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00:0-1	Hello . My name is Emma . And in today's
00:01	video we are going to teach you 10 verbs that
00:05	you can use when you're talking about work and jobs
00:09	. Okay . And careers . So these are 10
00:11	very important verbs that you will hear a lot in
00:14	movies and on TV shows and maybe even your professional
00:19	life . Okay , so let's get started . So
00:24	for each of these verbs I'm going to tell you
00:26	what they mean . I'm going to tell you the
00:28	grammar of the verb because that's also very important .
00:32	And I am going to talk about pronunciation . So
00:35	how do we say it ? And spelling each of
00:39	these parts ? So beaning grammar , pronunciation and spelling
00:43	, not smelling , spelling can really help you remember
00:47	these verbs better . Okay so my first verb to
00:52	be hired . What does it mean to be hired
00:57	? Well this is a very good meaning . This
00:59	is something very exciting when you are hired . It
01:03	means you get a job . Okay . So it's
01:05	you've given your resume to accompany , you've done the
01:09	interview and guess what you are hired ? Okay .
01:13	That means you've gotten the job well done . So
01:16	I've drawn a smiley face here because this is very
01:18	exciting . So let's look at an example of the
01:23	verb hired a long time ago when I was a
01:27	lot younger , I was hired by blockbuster . Okay
01:34	so a company , I don't know if it still
01:36	exists but um I was hired by blockbuster . Okay
01:42	so you'll notice something about this verb we have here
01:45	the subject which is I . M . A .
01:49	And we have the verb hired . But you might
01:52	also notice this word was I was hired . This
01:57	means that this verb is in what's called the passive
02:00	tense . Okay so when we're talking about maybe our
02:04	friends or our family or people we know who got
02:07	a job . We will say my friend was hired
02:13	by in the company or um You know uh I
02:19	was hired by this company . Okay now this is
02:23	a bit different . Um So this is in the
02:25	passive and it's very important to remember the word was
02:29	we have here Our our same verb hired but in
02:33	this case it's in the active 10s . And if
02:36	you don't know what I mean by passive or active
02:38	, that's okay because we have a video on that
02:41	. Which will help explain that . But the point
02:44	here is that usually when you use hired you usually
02:48	have a was um in front of it or we're
02:52	depending on if you're saying he she we they we
02:56	usually have it like this if you're talking about a
03:00	company or the boss of a company , a manager
03:04	. Um and we're talking about their role and that
03:08	they want to employ someone . In this case we
03:12	would use the active which is this sentence . The
03:15	manager hired , john okay . And so you'll notice
03:19	here , I can also say blockbuster hired me .
03:24	Um You know if I was a famous actress I
03:28	could say Universal Studios hired me for their next movie
03:32	. Not true but um just an example . So
03:36	the key here is there's no was or were in
03:39	the active form . But for you you will probably
03:43	be mainly using the first form , the passive form
03:47	. Okay . And if you have questions about this
03:49	, you can watch our videos on passive and active
03:51	tenses . So I was hired by blockbuster . How
03:55	do I pronounce this word ? Well the first thing
03:58	is it is two syllables . So we say hi
04:02	or okay , so I want you to repeat after
04:04	me . Hi Earth . Okay . And so it's
04:08	kind of like the word high . Uh huh .
04:12	And in terms of the spelling , uh one of
04:15	the great things with verbs that have to do with
04:17	jobs is a lot of them are spelt very similarly
04:21	, they have very close spellings . So for example
04:23	, we have your higher . There's another job verb
04:27	that we'll be talking about soon . That does not
04:30	mean the same thing , but it also has I
04:32	. R . E . Can you guess what that
04:33	word is ? Fire ? Okay . Fire rhymes with
04:37	higher . They both have similar spelling spellings and we
04:41	also have another word retire . Okay , So I
04:44	. R . E . You'll see are very common
04:46	with job verbs . All right , so let's look
04:48	at another verb to earn . Okay , this is
04:53	a great verb to earn , It means to make
04:56	money . Okay , so you've gotten the job you
04:58	have been hired . So what happens now ? The
05:02	best part you start to make money ? You earn
05:05	money . Okay . So I've drawn a happy face
05:08	here because this is also a very good thing about
05:10	jobs . So here are some examples of using this
05:15	verb in a sentence . I have my friend Jack
05:18	here or jake . I'm sorry not Jack jake earns
05:23	. Well this means this means jake makes a lot
05:27	of money . Mhm . Now compare this to Ben
05:31	then doesn't earn a lot , so that means then
05:36	does not make a lot of money . So in
05:39	terms of the pronunciation of this word , I know
05:42	a lot of students want to pronounce E . A
05:45	. As E , which usually is right but in
05:48	this case um we don't pronounce this as Aaron ,
05:52	we pronounce this as earn so like this urn and
05:57	if you can't really remember just think of the word
05:59	learn because we have the word earn in it .
06:03	Okay . Um so that should help you with pronunciation
06:07	. So I want you to say it with me
06:09	earn . Okay great . So now we have another
06:13	verb that means the same thing as earn and that
06:17	is to get or to be paid . Okay .
06:21	So when we're talking about pay , we're talking again
06:25	about making money . So again , I have a
06:27	smiley face because this is one of the best parts
06:29	about working is getting paid . I get paid every
06:34	week . This means I make money every week .
06:38	Sue gets paid every two weeks . Um You might
06:42	also talk about how well somebody gets paid . Just
06:46	like earn , jake earns well jake gets paid well
06:51	. Okay . Um Ben doesn't earn a lot .
06:54	Ben doesn't get paid a lot , so they have
06:58	the same meaning . Um So in this case like
07:01	we've talked about the passive before with up here I
07:05	get paid or I am paid . This is a
07:08	passive sentence . Now if you don't know what that
07:10	means , don't worry . Okay , um you can
07:13	watch the video again on that . But the main
07:15	thing is when we're talking about ourselves and how much
07:18	money we're making , we usually use this , I
07:21	get paid a lot of money . I get paid
07:25	, you know , a little money . Okay .
07:29	We can also talk about companies . So when I
07:31	worked at blockbuster , um I was working , you
07:36	know the front desk . So the company at that
07:40	time paid well . Okay , the company pays well
07:43	. The company doesn't pay well . So in this
07:46	case when we're talking about the company , we're using
07:48	the active voice . Okay , So we're not using
07:52	the word get here , we're just using the word
07:54	pay . And you'll notice that the spelling of the
07:56	verbs , even though it's the same verb , they're
07:59	spelled differently . Okay , so in terms of pronunciation
08:04	paid , it runs with day and we have paid
08:10	. Okay . So this is not pronounced like said
08:12	, it looks like said , but it's not pronounced
08:14	like that . It's pronounced paid pay and paid when
08:19	we're talking about it in the passive voice or in
08:22	the past tense . All right now , let's look
08:24	at some more verbs that have to do with jobs
08:27	. Okay , so , so far you have been
08:28	hired , um you have earned lots of money ,
08:32	you've been paid really well by your company . So
08:35	what happens next ? Well , the next verb we're
08:38	going to talk about tells you just that to be
08:41	promoted . Okay . So when you are promoted ,
08:45	there's a happy face here . This is a very
08:46	good thing to be promoted . This means if this
08:49	is you down here , you're moving up and up
08:53	and up in the company . So you're going from
08:55	your position to a higher position . Okay . So
08:59	imagine if I was a police officer and I was
09:05	great at my job , I worked there for some
09:07	years and suddenly um this might be a bit of
09:10	a jump but suddenly I was promoted to Chief of
09:14	Police . It means I've moved from my position to
09:17	a higher position . Okay ? And this new position
09:20	, I'm going to earn more money probably . So
09:25	I was promoted to Chief of Police , I was
09:28	promoted to principal , I was promoted to head teacher
09:32	. Okay , I was promoted to professor . So
09:35	these are all examples of moving up to a higher
09:38	job . Um And so again like we were talking
09:42	about with some of those other verbs like hired ,
09:45	we have here the word was okay and then we
09:49	have promoted with E . D . It's the past
09:51	participle of promote this means this is a passive sentence
09:56	because the promotion is happening to us . Okay So
10:01	we're using the passive voice here and we're saying I
10:04	was promoted to Chief of Police . So if you
10:08	have a job and you've moved up in the job
10:11	you can say I was promoted to blank . Or
10:14	maybe you know a friend or your family when they
10:17	move up at work , you can say they were
10:20	promoted . She was promoted , he was promoted .
10:24	We were promoted . Okay . And then here is
10:27	the new job title . Um Now let's look at
10:32	the active voice . The company promoted me . So
10:37	the company is doing this . They're helping me move
10:40	up . Okay . So I could say the manager
10:43	promoted me . My boss promoted me . And so
10:46	in this case we don't have the word was or
10:49	where we just have the verb promoted because this is
10:52	the active voice . So I was promoted to chief
10:55	of police . Um The company promoted me . Okay
11:00	so now let's look at pronunciation . Pro is kind
11:04	of like progress . Okay . That's what promote reminds
11:07	me of . It reminds me of progress and it
11:09	has the same um prefects to it . Pro moat
11:14	. Okay so this is two syllables promote . And
11:18	when we say it we put the stress or we
11:21	say the second part louder and longer . I was
11:24	promoted promote . Okay so now let's look at some
11:29	more verbs . Okay now we have the opposite of
11:33	promoted , which as you can see a sad face
11:37	here . This is to be demoted demoted . So
11:43	what does it mean to be demoted ? Well here
11:47	we're going up up up in the company whereas when
11:49	we're demoted we're going down to a lower job .
11:53	Okay so this is not a good thing . We're
11:56	going from our high position to a lower position .
11:59	Okay . So for example , maybe I made a
12:03	mistake at the company . Okay . Maybe I was
12:05	chief of Police for a day and then I made
12:09	some big mistakes . And because of those big mistakes
12:13	, I was demoted . So I went down maybe
12:17	back to my old job or maybe even lower .
12:21	Okay , so demoted is not a good thing .
12:24	And again , we have this um in the passive
12:27	voice , I was demoted . He was demoted .
12:31	She was demoted . We were demoted . They were
12:35	demoted . Okay . Now , if the company like
12:41	here , if the company is doing the demotion ,
12:44	we would say the company demoted me . Okay ,
12:48	so I was demoted . The company demoted me .
12:53	So very similar to promoted except opposite meanings . Mhm
12:58	. And again , this is two syllables demote and
13:02	the stresses on the second syllable I was demoted the
13:07	remote . The company demoted me . Okay , so
13:14	we have a positive thing . We have a sad
13:17	thing . What's next ? Okay . This is a
13:21	scary thing to be fired . All right . This
13:26	is probably the job . Um The job herb ,
13:28	you're going to hear the most . Hopefully it doesn't
13:31	happen to you , but we hear it a lot
13:33	in movies and T . V . I hope it
13:34	doesn't happen to you to be fired . So I've
13:38	drawn here a very angry person because usually when you
13:42	are fired you are not happy . It means you
13:45	lose your job . Um And it's usually because the
13:51	company thinks you did something wrong . Okay . So
13:55	maybe you were fired because you stole a lot of
13:57	money from the company . Maybe you were fired because
14:01	um you know , you made a lot of mistakes
14:04	on the job . Maybe you were fired because you
14:07	know , your boss didn't like you and maybe it
14:08	wasn't fair . Okay so to be fired is that
14:12	you lose your job in a very negative way For
14:16	a reason Jim was fired . He stole money from
14:21	his company just an example . Um And again we
14:27	have here it's in the passive form so that means
14:30	we have the be verb or was and fired with
14:33	the D . Or the past participle . Um So
14:36	jim was fired . Um I was fired . He
14:40	was fired . She was fired . It means um
14:44	lose your job . So now now let's talk about
14:50	the active voice so we can talk about our boss
14:53	. My boss fired me . The boss fired jim
14:59	. So because the boss is the one doing the
15:02	actual saying you're fired . If you think about donald
15:04	trump from his tv show , he used to always
15:06	say you're fired . The boss fired jim . Okay
15:11	so this is not in the passive tense , this
15:13	is in the active voice . This one is in
15:15	the passive voice and hopefully you know you don't get
15:19	fired so hopefully you won't have to use this .
15:21	But um if you ever do you can say I
15:24	was fired . Okay . So in terms of pronunciation
15:29	Fire It's two syllables fire and it runs with higher
15:34	fire . Okay . And just like the verb we
15:38	looked at before higher , it has the same I
15:41	. R . E . Spelling and in this case
15:44	we just have the F . For fire . All
15:46	right now let's look at some more verbs that have
15:48	to do with jobs . Okay so we've talked about
15:51	getting fired or when people are fired . So let's
15:55	look at some other reasons why we might leave our
15:59	company or our job . So we have the next
16:02	verb to be laid off . So this is not
16:05	the same thing as being fired when we're talking about
16:09	being fired , we're usually talking about um your company
16:14	thinks you made a mistake or your boss didn't like
16:17	you , or there's some reason um why you're getting
16:21	fired . And usually it's a negative or a bad
16:24	reason when you get laid off , a lot of
16:28	the times you lose your job , but you know
16:33	, you didn't make a mistake or you didn't do
16:36	anything wrong . It could be because the company is
16:40	closing a factory , maybe the company has too many
16:44	people working there , and so um you know ,
16:47	they're getting rid of some jobs , but it's not
16:50	because you made a mistake , okay , it's something
16:53	to do with the company needs less workers . So
16:58	it's still a sad thing though . I put a
17:00	sad face um with fired , I put an angry
17:03	phase because usually you're really angry when you're fired um
17:06	when you're laid off , a lot of people feel
17:09	really sad . Here's an example of the verb lay
17:14	off in the sentence . I was laid off because
17:19	the factory is closing or I was laid off because
17:23	my office um needs less people . Okay so again
17:27	we have this in the passive voice meaning we have
17:30	the be verb or was and then we have lay
17:34	in the past participle laid . I was laid off
17:39	. Okay . Um people were laid off at my
17:43	company because we had and we didn't have enough money
17:47	to pay them . Yeah . So here I said
17:51	it's in the passive form . We also have uh
17:54	in the active form when the company is doing um
17:58	the action the company laid off 20 workers . I
18:03	was laid off . The company laid off . So
18:06	you'll notice here we have the word was because it's
18:08	passive and here we don't because it's active voice .
18:13	So in terms of pronunciation Les rhymes with pay .
18:17	So again we see a connection with job vocabulary lay
18:21	pay and just like we had laid off where we
18:26	spell it . P . A . I . D
18:29	. I'm sorry paid off . We have laid off
18:32	. So it's the same spelling A . I .
18:34	D . Um Now compare this to when we're talking
18:38	about a company . Uh We have this maybe in
18:41	a different form where we have L . A .
18:44	Y . S . So be careful here because a
18:47	lot of people make spelling mistakes when they spell laid
18:50	off . This is how we spell the past participle
18:53	. Okay so be careful when you're spelling this word
18:55	because it's tricky . Even for regular english speakers lay
18:59	and laid is one of those really confusing things for
19:03	spelling . Okay so now let's look at some other
19:06	verbs we have here to quit and also to resign
19:12	. So these mean almost the same thing when we
19:15	quit , it means we don't want the job anymore
19:19	, so we tell our boss you know um I
19:22	quit , I'm leaving . It means you don't want
19:24	the job , you're going to find a new job
19:27	or maybe you already have found a new job .
19:30	The word quit is a bit informal though . Okay
19:33	so I wouldn't if I was quitting my job I
19:37	tell my friends yes you know I quit today but
19:39	I wouldn't write to the company I quit . I
19:43	would use the word resign because this is the professional
19:46	word . So these have the same meaning but quit
19:50	is more informal . It's how we talk to our
19:53	friends in conversation , whereas resign is what we would
19:56	write to our bosses . I resigned from my position
20:01	. So here is an example . She quit because
20:05	she got a better job lucky her . Um He
20:09	resigned because he found a new job or he resigned
20:13	because he didn't like the company . He didn't like
20:17	his boss . Okay so this is different from being
20:19	fired because it's your choice . When you quit you
20:23	make the decision it's your choice . Um And that's
20:26	why you'll notice it's not in the passive form .
20:29	We don't have she was quit . No this is
20:31	always active . I quit . You quit , he
20:34	quits , she quits . Um In terms of the
20:39	word quit . Um This is one of those irregular
20:43	verbs in english Where we don't use it with E
20:46	. D . So if you're talking about the past
20:48	um you know 20 years ago I quit my job
20:52	we never say quitted . Right ? Okay . What
20:57	we say is quit for the present as well as
21:01	for the past tense . This is different from resigned
21:05	, resigned in the present we can say resign and
21:08	in the past you'll notice it's a regular edie verb
21:11	resigned . So in terms of pronunciation , let's just
21:16	practice this quickly . A lot of people they don't
21:19	know how to pronounce this word because usually cute .
21:22	It's it's not really a letter that comes up a
21:24	lot in english . So let's say this word together
21:27	, quit quick . Okay and in terms of the
21:32	sound resigned you'll notice it's two syllables resign and even
21:39	though we have an S . Here , it's pronounced
21:40	like a zed resign . I resigned from my company
21:46	today . Okay so be aware of those pronunciation differences
21:52	. Okay . The last verb you are going to
21:55	learn today from this lesson is a really happy verb
21:59	. We're ending on a very happy note and that
22:02	is to retire . So what does it mean to
22:06	retire ? Well when we retire from our job it
22:10	means we're leaving work , but it's not because we
22:15	don't like the job or because a better job comes
22:18	along . It means we're finished work forever . We
22:22	don't need to do any more work . Were older
22:25	, you know , depending on your country , there's
22:27	different ages to retire in some countries . Maybe it's
22:30	60 , maybe 70 , maybe 65 . Okay ,
22:34	so when we're older we retire and that means we're
22:37	finished work , we're finished for good . So for
22:42	example , my father , When he retired , my
22:45	father retired at 65 . Okay . Um I want
22:51	to retire at 40 . I don't think it will
22:55	happen . Um I think I will retire probably at
22:58	70 because actually you know , I love teaching ,
23:00	so maybe we'll say 70 . I want to retire
23:04	at 70 . Um Okay so let's look at the
23:10	spelling and pronunciation of this word now , retire .
23:14	So we have three syllables re thai earth . And
23:20	then when we say quickly retire . Okay so you'll
23:24	notice retired . I say tie a little bit louder
23:28	and longer retire . Okay so be careful with the
23:32	stress where you put it . We don't say retire
23:35	. We say retire , retire and you'll notice um
23:41	like hire and fire . We have the I .
23:44	R . E . Spelling again . Higher . Okay
23:48	so be careful with the spelling . Um I know
23:51	a lot of students . The spelling is the thing
23:53	they don't really think about , but it actually is
23:55	really important because when you can spell something it helps
23:59	you to remember it better . Okay so practice your
24:01	spelling , practice spelling . These words um practice using
24:05	them in sentences and in conversation . Um Again just
24:09	uh you know these words do come up a lot
24:13	. We hear about people being fired , people ,
24:17	quitting people being retired people being hired . And so
24:20	these are very important verbs , especially if you're looking
24:25	for a job or you know people who are working
24:27	. Um we use these a lot . So I
24:31	wanted to thank you for watching this video . Um
24:33	I hope you've learned a lot here if you want
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