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Speaker 1: While I was writing this lesson, I was thinking about

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the early days of my teaching career in Sendai, Japan.

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While living there, I had the chance to visit a

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lot of interesting places. While it was different from my

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life back home in New York, living there was quite

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an adventure. While while while, let's discuss.

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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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This is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven point fifty two.

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Six Ways to use while. While is an interesting word

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in English because it can be used as a noun,

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a conjunction, and an adverb. While you may think you

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know many of these uses, hopefully there is something new

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you can find in this Podcast English lesson. First of all,

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we use while to mean during the time that something happens.

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You can use while followed by a subject and verb,

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or while followed by a gerrand. For example, I didn't

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hear the phone while I was in the shower, or

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I didn't hear the phone while showering. There's no difference

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in meaning between these two uses of while. I can

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say we don't watch TV while we are eating dinner,

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or we don't watch T while eating. Here are some

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other examples. Melissa found a wallet while she was walking

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in the park. Grandpa fell asleep while watching TV. By

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the way, we also use as or when to mean

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during the time that something happens. You can say, Melissa

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found a wallet as she was walking in the park,

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or Melissa found a wallet when she was walking in

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the park. We also use while to talk about two

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actions that are happening at the same time. We use

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while and a progressive verb to introduce the longer action,

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which is happening when something else happens. Janice turned on

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the TV while she was cooking dinner. The longer action

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is cookie dinner, and during that time she turned on

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the TV. Here are some other examples. The two women

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chatted while waiting for the bus. While I was studying,

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I got a text message from my friend Richie. It's

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also possible to use while followed by some adjectives or

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noun phrases, for example, the baby was smiling while asleep.

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This is grammatically possible because the subject and the beaverb

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are removed, making for a shortened conversational way of saying

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the baby was smiling while he was asleep. Here are

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some other examples of this usage of while the boss

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continued working while sick. Tom made a few bad decisions

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while drunk last night. While in Japan, I managed to

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visit a number of world heritage spots, while the company CEO,

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Steve Jobs, helped Apple grow. Next, we use wile to

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mean although when we contrast two different ideas or actions.

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For example, while I enjoy action movies, my sister prefers comedies,

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while the restaurant was expensive the food was delicious. Jimmy

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likes hiking while his sister Karen prefers staying indoors. And finally,

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we use wile as a noun when we refer to

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a period of time or a temporary situation. Here are

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some examples. Hey, it's been a while since I last

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saw you. It took a while for Annie to recover

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from the flu. Let's rest here for a while before

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continuing our hike. Keep in mind, the best way to

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remember this and any other word or phrase in English

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is to practice by taking 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 check

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