Take, Last and Take or Last?

If you teach any business English students, you’ll know that language we use to talk about time, schedules, and deadlines is jolly useful. With that in mind, we decided to take a systematic approach to teaching the verbs ‘take’ and ‘last’. We made three videos.

Here’s the first one and it’s about the verb ‘take’:

Here’s the second one and it’s about the verb ‘last’:

The third one compares the two verbs and has one of my favourite gags – watch out for Jay playing my dentist!

 

Fortunately, learning the difference between ‘take’ and ‘last’ is a lot quicker than a tooth extraction. As always the videos are available with clickable transcripts over at Simple English Videos Dot Com.

How long does it take?

How long does it last?

Take or Last?

Enjoy!