Easy English Lesson: turn on, turn off, turn up, turn down

It is a pleasure to be the first one to leave a comment in a lesson of a very enthusiastic teacher.

Congratulations teacher for the way you give the explanations. It is easier and useful to understand everything your say and everything you show.

Carry on with your good lessons.

I’m looking forward to see your next video.

walkwalk

Excellent lesson on phrasal verbs James; your talking fast, makes the lesson more challenging.

Looking forward to your next video lesson.

Regards

Regino

Thank you James Your lesson is very useful for me and anyone who want to imrove their english skill.

Ukrit

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Thank you Ukrit. I added you among my contacts on Skype as well.

tiger888

Thank you for your great lesson, James. Your lesson was easy for me to understand :)

Happy04

If I’m talking about a car, can I use TURN ON the engine? Thanks

Kiras Costa

yes you can!

ljrequena10hernandez@gmail.com

The house is too hot,turn AC on.

James

Plz describe the following
Take for granted
Anything to go by

ragin

Thank you for the lesson, I enjoyed it.
Could you please make a lesson of how to use IN and ON as place prepositions, it really confuses me when I want to say for example: «Let’s talk on/in Skype»

LeoBorges

I also have difficulties to understand when I have to use WHOM instead of WHO

LeoBorges

I got 90 thanks for the lesson.

saaduddin

Thanks a lot James! This video turned up my knowledge.

Svetlanakurkova

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Giridhar Reddy

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reza kamkar

Thanks

safiya111

hey James! great lesson! so, a question for you and it don’t have anything about your lesson but: what does the worm do there ?

andres10

That worm is Mr. E. He is James’ virtual friend in his English lessons.

bencebacsi

oh all right! thanks for the explanation! cheers!

andres10

Hi James, nice lesson, but why did you talk so slowly:) it was too boring, because we used to your speech, please be yourself, and please don’t try to pretend a classic teacher, :P have a nice day

ahmeterd

Maybe because this one is a lesson for beginners? Anyway, still faster than Rebecca’s or Alex’s normal speech. ;)

bencebacsi

I think his rhythm is reasonable.

kobi

I think he is so kind for doing that

lynktran

Very nice

Rehan578666

I got 70 so sad

Rehan578666

thanks james that’s helpful

sokdavid

That’s great.

Shippocrate

hallo people

oglo

thank you james for all your helpful lessons

oglo

Great lesson! Thank you James. Is there someone which want help me to improve my english? I’d love!

Feina

You mean,you wanna talk to someone…

Iml98

Good job James, I love watching your videos and could you please make a video about judicial terms?

dmytro2015

Thank you James.It’s very good lesson.I don’t like when the volume of the music is high , so I always turn it down , when it is too high.

anahit15

Thank you James. The lesson was very usefull. And James was quite serious. I was glad to see you more serious.

Andrew

I am still wondering what happened between examples one and two XD It should have been really funny looking at James´face!!
Thank you James for this easy but useful lesson!!

knopfler86

Hi,
What about turning the lights OUT?

badfiles

The truth can turn out but not the lights. Turn out means to get known something that was a secret.

bencebacsi

Mmm, I don’t know how to do it politely…you are just being wrong. There are lots of online dictionaries, so dare try one before you state something. At least begin with ‘I think’, please.

badfiles

If a grammatical structure is frequently used, that doesn’t obviously mean that, it is correct. I’m sure you know such examples in your language as well. Of course, online dictionaries are trying to collect everything to be as helpful as it’s possible. However, I wouldn’t encourage anybody to intentionally learn wrong phrases.

bencebacsi

Turn out the light it’s same like turn off the ligth.
but this meaning it’s only about ligth, because usually “turn out” means to something that proved or became evident. or someone that suspected as worng but eventually he was right, so it became clear.
in Hebrew there is expression: “hatzedek yetze laor” = “justice will prevail”. The meaning of this phrase is, the justice will go out to the light and will be clear like the daylight.

kobi

its good

javedsky1

Thanks James, you are great teacher, i know english by the way, but speaking is very difficult for me, becouse i live where no one speak, Nowadays i am trying to improve my speaking through internet. thanks all of fellow students.

madka

Hi James I appreciate once again hanyour fantastic lesson. May I ask you a question: Is there any difference between using switch on and turn on?
Thank you

carlos43

thank you for this lesson

horeb123

hi, every body

farhad54

nice lesson

fth-fth

Hey James, first of all thank you for the lesson. I have one question. Why in the last sentence you wrote while your computer is turned on go do the quiz ?
My doubt is, why not to use go TO do the quiz?
Thank you in advance.

Leandro Cleber

thanku for this lesson! it was very clear & useful :)

HoudaTN

100%
Excellent

roheina

i like your teach so much

m.adel

It’s such an interesting lesson, James!Thank you very much!

Júlio César L Sousa

Excellent explanation. Thanks James.

Danny

Thank you very much, Mr James for simplified way to explain the lessons and your lovely spirit.

khalidmarza

Thanks!!

MARPALM

i got 9 correct.

levynzausa

Thank James!

Huynhthitucam

Thank you James. Great lesson as always.

DarkwingDuck

The lesson was perfectly understandable,thank you James.

katerinapas1

Hi JAMES thank you for this wonderful lesson
I got a question about some word like:rush , reach, reach out or arrive.I’m lil bit confused by the way to use them , would you mind to help me with this , thank you in advance
looking forward

Oussouby94

I want to improve my english

Gabby85

good lesson as usual

peng22

It’s a useful lesson. Thank you James

brunovbcastro

Nice lesson, thank you james.
But i think that too long for this idea.

kobi

James You Still My Nigga keep it up let us turn it up like lil jhon did ..

salute..

ahmedkony

I am happy 100%

Demlova

I learned new things here, cheers from Colombia

Sjaraba15

Thank you for learning. This is so useful for me:)

gozisik

it had to be understandable…

Iml98

Thanks James this is very useful on daily activities making know others what we want them to do, if turning something up or down/on or off. For exampe the A/C at work

Aleachi

Excellent Lesson. I understood it clearly. Regards!!

jean.rodriguez-1

Hello every body

Roohollah Ehtesham

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Soei

Thank for your help

tiberio

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EngAhmedYounis

I got 100 out of 100. thank you

Briklend Handersson

the test was not difficult

zapdnb

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Thanks

Dario7

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ey punleu

i want to practise more

jyothi varanasi

Thanks james your lessons are awesome

xxxAdityaxxx

Hello James, thank you for your explanations about power on, off, up and down, all of them are very useful when you try to speak in English and want to make you undertand

jma321

THANK YOU

Debnath

I like this video lesson. Thank you

akoga

Thank you James.

Alaa69

Chow Jesse

SaloMelo

In the United states, I heard a lot that people use “turn out” instead of “turn off”.
to make an electric light go out by operating its power switch, they used “turn out” as well.
another thing it happened to me is that in dating or hook-up stuff, you can hear the verb “turn on” and “turn off” a lot.
“turn on” in these situations means “arouse somebody” or to make somebody feel sexually excited and opposite of that: “turn off”. like: you perfume turn me on. OR you rude behavior turn me off badly.

farzad.m

Thank you, James, for this lesson full of ups and downs!

You make my English confidence and understanding go up and up. No, I’ll not say “boy, you turn me on”.

Thanks again and “ciao” (italian) or “tchau” (portuguese).

Fabio Cicerre

thank you for this lesson.. very helpful

mita safitri

Thank you very much!

ichukaihun

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esmeralda 20

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KOSSIWA22

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Natalia Matla

I wish I could practice my speaking ???? great video!!!

Raysilva

Thanks for this video I’ve been more familiarize with on/off, up/down ., i know how to use this words now ????

Pearlieshells

I CAN NOT SEE THE VIDEO ，WHY？

mihayi

Our videos are all on Youtube, which is blocked in China. You’ll have to find a mirror or, uh, some other way.

engVid Moderator

hahha nice v nice i learned a lot

saleh muhammad

thank you

ayaan samatar

Thank you Mr. James

kidzheart

Thank yo for lesson James. For me and may be for other guys will be interesting lesson about “finishing” verbs, such as – finish, end, give up, wrap up and so. To avoid general mistake I use finish in any case instead of right one.

Elnur1974

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mohamed shabana

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Summart-khak

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Mohammed Shakil

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Midnick

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Dariga

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Ryan18

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Xanghaal

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Elena-Krasna

i got 80.

Norak

Very interesting lesson, very nice way to teach and explain the issue. It turned up my enthusiasm!

ant77

From different perspective it can be described like comparison of smth’s condition. turned off(no effect) – turned down(low effect) – turned on (usual effect) – turned up (empowered effect, hidger then normal).
Am I right? Anyway, it was funny, thank you!

Botanych

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Chiisato

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MichaelShen

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Aoy

Thank you james..i turned up my english..

Dinesh Kuberan

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mussagy24

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BOUSNANE Ilyes

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lerick

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Mohamed Gohar

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gansukh

Thank your for this lesson and I really apreciate.
Question:
Turn on has the same meaning of switch on?
Suggestion:
In your explanation draft about the difference between turn up/down and think you have to change the arrow’s direction for going low (360 low) because I saw that low and high have the same arrow direction.
By the way, I am a beginner and this is my first comment.

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Irina Bondareva

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GreatPJ

Hmmm… I always lick my computer to turn it on :D

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hechicero18

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Why can’t I choose 1st option in 4th ?

SmartNick

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this class will raise my self confidences level.
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I got 90%……

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Gorkhmaz

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danibraz85

It’s really useful to help me realize the difference between these phrases.^ ^

Ariel Yen

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LucyS

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Fernando GOES

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mohamed tigani

thank so much. right now I totally agree how to use turn on, off , up and down?

HonaNoon

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humamjamal93

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It was interesting and funny as usual. :)

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omarino

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hermelo

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Dr.Mohammad

Beautiful English lesson

mmazeem

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Thank you

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Congratulations e obrigada!!!

Aline Matos

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Dandash

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Jonalyn Atondag

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Gurupom

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phusit

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Borsti

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christian012

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rubyat007

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it’s my first participation and my first video with EngVid. James is very clear and amazing speaker. Now, I understand the differences between on off up and down. Thanks for the perfect explanation.
Do you know if there is an order in EngVid to improve our English, or if we just catch lesson without order.

FabriceM72

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and my mail is miguelkf@msn.com … greettings
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kotoz

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Dreamergirl

Easy and usefull. Thanks.

Maliban

I like this lesson

returnwarrior

“I have the power!”
When he said it, I had to turn down the volume.

carlosengforever

Thank you.

pafsilipoclub

Excellent explanations! your enthusiasm are contagious. Before I notice I was already answer your quiz. Talk by myself like a crazy one. Thank you!

Everton Bruzinga

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rguarisma

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claudio.nono14

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layinka8

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zhongting

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hirunam

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Ienaluk

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Omar Youssef

very interesting I live in Panama I would like to go to Canada to improve my English.

rquinterod

Hi, James! Thank you for the lesson. Your explanation is very logical, and I confess that I had never thought in this way before. See you in the next video. Tchau!

Eduardo França

i got 10 correct out of 10.
thank you teacher.

Gamar2016

Thanks for you Mr.James

sari

9/10
The question about water was tricky :) Thanks a lot :D

Rafal PL

Thank you for the lesson sir. These phrasal verbs seem easy, but confusing so it needs serious concentration on how the lecturer gives the lesson.

akifle

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Dwisa

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zagor63

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Have a nice day, and thank you all team the Engvid.

PS:Please think a chat in this web site for the students

venicius

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nupelda

10 from 10 great.

branko85

Yesss, I got 10/10 I’ve seen your video about assume and presume so, can I say I presume that I understood the lesson very well because I got 10 !? Is it correct like that ? Respond to me please teacher james

FaresNinou

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Kuffo44

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Dark flame Master

Great lesson, but James! please don´t disguise your voice, as you do sometimes.

ilmeg

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zimil

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surajpandey

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sofia2310

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Nguyen Duc Anh

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Marcelo Arias

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Misskiddy

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zigmund

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VietNam1984

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Crizz

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Beatrice

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Alex-1956

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DBengui

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volkanakbulut

Thank you for the lesson James but, on question 9 9. The bath was full, so I ______________ the water.}
I choose turned down but, the answer was Turned off, why it was Turned off if we are given any power to the water?