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Speaker 1: Do you have any pets. If so, are you having

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fun with them? I have two dogs, and sometimes having

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a pet can result in having a headache. My dog

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Max is having a birthday in a few months, and

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I was thinking of having a birthday party for him.

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Did you notice all the ways I just used have.

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Let's check it out.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven ninety five.

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Things you can have. When you think of an actor

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who can play a variety of different kinds of roles,

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you probably might think of people like Tom Hanks or

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Johnny Depp. In the world of the English language group

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of actors, and in a similar category as mister Hanks

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or mister Depp, we have such versatile actors as get

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Can and the star of tonight's show. Have. Have is

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a wonderful verb that has a huge repertoire of meanings

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and uses. Without further delay, I present to you our

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special verb of the evening. Have. First of all, we

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use have when we talk about possessing or owning something

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like I have a dog, but my friend Greg has

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a cat. Those are our pets and we use have

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to show that we possess them. I have a Mac computer,

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an iPad, and an iPhone. I guess that makes me

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a fan of Apple. How about you, do you have

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a Mac or a PC. In a similar way, you

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can use have when you talk about health or other

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physical problems, Like if you say that you have a headache,

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you kind of possess it. It's not like you want

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to have that headache, but regardless of your desires, you

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have a headache. Brad has a cold, so he's not

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coming to the office today. I also have a problem

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with my shoulder. Maybe I should see a doctor. You

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can also use half when you talk about relationships with

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other people, like I have an older sister. As a

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side note, you may be wondering why I said I

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have an older sister and not I have an elder sister.

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It's an American English thing. Elder sounds a bit old

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fashioned these days. How about you, do you have a

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big family. When I saw Eddie last week, he told

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me he has a new girlfriend. Good for him. Let's

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see where we're at so far. You can have a dog,

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have a headache, and have a big family. In cases

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like these, we use have to show things that belong

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to us, but have is used in other ways as well,

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like we also use have when we talk about someone

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host an event, like we're having a birthday party for

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Jack next Saturday. When you are the organizer of the event,

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you can say that you are having that event. We're

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having a company picnic next weekend, and I heard they're

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having a job fair at the conference center all next week.

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Next you can use have two followed by a base

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verb to talk about obligations, you know, things that are

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necessary to do, like Alice has to work on the weekends.

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She doesn't really have a choice there, come to think

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of it, I have to work on the weekends too.

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And if you want to fly to another country, you

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have to have a passport, although I think for my

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friends over there in Europe, they just have to have transportation. Lucky,

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aren't they. Next up, you can use have to talk

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about your experience. One way to do that is by

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using the present perfect tense, like I have been to

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Central Park many times? Have you ever been there? And

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you can also use have when you describe your experience,

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like I had a great time at the party last night.

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Jenny told me that she had a tough time preparing

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for her presentation, but somehow she had a good experience

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at the workshop. And when you do use have to

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mean experience, then you can use have in the progressive form,

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like I have been having a busy time preparing for moving.

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Nick said he's having a lot of fun on his

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vacation in Florida. How about you? Are you having a

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good week? I hope so. And just remember one more

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important grammar point. When have means ownership or possession, it

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is not used in the progressive form. Like I have

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a dog named Max, I can't say I am having

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a dog, so I have a dog. I think I

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had a lot of examples of how to use have

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in this lesson. Keep in mind the best way to

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remember vocabulary like this and any other word or phrase

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in English is to take that word or phrase, write

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it in a sentence that's true for you or true

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in your world, and then memorize your sentences. And did

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ninety five. Remember, learning another language is not easy, but

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