Quick Tips 002: Where do you live?

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In this episode, Kevin and Jack teach a lesson related to where they live. They begin the episode with a practice dialogue. Next, they unpack vocabulary related to the dialogue. Finally, the answer the discussion questions on the homework guide. You can download a copy of the homework guide for episode four here. https://atozenglishpodcast.com/where-do-you-live/ Click the WhatsApp link here to chat with your hosts and other listeners:  https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7 If you could take a minute and complete a short survey about the podcast, we would be very appreciative. You can find the survey here: https://forms.gle/HHNnnqU6U8W3DodK8 We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes. Intro/Outro Music by Eaters: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/the-astronomers-office/agents-in-coffee-shops/ Transcript: Quick Tips 2: Where do you live?  You're listening to the A to Z English Podcast.  Welcome to the A to Z English Podcast. We are here to help you with anything English A to Z. I'm Kevin.  And I'm Jack.  Kevin: And today we're going to talk about where you live. We're going to start with a dialogue that Jack and I will read, then we'll look to unpack some of the vocabulary that we used in the dialogue. And finally, we'll have a short discussion about the topic. Remember you can follow along with the PDF that will be linked in our show notes. And that you can join our WhatsApp group to ask questions or join the discussion yourself. So let's go ahead and start with our dialogue.  Jack: Where do you live?  Kevin: I live in Seoul.  Jack: Where is Seoul?  Kevin: It's in South Korea.  Jack: Is Seoul a big city?  Kevin: It's incredibly big.  Jack: How big is incredibly big?  Kevin: It has about 10 million people.  Jack: Wow, that's huge.  Kevin: And where do you live?  Jack: I live in Los Angeles California.  Kevin: How big is Los Angeles?  Jack: It has about 4 million people. It's tiny compared to Seoul.    Kevin: Cool, so now Jack let's look at some of the vocabulary here from here. The first word we've got here is incredibly incredible. And, and what does that mean? We said that it's incredibly big. So what is incredible?  Jack: Yeah, incredibly and maybe we should first, uh say what part of speech that is. So, incredibly is uh again that's a kind of, uh a kind of word and it's called an adverb. Yeah right, but when you see l-y words that have l y in them are often called adverbs and they're right verbs.  Kevin: Yeah it's changing the verb right? Jack: exactly and so incredibly means too a large degree so you know, too a large amount, or too a large degree, something is a very uh strongly, incredibly, um can you think of some other words that might be similar to incredibly? Kevin: Amazingly, amazingly,  Jack: Yes fantastically  Jack: fantastically.  Kevin: Really, any of those words just adding the l y, and amazing fantastic.  Jack: It's a very incredible word, yeah right yeah.  Kevin: And about number two about, if something is about something else what is what does that mean in this context?  Jack: Yeah so so about has different meanings in different context, but in the context of our dialogue about means more or less. So if I say about 10 million does that mean exactly 10 million Kevin?  Kevin: No, of course not it's more or less than. It's near 10 million, about 10 million.  Jack: Exactly, so it could be 9 million, 950,000 would be about 10 million.  Kevin: Right.  Jack: Or if I borrow ten dollars from Kevin and I give him nine that's about ten dollars right Kevin?  Kevin: It's about ten dollars, but I want my extra dollars. Give me my money back down.  Jack: Fair enough, fair enough, Yeah, that's a good point okay.  Kevin: It's not a it's not a huge difference, but that one dollar does make some difference. And number three then what is huge?  Jack: Yeah, huge well, again that one dollar is not huge, but if I took a million dollars from Kevin that w