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Hi everybody, my name is Alisha.
Welcome to the 2000 Core English Words and Phrases video series.
Each lesson will help you learn new words, practice, and review what you've learned.
Okay, let's get started.
First is tall, tall, tall.
We use the word tall when we talk about people and buildings most commonly.
Tall is the opposite of short.
It means someone who has a lot of height or a building that has a lot of height.
Here's an example.
The boy is taller than the girl.
slim
Slim is an adjective that is another way to say thin.
So slim on a scale is kind of like a little bit more than skinny.
So if we have very, very, very thin over here being skinny, slim is like a step above that.
So a slim person looks pretty healthy and maybe they have good habits.
Here's an example.
Eating lean food can help a person stay slim.
body type
A body type refers to the shape of your body.
So when we talk about our body type, we might talk about having very wide shoulders or maybe
wide hips or a thin waist.
And these create some shapes like round shapes or triangle shapes, or maybe other shapes
that people have depending on their culture.
Here's an example.
He has a very round body type.
figure
Figure has quite a few different meanings.
But for this video, let's talk about the one that means your body's shape.
So when we talk about someone's figure, it's similar to talking about their body type,
which refers to their shape.
But when we talk about someone's figure, we mean it in terms of like talking about their
health.
When we say that we should take care of our figure, it's like saying that we should take
care of the shape of our body.
Here's an example.
You have to watch your figure.
thick
thick can have a few different uses.
But when we use it to talk about our body, it refers to someone that has places on their
body that are a little bit bigger.
This could be due to more fat or it could be due to more muscle.
It depends on the person.
Here's an example.
He's tall and thick.
thin
thin is another way to say slim, which we talked about earlier in this episode.
Someone who is thin generally doesn't seem to have a lot of fat or maybe doesn't have
a lot of muscle on their body, and they might be healthy or they might not be healthy.
It's sometimes very hard to tell within people.
Here's an example.
People that do not eat very much stay thin.
saliva
saliva is a different way to say spit.
This refers to the liquid that we have in our mouth all the time that we use to help
us eat and drink and so on.
So these two words are used in the same way, saliva and spit, but saliva sounds a little
bit more like scientific or a little bit more formal.
We use spit more in everyday conversation.
Here's an example.
When I see food I like, saliva builds in my mouth.
Cry
The verb to cry means to release tears from your eyes.
So tears are the water that comes from your eyes.
So when we cry we're usually very upset and we maybe make a lot of noise when we do it
too, but usually tears also come from our eyes.
It's an emotional reaction.
Here's an example.
The baby is crying.
Tear
Tear is a noun.
One tear is one drop of water that comes from your eye, maybe when you're crying or sometimes
when you're laughing too.
So one tear is one drop of water that comes down your face.
Here's an example.
When you cry, tears fall from your eyes.
Pimple.
Pimple is a noun.
This refers to the small, often red things
that we find on our skin, usually on our face,
but other parts of the body,
that happen when we have a skin problem,
like there's maybe part of the skin is irritated,
they can turn red,
but they usually go away in about a week or so.
Here's an example.
The man has a pimple on his nose.
Let's review.
I'm going to describe a word or a phrase in English.
See if you can remember it.
Then repeat after me, focusing on pronunciation.
Ready?
Do you remember how to say the word
that is the opposite of short?
Tall.
And how to say the word that is another way to say thin.
Someone who is this adjective,
usually looks pretty healthy.
Slim.
What about the expression that we use
when we talk about the shape of someone's body,
like a round shape or a triangle shape?
Body type.
And do you remember the word that we sometimes use
to talk about maintaining our body shape,
especially maintaining a healthy body shape?
Figure.
Let's try the word that we use to express
that someone has a lot of maybe muscle or fat on their body.
Thick.
What about the word that means someone
who doesn't look like they have a lot of fat on their body
and they might or might not be healthy?
Thin.
Now, let's see if you remember how to say the liquid
or the water that we usually have in our mouth.
The other word for this is spit.
Saliva.
Another one.
What about the verb that we use to mean
to feel so emotional that water comes from our eyes?
Cry.
Do you remember how to say the word for the one drop
of water that comes from our eyes when we cry?
Tear.
And finally, do you remember how to express the red dot
that sometimes appears usually on our face
when our skin is a little irritated?
Pimple.
Well done!
See you next time.
Bye!

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