Let's Learn English! Topic: Change! 🍅🍂🚪

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by things that change and we are selves also change over time so I thought I would do an english lesson about the verbs we use to talk about change in this lesson I'll look at a number of different verbs I think about 25 verbs and I will give you a nice picture an example sentence and a definition of course of what it means and I'll talk about each one for about a minute so once again welcome to this english lesson about change to change so this is the general verb meaning to become different or to make something different so something can change over time but you can also change something by what you do so here we have the classic example the leaves on the trees will change throughout the seasons so I'm going to have another sip of water here just so that I can keep talking for an hour this might not happen in your part of the world but in my part of the world we have four distinct seasons and the trees will change the leaves will change it hasn't quite started happening yet but in about two or three weeks the leaves on the trees will change because it is the season of fall to change to become different or to make something different and your example sentence the leaves on the trees will change throughout the seasons I tried to write example sentences for this lesson that were a little more complex you'll probably notice that I usually write very simple examples but this time I tried to up the difficulty slightly just to challenge you to change into the same verb but now we have into at the end it kind of has the same meaning but not exactly here's the description for something to become different from what it was before and to me this is the classic example the caterpillar will change into a butterfly sometimes we just say change to like the caterpillar will change to a butterfly but it sounds better to me if we use into and I think that is the most correct way to say it the caterpillar will change into a butterfly and this does happen quite regularly on our farm in fact when you walk out at certain times of the year you will see caterpillars eating Jen's plants and then eventually you will see them make a cocoon and a butterfly or a moth sometimes will come out to turn into to change and become something different so the rain will turn to snow later today again sometimes we just say to the rain will turn to snow later today and you can even use change into for this sometimes they're interchangeable like the rain will turn into snow the rain will turn to snow the rain will change to snow or change into snow this happens to us later this fall there will be days where you get up and it's raining and then eventually the rain will turn into snow because it gets colder as the day goes by to become to begin to be something different over time I really struggled writing this definition because when you become something it can happen quickly or it can take a long time but it's not instant necessarily at least the way I think about it as a child gets older they become more mature they stop behaving like a child because they become more like an adult so it's something that takes time he went back to school to become a doctor this doesn't happen instantly he needs to spend a number of years at school hopefully to become a doctor um you can also say something like well the day is going to become quite hot so it's not instant but over a few hours the temperature will change so to become to begin to be something different over time to transform to change something greatly in appearance form or character this has been suggested in the comments many times many times that Jen and I should do this so they transform the old barn into a beautiful banquet hall so you can see by the beams and the walls that this is probably an old barn but they've decided to transform it so instead of being a barn it's now a banquet hall so the barn has been transformed that space in the barn has been transformed and just so you know Jen and I don't plan on doing this because that would mean we would have to rent it out and then people would come and there would be weddings till two in the morning in our barn I wouldn't enjoy that so we are not going to transform the barn into banquet hall to adapt to change your behavior or methods to fit a new situation and then this is actually me right now it will take me a few weeks to adapt to my new workload some are ended and now I have been in a classroom every day this week well not my day it was still holiday so now I need to adapt I was used to being more relaxed every day now I have to be more orderly in order for me to be healthy and to have energy and to be able to get all my work done I need to change my behavior and methods to fit the new situation of being at work so to adapt to change your behavior methods to fit a new situation and this is definitely true it will take me a few weeks to adapt to my new workload and definitely true of any teacher and this is true for students as well they need to adapt so that they can do well at school propel fitness water with gatorade electrolytes zero sugar and vitamins propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self what propels you propel with gatorade electrolytes Tammy regularly haul stuff to her kids at college that's why she shops at bj's wholesale club saving up to 25% off grocery store prices beef jerky microwave meals laundry pods even they can't screw up have you met my kid and with bj's gas she gets there for less they call me the road warrior this is your home road warrior mom home of the save join for just 20 dollars at bj's dot com slash mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months open soon limited time offer new members only bj's home of the save to adjust we have to make a small change so that something works or feels better you can guess what this person's doing I had to adjust my new chair several times until I got it just right so again sentences that are a little more complex I had to adjust my chair several times until I got it just right just right meaning perfect the right height leaning back the right amount this is actually Jen's chair but my chair is over there right there it's kind of dark you can't see it but yes I did have to adjust that chair several times before it was the way it felt good the arms go up and down I had to get them at the right level I had to adjust it many times I had to make a lot of adjustments to modify to make small changes to something to improve it or make it more suitable I never had this when I was a dad of little kids but this person he decided to modify his bike so his kid could ride with him so you can see there's a seat for the dad there's handlebars for the dad and there's a little seat for the kid and handlebars for the kid I don't think the kid actually can steer the bike maybe a little bit but whenever you do something like this like you can modify a car you can modify a bike you can modify things so that it is you improve it or make it more suitable for the situation I can't think of another example right now but I do know sometimes people get glasses and then they modify the part where your nose goes so that it works a little bit better for when it's on their face these are a little bit crooked I've had these a long time I've had these as long as I've been doing YouTube I think so they've they've stood the test of time there's another English phrase for you to alter to change something To change something so that it is slightly different and a classic example would be if you ever buy a piece of clothing and it doesn't quite fit. You might go to a tailor. The tailor took his measurement so he could alter his pants. Maybe he's going to bring in the waist so that it fits better around the waist. Maybe he's going to shorten the pant legs. I don't get my clothes altered or we also say tailored. You can use that as a verb very often. If I was to buy a new suit jacket, I would probably get it tailored or altered. If I bought really nice pants to go with the suit jacket, I would probably have them altered. If I bought a shirt to wear with the suit and tie, I would probably have that altered as well. To revise, to change something you have written or planned in order to improve it, I tend to revise my lesson plans a lot during the first few days of school. So when you write something, you can always revise it. So if I write a sentence, I can revise the sentence by changing one word and putting a different word in. I might change the tense, like in this sentence, I decided to revise it because originally I said I revised my lesson plans a lot this past week, and I didn't want it to be in the past tense. So I revised it. I changed the phrase so that it says I tend to revise my lesson plans a lot during the first few days of school. So to revise, to change something you have written or planned in order to improve it, to edit, to make changes to writing, photos, audio or video, to improve the finished product. And here you can see someone is editing on their computer. I have to edit my videos before uploading them or else they would be quite boring. This is very true. If I just uploaded the video without editing it, it wouldn't be as exciting. I don't do a lot of editing though. Usually I can say what I need to say in about a minute, and then I put all of the clips together, which is still considered editing, but to edit, to make changes to writing, photos, audio or video to improve the finished product. To upgrade, to replace or improve something with a newer or better version, I upgraded my computer with faster memory, or you can also say RAM. So when you upgrade something, it usually means that you have something better. I'm trying to think if you would say that you would upgrade a car, I had a 2022 Toyota RAV4, I'm going to upgrade to a 2024. You could say that. You probably might just say, "I'm going to replace it with." But if I said to someone, "I had a 2022 RAV4, and I bought a 2022 RAV4, but with a nicer trim level," someone could say, "Oh, that's a nice upgrade for you. We can use it also as a noun." So to upgrade, to replace or improve something with a newer or better version, don't replace me with a newer or better YouTuber to learn English from. You don't need to upgrade that. Although you should watch other English teachers on YouTube, for sure. To replace, to remove one thing and put another thing in its place. This has happened to me, in fact, the last time this happened, it happened to my sister. I replaced the car battery with a new one. So a couple of years ago, my sister's vehicle wouldn't start. And I went to her house and we figured out it was the battery. Actually her vehicle was here. How did she get here? Yeah. Anyways, she needed a new battery. So I went to Canadian Tyre. By the way, that's where I made the short lesson on coffee makers earlier this week at Canadian Tyre, a large store that sells everything except food. I bought a battery and then I went home and I replaced her car battery with the new battery. So to replace, to remove one thing and put another thing in its place. To switch, to stop using or doing one thing and start using or doing another. I decided to switch from drinking coffee to drinking tea. I decided years ago to switch from drinking coffee to drinking decaffeinated coffee. You could say he decided to switch from eating sugar to eating no sugar. So it's when you change your behavior or you change something you do to something else. You could say he decided he liked English with Lucy or Vanessa better. So he switched and instead of watching Bob the Canadian, he watched Lucy and Vanessa, which by the way are both very good English teachers on YouTube. So to switch, to stop using or doing one thing and start using or doing another. To swap. I like this one. It's fun to say. To exchange one thing for another. I like apples better than oranges, so my colleague and I swapped. So let's say you go to work and you have an orange and you don't really like oranges. And you look over and your coworker or colleague has an apple and you really like apples. You might swap. That means you give them the orange and they give you the apple. Did I get that right? You could also say trade, so you could trade. But swap, swap's a good verb. We have to swap our regular tires for snow tires later this year. So the mechanic or my son might do it will take the old summer tires off and put the winter tires on. So we'll swap tires. We're exchanging one thing or another. To convert, to change something into a different form or make it suitable for a different use, they converted the garage into a bedroom. Not sure I would be comfortable having a garage door in my bedroom, but maybe they didn't need the garage anymore. They didn't have a car to put in the garage. Maybe they needed an extra room in their house because their mom or dad, their older mom or dad was moving in. They could convert the garage to a bedroom. And I'm just thinking here, how is this different to transform? It's not. You could transform a garage into a bedroom as well. I have a friend whose parents actually did this. They weren't using their garage. They actually built a separate building as a garage and a workshop. And so they didn't need their garage so they converted their garage into a bedroom. They didn't leave the garage door in though. They put a wall with a window so that, yeah, it would be weird if you had a garage door in your bedroom. But I guess you could drive your car in there if you wanted. I don't know why, but you could. To deteriorate, to gradually become worse in condition or quality. A wooden fence will deteriorate over time. I'm saying that word a little quickly, let me say it again, to deteriorate, to deteriorate, to gradually become worse in condition or quality. If you build a fence out of normal wood, like untreated wood, it will deteriorate over time. It will eventually start to rot. It will start to fall apart. It will become worse than its original condition. However, if you build a fence out of treated lumber, it will last much, much longer. So to deteriorate, to gradually become worse in condition or quality. To ripen, let's make this one really big, to become ripe and ready to eat. Now I apologize for using the word ripe in the definition, but I couldn't think of any other word to describe to ripen. When you pick a green tomato, eventually it will ripen and turn red. The tomatoes will ripen over time. So when something becomes ripe, it is usually a fruit or vegetable. And when you pick it, it's not ready to eat. Maybe you pick a banana and the banana is green. You want to wait for the banana, the banana, the banana, the banana. You want to wait for the banana to start to turn yellow. You want it to ripen before you eat it. So to ripen, to become ripe and ready to eat. To develop, to gradually grow or change in order to develop stronger muscles, you must increase the amount you lift. I know you're learning English. I'm having trouble pronouncing words this morning for some reason. It must have been a log week. But anyways, if you go to the gym and you lift a 10 pound weight three times a week for a year, eventually your muscles will not develop. They will just stay the same. If you want to become stronger, if you want your muscles to become bigger, if you want more strength, you have to increase from time to time the amount that you are lifting so that your muscles will develop. You want your muscles to continue to develop. And you can change how you work out to help your muscles develop as well. But to develop, to gradually grow or change to worsen, to become worse than before. So once again, I have to use the word to define the form of the word to define the verb. Werson, here is your example, the weather will worsen throughout the day. You can see a storm on the horizon here, maybe in the morning it's sunny and the weather forecast says the weather will worsen throughout the day. That means if it's summer, you can expect rain, it might get windy. If it's winter, it means there's probably going to be a lot of snow. The weather when it's sunny is nice, but it will worsen, which means it will not be as nice. So the weather will worsen throughout the day to worsen to become worse than before. To fade, to gradually lose color brightness or strength, the curtains will fade after years in the sun. If you buy curtains and you keep them closed and the sun shines on them every day, the color starts to fade. If they were red when you bought them, they'll be very light red after 10 years. Things will fade, sound can also fade, like if you, it's the end of a song and you're a DJ, like, you can fade the music down. And so it just becomes quieter and quieter until no one can hear it. And the slider you use is called a fader, you fade it down. And in a video, I can fade out and fade in. You'll notice between my clips, it fades to black and comes back. If you watch one of my regular videos, to fade, to gradually lose color brightness or strength. To shrink, to become smaller in size, a cotton shirt will shrink. The first time you wash it and put it in the dryer, this man bought a shirt and it is not the same size as when he bought it. When you wash something that's made of cotton, it will shrink. If it's made of polyester or a cotton polyester blend, it will not shrink or shrink less. But generally, most clothing is pre shrunk. So the past tense shrunk, like he shrunk his shirt, pre shrunk, meaning they already tried to make it shrink a little bit, to shrink, to become smaller in size, to reverse, to change something to the opposite direction or decision order, to the opposite direction order or decision. Sorry, I missed a comma there after direction. The store reversed its decision to close and decided to stay open. So they had a sign that said store closing, but they reversed their decision. And now it says store will stay open now. That's definitely written by AI. By the way, I should be transparent about my use of AI for images. I pay a licensing fee to get photos from people. So 90% or more of my photos are from a website called FreePick, where I pay a yearly fee to have permission to use photos that actual human beings have taken. In every lesson though, there's usually one or two slides where I can't find the perfect picture. And then I will use AI to generate that photo. But generally 90, 95%, sometimes 100% of my photos are copyrighted photos that I have paid to use to make my lessons better. I want to do that because I earn money doing YouTube. I don't want to use AI for all of my images. So the store reversed its decision to close and decided to stay open. The government often reverses their decisions. I'm not sure if you do that, but the government will say we're going to give everyone a $10,000 rebate this fall. And then a week later, they say, we've reversed our decision. You're getting nothing. To help fitness water, with Gatorade electrolytes, zero sugar, and vitamins, propel hydrates better than water. To help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self, what propels you? Propel with Gatorade electrolytes. This episode is brought to you by TXU Energy. For the first time ever, Texans have an energy plan that combines free nights all year with daytime summer savings. It's called Free Nights in Cool Summer. To get free nights every night all year long, plus a 25% bonus toward your daytime use all summer. It's a first of its kind plan, created for how Texans actually use energy, discover how much more you could save with free nights in Cool Summer, TXU Energy, energy for everything. Visit TXU.com for more information rep #100004. To increase, to become greater in amount, number, size, or level. So the price of gas will increase this week. The price of gas will go up this week. So I did add go up because it's an equivalent of the two. So to increase, to become greater in amount, number, size, or level, and I forgot my commas there as well, to decrease, to become smaller or less in amounts, number, size, or level. I remembered the commas this time. I don't think the price of gas is going to decrease anytime soon. I don't think the price of gas is going to come down anytime soon. So the second sentence is here. I added because this is the common way to say this. The top sentence is the very correct way. The second sentence is what we actually say. So I would say, oh, the price of gas, it'll go up this week. It will go up this week. To decrease, to become smaller or less in amount, number, size, or level. To age, to become older or change as time passes. The wood will begin to age over time. I've used this example a couple times. When you put wood on the side of a building, it has a certain color. It looks fresh and new. But after a few years, it will age. It will start to get darker. It will start to look different. Maybe some of the cracks will get a little bit bigger. The wood will age over time. We also have a verb to weather. The wood will weather over time. As it's exposed to the sun and rain and snow and water, it will change. It will age and it will weather over time. So to age, to become older or change as time passes. You get free nights every night all year long, plus a 25% bonus toward your daytime use all summer. It's a first of its kind plan, created for how Texans actually use energy. Discover how much more you could save with free nights in Cool Summer, TXU Energy for everything. Visit TXU.com for more information, rep #100004. Tammy regularly haul stuff to her kids at college. That's why she shops at BJ's wholesale club, saving up to 25% off grocery store prices. Beef jerky, microwave meals, laundry pods, even they can't screw up. Have you met my kid? 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