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hello and welcome to kangaroo of English I'm Christian I'm Sandra and today we are going to be studying articles everything you wanted to know about articles ok how are you I'm good tell me about your favorite food ok this is a difficult question really good I don't like come up and you know it we can say you're busting fussy means you only like specific things pizza ok and what what do you like on your pizza damn um because Jam is long as like yes um cheese mozzarella Luna okay a lot of things well that sounds like the perfect pizza so today we're going to study articles how do you feel about your articles yes ok well today we will revise to make sure that you feel 100% about your art I need I need to revise perfect all right well let's go where now let's go and study today we are studying articles okay okay and the first one we are going to study is the indefinite article indefinite article so what what are the indefinite articles in English dunno I don't remember okay so so the indefinite article article is aa or um okay the indefinite article is used to introduce something into a conversation or to talk about something not specific okay okay so when when do we use our and when do we use an I use an when the next war first with our vocal vowel that one yeah so so this is a general rule exactly so so you would say a plus consonant an N plus a vowel so for example you would say ah dog but you would say and ends right but this is not the the spelling this is the pronunciation okay so for example if we have the word University do we use uh one and okay no because in the word University the sound the pronunciation is University so it starts with year yeah and here is a consonant so the correct is actually our university okay when we decide to use art or an we don't look at the we don't look at the spelling we we listen to the pronunciation of the word okay okay so for example another words s OS do we use out one okay so we have s right but what's the what's the pronunciation if we listen to the if we listen to the word it's s OS so the sound is s so it starts with ease thinking about this yeah exactly so the correct is and SOS okay okay yeah but but listen words words like this like university SOS there are a small quantity so normally okay plus consonant plus vowel and no problems another thing about the indefinite article is that we only use it before singular nouns so for example we'd say our dog but would we say dogs like for example um I have I have a dog or I have a dogs is this it is correct this is mistake because is a plural uh-huh so ah is one exactly very good so the core it is this exactly so if we have a plural we have no article or you could use some okay or a few something like this so aren't only for singular and also only for countable nouns sure I forget exactly very good Sandra I have a sugar no because sugar is uncountable so in this case no you could say I have a bag of sugar yes because you can count bags one bag two bags but sugar one sugars two sugars or if I say for example I have a car or hi so what's the difference between I have a car and I have one car because this is singular and this is singular what's the difference I don't know very well but could be that I have a car is my car and I have one car you are saying that you have only one car with this type of sentence you can have two or more car yes well that that is sort of correct basically yes because if we use our or one technically they're the same because they're both singular but the difference is that this is to emphasize the quantity yes so we would we would only use one to emphasize the quantity if you say I would like one coffee or I have one dog it's it's to emphasize the quantity it doesn't sound natural okay so the our on is is preferred the next part is the definite article so the definite article in English only one which is D okay so your pronunciation okay is like D okay but in English the THF to stick out your tongue yeah okay this is it yes perfectly the the excellent okay so yes that and this is easy because you can use this for plurals for singular before consonants before there are vowels for everything okay and we use the definite article when we refer to a specific thing or if we know the thing okay so for example I went to a restaurant or I went to the this is a H I went to the restaurant so what what is the difference between the two the difference is that in this sentence you are saying where is where or what is the restaurant and in this you don't specific what is the restaurant that you went exactly exactly so our restaurant is any restaurant it could be a restaurant that you know or you don't know a restaurant not specific but this one yes if I say the restaurant maybe we talked about the restaurant before in the conversation or maybe I know the restaurant okay it's a specific place now the the final article in English is called the zero article and the zero article is there's no no article like for example in in some European languages like Spanish you would say I like the football for example yeah but in English no okay if it's if it's um if this is like a concept or an idea something abstract then we use the zero article so nothing so I like football or for example I want peace I want peace in the world so peace is something abstract it's a concept an idea so in this case of no article when we when we talk about geographic geographical locations so for example why do you say for example I like America but I like the United States so why here we have no article and here we have ever it's the same thing the reason is that in this name here we have a noun okay so if we have a noun in the name we put an article though the name the name contains a ok so you would say for example I like Spain good or I like the Canary Islands because Islands is a noun in the name well so how do you feel now about our and the and the zero article you feel good you understand okay perfect well I think we will we will play a game to practice our okay so now we are going to practice our articles okay so I have a magazine okay magazine see with um Prince William and Kate of course you know very English and this has all the gossip and everything you need to make your life complete choose a picture from here any big truck okay okay yes for you okay oh okay so don't show me the picture hey so you keep the pic don't show me okay now you're going to you're going to describe the picture and I'm going to draw so you have to use your articles yes so the first time you introduce something maybe you could say there is a girl and then you can say the girl has because now I know the girl so this is to practice your article so okay describe okay there are three girls three girls okay and the first girl see the first girl so she's saying the third because we know there are three girls very good okay the first girl is tall okay tall and she has short and curly hair curly curly okay so she's very tall okay yeah curly hair okay yeah she has a lawn pains Thanks Oh pants pants pants um yeah trousers you mean okay - your long trousers yeah it's better better to say trousers because I'm in in England pants are Underpants okay okay okay but in in other countries like in America pants or trousers sir okay yeah and the second girl mmm okay and what about the top the top half what is she wearing on the top it's a different type of trousers because the top is the same is with the trousers oh okay so you may send off clothes it's a combination top and trousers yes what these are the same clothes oh oh okay the same clothes okay okay and the second girl is wearing a red dress see a red dress because we don't know the dress is it this and at the moment it's not a specific dress okay so tell me about the dress is this girl tall or short it's told oh okay what taller than the other girl or this is very similar okay versamark yeah the dress is behind us the dress is behind to the I don't remember this part of the body and nice knees are here your knees yeah okay yeah yes are you minutes to the knees to the knees or you could say knee length any length under maybe ah below low the knees okay below the knees and the third Gill the third girl not a third girl is told to like the other girls okay so okay and has a long hair okay long hair like blonde hair long blonde hair yeah like shoulder shoulder length hmm more on longer longer okay longer than the shoulder okay she's wearing a dress sure but shorter than the other okay okay good see when we also were also practicing our comparatives is very good very good she's wearing a jacket she's wearing odd jackets good not the jacket okay a jacket okay let me put the jacket on her and a pair of sandals sand the second girl is wearing a pair of shoes shoes clothes shoes clothes shoes very good and the first girl I can't see okay issues okay well I think I think my drawing is perfect what what what do you think it's it's identical right it's like it's like it's like a copy like a photocopy maybe but I don't know if you can via artist I am an artist damnit I'm an artist so so this is this is a great way for you to practice your your articles at home too to describe pictures and also you can produce beautiful artwork for your house as well so I want you to I want you to take this away and hang this angrist in your house what is it this in my bedroom well that was the class about articles so how do you feel about your articles now no what yes yeah I remember a lot of things that I can't remember the song good okay excellent excellent well um if you would like to see any more classes about grammar pronunciation vocabulary motivation then don't forget to subscribe to kangaroo English thank you very much for coming senator thank you for my English class no problems and we'll see you in class yeah

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Length: 17min 16sec (1036 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 17 2015