Hello, this is Gill at www.engvid.com , and
today's lesson is all about one little word: "out", which we use all the time, okay? So, out, but also combined with other words
to make a longer word, okay? So, let's look at those first. So, these are the word "out" and the extra
bit added comes from a verb. So, there are a lot of these words. These are just a few examples, so let's have
a look. So, an outbreak. When something breaks out, an outbreak, it
could be all sorts of things. It could be literally. If people are in a prison and they break out
of prison, you can say there has been an outbreak. But also, metaphorically. If everybody is catching an illness like some
illness which you can catch from other people, like measles or chicken pox, that sort of
thing. Or a cold, some sort of virus. You can say there is an outbreak of that illness
at the moment, everybody is catching it. It's an outbreak, okay? Like an epidemic is another word for that. Okay. An outburst, burst is sort of a dramatic explosion. But often, an outburst comes from a person
who is angry and they start shouting and that is the outburst, because of - they're being
very loud and they're saying, probably, angry things. So, that was an outburst. We don't want that sort of behavior from people,
that sort of outburst is not acceptable, that sort of thing. Okay. And then, if you have someone who does that,
they may become one of these - an outcast, meaning someone who is thrown out, cast out,
it means thrown out or just, you know, made to leave or rejected in some way. An outcast is someone who nobody wants to
have anything to do with. Okay. An outcome is a result. If there is a result of something, that is
the outcome. What was the outcome of the meeting? What was the result of the meeting, okay? An outcry is when people object to something
which has happened. They complain and they say that should not
have happened, and they make a lot of trouble about it. There is an outcry if a politician decides
to change something and nobody is happy with it. Everybody's complaining, it's an outcry about
that politician's decision, okay? If something is outdated, it's sort of old
fashioned. It's not really relevant anymore, it's outdated. The date has gone by. It's from ten years ago, or 100 years ago. It's outdated. A fashion, for example, could be outdated
if people don't wear that style of clothes anymore, it belongs to a previous period in
history, it's outdated, okay? To outdo somebody is to do better than them. So, this is if you're competitive. If you're trying to better than somebody else,
you're trying to outdo them. In sport, for example, people are always trying
to win. They don't want to be second, they want to
win, so they have to outdo everybody else. They have to be best at what they do, okay? An outfit is something that you wear. So, I'm wearing an outfit, a combination of
clothes in an outfit, which fits - they fit, hopefully. They're not too big or too small, it means
they fit. An outfit, okay? If a person is outgoing, it means they're
friendly and chatty and they talk to everybody. They're nice to everyone, they're interested
in other people. They're not too shy, they're outgoing. Outgoing, right. They communicate well. An outlook. You can have an outlook - if you just look
through a window to the outside of a building, the outlook is what you see through the window. But this can also be used metaphorically to
mean the way you see things. Your attitude to something, your outlook. Whether you're a positive person or a negative
person, for example. If someone has a positive outlook on life,
for example, they have an attitude which is very optimistic, okay? Positive. A positive outlook. Right. To outnumber. If you have two groups of people, maybe one
group of people - there are ten people there, and the other group, there are 20 people. So, ten in one group, 20 in the other group. So, the group of 20 outnumbers the group of
ten. It just means there are more, more people
or more of whatever it is. Outnumber. If you go somewhere and there may be a fight
or something, and you might say, "We're outnumbered, I'm not staying here to get beaten up. I'm going, we're outnumbered. We can't possibly fight these people. There are more of them than there are of us. We are outnumbered." Okay, so that's what that means. Output means production, for example, from
a factory. The output from a factory. How many items are produced in an hour or
in a day or a week. The output. The things that you put out of the factory,
you create them, you manufacture them and they go out to be sold. Okay. And then finally on this column, an outing
is when you go out somewhere for the day. To the seaside, something like that. We went for an outing yesterday to the seaside. Okay. So just going out is an outing. Okay. Right, so those are the words with verbs attached. And now, we have a few phrases to look at. So, if you speak out loud, or read out loud,
or sometimes aloud, instead of out loud, it could be aloud. It means you speak with your voice, or you
read from a book. You don't just read quietly to yourself, you
read the words from the book, maybe for somebody else to hear, okay. So, you read out loud. Speaking, of course, when you speak, you're
using your voice. But, if you speak very quietly, it's not really
out loud. But if you speak much more like this, it's
speaking out loud. It's louder, okay. Right. So then, just simply, a night out is just
going out for the night rather than staying at home. If you say before the week is out, it means
before the week is finished, or before the month is out, before the year is out. So, before the end of whatever it is, week
or month or year. Before the week is out, we must hold that
meeting with that customer before the week is out. We can't leave it any longer. So, before the end of the week, it means. Okay. So, then, if you're out in your calculations,
you've done some figures, some calculations, but you haven't calculated it correctly and
the figures don't add up properly. You're out in your calculations. You have miscalculated. So, you have miscalculated, okay. You have to recalculate, maybe use a calculator,
a little machine, to do the figures for you, to get it right, okay, if you're out. It's not correct, okay? If you do a test and you get 9 out of 10,
you got nine answers right, but one was wrong. You didn't get full marks, ten of out of ten
is called full marks. So, you got 9 out of 10, you didn't quite
get full marks, which would be ten out of ten, okay. Okay, and then, at home if you say, "Oh, we're
out of milk", or we're out of bread, it means we don't have any. There's none at all. Someone has to go out and buy some. We're out of milk. We're completely out of milk, okay. And then the word "out" can be used in various
sports, if it's the kind of sport where you do something wrong, you make a mistake, and
then you're out, you're finished, you can't carry on playing, you can't continue playing. You're out. So, in cricket, for example, if you want to
look at our lesson on cricket and cricketing vocabulary and idioms. In tennis, also, if you hit the ball and the
ball is out, it means it's outside the court, the tennis court, where the lines are drawn. So, you lose a point. So, "out" is used in sport in different ways,
usually when you've made a mistake, okay? If something is out of date, it's a bit like
what we had here, outdated. Very similar. It's out of date. That style of clothes is out of date. It's old, old style, old fashioned. Okay. And then finally, in this half of the lesson,
outer space means - here's the planet Earth. So, out here is the space. There's the moon, maybe, that's the moon there. All the space around in the universe is outer
space. It's out there, because we are here and the
space is out there, so it's outer space, okay? Right. So, we'll move on now to the second part of
the lesson and I have a test for you. Okay, so here's the test for you. Here are some sentences with some gaps and
in the gap is a word that includes the word "out", okay, which we covered in the first
half of the lesson. So, I'll just read these through first, and
then we'll go back over it. So: What was the ________ of yesterday's meeting? You've got 10 __ __ 10 in that test! To progress in life, you need to have a positive
_________. We enjoyed an ________ to the seaside last
summer. I've just checked the car and it's completely
____ ___ petrol! Our new friend is a really kind, open, and
________ person. I wasn't talking to myself, I was reading
_____ _____. Okay, so you probably have some ideas already
for those gaps, so let's have a look. So, what was the ______, this means the result
of yesterday's meeting, what's the word beginning "out" that means "result"? So, what was the outcome, the outcome, the
result of, okay? The outcome of yesterday's meeting. Okay, and then the test, you got full marks,
well done. You got 10 ___ __ 10 in that test. Do you remember? So, "out" is one of them. 10 out of 10, okay, 10 out of 10, good. Next one: To progress in life, you need to
have a positive out - do you remember this word? You need to have a positive outlook. Okay, good. Next one: We enjoyed an ______ to the seaside
last summer. So, it obviously begins "out" - an outing,
okay? We enjoyed an outing, a trip to the seaside
last summer. Okay? Next one: I've just checked the car and it's
completely ____ __ petrol! Meaning there is no petrol in the car, so
it's completely out of petrol. Okay? Next one: Our new friend is a really kind,
open, and _______ person. So, obviously it begins "out". What's the rest of the word? If they're very kind, open, and outgoing person. Outgoing, friendly, open, outgoing. Okay? And then finally, somebody says, "Oh, you
were talking to yourself, that's funny!" And you say, "No, I wasn't. I wasn't talking to myself, I was reading
____ ____." I was reading out - do you remember the other
word that goes with that? Reading out loud. Reading out loud. Not reading quietly to yourself, but speaking
the words from the book. Reading out loud. Okay, so I hope you enjoyed doing that test,
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