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See, look and watch

intermediate level
Can you give me some sentences using these words?
Watch Look See
SEE
● Inactive verb
● It enters your eyes
● To notice
● No effort

Examples:
● I saw a girl wearing a bright red dress.
● I saw a car leaving a crime scene.
● (vs I see)
LOOK
● Actively look at something
● The action itself
● To look with intention

Examples:

● I looked at my desk, it was all dirty.


● Look, there is a cockroach!
● I looked everywhere, I can’t find it.
Watch
● To observe something closely

for a period of time, especially

if it is moving or changing.

● look carefully

Examples:

● I watched him run away.


● I like watching series before going to sleep.
binge-watching
to be binge-watch
Watch a movie vs See a movie
We watched a movie yesterday.
This would imply we watched a movie at home (TV/DVD...)

We saw a movie yesterday.


This would imply that we did so by going to a movie theater.
We can also explicitly say that we went to the movie theater
and watched Ice Age.
Native -american
Can you explain the meaning of these sentences?
● I can see him.
● Why are you looking at me like that ?
● I am watching you!
Past present and past participle forms of these words
● Watch=
● Look=
● See=
exercise:
1. Have you ______ a new movie by Christopher Nolan?
2. She ______ like a celebrity.
3. Oh oh, I _____ what you mean.
4. Did you _____ that guy winked at you.
5. _____ at this meme. It is hilarious. - very funny
6. I am _____ a man cross the road.
7. Can you _____ well without glasses?
8. _____ at the board.
9. What do you _____ in him?
he is hideous!

10. How many books do you _____ on the table?


11. I have been ______ people dancing.
Phrasal verbs with a word look:
● Look after
● Look for
● Look up to someone
● Look something up
● Look into
LOOK AFTER: LOOK FOR:
to be responsible for to search for something or
someone/something, to take someone.
care of someone/something
LOOK UP to someone: To look something up:
● to respect and admire ● to search for
someone information about
something
Look into: LOOK AT:
● to investigate something directly look at something.
● to research
exercise
● Please can you ___ this word in the dictionary, I don't
know what it means.
● My Mum has gone to France for a week, so I have to ___my
little sister.
● I really don't know what I want to do when I leave
university! I'll have to ___ it.
● I really ___ Beyonce, I think she's a great role model
for young women.
● I am _______ my apple pencil, I hope I haven’t lost it.
● ______this spider, it is making a web.
DONE:))

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