hello everybody my name is Steve Ford welcome to your English lesson would you
like to live in another country a for-sure for-sure I would Steve when can
I start packing B maybe I need to think about it see I have never really thought
about it d no way I love my country too much but
some of you probably said that maybe you need to think about it or maybe some of
you said no way I love my country too much I know that there are some people
that's that can be a very difficult decision because on the one hand they
would love to live in another country and then on the other hand maybe their
husband or wife doesn't want to or because they have children you know who
have friends are going to school maybe they have family you know mother father
brothers sister and they don't want you to leave please don't go let's say that
she isn't thinking about living in another country but she would like to a
move house B change house or C move which one do you think is the correct
answer which one do you think is right this means that you you don't want to
leave your country but you want to live in another place inside your city or
inside your country or inside your state which one do you think would be correct
so the correct answer we have move would be what we use in North American English
that's standard North American English that's the way that Americans and
Canadians you might see Americans and Canadians say move house not very common
sounds very strange to us to say move house definitely we would not say change
house a lot of you don't know that small difference that you can say move here or
you could say move house in the UK it's very important for her to feel
comfortable where she lives so she says that after I finished work I
need to feel good when I a go to my house be go my house C go my home go
home which one do you think is right don't think about the grammar here think
about collocation think about what you think sounds right
okay so if you thought that the answer was letter D give me a high five that is
correct so we would say go home go home and I'm
going to explain to you what the difference is okay this is very
important so really try to remember this next part that I'm going to tell you
turn on your biological brain recording machine because this part is really
important house is used to describe the physical structure of where you live
home also means where you live but it often has a more emotional meaning I'm
at home I'm in my house do you see the difference do you feel the difference so
some people would like to move because they don't feel at home okay and in case
you don't know at home has another meaning at home means as we were just
saying to feel comfortable to be in your comfort zone maybe their place or home
and that's important too because often we won't say hey come to my home tonight
well often we'll say hey my place or yours
they don't say my home or yours my house or yours they say my place or yours so
maybe their place or home is too small and cramped cramped is a great word if
you've watched my videos religiously for the past few years I did a lesson on
this cramped means that there is not enough space and I'm sure that they
would prefer a - they would prefer live somewhere spacious they would prefer
living somewhere spacious in case you don't know spacious is the opposite of
cramped spacious means lots of space so it's the opposite so what do you
think they would prefer a live somewhere spacious be living somewhere spacious
see - living somewhere spacious the correct one is in this case they would
prefer living somewhere spacious living somewhere spacious so you could say it
two ways with prefer folks you could say they would prefer to live somewhere
spacious that's okay or they would prefer living somewhere spacious that's
okay so if you thought the answer was B give me a high five that is correct
I'm sure everyone would prefer living somewhere bright and spotless when you
live somewhere bright it meet bright means there's a lot of light a lot of
Sun usually because of big windows so bright and then spotless means very
clean it's a word for clean organized spotless you might not have known that
one but I'm sure that a lot of you would prefer living somewhere bright and
spotless dark and dingy is the opposite of bright and spotless so dark is the
opposite of bright dingy you might not know this one so dingy means dirty it's
the opposite of clean opposite of spotless so we need an answer here
bright and spotless rather that dark and dingy bright and spotless rather than
dark and dingy bright and spotless rather for dark and dingy that's the
whole sentence I am sure everyone would prefer living somewhere bright and
spotless and then you need to choose one of these dark and dingy
for that you get a high ten oh my lord I saw so many correct answers there
it was rather than let her be she's saying I need to make a change in my
life and you can see she's living in a place like this okay it happens it
happens so she says I am living in the same place since 2010 I have lived in
the same place since 2010 what do you think sounds right what sounds
grammatically correct I am living in the same place since 2010 or I have lived in
the same place since 2010 so if you thought that the answer was letter B
give me a high five with the left hand high five yes that is correct this came
up in a lesson with a very advanced student of mine in fact a lot of my
students who are extremely advanced they make this mistake even though they know
and this woman here is saying I really want to a renew my apartment B renovate
my apartment C reform my apartment which one do you think is is correct
so if you thought that the correct answer was drumroll please let her be
high five high ten that is correct we say renovate now maybe you didn't know
this verb from before this is when you make changes to the place where you live
maybe you do some construction reconstruction of your apartment or your
house maybe you change a room something like that maybe you change the bathroom
the living room the dining room that's when we renovate this is the before
picture and this is the after picture yes folks that is the same apartment
after a renovation she says that her apartment went from dark and dingy to
bright and spotless it's the same apartment so if you go back to my first
question maybe you don't or you can't move to another country but you could
renovate your apartment or your house
something to think about renovate and it was successful as you
can see here it was a successful renovation so just like we have the verb
renovate the noun is called renovation bonus material here we have a little bit
of bonus material I need to make a change in my life she says but I don't
want to move or renovate I want to travel and shop so that's another
possibility and you want to go shopping and I and maybe not just you but maybe
there are other people that want you to shop my family gave me she's saying here
a long shopping list for my trip to the USA some places only accept cash US
dollars so I need to a change my money be renew my money see exchange my money
which one do you think it is think about it you go to the United States and you
have some of the from your country and you need to change
the money renew the money or exchange the money what do you think if you
thought that the answer was letter C give me a high five that is correct so
we exchange money you can see that she has a very long shopping list look how
long her shopping list is and why is that he's saying my family gave me a
long shopping list for my trip to the USA yeah can you see how long that
shopping list is so she's got all these things like iPhone for her brother right
you you know when you go to the USA if one family member goes or maybe just a
friend it's you know buy a iPhone for my brother by a MacBook for my sister
buy another iPhone for my friend at work you know how it goes your friends and
family probably want you to buy things for them when you go and I need to be
sure that I buy the right iPhone for my brother when I am in the USA when I go
back home I won't be able to a change the phone be exchange the phone what do
you think it is
when you buy something from the store and you want to take it back and and get
another of the same product yeah we say exchange you exchange the phone for
another one unless I go back to the u.s.a in the next 30 days and bring with
me the receipt so be careful there you need to when you buy something they will
give you the Electronic Registration from the Machine of what you paid and
that's called the the receipt be careful not to confuse that with recipe if you
do go and you go back to the United States and 30 days you can get you can
exchange the phone for another one or get a refund and that's when they give
you the money back hopefully I was able to help you understand some words that a
lot of people mix up that they confuse as you can see from the beginning of our
lesson here okay everybody I hope that you enjoyed our lesson today I'm so
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