Now, my best friend is someone who lags a lot whenever we want to do something, especially at night, she takes almost two hours to get ready.

  • She has to wash her hair or take a shower, then put on her makeup, you know, decide what to wear and that can take a very long time.

  • So I always have to say to her, stop lagging, hurry up.

  • We're late.

  • Stop lagging.

  • Okay, so next time if you have a friend or somebody that's taking a very long time, you can use the word lag, say stop lagging, hurry up.

  • Okay, well that's the end.

  • Thank you, bye.

  • Mhm.

Hi everybody.

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