Vocab 5

Hi guys, I thought we would do vocabulary number five a little bit different.

I am going to explain all the words through this video and I

thought this might be kind of cool because then you have the chance

to stop me and fast forward me if you don't want to hear

about the word or if you want to hear about the word again,

you can kind of

listen to it again.

Yeah.

Um I have little pictures that go with each word and I'll do a little explanation.

We're going to start off with the hardest word actually and that is became,

I say this is the hardest word because it's the one that gets mixed up by

my students the most and it's mostly because

you're thinking german and you're thinking of becoming

and when you get something that is not what this means. This is a false friend.

We call it

um became is when you turn into something for example,

here you see this like a little flower

um flower bud

and he is turning into this bright,

beautiful flower and so this flower bud became this bright, beautiful flower.

Yeah,

he's turning into that um and that's why it's a little bit funny

when we talk about your birthday or christmas and you guys say that you

became a really cool pencil case.

So that means you turned into a pencil case um Yeah,

so it became is when you turn into something.

Yeah.

Alright

Let's go to the next one

building. I think you guys all know this word.

Um Yeah, so it's a structure that we can go into, it could be a house,

it could be an office, a bank.

Um Something that's been built the building

and there's a little picture there for you.

The next word is community. This one as you can see by the picture um

is a group of people who live together.

It doesn't mean that they all live in the same house.

Um But it's usually like a town,

so all the people who live in Koenig stein are part of a community.

Yeah but it doesn't have to be just a city. It could also be a school.

Yeah we have a school community, it's all the people who are always at kids camp,

the teachers, the assistants, the students, the principal,

everybody that's part of the school community,

so we're all kind of working together and um either live together,

work together and that is a community.

Alright, next one

fresh.

I think you guys know this word um But fresh means that it can mean a couple of things

like in this picture there's a guy and he's like it's a farmer and he has his farm,

fresh food and this means that he probably just

took it out of his garden that morning,

so it's really fresh.

Um It's not that it was frozen, it was not um sitting in his garage for five weeks.

Um So it's fresh, it's just like really just right out of the ground.

Um You can also talk about fresh if like you

feel fresh maybe you like played soccer all day and you're

dirty and grimy and sweaty and then you go take

a shower and after you take the shower you feel very

fresh. Yeah because you're all nice and clean and you're

Yeah so that's some different ways of um

fresh for the word moon.

The next one

minutes

I think you guys know this one

uh 60 seconds is a minute.

There are 60 minutes in an hour. Yeah.

Um

I don't think there's much more I can say about that one.

So all of us are mortals because we at some point will die.

Um There's the opposite of that word and

that's immortal and that means you'll never die.

So I don't know if you guys know this little character,

he's death and I chose him as the picture for mortal.

Um Just because eventually we will all die.

Alright,

that is mortal.

The next one is fatal. This seems kind of like harsh words, don't they? So fatal.

I have this little dead bug.

Oh he looks a little sad but fatal means something that can kill you. Yeah.

So if you remember one of our vocab words

100 years ago that we had the word poison

oftentimes poison is fatal because it can kill you. Yeah.

Um plain soccer on a highway could be fatal because you get run over by a car,

it could kill you.

Yeah, that's fatal. What fatal means.

Next one

neutral,

uh, neutral means you're just kind of in the middle.

So if we're looking at this picture here,

we've got the smiley green face checkmark thumbs up.

Yeah, that's a positive.

Um, if you look at the frowny face, the red X the thumbs down, that's negative.

Yeah, that's not good.

But then the blue guy, he's in the middle, he's not positive and he's not negative.

So we call him neutral. Yeah, he has no meaning or no value. He's just neutral.

It's right in the middle. Yeah.

All right.

Next one

mental. Um, So as you can see by the picture, Brain. Yeah.

Something to do with your brain is something mental. Yeah.

So if I were to say like if I were your math teacher

and I would say I want you to do some mental math,

then you would know ah I want like, my teacher Zach wants me to do math in my head,

not to write it down, but mental math would be done in your head.

Um If you're mentally

thinking of something, then you're thinking of something in your head,

that's what mental means. Um Mental can also be kind of a slang term.

If somebody calls you like if you're if somebody says to you, oh,

you're being really mental,

that means you're being a little bit weird and off if you're a bit mental.

It's not a nice thing to say, but just so you know, there's another meaning for that.

Alright,

the next one.

Oval. Okay, Here you see,

I have all sorts of ovals here. A nice little mirror, oval.

A kiwi, Oh well, maybe an egg, a lemon, a balloon,

a necklace

of football.

And I think a very long overly watermelon.

Yeah, So it's just basically a circle that's been kind of stretched out.

Um

oops.

But it doesn't have to be like perfect or anything,

but it's just kind of like a long circle as an oval

next word postal.

So,

this one I think should be easier for you guys as

german speakers because post has something to do with the mail.

And in english postal is anything to do with male. Yeah.

So if you are a postal worker, you're a worker who works for the post office.

Yeah. Um

that's what postal means, has a second meaning um that sometimes people be like, oh,

that guy went postal and that means he

went totally berserk and crazy about something.

Like he got really angry.

Um Yeah, so now, you know that meaning also, But the official meaning is to do with

the post or mail.

All right,

That's it.

Mm hmm. Vocal Yeah.

Vocal means anything to do with your voice.

So that's why I thought these people singing would be

a good one because then you can see they're singing.

They're vocally singing. They're using their vocals. Yeah.

Um If somebody were to describe you as a very vocal student,

that means that you talk a lot.

Yeah. Or you really add to the conversation a lot. You know, vocal with your voice.

Next word

tropical.

Okay,

so I picked this picture because there's tropical plants and tropical flowers.

And tropical usually means it's usually the area around the equator

because it's really warm. And um it's usually very um wet. Yeah.

So, like,

tropical forests are like rainforests and stuff

like that where they're around the equator,

they're really warm, there humid.

Um And that's what tropical means.

Our next word kind of ties into that. And that is jungle.

Because the jungle is usually a tropical forest. Yeah.

Um It's usually very dense.

Which means that there's tons and tons and tons of plants all over the place.

And that's dense. It's really packed in. Um That is a jungle.

Next word reproduce. I think.

Um you should have learned this word back in third grade.

Um, you would have, you know the word reproduction. Yeah.

And that means when you're making more of something.

Usually when we say reproduce, it usually means like

that. Something has babies like this chicken has reproduced 12345 times.

Um and has five little

chicks that will turn into chickens, She's reproduced.

Um It can also mean just in general to make something again.

Um, but people don't use it that way. So often.

It's more to do if you're like making another creature or something like that.

Okay.

Next one,

spelling. Okay.

I picked this funny little picture because I'm pretty

sure you guys don't know what spelling means.

Um, it just means how to write a word

with different letters

correctly

spelled

plenty.

Okay, so plenty means when you have enough of something or a lot of something.

Um, and so here, this little special

kind of horn is actually called the Horn of plenty,

because they always show it with lots and lots of food coming out.

So obviously, if you have this horn of plenty or this cornucopia,

you've got tons of food.

You've got plenty of food. Yeah. You're not going to go hungry.

There's plenty.

Next one

population.

Okay, so this picture, um, I'm focusing on the population of, um,

like maybe the world or something like that.

And um, the population is the amount of people.

Yeah, But it doesn't have to be always just the population of the world.

It could be the population of Germany or the population of europe,

or even the population of kids camp. And it just means how much of something,

but it doesn't have to be people. Either, it can also be animals. Yeah.

You can have a population of tigers or a population of frogs.

It just means, How much of something is there?

Yeah.

Okay.

Next word

shown.

Okay. This one's a hard one to describe without using the word show.

Um, but it's the past tense of show.

So today I show you something and I have shown you a picture. Yeah.

Um, it just means when you're kind of pointing out something to someone,

but you've already done it in the past tense shown.

Yeah, it is an irregular,

Good

fresh. We already had

we need to repeat fresh.

No,

okay. We will not repeat it. I must have accidentally put it in twice.

Here we go. Next word, polite, polite means when you say like in this picture, um that

she's saying thanks.

Yeah, that means you're using your manners,

you're saying please and thank you and helping people

out and so on and that is polite,

um that you're talking to people in a nice way.

Um, the opposite of polite would be rude.

So rude is when you don't say please and thank you

and for example,

say you're at lunch and the either Maria or not to

come around to give you an apple and you just said

that's rude.

What would be polite is if you say, oh thanks renata or thanks Maria for the apple.

Right,

So that is being polite.

That was the end we made it. So I hope that explained all of the words.

Of course if you have questions,

you can always ask me or you could go back to those words

and do a little review If there's something you weren't sure about.

All right,

see you later. Bye.

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