hi james from e no
no
sorry guys
e
meeting is correct why did you even put
reunion up there that's incorrect
oh yeah
today's lesson
is on
confused pairs
this can happen for native speakers even
but a lot of times students get confused
and e is trying to demonstrate here that
the person saying this said reunion
which is when people who haven't met in
a long time come together like a family
reunion
or a school reunion when you graduate
it's not the same as a meeting where
people they met regularly but they meet
at this time for an important
conversation very different this is a
confused pair and today i'm going to
give you five other confused pairs that
you may find in business right in
business situations so
let's go to the board and we're going to
take a look at a story
now
i want you to read along with the story
and see if you can spot the confused
word of the word that shouldn't be there
sometimes these are homophones or
homonyms which means they sound like the
word
very similar to it and sometimes they're
written similar to the word but they
don't actually mean the same thing
your job today or right now is with me
just to read along with me
see if you can spot those words then
afterwards what we're going to do is
we're going to take a quick break
i'm going to go through some vocabulary
and show you the word that this word may
be confused with
explain it to make sure you understand
give you some
little hints that will help you to make
sure you know the difference
and then we'll come back at the end and
we'll go over the story again and we'll
replace the words that should be there
all right it's going to be fun i know
you're going to enjoy it
let's go to the board and get started
first thing we have here is so let me go
on this side make sure you can see it
properly
here's e and here's james myself and e
we're playing characters in this one
okay
so
i call this one business as usual
when people normally in north america
say business as usual it means the way
things normally go
right it's business as usual nothing has
changed
hey james can you give me some advice
sure ye what do you need
what's the best way to get a pay raise
from my boss
james
well beside going to work how do you
help the company
e
i stay later than everyone else
jay
that is good e
but
that hard means
you should get more money when you do
don't do a lot of work
e
are you trying to infer that i am lazy
interesting you read the story take a
quick look
now we're going to take a quick break
and we're going to come back and we'll
do the vocabulary that goes with this
ready
okay so
let us go to the board and take a look
at what we have here
because this is about
confused words that can be used in
english business english speaks
to be specific business english right
so
some of these words i'll be honest with
you a lot of native speakers don't even
use regularly
so aren't you going to be the special
one when you pull this word out like
from your back pocket like
but damn when they're like i haven't
used that in the world in a while and
here's this foreign person using it
okay so
the first one we look at is advise
and when you advise someone is to
suggest as in the verb form so you see
it's a verb advice and when you suggest
something to help them i advise you to
take the medicine the doctor gave you i
think this is going to be helpful for
you
this advice has a z said sound
this is different than the device and
you're going to notice they almost look
the same
except when we say advice
it has more of an s sound
okay
that's a beautiful you i'm doing for you
because you're special you all right so
it has more of an s sound right it is
soft
and that is actually the noun form of
this so you get you want to advise
someone and you give them advice
a suggestion to help notice we have the
singular article right
next
infer
infer means to come to a conclusion
based on evidence think of sherlock
holmes well watson
it's obvious
the man with the candlestick did it
because there are wax drippings on the
floor
in other words i see evidence or
information and that brings me to
come to a conclusion and for
inference it's a longer word a noun for
it right so that's a verb
but then we go over here to imply
implying seems to be the same thing but
it's not because
you might have something you want to say
but you don't say it directly
so you see um
let me see now
you see
a friend of yours eating a lot of donuts
and
you see him a couple months later and
he's a bit bigger and you'd say
hey tom you're enjoying those donuts
aren't you
now how would you do that now we could
say you're inferring that because he's
eating donuts he's gained a lot of
weight that's because of the evidence
and fur
but if you don't say anything you say
hey tom i see you really like them
doughnuts
you're implying you're not saying tom is
fat
but he probably is and you don't say it
directly so you imply
okay
now
the next one we're going to look at
prepositions but they both have a
prepositional use and that's from apart
from where you can say apart from for
both of these okay
however this one is usually we say next
to or at the side of something
an example
the marker is beside the bottle
preposition use markers beside
right or next to
different word for next two
when we use this besides it means in
addition
added on
right so you could say additional or as
well and it you know besides tom
who knows about this in addition to tom
who knows about this right and you can
get money besides that as well you get
money besides so it's like not just this
you can get this as well and that's how
they're different
okay so be careful when you're looking
at these because sometimes when they're
talking about apart from you can use
this one or this one but when you're
talking about in addition or as well you
have to use this one the s
and you can say the s one has like two
meanings plural plural polari plural
i can't even say it plurality there you
go
okay yeah and i'm taking english from
that guy you can't even say an error and
like it was hard okay it's a difficult
word
next
hard
heart is both an adverb and an adjective
what do i mean by that as an adverb we
can use it to say something is very
difficult
that test was hard
difficult
but when i want to talk about the
density or when something's hard it can
hurt your hand when you hit it
we're talking about the density of it
james has a hard head
like wood hard
right very dense
versus difficult james has a difficult
head makes no sense but depending on the
context of the sentence it will make
sense to you
this is different from
hardly yes it's an adverb but hardly
means it's not important or significant
right
so i hardly notice the motorcycles going
by
can you
all right
but it's hard to ignore them oh look at
that oh i use both and you will too
because you're going to learn this
lesson well
so
hardly means not important or
significant
different than hard even though they
both have adverb uses and the last one i
want to talk about when we say latter it
has two t's
i want you to remember the two t's for a
reason okay
so latter means
the second of a group of people so if
you said two people if you said james
and e are coming to the party and you
say i never really liked the latter one
it's the second one not the first one
and this is similar to the part when we
say the latter part of something means
the end part
so if you're watching a movie in the
beginning like okay
true truth here i'm going to give you
truth so let's just
we're not an invid we're not doing a
video i just need to speak about this
john wick one rules if you're not
watching please go watch john wick one
it rules
john wick 2
well the beginning was okay but the
latter half the end part see
sorry
i love you my man but you really didn't
pull out the stops on that one okay so a
lot of health means the end part
and you can see how it's tied into the
second of when we talk about the ladder
of something is the second part of it
and then it's the end part because
there's a beginning and an end two parts
and i usually say if you want to
remember this one think of this one has
two t's two meanings the second or the
end part
of two parts you like that i know you do
well later
is an adverb or adjective and it
basically means
not now later
and to make it easy for you it's the
comparative of late if something's late
and you know what late means well on
time is here
if you're late you're
here on the other side early is here
what does that mean early is before this
time late is after this time later is
even after this time okay i will see you
later
right so it's a comparative it can be a
comparative of late he is late she is
later but it also can be just to
describe something it was a late movie
cool
all right so now that we know all of
these
i would like to go back to the board go
back to our original story
business as usual
and see how we can correct e's
use of words
are you ready let's go
and it is time for us to do business as
usual
and go to the board
now
it's our test time and as you can see i
have done our bonus work
our quiz for the end or our homework and
we're going to fill in the gaps here
gaps mean spaces
so
let's see from looking at the original
story what word do you think should go
here now
james i'm sorry hey james can you give
me some
yes
the c is with the soft s sound advice a
noun give me some advice we can see this
is telling us
a determiner telling us how much advice
some advice
next
sure
what do you need
next
what's the best way to get a pay raise
for my boss
well
the hint i will give you here is we
added an s to tell you there are two
meanings for this one
that's right
so besides apart from see apart from is
one of them
it means in addition and that s told us
there's more than one meeting
well besides going to work how do you
help the company so in addition to that
i stay
something than everyone else
what would that be
that's right
later
there's late
and later
now do you remember the hint i gave you
for the other word that was latter it
has two t's right and would be the
second half or the second thing in this
case we're just comparing it to everyone
stays late while i stay later
than everyone else
that is goody but that
something
means you should get more money when you
don't do a lot of work
what would that be
we talked about
hard being difficult and hard being the
density of something my head remember
but in this case
we're going to use hardly remember what
hardly means not significant
and that really means something when we
see that staying late doesn't mean
anything if you're not doing any work
that's hardly important right
so we have to use hardly here
and now finally we're going to go to the
last one and what do you think that is
well we said
infer comes from evidence
and when you infer something you're
going to probably say it directly
because you have evidence to say this is
why i believe
but when you don't say something
directly and you kind of hint at it you
are
well i'm going to say implying because
that's appropriate in this case but are
you trying to imply that i'm lazy he's
not saying it directly
saying it a round away roundabout way
well you don't really work hard so
staying late doesn't matter
because you're lazy
and he's like damn it how can you do
that to me yeah that's what happens
so this is our little test and if you go
back over the video you can see what
words i had there instead
and what words you have there now
correct
all right
now i'm going to go over
our bonus
a lot of times you'll hear people say
made with made of or made by
and that might be confusing for you
because the main word they're using a
verb is made and they're simply changing
the preposition
so how am i going to make it easy for
you i'm going to give you a quick guide
because these are remember confused
words where you might think made of is
made with or made by
and i'm going to help you so made with
so with means comes together and
ingredients
when you make a cake you say it's made
with eggs milk and butter because these
things come together made with those are
the ingredients
but what happens if you have something
like my sweater here
do you say made with well you could say
it's made with cotton but that doesn't
make sense
when you want to talk about the actual
material itself these the object you can
say it's made of and it means this is
the stuff that it comes from so it's
here's an example
cheese is made with or made of milk
yeah it's made of milk that's the
material that goes into making cheese
now you can make cheese or you made
cheese with different things
but the material it is
has to be made of made by is how is it
made right
made by fairy hands
or uh
made by
i don't know adding this or that that's
how you did it
cool
all right so now that we've got those
done so you've got your bonus section
saying how you use made in english and
we can modify
made to tell you the ingredients of
something the materials or something or
how it's made
let's look at your homework
in this particular case i'm going to say
there are two words that i have taught
you today in confused words that you are
now clear on that you can answer these
two questions for me
okay so number one is something james
who else was in the story
something james who else was in the
story
and the second one is
what something
would you give an english student
okay now
these ones are particularly hard because
they can be used for business
and some of these words even native
speakers don't use that often so i'm
going to offer you
100 000 points for everyone you get
correct what does that mean whether
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you this was about business so i'm going
to give you one of the best business
quotes ever
i'm gonna make him an offer
that he can't refuse
okay that's my terrible impersonation
of um if i can remember his name
uh great actor he was in the streetcar
named desire i can remember the
character he played but marlon brando
and this is from the movie the godfather
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