Name: Listening, Vocabulary, Comprehension: Learn Advanced Words with a Story
Uploaded: 2025-06-18T11:29:44.000Z
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This lesson is what we call an LVC lesson.

What's going to happen in this lesson is you notice there's nothing on the board right now, but soon we'll have the board filled with information to help you.

LVC stands for Listening, Vocabulary, and Comprehension.

What's going to occur here is I'm going to read you a story, I'm going to click my fingers, and then we're going to take seven words of vocabulary that you probably don't know, teach you what they mean, listen one more time to make sure you've got comprehension with these new words to understand the story you're being told, and then we'll have a very quick quiz to check that comprehension.

It's a complete lesson, you'll enjoy it, so I'm going to ask you right now to please grab a pen and paper because you're going to want to take notes on this one.

You might have to listen to it a couple times, but I promise you from the ones we've done before, a lot of people go from I didn't understand to I 100% understand the story and have a greater appreciation for vocabulary and the words we're teaching.

So get your pen, get your paper, get comfortable, and get ready for the story.

Meanwhile, at the police headquarters, the captain was getting more and more angry, trying to understand the ambiguous text message left by Detective E, who was at the crime scene.

E was a good detective, albeit a little unconventional for being a cop.

This made the other cops make assumptions about the quality of his work, but Detective

E had the profound ability to make the right decisions, which would have great implications on finding and arresting criminals.

It was inevitable that Detective E and the captain were going to get into a big argument about how Detective E worked on this case.

Okay, so now you've heard the story, I know you're probably really confused, and your confusion is understandable because to understand something, whether you're reading it, or as if you're reading it, or you're listening to it, you need to understand at least 90% of the words, I'd say 80 to 90, to comprehend or understand what's being said.

Once you get past the 80%, you know, 70, 60, you basically don't understand what's going on.

It's a shame, but I'm going to help correct that by teaching you the seven words I picked on purpose to make it difficult for you so that you can understand the story when we read it again and when we do the quiz.

Now, I have some examples here I'm reading from because it is a hard story for you and for me.

So, the first word you heard was ambiguous.

The simple meaning of ambiguous is something is not clear.

So, it's not easy to understand, it's not clear.

Other words people will use for not clear are vague and unclear, unclear.

Why is this word important to go from intermediate to advanced?

Well, it helps you recognize that you could have more than one meaning in a word.

When something's ambiguous, it could mean this or it could mean that.

It's not clear so you can't say, oh, it's absolutely five.

Well, let me give you a really good example.

Marty's ambiguous response made me think there was more going on.

So, instead of saying, hey, I'm going to come to the party for sure, they say, it sounds like a good idea.

Or my favourite is when I say to a student, do you want the blue apple or the pink pear?

I don't know what you want, it's ambiguous.

This is such a fancy word used by post-secondary people everywhere.

It almost sounds like three words, albeit when the gods are speaking.

It just means but, but it sounds nice, right?

Other words that people use are although and however, okay?

Why does this help you go from intermediate to advanced in your learning, or demonstrating your transition or movement from being an intermediate student to an advanced student?

When you're doing advanced reading or writing or conversation.

Well, remember, but means here's something, but something is different.

Here's my perfect example sentence for you, you ready?

Anna is very intelligent, albeit a little silly at times.

Now, stop and think about what I just said.

She's very intelligent, albeit a little silly at times.

When we usually think of intelligent people, we think they're very serious and studious and you know, they've got this face, not...

You don't think of that when you think of intelligence.

So, albeit she's intelligent, she can be silly, right?

The basic meaning of unconventional means not normal.

Other words we use, or other people use, or generally, especially in the intermediates level, are original and unusual.

Funny enough, unconventional is sort of a combination of the two, and that's what makes all of these words interesting.

They're not just don't use this, use this, don't use this, use this.

Sometimes they have both meanings inside that word, and that's why we choose them, and that's how you're demonstrating you're going from intermediate to advanced, because you know this word combined, these two words combined, give it a unique meaning.

Well, it helps you to demonstrate that you know what is being...

What is considered normal, and how people can be flexible about getting things done.

Meaning, yes, there's a normal way of doing it, but somebody who's unconventional-right?-will do something that's not usual, and it is usually original.

That's why I said it's the combination of the two words.

If you're a lower level student, you will just use one of these words and you're missing...

It's like a taste in food assault, you're missing something that doesn't give it the exact idea that somebody wants to understand or clear...

So, we've seen, now, how we're moving our transitionally...

Once again, transition, moving, from words that you probably use now to more special word or nuanced words that can give you a little bit more meaning to what we're saying.

I'm glad you're following along because we have to do our next word now, which is conjecture.

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Listening, Vocabulary, Comprehension: Learn Advanced Words with a Story

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