We're in the home stretch, guys! It's day 22 of our very awesome, very useful 30 Day English
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words that will help you have sophisticated English conversations,
words you need to know if you're preparing for an exam like IELTS or TOEFL. I've been watching
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Our first word today is a word with two different pronunciations,
depending on the part of speech. As a verb, we have SURVEY, a word with second syllable stress.
As a noun, you'll hear it with first syllable stress. Survey.
Noun, survey, an activity where many people answer questions about what they do or think,
a poll. We did an online survey to see which services our customers prefer.
As a verb, survey, it means to ask many people, probably a question or a series of questions
in order to gather information about what most people do or think about something.
Let's survey the group to see what kind of pizza they want. It also means to look at and examine
all parts of something. He surveyed the room to see if anything was out of place.
Let's look again up close and in slow motion at both pronunciations.
And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples. That same survey showed that 90 percent of your
friends want to know if they've done something to upset you.
Survey as a noun, a questionnaire filled out to get people's opinions.
That same survey showed that 90 percent of your friends want to know if they've done
something to upset you. Here's another example.
For example, we did a major survey for the department of health in the city.
A major survey. This means they asked a lot of people, they gathered a lot of information.
For example, we did a major survey for the department of health in the city.
Here's another example. So we did a survey,
we did a survey rather than just guessing at what people want.
We asked them with the survey, we got their opinions and preferences.
Sometimes, i do a survey on social media. For example, i posted on Instagram saying that i'm
working on a video on election vocabulary. This was last year in 2020 and i wanted to know what
terms people find confusing, and i got a lot of responses in the comments. I used a lot of those
ideas when writing the video. That made it a much better video than if i just guessed at what words
and phrases my students wanted to know. So we did a survey.
Another example. When we survey, for example,
students and teachers, we find that something like 90 percent of them or over 90 percent
of people believe that they have a learning style. When we survey, when we ask students
and teachers about learning styles, a verb. When we survey, for example, students and
teachers, we find that something like 90 of them or over 90 of people believe that they
have a learning style. Our last example.
I took my general survey class maybe in my junior year.
General survey class. This is a class that provides a general view, an overview
of an academic subject looking at all different parts of something,
not focused in on a detail. In college, i took a class called survey of music literature. It was an
overview over many time periods, not for example, focusing on the times and life of Beethoven.
I took my general survey class maybe in my junior year.
Our next word. PARTICIPATION. Now, in the dictionary, you'll see the first syllable has
the AH vowel. Par—par-- but it's common to say it with the schwa too. Per, per, per—participation.
Participate. In either pronunciation, per or par, make sure the first syllable is said quickly,
that it's unstressed. Participation. As a noun, it means involvement with others
in doing something together. The show had a lot of audience participation.
This means the audience joined in it, answered questions, and so on. Maybe a few people got on
stage, it did not just sit and watch. Let's look again up close and in slow motion.
And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples.
So this is the audience participation part. I want to invite people, their microphones.
The audience can ask questions now, can participate and be
involved rather than just listening. So this is the audience participation
part. I want to invite people, their microphones. Here's another example.
She had a real barrier against any kind of participation.
Against any kind of participation. She did not want to be involved in this.
She had a real barrier against any kind of participation.
Here's another example. And it basically said that
um, participation in the arts is down dramatically over the last 20 years.
Participation in the arts. People being involved in the arts. Going to the ballet,
to the orchestra, visiting museums, people are doing that much less than they did 20 years ago.
And it basically said that participation in the arts is down dramatically over the last 20 years.
Another example. Well, New York decided to come to terms
with its participation in the cotton industry and the slavery that also existed in New York.
Its participation in, its involvement in the cotton industry and slavery. To
come to terms with something means to accept it. You had kind of denied it
and now, you're facing it, accepting it, coming to terms with it, dealing with it.
Well, New York decided to come to terms with its participation in the cotton industry and the
slavery that also existed in New York. Our last example.
And this is really important in the MBA classroom because participation counts for half a grade.
Participation in class counts for half the grade. So it's not just tests and essays,
it's how you interact with others in the classroom, how you add to the conversation.
And this is really important in the MBA classroom because participation counts for half a grade.
Our last word today is SELECT. Select. It's a verb, it means to choose someone or something from
a group. Please select one item from the list. As an adjective, it means chosen from a group,
to include the best people or things. Only a select few will be accepted into the program.
Let's look again up close and in slow motion. And now, we'll go to Youglish for five examples.
I, um, select teenagers, teenage girls here in Sacramento.
She's talking about a leadership program to take young people and put them through a training
process in leadership skills, project management, and so on, to develop them and give them useful
skills. She focuses on teenage girls. She chooses them out of all of the people who
might be interested for her specific program. I, um, select teenagers, teenage girls
here in Sacramento. Here's another example.
They can select vendors that have really high standards.
They can select vendors. They can buy what they need from vendors with high standards.
They can choose the best vendors. Vendors is usually used in business to talk about
companies you buy things from for your business. For example, let's say,
I own a gym and I want to provide some food and drink. I’m not going to make that myself,
I’m going to buy it. I can call various vendors of granola bars, protein shakes,
pressed juice, and this kind of thing. I can compare the prices and quality of product from
these different vendors. If five different vendors make celebrity juice, I’m going to
choose the one that's the best fit for my gym based on nutrition, packaging, taste, and so on.
They can select vendors that have really high standards.
Here's another example. So our art is to help select and evaluate talent.
Choose the right people, select and evaluate who has the right
skills and talent for a particular task or job. So our art is to help select and evaluate talent.
Another example. You select the kind
of thing you want notifications about. You select, you choose the notifications
you want. All apps on your phone want to send you notifications. I personally don't need that.
I select just the important apps to send me notifications.
You select the kind of thing you want notifications about.
Our last example. I would like to use the remaining time just
to take you through some of the select chapters. Select chapters. Not all of them,
not the whole book, but some chapters that have been chosen for this particular presentation.
I would like to use the remaining time just to take you through some of the select chapters.
Seeing all the real-life examples can really help you understand how to use these words, can't it?
I have a challenge for you now. Make up a sentence with one of these words.
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