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  • Hello and welcome to day 5

  • of the Easy English Seven Day Course.

  • Alright, today's lesson,

  • lesson #5 is: Study Phrases, Not Words.

  • Study Phrases, Not Words

  • English, english language

  • is made up

  • not only of words,

  • but also of phrases,

  • or groups of words.

  • A phrase maybe

  • two words, all the way to

  • 5 or 6 words and often

  • the phrase, the combination of words

  • means something different

  • then the individual words

  • themselves.

  • Now, I know that you have this in your

  • language as well. Because every language

  • has phrases. Also known

  • as idioms or

  • word clusters. The reason why

  • you want to study phrases

  • not words, is because

  • so much meaning

  • is derived from these phrases,

  • that if you knew

  • all of the words in the English language but no phrases,

  • you still wouldn't speak

  • English very well. You would not

  • understand when you were talking to a native speaker,

  • because there are so many

  • phrases. So you could study

  • all of the words but no phrases

  • and not speak English very well. But, if you study

  • all the phrases or even the

  • top 500

  • phrases, you would also

  • learn the words that make up the phrases.

  • And if you knew the top

  • 500 phrases, you would speak English

  • really well.

  • So, how do you or how can you

  • study phrases not

  • words?

  • Well, if you're in class and you

  • hear a phrase that you don't understand

  • write it down. Later

  • you can ask a friend, ask a teacher

  • or you can ask me.

  • Email me. Ask me,

  • "what does this phrase mean", and I will answer it.

  • I will write you back and I will tell you.

  • So, anytime you hear a phrase that you don't know what it means,

  • write it down. At LetsDoEnglish,

  • in our Teaching Tales, we define

  • commonly used phrases. Teaching Tales

  • are original stories meant to

  • use important

  • vocabulary and important common

  • modern phrases and we define both those.

  • Another way to define

  • phrases or deconstruct

  • these phrases you've written down,

  • is to look online. Often times

  • if you write the phrase into

  • Google, Google

  • will define the phrase for you.

  • Not just the words, but the phrase itself.

  • So, today's lesson, day # 5,

  • lesson #5 is:

  • study phrases not words.

  • K, thank you for showing up today.

  • Again, don't forget answer the questions on the survey

  • and I will send you part of our Teaching Tales

  • at the end of the week.

  • I'll see ya tomorrow.

Hello and welcome to day 5

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