The Most Common & Confusing HOMOPHONES: ENGLISH LESSON

hello and welcome again to English like a native with me Anna English seems you've been having some computer problems today so hopefully this stream will run unaffected and if it does get fected I'm so sorry so fingers crossed we can do the lesson without any further problems so if you are just joining for the first time this is a lesson on the most common and most confusing homophones yes homophones can be difficult even for us natives now if you are unsure what a homophone is then let's get straight into it and explain so as always I've made some notes and we're going to jump straight over to those now so a homophone a homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and sometimes a different spelling in fact in the cases that we're going to cover today most of them have a different spelling so a homophone is a word that sounds exactly the same as another word but it has a different meaning and usually a different spelling so here is an example the example rose rose and you'll see I've put next to the word the phonetic spelling so for those of you who know phonetics this is how you spell the phonetic version and a rose can either be a flower so a beautiful flower we tend to have a lot of roses here in the UK and they are they can be very romantic to get a red rose is a very romantic gesture if you give someone a red rose it usually means you love them and it can also be the past tense of the verb rise so I would say I rose this morning at 6 a.m. which is very early ok so let's move straight into it I have already covered these once but I'll go over them again for those people who are just joining so firstly we have the words they're there and they're three words that I'm always asked the pronunciation of and the short of it is the pronunciation for all three is exactly the same so we have there very simply there there the first version there is location so you might ask where are my keys and I would say they are over there so there is a location that is away from you is over there there and then the second version of the word there is a pronoun and I would use this pronoun when talking about other people so for example you might say where are your friends and I would say they are on their way they are on their way okay and the last version of the word there is a contraction of they are they are so you'll notice in the last sentence I said they are on their way but I could say they're on their way they're on their way or I could say they're here they just arrived they're here they are here so they're there and they're all exactly the same so it's super important that you really think about which version you're using when you are writing in English when you're speaking of course it doesn't matter because they all sound the same but when you are writing that's when it becomes important which version are you using location are you using the pronoun or the contraction there so make sure you write the correct version now another one which is commonly used and I commonly see a mistake in writing is the is the homophones your your so the first one is a pronoun your that is your coat here he are yeah what's that here you are here you are this is your coat isn't it oh no that's not my coat I thought that was your coat no it's not my coat so your or you could use your meaning the contraction of you are the contraction of you are so I might say where are you going sorry so yes I would say where are you going and you would say I'm going to a party and you're coming with me am i how exciting I would love to go to a party with you good because you're coming with me I told you all right so you're the contraction of you are is exactly the same as your the pronoun your your notice that we don't curl into the are in that we don't say you're just the vowel or your okay so I have quite a few of you back in with me thank you for rejoining me sorry about that little technical hiccup these things happen and hopefully you are receiving me loud and clear without any further problems so we have also the homophones 2 2 & 2 so the 3 homophones all pronounced to two very very simple and the first one I would say is one of the most common words and that is the preposition to now there are lots of different ways to use this word but I've just basically put it as preposition to indicate or sorry or to indicate the infinitive when before a verb so I'd like to go I'd like to eat I have to walk I have to work I have to ride my horse I have to feed my camel I don't know why I'm saying strange things but yes to indicate the infinitive just before a verb or preposition I'm going to town I'm going to Mexico I'm going to Brazil so - nice and easy and then we have the number 2 spelt T wo - which is very very easy one two three and then we have this one which a lot of natives struggle with in fact so if you can learn to use this version of two then you are doing a lot better than many natives I promise you so two can be used like the word also so if I said to you I really like cheese I really like cheese you could say yes I do too I do also I really like speaking to you during my live lessons and you can say I like your live lessons - I like your life lessons also so - with double-o means also and it can also mean excessive so I could say to you you you speak too loudly or you're speaking too loud oh please quieten down you're speaking too loud you're speaking excessively loud or many of you have said to me Anna I like your live lessons but you are too quiet you are excessively quiet please sort it out and think of another example I I can't see you today because I am too busy I'm excessively busy so try to remember that one because you will be you will be further ahead of most natives when using the English language if you can remember that - meaning also or excessive is spelt with two O's t oo okay fabulous let's move on hello hello to my patrons I hope you're still here with me some of you chatting in the chat room I'll come over to you in a minute so the next ones we're going to look at are here and here here it's a diphthong ear ear and then we have this lovely aspirate H some of you depending on your language might constrict the H but we don't do that in English we make it nice and aspirated so a sound here hi hello come here here I can't hear you so of course we have here spelled h ER e and that is the location so it's exactly where I am right now it's this location I am sat right here where are you you're not here but some of you are here in the chat room you're just not here in my office in my studio and then we have the other version of here which is to indicate listening so it's the verb for listening can you hear me yes I can hear you I can hear you loud and clear I can hear loud and clear and hopefully with this microphone right here you will be able to hear me properly so my microphone is here in this location and I hope it means you can hear me properly let me know if you can't I am going to get a new microphone at some point soon I promise one that actually looks nice and has good volume levels and isn't about to fall off like this one okay so the next one that we have is the homophones bye bye and there's three versions of this word so we have bye bye and bye so the first one is a preposition and again it indicates location most of the time there are other there are other uses for word by but usually we think of it as a preposition so Bernard sat by Benjamin bernhard sat by benjamin kind of means next to by if I'm driving and I'm on my headphones talking to my friend and she says oh you're quite close to me why don't you stop by or why don't you drive by and say hello and I got ok I will drive by and I will park by your house and I will come and see you so by as a preposition and then you have the word bye meaning to purchase I I drove by the shops and I stopped to buy some groceries I drove by the shops on the way home and I stopped to buy some groceries and then when I finished shopping I said bye to the shopkeeper so bye in this sense basically is a leaving statement it's like saying goodbye goodbye so bye bye and bye so just one more time I drove by preposition to be next to I drove by the shops I stopped to buy to purchase some groceries and when I finished I said bye ok fabulous hello Tasha you're doing a fabulous job there in the chat room typing down some of the things that I've written thank you very much that's really great so if you have any problems with this please do let me know and I'll try to explain it again to make sure that you don't that you don't find anything too difficult ok so the next set of homophones that were looking at on know and know lots of people asked me about the problem the pronunciation of this and the answer is they sound exactly the same it's a very simple diphthong sound with a nasal mmm no look how my lips move no no no no I don't know no oh I don't know there are many things I don't know but hopefully I'm learning so no in this sense obviously means to have knowledge if you know something you have knowledge of it and then also we have the word know which can mean many things but generally it's the negative response I'm sure all of you know what the word no means yes no so no and no nice and simple now the next one so the sack Bo has just said what is the difference between bi and bi in terms of pronunciation so sack Bo the whole point of this lesson is that these words all sound exactly the same they are exactly the same in sound in pronunciation which makes them homophones a homophone is a word or group of words that sound exactly the same but have different meanings and different spellings in some cases okay so the next one that we're moving on to the next set of homophones is stare stare so we have two versions here stare and stare stare and stare so the word stare in this sense means a long fixed look so if I look at you and I continue to look at you like this you would say why are you staring at me stop staring at me Anna it's making me feel weird you're creeping me out you might say you're creeping me out oh I'm staring and then the other version of the words stare smelts like this you normally see it with an S on the end so you normally hear stairs stairs with a Zed sound stairs and this is a set of steps that takes you to the next level in a building so if I walk into a house and I want to go up to the next level I normally have to walk up the stairs so I walk up the stairs and stare at the person sitting in the bedroom what are you doing in the bedroom get out go to work okay so stairs and stair okay nice and easy I think all right so the next one we have o'the iego thank you so much so the AYGO has just dropped a super check contribution to this community and written god save the queen Thank You Thea go that is very very kind of you very much appreciated and don't forget anybody who drop drops a super chat contribution so the AYGO Ella and Julia who dropped soup chats previously before the before it failed you are all entitled to a copy of these notes that I've written so just email me and ask for the notes that you want and I will send them to you okay so the next ones we have are weather and weather weather let's look at the pronunciation of this one it can be tricky we have the W which is rounded lips what wet wet and then th tongue out the wet the weather weather and the first version of the word weather we talk about this a lot here in the UK we're talking about the atmospheric state so we're talking about it's sunny it's raining it's windy at the moment in fact the weather in the UK is very nice yesterday it was terrible rain we even had floods it was so bad but today is beautiful sunshine and quite hot in temperature so weather then we have the other version of the word weather with a WH and this is a conjunction to indicate choice so I would say to you whether you decide to come home now or come home later I will be here whether you decide to come home now or come home later I will be here okay so weather and weather all right so the next one is a homophone that even I struggle with and I this is a very difficult one I think in general and this is the one effect and effect now based on the basic versions of these are quite simple to remember effect basically it's a verb it indicates influence influence so I might say if you speak loudly it will affect everybody else in the room if you speak loudly it will affect everybody else in the room so it's to have an influence on is to have an influence on someone and the word effect is a noun and it's the outcome so you will most commonly hear this word when we're talking about medicine or treatment medical treatment because we talk about side effects side effects or if you work in media you might talk about sound effects or lighting effects if you work in media or in the theatre then the effect is the noun it's the thing that has been influenced the outcome of the influence so effect is the verb to influence and effect is the noun of the thing that has been influenced okay that's the easiest way to put it but there are some much more complicated versions of these words which I won't go into now I think need a completely separate video to help explain them clearly but yes I definitely learned something while looking into these two difficult words so the next one we're going to look at then is stationary and stationary stationary and stationary both exactly the same pronunciation and sorry just to go back these words the beginning letter becomes a schwa when it's spoken in a sentence it becomes a affect affect and affect both the same alright so stationary if we spell it with an a stationary then it's something that's not moving normally it refers to vehicles so you could say the train was stationary in the station or the car was stationary at the time it didn't it wasn't moving at the time of the accident the car was stationary and then we also have the word stationary spelt with an e here so you have the e here stationary this in this sense means office or writing materials so things like paper pens sellotape tippex a hole punch a ruler so stationary okay I think that's pretty straightforward okay so moving on to want two words that are I commonly see mistaken when written down are the words are are now in some cases this word is pronounced differently in some cases and you can use either version so some people will say our our our they use diphthong our and in some cases you might hear the same person also use the version our long vowel are and when they use that version it's a homophone R and R so the first are spelt ar e is the present tense form of the verb to be so we are we are happy we are here we are friends we are learning nice open vowel notice that we don't roll into the R sound at all the letter R so we don't do our it's just an open long vowel we are here and then the other version oh you are is an adjective it's the plural possessive form of we so basically you say that's our house that's our house and this is our office these are our bears if I'm talking about me and another person these are our bears these are our children this is our job this is what we do okay nice and simple sky says oMG I've misspelled the word stationary sky don't worried you know I'm sure that when I taught the classroom lesson I think I may have misspelled stationery as well so you know this is what I mean these are so commonly mistaken even with natives so don't you worry yourself don't you worry your pretty little head that's a phrase that I use quite a lot don't you worry your pretty little head Oh mal says what about our so when you have that's an interesting one Ashley so when you have this word with this word when you have the other version of the pronunciation hour then it sounds like this hour yes it's a really good point I'm going to remove it for now but yes okay so the next one is complement complement and this is another one that I probably misspelled sometimes so when it's built with an I completely complement complement it means to say something nice and like for example you guys sometimes send me a lot of compliments during the lesson so I'll get lots of very nice things written in the comments box and it's always it nice to hear some of the nice things that you have to say saying that you enjoyed the lesson that you think I'm a good teacher that you learnt a lot and you are complimenting me you give me a compliment so to compliment is to say something nice about someone or something you might compliment food so say all this food tastes great that's complimenting the food to say something nice okay and when you come when something complements and something complements something else so when it start with an e it means it goes well with so you might say Anna that top complements your hair color that top goes well with the color of your hair you might say that lipstick complements your top so they go well together they work well together I might even refer to people in that way I might say you complement each other meaning that you work well together you can't and they complement each other very well so they work together very well okay so complement and complement both exactly the same pronunciation about different spellings and slightly different meanings patrons are you okay you're very quiet how are you finding this lesson easy or are you learning something that you didn't know before always good to know so the next one we have is red red red and red now red this one is the past tense of read interesting that isn't it they're the same spellings but different pronunciations that makes it a different type of word which we'll cover in another lesson but here red is the past tense of read and we're talking about when you're looking at an understanding the written word so you read books you read magazines you read other people's writing you might read a lesson you might read subtitles so you read and then in the past tense it is read when you've done it in the past and that sounds exactly the same as this word red which is the color so red and red very confusing and the only way you really know what someone me is through the context so you'll know through the context so the next homophone is course course and we have two versions here course and course this version of the word means rough or not smooth so if I had a beard and that means to have hair on my face if I had a beard it would be strange because I'm a lady and ladies generally don't have beards some do but usually a beard is something a man has if he then shaved off his beard he cuts off his beard a shaves and then it grows back a little bit and you rub his skin his skin might feel course it would feel rough not smooth so his skin might feel coarse horse okay and the other version of the word course there are a few different versions of it meanings for it but course would generally mean a root so you could say a racecourse is a place which where you go round and round round a racecourse or you could say which course did you go which course did you go over and it's a set root it's a set way to drive or to walk or to run so if I'm running in a marathon for example there will be a set course a set route that I have to go on and then course can also mean like the learning process the the academic arrangement a course you sign up for a course you start your course you learn on your course and then you end the course usually with an exam and hopefully you'll pass the course so course and course ok so the next homophone were looking at is peace peace not as commonly confused but I thought I'd add it in anyway this version of course means calm harmonious and quiet it can mean to not to be at war to be at peace we use peace when we're talking about someone who's died we'd say rest in peace so have calm quiets rest in peace and yes if you are if you're a mum and you have lots of children or you're a teacher and there's lots of children being very noisy you might put your hands over your ears and say please can I have some peace and quiet meaning can you just be quiet I've got a headache can I have some peace and quiet I need some peace and quiet oh I love the peace and quiet and then the other version of the word of course is this version and it means a section a fragment of the whole so the first example that comes to mind is a piece of cake and a piece of cake is also an idiom which means something is very easy it's a piece of cake so it's not the whole cake it's just one piece all right so peace and peace so Hassan I said please upload this video I'm going to work don't worry if you can't stay for the whole lesson this lesson will stay on the channel as a recorded video so as we're live now it's being recorded and it will stay on the channel so you can go back and repeat the lesson if you miss something or pick the lesson up whenever you have time so don't panic and have a good day at work all right so let's carry on if you have questions save them for the end and I'll help you at the end so the next one is hol hol now the first version of the word with the W this W is obviously silent we just start with the aspirin H whole and whole means entire or all of so for example one of my viewers who I hope is still watching now often talks about the entire day so he might say I spent the entire day working but what he would say is I spent the whole the whole the day the whole the day and what he should say is I spent the whole day I spent the entire day I spent the whole day working so think of whole meaning and tire I spent the whole day working I spent the whole day trying to solve a problem I spent the whole day sleeping I spent the whole day relaxing or you could say all of the day I spent all of the day relaxing I spent all of the day sleeping so when we say all of we savor but when we use whole or entire we just remove the and say day spent the whole day sleeping or you might talk about a car journey we spent the whole journey talking we spent the whole journey singing okay hopefully that makes sense the other version of the word hole hole is a hollow place so I hope that I will never get a hole in my top but if I catch it on something and it rips then there will be a hole there is a hole in the top of my escapes the hole is where I put my foot my foot goes in the hole in my shoe or in my skate okay I have a hole in my ear I have a hole up my nose okay so hole very simply a hollow place now these two can be quite confusing currently they both have a schwa beginning so a schwa is this sound uh and we say except except and so it can be confusing which version do we use to except with an ass sound ah we do use a schwa when we're actually talking but the accents with an app means to receive to receive to have to take so you might say I accept your invitation I will I will go I accept your invitation or if someone apologizes and says I'm so sorry that I upset you you say I accept your apology I accept your apology I will receive it I will acknowledge it okay I accept your apology stop worrying or you could accept a delivery if a postman comes around it goes do do not knock hello I've got um I've got a package here I've got a package here for for Miss Anna English is that you and I'll say oh yes that's me and I accept the delivery from the postman say thank you very much mr. postman bye so I accept I receive if you use the word accept with an e X at the beginning that means to exclude so it's completely different as a preposition it means exclude so I could say you can all come to my you can all come to my lesson except you because you have been naughty in your in detention so you can all come to my lesson but I exclude you except you or I might say I will be live on the YouTube channel every single day except for Saturday and Sunday because I'm gonna chill out and have fun at the weekend I hope the Faline that makes sense so except is either to receive or to exclude okay so patrons you're very quiet today very very quiet anyway okay let's carry on so we have bear bear this is another one that I sometimes get confused with myself and very easily the first version of the word bear is a large mammal so in parts of America I know they have big grizzly bears only have black bears do you have bears in your country we don't have bears here in the UK apart from in special animal sanctuaries or zoos but our bears native to your country let me know the other version of the word bear the other meaning for this particular spelling is the act of holding or supporting so you might say the plant or the tree bears fruit in the springtime the tree bears fruit in the springtime so it supports it holds fruit it bears fruit sometimes you'd say the phrase I can't bear it I hear that a lot I can't bear it and that means I can't support it I can't stand it it's driving me crazy I don't like it I can't I can't support this anymore I can't bear it and then the other version of the word bear basically means naked so it means without clothes on and this might be used when you're talking about just seeing skin so I might have a sometimes I wear a vest top so you'll see that I have you can see my arms so I don't have something covering my arms and then you say she had bear arms or if you can see my legs if I have my legs exposed I would you would say she has bare legs she has bare legs okay so bear basically means to not be covered or to be naked bear all right so the next homophone how are we doing for time we've been here for 36 minutes okay all right so Tasha just to be careful bear ba our e means naked not the other way around okay but I find it confusing it confuses me all the time anyway let's carry on so aloud is the next one allowed allowed and this one this version of allowed means to say it out loud so when you're at school normally the teacher would ask you to all open your books at the same page and then she might say hey you stand up and read out read aloud to the class so she wants you to stand up and read out loud not just read quietly but read out loud to everybody what is written in the book so to read aloud to read aloud and then we have a loud meaning permission so if you are allowed to do something it means you have permission to do it so if you try to leave the class in the middle of a lesson I might say it's alright you are allowed to leave whenever you want it is all right you're allowed to leave whenever you want just make sure you press subscribe and giving this video a thumbs up but you are allowed to do whatever you want of course because it's your choice so you have permission to do whatever you want it's your choice okay so the next one we have is which which now these two are often often commented on by my my students you're often asking me about the pronunciation of these or which one is which and the first one is a pronoun we use it when referring to things or animals so for example I might say this or this is my favorite bear which I bought in in France it's not true it's just a statement but this is my favorite bear which I bought in France or this is my new hair color which I had done on Thursday again it's not true but that's what I could say and I use which as a pronoun when talking about a thing or an animal then we have where then we have which meaning when questioning choice so if you have a choice between two things I might say to you which one which one do you want which one do you want do you want this one or do you want that one so viewers which bear do you prefer do you prefer for Burnet or do you prefer engine which one is your favorite bear which which one they're both my favorites so which has questioning choice and then we also have the version of the word which is slightly different in spelling same pronunciation and it basically means a scary or nasty person usually a female usually a female of which is normally a female and in cartoons or films witches tend to have superpowers and I hate her hair no matter how long nose and warts new spots on this skin yeah and they're normally quite unpleasant looking so a which is a scary on nasty person okay all right so the next one oh that's it that's it whoa we got through it okay so and the next thing I wanted to talk to you about was the fact that homophones are often used to create puns puns now in the UK we have a we have quite a sarcastic sense of humor we also love memes and we love puns and the pun is a play on words upon is when you take a word and you you're very clever with it and you change it to create something that's entertaining so it's like a joke it's kind of like a joke but it's a play on words so playing with words using homophones so I've done some examples for you to give you an idea of what a pun actually is because it's hard to explain so here are some examples so a pun example here is one sentence that is a pun it says to write with a broken pencil is pointless to write with a broken pencil is pointless now of course the word pointless means it has no meaning it has it's it's a website it's a waste of time so pointless can mean a waste of time but pointless can also mean to not be sharp it doesn't have a sharp end it doesn't have a sharp point now I don't have a pencil but I do have a pen if this was a pencil the end here is the point it's a sharp end the point and if it's pointless that means it's blunt it has no point so that end is pointless can you see that end is pointless so I'm saying to write with a broken pencil it's a waste of time it's pointless but what I'm actually saying is it's pointless so it's supposed to be funny you see I hope everyone understands that I'm sure some people will understand it very easily and other people might still be a little bit mmm so the next part over written for you is the dead batteries were given out free of charge the dead batteries were given out free of charge now free of charge can mean without payment so if I give you something free of charge like this lesson I'm giving you this lesson free of charge it means I'm not going to charge you a fee you don't have to pay for it so it was given to you free of charge however the word charge can also mean it's a homophone and it can mean when a battery is when a battery has charged it means it's full it's ready to operate I don't know how else to explain it but a battery that's full of charge that's fully charged is ready to operate and it will work a battery that has no charge is a dead battery it doesn't work it won't operate you're whatever you want it to operate your your lights or your radio or your phone phone batteries usually die very quickly so a dead battery is free of charge that means it has no charge but also the dead batteries were given out free of charge I mean they they weren't paid for so it has two meanings you see hopefully hopefully I've explained that well I feel like I'm explaining it very very badly and the last one that I've put here for you is thought very funny the butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work so the butcher a butcher is a person a worker who works with meat so they work with meat they usually sell it and cut it cut it up for you and sell it to you so a butcher sells meat deals with and sells meat if you back up in this context it means you can reverse so you're if I back up now I back right up here so to reverse so the butcher reversed into the meat grinder the meat grinder is the machinery that cuts the meat or or I don't know how it cuts it but it all grinds the meat so it takes bits of meat off the main carcass so that you have lots of bits of meat so the butcher reversed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work got a little behind in his work now this sentence on face value means he was to get behind if something is to be late so if I get behind in my work it means I haven't kept up to time maybe I haven't hit my deadlines or maybe everyone else is ahead of me everyone else has done more work than me so I am behind in my work I'm a little behind I'm a little bit behind everybody else but the word behind is a homophone and it could also mean your bottom so the butcher backed up into the meat grinder group and he got a little bit of his behind in his work because his work is meat you get it he got a little of his behind in his work and someone probably ate it viii is bottom I thought that was very funny so hopefully hopefully you understand that one okay so those of you who've dropped a super chat you can ask me to send you these notes and I will gladly send them over to you nope problem and I'm just going to jump over to patrons what you're saying here today is a very interesting lesson so we do not spend time for writing questions okay I understand thank you I'm glad you're finding it useful or found it useful because it's now coming to an end and Eva hello yes I agree great lesson and I thank you Oh bless you guys are so sweet thank you I'm glad that you found it useful okay so I'm going to spend a few moments just quickly answering any questions that you have on homophones and then I will wrap up because I have some private lessons to do so just while I'm waiting for you to put your questions and comments into the comment box I'm going to say thank you for joining the lesson if you are new here please make sure you press subscribe and that Bell notification button which is next to subscribe to make sure that you don't miss out on future lessons I'm trying to go live at least two or three times a week if not Monday to Friday every day and I've also got some really great pre-recorded lessons coming up very soon as well so don't miss out on those and we've now hit over 200 videos on this channel so if you haven't seen them all go back and take a look if you just go into my home page and click on the video tab you'll see lots and lots of lessons there to choose from some alive some are pre-recorded some are long some are short I'm sure there's something for everyone here if you have any particular lessons that you would really like to see remember I'm not a huge fan of teaching grammar rules because natives don't know grammar rules I'd rather teach you in a different way but if you have any topics or anything you're really struggling with or words that you want the pronunciation of put it in the comments box below and if I can't answer you right now live then I will make a video about it in the future in fact I've started making a list of all the things you're suggesting and asking for and I will slowly work through that entire list Jefferson says what does a wrap-up mean to wrap something up means to end it so if I'm doing a broadcast and I say I'm wrapping up then it means I'm ending I'm going to put it to an end amel says regarding quite and quiet homophones question no so quite quite nice then that's quite and quiet different pronunciation quite quiet Shh quite quite nice quiet ight ight ight ight it can you hear the difference quite quiet explaining a joke usually kills it yes I know strong way I know I know but I think it's important that people understand what a pun is I didn't understand what puns were until I was an adult actually people tried to explain it to me but I didn't get it and it's only when I became an adult and I had to teach puns to some drama students that I understood what they actually were so sorry for killing the jokes and feel free to put your favourite puns down in the comments box below and give us all a good laugh what else do we have our so and saw homophones Arabella the word so so let's get on with today's lesson or that was so nice s oh is the same as the word s e w which is two two with a needle and thread to bring two pieces of material together to sew so I sew my clothes but sore is a different word different pronunciation different word so and so the same saw I saw you or I saw a piece of wood in half but there you go that's a homophone to saw something and I saw you that's a homophone but that has the same spelling so it's a homonym hominem hahnemann mhmm so hard these words to say I hope this video has subtitles says Russian subtitles take a little while to to arrive when it's live so maybe in a few hours there will be subtitles and if you want to do subtitles in your language you're more than welcome to contribute subtitles to any of the videos that are on my channel you just go to the video that you want to give subtitles to click on more underneath the video and add subtitles that would be amazing to have subtitles in your language would be great and really helpful difference between ambiguity and pun hmm I think you're better off looking up ambiguity in the dictionary because that's a really hard one to explain oh oh gosh so many comments just popped through of course a course on a course course would take us off course in this course very good little tongue twister you've come up with there Neve really nice could you please give examples of English humor so a pun is an example of English humor but I'll do a whole lesson on English humor because it's a big subject Anna when will you go live on verba vocal on your other channel probably around 6 o'clock I'm going live on verba so I hope you're going to join me there long so thanks a lot Anna you're welcome thanks Anna so some Sun you're welcome if you enjoyed this then please do show your appreciation by giving it a thumb and if you think anyone else would find this useful and I would say that most people would find this useful even natives would find this useful please do click that share button that's all I ask is that you help me to grow this community so that other people can benefit from free English education Watty thank you you're very welcome take care fish our nails means little iron rods yes a nail a nail is a little you nail something into the wall it's a little piece of metal ah la la lots of messages could you please say out loud a photograph photograph and the person who takes the photograph is the photographer photographer and the subject of doing photographs is photography photography so you might study Photography if you are a photographer a press pass a press pass a screen to hold hands to go mad excuse me and can you take a photo of me so you wanted some pronunciation there I hope that helped have happy birth there's a lesson on gestures and body language please ah what a great idea so good I'm going to write it in my book right this second I love it when someone comes up with a good idea so gestures body language thank you for that suggestion there you go it's number 28 on the list but I might do it sooner than 28 so you won't have to wait too long it's and it's yeah there I think I have done a video on its and its what the difference is but the pronunciation is like exactly the same and therefore they are homophones well done [Music] what is the difference Oh clarify about bear and bear so from my research bear and bear obviously both pronounced the same but you have a bear like this is a bear spelt be e ar rar bear but also to bear can mean to support or hold so I might say to you here's a common phrase bear with me bear with me I just mean hold on so just hold wait hold hold on for one moment bear with me bear with me and it's the same spelling just slightly different meanings but same spelling and then you have bear spelt be a ar e ba r e which means without cover naked yeah I'm sure there are other meanings as well but those are the main meaning so to be barefoot they walk they walk barefoot through the grass that means they have naked feet okay what else we have good dude did you can we replace me too bye I so do I or so have I yes you could say I really loved this lesson you could say me too or you could say so so so did I so did I it depends on what the sentence is but so did I would work Beshear says can you please put these words onto a sheet well I have done them well I've done the Lehtinen the lesson notes which are available to anyone who gave a super chat of course you can always go back and repeat this lesson if you forget anything well lots of people be very lovely giving me lots of nice compliments some of you joined late if you joined late please do go back and have a look at some of what we've covered in this lesson it was a very important lesson and then okay we've got some spammers in here so we're going to remove those a lesson on self introduction in different situations if relevant please yeah intro yourself yeah okay that's on the list some Shakespeare so Jasmin you want Shakespeare okay I can do Shakespeare thanks for amazing videos you're always elegant and I really get benefits from these videos to keep it up thank you it's very kind less is where you pronounce irregular verbs yes I've already 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Length: 59min 21sec (3561 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 11 2017