hi I'm Jill from engvid and today we
have a lesson about two verbs to touch
and to feel and we're going to look at
how they are used they because they mean
something very similar it's to do with
the same sort of action of touching or
feeling it's very easy to get them
confused so sometimes you use touch
other times you use feel so I'm going to
show a few examples just to illustrate
how they are used
okay so let's first have a look at the
verb to touch and it's an active verb
it's something you actively do
physically if you just touch touch
something like that it can be quite a
light brief a short time touching it's
not something that you hold on to it's a
short usually touch or if you just touch
someone on the arm to get their
attention or on the shoulder
okay so here's the first example then I
touched the kettle to see if it was
still hot and if you're not sure what a
kettle is you boil water in the kettle
to make a cup of tea or coffee
so you boil the water in an electric
kettle or on the gas so I touched past
tense the kettle to see if it was still
hot
so touched so with something that might
be very hot you don't want to hold your
hand on it for too long because you
could burn your hand so you just touched
it lightly like that so it's a short
quick touch to see if it's hot okay
and second example if you touch the cat
she might scratch you so it's a warning
much if the cat doesn't like to be
touched some cats don't like people to
touch them especially if they're total
strangers cats are very particular I
think so if you touch the cat be careful
she might scratch you with the sharp
claws so again if you were going to just
stroke the cat like that and no don't
stroke the cat she doesn't like it so if
you touch the cat she might scratch it
be careful okay so it's a sort of light
short time of contact okay so moving on
to feel this is also quite an active
verb for example it's still making
contact like this for example this
material like on a blouse or a shirt
this material is so silky kind of silk
and just feel it all just feel all
lovely soft and smooth isn't that nice
so with feel you sort of it sort of
suggests a lot a longer time that you're
in contact with what it is that you're
feeling okay so just feel it like that
and another example I'm feeling around
in the dark so we're adding a
preposition here to feel around in the
dark for example if you're sleeping in a
friend's house and you've never been
there before
you wake up in the middle of the night
you know that you're not in your own
home it's completely dark and you want
to put the light on for some reason to
see the time or whatever so you get out
of bed and you're not quite sure you
want to put the light on you're not
quite sure where it is so you're
doing this in the dark feeling around
for the wall trying to find the switch
on the wall or find a lamp turn on the
lamp you don't know the room so you're
having to feel around so it's about
stretching out your hand making contact
with things to find your way to where
you're trying to get so I'm feeling
around in the dark and then for people
who shave I luckily don't have to shave
some women do apparently but I shouldn't
joke about that because it's not funny
if you shaved you might feel your face
after saving to see if it's rough or
smooth okay to see if you implement a
good razor good sharp razor that you've
used or an electric razor that goes mmm
like that sort of sound so you feel your
face after shaving to see if it's nice
and smooth so again making contact and
for quite a long time not just touching
touching would be like that but feeling
is more like that okay okay so it's
touch and feel and there's one other use
of the verb to feel a slightly different
way of using it in a kind of more
general way to do with how you feel
inside yourself emotionally or in your
head how you're thinking or physically
it can be physically as well so if you
walk into a room and you say it feels
cold in here okay just the physical
sensation is all cold we need to put
some heating on so that's the physical
feeling that you're sort of receiving a
signal that the temperature is low
but also as I said kind of in your mind
or emotionally you can say if you're at
a party and some people are behaving in
a strange way there may be having an
argument or something or they're about
to have a fight and it makes you
uncomfortable so you would say this
situation doesn't feel right okay let's
go home or let's go somewhere else
doesn't feel right and that's more the
impression you're getting from the
atmosphere rather than a physical
sensation okay so I hope those three
groups of examples are helpful if you'd
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you