25 bite-sized lessons which I'm making

especially for you because it's

Christmas

so today we're looking at the word rise

now do you know the difference between

the word rise and raise quite simply

they both mean to lift up, but to rise

is to lift up by yourself without help

and raise is to be lifted up by

something else so I might raise up a

ship that's sunk to the bottom of the

ocean because the ship can't come up by

itself so it can't rise up

it has to be raised up. As we've already said

rise means to lift up so i might rise

if I'm getting higher and higher

this also covers things like numbers so

a number can rise the number of people

living in a country can rise

this means that when your wages increase

you get 'a rise'. When we get up in the

morning we rise out of bed. When the Sun

comes up in the morning you have a sunrise.

So let's look at some common

phrases that use the word rise

well one that I used to hear every morning

was rise and shine

this is a positive phrase used when you

wake someone up

rise and shine, rise and be happy

You might hear about the rise and

fall of something

historians might talk about the rise and

fall of a dictator or a rise and fall of

a certain period in time. If we say that

something is on the rise then it means

it's increasing so you could say that

random acts of kindness are on the rise

if you hear someone talking about an

uprising

this is like a revolt a movement against

something like the establishment it

would be an uprising, you might be

expected to rise to the occasion, that

means that you meet the expectations of

an occasion.

For example if you've been asked

to sing in a show and you're normally a

very nervous singer, if you rise to the

occasion it means that you gain courage,

you stand up and you sing your best so

you rose to the occasion. If you're

watching a zombie movie then you'll

notice that people rise from the dead

this is where a corpse literally comes

up out of his grave and becomes a zombie

sometimes you might be warned not to

rise to it. Don't rise to it

this means do not allow the situation to

make you emotional

so if someone said something to wind you

up to make you angry or annoy you

you will be rising to it if you get

angry and irritated but if you don't

rise to it you simply ignore them

Finally we might use the phrase give

rise to, this means that something will

set off something else

so if i fail to wash the dishes in my

shared house it might give rise to

unrest amongst the other housemates so

my actions gave rise to upset and unrest. So

there we have it, a very quick lesson on

the word rise

I hope you found that helpful don't

forget there are 25 lessons in this

series so if you haven't seen the other

lessons then why not check them out there

is a playlist called bite-sized lessons

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