Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

In this lesson, we're going to talk about the differences between the words talk and ask.

These are verbs that have a couple of similar uses, but actually making sentences and making some patterns with them

might be a little bit different.

So let's take a look at that, and then we'll finish today's lesson with a quiz. Let's begin.

Okay, the first verb I want to talk about is the verb talk.

So we use the verb talk to refer to everyday conversations.

This is an information sharing between two people.

So I don't really use the word talk unless I'm having a conversation or a discussion.

We can use the word talk to talk about like when you're alone and you're talking to yourself.

But for today's lesson I'm going to focus on the use of this verb for conversations with other people. so, you know, between two people or more.

Talk is more casual than the verb speak. You might have seen a different video on this channel

where I explained the word speak, and I think the other verbs were say and tell.

So talk is more casual than the word speak.

Please keep that in mind.

Then, when making sentences with the verb talk,

this is the first point I want to mention.

When the direct object of the verb is a person,

you can use to or with after the verb talk. So let's look at some examples.

First, I need to talk to you about the plan for the weekend, is one, and he talked with

the team about some ideas. So in these sentences I've followed the verb talk here in

present tense and here in past tense I followed it with different prepositions. So in

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