Let's begin our journey into our tricks by having a look at words. They are the building blocks that we're going to use to create meaning in English. In today's episode, we will look at "word classes" or "parts of speech". 

EPISODE OUTLINE: 

1. A "metaphorical" café full of words 

2. Identifying parts of speech in a sentence 

3. What are the eight different parts of speech? 

4. Can the same word belong to two different parts of speech? 

5. Guided practice: how to identify word classes in a sentence. 

KEYWORDS: 

word, word class, parts of speech, noun, pronoun, determiner, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction

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