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100:00:01,133 --> 00:00:05,133Welcome everyone! Today we are going to focus 200:00:05,133 --> 00:00:09,133on how to look up words in your dictionary the SMART way.300:00:09,133 --> 00:00:09,366Did you ever have trouble figuring out the 400:00:09,366 --> 00:00:11,632Did you ever have trouble figuring out the 500:00:11,633 --> 00:00:15,633the meaning of a word even though you looked it up in the dictionary?600:00:15,633 --> 00:00:19,633In English the same word can have so many different700:00:19,633 --> 00:00:23,633meanings and sometimes you need to put you put on your 800:00:23,633 --> 00:00:27,633"3D" glasses and look up the words in a different way.900:00:27,633 --> 00:00:31,633In order to look up words in a SMARTER way, 1000:00:31,633 --> 00:00:35,633there are a few things you need to understand 1100:00:35,633 --> 00:00:39,633about sentences and the order of words in the1200:00:39,633 --> 00:00:43,633sentence. So let's get started. Let's look at this sentence,1300:00:43,633 --> 00:00:47,633The Googly googled to the goo.1400:00:47,633 --> 00:00:51,633OK - I can hear you laughing. It's a funny sentence.1500:00:51,633 --> 00:00:55,633and I'm going to ask you some questions about this sentence.1600:00:55,633 --> 00:00:59,633Who googled to the Goo?1700:00:59,633 --> 00:01:03,633The Googly - right? Where did the Googly google to?1800:01:03,633 --> 00:01:07,633The Goo. What did the Googly do?1900:01:07,633 --> 00:01:11,633He googled to the Goo. Very2000:01:11,633 --> 00:01:15,633nice. How were you able to answer the questions if 2100:01:15,633 --> 00:01:19,633the sentence didn't make any sense!! 2200:01:19,633 --> 00:01:23,633All sentences have a forumula just like you have 2300:01:23,633 --> 00:01:27,633formulas in Math. Sentences have a certain 2400:01:27,633 --> 00:01:31,633structure. You first have the subject or in2500:01:31,633 --> 00:01:35,633Hebrew "hanoseh" which gives you information about2600:01:35,633 --> 00:01:39,633who or what? In this case, who are we talking2700:01:39,633 --> 00:01:43,633about? The Googly. Then you have a verb 2800:01:43,633 --> 00:01:47,633and you always need a verb in an English sentence.2900:01:47,633 --> 00:01:51,633The verb tells us what's happening. In this case,3000:01:51,633 --> 00:01:55,633the verb is googled and we can also recognize3100:01:55,633 --> 00:02:02,633that it was a verb by the "ed" ending and then after the verb, you have 3200:02:02,633 --> 00:02:06,633a complement which is extra information3300:02:06,633 --> 00:02:10,633it tells us where the Googly googled to.3400:02:10,633 --> 00:02:14,633We could have added other extra information. We could say the Googly googled 3500:02:14,633 --> 00:02:18,633to school or the Googly googled to class.3600:02:18,633 --> 00:02:22,633You were able to answer the questions because 3700:02:22,633 --> 00:02:26,633of the sentence structure. 3800:02:26,633 --> 00:02:30,633Before looking up words in the dictionary, you also need 3900:02:30,633 --> 00:02:34,633to know what a noun, verb and adjective are.4000:02:34,633 --> 00:02:38,633I know, just hearing the words reminds you of high school!4100:02:38,633 --> 00:02:42,633and you probably will tell me that you don't even know what these4200:02:42,633 --> 00:02:46,633mean in Hebrew but let's give it a try! It will REALLY4300:02:46,633 --> 00:02:50,633help you when looking up words in your dictionary. Let's start with the 4400:02:50,633 --> 00:02:54,633noun which is the "shem etzem" in Hebrew. Words4500:02:54,633 --> 00:02:58,633give us different information and when the word is a noun4600:02:58,633 --> 00:03:02,633it gives us information about who or what.4700:03:02,633 --> 00:03:09,633Nouns can be people, places or things. The next type of word4800:03:09,633 --> 00:03:13,633is a verb. It shows us action.4900:03:13,633 --> 00:03:20,633Unlike the Hebrew language, in English every sentence needs a verb so if you are 5000:03:20,633 --> 00:03:24,633translating a sentence from Hebrew that doesn't have a verb, you have to 5100:03:24,633 --> 00:03:28,633add the verb TO BE - is, are, was, were5200:03:28,633 --> 00:03:35,633etc. And the last type of word is an adjective which in Hebrew is "shem toar"5300:03:35,633 --> 00:03:39,633An adjective describes the noun. I changed the sentence a bit5400:03:39,633 --> 00:03:46,633here. I said the Googly googled to the big goo. Big is the adjective and5500:03:46,633 --> 00:03:53,633it tells us what kind of "goo" it is. Not so easy to understand!5600:03:53,633 --> 00:03:57,633eh!....Think of the way you organize your clothes.5700:03:57,633 --> 00:04:01,633You put all of your socks together in the same drawer - right?5800:04:01,633 --> 00:04:05,633Because they're the same category. You can think of words in the same5900:04:05,633 --> 00:04:12,599way. There are different categories and each category is a drawer. You need to use your6000:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,600"3D" glasses and you'll see that each category 6100:04:16,600 --> 00:04:23,600is a different color and when you know the category it helps you understand the meaning 6200:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,600of the word so the most important thing 6300:04:27,600 --> 00:04:34,600for you to understand is that every word has a job in the sentence and gives us a certain type 6400:04:34,600 --> 00:04:41,600of information. Now you have the basic information that will help you look up words in the dictionary6500:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,600and let's try looking up a word together - the word6600:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,600rose. We have a sentence - David rose from6700:04:49,600 --> 00:04:56,600his chair. Now is rose a noun, verb or adjective?6800:04:56,600 --> 00:05:03,600OK - right away you thought of the word rose as a flower. So let's see if that's the right meaning.6900:05:03,600 --> 00:05:10,600David rose from his chair so let's look at the structure of the sentence. David is the subject7000:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,600because we know that sentences start with the subject7100:05:14,600 --> 00:05:21,600and then we have the verb so rose can also be a verb and the 7200:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,600meaning is to get up - "laalot" (Hebrew word07300:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,600David rose from his chair to shake my hand. 7400:05:29,600 --> 00:05:36,600Let's look at another sentence. The rose was very beautiful. What was beautiful?7500:05:36,600 --> 00:05:43,600the rose - so rose is the subject and in this sentence, it's a noun so 7600:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,600the same word - we can see that the same word can have7700:05:47,600 --> 00:05:54,600many different meanings depending on where the word is located in the sentence. 7800:05:54,600 --> 00:06:01,600Let's look at an example of how the word looks in the Morphix online dictionary. We put in 7900:06:01,600 --> 00:06:08,600the word rose and the most important thing to look at right away is how many meanings8000:06:08,600 --> 00:06:15,600the word can have. Right away, we see that rose can be a noun and we have a few 8100:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,600definitions here and we have an example8200:06:19,600 --> 00:06:26,600sentence but something is not right with the verb because the verb should say rose and it says 8300:06:26,600 --> 00:06:33,600rise so what does that mean? So look underneath the word rise and then it 8400:06:33,600 --> 00:06:40,600shows you the different ways that the verb can used in the past and future and we see here8500:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,600it says "avar" (Hebrew) is rose 8600:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,600that Rose is in the past. Confusing - right? But what 8700:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,600happens when we use an electronic dictionary?8800:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,600When we put in the word Rose, it doesn't give us the definition.8900:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,600It sends us to the root word or in Hebrew 9000:07:00,600 --> 00:07:08,600"Milat Hashoresh" and then you have to look up the word rise in the dictionary as a verb.9100:07:08,600 --> 00:07:15,600So we put in the word rise and it first gives us the word as a 9200:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,600noun as you can see here and we need rise as a 9300:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,600verb and the most important thing is to know to keep9400:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,600pressing the downward arrow because then the next time9500:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,600the word will show up and it will have a v9600:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,600for verb. Now it's time for you to 9700:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,600practice - the word chair - noun? verb? 9800:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,000or adjective? You right away said chair which is a noun.9900:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,766or adjective? You right away said chair which is a noun.10000:07:45,766 --> 00:07:54,766that's an easy one - right - no brainer! Ok. So, look at this sentence, he chaired the meeting. 10100:07:54,766 --> 00:08:00,366Uh-oh! It's not so simple. It doesn't make any sense. 10200:08:00,366 --> 00:08:04,366We have to look up the word chair as a verb in the dictionary.10300:08:04,366 --> 00:08:11,366This time, let's see how the word chair looks in a regular dictionary. We see that 10400:08:11,366 --> 00:08:15,366chair is a noun and then we see chair 10500:08:15,366 --> 00:08:19,366with a small 2 next to it and we see that it 10600:08:19,366 --> 00:08:23,366also means a verb and we can look at the Hebrew definition10700:08:23,366 --> 00:08:27,366"lashevet b'rosh" (Hebrew) - to be the chairmen of a meeting.10800:08:27,366 --> 00:08:34,366When you look up a word and the meaning doesn't make sense, it probably means that 10900:08:34,366 --> 00:08:41,366there is more than one meaning and then ask yourself what job does the word have in the 11000:08:41,366 --> 00:08:48,366sentence. Is it a noun, verb or adjective? If you're using an electronic dictionary, is it a noun, verb or adjective?11100:08:48,366 --> 00:08:55,366Don't forget to press the down arrow to look for other meanings. This is why Google Translate doesn't always 11200:08:55,366 --> 00:08:59,366work because it's not smart enough to know what "job" 11300:08:59,366 --> 00:09:04,599the word has in the sentence so try to look up the words in the dictionary the smart way. Hope that it will be easier for you to find the right meaning the next time you use your dictionary.11400:09:04,600 --> 00:09:10,400Hope that it will be easier for you to find the right meaning the next time you use your dictionary.11500:09:10,400 --> 00:09:11,733Good luck! ................
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