WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.920 want to speed up your language learning 2 00:00:01.920 --> 00:00:04.319 get access to all of our best PDF cheat 3 00:00:04.319 --> 00:00:06.359 sheets for free just click the link in 4 00:00:06.359 --> 00:00:07.980 the description and sign up for your 5 00:00:07.980 --> 00:00:10.139 free lifetime account right now 6 00:00:10.139 --> 00:00:12.300 hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia 7 00:00:12.300 --> 00:00:14.040 the weekly series where you ask me 8 00:00:14.040 --> 00:00:16.500 questions and I answer them maybe let's 9 00:00:16.500 --> 00:00:18.119 get to your first question this week 10 00:00:18.119 --> 00:00:19.939 first question this week comes from 11 00:00:19.939 --> 00:00:23.579 Elias Saba hello Elias Elias says what's 12 00:00:23.579 --> 00:00:26.400 the difference between look and look 13 00:00:26.400 --> 00:00:28.800 like and can I use usually and sometimes 14 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:30.960 and always with present continuous okay 15 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:32.880 you have two questions here let's break 16 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.059 down the first one look versus look like 17 00:00:36.059 --> 00:00:39.239 or looks like let's talk about looks 18 00:00:39.239 --> 00:00:42.300 like first or look like as well so when 19 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:46.079 we use the Expression A looks like B it 20 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:49.860 means a has the same visual or similar 21 00:00:49.860 --> 00:00:52.920 visual as B so that means the 22 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.579 appearances are similar he looks like 23 00:00:56.579 --> 00:01:00.420 that guy or she looks like an owl so 24 00:01:00.420 --> 00:01:03.120 we're comparing the appearances of two 25 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:06.240 things when we use a looks like B when 26 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:08.220 we use that pattern so this is what we 27 00:01:08.220 --> 00:01:10.979 use that expression look like or looks 28 00:01:10.979 --> 00:01:13.920 like to mean when we use the verb looked 29 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.260 however it just means to direct your 30 00:01:16.260 --> 00:01:18.600 eyes or to move your eyes in a specific 31 00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:21.479 way so for example to look at the camera 32 00:01:21.479 --> 00:01:23.819 means to move your eyes toward the 33 00:01:23.819 --> 00:01:26.280 camera to shift your focus toward the 34 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:28.438 camera so it means to move your eyeballs 35 00:01:28.438 --> 00:01:31.140 in a certain direction we don't use look 36 00:01:31.140 --> 00:01:33.659 as a verb to talk about similar 37 00:01:33.659 --> 00:01:37.380 appearances we do however use look as a 38 00:01:37.380 --> 00:01:40.438 noun to talk about one's outfit or one's 39 00:01:40.438 --> 00:01:42.840 style for the day so you might see a 40 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:44.578 sentence online in like a fashion 41 00:01:44.578 --> 00:01:46.619 magazine for example that says something 42 00:01:46.619 --> 00:01:49.979 like get this look at this store now so 43 00:01:49.979 --> 00:01:53.220 this look this use of look refers to 44 00:01:53.220 --> 00:01:55.680 someone's coordination in their clothes 45 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:57.840 for the day so that means usually the 46 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.360 shirt they're wearing the skirt or pants 47 00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:02.100 or whatever their shoes their 48 00:02:02.100 --> 00:02:04.920 accessories and so on look as a noun 49 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.160 refers to someone's appearance in terms 50 00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:10.020 of their clothing and their accessory 51 00:02:10.020 --> 00:02:12.239 Series so when you see something that 52 00:02:12.239 --> 00:02:14.760 says like get this look or I love your 53 00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:18.060 look it refers to someone's style their 54 00:02:18.060 --> 00:02:20.459 appearance in terms of their clothes or 55 00:02:20.459 --> 00:02:22.379 maybe as well their hairstyle for the 56 00:02:22.379 --> 00:02:24.599 day so when someone says oh I love your 57 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:27.599 look or I love that look it means that 58 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:29.400 they like the way you appear they like 59 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:30.900 your appearance so they like your style 60 00:02:30.900 --> 00:02:33.360 in some way so as you can see there are 61 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:35.220 a few different ways that we use look 62 00:02:35.220 --> 00:02:38.340 and looks like so again to recap looks 63 00:02:38.340 --> 00:02:40.919 like is used in the pattern a looks like 64 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:43.800 B which means that a has an appearance 65 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:47.700 similar to B we use look as a verb to 66 00:02:47.700 --> 00:02:49.860 mean to focus our eyes and move our eyes 67 00:02:49.860 --> 00:02:52.440 towards something and we also use look 68 00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:55.260 as a noun to refer to someone's style or 69 00:02:55.260 --> 00:02:57.000 to their appearance in terms of their 70 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:58.860 clothing and their accessories for the 71 00:02:58.860 --> 00:03:01.139 day so I hope this answers this question 72 00:03:01.139 --> 00:03:03.540 let's move on to a quick answer about 73 00:03:03.540 --> 00:03:05.879 your second question you ask if we can 74 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:08.519 use words like always and sometimes and 75 00:03:08.519 --> 00:03:09.959 usually with the present Contin 76 00:03:09.959 --> 00:03:11.879 continuous so I think your question is 77 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:13.620 if we can make sentence patterns like 78 00:03:13.620 --> 00:03:16.260 for example I am usually working or I am 79 00:03:16.260 --> 00:03:18.360 sometimes working or I am always working 80 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:21.239 and so on okay so the short answer to 81 00:03:21.239 --> 00:03:22.980 your second question if I understand it 82 00:03:22.980 --> 00:03:25.200 correctly is that when we use words like 83 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:28.260 always and sometimes and usually we're 84 00:03:28.260 --> 00:03:30.060 typically talking about them in terms of 85 00:03:30.060 --> 00:03:32.340 a schedule right and we use present 86 00:03:32.340 --> 00:03:34.739 tense not the continuous form to talk 87 00:03:34.739 --> 00:03:36.959 about our schedules like I always work 88 00:03:36.959 --> 00:03:39.060 in this office on this day or I usually 89 00:03:39.060 --> 00:03:41.760 go to the gym on Saturday or I sometimes 90 00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:43.739 eat meat for breakfast whatever your 91 00:03:43.739 --> 00:03:46.200 sentence is when we use these words we 92 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:47.940 tend to use them to talk about schedules 93 00:03:47.940 --> 00:03:50.819 and so on there are some situations 94 00:03:50.819 --> 00:03:53.640 where you may see a continuous verb form 95 00:03:53.640 --> 00:03:56.340 used however and we'll probably see this 96 00:03:56.340 --> 00:03:58.739 most of the time when we use always to 97 00:03:58.739 --> 00:04:00.720 make complaints so what does this look 98 00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:03.120 like for example my co-worker is always 99 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.239 making irritating sounds or my friends 100 00:04:06.239 --> 00:04:08.819 are always coming late to the parties so 101 00:04:08.819 --> 00:04:11.939 we use this always plus the ing verb 102 00:04:11.939 --> 00:04:13.980 form to make complaints sometimes so 103 00:04:13.980 --> 00:04:15.840 when somebody has done something that's 104 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.779 irritating that's annoying to us or when 105 00:04:18.779 --> 00:04:20.940 we're tired of some kind of behavior you 106 00:04:20.940 --> 00:04:23.100 might hear people using the always plus 107 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:25.860 ing verb form so in my earlier examples 108 00:04:25.860 --> 00:04:28.080 my co-worker is always making irritating 109 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:30.120 noises or my friends are always coming 110 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:32.400 late to parties so you might hear it 111 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:34.919 used with always in these cases but we 112 00:04:34.919 --> 00:04:37.380 don't use the ing form with words like 113 00:04:37.380 --> 00:04:40.080 usually or sometimes like my friends are 114 00:04:40.080 --> 00:04:41.699 sometimes coming late to parties it's 115 00:04:41.699 --> 00:04:43.740 not something that we use we would also 116 00:04:43.740 --> 00:04:45.419 not do this with usually like my 117 00:04:45.419 --> 00:04:47.160 co-worker is usually making strange 118 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:49.740 noises we don't use that either there so 119 00:04:49.740 --> 00:04:52.800 to recap yes you may see the ing verb 120 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:54.900 form used with always but you probably 121 00:04:54.900 --> 00:04:57.180 won't see it used with usually or 122 00:04:57.180 --> 00:04:58.919 sometimes so I hope that this helps 123 00:04:58.919 --> 00:05:00.360 answer your questions both of them 124 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:01.740 thanks very much for sending them along 125 00:05:01.740 --> 00:05:03.779 okay let's move on to your next question 126 00:05:03.779 --> 00:05:06.060 for this week next question comes from 127 00:05:06.060 --> 00:05:09.360 Yasser Alexander hi yeser Yasser says 128 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:10.979 what's the difference between drugstore 129 00:05:10.979 --> 00:05:12.900 and Pharmacy and when can I use them 130 00:05:12.900 --> 00:05:15.660 okay great question yeah so I'll speak 131 00:05:15.660 --> 00:05:17.639 from experience with American stores 132 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:19.080 this may be a little bit different 133 00:05:19.080 --> 00:05:22.020 depending on the country but generally a 134 00:05:22.020 --> 00:05:23.940 drugstore is a store that offers 135 00:05:23.940 --> 00:05:26.160 medicines and those kinds of things like 136 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:27.900 you can pick up a prescription medicine 137 00:05:27.900 --> 00:05:30.300 from your doctor at the drugstore but 138 00:05:30.300 --> 00:05:32.940 the drugstore also has other household 139 00:05:32.940 --> 00:05:35.400 goods so for example like soap and 140 00:05:35.400 --> 00:05:37.380 shampoo and things for the shower or the 141 00:05:37.380 --> 00:05:39.660 bath or maybe hair dye or things that 142 00:05:39.660 --> 00:05:41.639 you use to wash your face all of these 143 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:43.740 kind of personal care Goods you can find 144 00:05:43.740 --> 00:05:47.639 at a drugstore generally a pharmacy on 145 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:49.080 the other hand is a place where where 146 00:05:49.080 --> 00:05:52.020 you go just to get medicine if you get a 147 00:05:52.020 --> 00:05:53.820 prescription from the doctor so if you 148 00:05:53.820 --> 00:05:55.620 receive some kind of medicine from your 149 00:05:55.620 --> 00:05:58.919 doctor you take that to a pharmacy and 150 00:05:58.919 --> 00:06:00.960 you get the medicine there sometimes 151 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:03.479 there is a pharmacy inside a drugstore 152 00:06:03.479 --> 00:06:06.060 so if you go to a drugstore in a big 153 00:06:06.060 --> 00:06:08.220 city there might be like a pharmacy desk 154 00:06:08.220 --> 00:06:10.560 or a pharmacy reception window somewhere 155 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:13.320 inside the drugstore so if that helps 156 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:14.580 you you can kind of think of the 157 00:06:14.580 --> 00:06:16.440 pharmacy as like a department in the 158 00:06:16.440 --> 00:06:18.360 drugstore sometimes you'll see a 159 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.100 pharmacy that's completely separate from 160 00:06:20.100 --> 00:06:22.080 the drugstore as well it just depends on 161 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:24.240 the pharmacy it depends on the store but 162 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:26.039 this is the key difference we would use 163 00:06:26.039 --> 00:06:27.839 them in the same way in a sentence like 164 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:29.520 I need to go to the drugstore to pick up 165 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:31.440 some things for the shower or I need to 166 00:06:31.440 --> 00:06:32.880 go to the pharmacy to pick up my 167 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:34.560 medicine we would use them in the same 168 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:36.240 position they have the same part of 169 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:39.000 speech so to recap a drugstore is a more 170 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:40.800 General store where you can go for 171 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:42.479 medicine as well as lots of other 172 00:06:42.479 --> 00:06:44.699 everyday household and Body Care things 173 00:06:44.699 --> 00:06:47.160 and a pharmacy is a place that you go to 174 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.319 pick up medicine so I hope this helps 175 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:50.819 answer your question thanks very much 176 00:06:50.819 --> 00:06:52.979 for sending it along okay let's move on 177 00:06:52.979 --> 00:06:54.539 to your next question next question 178 00:06:54.539 --> 00:06:57.560 comes from 179 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.000 himaudi hi Emma I hope I said your name 180 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.160 correctly Hima says I'm good at writing 181 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:04.440 emails but not able to speak confidently 182 00:07:04.440 --> 00:07:06.240 do you have any tips for that 183 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.160 um yeah so if you are good at writing 184 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:09.600 emails maybe that's because you write 185 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.660 emails a lot so maybe if you are at work 186 00:07:12.660 --> 00:07:14.340 or if you're at school and you're 187 00:07:14.340 --> 00:07:16.020 writing a lot of emails that means you 188 00:07:16.020 --> 00:07:17.819 are getting a lot of practice writing 189 00:07:17.819 --> 00:07:19.560 emails right and that's great that's a 190 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:21.539 super super great skill to have if 191 00:07:21.539 --> 00:07:23.220 you're pretty good at writing emails but 192 00:07:23.220 --> 00:07:24.900 you want to work on your speaking skills 193 00:07:24.900 --> 00:07:26.880 maybe a good place to start is just by 194 00:07:26.880 --> 00:07:29.400 trying to read your emails out loud if 195 00:07:29.400 --> 00:07:31.020 you want to practice something else of 196 00:07:31.020 --> 00:07:32.880 course you can try reading other texts 197 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:35.639 out loud or try shadowing exercises with 198 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.099 TV or with YouTube videos or with other 199 00:07:38.099 --> 00:07:40.440 media So based on your message it sounds 200 00:07:40.440 --> 00:07:42.060 like you feel pretty confident in your 201 00:07:42.060 --> 00:07:43.919 email writing skills which is great but 202 00:07:43.919 --> 00:07:45.360 it's probably because you have lots of 203 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.340 practice writing emails so make sure to 204 00:07:47.340 --> 00:07:49.199 build your speaking skills you give 205 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:51.060 yourself lots of chances to build your 206 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:52.800 speaking skills you can do this by 207 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.500 reading Out Loud by shadowing you can do 208 00:07:55.500 --> 00:07:57.479 this by participating in conversations 209 00:07:57.479 --> 00:07:59.819 if you have a conversation group you can 210 00:07:59.819 --> 00:08:01.380 find a partner that you can practice 211 00:08:01.380 --> 00:08:03.000 your English language skills with 212 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.039 whatever so it sounds like if you have 213 00:08:05.039 --> 00:08:07.080 lots of practice you can get better at 214 00:08:07.080 --> 00:08:08.940 something as you are able to do already 215 00:08:08.940 --> 00:08:11.039 with your email writing so just make 216 00:08:11.039 --> 00:08:12.840 sure that you're creating opportunities 217 00:08:12.840 --> 00:08:14.639 for yourself to practice your speaking 218 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:16.680 skills as well as your writing skills 219 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:18.300 this can even just be talking to 220 00:08:18.300 --> 00:08:19.620 yourself at home just getting 221 00:08:19.620 --> 00:08:21.960 comfortable saying things and expressing 222 00:08:21.960 --> 00:08:24.240 yourself in English so that would be my 223 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:26.340 quick advice for you if you have some 224 00:08:26.340 --> 00:08:28.139 pretty good writing skills already make 225 00:08:28.139 --> 00:08:30.180 sure to also use some of your time to 226 00:08:30.180 --> 00:08:32.159 work on your other skill sets as well so 227 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:33.899 take some of that energy and put it 228 00:08:33.899 --> 00:08:35.339 towards your speaking skill development 229 00:08:35.339 --> 00:08:37.320 too Alright thanks very much for sending 230 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:38.940 this question along I hope that helps a 231 00:08:38.940 --> 00:08:40.979 little bit all right that is everything 232 00:08:40.979 --> 00:08:42.599 that I have for this week thank you as 233 00:08:42.599 --> 00:08:44.099 always for sending your great questions 234 00:08:44.099 --> 00:08:46.220 remember you can send them to me at 235 00:08:46.220 --> 00:08:49.260 englishclass101.com ask hyphen Alicia 236 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