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Harder English, US History

I love this video!
You will learn about Lewis and Clark. They are two famous Americans.
You will learn some English, and also learn about history, geography, maps, mountains, rivers, and animals.

Click here or on the map to watch the video.

Lewis and Clark made maps so they would not get lost.🧐
They did lose some important things while they were exploring. 😩
Do you remember the words LOSE and LOST?  Click here to review.

 

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Harder English, YouTube Lessons

We will go back in time…       🕔  ➜   🕒
Now we are in the past.  We will call it Past Simple.  Simple means easy.

Now, let’s go far, far back in time…     🕔  ➜  🕒  ➜  🕐
When you go FAR back in time, it is called Past Perfect.
Why? 🤔  I do not know. 🙄

Do not worry about the names.  How do you talk about the past and FAR past in one sentence?
This video will help!

I could use Past Simple twice (saw and watched), and say

I saw many bad lessons, and then I watched this video.

This makes me think more about this good video.

Now you can make a sentence like this.  The red is Past Perfect (had seen):

By the time I saw this video, I had already seen many bad lessons.

This makes me think more about the bad lessons.

More examples

  1. We sat at the table to eat, but my friend had eaten all the food!
    This means there was no food when we sat down! 
  2. We sat at the table to eat, but my friend ate all the food! 
    This is Past Simple.  It mean that we sat, and THEN my friend ate the food. 
  3. I called my new friend.  I had spoken to him before, but this time, he seemed sad.  

 

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Harder English, YouTube Lessons

I am warning you! ⚠️This lesson is about grammar. 🤓
It is about –ing verbs.

Are you sleeping? 😴  I hope not!

Please watch the video.   Will you be watching it in 2 minutes?  I hope so!
Will you be watching it in 10 minutes?  No!  It will be finished.  But you can try Ronnie’s test!

You will learn a new word:  Continuous.  It is an adjective. It means “it does not stop… it goes, and goes, and goes”.  It is like the verb continue.  Continue means Do Not Stop.

 

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Harder English, vocab

Do you remember this post?  I will teach some of the words now.

You can click buttons to hear the words.

vacuum 

It is a noun and a verb!  😮
NOUN:      A vacuum is for cleaning floors.
VERB:        You can vacuum the carpet.

grow and growth

Will water make this money grow?  I do not think so!   🙄     <<< grow is a verb

I see growth!  The money is going up!        <<< growth is a noun

single

Single is an adjective (like old, young, big, small).  It means One.

There is a single person at the table.

It also can mean Not Married.

Are you married 👫 or are you single 👨‍💼?

architect

Do you want to make a house?  💭 + ✏ = 🏠
An architect can help you.

mason

A mason is a person.
A mason builds with bricks, stones, and cement.

Pronunciation via forvo.com

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Harder English, YouTube Lessons

When do you say MUCH, and when do you say MANY?
Why do we say  >>>   How much water?
Why do we say  >>>   How many cups?

I found a good lesson!
It uses the word countable.  😧
Countable means you can count them:  1, 2, 3, … 👏👏👏

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Harder English

Here are words that you did not know.  Maybe you know some now?
I will explain these in my next lessons.

  • vacuum
  • grows, growth
  • keep, kept
  • regular
  • teach, taught
  • touch, touched
  • pre-
  • religion
  • close, clothes
  • much, many
  • mason
  • poor, pour
  • single
  • “I gotta”
  • “gotcha”
  • “I got it”
  • “Here you go”
  • plural
  • drink:   yes, it is said like “jrink”
  • try:  yes, it is said like “chry”
  • = (equals)
  • architect
  • ch:  sometimes like “machine” and sometimes like “much”

 

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Harder English

5 more verbs:  want, work, ask, find, and say.

#1, #2, #3… no problem!  Add  +ed for past (yesterday).
#4 🤔
#5 🤔

How do you say “said”?  It is not “say” with a “d” at the end.
It is like bed and red.  >>>  He said the bed is red. 

PastPresentFuture
wantedI want
you want
he wants
she wants
it wants
we want
they want
you want		will want
workedI work
you work
he works
she works
it works
we work
they work
you work		will work
askedI ask
you ask
he asks
she asks
it asks
we ask
they ask
you ask		will ask
found
⚠️ not "finded"		I find
you find
he finds
she finds
it finds
we find
they find
you find		will find
said
⚠️ not "said"		I say
you say
he says
she says
it says
we say
they say
you say		will say

Do you see the  +S  in he,  she,   it?
It is same in all words!  😎

 

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Harder English

The nouns are blue.
The pronouns are green.
The verbs are red.

  1. The man walked to the store.
  2. I know that man.
  3. His name is Michael.     <<< “his” is a “possessive pronoun”.
  4. Michael bought a book.
  5. Michael likes it.
  6. I read.
  7. That book has many pages.
  8. Michael likes to read.
  9. Reading is fun.     <<<  +ing makes a verb into a noun!
  10. Mr. David wrote this very long sentence, but it has only one pronoun.
  11. Please drive the car to the shop.
  12. Take them to the shop.
  13. Please drive slowly!
  14. After you go to the shop, drive to school.
  15. We drive to work every day.  <<< Here, “work” is a noun!  It is a place.
  16. They gave us pizza.
  17. It was delicious!
  18. We gave them some water.
  19. We wanted water because the pizza was hot.
  20. They wanted ice cream, so you bought ice cream for them.

The black words have names also.
We will learn them later.

 

 

 

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Harder English

Someone asked me to write 20 sentences. They want to find the nouns, pronouns, and verbs.  Try these.

  1. The man walked to the store.
  2. I know that man.
  3. His name is Michael.
  4. Michael bought a book.
  5. Michael likes it.
  6. I read.
  7. That book has many pages.
  8. Michael likes to read.
  9. Reading is fun.
  10. Mr. David wrote this very long sentence, but it has only one pronoun.
  11. Please drive the car to the shop.
  12. Take them to the shop.
  13. Please drive slowly!
  14. After you go to the shop, drive to school.
  15. We drive to work every day.
  16. They gave us pizza.
  17. It was delicious!
  18. We gave them some water.
  19. We wanted water because the pizza was hot.
  20. They wanted ice cream, so you bought ice cream for them.

I will put the answers in the next post.
BRB = I will Be Right Back!

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Harder English

A reader asked me to explain this word.  👏👏👏
So, I will make it my #1 priority today‼️


A priority is something important.

What are this guy’s top priorities?

image

Think about what he needs. 🤔
Prioritize the list. I think his top priorities are:

  1. Find water
  2. Make a small home, to keep warm and dry
  3. Find food

Is getting his hair cut a priority?  No!   🙄

Priorities are 1, 2, 3…  Top priority is number 1.
Top priority = High priority.

We will now ride the bus.  🚌

Why does this say “Priority Seating”?  Does it mean you should sit first?

image

No.  The sign says WHO is important on the bus. They have priority. They sit first.

This morning, I prioritized what lessons I would write.

What are your priorities for learning English?  Can you prioritize your ideas and tell me?

Did you see the word prioritize?
In English, we can make some nouns (things) into verbs (action) by adding -ize.

Priority is a noun.  Prioritize is a verb.  Cool!  😎

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