Sometimes there are words in English that have similar meanings but are slightly different and are used in different ways. In this vocabulary lesson, I discuss the difference between shade and shadow and show examples of how to use the two words.
Thanks Jon,
It was just interesting beyond a shadow of a doubt:)
Sherry
yes i think also that number 7 is wrong
i havent understood yet the question about which s more active?hear or listen….
the lesson was pretty intersting,i like it so much.congratulations for all the teachers
marius1989
Hi Marius, in English is used LISTEN when you’re paying attention to someone or thing, and HEAR is used just for sounds.
karem95
hello Karem thank you.i was thinking it isnt a tie with the lesson silly me:D
anyway thank you:)
marius1989
There was an error with the quiz. It has been fixed.
engVid
the question no.8, ” which word’s more active?”, and the answer is ” listen”. because “to listen’ means that u try to listen to smt consciously. and ” to hear’ just means u hear smt unconsciouly, some time u just hear smt by accident
NamTran2010
Jon, nice lesson. I have a couple of remarks to state here. First, I think it should be – some plants do well in the “shade”, not in the “shadow”. And lastly, it doesn’t have to mean that if something is not moving that it ought to be called “shade”. For instance, “building” has its own shadow, despite the fact it’s not moving…
Marko
I mean, the meaning is so similar that we can’t differentiate it always, let alone to explain to someone. Moreover, we can say: “It’s scorcher! Go and find the shade in the building’s shadow.”
Marko
Hey guys, nice video, thank you for the videos and the website. Everything is free and very useful for me and my co-workers, here in Brazil. We work as English teachers, so it helps us a lot
Daniel
That’s great to hear, Daniel.
engVid
Good lesson , but the number 7 , I think is wrong :D
youness128
This is fixed now, Rafael.
engVid
Is it possible to mark a topic as completed and have a list of uncompleted topics when a section is selected?
lastdruid
We will be adding this feature in the future.
engVid
I’ll be happy to help you with your site and contribute my PHP, JavaScript and MySQL knowledge to your project.
lastdruid
cool lesson n’ good teacher, thanks a million Jon.
Efrain Dominguez
9/10 great lesson,thanks
rabbani
hey are you married? just a question.
waiting your answer.
I loved that congratulation.
you’re the best english teacher IN THE WORLD.
sabrina
Thanks.That’s easy to understand.
saeng2499
we always need some shade to make shadow, ;-)
samuel
Nice drawing Jon :)
sara
Thanks! Very useful.
almas
Jon, could you make a video which concerns “telling a tale” topic? I mean, which tenses we should use when we are telling someone about something what was already happened in the past. Do perfect tenses are acceptable in telling a story? Could you explain to us what we should know about “telling a tale”?
morfik
I got 10 out of 10 !! :)
thanks Jon:D
Ann
Good lesson, I like so much. Thanks a lot guy.
Filipe
Jon, Thank you for sated explain about shade and shadow, I really don’t know difference between shade and shadow, thank you.
Rinat
I got 10 correct out of 10. hahaha … wonderful !
hojinstar
wonderful, really i <3 it
thanx, it is new info to me :)
mohannad
=D! 10/10
alejandra1204
Hi John , I’m Peruvian. Have you visited my country?
luis
thank you jon i beneifited more from that lesson
matador
shade the picture.is it correct?
ayisha
Yaaaay,I got 10/10
igbs
Wondefrul lesson …..
lord1975
fine. From now on, I’ll pay more attention on these words. thanks
josefrancisco472
Thanks Jon! very useful information!
corny28
I did it :)
10 out of 10 :)
jooli
great and nice lesson it’s very useful for me :)
eric
wow i enjoyed this lesson Sir ..form now I’ll be more focus …*_#
tareg245
It was very nice to listen that lesson. Have a good one-Jon
Zibi-Poland
Nice lesson.Thanks a lot.
louise58
Very good lesson, thanks
amd80
Tks a lot teacher Jon.I gotta it 80% correct my quiz. Appreciate that. Lily Diaz from Brazil
Eliete
nice teacher……….
bhim
Rafael, listen is when you choose hear,” I listen music in my IPod” and hear is for example when TV is turn on and you hear it although you aren´t interested.
Adriana
yeeeeeeeeeeeh I answer it all :)))))
westlife
Great Jon: congratulations. You’re doing a good use of the Internet. As Daniel in Brazil, I teach English to my colleagues at work and this knowledge you spread helps me a lot. Thanks. Keep going.
Gabriel, from Uruguay.
bohemio1951
Wonderful John I learned a lot of listening to your teaching.
Qodseiajami
Thank you, I have no idea about this words=))
Lily
Go Jon! Thanks a bunch. All teachers at Engvid are awesome. I got 9/10, confusing desert with dessert!! I knew how to distinguish them orally but not when they’re written.
jafcru12
Thank you for the lesson!
Thais
This lessons are very important for me who is still learning english. I wanna thank, all of you, for these lessons. See you in the next.
Gabriel Lopes de Assis Siqueira
Thank you, Jon!
I was surprised to know that these words have a little bit different meanings. But now I have a question.
In “Dandelion wine” I’ve found next sentence.
“And they walked through the forest, Father very tall, Douglas moving in his shadow, and Tom, very small, trotting in his brother’s shade.”
Are there any reasons, why Father has a shadow and Douglas has a shade?
Michael Bulanov
It’s a stylistic choice by the author. Notice how he uses two different words to describe how they walk, too:
Douglas moving in his shadow
Tom trotting in his brother’s shade
Try reading it out loud and you can see how using different words gives it a rhythm, like music or poetry. Ray Bradbury is one of the very best authors for that. Here’s a passage from The October Country (which is good to read at this time of year):
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.
engVid Moderator
Oh! Thanks for the such detailed answer!
Michael Bulanov
wonderful lessons! i love it and i am getting improved. thank you John
crystilline
Its great lesson thanks jon i appreciate your effort.
owais khan
I would like to thank you about all your lessons .Actually, you have good ways for making me understand your lesson easily.
Thanks a lot.
oman
Good Class.
nestorrosario
awesome thank u so much ,, :0
meme
Really I didn´t know very the difference between these words and this class clarifys very well to me. Hugs
iptmontez
thank is for you actually you are a good teacher
good luck
asala
interesting class
lina
You are an interesting teacher!
samirkasana
I like your clss very much. Thank you!
lina
great topic …the teacher is superb…I’ve got a 10.
davel
Nice video and nice teacher
Devmoon
hi teacher
maya
can I HELP FOR YOU
WHAT DIFFERENT BETWEEN CAN AND COULD ?
maya
thanhks teacher
dangngai
thanks for all what you do to help other people learning english
best regards/boualem
boualem34
can could not much
thanks
boss111
Thanks. Teacher
Kanvara
this interesting lesson. all engvid lessons also. they’re easy to follow.
edsideco
this interesting lesson. all engvid lessons also. they’re easy to follow.
edsideco
this interesting lesson. all engvid lessons also. they’re easy to follow.
edsideco
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This is and interesting lesson. All Engvi
edsideco
Yaak! help. my pc is really weird..can’t compose
edsideco
Yaak! help. my pc is really weird..can’t compose
edsideco
Million thanks teacher jon! got ten!
edsideco
very good lesson. no one shade in your words !
ganery
thanks
saragiraldo
Great! Thank you! I hope I can always remember the difference between the to words! It was a very nice lesson!
Sally S
Thank you so much. Your videos are very easy…..and funny
carolinarondo
thanks
sam31
Thank you – did the quiz with full score. I was always confusing these two expressions before!!
tinasobrino
very interesting and helpful lesson, thank you very much
Argenis
It was usefull for me this lesson,like others of this site. It’s important for me to learn and to understand how to speak corectly. I love this language. Thanks for your help!
Stella
Thank you Jon,
It was a good less.
Have a nice evening.
Susan
Susan
that’s great jon, thanks a lot.
rachidov
Hi, Teacher Jon. This is a good way for me to study.
Thank you very much.
sovannaranou
i enjoyed this lesson a lot.
parveeh
Hi, I really happy I could found this great web side, I really continue learn English very well, I hope we will have more lessons in the future… THANKS ALOT
paul
I got confused, I translated few days ago about coffee rust and there was something related to coffee grows better under shadows, and now I think it is under shade, ohh no
myriamsanchez
When you’re talking about plants, it’s “shade”!
engVid Moderator
yeeeey !!! I did the quiz correctly
I had just one mistake
vixi
ok 80 %. Thanks
alpido24
wow!Very nice lesson :D! Thanks Jon. I got 10/10.
ganbashir15
Very interesting lesson! thanks
sgmmm
i thank you Jon for this lesson it’s very useful.i have a question:could you make the difference for me between hear and listen,talk and speak,thank you.
L.Ruben
i thank u for your lessons.could you make a difference for me between speak and talk,hear and listen?
L.Ruben
I could see your shadow on the whiteboard here in a freshly shade.
Thanks!
Ivan David
I’ve got them!
10 out of 10. ;-D
Thanks Jon!
Matilda03
thanks a lot jon your performer is so great i am so glad to learn from the new things whitch i don’t khow ;goog job friend
hassan8
Thanks Jon I got 70%.
Abdul Qayum
thx jon i have got eight on ten. However, i’m not satisfied !
as nas
I like your way to teach!
Iamhere.
100.- thanks Jon. You got me out of doubt about active words.
Silvi@
10 out of 10 :) Exciting!
Juliacharming
good lesson :D thx
Joanna87
Good lesson… All teachers are great, thanks…
anatolian
I’m so motivated to continu with you
thinks a lot
geni00
Yessssssssss…I’m 100
Herish
Great lession , these gwo words always confuse me , but i made 9 out of 10 ,,,
sunnylin
Hi John I love yours class
Estebania
Excellent lesson, but I have some doubts:
A umbrella has a shade or a shadow?
A car has a shade or a shadow?
They are things without own life, but they move when somebody carry or drive it.
Warlord
thanks jon!
luoyong6
Got a perfect one on this lesson. Thanks jon.
Ryan18
can you explain about question no 9
mohammad hossein
thank you, I got it!
Terrysam
good lesson, we are waiting more.
SKIKDA
Hi Jon!
Thank you for the lesson. It was new for me, because I had never heard the word “shade” before.
Regards from Brazil!
Eduardo França
i have 10/10 thank you teacher jon.^_^
Minhchien7906
Nice T-shirt! Thank you for the lesson.
Greetings from Peru
carlaevelin
It is a good lesson
ALKEBSEE
Very good lesson.Thanks.
zigmund
Very interesting!!! =)
Vitor-Br
Thanks!
shihai182
I got 10/10, very nice
tatuan
So good! i think i’ll watch all his videos:)
nemoki
thanks
tumanek
I like it, thanks
Soei
Thanks
riyadhnesraoui
I want to do the quiz again
Reyger
very good, I understand it, I am very happy for your lesson, thank you.
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137 COMMENTS
Good lesson with some learning points
Thanks Jon,
It was just interesting beyond a shadow of a doubt:)
yes i think also that number 7 is wrong
i havent understood yet the question about which s more active?hear or listen….
the lesson was pretty intersting,i like it so much.congratulations for all the teachers
Hi Marius, in English is used LISTEN when you’re paying attention to someone or thing, and HEAR is used just for sounds.
hello Karem thank you.i was thinking it isnt a tie with the lesson silly me:D
anyway thank you:)
There was an error with the quiz. It has been fixed.
the question no.8, ” which word’s more active?”, and the answer is ” listen”. because “to listen’ means that u try to listen to smt consciously. and ” to hear’ just means u hear smt unconsciouly, some time u just hear smt by accident
Jon, nice lesson. I have a couple of remarks to state here. First, I think it should be – some plants do well in the “shade”, not in the “shadow”. And lastly, it doesn’t have to mean that if something is not moving that it ought to be called “shade”. For instance, “building” has its own shadow, despite the fact it’s not moving…
I mean, the meaning is so similar that we can’t differentiate it always, let alone to explain to someone. Moreover, we can say: “It’s scorcher! Go and find the shade in the building’s shadow.”
Hey guys, nice video, thank you for the videos and the website. Everything is free and very useful for me and my co-workers, here in Brazil. We work as English teachers, so it helps us a lot
That’s great to hear, Daniel.
Good lesson , but the number 7 , I think is wrong :D
This is fixed now, Rafael.
Is it possible to mark a topic as completed and have a list of uncompleted topics when a section is selected?
We will be adding this feature in the future.
I’ll be happy to help you with your site and contribute my PHP, JavaScript and MySQL knowledge to your project.
cool lesson n’ good teacher, thanks a million Jon.
9/10 great lesson,thanks
hey are you married? just a question.
waiting your answer.
I loved that congratulation.
you’re the best english teacher IN THE WORLD.
Thanks.That’s easy to understand.
we always need some shade to make shadow, ;-)
Nice drawing Jon :)
Thanks! Very useful.
Jon, could you make a video which concerns “telling a tale” topic? I mean, which tenses we should use when we are telling someone about something what was already happened in the past. Do perfect tenses are acceptable in telling a story? Could you explain to us what we should know about “telling a tale”?
I got 10 out of 10 !! :)
thanks Jon:D
Good lesson, I like so much. Thanks a lot guy.
Jon, Thank you for sated explain about shade and shadow, I really don’t know difference between shade and shadow, thank you.
I got 10 correct out of 10. hahaha … wonderful !
wonderful, really i <3 it
thanx, it is new info to me :)
=D! 10/10
Hi John , I’m Peruvian. Have you visited my country?
thank you jon i beneifited more from that lesson
shade the picture.is it correct?
Yaaaay,I got 10/10
Wondefrul lesson …..
fine. From now on, I’ll pay more attention on these words. thanks
Thanks Jon! very useful information!
I did it :)
10 out of 10 :)
great and nice lesson it’s very useful for me :)
wow i enjoyed this lesson Sir ..form now I’ll be more focus …*_#
It was very nice to listen that lesson. Have a good one-Jon
Nice lesson.Thanks a lot.
Very good lesson, thanks
Tks a lot teacher Jon.I gotta it 80% correct my quiz. Appreciate that. Lily Diaz from Brazil
nice teacher……….
Rafael, listen is when you choose hear,” I listen music in my IPod” and hear is for example when TV is turn on and you hear it although you aren´t interested.
yeeeeeeeeeeeh I answer it all :)))))
Great Jon: congratulations. You’re doing a good use of the Internet. As Daniel in Brazil, I teach English to my colleagues at work and this knowledge you spread helps me a lot. Thanks. Keep going.
Gabriel, from Uruguay.
Wonderful John I learned a lot of listening to your teaching.
Thank you, I have no idea about this words=))
Go Jon! Thanks a bunch. All teachers at Engvid are awesome. I got 9/10, confusing desert with dessert!! I knew how to distinguish them orally but not when they’re written.
Thank you for the lesson!
This lessons are very important for me who is still learning english. I wanna thank, all of you, for these lessons. See you in the next.
Thank you, Jon!
I was surprised to know that these words have a little bit different meanings. But now I have a question.
In “Dandelion wine” I’ve found next sentence.
“And they walked through the forest, Father very tall, Douglas moving in his shadow, and Tom, very small, trotting in his brother’s shade.”
Are there any reasons, why Father has a shadow and Douglas has a shade?
It’s a stylistic choice by the author. Notice how he uses two different words to describe how they walk, too:
Try reading it out loud and you can see how using different words gives it a rhythm, like music or poetry. Ray Bradbury is one of the very best authors for that. Here’s a passage from The October Country (which is good to read at this time of year):
Oh! Thanks for the such detailed answer!
wonderful lessons! i love it and i am getting improved. thank you John
Its great lesson thanks jon i appreciate your effort.
I would like to thank you about all your lessons .Actually, you have good ways for making me understand your lesson easily.
Thanks a lot.
Good Class.
awesome thank u so much ,, :0
Really I didn´t know very the difference between these words and this class clarifys very well to me. Hugs
thank is for you actually you are a good teacher
good luck
interesting class
You are an interesting teacher!
I like your clss very much. Thank you!
great topic …the teacher is superb…I’ve got a 10.
Nice video and nice teacher
hi teacher
can I HELP FOR YOU
WHAT DIFFERENT BETWEEN CAN AND COULD ?
thanhks teacher
thanks for all what you do to help other people learning english
best regards/boualem
can could not much
thanks
Thanks. Teacher
this interesting lesson. all engvid lessons also. they’re easy to follow.
this interesting lesson. all engvid lessons also. they’re easy to follow.
this interesting lesson. all engvid lessons also. they’re easy to follow.
ops sorry! my pc is not behaving well. an
This is and interesting lesson. All Engvi
Yaak! help. my pc is really weird..can’t compose
Yaak! help. my pc is really weird..can’t compose
Million thanks teacher jon! got ten!
very good lesson. no one shade in your words !
thanks
Great! Thank you! I hope I can always remember the difference between the to words! It was a very nice lesson!
Thank you so much. Your videos are very easy…..and funny
thanks
Thank you – did the quiz with full score. I was always confusing these two expressions before!!
very interesting and helpful lesson, thank you very much
It was usefull for me this lesson,like others of this site. It’s important for me to learn and to understand how to speak corectly. I love this language. Thanks for your help!
Thank you Jon,
It was a good less.
Have a nice evening.
Susan
that’s great jon, thanks a lot.
Hi, Teacher Jon. This is a good way for me to study.
Thank you very much.
i enjoyed this lesson a lot.
Hi, I really happy I could found this great web side, I really continue learn English very well, I hope we will have more lessons in the future… THANKS ALOT
I got confused, I translated few days ago about coffee rust and there was something related to coffee grows better under shadows, and now I think it is under shade, ohh no
When you’re talking about plants, it’s “shade”!
yeeeey !!! I did the quiz correctly
I had just one mistake
ok 80 %. Thanks
wow!Very nice lesson :D! Thanks Jon. I got 10/10.
Very interesting lesson! thanks
i thank you Jon for this lesson it’s very useful.i have a question:could you make the difference for me between hear and listen,talk and speak,thank you.
i thank u for your lessons.could you make a difference for me between speak and talk,hear and listen?
I could see your shadow on the whiteboard here in a freshly shade.
Thanks!
I’ve got them!
10 out of 10. ;-D
Thanks Jon!
thanks a lot jon your performer is so great i am so glad to learn from the new things whitch i don’t khow ;goog job friend
Thanks Jon I got 70%.
thx jon i have got eight on ten. However, i’m not satisfied !
I like your way to teach!
100.- thanks Jon. You got me out of doubt about active words.
10 out of 10 :) Exciting!
good lesson :D thx
Good lesson… All teachers are great, thanks…
I’m so motivated to continu with you
thinks a lot
Yessssssssss…I’m 100
Great lession , these gwo words always confuse me , but i made 9 out of 10 ,,,
Hi John I love yours class
Excellent lesson, but I have some doubts:
A umbrella has a shade or a shadow?
A car has a shade or a shadow?
They are things without own life, but they move when somebody carry or drive it.
thanks jon!
Got a perfect one on this lesson. Thanks jon.
can you explain about question no 9
thank you, I got it!
good lesson, we are waiting more.
Hi Jon!
Thank you for the lesson. It was new for me, because I had never heard the word “shade” before.
Regards from Brazil!
i have 10/10 thank you teacher jon.^_^
Nice T-shirt! Thank you for the lesson.
Greetings from Peru
It is a good lesson
Very good lesson.Thanks.
Very interesting!!! =)
Thanks!
I got 10/10, very nice
So good! i think i’ll watch all his videos:)
thanks
I like it, thanks
Thanks
I want to do the quiz again
very good, I understand it, I am very happy for your lesson, thank you.
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