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So, on to today’s mistake. Today I want to talk about a common mistake, that is using a instead of the and vice versa.

So, when do you use a and when do you use the? Well that is a difficult question. It really depends on the situation. In my favourite grammar book, there are about seven chapters just on a and the ... so you should buy a book and do lots of exercises ...

But anyway, today I’m going to give you two scenarios and if you’re lucky I might give you some more next week.

Situation 1.
When you’re telling a story use a when you introduce something for the first time. And then when you mention it from the second time onwards, use the. So you can think of a as a kind of introducing word and the as a word that’s short for “the thing that you know what I’m talking about because I already introduced it”.
For example: Yesterday I was walking to the station when I saw a man and a woman sitting on a bench. And the man was shouting at the woman and she was crying. And then suddenly the man got up and ran away and the woman started laughing.

So as you can see, when I introduced those people in the story, I used a and then when I talked about the same people again, I used the.

Situation 2.
When you’re talking about a particular thing, use the. And when it’s not a particular thing, use a.

For example:
Did you buy a bike?
Did you buy the bike?

What’s the difference?
Well, in the second sentence, you’re talking about a particular bike, like, the bike that we saw in the shop window yesterday, or the bike that we were talking about on the phone.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora, in Stick News today, a nineteen-year-old American woman has been officially recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Youngest Professor.

　19才の米国人女性が世界最年少で大学教授になりギネス公式記録として認められました。

Alia was born in 1989 in New York City, New York.
She started reading when she was eight months old.
And by the time she was 14 she had a university degree.
She then went to graduate school in Philadelphia.
She’s now working on her PHD. According to her website, she’s done “groundbreaking work towards developing nanotube-based cellular probes for use in medical research”.
Recently she’s been teaching at a university in New Orleans.
In May she starts her job as a professor at a university in South Korea.
And the Guinness Book of World Records has named her the World's Youngest Professor.

　Aliaは1989年にニューヨーク市内で生まれました。
　生後８ヶ月で彼女は本を読み始めました。
　そして１４才で大学を卒業しました。
　その後、フィラデルフィアの大学院に進学しました。
　彼女は今、博士号の研究に取り組んでいます。　彼女のウェブサイトによると彼女は「医療目的でのナノチューブに基づく細胞調査の草分け的な研究」をしたとしています。
　彼女は最近まで、ニューオリンズにある大学で教えていました。
　５月に入ってから彼女は、韓国にある大学の教授として働きはじめました。
　そしてギネスブックに彼女は、世界で最も若い大学教授の記録を更新したと記されました。

And that was Stick News for Wednesday 23rd of April.
Kia Ora.

Alia Sabur at Wikipedia

Alia Sabur official site

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Word Of The Day

Today’s word is prodigy. This is a word that is used to describe the girl in today’s news.

prodigy
n. a person, especially a young one, with exceptional abilities

conversations with sarah

　　What do you mean?

Kim
It’s really hard to tell when to use a and the.
　“a”と“the”の使い方って本当にややこしいわ。

Sarah
Yeah, it is. Don’t stress about it too much though.
　そうだね。　あまり気にすることないけどね。

Kim
What do you mean?
　どんな意味で？

Sarah
I mean, don’t worry about it too much.
　あまり心配することないってこと。

Kim
It’s important though, isn’t it?
　でもこれって大事だよね？

Sarah
Yeah, it’s good to try and get it right. But communication is usually the most important thing, and if you make a mistake with a and the it usually doesn’t affect the meaning.
　うん、これを完全に理解することにチャレンジするのは良いことだと思うけど、コミュニケーションが最も大事だと思う。　そうだとするならば、“a”と“the”の使い方を間違がったところで大した影響はない。

knfの独り言：
天才ってやっぱりいるんですね。

Show 711 Wednesday 23 April
The Daily English Show
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