So today as I told you, we are
going to talk about reading and
writing fill in the blanks and
you can see my screen right now.
These are the questions we are
going to do now in these
questions. I mean in this set
the set the first question of
the set I have already done and
I have uploaded that video on
YouTube. If you have not already
washed you can go to YouTube and
watch that video. We will start
from question number two. I'm
going to show you The question
and I'll give you two minutes
time to solve the question
first. Once you have done that,
we can move to the next question
in practice like that. All
right, so let's go to the
question number 2 here. and,
This is the first question and
first list of options. Then this
is your second list. That
ignores the true that copyright
law is insult, Scandal. Slander
emulation, a lot of difficult
words. What do you think is the
answer of the first Gap? Let's
do one by one. What do you
think? Is the answer of the
first Gap? You can see the
options are floaty royalty,
loyalty and bravery. One of you
is saying royalty is the answer.
The rest also can share your
answers. Yeah. Okay, let's
briefly talk about what is the
actual answer here? The answer
is royalty. Now why? Why reality
is the answer. If you look at
the options, then you can see
some of the options outright do
not make any sense, which means
they are not fit for the given
context words, like, floaty, for
example, slow demon, something
that can float and does not make
any sense here, announcing a
floaty for artist that does not
even mean anything, right? And
Bravery for artists loyalty for
artists royalty for artists. All
of them are grammatically
possible, but if we think about
their meaning, then royalty is a
better word because royalty
means it's the amount that you
get in return of your service.
So royalty is the money paid to
writers, writers or so singers
and so on. So these are the kind
of people who Eight different
things. And this money is paid
to them for their intellectual
contribution. So it's more like
intellectual property. If you
get money for your intellectual
property, that means you are
getting royalty. So that makes
sense. Yeah, because these
people are writers so royalty
make sense. If we move to the
second one, but that ignores the
truth that copyright law is a
What is it now? My suggestion
for questions like this, when
you have two gaps, very close to
each other is to skip these
questions into the others
because we into gaps are very
close to each other. It becomes
a little difficult to guess the
context. And without knowing the
context, of course, we cannot
answer the question that easily.
So in questions like this, where
do gaps are very close to each
other, it's better to go to the
next sentence and that's what we
are going to do here. I'm going
to Skip this one. And this one
for now, to move to the last
one. Now, in this one, what do
you think is the answer? I'll
give you a clue. The answer is,
based on a common collocation in
English. Okay. Dennis is saying.
The answer is ripping. What
about the others? By the way,
what is the meaning of garnish?
What is garnish? Okay, while
answering some of the questions
it is quite important that you
understand meaning of the words
as well. If you don't know the
meaning then it becomes
difficult to answer. The
question garnish is aware, which
means garnishments. To decorate
specially food. You know how
some chefs and decorate their
food before they serve to
customers. What they are doing
is they are garnishing. So that
is garnish. So here, we'll
garnish would not make much
sense. And the other one that we
have here is reaching reaching
the benefits. Again, we know
that these particular Gap is
looking for a word, which means
to gain benefit to get benefit
now, because it means to gain
benefit. Some of us might think
that gaining, the benefits of is
a better choice because that's
what the author is trying to
say. And this is exactly where
we have to apply our
understanding of collocations.
Because collocations are natural
combinations of Words, which are
more commonly used by the native
speakers. Now, it's similar to
before I tell you the answer
here. Let's talk about this one.
Do we say, aye, On this one. Do
we say I ate my meal or Do we
say I had my mail which one is
better? Expression, add my meal
are at my meal. Which one do you
think? Is the better expression?
I had my meal. Correct reason
is, although, what you are
trying to say, is you ate
something. Had my meal is a more
natural expression because
that's how native speakers
speak. And what that means is,
if you are given options, where
there is a word, which gives the
sense you want, and there is a
word, which is a more natural.
In addition you should go for
that and that you can know only
if you have practiced a lot. And
here the answer is ripping
because reaping the benefits Is
a very commonly used collocation
reaping the benefit, or reap the
benefit to reap the benefit of
something means. To get the
benefit of something that you
started earlier to. Reap means
to cut to harvest, you know how
we planned something and then
Harvest it later. So when we
plan, we don't get the benefit
immediately we have to wait and
after maybe depending on what we
have planted the harvesting time
may come after, maybe five
months, maybe six months, maybe
one year. So to reap the
benefits is just like that. You
did something you waited and
then you get the benefit in
return after some time that's
why reap. The benefits is a
Natural expression here and
that's the answer. So what's the
main point here? The main point
is there are certain
qualifications which are more
likely to repeat, more likely to
be used in the exam and you
should make sure that you
remember those collocations for
the exam because those kind of
questions cannot be answered in
any other way. If you don't
remember the collocations, Now,
let's go back to the questions
we skipped. But that ignores the
truth that copyright law is
something recently by the free
trade agreement with the US,
which required Extinction of
copyright to 70 years after
death. Now, what could be the
answer here is think about that.
The copyright law is up. What
was do you think I'm negative
thing? Think about that. And if
you read after The Descendants
you see, is it scandalous that
really valuable copyrights end
up in the ownership of
Corporations? And they are
saying that? Is it something
that is just a scandal? Scandal
means something which is not
true and exaggerated Now, if we
look at the options, what
options do we have? Insult
Scandal, slander humiliation.
That copyright law is a insult
Scandal, slander and
humiliation. Which one do you
think is Danza? Is it a scandal?
Is it slander? Is it
humiliation? Is it in solved? If
you are feeling confused again,
go to the next Gap in check,
that one as well to see if there
is anything that may help you in
picking the right option. In
this one, we have few of few
words, which might be a little
difficult, for example.
Exacerbated, the meaning of this
word exacerbate, it is to become
worse. Exacerbate means to
become worse. You get worse to
become worse. And other words I
think are not that difficult for
you. You perhaps new know the
meaning of these words,
achievements to get something
exercise, with means to make
something worse. Accumulate
means to gather something, and
exercise means, now, remember
exercise can be used in
different ways, it this way, it
can be used in different ways
exercise. One meaning of
exercise, we all know that's the
physical activity that we do.
That is exercise and that's a
noun. And usually when you use
this word as a verb, then
meaning slightly changes. You
usually exercise your Authority
or power to exercise Authority
or power exercise authority, to
exercise your power So exercise,
in that sense means to use your
authority to use your power,
okay? So it's a formal word for
using something. Officially
exercise is a formal word for
using something. Officially.
Now, let's look at this option.
Let's find out what it means
here. Recently achieved by
exacerbated by accumulated by
exercised. By now what may have
happened? Do you think it may
have become better? Are worse.
That's the first thing you have
to think about, think about and
here, because they are saying
they are criticizing everything.
They're saying, everything is
wrong. But that ignores the
truth that copyright law,
ignoring the truth means you are
not looking at the right thing,
you are not looking at the right
thing means you are doing the
wrong thing. Now, if we look at
all the options, it is just one
word which means to become worse
than before, that is exercisable
waited. So by looking at overall
context, we get to know that
things are not getting Ting
better. Things are not going in
the right direction. That's why
exercise abated is a better
choice here. Now, we have seen
that. The overall context here
is negative, they're saying
things are going in the wrong
direction, things are not
happening in the right way, they
are not doing things in the
right way. So everything is
going the wrong direction. Means
most likely the word we are
looking for here is also a
negative way, but the problem
here is all the forwards we see
here are negative, which means
in this case, The Examiner is
trying See how much you know
about these words insult means
to say something bad or to do
something bad against someone
Scandal. As I say, is a piece of
information which is
exaggerated. Humiliation means
when you feel ashamed of doing
something, you feel embarrassed
of doing something slander,
perhaps is a new word for some
of you. Slander is, you know,
how you spread rumors about
someone some wrong things about
someone One for example, you say
that, let's say that someone was
involved in some kind of scam.
Someone stole something from
somewhere or this is like a
wrong piece of news slang. And
slander is more like a false
statement. It's a very formal
way. It's mostly used in legal
context and it's mostly used in
journalism when they say that.
Let's imagine this, let's say, a
journalist published a piece of
news saying, somebody was
involved in corruption. Let's
say everything the person said
is actually not true. That was
just made up fact, then that's
slander. So slander is you can
say false statement against
someone, you are trying to harm
someone by Reading their rest is
by ruining their reputation. So
that's a slander. Now, looking
at all the options here, we now
have to think, what could be the
proper answer here? What could
be the most appropriate answer
here? Could it be in solved?
Could be slander could be
Malaysian, could it be Scandal?
So as I said, humiliation is
embarrassment in salt means to
do something wrong again.
Someone slander is a false
statement and a scandal. On the
other hand means X. Duration of
something, you if let's say that
something is blown out of
proportion, that is a scandal.
Something really bad about
someone where you are trying to
get the benefit by spreading
those rumors, that is Scandal.
So which one do you think is a
better choice here? Some of you
have already shared your
answers, but it's still, which
one do you think is a better
answer here? And that is
Scandal. So Scandal is you are
doing something that is reading
the reputation of another person
by by damaging their reputation
by damaging their image. So that
is a scandal and we know about
different kinds of Scandal. So
this is a proper we're here were
required so these are four
correct answers.