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Hey hey. My name is Molly and in this video we will be talking about the

difference between fun and funny.

Now my students are always getting these two

words confused and today we are gonna fix that problem.

Let's look at the board

Our first word is fun. Now fun can be used as an adjective or a noun.

it means you enjoy yourself and you have a good time.

Maybe you go to the pool friends on

a nice day. You had a good time. You had fun.

Let's look at our second word funny.

Funny has two meanings and it can be used as an adjective.

The first meaning is it makes you laugh hahaha okay? Your friend tells a funny joke and the

joke is funny. Okay?

Our second less common meaning is it's strange.

Something is a little strange. So let's keep practicing and look at some examples.

Now, I'm going to tell you about a party I went to last weekend.

The party was fun.

I had a good time.

I had a lot of fun.

Now the first fun is used as an adjective

and in the second sentence it's used as a noun.

They both mean the same thing.

That I had a good time.

Next funny has a different meaning

John was funny.

John told a joke and I laughed hahaha.

He is a funny guy.

Next, he smelled funny.

Now remember there's two meanings to funny.

Laughing like hahaha and funny like strange.

He smelled funny.

He smelled a little strange.

So let's keep practicing with some more examples.

Let's do some sentences together and we'll choose fun or funny.

Playing a game is fun or funny?

You're playing a board game or a computer game with your family.

You're having a good time.

Playing a game is fun.

A comedian is fun or funny?

A comedian is someone who makes you laugh ha ha ha.

He's telling some good jokes.

He is funny.

Have a good time at the beach.

I want you to have a good time.

Have fun at the beach.

His hat looks fun or funny?

His hat looks funny.

Now funny can have two meanings.

Funny like laughing ha ha ha or funny like strange.

His hat looks funny.

Now you know the difference between fun and funny.

I'll see you next time

Hello my name is Esther and in this video we're going to talk about how to

use the word borrow or lend me well when do we use this word well let me give you

an example let's say that you're taking a test and you look in your bag and oh

oh you forgot your pencil so what do you do you have to ask someone next to you

or maybe a friend to let them use your pencil and a mistake that a lot of

people make is they say can you borrow me your pencil but that's actually wrong

don't say that don't say can you borrow me your pencil

the actual way to say it goes like this let's look at an example sentence can I

borrow your pencil that's the correct way to say it can I borrow your pencil

okay another way that you can say is can you lend me your pencil let's look at it

again can you lend me your pencil now both of these ways are okay and they're

both correct and right but I think this one is a better way to say it again

let's remember it's not can you borrow me okay don't say that say this can I

borrow your pencil let's look at a couple more examples sentences is it

okay if I borrow your book is it okay if I borrow your book may I borrow some

money may I borrow some money can I borrow your umbrella can I borrow your

umbrella can you lend me your ear a sir can you lend me your ear a sir

would you lend me your book would you lend me your book please lend me a pen

please lend me a pen all right now in the beginning of the

video I taught you to say can I borrow something can I borrow your pencil but

actually there's a more polite way to say this and that is by saying may I

borrow something from you you should use may I when you're talking to someone you

don't know very well maybe it's a complete stranger or maybe you know that

person but you guys aren't really close friends it's better to use may I

so again may I borrow something for example may I borrow your pen or may I

borrow your phone or maybe like I said in the example in the beginning may I

borrow your pencil or eraser okay well that's it for today I hope you guys

learned something and I'll see you guys next time bye

hello everyone my name is Robin and in this video I'm going to talk about two

expressions that describe how people use or control money one is positive and one

is negative alright so these two adjectives the first one we're going to

talk about is stingy okay now let's focus on the pronunciation

first stingy a lot of my students mistakenly say sting II okay you got to

be very careful it is pronounced stingy and what this stingy mean well someone

who is stingy they don't like to spend money they don't like to share money

okay they are very greedy they are not generous they are exactly like Scrooge

you may have you may have heard or know about Scrooge he is a very stingy guy he

does not want to share any of his money all right so to help us understand

stingy a little bit better let's look at a few examples sentences okay so the

first example for stingy he doesn't want to give his son bus money he is stingy

all right so yeah this father doesn't want to give his son any bus money okay

that's a very stingy guy let's look at the next example I was so thirsty but my

sister wouldn't buy me water she's stingy okay again my sister very

bad I'm so thirsty but she wouldn't buy me even water yeah she's very stingy

okay so we just saw some examples of stingy I hope you are not stingy it's a

very negative word to call someone but there is a positive word and that's our

next word that word is frugal now listen to the pronunciation frugal okay so a

person who is frugal they don't like to waste money all right they like to say

money or keep their money and control their money very well so for example

someone goes to the market to buy some items or some things they probably going

to buy the cheaper items okay they don't like to waste money on brand names or

expensive items okay so people who like to spend less money for things to save

money they are frugal all right so let's take a look at a few examples to

understand frugal okay let's look at the first example for frugal my father

usually takes the bus to work instead of driving he is frugal so yeah the father

takes the bus instead of driving so he's probably saving money on the oil price

he's a very frugal guy let's look at the next example my sister always uses

coupons when she buys something at the store she is frugal okay so she's always

using coupons to save money she's very frugal alright so those were

the examples of frugal okay so again stingy is negative so if you say to

someone oh you are stingy okay it's a very negative thing that person doesn't

want to share their money they just want to keep their money but on the other

hand if you say to someone oh you are quite frugal okay that's kind of a

compliment meaning they are good at controlling their money and not wasting

money all right so that's it and see you next time

hello everyone my name is Robin and in this video I'm gonna talk about

adjectives to describe someone's body shape related to their weight okay

whether someone is very big fat or thin and small okay now some of these words

are positive the very nice things to say and some of these words are negative

very bad things to say about someone's body shape let's take a look now first

I'm gonna focus on the smaller adjectives describing smaller bodies and

I'm gonna make a sentence he is she is okay

these are words to describe so I must say he is she is so let's start with

this one he is average he is average and of

course average just means normal whatever is normal for your society that

is average he is average she is average now we're getting smaller slender and

thin okay these are very positive she is slender she is thin okay that's a

nice body shape very nice weight nice body

she is slender she is thin the next one skinny okay this is getting a little bit

negative some people it's positive but it's a little bit negative okay to call

someone skinny she is skinny might be a good thing for the woman she's very

happy but for a man he is skinny maybe that's not so good for a man he is

skinny okay that's too thin that's too thin getting getting smaller here Boni

he is boney bony is definitely a negative word boney we can see too many

bones okay we look at their body and we can see bones so we would oh he is boney

okay he should gain weight or he should eat more food the last one is the worst

one this is actually a mental sickness okay if I said she is anorexic

anorexic is a very negative thing so people who are anorexic because of their

mental sickness they eat and then they go to the toilet to throw up

all right so anorexic people are very bony they look very sick they look very

unhealthy they're underweight they're too small

okay that's anorexic alright so again average slender thin these are positive

these are okay skinny can be positive negative bony and a Rexach too small too

too thin these are negative let's move on to the larger sizes okay here are the

large adjectives now we're going to start from average again average is the

same normal and let's get a little bigger

now the next two chubby and plump all right chubby and plump are actually

positive ways to say someone is a little fat just a little fat like a baby might

be plump or your cute girlfriend is chubby or a little boy is chubby okay so

it's a very positive way to say just a little bit of fat okay

plump or chubby he or she is heavy okay get starting to get negative he is

heavy oh he's a heavy guy she's a heavy woman getting up overweight that is

certainly negative he is overweight she is overweight and then we get to fat she

is fat okay nobody wants to be called fat but you would say he is fat okay

maybe that's a very rude or impolite thing to say someone you are fat and the

top one here obese okay obese obese is the technical term

for fat okay now he is obese she is obese again and just means fat but if

you call someone obese that's the that's the fattest you can get okay

he is obese so of course in America they have many people who are obese if you go

there you can see a lot of big people a lot of overweight fat and obese people

all right so here are many adjectives to describe the body shape in relation to

weight some of them are positive a lot of them are negative be careful anyway

that's it for this video see you next time

hi this is Bill and right now I'm gonna help you with your understanding of a

word now well that word is free and it's a very short word very easy word but it

has a lot of different meanings and well right now I want to talk to you about

how the word free is used in a sentence because where the word free is can

change the meaning of the sentence a lot okay now if we just look here at what

I've got written on the board now just two little phrases here and it's the

same words see free and alcohol both times what the meaning is very different

see up here if we put the word free in front of the word then like here free

alcohol that means the alcohol is free and you

do not pay money for alcohol if you see a sign free alcohol that means you go

and you get alcohol you don't give money the alcohol is free free alcohol don't

have to pay money it's a good thing now down here though we have alcohol free

that means there is no alcohol okay there's no alcohol in the drink so you

can say coca-cola is a alcohol free drink because there's no alcohol in the

cola another example here is maybe there's a sign that says free kittens

free kittens so that means if you want to take a kitten home for a pet you do