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hi guys have you ever wondered about how
you should tell people about something
oh yes maybe you're very good at telling
people about something but do you know
all the verbs and phrases that you can
use in order to talk about talking
well if you don't know those then please
stay tuned in this lesson because i'm
going to tell you different ways of
telling something to someone don't get
too confused keep watching the lesson
further in case you want to know my name
is michelle and you're watching let's
talk so first of all we are going to
look at a set of verbs that we have with
us here and these verbs are different
ways of talking about telling something
to someone
for example telling is very different
from explaining and explaining is very
different from advising but how is that
so if you want to know the meaning then
keep watching with me let's start with
the first verb
the first verb that we have is to tell
something to someone
now telling something to someone is very
simple even if you are just a beginner
you will definitely know the meaning of
the word tell which means to convey a
message or to give a message to someone
verbally verbally means while you're
speaking
so to convey a message
all right so now i'm going to tell you
two examples of how you should use the
verb tell in a sentence for example you
could talk about your childhood so if
someone is telling you about their
childhood you could say he told me about
his childhood
so i would say he told me
now as you can see that told is not same
as tell well that is because tell is a
verb and we are talking about the past
form of the verb tell which is told so
he told me about his childhood
okay now if somebody tells you about how
they passed their exam
how would you say that you would say
they told me or he told me about how he
passed his exams we often use the word
about with tell because they always we
are always told about a particular topic
so told me is usually used with about
so now you know that telling means to
convey a message
all right now let's look at the next one
describe
so the first thing that you need to
understand is how is describing
different from telling can you tell me
an answer for that
so describing is also telling something
obviously but with much more information
which means with a lot of
detail
so describing is
to add detail
so when you're telling someone about
something and you want to add a lot of
detail to it that is called describing
do you want to know how you could use
this in a sentence so you could say that
he told me
or sorry he described to me how hard it
was for him to leave his family all
right so here maybe the person is
telling you a lot of things like he felt
homesick when he left his family he was
in a financial route when he left his
family or he was going through a very
hard time right so he's describing more
than one thing that's why we use the
word describe and not tell
so he described how hard it was for him
to leave his family okay you could also
say that
could you describe me what you saw so if
you're asking someone to describe a
scene
then you could ask them could you
describe what you saw which means could
you explain to me in detail like with a
lot of information what you saw
another example could be the doctors
described the situation as very critical
which means they gave full details about
the situation and they told how critical
it was okay
now now we look at the next verb and
this verb is to report so when you
report something then you tell about
something that has happened okay some
existing information like this is
usually used for crimes and
investigation so the police might want a
report from you about something so if
you want to use it in a sentence of
course you could say that the
supermarkets reported a great decrease
in sales after demonetization this means
that they are giving some facts and some
information
so reporting means to give information
or facts
so here is reporting for you which is a
very formal word and we often use this
word with the word witnesses also you
could say that witnesses reported
hearing a loud noise before the plane
crashed now this is again a very formal
way of saying something maybe you could
read this sentence in a newspaper so
reporting is formal and it's often used
in writing
okay now that's enough for reporting and
let's look at the next word
explaining
explaining is when you give a detailed
view about something again just like
describing explaining means to give a
lot of details about a scene
so explaining means to give details
about a scene
and to use it in a sentence you could
say that she explained to me
how she was losing weight so quickly so
maybe she was giving you a whole
description about how she lost weight
maybe she went on a diet maybe you know
she was gymming so she explained to you
means she gave you the overall picture
about how she lost weight okay now we
look at the next one and that is
recounting
so recounting means to recall something
okay it has the same meaning as recall
in case you don't know what do we mean
by recall recall means to remember
something from the past okay so for
example we often try to remember things
from the past mostly like conversations
right so you could say that she tried to
recall her conversation with sam
or else you could use this new word and
you could say that she recounted her
conversation with sam
and other than this you could also say
that they recounted their experience at
the vacation
which means that they were telling about
their experience at the vacation they
were remembering it from the past
so recalling is recounting is recalling
which means
remembering from the past
all right
now the next one we have is advice which
is a very common
verb okay and at the same time we often
say that
i'd like to advise you okay so we often
hear this that we want to give advices
to people and people want to give
advices to us so giving advice is
basically when you do something and you
need suggestions from people okay so
that's what advising is to give
suggestions to people and to advise
someone could also mean to give them the
required information okay
advising could mean to give required
information
right so in a sentence you could say
that the doctors advised her to go for a
surgery which means that they gave her
the required information that she should
go for a surgery
and if you think that
your laptop cannot be carried everywhere
then somebody might just
tell you to buy a laptop bag and if that
happens you would say i was advised to
buy a laptop bag because it's so hard to
carry my laptop everywhere
okay now with this we look at the next
word that we have and that is to
communicate so communicating is very
same as telling or describing or
reporting now this is also very formal
like reporting now the only difference
here is that communication can happen
verbally which means through speaking
like i'm speaking to you i'm
communicating to you but have you ever
communicated in the written manner like
have you ever written an email well that
is written written communication so
communication can be two ways either it
can be spoken or written
but when someone is telling you
something that only happens through
words or through speaking
so to use it in a sentence you could of
course say that the news about your
removal was verbally communicated to you
back in july which means that someone
was told that they were going to be
removed from an organization back in
july now verbal communication here means
that they were told
through the speech okay somebody
conveyed it to them while speaking that
you'll be removed in july another
example would be can you communicate to
him that we are not really interested in
him anymore
okay so another example is they
communicated with each other via email
of course we all love communicating via
email and it's quite useful and it comes
quite handy when people are really far
away
okay so now we have looked at a lot of
verbs which are different ways to tell
something there are certain differences
here as you've seen some some of them
are spoken communication some of them
are written communication some of them
are formal and some of them are informal
now we are going to look at some phrases
to talk about telling something to
someone and they have some very
interesting meaning
now this is one of the most common
phrases in english which is to let
someone know
so we often say that let me know when
you reach home which means please tell
me when you reach home so let me know is
a very
soft way of asking some someone to
inform you
so let someone know means
to inform someone
and to use it in a sentence of course
you could say let me know when he
arrives or let us know when you reach
home because you're concerned about
someone
now the next one we have is to pass on
and to pass on means to tell the
information that you receive from one
person to another person okay so many
times people give you a message so that
you could give it to someone else for
example if someone calls you over the
phone okay and they want to talk to your
mother but she's not home so you tell
them can i have a message and they'd be
like yeah please pass on the message
that i want to see your mother tomorrow
at 5 pm ok so this is how you will use
pass on which means to give information
from one person to another
or to pass information
with this we move to the next one which
is to give an account so to give an
account can again like communication be
written or spoken but giving an account
is usually reporting reporting as in
where you're giving a full detailed
account about what happened this is also
something that the police requires from
you after accidents after bad incidences
they want you to give a full report of
it so to give an account is to report
incidences
in order to use it in a sentence you
could say that
he was so shocked after the accident
that he could not give an account of
what happened
this could be because the person was not
in his senses and was very hard for him
to remember everything that happened
and if you want to use it in a more
positive way you could say that she gave
an exciting account of her vacation to
spain okay so this is how you use given
account
and the next one we have is to put
someone in picture well to put someone
in picture means to keep someone
informed so that they can understand
something okay so maybe there's a whole
situation going on and you need to keep
someone in the picture so that they can
understand what's happening
so to put someone in picture means
to help someone understand something
now the best example for this would be
let's say you're having your wedding
arrangements and your brother is not
participating as of now maybe he was out
of the city and he comes back like a
month later and your arrangements are
going pretty well
but he doesn't know anything about it
he's like would you please put me in
picture about how you're doing the
wedding arrangements which means that
would you tell me how you're doing the
wedding arrangements
and sometimes when you join new office
you don't know how the people are
working there so there you could say
would you please put me in the picture
about how your office runs which means
to tell me so that i can also be a part
of the system
okay now the next one is to break the
news break the egg okay break the news
means to give a bad news to someone okay
like the breaking news have you seen on
the television whenever there's a news
which is you know very popular right now
and everyone is talking about it a
shocking news you see that on the screen
at the bottom of the screen you see it
flashing breaking news and from that we
have this phrase break the news break
the news means to give some bad news to
someone
so if you lost your job and you need to
tell about that to your husband you
could say i had to break the news about
the loss of my job to my husband which
means you had to tell him about you lost
your job and that's a very very bad news
okay and sometimes if you're like
leaving the city and your girlfriend
doesn't know yet so your friend might
ask you
when are you planning to break it to
your girlfriend that you were leaving
the city
okay now with this we're gonna close the
lesson and in the end i'm just gonna
give you one extra phrase which is to
keep someone in the loop now to keep
someone in the loop means to keep
someone informed you can often use this
in your office if you want that all the
information should be given to you you
should tell people please keep me in the
loop about what's happening about the
new developments
all right great so thank you so much for
having me with you and i hope that today
you have learned different ways of
telling people about something and use
all these verbs and use all these
phrases to find out what's going on so
thank you and bye bye see you soon