It's day seven. We're rounding out our first week of the 2021 vocabulary challenge. One video a day,
every day, for 30 days. We're learning 105 words from the academic word list.
So these are words you need to know if you're preparing for the IELTS or the TOEFL exam,
but also if you read or watch news in English, or have conversations with native speakers.
In other words, these are useful words, important words that you will come across. You're learning
four new words today with tons of real life examples. So grab your friends have them join
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definitions and sample sentences, as well as quizzes to make sure you're really getting
and remembering these words. You can get that download by following this link, or the link
in the video description. Today's four words are: EXPORT, DISTRIBUTE, SECTOR, and PERCENT,
and we're looking at the different ways these words are used in various situations. For each
word, you'll learn the definition, we'll go over the pronunciation, you'll get to see
the pronunciation up close and in slow motion, and we'll have five examples from real life English.
First EXPORT. Export. The verb form has two pronunciations with different stress.
Export or export. It's a verb, and it means to send a product to be sold in another country.
About 90 countries exported oil to the US in 2019. As a noun or adjective, it has
first syllable stress, export, and it's a product that's sent to another country to be sold there.
Exports to China have risen this year. Let's look again up close and in slow motion.
And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples of this word in real situations.
We export products, cars, widgets, etcetera.
Things the country makes and sells in another country. Exports.
We export products, cars, widgets, etcetera.
Another example.
One of its top export markets is Japan.
Top export markets. One of the top countries where a company sells its product is Japan.
One of its top export markets is Japan.
Here's another example.
Of all the goods that we export to the world, only one percent still goes to sub-Saharan Africa.
Goods, that's another word for products. Of all the things we make and sell to other countries,
less than one percent is sold to sub-Saharan Africa.
Of all the goods that we export to the world, only one percent still goes to sub-Saharan Africa.
Here's another example.
Elsa hopes to export the idea of a birding trail to other national parks.
Export the idea. So this verb can be used not just with products but thoughts and culture. And it can
be used like this not just to other countries, but to places within the country. For example,
here, the idea was developed at a national park, and they're hoping other national parks will
want to do the same thing. They're hoping to tell other parks what they've done and export the idea.
Elsa hopes to export the idea of a birding trail to other national parks.
Here's our last example.
And to this day, bananas and plantains alone make up about 15 percent of all exports.
All exports. Of all goods being sold to another country, 15 percent are bananas and plantains.
And to this day, bananas and plantains alone make up about 15 percent of all exports.
The next word is DISTRIBUTE. Distribute. It's a verb that means to give or deliver
something to people or businesses. Millions of masks have been distributed to stores around
the world since the pandemic began. Let's look again up close and in slow motion.
And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples of this word in real situations.
How do you distribute leadership?
Distribute leadership. So here, we're talking about equality, a characteristic
and not a thing. It's similar to the concept of exporting an idea. Distributing leadership.
How do you take this quality and develop it in others, in a way, delivering this quality to them?
How do you distribute leadership?
Here's another example.
She had to distribute them herself.
She had to give them out. Deliver them herself.
She had to distribute them herself.
Here's another example.
We distribute milk and eggs and chicken and peanut butter and rice and beans.
They deliver this food, give it to them.
We distribute milk and eggs and chicken and peanut butter and rice and beans.
Another example.
And we distribute that fat in different places based on hormones.
Distribute that fat. That fat is delivered to different parts of the body.
And we distribute that fat in different places based on hormones.
Here's our last example.
We really want to integrate ourselves in these communities and take ideas
from local people that we then help to distribute.
Again, talking about ideas and not objects. Distribute ideas, hand them out,
pass on valuable information.
We really want to integrate ourselves in these communities and take ideas
from local people that we then help to distribute.
Our next word is SECTOR. Sector. As part of the KT cluster, the T is very light,
it might even sound like a very light D. Sector. Sector. It's a noun, it means a
part of an economy that includes certain kinds of jobs, like industry, agriculture, service.
New York is the center of the financial sector in the U.S. Let's look again at the pronunciation.
And now, we'll go to Youglish for five examples of this word in real situations.
And we think that government-collected data could do a few things that
the private sector won't do on its own.
The private sector.
This is used to separate private businesses and organizations from the government.
And we think that government-collected data could do a few things that
the private sector won't do on its own.
Here's another example.
They're focusing narrowly on the tech sector.
The tech sector. Technology. Things like hardware and software apps, that kind of thing.
They're focusing narrowly on the tech sector.
Let's go on to our next example.
The agricultural sector is doing very well.
Agricultural sector. That part of the economy that has to do with farming and growing food.
The agricultural sector is doing very well.
Another example.
A couple years ago, I was in northern Nigeria, talking to justice sector professionals.
Justice sector. The part of the government relating to the court system.
A couple years ago, I was in northern Nigeria talking to justice sector professionals.
Here's our last example.
A friend of my mother’s is somebody who's in the interior design sector.
Interior design sector. Jobs and work relating to the design of the interior of spaces,
things like furniture, and décor.
A friend of my mother’s is somebody who's in the interior design sector.
Our last word today is PERCENT. Percent. It's a noun, it means one part in a hundred,
an amount that's equal to one, one hundredth of something. Water covers
more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Let's look again up close and in slow motion.
This word is pretty straightforward, isn't it? But still, we'll go to Youglish to see five examples.
We recovered 75% of the computers that he sold.
75 percent. Three-quarters of all computers sold.
We recovered 75% of the computers that he sold.
Here's another example.
Only 20% of people sent the message to their friend.
Just 20% out of 100 people did this.
Only 20% of people sent the message to their friend.
Here's another example.
But at the end of his life, the result was that he had only signed ten percent of his paintings.
He signed just one out of every ten of his paintings.
But at the end of his life the result was that he had only signed ten percent of his paintings.
Another example.
Oxygen levels have been estimated to have been as low as 15 percent compared to today's 21 percent.
Comparing two percentages, so not a raw amount of oxygen, not a number,
but a percent as it relates to the whole.
Oxygen levels have been estimated to have been as low as 15 percent compared to today's 21 percent.
Here's our last example.
The price of an antibiotic went up by 400 percent overnight.
Went up 400 percent. You might also hear someone say the price went up by 4x overnight.
The price of an antibiotic went up by 400 overnight.
Seeing their 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,
and post it to social media, tag me, and use the hashtag #rachelsenglish30daychallenge
Don't be shy, you can do this. Our next video comes out tomorrow at 10AM Philadelphia time,
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