hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia
the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them
maybe first question comes from meu ki I'm Yuki Yuki says I want to know about
test taking tips okay I will give you five tips tip number one is to know your
test on your test do you need to write do you need to read listen speak what do
you need to do first make sure you know the test and know the requirements of
the test number two check and see if the sections are timed check to see how much
time you have for each section of your test number three is to ask yourself
have you taken the test before what was good for you what was not good for you
so what do you need to improve review your past tests to see what you need to
work on for the next test number four if you can if it's available take a
practice test practice tests can help you find your weak points and your
strong points and help you if you have timed sections in your test as well
number five if your test includes speaking you need to practice speaking
if you don't practice you won't be able to do it at the time that you need it so
if you don't have a language partner you can look for one online or you can
practice with media like repeating shadowing media so those are five quick
test tips I know they're very general but I hope that they can apply to lots
of different tests so I hope that this helps you thanks for the question ok
let's go on to your next question next question comes from nerd on Emma net hi
again nerd on nerd on says hi Alicia what's the difference between blame
accuse and charge alright blame accuse in charge these are three verbs that
have very similar meanings let's begin with blame to blame means to assign
someone responsibility for something this has a negative nuance to it some
examples my parents blamed me for the broken vase
the police blamed the accident on a broken traffic light to accuse someone
means to suggest that someone did something bad so it's a little bit
different from blame blame is like assigning responsibility to someone for
like a negative effect to accuse someone of something is like someone did
something wrong maybe on purpose and you want to suggest that it was that person
some examples the landlord accused him of not paying
rent she accused the company of fraud let's move along then to the last one -
charge - charge is a legal term this is a legal word which means you formally
accuse someone of wrongdoing so we do not use charge in everyday conversation
when we're saying like you did this bad thing or I think it was you charge is
used in courts to charge someone with a crime means to officially and legally
accuse them of a crime examples the suspect has been charged with murder
she's been charged with breaking and entering so that's a quick introduction
to the differences between these three verbs I hope that that helped you thanks
for an interesting question okay let's move on to your next question next
question comes from Isaac Alexander Hagen Isaac Isaac says hi Alicia what's
the difference between soccer and football yeah soccer is just the word
that people from the u.s. used to talk about what the rest of the world calls
football so to my knowledge most if not all other countries use the word
football to talk about the game with the black and white ball the players kick
around a field we do have a football of our own we have what many people call
American football which is a totally different game which involves passing
and a little bit of kicking if you're speaking with an American English
speaker soccer refers to the black and white ball sport football refers to that
kind of egg-shaped brown leather ball sport if you're talking to maybe a
British English speaker football probably means what American English
speakers call soccer I hope that that helps you thanks for the question all
right let's move on to your next question next question comes from Ahmed
McGee hi Ahmed Ahmed says hi Lee show what does whiplash mean
with flash this is an injury whiplash is an injury that happens when the body is
like jerked in a strong way like in a car accident or maybe another like
transportation related accident whiplash is an injury around like the head and
neck and shoulders where the body and the head moves like separately if this
is the body and this is the head they move separately like in a very quick
like jumping like whip like motion if you know a whip it's like this Indiana
Jones has one it's like so - like whiplash is the name of the injury we
get from our bodies being moved in this way so I hope that that helps you thanks
very much for the question okay let's move on to your next question next
question comes from Karima heigen Karima karema says hi Alicia I want to ask you
what does the preposition up mean or refer to in the following sentence what
exactly are you up to I'll write this up doesn't have any
meaning so what are you up to or what's up this is just a set phrase up doesn't
have any like directional meaning there's no movement or positioning just
consider this a set phrase like what's up means how are you or what are you
doing same thing with what exactly are you up to it means what exactly are you
doing up doesn't really have a function here it's just a set phrase so don't
worry too much about what exactly up means here it's sort of just it's just
an expression that we use so that's everything that I have for this week
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