Thoughts and Warnings

Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Gold Forest English Podcast. My name is Jordan and today I want to talk about some different vocabulary connected with thinking and warning: awareness, being careful, things like that.

So I've got a few different verbs and verb phrases connected to these ideas of thinking about something and being aware of it, maybe warning other people. So let's jump in. Let's get started.

So the first one is a very common one, and I'm sure you've heard it before before. It's the simple be careful. Be careful. Be careful of that knife. It's very sharp. Don't cut your finger. Be careful. So, we use be careful as a warning, a warning instruction to other people about danger, so that that they are paying attention, they're thinking about the dangerous thing, and they're going to be safe.

Be careful is very similar to watch out. Watch out is another warning about danger. Watch out for that sharp knife you could cut your finger. So using that same kind of situation, be careful or watch out. Be careful of that knife. Watch out for that knife. So using different prepositions. Be careful of and watch out for. So those are both warnings and they're quite strong. They're like emergency warnings.

We can also give smaller, softer warnings, like, be aware of, be aware of. So this is another more soft and less it's not really an emergency. It's just you need to understand that something exists. You need to understand that there is something. Be aware of the high price. When you are shopping for a new car, of course, you need to be aware of the price. You can't just buy anything, you have to think about the price. It's an important decision. So be aware of. You have to think about something. You have to understand that it exists.

Similar to be aware of, we could also use mind, mind. So mind is normally a noun talking about your brain, your thinking, your brain, your mind. But we can use the word mind as a verb, which is another kind of warning thing. If you've ever visited London and you've gone on the London underground train system, you've probably heard the automatic announcement, Mind the Gap. Mind the Gap. It's a polite warning to tell the people on the trains that there is a small space or a big space between the train door and the platform, so don't fall down into this gap, this space between the platform and the train. So mind the gap. mind anything. You can talk about mind something as a more soft and polite warning, not an emergency warning. for emergencies we'd normally use, watch out or things like that. Be careful.

So these examples that we've just been talking about are warnings. They are telling people about some danger, something that they need to be thinking about, and it's an important thing they have to think about it.

Another type of thinking, which isn't a warning, is words like consider. So consider is a verb, which means to think very carefully about something.. Normally before you make a decision, before you make a choice. So you would consider different options before you decide to choose one of those options. Consider is about thinking very carefully before you make a decision.

On the other side is words like reflect on. Reflect on is to think carefully, think deeply about something after it has happened. So, for example, let's say, you made a decision to do something in your business and it went very badly. It was a disaster. You had very bad results from this decision. Something that is important to do is to reflect on what went wrong, to think carefully, think deeply about what happened, why did it go wrong? What was the reason for these bad results? So we use reflect on to talk about when you're trying to learn from your mistakes. We can reflect on positive things as well, a type of happy remembering. For example, she reflected on her day in the park as she was walking home to her house. So she's just thinking about what happened today and how she enjoyed going to the park and things like that. Reflect on is thinking about something deeply after it has happened. So that's after it happened. And then the previous one I told you about was Consider, which is normally talking about something before you make a decision.

So those are kind of linked together. Consider to talk about making a decision, and we're considering it before you make the decision. And then reflect on, reflect on to think about what happened in the past. How can we learn from it or how can we enjoy those memories?

So these are all some different words connected with thinking, maybe thinking about danger or thinking about choices and results in our life. We've got very specific vocabulary for different types of actions, and the more vocabulary you can learn, the more natural and accurate your English can be. So it's very useful to think about these different words and try to learn them and use them in your daily conversations and written English. And also when you're reading or listening to English, you can better understand them.

So as always, there's a blog post on the website, goldforestacademy.com. And if you want to go and have a look at that, I've got some these different words, as well as some others, lots of examples, and some practice questions as well. So hopefully that helps you out with your learning progress.

All right. Well, that's it for today. A bit of a long episode. I hope you enjoyed and I hope you understood. Thank you very much for listening. I will see you in the next episode. Goodbye.