hi e um hi james mingvid
i lost a bet um
a few people have said i make really
long videos and
a few people's actually it wasn't a few
people
e here said i couldn't make a short
video if my life depended on it
i have a pocket watch with a stopper
and i got a lesson plan
we're going to do one minute english
well kind of
you see
i'm going to teach individual parts in
one minute so it's not really one minute
english
and then i'm going to do three parts so
that's more like
three minutes and i've already taken one
minute to explain so it's more like four
but i promise i'm going to try and do
each segment in one minute
uh the actual purpose of this video
while joking aside is i'm going to speak
quite quickly and give us you know give
some definitions and i want to i want to
help you with your comprehension that
you focus on what i'm saying be able to
tell the differences even though they're
homophones because these are the common
homophones that
even native speakers make mistakes with
that you can clearly you won't hear a
difference but you'll get the meaning
difference so when we do the quiz after
you should be able to know which goes
where right so i'm going to be speaking
quickly i'm not going to give long
detailed things i might say some kind of
funny cute little jokes about things as
that's why i did this lesson and i'm
going to try and do each segment which
would normally be about five minutes uh
into one minute now if you're ready i've
got the clock i got my lesson because i
can't remember all my jokes and we're
gonna get started so are you ready
common homophones that people make
mistakes with
and especially native speakers when they
write it down on paper
take one all right so hold on a second
go okay so the first one we're going to
do is add an add
add is short for addition and it's using
for mathematics for 2 plus 2 which
equals 4. that would be adding
to join something else so if you have a
house and let's just say you're a woman
who's got okay i've got
i've got 45 seconds you want to put on
you're the breadwinner so you make money
you want to put on a new bedroom you can
say honey we need to add on a new
bedroom to our house that's to join
something two bedrooms together to put
in you need to add sugar to the mixture
to make a cake that's to put in
30 seconds to go okay so put in an ad is
short for advertisement i was watching a
beer advertisement the other day and it
wasn't that good
so the difference between these two is
in this case we can use it for
mathematics to join things together and
this one we talked about tv ads that we
like to watch during the super bowl in
north america and booyah that was 40 not
55 seconds hope you timed that one
that's right 55 seconds okay and wait a
second i'm gonna start and do the next
one
ce that's one down i got two to go
gets more complicated now because i'm
going to be adding on
it's not just two things i got to do
three things are you ready
i'm starting sweat if you see sweat
running down my breath because i'm
working hard i'm a working man here okay
ready getting loose
getting loose now i hope you got the
comprehension because
on the quiz you have to know the
difference between these ready here we
go
and
go okay so b b and b
b is an insect that makes honey and it
hums while it's working you know
it's like a bee singing
so happy making honey in my hive b
insect number one auxiliary verb used to
refer to existence 15 seconds down what
do we mean well one of my favorite
sayings from philosophy is kogito ergo
sum which means to be i think therefore
i am b is a an irregular verb that
sometimes difficult for people because
it can be used for description as well
as action in the continuous form present
continuous plus continuous the future
continuous when you add ing okay got 20
seconds left okay next b it's the second
letter in the alphabet a b sometimes
people say we need to go from a and to b
before we talk about c meaning you know
like points on the line also
it's in uh something called sesame
street they have the song called letter
b by the beatles and they look like
little beetles it's really cute it goes
letter b letter b second word word in
the alphabet letter in the author letter
b
that was one minute
e that's two
two minutes i got one more to go you
people ready i know this is hard if
you're a beginner student i'm sorry i
lost the bet i'm trying to keep it i've
done two explain two things in two
minutes
now we've got one more this one's a
little bit harder because it's going to
be homophones
plus one that's not which is sometimes
confused by
native speakers and i'm going to start
now
okay bear bear and beer they're
different they're not the same but
sometimes people have a hard time saying
them bear means nude or uncovered like
i've got my bare arms here there's
nothing on my arm
bear also means to show or uncover so if
i took off my shirt and bared my chest
it needs to uncover so it's a verb so
here's an adjective here we're using it
as a verb
next
bear that cute memo you see in the
forest
if you're going camping it might kill
you and eat you but they can be cute
when you have a teddy bear and you put
it on your bed at night
bear also means to carry
i'm from the united states of america
i'm allowed to bear arms and that's in
that case what it means is i'm allowed
to carry a gun son okay now this is
often confused with the word beer they
are not the same they are not homophonic
phones the first two are homophones this
one is not it actually sounds a little
different however beer is a very good
drink to have on a hot summer's day and
when i'm doing doing this video i'm
going to have one or two myself
that was a minute
three definitions of homophones showing
you something that's not a homophone
talking about the alphabet and even
talking about beer ads there i did my
job so
mr e
and you have a quiz to do in the next
coming minute
and we're back what took you so long
it's supposed to be a minute lesson
remember
okay well keeping in
the speed i'm going to slow down now
the first part was just more for your
comprehension so if you remember what i
said to you i was speaking
basically normal speed maybe a little
faster
to see what you could actually take out
of it okay so if you actually understood
it well this should be an easy test for
you to do if not i suggest you go and
watch it and i did do a video on how to
use youtube to watch and learn english
where you'll notice that there's a speed
and you can actually slow down my speech
or speed it up for a challenge i would
go and speed up that same video and see
if you can do it before you come back
but either way let's do this on the
board okay so i've got seven questions
and these seven questions if you
understood what i said you'll notice
something you'll get it correct and
you'll notice i'm going to do it here
because i didn't really emphasize
spelling when we were doing the actual
um the actual lesson because it was one
minute but i did spell it out but now i
will take my time to make sure you get
the difference so
i'm going to give you a minute or two
and i'm not going to say anything you're
going to look at all seven and then
we're going to go through it okay
so take a look
take a guess because it's comprehension
now what did you get
all right so now i'm going to go three
through and see what we have
so
we need to what some money to the total
this is a mathematic
or as mathematics right add or joining
okay and that would be which one the add
variation of add
add is in short for addition
add ad
what about the second one
nike's tv is bad
or nike's tv is bad we're not talking
about their television right we're
talking about like tv ad remember an ad
is for short for advertisement so this
is joining or adding or mathematical and
this is for advertisement or add an ad
right
next number three
you need to answer questions a and
something to find the answer for c
i didn't get to sing this song because i
like it but it's from sesame street and
if you ever get taunts go on youtube and
look for
letter b
by the beatles and sesame street and it
goes like this
first time on national tv or on the
internet letter b
letter b
letter b yo letter b
second letter in the alphabet letter b
b stands for bicycle and it also stands
for balloon
they do a better job of it and they've
got nice haircuts so it's letter b and
it's just the b
we're not even going to talk about the
birds and the bees
but let's do the next one okay
i told you to something
to your brother
so sorry i told you something nice to
your brother what is it
that's right b is existence cogito ergo
sum
right i think therefore i am voltaire or
is that rousseau someone's going to
correct me please do so in the comments
below
i think it was i think it was voltaire
it could have been june japan russell i
forget my french philosopher sorry
okay
next
number five the man something his chest
of the heavens
well if you notice right now my arms are
well they're hairy i've got some hair
it's very fine hair but they're bare
but
we're gonna say he bared
his chest to the heavens
opened up his shirt and said oh
look at that you know
if you release like oh god please help
me and open this shirt right bear this
chest so you can bear your chest just
open it up like superman don't turn it
on
okay
oh no mr bill this is a hard one
we got bared right but we've got one
that's got three in here
i don't know what we're gonna do but you
did the lesson
and if you have great comprehension this
is a piece of cake so let's get started
i'm allowed to something arms when i'm
hunting some
something in the woods because i can't
kill it with my something
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tough one and that's the one i gave you
the special lesson with
the extra one that wasn't a homophone so
let's see what it is
i'm allowed to in the united states of
america
in america you're allowed to bear arms
remember in this case carrie oops sorry
wrong bear that's bare arms
not naked arms
bear arms sorry wrong one okay when i'm
hunting what
this is where it gets difficult
yeah
this is where they're homophones a bear
is a mammal
okay so you can bear arms which means to
carry but bear can also mean the animal
the grizzly bear right so you got to
kind of be careful and listen for
context if you say there's a bear poop
in the woods it's not about carrying
anything it's the animal sitting down
okay and if you're bearing something it
means to hold or carry
right now because i can't kill it with
my what is it going to be the same word
here again this is being a noun this
being a verb
no the adjective form of
bear remember no hands i can't kill a
bear with my bare hands i need a weapon
that's big and strong i need something
to help me
and finally
because i like you and hopefully you
like me
if you something a tray of something to
my house i will give you a perfect score
on this test no matter what you did
you'll get perfect
remember it's not a homophone but a lot
of students make the mistake because
they see this and they think they're
kind of the sound the same
and for us is completely different
they're not the same at all okay
no native speaker even if they drank a
lot of these things would make this
mistake
so what is it
if you
remember this is the verb bear a tray of
beer
and that's the difference it's e e beer
bear like air isn't
the thing you breathe in the ear as in
the thing on my head it's the difference
in the sounds okay so if you bear a tray
of beer to my house i will give you a
perfect score so bring it on over and
then you can call this done
all right so
i'm going to help you now to make you
feel really really really smart
because you are you're watching this
video at the end good on you
but here are some homophones that native
speakers
when they write them down they mess up
on job interviews on dating profiles on
just emails in general and you don't
want to make these mistakes because it
shows a lack of education if you speak
english if you're a foreign person
we understand but it's not a good sign
and if you can get this right and native
speaker doesn't you probably got the job
or the date that they were supposed to
have so let's pay attention and go to
the board
there there there
and sometimes we do that with little
children we go there there there it'll
be okay but that's not what we're saying
in this case there theirs a pronoun
means belongs to them
their house their shoes their their
watch there
this is a contraction for they are
they're happy
they're happy where they lived not
they're happy you can't be happy like
belong to you but they are going to
dinner tonight okay contraction for they
and are and there is a place go there go
there opposite of come here go there
distance away all right let's look at
number two and we're probably gonna
start noticing a pattern here in which a
lot of native speakers have a problem
with pronoun use under contraction use
in grammar so when we see it's it means
it's like it is it is hot it's hot right
it's popular it is popular
but when we say it's you might say well
what is that
well just imagine you have a dog and you
don't know if it's a girl or a boy you
could say it's name is barry
like the
bear berry
yeah okay bad joke okay but you could
say it's name is and it's it's is the
pronoun replaces his name or her name
because maybe we don't know so it's kind
of like the german neuter where we're
saying
it's
it's a thing that hasn't been decided
male or female right
so that's the pronoun use and this is
the contraction of it is right and we're
saying the same problem exists here is
in there this is possessive of course
and this is this it is something
next
whose and whose for number three
oh okay so what is this once again and
it's easy to see if you look very
carefully where the mistake is we have
an apostrophe which tells us something
is missing information is missing
because we're contracting the verb
with the pronoun okay so in this case
who is
right
who's um who is coming to the no
who is coming to the party who's coming
to the party who is coming to the party
versus this is whose shoe is this or
whose watch is this
i don't know the person who does it
belong to so i don't know if it's a girl
or a boy once again it's similar to this
one we don't really know
whom we're speaking about versus who is
doing something right who is making that
noise verb with a pronoun this is the
pronoun for unknown person
next your and your
right
your house you own it belongs to you and
you are
you're stupid
your house is stupid they're very
different right so your house belongs to
you but you are stupid you as a person
has no intelligence
okay
that's kind of simple i think right so
you are verb contracted and your pronoun
and this one's interesting because this
has nothing to do with
pronouns but they are well one is
pastas in past tense right past finished
and the other one is when we pass it i
pass a test
right to go past it so this is a time
tense or temp
temporal tense
temporal word like in the past before
now
and this one is like he passed me to go
buy something cool all right or to give
me something punch
pass the duchy up on your left hand side
past the you'll find out what duchy is
it could be a dutch pot in jamaica could
be
but we pass it to the left side to give
it to someone else okay so now that
we've gone through all these things that
people make a mistake all right here's i
got a suggestion if you enjoyed this one
minute video i would like you to write
down in the comments below other ideas
for one minute videos you might have for
me to do or attempt because as you know
i like to speak quickly and talk a lot
so doing these means you get shorter
videos but packed with information i'd
like to thank you guys once again for
watching the video it's a beginning to
end it's always fun and appreciate it
i want you to go to ingvid and that's
www.ing as in english vid as invideo.com
to where you can do the quiz for this
you know and see how much better you can
do the second time around right with
that quick information i gave you um
besides that you're going to see other
teachers and i want to say
yeah you're on your path to becoming a
native speaker and every lesson you take
you get that much closer to it
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anyway um i don't know who's left
watching the video um but
i guess they're not here anymore i'll
see you later on have a good one ciao