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Modal verbs - A2

Have you wondered about how you should tell people about something?

Maybe are very good at telling people about something.

But do you know all the words and phrases that you can use in order to talk about talking?

Well, if you don't know those, then please stay tuned in this lesson because I'm going to tell you different ways off telling something to someone.

So first of all, we're going to look at a set off works that we have with us here, and these words are different ways off.

Talking about telling something to someone, for example, telling is very different from explaining and explaining is very different from advising.

But how is that? 00:00:58.580 --> 00:01:2.050  So if you want to know the meaning, then keep watching with me. 00:01:2.370 --> 00:01:3.890  Let's start with the first world. 00:01:4.480 --> 00:01:7.690  The first word that we have is to tell something to someone. 00:01:8.300 --> 00:01:11.040  No, telling something to someone is very simple.

Even if you are just a beginner, you will definitely know the meaning of the word.

Tell which means to Couldn't wait a message or to give a message to someone verbally verbally meets while you're speaking.

All right, so now I'm gonna tell you two examples of how you should use the word tell in a sentence.

For example, you could talk about your childhood.

So if someone is telling you about their childhood, you could say he told me about his childhood.

So I would say he told me. 00:01:57.740 --> 00:02:1.090  Now, as you can see that told is not say must tell. 00:02:1.270 --> 00:02:2.480  Well, that is Biggers. 00:02:2.480 --> 00:02:11.250  Tell is a verb, and we're talking about the past form off the world Tell which is told So he told me about his childhood.

Okay, Now, if somebody tells you about how they passed their exam, how would you say that?

You would say they told me or he told me about how he passed his exams.

We often use the word about with tell because they always were always told about a particular topic.

So now you know that telling means to convey a message.

All right, now, let's look at the next one.

Describe So the first thing that you need to understand is how is describing different from telling?

Can you tell me an answer for that? 00:02:53.870 --> 00:03:3.280  So describing is also telling something, obviously, but with much more information, which means with a lot off detail. 00:03:3.900 --> 00:03:8.450  So describing is to add details.

So when you're telling someone about something and you want to add a lot of detail to it, that is called describing do you want to know how you could use this in a sentence so you could see that he told me or sorry.

He described to me how hard it was for him to leave his family.

All right, so here maybe the person is telling you a lot of things.

Like he felt homesick when he left his family.

He was in a financial road when he left his family, or he was going through a very hard time, right?

That's why we use the word describe and not tell.

So he described how hard it was for him to leave us family. 00:03:58.600 --> 00:04:4.240  Okay, you could also say that could you describe me what you saw? 00:04:4.270 --> 00:04:7.640  So if you're asking someone to describe a scene. 00:04:8.050 --> 00:04:9.770  Then you could ask them. 00:04:9.780 --> 00:04:11.780  Could you describe what you saw?

Which means could you explain to me in detail, like with a lot of information?

What you saw another example could be the doctors described the situation as very critical, which means they gave full details about the situation and they told how critical it waas.

Okay, now, now we look at the next word and this world is to report.

So when you report something, then you tell about something that has happened.

Okay, Some existing information like this is usually used for crimes and investigation, so the police might want a rip bought from you about something. 00:04:52.390 --> 00:05:3.100  So if you want to use it in a sentence, of course, you could say that the supermarkets reported a great decrease in sales after demonetisation. 00:05:3.350 --> 00:05:11.170  This means that they're giving some facts and some information, so reporting means to give information or effects.

So here is reporting for you, which is a very formal word, and we often use this word with the word witnesses.

Also, you could say that witnesses reported hearing a loud noise before the plane crashed.

Now this is again of a formal way of saying something.

Maybe you could read the sentence in a newspaper, so reporting is formal and it's often used in writing.

Okay, now that's enough for reporting on Let's look at the next word.

Explaining is when you give a detailed view about something again, just like describing explaining means to give a lot of details about a scene it's explaining means to give details about the scene and to use it in a sentence.

You could say that she explained to me how she was losing weight so quickly.

So maybe she was giving you the whole description about how she lost weight.

So she explained to you means she gave you the overall picture about how she lost weight.

Okay, now we look at the next one, and that is recounting.

In case you don't know what we mean by recall.

Recall means to remember something from the past.

Okay, So for example, we often try to remember things from the past.

Mostly like conversations, right? 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:5.280  So you could say that she tried toe recall her conversation with Sam, or else you could use this new word. 00:07:5.280 --> 00:07:9.680  And you could say that she recounted her conversation with Sam. 00:07:9.890 --> 00:07:20.200  And other than this, you could also say that they recounted their experience at the vacation, which means that they were telling about their experience of the vacation.

So recalling its recounting is recalling, which means remembering from the past.

All right, now, the next one we have is advice, which is a very common verb.

Okay, on at the same time, we often say that I'd like to advise you.

We often hear this, that we want to give advices to people, and people want to give advisers to us. 00:07:55.800 --> 00:08:0.860  So giving advice is basically when you do something and you need suggestions from people. 00:08:0.970 --> 00:08:9.690  Okay, so that's what advising is to give suggestions to people and to add wife, someone could also mean to give them the required information. 00:08:9.910 --> 00:08:10.320  Okay.

Advising could mean to give required information, right?

So, in a sense, you could say that the doctors advised her to go for a surgery, which means that they gave her the required information that she should go for a surgery.

And if you think that your laptop cannot be carried everywhere than somebody might just tell you to buy a laptop back and if that happens, you would say I was advice to buy a laptop bag because it's so hard to carry my laptop everywhere, OK, and with this we look at the next world that we have and that is to communicate.

So communicating is very same as telling or describing or reporting now. 00:08:59.340 --> 00:09:2.420  This is also very formal, like reporting now. 00:09:2.420 --> 00:09:10.950  The only difference here is that communication can happen verbally, which means through speaking, like I'm speaking to you, I'm communicating to you.

But have you ever communicated in the written manner like have you ever written an email?

But that is written written communication, So communication can be two ways.

Either it can be spoken or written, but when someone is telling you something that only happens through words or through speaking so to use it in a sentence, you could of course, say that the news about your removal was verbally communicated to you back in July, which means that someone was stole that they were going to be removed from an organization back in July.

And verbal communication here means that they were told through the speech. 00:09:58.700 --> 00:10:2.900  Okay, somebody conveyed it to them while speaking that you'll be removed in July. 00:10:3.390 --> 00:10:9.490  Another example would be can you communicate to him that we're not really interested in him anymore?

Okay, so not the example is they communicated with each other via email.

Of course, we all of communicating by email, and it's quite useful.

And it comes quite handy when people are really far away.

Okay, so now we have looked at a lot off warps which are different ways to tell something.

There are certain differences here, as you've seen some, Some of them are spoken communication.

Some of them are formal and some of them are informal.

Now we're going to look at some phrases to talk about telling something to someone, and they have some very interesting meaning.

Now, this is one of the most common phrases in English, which is to let someone know.

So we often say that let me know when you reach home.

Which means please tell me when you reach home. 00:10:58.740 --> 00:11:4.250  So let me know is a very soft way off asking some someone to inform you. 00:11:4.740 --> 00:11:19.240  So let someone know means to inform someone and to use it in a sentence.

Of course, you could say let me know when he arrives or let us know when you reach home because you're concerned about someone Now the next one we have is to pass on and to pass on means to tell the information that you receive from one person to another person.

Okay, so many a times people give you a message.

So it so that you could give it to someone else.

For example, if someone calls you over the phone, okay, and they want to talk to your mother, But she's not home.

So you would tell them, Can I have a message? 00:11:49.950 --> 00:12:6.400  And they'd be like, Yeah, please pass on the message that I want to see your mother tomorrow at 5 p.m. Okay, so this is how you will use pass on, which means to give information from one present, do another, or to pass information.

With this, we move to the next one, which is to give an account so given account can again, like communication, be written or spoken.

But giving an account is usually reporting reporting, as in where you're giving a full, detailed account about what happened.

This is also something that the police requires from you after accidents.

After bad incidences, they want you to give a full report off it.

So to give an account is to report incidences in order to use it in a sentence. 00:12:56.590 --> 00:13:4.450  You could say that he was so shocked after the accident that he could not give an account off what happened. 00:13:5.040 --> 00:13:12.230  This could be because the person was not in his senses and was very hard for him to remember everything that happened on.

If you want to use it in a more positive way, you could say that she gave an exciting account off her vacation to Spain.

Okay, so this is how you use given account.

And the next one we have is to put someone in picture.

Well, to put someone in picture means to keep someone informed so that they can understand something.