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0:04 at englishclass101.com yeah vamos a la playa now

0:10 we're going to the beach hi everybody welcome

0:13 back to top words my name is alicia and today we're going to be talking about

0:16 20 travel phrases that you should know so

0:19 let's go do you have any recommendations the first

0:23 phrase is do you have any recommendations this is great to use when you get

0:27 to a restaurant where you don't know what

0:28 the food is you don't know anything about the local

0:31 cuisine or you're just feeling a little bit

0:33 adventurous you can ask the wait staff do

0:35 you have any recommendations how much is this how

0:38 much is this this is useful when you're

0:40 out shopping or when you're in a restaurant and the price is not clearly marked

0:44 or something is not clear to you so you can ask how much is this usually when

0:50 you point to something i would recommend like

0:52 pointing to the menu or pointing to an item

0:54 how much is this i'd like this you can point to something and say i'd like

0:59 this uh if you want to say i'd like uh one for example i don't know

1:04 you're getting beer i'd like one of these if

1:07 however you're in a situation where you can't

1:10 point you can say i'd like 10 of the blah blah blah i'd like 10

1:14 of the blue t-shirts please can i try

1:17 this on is useful when you're shopping for clothes so

1:21 you find something that you'd like to try just ask the staff can i try

1:25 this on you can just say i want to try this on if you like do you

1:29 speak english you might get asked this phrase

1:32 so you should say if you're watching this video

1:34 you should probably say yes or you can say yes a little if you're not feeling

1:38 very confident if you're watching this video

1:40 and you're understanding this part and you say no

1:43 then things that's a little strange i have

1:46 a reservation usually the staff will greet you

1:49 and you can say i have a reservation

1:51 hello i have a reservation it's at seven o'clock

1:54 the name is alicia usually we say the name

1:58 is or it's under meaning the reservation is

2:01 under my name or um it's for name or uh it's in name water please depending

2:09 on which country you're from water may or may

2:12 not automatically be brought to your table when

2:14 you're at a restaurant if you would like

2:16 more water however you can say water please

2:19 to make it a little more polite i would like wave at the wait staff and say

2:23 could i please have some more water do you take credit cards do you take credit

2:28 cards in case you're not sure if

2:30 the shop that you're in will accept credit cards

2:32 or debit cards you can ask them do you take credit cards so it doesn't mean do

2:37 you take meaning are you going to take my card but this take means do you accept

2:42 credit cards this isn't what i ordered so

2:45 if you're at a restaurant you order steak

2:47 and you get lobster instead you can look at it and go ah this isn't what i

2:51 ordered be careful though say this politely if

2:55 you look at the wait staff and you

2:57 say this isn't what i ordered they're gonna be like i don't know just be a nice

3:02 customer excuse me but i don't think this is what i ordered or this isn't what

3:06 i ordered can you please check could we have the menu please if for some reason

3:11 you don't receive a menu when you come to the table you can again just waive

3:17 a a member of the staff and say could we have the menu please could you give

3:22 me a discount could you give me a discount means uh i would like a cheaper

3:26 price essentially it depends on which country

3:28 you're in if haggling or bargaining meaning talking

3:32 to the seller to try to reduce the price

3:34 my family didn't bargain we didn't haggle so

3:37 i don't haggle depends on you and your culture but uh just yeah just be be aware

3:42 of the culture that you're in and the place

3:43 that you're in before you ask this question do you have any vegetarian dishes ah

3:48 this is useful some people have specific eating requirements

3:53 or eating needs maybe food allergies for example

3:56 you can replace vegetarian with the specific dietary requirement

4:00 that you have do you have any vegan dishes do you have any gluten free dishes do

4:04 you have any low fat dishes do you have any low carb dishes do you have

4:08 any fish free dishes do you have any could you take a picture of me please

4:14 if you are in a location where you would like to take a picture but you

4:18 don't want to do a selfie or you don't have a selfie stick or whatever you want

4:23 someone else to take a picture of you a stranger that you don't know you can

4:27 ask them could you take a picture of me

4:29 please or excuse me would you mind taking

4:32 a picture of me please i'm allergic to blah blah blah if you have a food

4:37 allergy or even an allergy to a medicine

4:41 this is the phrase you can use to explain that i'm allergic to wheat or i can't

4:46 eat wheat for example is the wi-fi free meaning

4:50 can i use the wi-fi free of charge keep in mind some places have a a password

4:56 that you have to ask the staff for so you can say is the wi-fi free

5:01 if they say yes you can then follow that up with can i have the password

5:06 i'd like to have a non-smoking seat please so when you go to a restaurant you

5:10 have an option between smoking and non-smoking sections

5:13 the staff will say smoking or non-smoking you can

5:16 say i'd like to have a non-smoking seat

5:19 please quite honestly though the most natural response

5:22 is just to say non-smoking could i get a map maybe it's a map of the subway

5:27 system for the city that you're in or maybe it's a map of the area around

5:32 your hotel you could say could i have a map as well could i have the check

5:36 you're finished at your cafe you're finished

5:38 at the restaurant and it's time to leave it's

5:40 time to pay so you say to the wait staff excuse me could i have the check

5:45 another more common expression perhaps is excuse me

5:48 check please you might also hear bill excuse me can i have the bill where is

5:52 the bathroom very important question if you're traveling

5:56 in america we don't really use the word

5:58 toilet or washroom very much we use bathroom

6:01 or restroom to talk about toilet facilities excuse

6:05 me can you tell me where the bathroom is

6:07 or excuse me i'm looking for the bathroom or i'm looking for the restroom is

6:12 this the train for blah blah blah or is

6:15 this the train that goes to blah blah blah

6:18 to confirm with someone that i'm indeed on the correct train line if i say is

6:23 this the train bound for san francisco you

6:26 can use that to check if you're correct 10

6:28 compliments that you always want to hear let's

6:32 go i love your cooking this is my personal

6:35 favorite compliment oh my god i love cooking

6:38 like i'm always posting like pictures of things

6:41 that i cooked on twitter i'm just like crazy about food uh so this would be

6:45 a compliment that i would love to get

6:47 like the ultimate compliment for me though would be

6:49 will you make my birthday cake that would be such a compliment like it's it's

6:53 a question but it's it there's so much

6:56 behind that will you make my birthday cake you

6:59 would give that to me so maybe after you can use this after a meal for example

7:03 i love your cooking and the other person will be like next is great job great

7:11 job this is a compliment that you can use anytime you can use it uh

7:15 to your with your friend with your not

7:18 with your boss your boss might use it with you

7:20 an employee a co-worker a colleague a pet

7:24 even whatever it's it's just a very small

7:28 scale very easy to use compliment that means

7:30 you think whatever has just happened is good i

7:33 use great job all the time i use great job and i use good job sometimes

7:38 when i make a mistake or something funny

7:41 happens that i'm alone at my house and i

7:43 want to make fun of myself i'll be like yeah great job alicia but if i'm if

7:49 i'm trying to be positive about a failure

7:50 or laugh at myself a bit but in general

7:53 it's just a good easy compliment to give someone great job you have a way

7:58 with words you have a way with words this can be speaking this can be writing it

8:04 means you think that the other person is

8:07 a good communicator or maybe even more so

8:10 than just a good communicator you think

8:12 that the way they speak or the way that they

8:14 write is particularly good so that could mean

8:17 funny it could mean romantic it could mean

8:20 dramatic something about the way they speak

8:22 or the way that they write you really enjoy

8:25 that you can say you have a way with words it's quite a nice compliment i

8:29 think it's kind of like a you know bit smart it's a bit of a smart thing

8:33 you have a way with words or you can say you're good with words you're really

8:37 good with words yeah all right next one

8:40 you look gorgeous you look gorgeous very nice compliment

8:43 to give just be very careful with the way that you say this for an everyday

8:47 compliment i tend not to say you look

8:51 nice or you look gorgeous today or something like

8:54 that because the underlying comment there is

8:57 on the other days that person doesn't look nice

9:00 like so if i want to compliment someone's

9:03 appearance i try to pick a specific thing

9:06 i'm like oh i've never seen you wear that sweater before it looks nice on you

9:11 something like that like yesterday my friend had

9:13 a new dress on and i was like is

9:14 that a new dress and because i thought she looked nice but i didn't i didn't

9:19 want to make it sound like i don't think she looks nice every day so i said

9:23 is that a new dress and she goes yeah i said i think that color is really

9:26 really nice on you it looks really good and she was so happy about that so i

9:32 yes there there are these compliments like you

9:34 look nice you look great you look gorgeous

9:36 and so on but i personally kind of prefer to level them up a little bit

9:40 and just say pick a specific thing like did you get a new haircut did you

9:44 dye your hair or you did you get

9:45 something did something happen like what whatever it is

9:49 try to pick up on a specific

9:50 thing because then that shows you're paying attention

9:52 to the other person and you think that whatever

9:55 they have chosen to do whatever like clothing

9:57 or whatever haircut whatever it is you think

10:00 that they have good sense there too or good style so it's kind of like a double

10:04 that's a very subtle double compliment yeah the next

10:07 word is you have good taste you have good taste this can be for food uh

10:13 fashion style for decorating sense music in movies

10:19 whatever if you think that that person's uh artistic

10:23 selection is in whatever capacity if you think

10:26 that that person makes good choices with uh

10:29 their their appearance or their hobbies or whatever

10:33 you can say you have good taste this is

10:35 a fairly sophisticated compliment i think we use

10:38 you have good taste for something like it's

10:41 it sounds a bit more sophisticated maybe if

10:43 you both choose the same bottle of wine perhaps

10:46 like it has kind of a more formal

10:49 adult-ish sophisticated feeling about it this compliment so

10:53 yeah maybe maybe wine is a good example

10:56 of that yeah oh nice bottle choice like i

10:59 really like that you have good taste you can follow this by the way you have

11:02 good taste in blah blah you have good

11:06 taste in movies you have good taste in music

11:08 if you want to be specific about something

11:10 that you think that person is really good

11:12 at choosing you have good taste in noun okay yeah okay um next one is you

11:20 have a great sense of humor you have a great sense of humor this is

11:23 the this is the underlying compliment in the phrase

11:26 you are so funny this is the underlying compliment

11:30 you have a great sense of humor means

11:31 the other person thinks you're funny that you

11:34 are good at telling jokes or you make

11:36 them laugh this is actually one of my favorite

11:38 compliments to get you have a great sense

11:40 of humor um yeah because i think that like

11:44 you know people like to laugh so it's an if someone makes you laugh you can

11:49 say this you have a great sense of humor or you're very funny yeah it's a good

11:52 one it's a really good one um so you can say after a joke for example

11:57 or after maybe you've you're you've finished laughing

12:01 at something the other person has said you

12:03 can say oh you have a great sense of humor good next one is your resume

12:08 is impressive this is a weird compliment

12:12 to say to your friends unless you're like reviewing

12:15 your friend's resume it's a bit weird this is

12:18 something that perhaps uh someone interviewing another person

12:22 for a job would say the candidate comes

12:25 in for the interview the interviewer says wow

12:28 your resume is very impressive i'd like to ask you a few questions about it yay

12:33 so this is good to hear in a work situation yeah you really probably won't need

12:38 to use this with your friends if you do it's kind of weird oh wow this next

12:45 one is quite a compliment nobody's ever said

12:48 this man to be fair if somebody said this next one to me i would feel

12:53 a little bit of like pressure the compliment here

12:55 is you make me want to be a better person this is something that i think

12:59 you see in movies from time to time first yeah i've had i had one person say

13:03 like like uh oh that something you did inspired me and that was like really like

13:08 oh that was really exciting like somebody was

13:10 inspired by something like wow that's great i

13:13 want to be like you that's a really cool compliment but if someone says you want

13:17 to make me be a better person it's

13:19 like oh wow like that means i'm really important

13:22 to that person which is really flattering

13:24 but at the same time if someone said that i

13:27 would also be like if it's like my friend i would be like but i i

13:32 want you to be you like i think you're a cool person already yeah it's like oh

13:36 you make me want to be a better

13:38 person like in that person's viewpoint you're like somehow

13:41 above them and that's uncomfortable yeah just i

13:44 would rather say you inspire me i think that that or like this thing that you

13:49 did really inspired me like if somebody said

13:51 like i saw that picture that she posted

13:53 on twitter of that pizza today alicia and it

13:54 really inspired me and i made my own pizza i'd be like yay [Laughter] oh next

14:01 one is nice actually i say this to my friends quite a bit you are an awesome

14:06 friend this is really really good to use

14:08 after your friend has helped you with something

14:11 maybe you're moving to a new apartment

14:13 a new house or maybe you've had some trouble

14:15 and your friend gave you some good advice

14:17 or your friend just listened to you when you

14:19 really needed to talk to someone after

14:22 that experience you could say thanks so much you

14:24 were an awesome friend or maybe your friend

14:27 did something really really cool and you just want

14:30 to like tell them like i think you're really awesome just say you are an awesome

14:34 friend they'll be happy to hear that or just

14:36 you can abbreviate it to you are awesome

14:38 not just you're an awesome friend just you

14:39 are awesome you're a cool person you are

14:41 awesome you're fantastic you are an awesome friend

14:46 you're an awesome friend ten ways to motivate yourself

14:48 when learning english let's go the first way

14:51 to motivate yourself is to imagine that one

14:53 day you will live in the united states so to do this imagine what is your day

14:58 going to be like when you live in the u.s where will you go who will

15:02 you meet where will you shop and so

15:04 on imagine your day in the united states okay

15:08 the second way to motivate yourself when

15:10 you're studying english is to study other aspects

15:14 of the culture too which makes it more rewarding

15:16 to study english okay so this means of course

15:19 studying english as a language but if there's

15:21 a specific country that you would like to visit

15:24 or a specific part of that country's culture try to learn about that too if you

15:29 like music if you like the food if you like the history try to find something

15:34 about a specific country or a specific part

15:37 of that country's culture that you enjoy in addition

15:40 to studying the language okay way number

15:43 three to motivate yourself is finding funny words

15:47 in english okay so finding a word that sounds

15:50 funny or a word that you enjoy using or a phrase that you enjoy using can

15:54 really increase your motivation for using that word

15:58 and for interacting with people so if you

16:00 can find those phrases that you think are funny

16:02 or are fun they can be really really helpful for you as you learn your language

16:06 the next way to motivate yourself is

16:08 to make friends with people who speak english so

16:12 of course if you don't have any friends

16:14 who are english speakers especially native english speakers it's

16:17 a really good idea to make some friends

16:20 this way you can practice with them you can

16:22 learn from them and you can just see maybe what their life is like and how

16:26 their life is different from yours so this is

16:29 a great way to practice a great way to learn and a great way to think

16:33 more internationally as well the next way to motivate

16:36 yourself is watching youtube videos of other people

16:39 who have successfully learned english so you can

16:43 listen to people what worked for them how did they study where did they go what

16:48 materials did they use what did they find not helpful so you can try to find

16:54 a strategy that works well for you through

16:57 using resources like youtube for example it's a great

17:00 way to find people that maybe match with what

17:04 you need okay the next way to motivate

17:07 yourself is by watching english movies and tv

17:11 shows and enjoying the feeling when you can

17:13 understand a word or a sentence yeah i do this too uh when you enjoy something

17:19 when you find entertainment value in something like

17:22 music movies tv and you there's that moment

17:25 when you pick up or when you understand

17:28 what your favorite character said or you understand like

17:31 a key point in the story it's a really really good feeling it makes you want

17:35 to continue watching i think so that's a really

17:39 really nice feeling i think and you can

17:42 do that by enjoying media so it's a fun way to learn and it's a fun

17:46 feeling to experience okay the next way to motivate

17:50 yourself is by reading english news articles blogs

17:53 and magazines to get a feel for formal and casual language so the style that we

17:58 use here like in english class 101 and this on the videos on this channel is

18:04 quite casual most of the time or at least in these videos it's very casual

18:09 but the way that i speak in the way a newspaper is written the way a magazine is

18:13 written the way a a newscaster presents

18:16 the information these are all different ways of communicating

18:20 we're using the same language yes but they

18:22 are different styles so it's important to try

18:24 to understand those differences and to become familiar

18:29 with them so try to find a few different things that you can enjoy the next way

18:34 to motivate yourself is after dinner you write about

18:38 your day in a journal in english okay this is an interesting idea so just take

18:43 a few minutes after dinner or before you

18:45 go to bed to write something in english about

18:48 what you did that day or maybe so you have a chance to talk about future

18:52 tense or to use the future tense you

18:55 can use you can talk about your upcoming plans

18:58 or the things you're going to do the next day so you can talk about past

19:01 tense what you did that day maybe present

19:04 tense how you're feeling as you're writing your journal

19:07 for the day and future tense to talk

19:09 about your upcoming plan so journaling can be

19:11 a really effective exercise for motivating you okay

19:16 the next way to motivate yourself is by practicing

19:18 with flashcards of useful words and phrases

19:21 for 15 minutes every day on the train i

19:24 actually do do this i use uh but i use an application to study in japanese

19:28 to study kanji and 15 minutes every day adds up over the course of a week

19:34 you you can learn a lot of information in a short period of time and if you

19:39 live in the country where your target language

19:43 is spoken then you might even find the word

19:46 you studied on the train you see it like after you leave the train you might

19:50 see that word later on in your day so you can immediately feel like an extra

19:55 sense of motivation by knowing that this thing

19:58 you're studying is applicable it's something you can use

20:01 right away it's a really cool feeling so this is a tip i honestly i use

20:05 this last i make sure to thank anyone

20:08 and everyone who corrects my english uh yeah i

20:12 i think this is really important because people

20:14 are really nice they don't want to correct

20:16 you when you make a mistake but sometimes

20:19 people do they're really polite about it and they

20:21 tell you the more tell you a more natural way or they give you a suggestion

20:25 for how to improve your english make sure

20:27 you say thank you like repeat after them

20:30 and then say thank you so that you know it's motivation for them uh to tell you

20:36 again in the future to help you again in the future so make sure to say thank

20:39 you to anyone who helps you with your english

20:42 hi everybody my name is alicia welcome

20:44 back to our english class channel today we're

20:47 going to be talking about the difference between

20:49 by and until so let's get started okay so first we're going to talk about buy

20:56 buy marks a deadline for an action to finish

20:59 buy marks the point where an action completes

21:03 or is replaced by another action so really

21:06 think about using buy to express a deadline

21:09 something is going to stop or you must finish an action at this point in time so

21:16 um we can think about by as marking some point in the future so by marked some

21:26 point in the future where an action is going to finish an action is going to be

21:32 completed so in an example sentence i have i'll be at the office by 7 pm

21:39 so in this sentence the speaker is not at the office but 7 pm is the deadline

21:47 this is the point in time at which the speaker will be at the office

21:52 the speaker is not at the office now but by 7 pm by the 7 pm deadline

21:59 the speaker will be at the office this will shows us this is a future tense

22:06 expression and by shows us the deadline

22:09 the point at which that expression or the point

22:12 at which that action is going to be completed so this is how we use by to think

22:17 about it like a deadline some point in time at which an action will be completed

22:23 or finished okay so let's continue

22:26 on to the other grammar point for today which is

22:29 until until also has a more casual form

22:33 we can use till t-i-l-l or apostrophe t-i-l

22:39 you might see both spellings used for until till or till in most cases it's good

22:46 to use until in casual speaking and maybe

22:49 in casual writing you can use the casual form

22:52 but until is always polite and is always

22:55 correct okay so when we use until let's talk

23:00 about when to use until we use until

23:03 to talk about a continuing situation or a continuing

23:08 state now in the present or in the future but it's going to change or stop

23:16 so the key difference one key difference here

23:19 perhaps is a continuing situation a continuing state

23:24 with bi the nuance is a deadline something is going to finish at a deadline

23:30 here however until gives us the nuance

23:33 of something that's continuing something true now for example

23:39 but that may not be true in the future until marks the point where that action

23:44 or that state is going to finish or change

23:49 okay so we can think of it rather than as a deadline as a key point

23:57 in the future somewhere where action a continues until

24:05 a point where we use until and then

24:08 a second action begins something is going to change

24:13 at the until point with by however we

24:17 don't have the nuance of an action changing we

24:20 only have the nuance of a deadline so

24:22 here until is used to show that something different

24:26 is going to happen or something something will

24:29 finish but there's going to be a change after the the until point so for example

24:37 this sentence very similar to the by example sentence

24:41 is i'll be at the office until 7 pm so here we have the future tense

24:49 aisle i will i'll be at the office until 7 pm this sentence shows us the speaker

24:57 is at the office right now however at 7 pm until shows us that 7 p.m

25:05 is the point at which the situation or the state is going to change so at 7

25:12 pm the speaker is probably going to leave

25:16 the office until shows us that right here

25:20 the action or the state is going to change so please keep that in mind until

25:25 shows you a change in something bi shows

25:28 more of a deadline for an action that is

25:31 continuing so i hope that we can practice

25:34 this in a few example sentences now okay so let's try to choose the correct word

25:42 to use in these example sentences should we

25:44 use buy or should we use until in these cases so the first one i have is

25:50 he has to find a new job blah blah blah march so in this case we

25:56 see a point in time we can think about it should we use buy or until here

26:04 if we use buy we see that the deadline the deadline nuance matches here he has

26:11 to find a new job by march if we use until he has to find a new

26:17 job until march there's no information in this sentence

26:22 that shows us a hint or that gives

26:24 us a hint about how the action is going to change until does not make

26:30 sense for this question so we should use buy in this case he has to find

26:35 a new job by march is the correct

26:37 answer for this sentence in the second sentence i'm

26:41 not going to go to bed blah blah blah i finish this movie so in this sentence

26:47 we have at the end i finish

26:50 this movie so there's some action maybe that's continuing

26:55 here and we have another action i'm not going to go to bed in this case

27:01 it's a negative so there are two actions

27:04 here this is a pretty good hint that there's

27:06 an action that's going to change at some

27:09 point instead of the nuance of a deadline

27:12 so for this sentence until is the best answer i'm not going to go to bed

27:18 until until i finish this movie this shows us that at this point the point where

27:26 i finish the movie i'm going to go

27:28 to bed this marks the change in the continuing

27:32 state or the continuing situation so the next

27:36 sentence is they need to write their reports

27:39 blah blah blah tomorrow so this sentence there's

27:42 no change in the sentence we don't have any

27:45 hints about some kind of different action that's

27:48 going to happen instead we have maybe what

27:52 seems to be a deadline some requirement here too so if we try to use until it

27:59 doesn't make sense there's no changing action we

28:02 can't guess about what might happen in the future

28:06 or a change that might happen so buy is the best answer here they need

28:11 to write their reports by tomorrow tomorrow is

28:14 the deadline so we can guess that tomorrow

28:18 is the deadline here by shows us that it's

28:20 the deadline in this case for this task

28:24 all right let's take a look at something a little bit different here we have we

28:30 can't leave the house blah blah blah your mother

28:33 calls so again there are two situations there

28:36 are two actions involved in this sentence we

28:41 have leave the house and your mother calls

28:44 makes a phone call so because there are

28:47 two actions here we can guess that there's some

28:50 change that's going to happen so because we

28:54 learned that until marks a change in actions

28:59 we know that until is the better answer here okay we can't leave the house until

29:06 your mother calls would be the correct sentence here

29:10 all right uh so let's look at the next

29:13 sentence though this one is a tricky sentence

29:16 this one is a little bit difficult we

29:18 have i'm not going to be there something something 8 pm so here we have 8

29:26 p.m at the end of a sentence which looks like a deadline right we have uh going

29:32 to be there so should we use

29:35 by or until for this sentence it's difficult because

29:39 actually both are okay for this sentence i'm not going to be there by 8 pm is

29:47 correct and i'm not going to be there

29:52 until 8 pm is also correct however the meanings

29:56 are very different just as we practiced

29:59 in these two sentences i'll be at the office

30:02 until i'll be at the office by 7 pm the same is true here i'm not

30:08 going to be there by 8 pm means i'm not going to be there at 8

30:14 pm it's not possible for me i can't go however i'm not going to be there

30:21 until 8 pm this sentence means after 8 pm or beginning at 8 pm and after

30:29 i'm going to be there so please be careful in some cases both by and until

30:35 are correct but they change the meaning

30:38 of the sentence okay let's continue to another example so

30:45 the next example sentence is also a little

30:47 bit difficult it's if my date doesn't arrive

30:51 something something 7 pm i'm leaving okay so

30:56 here we have we do have two actions uh

30:59 doesn't arrive my date doesn't arrive a negative

31:03 point and i'm leaving so it seems like

31:07 there are two actions here however we have

31:10 this 7 pm this marks a deadline right so

31:16 if my date doesn't arrive there's some deadline

31:20 here if this is not uh completed something

31:26 is going to happen the person is going to leave so in this case 7 pm is

31:31 showing a deadline so we have to use buy if my date doesn't arrive until 7

31:39 pm we could use that but it doesn't sound so natural so the nuance again here is

31:47 of a deadline there's something that is going to happen uh at 7 pm 7 pm marks

31:52 the end point in this situation so we use buy here okay let's go to the next

31:59 pair again these are very interesting points we

32:03 have to leave the beach blah blah 10

32:06 a.m and we have to stay at the beach blah blah blah 10 a.m okay so

32:13 these two sentences i included because i wanted

32:17 to show the emphasis of changing actions and continuing

32:21 actions so we can see the verbs are different here in the first sentence we have

32:27 leave so this is a change leaving a location in the second sentence i have stay

32:34 which shows a continuing action stay in one

32:37 place so here as you can guess then we

32:41 have to leave the beach blah blah blah 10 a.m some change some deadline so we'll

32:47 use bye to show our deadline in the second sentence we have to stay at the beach

32:54 stay shows a continuing action and then it's

32:57 going to finish here so we'll use until

33:01 we have to stay at the beach until 10 a.m this shows us a continuing action

33:08 and maybe at 10 a.m we'll leave the beach all right uh let's go on to the next

33:15 sentence i'm not going to travel abroad blah blah blah i learn english okay so

33:22 here there's no time point there's no 10 a.m 8 p.m uh tomorrow and so on so

33:29 this is a little more complex maybe we

33:32 have travel abroad and learn english so it seems

33:36 there's no real deadline here but we have

33:41 maybe a change maybe this shows us some

33:44 kind of change learning english marks a change

33:47 so i'm not going to travel abroad until i

33:53 learn english this shows us that something different

33:56 is going to happen in the future so we should use until to mark that change

34:02 okay our last example sentence for today is we

34:06 told him to wake up blah blah blah 6 a.m so once more our last sentence may

34:11 be a little bit uh simple but 6 a.m shows us an action sort of this deadline

34:17 you can see a lot of these use a time to mark a deadline for an action

34:23 so here we told him to wake up by 6 a.m this is the point

34:28 at which something must happen so we should use buy here okay great so those are

34:37 a few example sentences that you can have a look at and think about when you're

34:42 trying to decide whether to use by or until keep in mind however there are some

34:48 cases where both by or until are correct

34:52 but the meaning is going to change significantly depending

34:55 on the one you use so i hope this lesson was useful for you if you

35:00 have any questions or if you want to try to make an example sentence using buy

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35:28 for connecting thoughts these are going to be

35:30 10 words that you can use to transition between ideas very useful in both speech

35:36 and in writing let's go also also also is

35:41 a word that you can use to add information i went to the store this morning also

35:49 i went and got coffee that's true however

35:54 however however is used to contrast or to contrast

35:58 depending on your pronunciation to differentiate to show

36:02 a difference between two pieces of information

36:05 a good pattern would be a however b

36:09 so for example i love tonkotsu ramen however it

36:14 is very high in calories so i don't eat it often also true on the other hand

36:20 on the other hand on the other hand is i feel used more commonly in speech

36:25 than it is in writing again it's used to present like two sides to a story

36:31 or two sides to some information so for example

36:36 i'm thinking about visiting taiwan sometime this year

36:39 but on the other hand i'm also thinking

36:42 about visiting thailand still so it might be common

36:47 to use still with the word like but or a word like even though so you're

36:51 saying even though there's some other factor like

36:54 um like i'm really really tired this week

36:56 or even though i have a lot of homework to do i still want to go out

37:00 with my friends or i still want to see

37:03 a movie this weekend so there's this other

37:05 there's this thing that's maybe makes this other

37:08 action difficult to do or tough to do

37:10 or whatever but even though there's this you still have this over here so maybe

37:17 the two are kind of used as a pair i still want to go out later

37:21 even though i'm tired then then yes a very

37:25 useful word we use then when telling stories

37:28 a lot um so for example if i could tell a story about my morning today

37:34 when i got up i brushed my teeth and then i cooked breakfast then i did

37:41 a little bit of work then i took a shower then i did some cooking blah blah

37:47 blah you'll often hear and then as well and then i and then we and then you

37:53 and so on so then is is really really useful for sequencing so a useful word

37:58 i think besides besides so it's commonly used

38:02 in a pattern like besides that meaning other

38:05 than something else i went out with my friends

38:07 this weekend but besides that i didn't

38:09 really do much so another way to say that sentence is i went out with my friends

38:15 this weekend but other than that other than

38:17 that activity i didn't do very much okay

38:21 meanwhile meanwhile or you might hear the similar

38:25 expression in the mean time it means while you're

38:29 doing action a at the same times maybe

38:33 somewhere else action b is happening this is used

38:37 while telling stories a lot so for example

38:40 i was working at my office all week last

38:42 week meanwhile my co-workers across town were having

38:47 a party without me so these two things are happening at the same time but maybe

38:54 separate from one another meanwhile likewise okay likewise

39:00 i don't really use this word personally myself

39:03 at all it's often used after an introduction

39:06 um similar to the pleasure is all mine

39:10 in a formal situation so maybe somebody says you

39:14 know hey it was really great to see you last weekend thanks very much for coming

39:18 to my barbecue you can say yeah likewise it

39:21 was really good to see you in your family

39:23 so likewise means i have the same feeling or i have the same idea it's kind

39:29 of a friendly phrase but personally i don't

39:31 really use that to transition between thoughts um

39:35 i would just use and i suppose but no that's how i would use it instead

39:42 instead so so instead it's used like instead of i want to a instead of be can

39:51 be used to express your plans or what you want to do i want to have

39:54 chinese food instead of italian food tonight so

39:56 you're presenting two alternatives essentially so instead of means

40:01 in place of or as a substitute for so i should have drank a lot

40:08 of water this morning but instead i drank

40:11 a lot of coffee that's true uh i wanted

40:16 to have dinner with my friends this weekend

40:20 instead i had dinner at home in addition in addition this is a really good word

40:28 for more formal situations i like to use in addition

40:33 in writing i don't really use in addition

40:36 in speaking unless i'm trying to be very

40:38 formal for some reason similar to additionally

40:42 as well so you make point a and point

40:45 b and then when you want to make one more point that's related to point

40:48 a and point b you can say in addition

40:51 point c so you're like building an argument

40:54 and in addition can be used to kind of finish that argument off a little bit

40:58 our new marketing plan worked really well last month

41:01 we noticed increased sales in product a in addition

41:06 uh we've gained a lot of new customers

41:08 something like that so just you're quickly presenting

41:11 a series of ideas that are related to one

41:14 another you can use in addition to finish

41:16 it off 20 words you'll need for the beach let's go sunglasses the first word is

41:23 sunglasses sunglasses are those dark glasses that you

41:26 wear on your face when it's bright outside

41:29 in a sentence i forgot my sunglasses hold

41:32 on i forgot my sunglasses beach beach is

41:35 the place near the ocean you might have a beach in your city or in your country

41:41 the beach is usually visited in the summer time the image is lots of sun you

41:46 can get a tan you can get a sunburn but it's usually a fun place to spend

41:52 time with family and friends in a sentence

41:54 i'm going to the beach with my friends

41:56 this weekend i'm so excited in this sentence she

41:59 walked along the beach swimming the next word is

42:03 swimming swimming is of course a popular activity

42:06 to do at the beach i go swimming at the beach every summer or in this sentence

42:11 be very careful when swimming in the pacific

42:13 ocean it might be shocks sun sun is that big bright thing in the sky that will

42:20 make your skin change color if you stay in it for too long so the sun

42:25 um in a sentence the sun is really bright let's get out of the sun palm

42:32 tree the next word is palm tree so

42:36 palm trees are our type of tree they're usually

42:39 seen in like tropical places like hawaii has

42:42 palm trees any place close to the equator then the middle line of the earth uh

42:48 i think that's where palm trees tend to grow

42:50 it's kind of an image of the beach so palm trees there are a lot

42:55 of palm trees near the beach in california

42:58 that palm tree is almost 60 feet tall seashell

43:02 the next word is seashell seashell are

43:05 those little objects you find on the beach like

43:08 in the sand or in the water in some

43:10 cases they're like shells from like clams or maybe

43:14 oysters sometimes too depending on what you consider

43:17 a seashell but if you break the word

43:19 down it's sea and shell so like something from the ocean and the shell or like

43:24 the covering the outside of something so usually

43:27 a small creature a small animal has lived inside

43:30 the seashell and then you can collect them and i don't know look at them or make

43:35 something from them little kids like to collect

43:36 them i used to collect seashells when i

43:39 was a kid oh my gosh look at this example sentence it says it's bad luck

43:43 to take seashells from the beach oops swimsuit

43:47 swimsuit is the clothing you wear to swim

43:51 in your swimming suit there are men's swimsuits

43:54 women's swimsuits usually men's swimsuits are like shorts board

43:58 shorts or i suppose there's the what like

44:01 speedo makes like the men's swimsuits as well

44:04 the really small ones and then for women

44:05 they have a one piece swimsuits they have

44:08 and then they have bikini swimsuits the two-piece

44:10 swimsuit so in a sentence i hate swimsuit shopping

44:15 in this sentence i need a new swimsuit

44:17 this summer ocean the next word is ocean ocean

44:22 is the big blue the big water the big deep blue sea in a sentence the ocean

44:29 is so beautiful at night in this sentence

44:31 he dipped his feet in the ocean lifeguard

44:35 lifeguard a lifeguard is a person at the beach

44:39 life guard so someone who guards lives if someone gets into trouble in the water

44:45 they start to drown or they start to have

44:47 trouble if there's an accident at the beach

44:50 the lifeguard at the beach is responsible

44:52 for handling that problem so they'll call an ambulance

44:56 or they know how to do first aid

44:58 to save people so in a sentence it's important to go to beaches where there are

45:04 lifeguards available if you need help in this sentence

45:08 uh there isn't a lifeguard on duty here

45:12 jet ski next word is jet ski a jet ski is a like a water motorcycle

45:17 you can ride around it on with your friends alone riding jet skis is a lot

45:22 of fun in the sentence if you have a driver's license you can drive a jet

45:27 ski beach towel the next expression is beach

45:31 towel beach towel beach towel is different from regular

45:34 towel because usually beach towels have like

45:37 a bright color a bright pattern or there are

45:40 towels that you don't mind or towels that are okay to get sand or dirt in them

45:46 usually in a towel you use in your house you don't want to get your towel

45:50 really really dirty so a beach towel is a towel you use only at the beach

45:54 in a sentence i bought a new beach towel and it has a picture of a hamburger

46:01 on it in this sentence oh no i got sand all over my beach towel that's

46:05 the point of beach towel beach chair the next

46:09 expression is beach chair as you can probably

46:12 guess it is a chair you use only at the beach so again this is a chair

46:17 you don't mind it's okay if it gets dirty or sandy usually a beach chair is

46:22 easy to fold or easy to carry too in a sentence i have a couple of beach

46:29 chairs that i'm going to bring to the barbecue

46:31 this weekend in this sentence can we use these beach chairs sand castle the next

46:37 word is sand castles sand castles are usually kids

46:41 make them they use like buckets so kids will like put sand in a bucket

46:45 or like they move sand into piles and design

46:49 castles or these really complicated mazes or something

46:53 they make things make buildings out of sand we call those sand castles um so

46:58 in a sentence my brother and i used

47:00 to make sand castles on the beach when we were

47:03 kids that's true in this sentence get

47:05 the buckets and we'll make a sand castle cooler

47:09 so cooler is a noun in this case cooler is the place you keep your drinks

47:15 and your food it's a it looks like a suitcase but it has a special lining inside

47:21 that keeps cold things cold so you can put ice inside and it will keep your food

47:27 and drinks cold while you are at the beach in the hot weather so in a sentence

47:32 uh did you put a bunch of beers in the cooler i forgot ice for the cooler

47:37 tide the next word is tide tide is the level of the water the the level

47:44 of the ocean water at different times of day

47:48 so if you are interested in this sort

47:50 of thing you might know about high tide and low tide high tide means the water

47:55 level at the beach is high low tide means the water level at the beach is

48:00 low so tide is how high or low the water is in this sentence uh the tide

48:07 ebbed and revealed a starfish ebbed means it went away a little bit so tide is

48:12 the flow of water tan so tan is uh we use it as a noun like

48:18 to get a tan in a sentence it means that your skin turns a darker color so

48:25 um be careful there are two words we use in english tan means your skin gets

48:30 a little bit darker and we also use the word sun burn or just burn burn means

48:35 your skin gets red it means like it's damaged it maybe your skin peels a bit

48:41 so in america anyway in the u.s anyway

48:44 a tan is usually considered a positive thing many

48:48 people want uh tan skin but sun burn where your skin is red and damaged is

48:54 bad so be careful those are two different

48:56 words we use to talk about this the changing

48:59 skin color i got a tan last summer at the beach in this sentence you got

49:04 such a nice tan in florida snorkeling

49:07 the next word is snorkeling snorkeling is really really

49:10 fun snorkeling is swimming but you have a like a hose you have a pipe that you

49:16 can breathe through as you swim so you

49:18 can you usually put goggles you wear goggles

49:21 as you're swimming in the ocean you can look down and see fish or you can

49:25 see things in the ocean but you can still breathe so this is a really fun thing

49:30 to do to look at fish or just to just to hang out and see a different

49:34 point of view i went snorkeling for the first time maybe when i was 22 23.

49:41 in this sentence she bought goggles so that she could go snorkeling in hawaii

49:46 flip-flop the next word is flip-flop flip-flop

49:51 is a very common beach sandal many people

49:54 like to wear flip-flops in everyday life too some people prefer not to it's

49:58 up to you like in california i

50:01 know especially in beach towns everybody just wears

50:04 flip-flops it's very comfortable so flip-flops kind

50:07 of have an image of being a little

50:09 bit cheap or just very very simple it's it's the most basic possible sandal

50:14 why are they called flip flops because i

50:17 always thought it was because of the sound

50:19 that they make sound i guess maybe it sounds like flip-flop in a sentence

50:24 i usually don't wear flip-flops in this sentence

50:27 these flip-flops keep breaking sunscreen next

50:31 word is sunscreen sunscreen or you might also hear sun block these are products

50:37 you can put on your skin to prevent a tan or to prevent a sunburn

50:43 sun screen so it's a protection it's a protection against the sunlight i just

50:48 hit this screen so sunscreen is quite important like it is said that you

50:54 should use sunscreen to prevent to help

50:56 prevent skin cancer in a sentence i'm out

50:58 of sunscreen i need to buy more in this sentence mom i don't need

51:02 sunscreen bikini the next word is bikini

51:07 bikini we talked about um swimsuit a little

51:09 bit earlier but bikini is usually a swimsuit for women and it's two pieces

51:16 there's a bottom half and an upper half and oftentimes the the top half

51:20 of the bikini or sometimes the bottom half you have to tie a knot

51:24 or you have to latch something i suppose if you don't tie it carefully it

51:28 can create a problem like it could fall off so bikini it's a popular

51:32 style of swimsuit for women are you going to wear your bikini to the beach

51:36 tomorrow in this sentence my bikini came undone in front of everyone it was

51:41 so embarrassing five sentence patterns that you

51:44 can use as a beginner of english let's

51:47 go the first expression that you can use as a beginner is personally i

51:52 think that or i would just use i think that personally makes it sound

51:57 a little bit more polite i think you can use this to introduce an opinion

52:01 for example personally i think that pizza

52:05 is amazing personally i think that dinosaurs would

52:10 have been delicious personally i think that cars

52:16 should be made to enjoy with friends

52:26 okay i'm gonna edit there personally i think that you shouldn't worry about it

52:30 yes that's probably a much more useful

52:32 sentence than dinosaurs would be delicious the next

52:35 expression is what does blah blah blah mean so where here is the word

52:40 you don't know so for example what does pasta mean what does stegosaurus mean

52:48 so a word like stegosaurus is a really strange word that you probably don't know

52:53 stegosaurus is a type of dinosaur we're on a very dinosaur i don't know

52:58 jurassic we're on a jurassic adventure at the moment so this is a pattern you

53:02 use when you don't know uh when you don't know the meaning of the word

53:06 and you would like someone to explain it to you so if you say

53:09 what does stegosaurus mean then someone can say oh it's a dinosaur it's kind

53:13 of like it's a sort of short guy it has a bunch of spikes on its

53:17 back and it has a long tail and it gets into a fight with the tyrannosaurus

53:20 rex if you saw the movie fantasia by disney okay so in this sentence

53:28 what does complication mean it means problem okay the next pattern you can use

53:33 is can you tell me more about blah blah blah so on a topic

53:38 that you would like more information about you can say can you tell me

53:42 more about the soccer game last week can you tell me more about the plan

53:47 for the party next week so something you would like more information about you

53:52 can say can you tell me more about this thing okay so in a sentence

53:57 can you tell me more about your sandwich options that is a useful sentence

54:04 that is a useful sentence okay in this sentence here we don't have that back

54:09 home can you tell me more about it this is use the reverse pattern

54:14 okay uh the next expression is if it were up to me if it were

54:19 up to me i had to teach this in a class a couple weeks

54:21 ago actually if it were up to me means if i could make the decision

54:26 if this was my if this were my decision uh blah blah blah so

54:31 meaning if i could make the choice this is what i would do but one

54:36 point here is the nuance is it is not my decision this is not

54:41 my decision but if it were my decision i would do blah blah blah

54:46 so for example if it were up to me every day would be saturday

54:52 but it's not right so um that's

54:55 that's always the underlying that's always the kind

54:58 of basic nuance of this phrase some this decision is not mine okay here

55:04 the example is if it were up to me i would take my boss

55:10 to dinner oh my things just got scandalous the next pattern is i feel like

55:18 blah blah you can use i feel like when you introduce a suggestion or something

55:24 that you would like to do especially

55:26 for food drinks or activities so for example

55:29 i feel like coffee i feel like italian food i feel like an action

55:34 movie there's some activity or something you would like to do at the end

55:38 of this pattern i feel like bowling this afternoon something needs to go here

55:43 some sort of activity of course you can use this expression to talk about

55:49 your feelings i feel like something but this something must be a noun it must

55:56 be a noun like if you feel really great i feel like a million

56:00 bucks for example if you feel really bad i feel like garbage that's a nice

56:09 expression that somehow just came out of my head anyway you can use

56:13 this in two ways but this must be completed with a noun phrase at the end

56:17 of the sentence 10 things to do in the summer in the united states

56:21 so let's go to travel abroad to travel

56:26 abroad to travel abroad abroad means outside

56:29 of your country so meaning to travel to a place not the united states

56:35 in my case please don't forget to in this expression so many of my students

56:40 will say this summer i'm going europe you need to use two before the place

56:46 you do not however need to use two before there so like students sometimes

56:51 will say uh i want to go to there you can't do that you

56:56 have to use two before the specific name of a place there is not

57:00 a specific place so you don't need to use two keep that one in mind

57:04 to relax at the beach to relax at the beach ah that sounds fantastic

57:10 right now to relax at the beach you go to the beach and you

57:14 just relax there you lay in the sun you go swimming maybe you drink

57:17 a beer you get a tan if you would like to do that of course

57:21 some people don't you put on sunscreen whatever it is that you like to do

57:25 at the beach you just do that and enjoy in a sentence i would

57:29 rather relax at the beach than have a really active vacation to learn english

57:34 with englishclass101.com to learn english with englishclass101.com

57:40 thanks so i guess if you are very ambitious this summer good for you you

57:45 can learn english by doing what you're doing

57:48 now uh or i think you can visit i presume you can visit the website

57:52 for more content there too i'm going to put my time to good use

57:56 and learn english at englishglass101.com to have a barbecue oh yeah the next one

58:03 is one of my favorite things ever to do in summer wherever i am it's

58:08 to have a barbecue or to have a bbq is also okay but barbecue

58:13 usually bbq is in like writing i love having barbecues with my friends

58:17 in the summer every fourth of july my family has a big barbecue to party

58:22 all night the next expression is to party all night to party all night you

58:26 don't it doesn't have to be summer or the united states to party all

58:30 night just saying anyway to party all

58:33 night means to do something you enjoy presumably

58:37 with your friends or not i guess i've partied like all night at home

58:41 tweeted pajamas are the best and then

58:43 i tweeted a picture of myself really excited

58:45 about a cookie and was very embarrassed about that the next day so i

58:48 deleted it in the morning since i won't have school in the morning i'm going

58:52 to party all night in a different sentence i don't like partying all night

58:56 i get tired i always hit a wall at like three a.m like i'm like

59:01 yay and then three a.m i'm like i'm running to sleep to get

59:05 a tan to get a tan to get a tan in some cultures this is

59:10 a good thing in some cultures it's not a good thing it means to sit

59:13 in the sun or lay in the sun and let the sun change the color

59:18 of your skin be careful there's there are two expressions in english there is

59:22 one to get a tan and another is to get a sun burn so

59:27 in us culture anyway getting a tan means like your skin turns like a darker

59:32 brown color but when it turns red it's bad that means you've burned your skin

59:37 so tan good burn bad so we'd have two separate words to describe

59:43 that in a sentence you'll find me poolside getting a tan to go hiking the next

59:49 expression is to go hiking so hiking

59:51 means walking or trekking usually in a mountain

59:54 or in a nature setting so in a sentence i used to go hiking

59:59 with my family every summer that's roughly true in this sentence i'm going

1:00:04 to hike the pacific crest trail to work a part-time job the next expression is

1:00:10 to work a part-time job to work a part-time job is very common if you're

1:00:15 a student especially so when you have your summer vacation it's a chance for you

1:00:19 to earn a little bit of money by working at a part-time job

1:00:24 in a sentence unfortunately she can't go because

1:00:26 she has to work at her part-time job

1:00:29 when i was a teenager i had a part-time job at a golf course yeah

1:00:35 because i was on the golf team

1:00:36 at school very convenient lovely experiences a plus

1:00:41 everybody to have fun with friends to have fun with friends also something

1:00:47 that you do not need to only do in summer but which you can do

1:00:51 anytime we're having fun now aren't we hey so to have fun with friends

1:00:56 is just to enjoy time with your friends it's great uh in a sentence i

1:01:00 love having fun with my friends whenever i can he has fun with friends

1:01:04 but he doesn't do much else to attend summer school the next one is

1:01:10 to attend summer school to attend summer school usually has kind of a bad image

1:01:15 in i feel in you in the u.s anyway because it sounds like maybe you

1:01:20 missed something in regular school but for some

1:01:23 people maybe there's a special course they want to attend or like a special

1:01:26 internship program or just something special extra

1:01:30 that they would like to study in a sentence i hated going to summer

1:01:34 school when i was a kid since i failed the class i'll have to attend

1:01:38 summer school 20 must know family words so let's go mother mother is the person

1:01:44 who gave birth to you mother you can say mom mother mom mama mommy

1:01:49 uh my mother has amazing cooking it's true father father father is the person

1:01:56 who did not give birth to you but who helped make you happen so we

1:02:02 say father dad daddy paw pop my father is a very level-headed person that's

1:02:08 also true sister sister is a female sibling so my brother might say i

1:02:13 have an older sister anyone who is yeah a female sibling or someone you

1:02:19 can use this for friends that you feel very very close to like she's like

1:02:23 my sister that's fine as well brother brother we sometimes use bro for this uh

1:02:29 i would say i have a younger brother like sister you can use brother

1:02:34 for any male that you feel is similar to a brother someone you feel very

1:02:39 close to so he's like a brother to me or you're like my brother grandmother

1:02:45 grandmother when you put grand plus something else it means the next generation

1:02:51 or the the previous generation so you have

1:02:53 your mother and father in this case grand

1:02:56 mother means your mother or your father's uh mother it can be either of them

1:03:01 so grandmother my grandmother was born

1:03:05 a long time ago grandfather grandfather so just

1:03:08 like grandmother your mother or your father's

1:03:12 father is your grandfather my grandfather liked

1:03:15 to play tennis that's true uncle uncle

1:03:19 your uncle is either your mother or your father's

1:03:22 brother someone uh directly related to one of your parents who is a man

1:03:27 is your uncle uh my uncle is very good with woodworking also true aunt

1:03:34 aunt you might also hear aunt both of them are correct you can say

1:03:38 aunt or aunt an aunt or an aunt is your mother or your father's

1:03:43 female sibling one of my aunts gave me a stamp collection when i was

1:03:47 a little kid that's also true cousin cousin a cousin is your aunt or uncle's

1:03:55 children it can be on any side so typically these people are of the same

1:04:00 generation as you not always but cousins are generally about the same age

1:04:04 at least in my family they are it's really fun to see all my cousins

1:04:08 at family barbecues nephew nephew a nephew is a sibling's male child so if you

1:04:17 have a brother or a sister and they have children any male children are

1:04:22 your nephews nephews i don't have any nephews niece niece niece so your brother

1:04:29 or your sister's female children any female children they have you can say she's

1:04:34 my niece or i have two nieces how many nieces do you have or i have

1:04:39 a lot of nieces wife wife so this is a female partner that you

1:04:47 are married to she is my wife or how is your wife wife is only

1:04:53 used when you are married to that person husband husband is a male that someone

1:04:59 is married to so uh how is your husband this is my husband again

1:05:05 husband is only used when you are married to that person parent parent parent

1:05:11 it's typically used generally for a mother or a father like i'm a parent

1:05:15 he is my parent she is my parent it's often used in the plural

1:05:19 they are my parents these are my parents my parents are home my parents are

1:05:24 not at home but you can also use parent to describe someone who raised

1:05:28 you so maybe your biological mother or father did not raise you but someone else

1:05:33 like an aunt or an uncle or perhaps a different figure in your community

1:05:37 did raise you you can say she's like a parent to me or she had

1:05:41 a parenting role in my life child child child is a a small human

1:05:49 a small human as a child it doesn't necessarily have to be of your family

1:05:54 like if you're just at the park and you see kids running around you

1:05:57 can say ah look at that child you can use a child in the singular

1:06:02 but be careful child changes in the plural form to children so not childs

1:06:07 but children one child two children please

1:06:10 be careful this has an irregular plural form

1:06:13 maybe i'll have a child someday son son is a male child a male offspring

1:06:21 my uncle has a lot of sons that's not true daughter daughter a daughter is

1:06:28 a female child i wonder if i

1:06:31 will ever have a daughter brother-in-law brother-in-law

1:06:35 so we use in-law to mean our married partners family members not my brother

1:06:42 but my partner's brother in-law is used

1:06:45 after any family member's position or family

1:06:48 member's title to show they they belong

1:06:51 to my partner's family originally but now they're

1:06:53 part of my my extended family as well i'm going out for drinks

1:06:57 with my brother-in-law tomorrow night father-in-law father-in-law so

1:07:03 we have in-law here meaning my partner's father

1:07:07 so my father-in-law is very kind mother-in-law

1:07:11 mother-in-law meaning my partner's mother in a sentence

1:07:15 my mother-in-law and i get along really well hi everybody my name is alicia

1:07:20 today i'm going to be talking about the simple future tense today i'm going

1:07:26 to talk about will and won't and going to and not going to so

1:07:32 these are a few grammar points that learners

1:07:34 make mistakes with when should you use

1:07:37 will or won't when should you use going to or not going to so i'm

1:07:41 going to talk about a few of these points a few basic points that i

1:07:46 hope can help you decide when to use will and when to use going

1:07:50 to so let's begin okay the first point i want to talk about is

1:07:56 going to or not going to uh the positive form and the negative form going

1:08:02 to not going to uh for today i want to talk about two times

1:08:08 when we'll use these grammar points so

1:08:11 the first time uh the first situation where

1:08:14 you use going to or not going to is for plans decided before the conversation

1:08:21 so if you make a decision about your future plans or someone else makes

1:08:26 the decision before the conversation about

1:08:29 their plans for the future you should use

1:08:32 going to or not going to it's something that is probably going to happen

1:08:39 a high certainty so this is a plan that has a high level of certainty

1:08:44 meaning there's a good chance this plan is going to happen you decided it before

1:08:50 the conversation meaning you've probably had some

1:08:54 time to plan uh your future to plan

1:08:57 your schedule a little bit so please use going to for something you decide

1:09:02 before the conversation so on a timeline it might look like this we have

1:09:07 past now and future here so your plan is for the future yes but you

1:09:17 decided on the plan sometime before the conversation so if this point this is

1:09:24 now this is your conversation you made the plan you made the decision before

1:09:30 the conversation in this case use going to i'm going to at the beginning

1:09:37 of this video i said i'm going to talk about simple future tense will and going

1:09:42 to i decided before this video started about my plans i decided what i

1:09:48 was going to talk to you about before the video started so i used going

1:09:53 to to introduce that plan uh so please keep this in mind okay but let's

1:09:58 talk about will now so we use will and won't for decisions that are

1:10:04 made at the moment of speaking so keep in mind will is the positive

1:10:09 form won't is the negative form here so a decision made at the moment

1:10:15 of speaking this is one way to use will or won't you can use

1:10:20 this for example at restaurants you can use this to talk about plans you make

1:10:25 quickly after learning information from a friend

1:10:30 keep in mind will and won't tends

1:10:33 to have a lower certainty there's a lower chance the plan is going to happen

1:10:40 because you've made the plan at the moment of speaking going to is used

1:10:44 for plans made before the conversation but will is used for a plan made spur

1:10:50 of the moment or a very quick plan you've just made so that's kind

1:10:55 of the image is the decision you just made use will or use won't

1:11:00 in those cases if you made the decision

1:11:02 before the conversation there's a good chance

1:11:05 you should use going to so to go back to our timeline here if going

1:11:12 to is used for a decision you made in the past about your future

1:11:16 plans will is used for a decision

1:11:21 you make in the conversation during the conversation

1:11:25 the plan can be any time in the future but the decision the point

1:11:32 at which you make the decision is the difference here one point about this two

1:11:39 points about this actually first will if you've made a decision at the moment

1:11:44 of speaking and you therefore should use

1:11:47 will to communicate that decision you can improve

1:11:51 or you can communicate that there's a high

1:11:53 chance it's going to happen with the word

1:11:57 probably so here i'll show you this in an example sentence in a moment

1:12:07 but you can use probably with will and won't i'll probably i probably won't

1:12:13 remember that order though i'll probably or i

1:12:16 probably will or probably won't point number

1:12:21 two i want to mention about both of these grammar points is to make

1:12:25 your pronunciation a little more natural try

1:12:28 shortening both of these expressions going to shortens

1:12:32 to gona g-o-n-n-a gonna i'm gonna i'm not gonna this sounds much more natural

1:12:39 at least than american english for will and for won't when you use will use

1:12:45 the contracted form with your subject for example i will becomes isle you will

1:12:51 becomes yule they will becomes veil using

1:12:55 the contracted form sounds a lot more natural

1:12:58 in everyday conversation it's correct to say you will they will but it sounds

1:13:03 really stiff and unnatural so please use the contracted form to sound a bit

1:13:08 more natural you can use the contracted

1:13:11 form with probably for will i'll probably

1:13:15 they'll probably wheel probably these are all

1:13:18 pretty good okay so let's practice using them

1:13:22 all right first example sentence maybe something

1:13:26 something go hiking tomorrow so how do

1:13:29 we know is this a will sentence or a going-to sentence we have a hint

1:13:35 here maybe maybe so meaning there's a low level of certainty perhaps a low

1:13:41 chance that this is going to happen so let's say maybe i'll go hiking tomorrow

1:13:50 this is probably the best answer maybe i'm going to while you can communicate

1:13:56 the idea yes it sounds like you

1:13:58 decided your plan before the conversation but you're

1:14:02 using maybe so it doesn't quite match

1:14:06 instead use aisle maybe i'll go hiking tomorrow

1:14:09 okay let's look at the next sentence i'm there's a big hint here a grammar

1:14:15 hint i'm something something go to france next year so next year this go

1:14:21 to france next year this is a pretty big decision most people probably would not

1:14:28 make this decision at the moment of speaking so we should use going to i'm

1:14:36 going to go to france next year this is the correct use of going

1:14:41 to in this case a decision made before the moment of speaking and there's

1:14:45 a high level of certainty here okay uh let's look at the next one i

1:14:51 decided here's a hint past tense decided if you watched a different video oops

1:14:57 i decided that i'm something something go out for dinner i'm too tired okay so

1:15:05 past tense this shows us a big hint past tense decided this implies the decision

1:15:12 was made before the conversation so i'm

1:15:18 something something go out for dinner i'm

1:15:21 too tired here's another hint so go out for dinner and too tired this should

1:15:27 probably be i'm not going to go out for dinner i'm too tired so

1:15:36 this person has decided i'm not going to go out for dinner we should

1:15:41 use going to the negative not going

1:15:44 to because the speaker made the decision before

1:15:47 the conversation happen and there's a high

1:15:51 level of certainty there's a high chance

1:15:53 that this is going to happen so we should use going to in this sentence

1:15:58 okay okay so the next sentence i included because i think it's a really

1:16:03 good one to remember anytime you visit a bar a restaurant some kind of service

1:16:08 situation you can use this pattern specifically

1:16:12 to make a request for something so

1:16:14 let's take a look here my example sentence is i something something have a glass

1:16:20 of wine please in this case maybe it's at a restaurant or at a bar

1:16:25 but in this case you've just made the decision looking at the menu looking

1:16:31 at a catalog looking at something you made a decision just then at that moment

1:16:38 and you're asking for that item you're asking for that service so we'll use

1:16:45 will i'll have a glass of wine please so in this example sentence i

1:16:50 used glass of wine to show my request to ask for a glass of wine

1:16:55 but if you want to use this pattern to make a request in a service

1:16:59 situation just replace glass of wine with the item or service that you would

1:17:04 like so for example i'll have a beer i'll have a steak i'll have

1:17:09 a hamburger these are all things you can order at a restaurant or at a bar

1:17:14 if you're shopping you can say i'll have the blue one please for example

1:17:19 so just make your request using the same pattern but replacing that glass

1:17:24 of wine section that i used in my example sentence okay next one uh

1:17:31 this one is maybe a little bit challenging uh it's you're running late so you

1:17:36 something something have to take a taxi to your next meeting so maybe this is

1:17:42 an assistant or someone supporting another person

1:17:45 with their schedule okay so in the next

1:17:49 sentence we're looking at a situation where

1:17:51 there's been a sudden or quick change

1:17:54 to a schedule someone is running late and there's a new decision that's made

1:17:59 at the moment of speaking or a new decision is made to reflect the new

1:18:03 situation so let's take a look you're running late so you'll or you will

1:18:12 have to take a taxi you could say uh you're running late so you

1:18:17 have to take a taxi but maybe this is a future plan something that's going

1:18:22 to happen in an hour from now maybe this is something the speaker is

1:18:28 planning for later in the day so you will is a nice way to use

1:18:33 that you're running late so you'll have to take a taxi to the next

1:18:38 meeting okay the last one i want to talk about this uses probably which i

1:18:44 mentioned over here so probably remember we can use probably to sort of improve

1:18:50 or we can use probably to communicate

1:18:53 a higher level of certainty with the decision

1:18:56 we made at the moment of speaking so here you're not going to the party

1:19:02 then i probably something something go either okay so either is a big hint

1:19:08 here remember we use either to show agreement but negative okay so in the last

1:19:16 example sentence for today we're going to look at a situation where the listener

1:19:21 has heard some new information they use the expression you're not going to go

1:19:26 to the party so they're confirming new

1:19:29 information they have just heard after that they're

1:19:33 going to make a decision about what their plans are for the party so

1:19:37 let's take a look we know that probably can be used with will and won't

1:19:46 and we know from then the speaker just made this decision and we know

1:19:53 it's a negative with either so we should use won't you're not going to go

1:20:00 to the party then i probably won't go either so the speaker uses uh

1:20:07 won't hear to show a decision made at the moment of speaking but the speaker

1:20:11 also uses probably won't to show there's a high chance that this is going

1:20:17 to happen there's a high chance that this is the future plan probably won't

1:20:22 okay so there's a lot of information

1:20:24 communicated there with small words like then

1:20:27 and either and probably as well so please keep this in mind when you're trying

1:20:32 to decide when to use will won't going to and not going to okay

1:20:39 so uh so that's my recap of a few useful grammar points how to talk

1:20:45 about your future tense plans so i'm going to finish the lesson now i

1:20:50 hope that you enjoyed this lesson if you have any questions please feel free

1:20:55 to leave it in a comment or if you want to try out a few

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1:21:28 today we're going to be talking about simple past tense we're going to talk

1:21:32 about how to make simple past tense

1:21:34 statements in english so let's get started okay

1:21:38 so first let's talk about when we should use the simple past tense simple

1:21:44 past tense statements for today are for actions

1:21:47 that started and ended in the past

1:21:50 so these are things that both started or began and ended in the past

1:21:56 both of those must be true to use simple past tense the second point

1:22:01 for today is these are actions which happened at a specific point in time

1:22:07 so a specific point in time can be yesterday it can be an hour ago

1:22:13 it can be last year it can be when you were a kid all

1:22:17 of these are a specific point in time but the key is that we know when

1:22:22 the action happened so a specific point in time is point two for this grammar

1:22:27 point third uh we can use simple past tense for repeated actions in the past

1:22:35 so things you did every week or every month or every year every summer

1:22:40 every hour if you like but one point about this make sure to include

1:22:46 a frequency indicator if you want to talk about an action that repeated

1:22:50 in the past frequency indicator for example i

1:22:54 just mentioned a few every week every month

1:22:56 every year so frequency meaning how often an indicator shows how often you did

1:23:02 that so you can use repeated actions with past tense to show let's see something

1:23:09 you did a lot in the past for example so to give you a visual

1:23:14 uh the past is down here now is this point here and future is

1:23:19 up here when we use the simple past tense it's an action that started

1:23:25 and ended in the past somewhere before now that's one it's at a specific point

1:23:32 in time so this action and this action we know when they happened it

1:23:37 could be this morning it could be yesterday for example but we know when

1:23:42 these actions happen third we can use

1:23:45 for repeated action so maybe these actions repeat

1:23:50 but we know when the repetition happened

1:23:54 we know when we repeated these actions so

1:23:57 it's okay to use simple past tense to describe those okay so now we

1:24:03 know uh when we should use simple past tense we know why we should

1:24:08 use simple past tense but how do we make simple past tense statements so

1:24:13 when you want to use the simple past tense to explain an action that happened

1:24:19 in the past you need to conjugate your verb you need to change your verb

1:24:24 so that means when you're using a regular verb you do verb plus ed

1:24:29 so verb plus e d is the basic form for simple past tense verbs uh

1:24:35 but keep in mind this is only for regular verbs not all verbs are regular

1:24:40 verbs so for example some common ones

1:24:43 are talk which becomes talked start which becomes

1:24:47 started and enjoy which becomes enjoyed please

1:24:51 be careful however you'll notice that the past tense form of verbs has a few

1:24:56 different pronunciations so for example start becomes

1:25:00 started it has an id sound it's not an ed sound but an id

1:25:05 sound you might hear a word like walked also which has a sort of t

1:25:10 sound about it walk becomes walked started becomes started and id sound and then

1:25:16 there's also a sound like in breathed a very soft d sound so there

1:25:21 are three past tense verb sounds to listen for an id sound started a soft

1:25:27 d sound like breathed and then a more hard t sound like walked so

1:25:33 pay attention to that when you're trying

1:25:34 to make these past tense verb conjugations okay

1:25:39 but some verbs are irregular verbs irregular verbs do not have a simple rule

1:25:45 for understanding past tense conjugation how to change

1:25:50 them in past tense there's no rule

1:25:52 for these you simply have to practice you have to remember them read them

1:25:58 listen to them until you can remember

1:26:00 the correct conjugation the correct way to change

1:26:04 these verbs into the past tense so for example some common ones are eat

1:26:09 which becomes eight speak becomes spoke and make becomes made if you see a verb

1:26:18 somewhere that that seems a little odd or you're not sure what the present

1:26:22 tense form would be you can check a dictionary and try to remember it

1:26:26 from there so now we've talked about

1:26:28 simple past tense irregular and regular verbs

1:26:32 let's try to use them to make some sentences i prepared a few example sentences

1:26:36 so let's take a look okay first sentence he something something a towel

1:26:42 and sunglasses to the beach so the verb here is bring i want to use

1:26:47 the verb bring bring however is an irregular verb so i can't use the ed

1:26:53 rule for regular verbs the correct conjugation

1:26:56 is brought b-r-o-u g-h-t he brought a towel

1:27:02 and sunglasses to the beach this is the correct conjugation here so bring is

1:27:06 an irregular verb okay let's go to the next

1:27:10 sentence they something something to the gym

1:27:13 every day last week so here i'm showing you a repeated action here i'm

1:27:18 using everyday this is a frequency indicator how often did i do that action

1:27:24 and last week shows the specific point in time so i'm using both

1:27:29 of these two points in addition to a simple past the basic simple past structure

1:27:35 here so the verb that we want to use here is go but go

1:27:39 is an irregular verb so we can't use goad for example go changes to went

1:27:45 in the past tense so went is the correct answer for this sentence here

1:27:50 okay let's try the next one i something something to tell my boss about

1:27:56 my schedule so the verb i want to use here is forget forget is

1:28:01 a very useful word i think to remember but again forget is not a regular verb

1:28:07 forget is an irregular verb so we cannot use the ed form forget

1:28:12 in the past tense becomes forgot okay so i forgot to tell my boss about

1:28:21 my schedule it's the correct sentence here

1:28:24 all right let's go to something a little

1:28:26 bit different uh here's a negative sentence

1:28:29 i don't think they something something a reservation

1:28:33 at the restaurant okay so here i'm using a phrase i want to use

1:28:38 the phrase make a reservation to make a reservation so the verb here is

1:28:43 make this was one of my example verbs for the irregular form so make

1:28:48 becomes made i don't think they made

1:28:53 a reservation at the restaurant is the correct

1:28:57 verb form to use here all right uh the next sentence we something something

1:29:02 junk food almost every day last month so here again i have uh every day

1:29:08 but i have almost here so almost every day not every day but close

1:29:13 to every day and then last month last month is my specific point in time

1:29:18 in this case so here we have junk food that means that the verb

1:29:23 we want to use is probably eat and we learn that eat is an irregular

1:29:29 verb there's no rule for conjugating this we just know that eat becomes eight

1:29:35 we ate junk food almost every day last month great okay so next sentence has

1:29:42 two spaces for verbs actually okay so the next sentence that i've prepared i

1:29:48 included because a lot of my students

1:29:50 ask about how to report information when you

1:29:54 want to report information share something that you

1:29:57 heard from a friend a past tense action you need to conjugate the reporting

1:30:02 verb for example say becomes said or hear

1:30:06 becomes heard you need to conjugate this verb

1:30:09 and you need to conjugate the information

1:30:11 that you heard so there are two past tense conjugations that should happen when

1:30:16 you report information let's take a look so here we have she something something

1:30:23 she something something a great time at the party so here she blah blah blah

1:30:29 a great time at the party so we use the expression to have a great

1:30:35 time to have a great time again have is an irregular verb so we

1:30:40 conjugate it to had she had a great time at the party okay but then

1:30:49 to report your speech so someone gave

1:30:52 you information past tense give becomes gave

1:30:56 you information so the verb for giving

1:30:59 information a neutral way to pass information

1:31:02 is say so to conjugate say into the past tense it's an irregular verb so

1:31:09 we use sed say becomes said so she said she had a great time

1:31:17 at the party okay please be careful

1:31:20 of your pronunciation with the word said a lot

1:31:23 of people i've heard use said say it is not correct so please use

1:31:28 sed it sounds like s-e-d the pronunciation

1:31:32 but it's said s-a-i-d is the spelling say

1:31:36 becomes said she said she had a great time at the party okay so

1:31:41 last one okay so the last example sentence for today includes spaces for a few

1:31:47 different verbs i included this because i wanted to show you that you can

1:31:51 use a lot of different information in one sentence just by connecting your past

1:31:56 tense verbs together so let's take

1:31:58 a look okay yesterday i something something late

1:32:03 something something shocking and something something

1:32:06 to my mother okay so the verbs i want

1:32:09 to use for this sentence are sleep go and speak sleep go and speak

1:32:15 these are all irregular verbs there are

1:32:18 no regular verbs in this sentence so sleep

1:32:22 in past tense becomes slept go in past tense becomes went and speak in past

1:32:32 tense becomes spoke so here in one sentence i have i have explained three things

1:32:39 about my day yesterday uh yesterday i slept late i went shopping and i

1:32:45 spoke to my mother so you can explain a lot of things with past tense

1:32:50 and a few connecting words in this case i've just used and to connect

1:32:54 the last two things in this sentence so please keep this in mind when you're

1:32:58 sharing information about your past events so

1:33:02 today we talked about the simple past tense and we talked about how to conjugate

1:33:06 both regular and irregular verbs it might

1:33:10 seem a little bit difficult to understand

1:33:12 which verbs are regular and which verbs

1:33:14 are irregular but with some practice it will become easier so i hope that you

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1:34:11 everybody my name is alicia and today we're going to be talking about 15

1:34:14 questions that you should know so these are

1:34:16 15 questions that not necessarily you need

1:34:19 to know how to ask them perhaps you know some of the questions already

1:34:23 but you will probably also hear these questions as well so we'll practice a few

1:34:27 different answers for these questions too so

1:34:30 let's get started do you like american

1:34:33 food the first question is do you like american food you will probably be asked

1:34:38 this question do you like american food you can either say yes or no

1:34:42 or you can give a specific example someone says do you like american food yes

1:34:46 i love philly cheesesteaks i would recommend saying yes or a little or or or you

1:34:53 can just say i don't know what do you recommend have you been

1:34:57 to the united states the next question is have you been to the united

1:35:00 states have you been to the united states so someone asks you have you been

1:35:03 to the united states you should reply with either yes i have or no

1:35:08 i haven't or maybe no i haven't yet but i want to when you want

1:35:13 to ask someone this question you can say have you been to japan have

1:35:16 you been to egypt have you been to china whatever you can use your own

1:35:20 country when you ask this question how are you how are you when someone

1:35:24 asks how are you don't say i'm fine thank you and you please don't say

1:35:29 that please say something more natural like good great i'm good how are you

1:35:35 something like that is much better than i'm going thank you and you be

1:35:39 a little more genuine in your reply also when you ask this question maybe one

1:35:43 point to help you sound a little more natural when you ask someone else don't

1:35:46 like try to say how are you how are you instead of how are

1:35:49 you or and make make sure your intonation is correct i've had a few people

1:35:53 ask me uh how are you like a little too yeah with this question

1:35:59 or like how are you but how are you should be the intonation with this how

1:36:04 are you how are you is a little bit more natural how long have

1:36:08 you been studying english how long have you been studying english how long have

1:36:12 you been studying english great question

1:36:14 to know the answer to your answer should

1:36:16 be i have been studying english for blah blah blah years or blah blah blah

1:36:21 months or blah blah weeks but if that's too much for you you can

1:36:25 just use the time how long have you been studying english six years how long

1:36:29 have you been studying english two months so just pick the time uh if

1:36:33 if the whole sentence is quite long for you how old are you we don't

1:36:36 really go around asking people how old they are like just the first time

1:36:41 you meet them necessarily especially if they're

1:36:43 older much older than you like in particular

1:36:46 it's sometimes considered rude to ask especially women how old they are so just

1:36:51 be careful with this question but if you're about the same age group you know

1:36:54 maybe you're at an event or a party or something and you just want

1:36:57 to check how old the other person is you can use this phrase when you

1:37:00 reply to this just say uh i'm plus the number to make a really

1:37:05 simple response so how old are you i'm 15 how old are you i'm 42.

1:37:10 whatever the answer is just stick i'm in front of it

1:37:13 not i but i'm i am but use the contracted

1:37:16 form to sound more natural i'm number if you want

1:37:19 to make a full sentence you can say i'm number

1:37:21 years old don't forget that s in years i'm

1:37:25 a million years old what did you say what did you

1:37:29 say if you couldn't quite hear something that someone else

1:37:32 said you can use this question to confirm sorry what did

1:37:35 you say it's a little nicer than just saying what

1:37:38 what did you say or what did you just say

1:37:41 sorry what did you say i couldn't hear you what's

1:37:44 this what's this when you don't know what something is what's

1:37:48 this when you're out for dinner you're out for lunch

1:37:50 or something and you find a new food or you

1:37:53 just you're curious just say what's this to reply

1:37:55 to this question just say it's blah blah blah what's your name

1:38:00 what's your name of course you should know how

1:38:02 to ask this question and how to answer this question what's

1:38:05 your name is a little more natural than what is

1:38:07 your name again contracted form will help you sound much more

1:38:11 natural so what's your name someone asks you you can

1:38:14 just give your name alicia that's fine you can say

1:38:16 alicia you can say i'm alicia that's fine too you

1:38:20 could say my name is or my name's alicia either any

1:38:25 of those are fine in a more formal situation

1:38:28 a business situation i would i would use my name is

1:38:31 blah blah blah while i shake hands or something what's

1:38:34 your phone number the next one is what's your phone number

1:38:37 i would not ask this question right away like maybe

1:38:40 you've met the person a few times but you'd like

1:38:42 to contact them whether it's because you're romantically interested in them

1:38:45 or because you want to be better friends with them

1:38:47 but just if you meet someone for the first time

1:38:51 and you're like what's your phone number it's like a little

1:38:55 it's a little too much so use this question after

1:38:58 you've met the person a few times and you know

1:38:59 you want to become better friends when you want

1:39:01 to give your phone number just say it's and the number

1:39:05 that's fine just it's blah blah blah or my phone

1:39:08 number is blah blah blah with the number 555 one million

1:39:11 and five two six when is your birthday so maybe

1:39:15 you wanna plan a birthday party for example or it's

1:39:17 just another fun question the first time you meet someone

1:39:19 when is your birthday so when you want to tell someone

1:39:22 your birthday just give the month and the date january

1:39:26 15th august 42nd that's a real day if you want

1:39:32 to make a full sentence you can say my birthday is

1:39:34 month date where are you from the next word the next

1:39:38 question is where are you from this can refer

1:39:41 to your country or your city but i i feel like

1:39:44 prob more stuff and it refers to your country so

1:39:46 where are you from your answer should be i'm from place

1:39:50 i'm from china i'm from japan i'm from vietnam i'm

1:39:53 from america whatever i'm from where did you learn english

1:39:58 the next question is where did you learn english where

1:40:01 did you learn english if you're speaking great english you can

1:40:05 say i learned english at englishclass101.com because you did

1:40:09 because you're watching now anyway where did you learn english

1:40:13 in this case in the case of like these videos

1:40:15 i learned english online or i learned english from and then

1:40:19 the school name or the program name so i learned

1:40:21 english from englishclass101.com for example

1:40:24 if you studied english at university

1:40:26 you can say i learned english at university or i

1:40:29 learned english from my friends perhaps where do you live where

1:40:34 do you live depending on the situation where you're asked

1:40:36 this this can mean your country like uh i live

1:40:39 in america i live in china sometimes it's about

1:40:42 the place in the city where you live sometimes it's about

1:40:45 the country where you live so you can kind

1:40:47 of feel i think which question which type of question is

1:40:49 being asked where do you work where do you work

1:40:53 is talking about your job you can use the pattern i

1:40:57 work at company name or i work for company name

1:41:03 either is fine i work at abc company i work

1:41:06 for abc company either is okay but you know if

1:41:09 if you have answered with the wrong information the other person

1:41:12 will just ask you like oh i mean where is

1:41:14 your office or oh i mean which company do you

1:41:17 work for use the force for this one where is

1:41:20 the bathroom where is the bathroom very important question where is

1:41:23 the bathroom in american english where is the bathroom

1:41:26 or where is the restroom is more common than where is

1:41:28 the toilet using the word toilet is a little bit

1:41:31 too direct in american english so i recommend bathroom or restroom

1:41:35 so those are 15 questions that you should definitely know

1:41:39 know how to ask these questions and know how to answer

1:41:41 these questions they are very useful and very important

1:41:45 for everyday conversation thanks very much for joining us thank you

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1:42:03 know my birthday is january 15th before you said that no

1:42:05 is it really is it really yeah thunderdome in my stomach

1:42:11 that's going at the end of a video i'm sure

1:42:14 hi everybody my name is alicia and today i'm joined

1:42:17 again in the studio by michael hello and today we're

1:42:20 going to be talking about bad habits in english so

1:42:23 these are some things that we've heard before or mistakes

1:42:26 that native speakers and non-native speakers of english make

1:42:30 and that drive us crazy so let us begin you start what's

1:42:36 your first thing um this doesn't bug me too much

1:42:41 until someone points it out about me and then it drives

1:42:45 me nuts yeah okay once you tell someone that they

1:42:51 say um or like too much then every time they

1:42:56 say it they notice it and it's really hard to get

1:42:59 a thought out because these are filler words that you

1:43:00 almost always use or i always use maybe americans always

1:43:03 use but it's yeah it's really tough not to use

1:43:06 the word like or um i think when you're just

1:43:09 speaking casually right yeah right well yeah i mean like right

1:43:15 now see why did you have to make it the first

1:43:17 word why did you have to make it the first

1:43:19 one actually we talked about that we have a video

1:43:22 i think probably like a year ago one of the english

1:43:24 weekly words videos where uh the word like was one

1:43:28 of the words that americans overuse uh i don't i

1:43:31 don't know where that information came from but um that was

1:43:34 see oh my god now i'm suddenly aware of it

1:43:36 why oh my god this whole thing i'm gonna be

1:43:40 thinking about how often i say liking them okay let's

1:43:43 see i'm gonna go to one that i think all

1:43:45 of us talked about and all of us were aware

1:43:47 of before we even turned the camera on but um

1:43:50 this is a this one is written this is a written

1:43:52 problem that drives me nuts and there are so many

1:43:54 variations on this with other words but this is the big

1:43:57 one your y-o-u-r this is a do not equal sign

1:44:00 y-o-u apostrophe r-e so this one your y-o-u-r is a possessive

1:44:07 word this is your shirt your bag your whatever y-o-u-apostrophe-r-e

1:44:13 is a contracted form of u-r interestingly enough though i

1:44:18 will say that i rarely see non-native speakers of english

1:44:22 make this mistake most of the time it's native speakers

1:44:25 who make this mistake come on guys really i just

1:44:30 it just drives me nuts yeah that one really drives me

1:44:33 nuts that one bugs me too because it's it's really

1:44:35 simple i mean there's another one that still kind of bugs

1:44:38 me but i'm more forgiving is it's and it's because

1:44:41 they're both i-t-s and one of them has an apostrophe

1:44:46 and in both cases it seems reasonable because you can

1:44:50 use an apostrophe for possessive or for a contraction so

1:44:54 both seem reasonable and you just have to do like

1:44:57 you know mnemonic device figure it out there's rules i'm sure

1:44:59 there's a you know english language english class 101 episode

1:45:02 on it you know no apostrophe is the one that's

1:45:04 the possessive the apostrophe s is the one that's stored

1:45:07 for it has or it is right but it makes sense

1:45:11 it's kind of tough for some people to remember um

1:45:14 you or you're in your that that really upsets me

1:45:17 yeah just because it's so easy it's simple that and uh

1:45:20 there we talked about this earlier before this that they're

1:45:22 there and there the possessive t-h-e-i-r for that's their house

1:45:27 that's their dog t-h-e-r-e it's over there and t-h-e-y apostrophe-r-e

1:45:33 they are they're three different there there theirs sound the same

1:45:38 but they have different meanings and they should be spelled

1:45:40 differently too so come on native speakers get us together

1:45:44 okay all right next one for you what's your next one

1:45:48 ah along the same lines of being uh just like

1:45:51 correct could of so i think the problem with a lot

1:45:54 of these words is so it's supposed to be could

1:45:58 have but when you're speaking the language any language you

1:46:02 you make it quicker and quicker and you kind of slur

1:46:04 the words together so like for example grandma or grandma

1:46:09 you like native speakers you don't really say the d

1:46:11 you say grandma grandma and so as a kid i

1:46:13 thought that's how you spelled it and i remember spelling

1:46:15 g-r-a-m-m-a someone told me no that's not it so could

1:46:20 have it makes sense why people would say could've

1:46:22 but it doesn't it's not proper and you shouldn't get

1:46:24 in the habit of doing it i think most of these things

1:46:26 you can be forgiving when they're kids but it's best

1:46:28 to to nip it in the bud because you know

1:46:32 it just becomes a bad habit yeah and i mean

1:46:35 with could have there is a correct contracted spelled version

1:46:39 it's just could of apostrophe v e could've i mean i

1:46:43 would argue that it's more casual and it's perhaps not

1:46:45 the most correct thing to write i would i probably

1:46:49 would just write could have i probably wouldn't use the contracted

1:46:52 form so much use of contractions will make you sound

1:46:55 more casual if you want to write a formal letter

1:46:57 you should i i feel you should not use contractions

1:46:59 if you're writing an academic paper as well don't use

1:47:02 contractions spell it out spell the whole thing out you'll sound

1:47:05 much more formal and more at least in my mind

1:47:07 more educated all right uh great this topic is getting

1:47:11 me all like fancy okay let's see i'm gonna go

1:47:16 to okay another another pronunciation issue that i feel like almost

1:47:21 is cool now okay let me ask you a question

1:47:28 this pronunciation okay so i've written acts on this card

1:47:33 but the it's ask ask let me ask okay so

1:47:37 this lemmy which we talked about in a previous video which

1:47:40 is short for let me i've contracted it here

1:47:42 to the very casual lemmy um but i've used lemmy here because

1:47:45 this is this is typically said in a very very

1:47:47 casual setting let me ask you a question but the pronunciation

1:47:51 of ask should not be ax it's ask let me

1:47:55 ask you a question i want to ask you something

1:47:58 it's not ax it's ask ask yeah this one again

1:48:03 so like lemmy lemmy is okay i think most people

1:48:05 say lemmy i think that's okay but for some reason

1:48:08 acts i think a lot of these just are not

1:48:10 even close at all let me when you say it

1:48:12 really fast it sounds like lemmy i mean right but when

1:48:16 you say ax it's just totally wrong well it's reversing

1:48:20 the the consonants in the word ask right it's not

1:48:23 faster you're not making it quicker you're not slurring or making

1:48:25 you know putting it into one little like fluid blob

1:48:28 it's just you just switch the two uh yeah syllables

1:48:32 similarly i hear this with the word uh asterisk as well

1:48:36 the little star that's on like the number eight

1:48:38 on your keyboard or whatever that this looking thing it's not

1:48:42 an asterisk or what i don't even know it's asterisk

1:48:45 so overpronunciation so this one is kind of the opposite

1:48:50 direction so this whole time we've been kind of nitpicking

1:48:53 when you use the incorrect version of a word i think

1:48:58 overpronunciation can also be equally as damaging but instead

1:49:01 of making you look stupid it makes you look pretentious so

1:49:03 for example we don't say in english we don't use

1:49:06 all of the syllables with chocolate so it's choc like when

1:49:10 you spell it chocolate and so like maybe in spanish

1:49:16 or something like that they would still say that like chocolate

1:49:18 or something whatever but with english we took it out

1:49:21 and so even though you still spell all of those syllables

1:49:24 native speakers now say chocolate chocolate or like comfortable comfortable

1:49:31 that's how it's spelled but native english speakers we say

1:49:34 comfortable and this is like now it's it's i think

1:49:38 it's like unanimous so maybe when it becomes when slang becomes

1:49:42 so popular that it's part of the new language the language

1:49:44 is now evolved if you don't go with the flow

1:49:47 even though it's incorrect i think you sound pretentious that's

1:49:50 a great one i like that a lot all right

1:49:52 uh i'm gonna wrap it up i have two actually

1:49:56 i'll just i think i can do them quickly though do

1:49:58 you have any more by the way no no okay

1:50:00 then i'll go quickly um these are two the my last

1:50:03 two are just a couple that my students actually struggle

1:50:06 with um so maybe this this is something that you

1:50:08 can work on as well um this one just

1:50:11 an example sentence i want to go to there i've underlined

1:50:14 the word to here we use the word too when

1:50:18 we're talking about a specific city or a specific country

1:50:21 like i want to go to new york i want

1:50:22 to go to europe but there is not a specific location

1:50:26 i want to go to there uh is is not a specific place so we you don't need to use

1:50:31 two in this sentence i want to go there it's

1:50:33 perfectly fine so this is a mistake that um non-native speakers

1:50:37 it seems seem to make from time to time um

1:50:40 perhaps okay uh and then another one that i've heard

1:50:44 a lot recently is this phrase uh in case

1:50:47 of and then a country so for example in case of china

1:50:51 in case of egypt or whatever where someone is

1:50:55 trying to explain like the political situation or a policy

1:50:58 in that country uh in case of in case of um

1:51:01 but actually you don't need to use kasib just in china

1:51:06 in europe in japan whatever you don't need to use

1:51:10 kasiv this pattern in case of is used for like

1:51:14 an emergency situation or used uh to talk about alternate

1:51:18 plans often to to do with weather so for example

1:51:22 in case of rain the event will be cancelled

1:51:24 or in case of tornado please go to your nearest evacuation

1:51:29 center i don't know something like that so it's used

1:51:32 for like an emergency situation it's not used to talk about

1:51:36 policies in the countries just use in plus the place

1:51:39 it's much better much more natural so those are a few

1:51:42 things that i've noticed that non-native speakers uh struggle

1:51:45 with sometimes so perhaps they'll be helpful for you as well

1:51:48 so thanks very much for watching if you have a bad

1:51:51 habit that you've noticed when you're speaking english or if

1:51:54 you've noticed a bad habit and somebody else in their english

1:51:57 speaking or their writing or whatever please leave it

1:52:00 in a comment and let's compare it might be interesting

1:52:02 to see if there are any other things that people

1:52:04 tend to struggle with thanks very much for watching

1:52:06 this episode and we will see you again soon bye hi

1:52:10 everybody my name is alicia and today we're going

1:52:12 to be talking about 10 of the hardest words to pronounce

1:52:15 according to you guys so we collected some information from you

1:52:18 on facebook thanks very much for sending in your ideas

1:52:20 and these were the top 10 uh most difficult words

1:52:23 for you to pronounce so let's get started absolutely absolutely

1:52:28 absolutely might be tough to pronounce absolutely means 100 absolutely

1:52:33 is an agreement phrase are you going to that music event

1:52:36 next week absolutely yes 100 definitely absolutely loot like a loot

1:52:44 l-u-t-e big rime the grime apparently means dirty i've never

1:52:50 heard nor used this word before but perhaps it's difficult

1:52:54 to pronounce big grime the door to my apartment was begrimed

1:52:58 in the storm last week breakfast the next word is

1:53:02 breakfast breakfast is hard to pronounce but that is the meaning

1:53:05 of breakfast you're breaking the fast so a fast is

1:53:08 a period of time without eating and to break means

1:53:11 to just well in this case breaking something it doesn't

1:53:14 refer to like crushing a thing but um stopping something

1:53:19 to break the fast of the night in other words

1:53:22 so you're fasting during the night you're not eating so you

1:53:24 wake up in the morning you break the fast

1:53:26 but we don't say breakfast we say breakfast in a sentence

1:53:29 this morning for breakfast i ate a bowl of cereal

1:53:32 with grapes and i had a coffee too colleague colleague yes

1:53:38 colleague many of my students struggle with this they say

1:53:41 colleague or they say call you or something because the spelling

1:53:45 of this word is really really strange there's that g-u-e

1:53:48 at the end or more commonly i feel it's just co-worker

1:53:51 colleague sounds slightly more formal to me than co-worker

1:53:54 somebody who you work with or somebody who you have

1:53:57 a business relationship with in some sense could be a person

1:53:59 from another company could be somebody from your own company

1:54:02 anyone who you do business dealings with is your colleague

1:54:05 can be your colleague in a sentence i'm going

1:54:08 to a networking event with my colleagues next week miscellaneous

1:54:14 that misc miscellaneous it's just the spelling i think maybe is confusing

1:54:19 for this word miscellaneous miscellaneous just means other stuff or just

1:54:24 other uncategorized stuff i keep a lot of miscellaneous items

1:54:28 in a drawer in my house maybe they don't they

1:54:31 don't really fit into one category like it's not kitchen things

1:54:34 it's not clothing it's just sort of a mixture

1:54:37 of of things miscellaneous things negotiation

1:54:41 the next word is negotiation negotiation

1:54:44 yeah there are two t's in this but neither t

1:54:46 is a hard t they're both very soft that sh sound

1:54:49 because they're followed by the i and another vowel

1:54:51 that she a negotiation negotiation refers to a compromise between two

1:54:57 people you're trying to make a decision and you negotiate

1:55:01 in this case it's a noun form negotiation business negotiations continued

1:55:05 for more than a month with this important deal realm

1:55:09 realm i see why this one's hard it's that rome

1:55:12 part little realm it's a weird word isn't it it's

1:55:15 used to talk about just like the kind of a fantasy

1:55:17 world is sort of the nuance of this phrase the realm

1:55:20 uh in a sentence let us go to the realm

1:55:22 where the elves live and eat their bread unfortunately

1:55:28 the next word is unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately it just means too

1:55:34 bad uh you can use this to to start bad

1:55:37 news for example like unfortunately i can't come to work

1:55:39 today because i'm sick or unfortunately i broke my arm

1:55:43 at the basketball game last week or unfortunately my haircut is

1:55:48 bad vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocab vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary just

1:56:01 refers to the uh words in a language my vocabulary

1:56:06 in my second language is really really low i need

1:56:09 a bigger vocabulary so that i can express myself more clearly world

1:56:13 world ah i see why this one's hard world world

1:56:17 hard to pronounce that rld i think together is tough

1:56:21 plus that w at the beginning as well it's such

1:56:23 a short word but you have to say so many weird

1:56:25 things at the same time whirled your tongue is going

1:56:29 [Music] like this in a sentence i have traveled all

1:56:33 over the world and the best food is in my stomach

1:56:40 that's the end so those were 10 hard to pronounce

1:56:42 words give them a try slowly at first and just

1:56:46 kind of try to work up to saying it

1:56:47 at a more natural speed if you like thank you so

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1:57:00 next time bye hi everybody my name is alicia and today

1:57:06 we're going to be talking about 10 phrases that you

1:57:08 always want to hear so let's begin you win the first

1:57:13 phrase is you win you win if you hear

1:57:15 the phrase you win it means you have won something you

1:57:18 are probably going to receive something for free that's

1:57:23 a very happy thing right you want to get free things

1:57:26 congratulations you win a car yay here are the keys

1:57:30 to your new car great thank you i brought you something

1:57:34 special this is exciting to hear because it means this little

1:57:38 something special is like oh i thought only a view

1:57:40 so i brought you this i brought you something special

1:57:43 really thank you i miss you i miss you i

1:57:49 miss you it's nice you can use this with your friends

1:57:51 your family members your partner whoever i miss you

1:57:55 shows that you want to meet the other person probably

1:57:58 you haven't you haven't seen them as much as you would

1:58:00 like to so you can say i miss you i

1:58:02 miss you call your husband or wife or boyfriend girlfriend

1:58:05 whoever on the phone maybe you haven't seen them

1:58:07 for a long time you can say i miss you i miss

1:58:11 you too take a break i'll do the cleaning today

1:58:15 take a break i'll do the cleaning today this means

1:58:17 someone else is going to clean up your house for you

1:58:20 or clean up something for you i would be very

1:58:23 happy to hear this phrase right now because my apartment

1:58:25 is a disaster because i'm only there to sleep so maybe

1:58:27 you've had a long day at work or a long

1:58:30 day doing something you come home and somebody else has offered

1:58:33 to do this for you so take a break i'll

1:58:36 do the cleaning today and you can reply really thank

1:58:40 you so much i'm gonna relax the budget is unlimited

1:58:44 the next phrase that you always want to hear is

1:58:46 the budget is unlimited the budget is unlimited this could

1:58:49 be at work this could be a budget a personal budget

1:58:52 maybe but it just means there's no limit to the budget

1:58:54 you can spend as much money as you want woohoo

1:58:57 very exciting so let's see in a business context perhaps

1:59:01 you have this new client who's going to give you

1:59:03 a lot of money to build a new house or something

1:59:06 maybe you're building houses that's your project your boss comes

1:59:08 to you the budget for this project is unlimited really

1:59:12 let's go crazy there'll be a bonus at the end

1:59:16 of the month yeah this is a phrase that you

1:59:18 probably are very excited to hear it means you are going

1:59:21 to receive extra money from your job at the end

1:59:24 of the month woohoo very exciting extra money maybe you'll hear

1:59:27 this from your boss or your manager or maybe your co-worker

1:59:30 at work or maybe you see it in an email

1:59:32 there'll be a bonus at the end of the month

1:59:34 really i'm gonna use mine to buy a new car

1:59:37 really i'm gonna use mine to go out on a date

1:59:40 really i'm gonna use mine to get a new fish you did a great job you did a great

1:59:48 job you did a great job of something you'll probably

1:59:51 hear from well i don't know you could hear

1:59:53 this from pretty much anybody anytime you've done a good job someone

1:59:56 will congratulate you or tell you their opinion with this phrase

1:59:59 you did a great job you finished a project

2:00:01 at work and your boss says you did a great job

2:00:04 nice thank you so much it was really fun or thank

2:00:08 you just just say thank you you look great today

2:00:11 you look great today the other person thinks that your physical

2:00:15 appearance is nice today don't think about the today

2:00:18 part you know just just just take the compliment be

2:00:21 like oh really thank you so much you look great

2:00:24 today oh thank you so much i got a new

2:00:26 haircut thank you so much i i got enough sleep

2:00:30 yeah you were right you were right this means that um

2:00:34 something that you said in the past was correct and everybody

2:00:38 likes to be correct i think i saw that movie

2:00:40 that you recommended you were right it was really good

2:00:43 oh good i'm glad you enjoyed it don't be like

2:00:46 i know or yeah i knew i was right don't

2:00:48 do that just say oh good i'm glad you're an excellent

2:00:52 cook you're an excellent cook this is a nice compliment

2:00:54 especially for someone who enjoys cooking if you say you're

2:00:58 an excellent cook it means you enjoyed their food so

2:01:01 let's see at a dinner party for example you're an excellent

2:01:04 cook this food is delicious oh thank you so much

2:01:07 i'm really glad you enjoyed it and that's the end

2:01:10 so those are things that you want to hear so

2:01:14 keep in mind it's nice for you to hear these things

2:01:16 but other people also want to hear them too so

2:01:18 compliment other people tell them that they are awesome if

2:01:21 they're awesome tell them that they have good skills

2:01:24 in whatever it is that they like to do people like

2:01:27 to be complimented people want to be liked so write

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2:01:54 that i'm so sorry amped all the time japanese hi

2:01:59 everybody my name is alicia and i'm here in the studio

2:02:02 today with michael hello and today we're going to be

2:02:05 talking about things that every american kid knows so let's

2:02:08 get right into it these are going to be things

2:02:10 that we think that maybe now i imagine most or all

2:02:15 american kids are aware of or have done to some

2:02:17 degree so let's compare why don't you start us off

2:02:22 um ah this is a good one i think everybody

2:02:25 knows this everybody still should know this is the magic

2:02:29 word so usually when you want to like get someone

2:02:32 to say please you're trying to teach little kids uh how

2:02:35 to be polite teach them proper manners and so you

2:02:38 say what's the magic word and they say please so

2:02:41 like for example hey mom can i have a cookie

2:02:44 what's the magic word can i have a cookie please

2:02:47 and then you give them the cookie yep yep it's

2:02:49 it's better than saying say please i feel like saying what's

2:02:51 the magic word is i don't know it's kind of like

2:02:53 a more fun way to to tell kids like be

2:02:56 polite you know say please and thank you kind

2:02:58 of hypocritical to be like say please yeah well that's not

2:03:01 very polite mom yeah yeah that's true nice nice one

2:03:05 okay good uh all right i'll go to my first one

2:03:08 i picked okay you'll see in a second maybe what

2:03:10 i picked um let's start with let's see oh i'll

2:03:15 start with this one i think kids probably all over

2:03:18 the world are aware of this one or some variation i

2:03:20 don't know what it's called many different languages but hide

2:03:22 and seek um hide and seek is a very very

2:03:26 basic game i mean the the game is explained pretty

2:03:28 much here hide and seek so a bunch of kids hide

2:03:32 and then one person usually seeks or looks for all

2:03:34 the other kids um so this was one of those games

2:03:37 that you'd play with a group of friends or even

2:03:39 just you know like with one of your siblings uh

2:03:42 if you don't have a whole lot of people um

2:03:44 but um the basic concept of the game is one

2:03:47 or more people hide and then a few seconds later

2:03:50 you go look for those people um i i assume

2:03:54 that you played this game i assume that every child

2:03:56 played this game hours and hours and hours spent playing

2:03:59 this game so i mean there's different variations of the game

2:04:02 but like you have a home base usually and so that's

2:04:05 where the person starts and you usually count to like

2:04:07 what 30 100 yeah something like that yeah yeah and so

2:04:10 you close your eyes the person who's it and they

2:04:12 okay one two three and then when you are finished

2:04:14 you say ready or not here i come and you try to find them um and then if you are

2:04:20 hiding and you make it to the home base and you

2:04:22 touch it you're free you made it you win yeah

2:04:25 um or like i don't know multiple people can win

2:04:28 it's it's really like a young young kid game yeah

2:04:30 like i don't think i played it after nine years

2:04:32 old yeah i think maybe around junior high school was probably

2:04:36 the last time that i played it yeah okay uh

2:04:39 hide and seek yeah play hide and seek if you haven't

2:04:41 i don't know i bet it'd be fun as an adult

2:04:43 too in the right in the right situation make it

2:04:45 a drinking game something like that you said it so

2:04:48 i didn't have to okay um let's go to your next

2:04:51 one what's your next one um i guess talking

2:04:54 about games thumb war thumb so i think most people

2:05:00 do this around the world they they know the thumb

2:05:02 war which is like like this and you you try

2:05:06 to catch them but the thing that not everyone knows

2:05:08 is and i think every american kid knows is you say

2:05:12 one two three four i declare a thumb more ready

2:05:16 go yeah did you not have already go i don't

2:05:18 remember that last part i had to ready go okay

2:05:21 and then you try to get him so yeah you try

2:05:22 to you try to fight you keep the other person's

2:05:25 thumb down in retrospect that's not a very good game

2:05:28 is it nah yeah these are all terrible game yeah

2:05:33 yeah i did it too though i did it too though

2:05:35 but like people would always people would always kind

2:05:38 of like get a little bit too into it and then

2:05:40 they'd sort of like kind of try and rip

2:05:41 their hands out of like right or do the you use

2:05:44 this finger you cheat what is that called the hook

2:05:45 like no hooks am not aware of that so like

2:05:48 this and then you use this finger so you're trying

2:05:50 to do it it's hard and then you ha you just cheat

2:05:54 basically so yeah it's stupid game for little kids basically

2:05:56 there's like it's like tic tac toe you can play

2:05:58 it like a million times and usually you get a tie

2:06:01 it's just like something to do when the teacher's talking

2:06:04 and it's just easy you don't need a ball you're

2:06:05 just kind of like okay let's play them you're a terrible

2:06:08 child orange yeah i was pretty bad never listen okay

2:06:12 all right i'm gonna go to my next one another game

2:06:16 i picked duck duck goose yes yeah as i was

2:06:22 writing this card i was thinking to myself why is

2:06:24 it called duck duck goose of all things okay so

2:06:26 the game is very very simple i think you need you

2:06:29 need a group of people for this one though

2:06:30 but uh you form a ring a ring of children usually

2:06:34 and then there's one person who walks around the outside

2:06:36 of the ring and they touch each each person on the head

2:06:40 as they walk by and say duck duck duck and then

2:06:43 randomly this one person will select one child and say

2:06:47 goose you're the goose and so if you are chosen

2:06:50 as the goose you have to get up and chase

2:06:52 the other person around the circle and try to get

2:06:56 back to your the place where you were sitting down

2:06:58 before them no you have to tag them right

2:07:01 the the person who was going duck duck duck and then

2:07:06 goose they try to run around the circle and steal

2:07:08 your spot right and you if you're fast enough you

2:07:10 can run around and if you tag them then they

2:07:12 keep going and you get your spots too right right so

2:07:15 it's it's it's like a seated version of tag almost

2:07:18 but i don't know why we call it duck duck

2:07:20 goose yeah no clue i don't know okay so this one

2:07:24 is actually i think it's like from scotland or something

2:07:28 i don't know i forgot i looked it up but eeny

2:07:30 meeny miny moe so usually when you're trying to decide

2:07:34 who let's say you want to play hide and seek

2:07:37 and you don't know who's gonna be the one who's

2:07:39 it so then you'll go eenie meenie miney moe catch

2:07:43 a tiger by his toe if he hollers make him

2:07:47 pay a thousand dollars every day okay you're it and there's

2:07:51 a few variations of that um pretty much everyone knows

2:07:54 that i still use it to this day honestly most

2:07:58 people shorten it though because the tiger the whole tiger

2:08:01 thing is quite long so i think eeny meeny miny

2:08:03 moe it's just a rhyme to choose someone i mean

2:08:05 you could flip a coin or do like rock paper

2:08:08 scissors or something like that but for whatever reason we

2:08:10 do this eenie meenie miney moe thing did you ever

2:08:13 do nose goes uh as a child no as an adult

2:08:18 for a drinking game see this is the yes all

2:08:22 the things that were like children's games become adult drinking

2:08:24 games when you grow up slowly get perfect very very

2:08:27 mature okay uh my last one is truth or dare um

2:08:33 perhaps this is um more for like junior high school

2:08:37 and high school age when you start getting a little bit

2:08:40 more like curious is maybe the right word so the game

2:08:45 is um you have there are two choices that you

2:08:48 can make this game truth where your friends will ask

2:08:50 you a question and you have to reply with the truth

2:08:53 to that question so usually truth is like who's

2:08:56 who's the person that you like or do you want

2:08:58 a boyfriend or do you want a girlfriend usually it's

2:09:00 something like that if you don't choose truth then you have

2:09:03 to choose dare so dare is the choice where your friends

2:09:07 get to tell you to do something and it's usually

2:09:10 something crazy um so you either have the option of being

2:09:14 in other words humiliated by sharing something secret or humiliated

2:09:17 by doing something embarrassing um it's a it's a fun

2:09:21 game of humiliation to play with your friends um i

2:09:25 i've i have some i actually have some good memories

2:09:26 playing this game nothing nothing like bad really just really

2:09:30 really silly stuff actually like singing weird songs in front

2:09:33 of like my my friend's parents that kind of thing right

2:09:35 put underwear on your head or something yeah yeah yeah

2:09:37 the one i remember that just came to mind is

2:09:39 they told me i was like okay dare and then

2:09:41 they said to uh go outside act like a cow get

2:09:45 on all fours and take a big mouthful of the grass

2:09:47 and chew it so that was kind of that's

2:09:49 a creative dare yeah yeah that was like that's why

2:09:51 i still remember it because usually they're just kind of like

2:09:53 i dare you to like i don't know drink too

2:09:55 much ketchup or something i don't know just something kind

2:09:57 of uh-huh i don't know i was pretty good i'm

2:09:59 drinking too much ketchup no maybe i've never heard that wearing

2:10:02 too much ketchup is that that's too much ketchup i

2:10:06 decided two tablespoons is adequate it's like the and you win

2:10:13 sorry every every time all right uh i'm out i

2:10:16 think maybe you're out okay great so those are a few

2:10:20 things that perhaps i think most if not all american

2:10:23 kids know or are aware of a lot of them

2:10:25 were games maybe you have similar games in your country

2:10:29 so if you uh if you've had some interesting experiences playing

2:10:33 these games or if you have a game that's similar

2:10:35 um to one of the games or one of the ideas

2:10:38 that we've talked about here please let us know

2:10:40 in a comment and it'd be interesting to compare any other

2:10:43 ideas that's about it that's about it okay well thanks

2:10:47 very much for joining us for this episode of english

2:10:49 topics and we will see you again soon take care

2:10:52 bye hi everybody welcome back to top words my name is

2:10:55 alicia and today we're going to talk about 10 different

2:10:58 ways to remember words so these are actually some ways

2:11:02 to remember words that you have sent in to us

2:11:05 so i'm really excited to see what your recommendations are i

2:11:08 study other languages so let's talk about it let's

2:11:10 see i associate new words with words that sound similar

2:11:14 in my native language if you're studying english your native

2:11:18 language might share some words so like i'm studying japanese

2:11:22 and for example the word chocolate sounds very very similar

2:11:26 in in japanese so in english the word is chocolate

2:11:30 in japanese the word is chocoreto so it sounds similar so

2:11:33 that's an easy word for me to remember i learn about

2:11:36 the roots of words and how different words are related

2:11:39 to each other many words in english have roots in very

2:11:44 very old languages like latin so a word like omniscient

2:11:47 for example can be broken down into maybe two parts

2:11:51 the omni omni meaning all or everything and shint the sheen

2:11:56 part relates to knowledge or knowing so together the word

2:11:59 means all knowing omniscient maybe you can guess the meaning

2:12:03 even if it's the first time you've seen the word okay

2:12:06 i listen to songs and memorize the lyrics this is

2:12:10 also a common way to to help kids learn things

2:12:13 too through songs opposite of b plus or minus

2:12:16 the square root b squared minus four is e all over

2:12:19 2a it's a quadratic function equation because it's a song

2:12:23 it's still in my head thank you mrs time i often

2:12:27 watch tv or youtube videos that are designed for young

2:12:30 children that's how children in the native language learn so it's

2:12:34 a great tool for you don't be embarrassed to do

2:12:36 that i do that in english we have dora the explorer

2:12:40 we have sesame street we have another channel that's made

2:12:43 for children's content but it could be useful for you

2:12:47 it's called kids versus life so please be sure to check

2:12:49 that out i speak as often as possible with native

2:12:52 speakers a native speaker can go ah that's that's

2:12:55 a strange thing that you're saying so there are a lot

2:12:57 of small factors that you can't get unless you're speaking

2:13:00 with a native speaker so this is a really really

2:13:03 great tip if you're interested in doing this with us

2:13:06 we have on englishclass101.com a special subscription which is called

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2:13:14 study with one of our teachers here so if if you

2:13:18 don't have somebody that you can study with now that might

2:13:20 be a way to do it please check that out

2:13:23 if you're interested i try to use the language routinely

2:13:26 in the context of daily life when you're alone uh

2:13:30 just doing stuff at home like making breakfast or cooking

2:13:32 or doing the laundry if you use the language just

2:13:35 to say like now i'm going to i don't know

2:13:38 cut vegetables or oh i need to do laundry later today

2:13:41 or thinking about your appointment whatever another good example is

2:13:45 really i put my phone into my target language you're telling

2:13:48 little stories when you're having conversations with people so get

2:13:51 used to telling yourself the story i use repetition reading

2:13:56 writing and speaking words over and over again keep repeating

2:13:59 in your studies um even if it feels like you know

2:14:02 you're not making any progress you are just just

2:14:05 the act of doing that repetition can be helpful for you

2:14:08 if a football player never throws a football he's not

2:14:11 going to be able to throw it very well is he

2:14:14 you have to repeat repeat repeat and then when you're

2:14:17 faced with the actual situation where you need to throw

2:14:20 the football you need to use that vocabulary word you're

2:14:23 ready you already know how to say the word so yes

2:14:25 repeat it's good i try to think in english so

2:14:28 it becomes natural to my thought process i do this i

2:14:32 think about what i need to do i think about

2:14:34 what i have done i think about what i'm going

2:14:36 to do and so in that way you can practice

2:14:39 past tense future tense and present tense recently this has

2:14:42 been happening to me i've started dreaming in japanese

2:14:44 from time to time or i dream bilingually it's exciting i

2:14:47 think i try to use the word in a simple

2:14:50 sentence so i learn whole phrases not just individual words

2:14:54 yes this is a huge tip so vocabulary is important

2:14:57 of course if you don't know a key word you might

2:15:00 miss the meaning of something but context is important too

2:15:04 so there might be two words which seem very similar

2:15:06 like big and large for example but when should i

2:15:09 use large when should i use big like if you're close

2:15:12 shopping and you say do you have this in a big

2:15:15 size it might not be the correct way to use

2:15:18 the word instead do you have this in a large

2:15:20 size is the correct phrase so learning how to use

2:15:24 the correct vocabulary word at the correct time is important

2:15:27 and you can do that through studying sentences and phrases

2:15:30 instead of just vocabulary this is why reading is important

2:15:34 i feel reading as much as possible especially the newspaper helps

2:15:38 me to remember words when i was a kid i

2:15:40 just read everything i was i was so into reading

2:15:43 i loved it and i think that it helped it

2:15:45 actually helped my language skills improve even in my native language

2:15:49 again at first it's really hard to do and you

2:15:51 might have to use a dictionary a lot but you'll

2:15:54 learn gradually more natural speaking patterns more natural writing patterns

2:15:59 too which will help you to sound more natural when you

2:16:01 speak and maybe it can help your listening skills too

2:16:04 when you can listen for those patterns that you see

2:16:07 in textbooks that you see in newspapers in novels whatever it's

2:16:10 a great tool reading and thank goodness that's the end so

2:16:14 those are 10 tips that you can use to remember

2:16:17 new words and new phrases try them out i'm going

2:16:20 to be doing my best with my target language i

2:16:22 hope that you do too thank you very much for watching

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2:16:30 exciting information bye i have to go to the bathroom

2:16:40 you've arrived at your hotel and are almost ready to relax

2:16:43 after your long trip but the person at the front

2:16:45 desk only speaks english how do you check in hi

2:16:49 alicia here checking in at a hotel in english is

2:16:52 easy in this lesson you'll learn how gustavo just arrived

2:16:56 at his hotel in new york let's watch good evening

2:17:02 sir hi my name is gustavo silva i have a reservation

2:17:08 thank you very much mr silva could you spell your name

2:17:10 please s i s-i-l-v-a thank you ah yes mr silva

2:17:19 here's your room key is there a shop in this hotel

2:17:24 no but there's a small grocery store in the next

2:17:27 building and is there any shampoo or conditioner in the room

2:17:32 yes sir thank you oh and a wake-up call

2:17:37 please of course what time at seven but what time

2:17:41 is breakfast from 6 to 7 30 a.m in the dining

2:17:46 room on the first floor now with subtitles good evening

2:17:56 sir hi my name is gustavo silva i have a reservation

2:18:02 thank you very much mr silva could you spell

2:18:04 your name please s i l v a thank you ah

2:18:11 yes mr silva here's your room key is there a shop

2:18:17 in this hotel no but there's a small grocery store

2:18:21 in the next building and is there any shampoo

2:18:25 or conditioner in the room yes sir thank you oh

2:18:30 and a wake up call please of course what time

2:18:34 at seven but what time is breakfast from 6 to 7 30

2:18:39 a.m in the dining room on the first floor here

2:18:45 are the key words from the scene grocery store grocery

2:18:56 store grocery store grocery store shampoo shampoo shampoo shampoo conditioner

2:19:18 conditioner conditioner conditioner dining room

2:19:30 dining room dining room dining room

2:19:40 reservation reservation reservation reservation good

2:19:53 evening good evening good evening good evening sir sir sir sir room key room key

2:20:19 room key room key small small small next next next

2:20:45 next building building building building of course of course of course

2:21:08 of course what time what time what time what

2:21:20 time floor floor floor floor here are the key phrases

2:21:35 from the scene in the scene how did the hotel clerk

2:21:41 ask gustavo to spell his name could you spell your name

2:21:46 please first is the phrase could you next is

2:21:52 the word spell after this is the phrase your name

2:22:00 and last is the word please together it's could you

2:22:07 spell your name please to respond you would give the spelling

2:22:12 of your last name first name or both now you

2:22:16 try say the hotel clerk's line when he asks gustavo

2:22:21 to spell his name thank you very much mr silva

2:22:31 could you spell your name please in the scene how did

2:22:36 gustavo ask for a wake-up call and the wake-up call

2:22:40 please first is the phrase a wake-up call next is

2:22:48 the word please together it's a wake-up call please keep

2:22:55 in mind that you will also have to tell the hotel

2:22:58 clerk what time you want the wake-up call now you

2:23:02 try say gustavo's line to request a wake-up call oh

2:23:14 and a wake-up call please in the scene how did gustavo

2:23:20 ask what time breakfast is served what time's breakfast the first

2:23:26 word is what next is a contraction of the words

2:23:32 time and is times last is the word breakfast together

2:23:41 it's what times breakfast this is a very useful shortened

2:23:48 way of asking about what time something is happening you try

2:23:53 say gustavo's line to find out when breakfast will be

2:23:56 served but what time's breakfast now the lesson focused here's

2:24:12 how to check in at a hotel ready do you

2:24:17 remember the first thing gustavo said to the hotel clerk

2:24:21 in the scene after he introduces himself i have a reservation

2:24:28 first is the phrase i have next is the phrase

2:24:34 a reservation together it's i have a reservation use

2:24:41 this expression to indicate that you've reserved a room in advance

2:24:46 you can also use this phrase in other situations where

2:24:49 you made a reservation such as at a restaurant now

2:24:52 you try imagine you have just come to a restaurant

2:24:56 where you've made a reservation what would you say i have

2:25:06 a reservation now imagine you've booked a rental car online

2:25:11 and you're checking in to pick up your car what

2:25:14 would you say i have a reservation do you remember

2:25:25 how gustavo asked if the hotel has a shop is there

2:25:29 a shop in this hotel first is the phrase is

2:25:34 there and next is the phrase a shop last is

2:25:40 the phrase in this hotel together it's is there a shop

2:25:47 in this hotel this structure allows you to easily ask

2:25:52 if something is nearby or in a particular location start

2:25:56 your question with is there and then insert something you

2:26:01 are looking for finally add a location now you try

2:26:07 imagine you're checking into a hotel and want to know if

2:26:11 there's an atm in the hotel what would you say

2:26:20 is there an atm in this hotel now imagine you're

2:26:25 in a shopping mall and want to find out if

2:26:27 there's a coffee shop in the mall what would you say

2:26:37 is there a coffee shop in this mall do you

2:26:41 remember how gustavo asks if there is shampoo or conditioner

2:26:45 in the room there any shampoo or conditioner in the room

2:26:52 first is the phrase is there any next is the phrase

2:26:59 shampoo or conditioner and last is the phrase

2:27:04 in the room together it's is there any shampoo or conditioner

2:27:11 in the room this phrase structure is very similar

2:27:15 to the one we just learned except the word any is used

2:27:20 to refer to uncountable nouns such as shampoo water or bread

2:27:26 the structure is is there any followed by the item

2:27:32 and location now you try imagine you're checking into a hotel

2:27:38 and you want to know if there is bottled water

2:27:40 in the room what would you say is there any

2:27:49 bottled water in the room imagine you're baking cookies and you

2:27:54 want to know if there's any milk in the refrigerator

2:27:58 what would you say is there any milk in the refrigerator

2:28:11 now it's time to practice your new ability let's practice

2:28:17 this is your chance to try checking in at a hotel

2:28:20 in english try to remember what you learned and practice

2:28:24 speaking ready here we go what's the first thing

2:28:28 you say to the hotel clerk to indicate that you've

2:28:32 made a reservation in advance i have a reservation the clerk

2:28:43 asks you to spell your name how do you respond

2:28:48 could you spell your name please the letters of your last

2:28:57 name s-i-l-v-a after the hotel clerk gives you a room

2:29:05 key you want to know if there's a store

2:29:07 in the hotel how do you ask is there a store

2:29:17 in this hotel after the hotel clerk has answered your question

2:29:22 he asks you if you need anything else how do

2:29:26 you request a wake-up call a wake-up call please great

2:29:36 job you just mastered checking into a hotel in english

2:29:41 these phrases are very useful so be sure to keep practicing

2:29:47 well done now watch the scene one more time after

2:29:51 that practice role playing with an american friend another english

2:29:54 learner or with us in the comments bye good evening

2:30:00 sir hi my name is gustavo silva i have a reservation

2:30:05 thank you very much mr silva could you spell

2:30:08 your name please s-i-l-v-a thank you ah yes mr silva here's

2:30:17 your room key is there a shop in this hotel

2:30:22 no but there's a small grocery store in the next building

2:30:26 and is there any shampoo or conditioner in the room

2:30:30 yes sir thank you oh and a wake up call

2:30:34 please of course what time at seven but what time

2:30:39 is breakfast from six to seven thirty a.m in the dining

2:30:44 room on the first floor imagine you've just landed after

2:30:54 a long flight to america and you're almost free but first

2:30:58 you need to go through passport control what will they

2:31:01 ask you how should you respond hi alicia here navigating

2:31:05 passport control isn't as hard as you might think

2:31:08 in this lesson you'll learn how gustavo has just arrived in new

2:31:12 york he's in line at passport control let's watch next

2:31:21 passport please hello here you are how long will you

2:31:26 be staying for six weeks and where will you

2:31:29 be staying at the four seasons hotel what's the purpose

2:31:35 of your visit i'm here on business okay thank you welcome

2:31:40 to the united states now with subtitles next passport please hello

2:31:54 here you are how long will you be staying for six

2:31:59 weeks and where will you be staying at the four

2:32:02 seasons hotel what's the purpose of your visit i'm here

2:32:07 on business okay thank you welcome to the united states

2:32:15 here are the key words from the scene passport passport

2:32:27 passport passport please please please please hello hello hello hello

2:32:56 business business business business okay okay okay okay thank you

2:33:20 thank you thank you thank you here are the key phrases

2:33:34 from the scene in the scene what did gustavo say

2:33:40 when he gave his passport to the immigration officer here

2:33:44 you are this short sentence helps indicate that someone is

2:33:50 giving something to someone in response to a request first is

2:33:54 the word here next is the word you and last

2:34:01 is the word are together it's here you are try

2:34:09 saying this as gustavo hands his passport over to the immigration

2:34:13 officer passport please hello here you are at the end

2:34:26 of the scene how does the immigration officer welcome gustavo

2:34:32 welcome to the united states this is a polite and sometimes

2:34:37 friendly way to indicate to someone that you're glad

2:34:40 to have them to a home place of work or another

2:34:44 place somehow belonging to you it starts with the core

2:34:48 phrase welcome to and then finishes with the location

2:34:55 in this case the united states try saying this after

2:35:01 the immigration officer speaks okay thank you welcome to the united

2:35:13 states now the lesson focus here's what you say

2:35:20 to navigate passport control ready do you remember the first question

2:35:27 the immigration officer asked after gustavo gave him his passport

2:35:33 how long will you be staying immigration officers ask this question

2:35:39 to find out about the length of a visitor's stay

2:35:42 they want to know if a visitor plans to stay

2:35:45 for two weeks for example or one month first is

2:35:49 the phrase how long next is the word will after

2:35:57 this is the word you and last is the phrase

2:36:03 be staying gustavo responds with a length of time for six

2:36:10 weeks first is the word for next is the number

2:36:18 six and last is the word weeks together it's for six

2:36:27 weeks the sentence structure to answer the question how long

2:36:31 will you be staying is four plus number of days

2:36:37 or weeks imagine you're going to stay for two weeks

2:36:41 answer the question how long will you be staying for two

2:36:52 weeks do you remember the second question the immigration officer

2:36:57 asked gustavo in the scene and where will you be staying

2:37:03 this question is identical to the first question except instead

2:37:07 of saying how long the immigration officer asked where the immigration

2:37:16 officer is asking to find out which hotel or address

2:37:20 a visitor will be staying at again it's where will

2:37:26 you be staying in response gustavo gives the name

2:37:30 of his hotel at the four seasons hotel first is the word

2:37:38 at and after this is the name of the hotel

2:37:43 the four seasons hotel together it's at the four seasons

2:37:50 hotel the sentence structure to answer the question where will

2:37:55 you be staying is at plus your hotel name imagine you'll

2:38:02 be staying at the plaza hotel answer the question where

2:38:07 will you be staying at the plaza hotel do you

2:38:18 remember the third question the immigration officer asked in the scene

2:38:23 what's the purpose of your visit the immigration officer asks

2:38:28 this to understand why gustavo is visiting first is

2:38:33 a contraction of what and is what next is the word

2:38:40 the after this is the word purpose next is the word

2:38:48 of following this is the word you're and last is

2:38:55 the word visit together it's what's the purpose

2:39:01 of your visit in response gustavo answers i'm here on business

2:39:10 this starts with the core phrase i'm here on following

2:39:16 this core phrase is the word business all together it's i'm

2:39:24 here on business this means that gustavo is in the country

2:39:29 to do business and not just to sightsee alternatively

2:39:34 he could have said i'm here for pleasure this is

2:39:38 the same pattern as the first response the only difference is

2:39:43 that on business has been taken out and for pleasure

2:39:51 is used instead again that's i'm here for pleasure now you

2:39:58 try imagine your trip is for sightseeing answer the question

2:40:04 what's the purpose of your visit i'm here for pleasure now

2:40:15 imagine you are visiting the us on business answer the question

2:40:20 what's the purpose of your visit i'm here on business

2:40:33 now it's time to practice your new ability you've arrived

2:40:38 to the united states and you'll need to go through passport

2:40:42 control ready here we go the immigration officer asks you

2:40:48 to show her your passport what do you say when

2:40:51 you give your passport to her here you are how

2:41:01 do you answer the question how long will you stay

2:41:11 for the number of days or weeks for six weeks

2:41:16 how do you answer the question where will you stay

2:41:26 at your hotel name at the four seasons hotel you are

2:41:32 on business in new york how do you answer the question

2:41:36 what's the purpose of your stay i'm here on business

2:41:46 great job you're ready to go through passport control keep

2:41:50 up the good work and remember to practice well done

2:41:55 now watch the scene one more time after that practice

2:41:59 with us in the comments until you're ready to go

2:42:02 bye next passport please hello here you are how long

2:42:12 will you be staying for six weeks and where will

2:42:16 you be staying at the four seasons hotel what's the purpose

2:42:21 of your visit i'm here on business okay thank you

2:42:26 welcome to the united states hi everybody my name is alicia

2:42:31 and today i'm joined by michael hello and today we're

2:42:35 going to be talking about the college experience in the united

2:42:39 states so we're going to be sharing some things that we

2:42:41 think are maybe very common if you attend a college

2:42:45 in the united states so let's begin why don't we

2:42:48 start with you michael what is your first item first

2:42:52 item is four years four years um this is something

2:43:02 i mean it's not too exciting to talk about but one

2:43:04 of my friends from the uk was asking me about

2:43:06 you know how long does it take what's the typical

2:43:08 amount of time because i guess in the uk and i'm

2:43:12 sure this is different from wherever you are in the world

2:43:14 um you know they do three years three years something

2:43:16 like that for us typically you do your secondary education

2:43:21 is high school and that's four years so grade 9

2:43:24 10 11 12 you graduate around 18 years old 17

2:43:29 18 and then you go to university and the degrees

2:43:33 are the most common is four years which is your bachelor's

2:43:36 right and some people do two years for an associates

2:43:39 and then you can go on and get masters

2:43:41 and it you know that kind of varies how long

2:43:42 you want to take personally how many majors blah blah blah

2:43:45 but um i guess in the uk it's typically three

2:43:47 years um for university yeah for for the average university

2:43:52 time because they yeah their their education their high school

2:43:55 is different too so oh i actually didn't know that yeah

2:43:57 me either until just last week oh okay um the first

2:44:00 year um each each year in college has a name

2:44:04 and as well as in high school too so the first

2:44:06 year um is called uh or the students the students

2:44:10 that are the first year students are called the freshmen

2:44:12 freshmen if you think about that word fresh man so

2:44:15 fresh meaning new and man in this case i'm just

2:44:18 meaning people but man um so um the first year there's

2:44:22 this thing called the freshman 15 which maybe you've heard

2:44:24 of the freshman 15 um i don't know if you

2:44:27 know this one freshman 15 the 15 and freshman 15

2:44:31 refers to 15 pounds or pounds in terms of body weight

2:44:37 so kind of a joke that's that you might hear

2:44:40 if you go to a college in the us or maybe

2:44:42 in another country too you have this um is freshmen

2:44:46 move out of their parents home and go to school

2:44:50 where they start eating cafeteria food anytime they like they

2:44:54 can get their own snacks they're on their own essentially

2:44:57 and the joke is that freshmen gain 15 pounds in their freshman

2:45:02 year of college do you know about the freshman 15.

2:45:05 yeah i know it all too well i i gained the you got the fresh freshman

2:45:09 20 or something like that so my problem

2:45:13 is i mean partly i think the typical thing

2:45:15 is it's because of the freedom your parents

2:45:17 have a set meal you have you know like

2:45:18 extracurricular activities i actually lost weight my first

2:45:22 time of college um but then after that i

2:45:25 changed things up a bit and then i was like i was just like a monster

2:45:29 celebration i was actually i was looking at pictures

2:45:31 like just like last week or something like

2:45:33 that whoa it was such a difference actually

2:45:36 yeah i had a bit of well just watching

2:45:39 old english in three minutes video you'll get you'll

2:45:41 get the idea yeah okay yeah so freshman 15.

2:45:44 that's a common one then all right uh what's your next

2:45:46 one so i mean this kind of relates to the freshman

2:45:49 15 is is to party partying party all the time party

2:45:57 on wayne party on garth so i mean you're free so maybe

2:46:02 in high school a lot of people drink and go party

2:46:05 but you have to keep it secret from your parents you

2:46:07 have to you know do the thing where you you call

2:46:10 and you say i'm gonna stay at alicia's house and alicia's parents

2:46:15 think she's staying at my house and we both go

2:46:17 to a party where the parents are out of town you have

2:46:19 to be very secret but in college any time there's always

2:46:23 somebody who wants to party and there's always the bad influence who

2:46:26 just doesn't care they want to drop out so there's always

2:46:28 a party if you seek it it's there so with that um

2:46:32 you know that's where you can gain the freshman 15 is

2:46:34 drinking a lot of calories this leads actually perfectly into um

2:46:40 slight variation i wrote themed parties for one of my cards

2:46:44 because this beyond especially beyond the freshman year so the second year

2:46:49 of college is called sophomore the students are called sophomores third

2:46:53 year they're called juniors and fourth year seniors so in your sophomore

2:46:57 junior and senior year of college typically i would say you

2:47:01 move out of the dorm and into a house or an apartment

2:47:04 and it is there uh in the freedom beyond the college

2:47:08 campus um that you can have themed parties so i'm

2:47:13 i'm betting that you have some stories we had some themed

2:47:16 parties my friends and i what kind of we did of course

2:47:19 halloween parties we did those we had a blacklight party one

2:47:22 time where we replaced all the all the lights in the house

2:47:25 with black lights and everyone wore a white t-shirt and brought

2:47:28 a highlighter and then if we would draw things or write

2:47:31 things on people's t-shirts that was fun yeah like that that was

2:47:35 that was actually really fun uh we did a camo

2:47:39 cam everybody had to wear camo at the party that was

2:47:44 a thing we did there's a very very key thing that appears

2:47:48 in beer pong which is this the red solo cup so

2:47:52 solo is the brand of cup that is just it's if

2:47:56 you've watched a movie um that's set in an american uh

2:47:59 or if you've watched a movie um that's uh set in college

2:48:05 in the u.s you will have seen the characters at the party

2:48:08 holding this red plastic cup uh and it's the brand

2:48:12 is solo and i don't know how it came to be

2:48:15 that this was just the college cup but it is it's

2:48:18 just at every party it's just cheap and i didn't know

2:48:21 this until recently um but there are lines on that red solo

2:48:25 like maybe the homographic here i don't know but there

2:48:27 are lines on that red solo cup where the bottom line

2:48:31 on the cup is the amount of a shot like a shot

2:48:37 a spirit straw the next line up is one serving of wine

2:48:40 after that is a beer i think um so i like

2:48:44 the lines actually have a meaning to them apparently i don't

2:48:47 know if that's true i read that recently though because i

2:48:50 was looking for them yeah my liners they could not find them

2:48:55 i couldn't find them but yes that that cup is

2:48:59 the college cup the the college cup of the college experience okay

2:49:06 experimenting is my next one because actually my favorite place to go

2:49:12 as far as clubs are gay clubs i love gay clubs

2:49:14 and the first time i went to a gay club was

2:49:17 in university and the whole atmosphere is just very accepting so

2:49:21 i think probably because in the lgbt community there's discrimination and so

2:49:26 they're as a demographic generally very accepting very laid back so

2:49:31 i could go there and just have fun you can wear

2:49:33 whatever you want you can talk and dance to whoever just

2:49:35 a lot of fun and i think in university like this is

2:49:39 actually a phrase that my friends would always say and i don't

2:49:41 know if this is an idiom or something or maybe just

2:49:43 my friends but it's college is about experiences and you always

2:49:46 hear that and like when someone's you know not sure they

2:49:48 don't want to do something you're like hey come on college

2:49:50 is about experiences let's go hike that mountain and experiment

2:49:54 in many different ways did you have anything like this i was

2:49:57 honestly trying to think of something some big change like i

2:50:02 i did i did start drinking in college yes but i really

2:50:07 didn't do anything that was honestly i really i've never been

2:50:11 like a super crazy crazy person i'll try new things like

2:50:14 i'll try like new food or like i don't know i

2:50:16 like going to interesting events or like festivals or that kind

2:50:20 of thing is fine but as far as like you know

2:50:22 making a drastic change to my appearance or anything like that i

2:50:26 really didn't uh sororities and fraternities

2:50:30 sororities and fraternities a sorority

2:50:32 um is a group of girls who live together in one house

2:50:36 and do things i was not a member of a sorority

2:50:39 so i don't really know details somebody i'm sure out there

2:50:42 probably knows more than me fraternities on the other hand are

2:50:46 groups of men who live together called their so they're college age

2:50:49 women and college age men who live together and they do

2:50:52 things together um the image of a sorority or a fraternity

2:50:57 is that they're kind of um at least my image is

2:51:00 that they're wealthy kind of uh privileged kids which is not even

2:51:08 necessarily true but this is i feel like this is

2:51:10 the image that appears in a lot of movies about um college

2:51:14 experiences in america uh or in the states all right very

2:51:19 nice very nice it's interesting to compare our different experiences any final

2:51:23 thoughts on college in the us that's it yeah if you

2:51:26 have a chance give it a try or just you know studying

2:51:29 in any country outside your own it's an interesting experience so

2:51:32 as michael said before you know experimenting can be an interesting way

2:51:35 to broaden your horizons whatever that means for you uh okay

2:51:40 so that's all for us for today about uh the college

2:51:42 experience in the usa thanks very much for watching and we

2:51:45 will see you again soon bye hi everybody welcome back to english

2:51:51 topics my name is alicia and i'm here today again

2:51:53 with michael hello and today we're going to be talking about questions

2:51:58 that we have been asked so let's begin what is the first

2:52:02 question that you would like to discuss today michael i would

2:52:06 like to discuss what's the main difference between british and american

2:52:15 english so for me i'd like to get this out

2:52:21 of the way canadians and americans sound pretty much the same it's

2:52:25 hard for us to tell the difference even even native english speakers

2:52:29 there's a couple telltale signs you know they'll say some things

2:52:33 but it's usually regional so i guess north americans and then like

2:52:37 uk english and again there's a lot of different accents and dialects

2:52:42 you know it all depends but for me the easiest way

2:52:45 is americans um enunciate every word we're very loud and we

2:52:51 open our mouths a lot hello how are you where are

2:52:54 you from teacher water we enunciate every sound so for me

2:53:00 a dead giveaway is that that r that end r right it's

2:53:04 tough uh i listen for vowel sounds and try to guess

2:53:07 based on that so your question is about british english and american

2:53:11 english there's also australian english

2:53:13 there's scottish english there's irish english

2:53:16 there's so many different english-speaking

2:53:18 dialects and honestly sometimes it's hard

2:53:20 for us to understand we're both from relatively the same part

2:53:24 of america so we have the same speaking style our accents are

2:53:28 the same um but to go through all of the different

2:53:30 dialects to try and approximate to try them to try and say

2:53:34 them badly to would probably just be a waste of time

2:53:37 but you're on the internet look it up okay i guess

2:53:42 we'll go to the next one um let's see my questions

2:53:47 let's see i'm gonna start with a grammar question that i get

2:53:50 a lot uh a grammar question that i come across students

2:53:54 ask me this question the present tense versus the progressive tense

2:53:58 uh what is the difference when should i use present tense

2:54:01 versus progressive tense so by this i mean of verbs the present

2:54:05 tense is used for facts things which are always true things

2:54:09 which are part of your regular schedule the progressive tense has

2:54:12 a few different meanings to it a few different uses to it

2:54:15 but one of the meanings or one of the uses is

2:54:18 to express something which is temporary which is not part

2:54:21 of your regular schedule or uh another uses to describe a trend

2:54:26 to use a very common mistake um as an example if

2:54:30 i ask the question where do you work a lot of times

2:54:34 the response i get from my students is i am working

2:54:38 in america um depending on on on the situation that sentence could

2:54:44 be correct but if you're talking about the place where you

2:54:47 work always every day you go to that job it could be

2:54:51 the location of your office it could be the country

2:54:54 or the city where you work if it's a part of your regular

2:54:57 schedule you want to explain a fact that is true about

2:55:00 your life you should use the present tense not the progressive

2:55:03 tense so the correct version of that sentence should be i

2:55:07 work in america that's part of my regular schedule if however

2:55:11 you're only in america for the week for example you can

2:55:15 use the progressive tense but it's more natural to say for example

2:55:19 this week i'm working in america that's a much much more

2:55:22 natural sentence to use how do i pronounce the th sound

2:55:27 so you know depending on who i'm teaching english to they'll

2:55:34 have problems with different pronunciation sounds but for me i think one

2:55:38 that's that's common with a lot of different cultures is the th

2:55:42 sound and um i think again this goes back to like

2:55:45 the different ways of speaking and how americans we enunciate every

2:55:49 word and we push our the way we speak to the very

2:55:52 tip of our mouth that's the th sound so most people

2:55:55 are capable of of making the th sound but they're just

2:55:58 a little shy and it just doesn't seem natural it's almost

2:56:02 as if you can bite the tip of your tongue off when

2:56:04 you say the sound right and then just another thing

2:56:10 to note is that th can have a hard or a soft

2:56:13 or voiced or unvoiced sound so the is hard or voiced

2:56:19 you hum the the and then with like think it's a soft

2:56:25 or unvoiced you don't hum you don't vibrate you just say

2:56:29 think but it's still the tongue goes touches your teeth think

2:56:35 that um this is another grammar point that i get questions

2:56:38 about from time to time it is the present perfect tense versus

2:56:42 the simple past tense um the question is when do i

2:56:46 use them so present perfect tense uh let's see an example

2:56:49 of present perfect tense would be i have been to paris

2:56:53 uh simple past tense would be uh i went to paris what

2:56:57 is the difference we use the present perfect tense to talk

2:56:59 about a life experience or something which occurred in the past

2:57:03 but which still affects the present so in this case

2:57:06 in my paris example sentence it's something that happened in the past

2:57:10 but when exactly when is not important we just want to say

2:57:14 i have had the life experience of going to paris simple

2:57:19 past however is used to refer to a specific point in time

2:57:23 in the past so for example i went to paris last

2:57:26 summer it's important that you know i went last summer if

2:57:29 the time point when you went to paris is not important

2:57:33 use the present perfect tense so this is really useful for talking

2:57:37 about your travel experiences for talking about your study experiences foods

2:57:42 you have and have not eaten um so keep just try

2:57:46 to keep in mind when when you should use these two

2:57:49 uh they're very commonly used together like for example you might

2:57:52 use the present perfect tense to introduce a question have you ever

2:57:56 been to paris and the follow-up answer oh yes i have

2:58:00 been to paris using the present perfect tense again but then

2:58:03 a common pattern is to follow that answer up with a simple

2:58:07 past question when did you go so you can see it

2:58:11 changes from present perfect tense to simple past tense so

2:58:14 a larger life experience to a more simple life experience so they're

2:58:18 used together but just be careful try to be aware of am

2:58:22 i talking about an overall life experience or a very specific

2:58:26 life experience this is one that many of my students struggle

2:58:30 with this is more cultural why do americans wear shoes inside

2:58:35 the house on the bed etc um i feel like this depends

2:58:41 and this is starting to change i take my shoes off

2:58:44 in most houses but i guess it's more so for comfort

2:58:46 whereas i feel like on the east side of the world

2:58:50 uh it's more of like a cleanliness kind of a thing

2:58:53 and if you do still wear your shoes it's pretty taboo whereas

2:58:56 in the states i feel like most people from my experience

2:58:59 anecdotal evidence just personal experience most places you take off your shoes

2:59:06 but if they have a party they let people wear shoes

2:59:09 inside the house they don't care and a lot of my friends

2:59:12 will see american movies and they see somebody a main character

2:59:15 wearing their shoes on the bed on the couch something like

2:59:18 that um again from my experience it's not that big of a deal

2:59:23 but typically you wouldn't do that for me the the rule

2:59:26 of thumb like the or the unsaid rule is that you

2:59:30 can put your shoes up but you don't let your shoes

2:59:34 um touch the couch you kind of you hang off right

2:59:37 so you can if you want to lay on the couch without

2:59:39 taking your shoes off you let your feet hang off because

2:59:43 yeah of course they're going to get dirty but yeah it's

2:59:45 just not as emphasized as much in our culture i don't

2:59:47 know the last question i have is can i ask a question

2:59:51 the answer is yes the answer is yes and and probably

2:59:55 95 of cases the answer to the question can i ask

2:59:58 a question is yes um okay why did i choose this question

3:00:03 my students sometimes will put their hands up in my lesson

3:00:06 and say can i ask a question like one this is

3:00:10 your english class yes please ask questions um but two also

3:00:15 this is a discussion i've been having with a few people

3:00:17 recently just about the mindset that i think is really important when

3:00:21 speaking english we have experience teaching in asia where maybe there's

3:00:27 a different approach to conversations i don't know if this is

3:00:29 the same cultural approach to conversations that people from other countries

3:00:34 have but don't wait for permission to speak don't wait to jump

3:00:39 into a conversation just go for it um don't wait

3:00:43 for someone to say oh would you like to speak now because

3:00:47 that's never going to happen so don't be shy get your tongue

3:00:50 out and say things and um don't worry if it sounds

3:00:54 rude or too polite or whatever um yeah i couldn't agree

3:00:57 more yeah yeah just it's a shift in mindset if you

3:01:01 when you when you start speaking that second language like you

3:01:03 said if you just change your mind just a little bit just

3:01:07 make a small shift in your mindset maybe you'll see

3:01:11 ah that's what it takes just let go a little bit

3:01:14 of of your home language and see what happens great so

3:01:18 those are some questions that we have been asked about teaching about english

3:01:23 about culture if you have any other questions by the way

3:01:27 please make sure to leave them in a comment for us

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3:01:31 there's something that you've encountered recently

3:01:33 that confused you whatever leave it

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