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How to talk about children: Common Expressions
In this lesson, I will teach you some common words we use when talking about babies and children. You will learn words like toddler, temper tantrum, infant, tattle, spank, ground and many more. If you are writing the IELTS or TOEFL, these words may help you get a higher vocabulary mark in the speaking and writing sections.
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Hi Emma, thanks for your lesson.
I have a question about ‘throwing a temper tantrum’ It’s also right to say ‘throwing a tantrum’?
Hi langelo,
“He threw a tantrum” is also correct!
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Thanks!
In this oportunity, I wish you back a Happy New Year and for all, teachers and students!
Hi Emma
happy new year.
If you don’t mind can you explain to the difference between raise and rise , and their uses.
Cheers
Medo
use search http://www.engvid.com/rise-or-raise/ :)
U know,they have got different meanings;but here r the important ones:
Rise/raIz/ (n,v) ,((rise,rose,risen)) :an increase in an amount,a number or a level.
e.g.:What time does the sun rise?
Raise/reIz/ (n,v) ,((raise,raised,raised)) :2 lift or move sth 2 a higher level.
e.g.:He raised a hand in greeting.
P.S. They r confusing verbs n 4 more in4mation,u can either look it up in an advanced dictionary or surf the net.
By the way,hope it does help.
Have a nice 1 !
Emma has already made a lesson between rise n’ raise, just check it out. goog luck.
Thank you. I’m an English teacher from Denmark and I just will like to say thanks for your help and lovely smile.
Many thanks for the very useful lesson.
hi, Emma. happy new year. I have some nephews and nieces. so, this lesson will be very helpful. I’m going to begin practicing (except for the part of spanking, of course). thanks.
HAPPY NEW YEAR (புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள் -PUTTHAANDU VAALTHUKKAL – in Tamil) EMMA & all readers!
This is a really great lesson. Really helpful and surprised to see that there are words in English for children behaviors such as Tattle, Tattletale, crawl, etc…as we have in our language also.
Also I have one question – but this is in different topic.
I’ve read Torontostar today and it says “acoub Favila, 7, was killed in a New Year’s Day hit-and-run on Hwy. 401.”
My question is “in a New Year’s Day…” . Why not “On a New Year’s Day…”?
In my book,it’s correct bcoz “in a new year’s day” means in a special day which is totally different with “the days of the week” such as: Monday,Tuesday n so on so on;that their suitable preposition is “on”.
I just suppose,not sure I am!!
Gooodluck! :)
according to what I found
on = during a particular day
in = during a period of time
so considering to what you write “ was killed in a New Year’s Day“
on personal level, he used ^in^ here for emphasizing ,and as we
know *that in used for emphasizing that something happened .
so in here used for emphasize the killing , and it can` be on .
I`m not quite sure about that but it seems to be proper in this way !!
Ciao
Could you please make a video on differences between people,human,man,human being, and humankind when, for example, want to say man discovered iron thousands years ago.
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Thanks Emma for this very useful lesson.
Some words I knew but some not.
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Vocabulary on the IELTS is very important. It’s good to show you have a broad range of vocabulary. For example, many students use the word “delicious” when talking about food. This word does not show a mastery of English vocabulary. Better words to describe food would be “tasty”, “rich”, “salty”, “oily”, or “nutritious”.
Have you watched my IELTS video on part 1 of the writing section? Learn some of the vocabulary from that video to get a higher mark.
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Your lesson is really useful for me because I am going to give birth on last of Jan. I know more words to talk about my baby about to be born. Thank you so much Emma and hope you have a wonderful year :).
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I’ve this doubt for a long time “I ain’t got no water” – What does it mean? Many say it means “I have got some water”,since double negative has been used.
What’s mean by Double negative?
In English, it’s considered grammatically incorrect to use two negatives in a sentence. Here are some examples of incorrect sentences:
I don’t have no apples.
She doesn’t know nobody.
She ain’t got no water.
A correct sentence cannot have both “not” and “no” in it.
Here are the corrections:
I don’t have any apples.
She doesn’t know anybody.
She doesn’t have any water.
Instead of using “no”, we use “any”.
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Thank you for asking. Unfortunately, I don’t do private lessons.
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hi everyone…i watched ths with my niece and felt its a good exercise for her..she enjoyed it..thanks and keep it up..
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well,, Emma the order will be like this :
baby or toddler 1 to 3
infante typically used for chlidern who are betwixt 4 to 8
pre-teen from 9 to 11
teenager from 12 to 18
it that correct !!!!
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i think it’s nice if u add a Summary to every lessen to navigate into the video, and its so simple : Things children do : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eRW1YSRBtYE#t=302s
like that we can navigate into the video, or u can add some links into the description how take as to a position in the video for example :
In this lesson, I will teach you some common words we use when talking about babies and children. You will learn words like toddler, temper tantrum, infant, tattle, spank, ground and many more. If you are writing the IELTS or TOEFL, these words may help you get a higher vocabulary mark in the speaking and writing sections.
this is your introduction right? the word infant make it a link into : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eRW1YSRBtYE#t=115s
so when i look for this word i go directly.
i hope u like the idea, if u need a help on this just contact me i really love your team and your works, and i learn English with you so tank you.
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I have tattle my sister since I’m a little boy
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emma I want to describe you the difference between two words which are commonly used in our society that is temper tantrum and toddler .according to france dictionary the word temper tantrum used to show the completeness of work it means you have to use in the made for the temper tantrum word
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Dear Teacher,
That is very interesting lesson to know how to learn to say the common baby activities. Thank you for sharing.
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thank you very much your lesson very useful
but I always forgot this words and phrases do you have any control or training
Thanks, this is useful lesson and i get some important words that i didn’t know before
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In the text of a PDF
So I can review the lesson and how to write the words spoken
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Hi Emma,
This Lesson was quite helpful.
I’am not clear with one sentence could you please help me.Here it is:
People in my company work on shifts.
so the word i stress here is ON
Is it possible to say:
I come IN/ON first shift or
I work IN/ON night shift…Please advice me.
Shift work! Okay!
When you’re talking about multiple people scheduled for shifts, you say working in shifts. But when you’re talking about specific shifts, like “first shift” or “night shift”, you use on: “I’m on the night shift.” You can also just leave out “on/in”: “I worked first shift”, “I worked two shifts back-to-back.”
Hope that helps :)
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Emma * My mistake sorry :D
i didnt remember anything when i was a toddler. the primary school reminded
me of my childhood. i used to play boardgames, marbles, jo-jo, baseball.have toys .little cars. have accidents. he is in his teens. you prank to friends .first kiss.
your parents told you when you were a baby ,toddler .
thanks so much
yes 100 from 100 >i did it
yes 100 from 100 >i did it
This lesson helps me a lot study English.
I can learn about expressions about children.
In the near future, I wanna use these expressions.
When I was a child, There was such a nice website like this..
I envy of young children.
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Hello and thanks for this usuful lesson,Emma. I wanna use some expressions for a baby of my daughter.
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Because I am confused … thanks for all.
Ups I think I wrote some mistakes:
All your videos are fantastic ( sounds better )
And… I think the modal percect of ability is only (could) not “can”
Sorry… Bye!
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can u tell me the difference between the american, canadian, Australian accent please
Hi
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Thanks Emma for nice vocabularies! I have a question, would you please help me? What is the difference between “time-out” and “grounded”. As far as I understood, both of them mean sitting somewhere and doing nothing.
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