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All right.

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In this video, we're going to be talking about an activity and that activity is going to be work that

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I was paid for.

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And here is a sample answer.

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So the first job, of course, is to be able to organize your notes.

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I really, really encourage you to take notes.

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I know that for some of you is something that maybe you're not used to.

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But honestly, if you take notes, you're going to do better.

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You're not going to have to think about what you have to say.

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You can just focus on how to say it.

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So here we're going to going to talk about describing a paid work you or your friend had done.

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So describe it when you did that, where and how long and why that work is important to you.

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So we can see the four points that I'm talking about here.

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I'm describing it lawn work, mowing the grass, cutting the trees when I did it.

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Point number 2.0.9.

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Point number one.

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Really?

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And then point number two, we're talking about where and how long.

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And point three, which is why that work was important.

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Really, we have four points here because the first thing you have to do is describe the work.

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So really, we actually really have four different points here or four different discussion points.

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So I'm going to give you a sample answer and I'm going to read point.

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I'm going to read the opening statement which describes the work and read point number one or speak

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to point number one along with that opening statement.

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Even though I've had numerous ventures with friends that resulted in payment for a job well done.

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Today I'll discuss a long career enterprise I completed with my mate Akin.

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This involved trimming hedges, mowing grass and cutting tree limbs for cold, hard cash.

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When I think back to those days of lawn maintenance, I can feel the blazing sun on my back.

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With that image in mind.

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I can definitely say we took on careers as lawn men in June summer 2014.

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How do I know it was June 2014?

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Well, my high school graduation was the last week of May 2014, and I distinctly recall not working

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until after I completed my degree.

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We toiled on lawn after lawn during the hottest months of the year.

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Where and how long did you do this job?

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When we first came up with the idea to become a part of the landscaping business, we decided to confine

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our target market to our local neighborhood with a within a ten block radius of our residences.

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There were at that time at least 100 homes that had a front and back yard.

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Now, without thinking twice about it, I know that we only engage in this arduous and tedious profession

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over a two month period.

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This limited time period was due to our starting university in August of that year.

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But honestly, I don't imagine we could have continued for an extended period because the work was extremely

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taxing.

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Right here, I'm showing you a lot of vocabulary landscaping, business, subject, specific, target

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market, subject, specific front and back yard is related to the topic of that I'm that I'm talking

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about in terms of lawn care business without thinking twice about it fluency language.

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This is really good fluency language because it extends and explains but honestly good fluency language.

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The work was extremely taxing.

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Again, that's really good subject, specific vocabulary.

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This talks about the job.

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All right.

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And finally, why was that work important to you?

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Earning money, learning investment and saving for school.

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But I'll tell you what, this yard maintenance tree taught me some of the most valuable lessons in life.

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For one, it was my first time earning money.

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And so I learned the value of a dollar.

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More than learning the value of a dollar.

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This work enlighten me on the concept of return on capital.

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What I mean by that is my mate and I had to chip in on the equipment to do that.

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We had to chip in on the equipment to do the job.

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And by the end of the summer, we had quadrupled the that initial investment.

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Lastly, this self employment will always carry weight with me because it enabled the saving of a few

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dollars that went towards the purchase of books and other university requirements.

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Okay.

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I'll read that one more time.

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But I'll tell you what this yard maintenance tree taught me some of the most valuable lessons in life.

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For one, it was my first time earning money.

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And so I learned the value of a dollar more than learning the value of a dollar.

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This work enlighten me on the concept of return of capital.

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What I mean by that is my mate and I had to chip in on the equipment to do the job.

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And by the end of the summer we had quadrupled that initial investment.

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Lastly, this self employment will always carry weight with me because it enabled the saving of a few

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dollars that went towards the purchase of books and other university requirements.

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Okay.

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Great language.

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I hope that you heard a little bit of when I was really chunking language together.

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So, for example, when I said this first phrase, I didn't say.

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But I'll tell you what.

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You know, you don't say it that way.

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You chunk all of that together.

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But I'll tell you what.

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Right.

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But I'll tell you what not.

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But I'll tell you what.

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So you really do really sound like a native speaker.

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You have to be able to chunk that language together, really disrupt language more than learning the

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value of a dollar.

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That's really good fluency and language because it also a really good coherence language because I'm

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really connecting those ideas together.

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What I mean by that is that's really good fluency language, really explaining what I just mentioned

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before.

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Again, chip in really good phrasal verb here.

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Self employment is really good vocabulary carrying weight with me, really good idiomatic language here.

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So all of this really just adds up to getting a great score.