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.

Uh This can happen for native speaking even but a lot of times students get confused and he is trying to demonstrate here that the person saying this that 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.

Alright 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 homophobes are 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 gonna 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 let me go on this side, make sure you can see it properly.

Here's E.

And here's James myself and we were playing characters in this one.

Okay so I call this one business as usual.

When people normally in north America say business as usual means the way things normally go right, Business as usual.

Nothing has changed.

Hey James, can you give me some advice?

Sure you what do you need?

What's the best way to get a pay raise from my boss James?

Well besides going to work, how do you help the company?

Mm I stay latter than everyone else jay.

That is good.

E but that hard means you should get more money when you 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 we're gonna 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 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 word 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 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 advice and you're gonna 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 this singular article right next in for and for 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 their 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 doughnuts and you see him a couple months later and he's a bit bigger and you'd say hey tom you're enjoying those doughnuts, aren't you?

How would you do that?

Now we can say you're inferring that because he's eating donuts, he's gained a lot of weight.

That's because of the evidence and for but if you don't say anything, you just say hey tom I see you really like them doughnuts, you're implying you're not saying thomas fat, but he probably is and you don't see it directly.

So you imply.

Okay, now the next we're gonna look at propositions, would they both have a preposition 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 markets besides right or next to.

Yeah.

Different ways for next to when we use this.

Besides it means in addition added on.

All right.

So you can say addition or as well and besides tom, who knows about this In addition to tom, who knows about this, right?

And you can get money besides that means 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 polarity plural and I can't even say it plurality.

There you go.

Yeah, I'm taking english from that guy.

You can't even say it.

Never like it was hard.

Okay.

It's a difficult word.

Next hard heart is both an adverb and 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 what 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.

Oh, like would heart, 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.

All right.

So I hardly noticed the motorcycle is 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 heart even though they both have adverb uses and the last one I want to talk about when we say latter.

It has to tease.

I want you to remember the two teas for a reason.

Okay, So latter means the second of a group of people.

So if you said to people, if you said James and a year coming to the party, you say, I've 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 were watching a movie in the beginning, like, okay, truth, truth here, I'm going to give you truth.

So that's just we're not doing that.

We're not doing a video.

I just need to speak about this, John Wick one rules.

If you're not watch it, please go watch John Wick one.

It rules.

John Wick two.

Well the beginning was okay, but the latter half the end part c 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.

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 to parts.

And I usually say if you want to remember this one, think of this one has two TVs, two meanings the second or the end part.

Those two parts.

He liked that.

I know you do well later is an adverb or adjective and it basically means not now later to make it easy for you.

It's the comparative of late.

If something is 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 ladies after this time.

Later is even after this time.

Okay, I will see you later.

All 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 these 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 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 do you think should go here now, James.

And so hey, James, can you give me some?

Yes.

Right.

The sea 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.

Suri.

What do you need next?

What's the best way to get a pay raise from my boss?

Well, the hint I will give you here is we added and asked to tell you there's two meanings for this one.

That's right.

So besides apart from C, apart from is one of them and he's 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 that everyone else.

What would that be?

That's right later.

There's late and later.

Now remember the hint I gave you for the other word.

That was latter.

It has to tease, 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.

Would that be mm hmm.

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 finally we're going to go to the last one.

And what do you think that is?

Well, we said, and for comes from evidence and when you in for 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.

Yeah, 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.

Singing it around way 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.