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Speaker 1: Do you usually listen to music while you're studying? Do

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you like to study during the day or in the evening?

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Do you study for a few hours at once or

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several times during the day. Let's dive in.

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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 sixty seven.

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During four in and while, when we talk about time

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and what happens with time, we can use during four

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in and while. A lot of English learners get tripped

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up on using these words, so let's spend some time

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together going through them. First of all, during talks about

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when something happens within a certain period of time, keep

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in mind we use during followed by a noun like

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an event or a time related word, and that's the

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key point. The noun following during is usually some event, activity,

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or situation that happens over time. You can say things

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like during the night, during the meeting, during my vacation,

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and during the summer, like during the meeting. We listen

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to several presentations Central Park looks especially beautiful during the spring.

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We can use both during and in when we talk

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about something that happens within a certain period of time,

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like during the meeting, a lot of people had questions,

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or a lot of people had questions in the meeting,

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I was so busy today in the afternoon, or I

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was so busy today during the afternoon. The key difference

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then between during and in is that you should use

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during when you want to emphasize that you're talking about

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the entire period of time. Like Jack was on vacation

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during July during July. What a lucky guy to have

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a whole month off. But if I said Jack was

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on vacation in July, that tells us his vacation happened

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sometime between July first and July first, but not necessarily

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the entire month. On the other hand, four tells us

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how long something lasts. During the meeting, Ben's presentation went

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on for half an hour. I can't say the presentation

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went on during half an hour. If you walk in

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Central Park for an hour, you'll probably forget you're in

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a big city. That's how beautiful it is. You can

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walk for an hour, but you can't walk during an hour.

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Next up, we have while, which tells us about two

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actions happening at the same time. And the grammar here

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is interesting. You can use while followed by a gerrand,

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or while followed by a subject and a verb, like

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you can say while working, I don't use my or

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while I am working, I don't use my phone, and

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please don't text while driving. In other words, don't text

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while you are driving. It's also possible to use while

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followed by some adjectives or noun phrases like while at work,

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I don't use my phone. We can use this kind

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of grammar because basically the subject and verb are removed.

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While in Tokyo I plan to ask about opening a

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bank account. While in Tokyo is short for while I

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am in Tokyo and is a conversational way of speaking

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while the company CEO Steve Jobs, helped Apple grow into

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a successful company. Keep in mind the best way to

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remember grammar 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 check

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this out. Do you need more experience speaking English? Well,

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you can get the chance to practice this kind of

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English with me directly. That's right. You can get more

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study group. There you can make new friends, join us

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for live group lessons every week where we practice these

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podcast lessons together. Plus you get access to the pdf,

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the past and in the future. And on top of that,

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each episode has exercises where you can practice this English

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point with speaking and writing checked by me. To learn more,

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just visit mohappy English dot com and choose podcast lesson

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seven sixty seven. Remember, learning another language is not easy,

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but it's not impossible, and I'm here to help you

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on your journey.

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