Name: 10 "TIP" Expressions in English
Uploaded: 2017-08-24T04:37:55.000Z
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Today I want to teach
you about a word "tip".

We use this word a lot in English, and
I am going to teach you what it means,

collocations are words that are found together
generally, you know, a lot-and a few idioms.

If you're ready, we'll go to the board,
visit Mr. E and start our lesson.

So, E has "tip", he's pointing to his tongue
and he's pointing to these icebergs, and he's

So I've got an idea that "tip" has something to do
with the edge or the pointed part of something.

I think it's very important that you not only
know what the word means, but how to say it

The two basic meanings of "tip" are:
A) a gift of money for service.

Not everywhere in the world this happens,
but in North America and in England, if you

[Laughs] In North America, which is Canada,
the United States, not including Mexico, but

in these two countries after you finish a
meal you are kind of obligated to leave a

little extra money if
the service is good.

So if you liked the waiter or waitress, they
do a good service, you leave money and it's

"Thank you. I really appreciate it.
Here you go."

Here's my tongue and the
tip, the tip of my tongue.

But also with this marker,
that's the tip of the marker.

And that should help you understand why E was
pointing to the tip of the iceberg which

With these two ideas we're going to now move
into how we can use "tip" like a native speaker,

Okay? To make English
fun and understandable.

The first one we talked about,
"tip" at a restaurant. Money.

But do you know "tip" is
also for information?

Remember we said it's the
tip or the pointed end?

When someone gives you a tip, they
might come to you close and go:

So, "tip" here could also be hot, and that means like
it's special information, important information.

Something they want to tell you
that's going to benefit you.

"Hey, I got a hot tip about a car selling
for a really cheap price and it's in really

[Laughs] Another meaning for
"tip" is to make something...

"Tip" means to fall over, but in North America
there's a little habit people have of cow tipping.

I don't suggest that you do it, it's not funny
because the poor cows, they sleep standing up.

And some people will go to farms and they will
push the cow, and the cow will fall over,

So, "tip" here also means
to make fall over.

So these are three basic pieces
of information about "tip".

One is tip given for service; two is for information
that you give to someone, especially a hot

tip; and three if something's tipping over
like a book or a glass, it's going to fall.

And we did talk about the pointed end of
something, and that's where we lead to here.

If you look here you see
this part here, yeah?

Well, that's a smaller
part of something larger.

"And then he did that, and that's
just the tip of the iceberg",

that means that small part is nothing
compared to how much more is coming.

There's an enormous or a great amount of
information, or other things about to happen.

So: "We went to the party,
and we got shrimp to eat.

Then there was lobster,
there was a pasta dish.

"Wow! That's a lot!" Here's one you
might not know or I'm sure you don't.

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