Do you like to read books well it depends of the book I'm work downtown I'm so
boring today no God please no no if you have heard these sentences or if you
sometimes say them you've got to watch this video and learn more about seven
common mistakes English students make hey friends teacher Prix here to help
you talk to anyone anywhere anytime in English in this video I'm going to show
you seven common mistakes every English student makes and how to fix them okay
as I always say making mistakes is part of the game okay don't be discouraged
don't feel frustrated because of the mistakes you make most of these mistakes
I'm going to show you today do not stop the communication between you and the
listener but it's important to fix them okay and that's what I want to show you
in this video so you can already hit the like button and share this video with
your friends why not number one depend the verb depend has a specific
preposition and the preposition is on depend on most students use the
preposition of but that's not okay so you should say on how can you practice
this and memorize you can write examples with the verb depend on a piece of paper
or in your phone and during the day try to remember the sentences mentally okay
you can also stick post-it around your desk on your computer screen on your
bathroom mirror with some examples that way you will remember number two using
verb to be with another verb in the simple present for example I'm work
downtown she's like to study No all these sentences are incorrect you
do not need the verb to be with another action in the simple present okay I'm go
no I go she's like no she like they are work no they work so how can you fix
that think of sentences choose ten verbs you use all the time study work go
and make as many sentences as possible okay write examples with he she it they
we you I make realistic examples examples of things that happen during
your day okay that way it'll be easier for you to memorize and make this
mistake less often all right number three boring or bored interesting or
interested tiring or tired in English we have two kinds of
adjectives adjectives ending in ED and adjectives ending in "IED" (mistake)
and adjective, oh my God! And adjectives ending in ing the problem is that students confuse when
to use one and when to use another because they are used for different
things I use adjectives ending in ED to describe people how people are and I
use adjectives ending in ing to describe situations to describe things okay for
example I am interested in music or I can say music is interesting okay now
how can you fix this choose a list of five or ten adjectives ED and ing
adjectives that for you are very confusing you
always make mistakes with these adjectives then start writing your
examples start building sentences that make sense to you and start reading them
during the day thinking about them during the day if you can't really sit
down and write try to have some time for preparation okay sit down for 5-10
minutes write the sentences with the seven ten
adjectives that are confusing for you and then you can start thinking about
them when you are going to work or while you are on the bus or on the train okay
now I have an observation although you use ed adjectives for people and ing
adjectives for things there are situations when you can use an ing
adjective to describe a person but it's a different idea okay
for example Oh Jack is so interesting he always has many stories to tell he's got
so much experience in life so here I'm not saying he's interested in something
I'm saying that as a person he's interesting it's nice to talk to him
because he has so many things to tell so it's a different idea and I cannot do
this with all adjectives there are some adjectives that will allow me to do this
boring is another example that would allow me to do that number four take a
coffee or have a coffee this is a collocation mistake that many students
make okay and sometimes it's not just with the word coffee but with breakfast
oh I took breakfast this morning no you had breakfast this morning or maybe you
ate breakfast this morning but you cannot say take breakfast this morning
or I took a coffee I had a coffee or I drank some coffee okay
as I said this is a collocation mistake so how do you fix collocations mistakes sit
down and make a list okay for example have a coffee is one that is very common
so now you know that it should say have a coffee not take a coffee so as this
is a collocation mistake you can easily find online a list of several
collocations for you to study now you learn how to say some phrases correctly
if you study them and there are some expressions in English some collocations
that are very specific it's make a mistake not do a mistake it's do homework
not make homework so all these small little problems can be corrected if you
sit down and look for lists not long list okay but small lists but today I
wanted to talk about the take coffee and have coffee which is a very common
confusion many English students make number five my friend is very nice your
name is Jack with another common mistake students make is to confuse the
possessive adjectives your his and her in English when we are talking about a
different person okay John Mary the dog the students we
cannot use the possessive adjective your we need to use the correct
possessive adjectives her/his its or their all right or our okay so students
tend to use your for everything oh my mother is very nice your cake is
very good my mother's cake her cake okay I would
recommend making like five to ten sentences about other people not
about you and then describe things they have all my neighbor is very nice
Her children go to school with my children okay so this is an example but
once you write these examples try to think about them as you know I love
making videos about how to think in English and if you think about these
examples during the day your brain will memorize this faster, will understand
and accept this faster okay number six Apple is more better than Samsung there
are some problems with this sentence and it's not just the English, which do
you prefer Apple or Samsung let me know in the
comment I'm going back to English this is another very common mistake
students make okay at some point you will study or you have already studied
maybe at some point you will study comparatives in English how to make
comparisons and one of the rules is if your adjective you need adjectives to
make comparisons if your adjective is short okay you cannot use no no no no
you cannot use more what do you do instead you should change your adjective
a little bit you are going to add ER in most cases okay and then you can use
"than" so for example fast faster than so a Ferrari is faster than a Hyundai car I
don't know much about cars so help me out here in the example I gave "Apple" is
more better than "Samsung" I cannot use more and here better is different there
are some irregular cases I don't always add ER for example good becomes better
okay and there is no more the word more is gone okay now to improve this how
about as you are going to work you are looking at things you start making
comparisons you start comparing things as you are driving to work as you are on
the subway look at the people around and say hey
that woman is prettier than that woman or that guy is more elegant elegant long you
should use more, more elegant than that other guy or oh, this bus is faster than
than my bicycle so start creating examples and this will help you memorize
but the thing is don't just write and read think about these examples okay
during your day and try to find situations when you can think about a
comparison when you are at work when you are going to work when you're going back
from work when you're going to the gym okay number 7 children or child woman or
women what's the plural what's the singular this is another big
confusion students make it happens guys students get very confused with
irregular plural forms of words okay so for example children the word children
is the plural form of the word child so what happens many students use
children in the singular with the singular idea so, the children is
playing okay children are or they don't use a child they just use children so
it's important to really understand the difference and take notes on these
irregular cases of plural form okay of plural words another example
woman singular women the most common problem here is the pronunciation that's
different okay what happens is many students just say the same thing the
woman are the women is the woman they just make a big confusion and they
never change the pronunciation and the conjugation of the verbs
remember the woman singular likes but the women like there you go these are
seven very common mistakes every English student makes now I have an
exercise for you I want you to correct these five sentences okay game on I want
to see your correction in the comments I see that many of you leave the
comments to me which I love by the way but you don't do the exercises it's so fun
when you do it and I can correct and leave my observations so I hope to see
your answers here in the comments thank you so much guys and I'll see you next
time, bye!