- I'm not dressed appropriately for this.
you can take part and, if you answer everything correctly,
I'll give you an example situation
and some possible prepositions.
You have to choose the best preposition
For each correct answer you get
Remember to count your total correct answers,
you'll find out exactly how good your English is.
And also after that I'll give an explanation
of each situation and why each preposition is used.
You get a message on your phone,
Which preposition should you use?
If you got that correct, give yourself one point.
You're amazing, you're brilliant,
If you didn't get it correct, don't worry,
the explanation is at the end of the video.
Oh no, my house is on fire, in fire or with fire.
So when your hose is doing this,
If you got that correct, well done.
If not, don't worry, at least you have that gorgeous face.
The next two questions kinda similar.
First one, I'm spending all day, blank, playing Xbox.
I'm spending too much money (snaps fingers) pizza.
Which preposition matches this one?
Which preposition matches this one?
The correct answer for the top one is nothing.
If you can't trust a random teacher on YouTube,
I'm spending too much money on pizza.
Each of these is worth one point.
Add your correct answers to your total
In this situation your friend has fallen in love
And she says, "I'm going to marry this pizza!
But you think this is a little bit strange
So, which preposition should match here?
You choose, you have five seconds.
Go!
Your answer of course is with.
Your friend bought a new shirt,
and you want to give him a compliment,
you want to say, that shirt looks really good on you.
We have the verb that means that, it suits.
What should go in that blank space there?
Wow, that shirt really suits, blank, you.
Wow, that shirt really suits you.
For some reason your friend wants you to look...
Look at my face, look in my face
Or maybe there is no preposition at all?
Maybe I'm trying to trick you again.
Ha!
Look at my face, do I look strange?
Do I have something in my teeth?
I hope you got this one correct
because we're moving on to a more difficult question.
When you feel really good and determined
about improving something about your life, maybe,
You decide which one is the best one.
The correct answer, of course, is to!
If you wrote something different, don't worry,
again, I'll explain everything at the end of this video.
This girl wants to message her ex,
your ex is very bad for you, don't!
Don't even think, blank, messaging your ex.
Which preposition matches best?
The most correct answer is about.
Now, there is another possibility,
then yeah, sure, you can have that point,
But if you wrote to, definitely no.
You're watching a movie and it's really boring.
Ugh, I'm really bored of this movie.
Let's move to the next question.
In this case she is going on holiday,
but she needs to get on the plane for that.
But she says, "No, I'm scared, flying."
What's the missing preposition here?
Is occupational therapy of, about, with or to?
Now, there are other possibilities,
but we need to change something first.
So, if you wrote of, you get a point.
If you wrote something different, no point.
Why?
Because her friend stole her phone.
So, how should we finish the sentence?
This one, there is more than one correct answer.
If you wrote either of them, you get a point.
But if you wrote to or about, nope,
By the way, how are you doing with your points?
Have you got everything correct so far?
But if you haven't, next question.
This guy is feeling very good.
Why?
Because his English has improved a lot,
"There has been a huge improvement, um, my English."
(whispers) Or is there no preposition at all?
Of course, the correct answer is in.
There's an improvement in something.
Okay, are you ready for the final question?
Your friend doesn't feel confident
Why?
I have confidence, I have faith.
I have confidence or I have faith, you.
which preposition do you think works best in the sentence?
When you have confidence or faith
that someone can do great things,
Don't worry, you're gonna be great.
I have confidence in you.
So that was the final question.
Count your correct answers now.
If you scored between zero and five,
you're basically an English baby.
You definitely need more practice.
But don't worry, I have faith in you.
If you scored between six and 10,
You're like, yeah, but still meh.
If you scored between 11 and 14, you're amazing.
You should replace your English teacher.
you're basically royalty in English.
You are now the king or the queen of England,
and your passport is in the post,
(clapping)
Okay, you probably have questions,
don't worry, I've got answers.
Let's look in detail at each question.
The correct answer is I'm in bed.
A very common mistake I always see is I'm on bed.
Maybe you wrote that recently.
You can use on, but that's like,
here's your bed and you're sitting,
or standing, or jumping on your bed.
But if you are here, like this,
For this situation, yeah, I know,
This one it just happens to be on.
We don't say my house is in fire,
we don't say my house is with fire.
Just because English is weird, I'm sorry.
Okay, so why this and why this?
Okay, when you use the verb spend,
But look at this one, what the hell?
It's actually very, very simple.
So, we have a verb, if you spend time, if you spend money,
with the verb you don't use a preposition,
you just use that verb with the ing form,
so just keep that in mind for next time.
Also, really common mistake I hear with this,
is I'm spending all day or I'm spending time to play.
No!
Remember you have a verb, just the ing form.
No preposition, no to, verb ing.
Okay.
But you could add about marrying a pizza, the subject.
or I don't approve, in this case,
I don't agree with you marrying a pizza.
Or I don't agree with the president's stupid ideas.
But, of course, agree could mean you have
the same opinion about something.
If your opinions agree then it's a different preposition,
but I don't agree with you marrying a pizza.
Or you could agree on a deal, a plan, a proposition.
For example, we agreed on meeting at 8 o'clock.
Or, we can't agree on anything.
A very common mistake I hear is
No.
That's a really common mistake,
There should be no preposition with the verb suits.
Where did you get those shoes, they really suit you.
Okay, so the look at my face thing,
For example, if Spanish is your first language,
the translation you wouldn't put a preposition, right?
That's a very common mistake that I hear often
from students with Latin languages as their first language.
So, just be careful with the verb look,
you look at something, someone, someone's face, whatever.
Yes, there is an exception here, with in.
For example, maybe it feels like something went
in your eye and it really hurts.
In that case, yeah, look in my eye.
Or, if you want to be romantic,
you could say, look in my eyes.
That's no, why did I think that was romantic?
No, okay, maybe if you wanted to hypnotize someone,
then you would say, look in my eyes.
Okay, to be motivated to do something,
if you have a verb, you use to.
I'm motivated to do something.
But let's imagine, that today you have a big day
I feel really motivated for today.
I feel really motivated for this.
Now, in general they are very, very similar
and sometimes they're used for the same contexts.
However, there is a difference in feeling and meaning.
Think of, that's just an awareness of something.
For example, think of a number.
This number thought isn't there for a long time,
Think about, that implies some longer thought,
Like, I've been thinking about you all day.
I've been thinking about our relationship
Don't even think about messaging your ex.
But think about works better in threats.
Now, originally, we said,
I'm really bored by this movie.
Or I'm really bored with this movie.
But it has become way more common recently to say of.
I'm really bored by this movie.
I'm really bored with this movie.
That sounds a little bit strange.
Now, sometimes we might hear something like,
I'm bored with this conversation, I'm leaving.
and it this context, to say I'm bored with it,
has that dismissive feeling, right?
It's like you're leaving something.
I'm leaving it, goodbye to this thing.
But in general, use of.
Okay, to be scared of something.
You want to talk about your fear in general.
Use I'm scared of verb with ing,
but when you say I'm scared to do something,
that verb is in the infinitive,
I'm scared to do, I'm scared to go, I'm scared to.
I'm scared to lose you, don't leave me!
That implies that you're going to do it
So, I mean in this context, yes,
you didn't get a point because I wrote flying, not fly,
Okay, to be annoyed at someone,
In general, just use those two.
But remember the reason that I gave,
she's annoyed because her friend stole her phone.
In this case it's better to use about.
I'm so annoyed about her stealing my phone.
Just remember though, you want that verb in the ing form.
I'm really annoyed about her stealing my phone.
And actually, you could use at here.
I'm so annoyed at her staling my phone.
Okay when we talk about improvements,
yep, use the preposition in.
This is a huge improvement in my English.
Less commonly, but still definitely okay to use,
there's has been a huge improvement with my English.
But I didn't give you that option, so.
And finally, having faith or confidence in someone.
Sometimes I've heard few different options in this.
Just because English is weird.
Remember to challenge your friends