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hi i'm rebecca from invid in this lesson

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i'll teach you six proverbs that are

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very commonly heard in english-speaking

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environments okay now what's a proverb a

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proverb is a kind of a wise saying or

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wise advice that's passed on from one

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person to another or one generation to

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another and so you might hear these

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proverbs in english and of course in all

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languages there are proverbs you have

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them in your own language maybe you even

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have some of these we'll find out okay

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and it's nice to know proverbs because

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it's a little more educated and cultured

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when you can understand them and of

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course if you're writing you can include

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them if you're writing an essay for the

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ielts or the toefl exam

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and

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in general when you're speaking to

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people we use these uh proverbs in

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various ways okay so let's look at what

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they are and all of them happen to start

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with the word don't

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that's the

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the the full

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proverb but sometimes we use part of the

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proverbs also okay so i'll explain that

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as we go along let's get started the

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first one

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don't bite the hand that feeds you

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okay don't

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bite the hand that feeds you okay so

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what do you think that means

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do you have something like that in your

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own language

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don't bite the hand that feeds you means

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don't criticize or or behave badly

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towards the person or

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people or organization

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that's

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helping you that's supporting you that's

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taking care of you that cares about you

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for example if you work somewhere

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and you're always always complaining

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about the the manager the boss this that

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various things and you're being really

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harsh about it but at the same time

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you're working there you're getting paid

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so then sometimes in that context we

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might say you know hey you know take it

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easy don't bite your hand that feeds you

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okay or a teenager who doesn't

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appreciate what his or her parents are

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doing for for him okay

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then uh that any complaining a lot and

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really not behaving well so you might

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say hey don't bite the hand that feeds

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you you know behave well towards the

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people who are supporting you and taking

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care of you okay

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the next one

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don't burn the candle at both ends

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you can save these after me because that

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way you'll start to feel more

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comfortable also

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don't burn the candle at both ends

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so what does that mean any idea

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so what it means is basically don't work

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so hard

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somebody's working very hard he's

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working morning and night getting up

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early sleeping late

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and then we could say

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he's burning the candle at both ends or

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she's burning the candle at both ends

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so what does that mean that person is

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working too hard really very hard day

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and night okay so that's what that one

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means it has nothing to do with candles

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as such okay it has to do with how much

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somebody is working

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all right

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the next one

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don't judge a book by its cover

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okay say it after me

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don't judge a book

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by its cover

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okay so you have a book and you have a

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cover what do you think this proverb is

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trying to tell you

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that it it's trying to say don't decide

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uh if something or someone is good or

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bad based on how they look or by the

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external appearance okay

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so for example you meet someone and you

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might immediately feel oh they're

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i don't trust them or i don't like them

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it's not always a good thing to do that

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you have to get to know somebody right

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so don't judge a book by its cover

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and it can also apply to all kinds of

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things okay it could apply to people

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places things anything okay

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all right

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let's continue the next one

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don't cross that bridge till you come to

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say it after me

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don't cross that bridge

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till you come to it

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so what that means is

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don't worry about something

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before it actually is necessary

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to think about it okay so usually we'll

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say this to somebody who's really

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they're at this

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point in their life but they're worrying

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about that point and that point and that

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point okay what if that happens what if

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that happens what if i fail my exam what

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if i lose my job and they're kind of

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living in a future that might never

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and so you tell them don't worry about

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it okay

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right now you're here right now

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everything's okay and if something

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happens we'll cross that bridge when we

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come to it so you see sometimes this

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these proverbs might be used in slightly

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different ways okay we'll cross that

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bridge when we come to it or we'll cross

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that bridge if we come to it or in

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general don't cross that bridge till you

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come to it okay so you got that one

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don't worry about something too much in

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advance something that's in the future

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and may happen or may never happen all

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the next one

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don't count your chickens before they're

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now when a chicken hatches it means it

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it is born okay it breaks out of its egg

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don't count your chickens before they're

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hatched i'm told exist

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exists this proverb exists in various

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languages okay maybe in yours let me

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know in the comments all right

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so this means what

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don't

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talk about something

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too much before it's actually happened

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believe that it's going to happen until

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it's actually happened

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so for example let's say someone goes

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for a job interview and it goes really

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really well and he goes around telling

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everybody i've got the job i've got the

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job i know it went really well they like

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me very much and i'm sure i'm going to

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get it and yeah and after i get it i'm

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going to do this and that

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it hasn't actually happened yet

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it's probably best not to say anything

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until you actually hear from the company

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right so in that situation you might say

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to that person okay

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hope everything works out take it easy

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don't count your chickens before they're

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hatched but usually you might not say it

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but this is the kind of wisdom that

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people pass on to others that you're

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that are that's supposed to influence

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your thinking

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and your behavior

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okay in life and in different situations

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all right and the last one don't bite

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off more than you can

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chew okay when you eat something okay

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you eat something and then you chew okay

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so don't bite off more than you can chew

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has nothing to do with eating

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it has to do usually with

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work with responsibility

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and often this is used in a professional

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context in a work context it could be

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also an academic context so it's

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basically saying don't take on more

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than you can handle don't take on more

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work more responsibility

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than you can actually handle or then you

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can deliver

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so let's say there's someone who's at

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work is young and is very eager to get

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ahead and so he he tells the boss yes i

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can do that i can do that i can work on

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that project i can do that but maybe his

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boss says okay

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that's that's great you know why don't

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you just work on the two projects right

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i don't want you to have to you know

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bite off more than you can chew let's

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take it easy so

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that's what it is okay and also if

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someone for example a young person

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is enrolling in lots of classes and

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in university but you also know that

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there's a lot of work involved in each

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of those classes so you might advise

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them hey maybe it's better to just take

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a few classes and do really well and

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focus on them so don't bite off more

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than you can chew don't take on more

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responsibility than you can handle all

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that's what they are now in order to

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practice and see whether you can

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remember some of the words that are in

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let's do one more little quiz okay here

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we go all right so as you can see i've

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erased some of the words on the board

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and you can help me fill them back in

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all right so let's do the first one

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don't bite the something that feeds you

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do you remember what it was

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don't bite the

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that feeds you okay now if you want you

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can always pause the video right here

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have a look at them okay fill them in

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think them out and then join me again

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or join me right now as we continue

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all right the second one don't something

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the candle at both ends

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the candle at both ends good

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next one don't cross that something

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till you come to it

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don't cross that

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there we go

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don't something your chickens before

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they're hatched

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all right do you remember that one don't

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count

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don't count your chickens before they're

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hatched and the last one was don't bite

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off more than you can

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okay good now the way to remember them

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is to say them out loud it's really

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important to say things out loud because

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then your ears have a chance to remember

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it right your audio memory and say them

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out loud so you have a chance to

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pronounce them correctly and also

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remember them okay and hopefully you'll

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have a chance to use one of these when

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in general being more a part of english

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culture okay so if you want to practice

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these please go to our website

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