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good to have you guys here thank you for
joining me and happy September to all it
is September 1st new month new season
today is chilly here in Massachusetts
but I love this change in temperature
because the fall um is a wonderful
season it usually fills me with good
energy like I want to be productive so
you can let me know in the chat do you
like fall do you like chilly weather
what's your favorite
season 2 p.m well thanks for taking time
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um some members have sent in some
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okay well super you know what guys I've
been starting um most of my activities
these days like consciously starting
them with good energy and good
intentions so I thought we'd try that
today you know just what do you tell
yourself when you're ready to study
English what's the mindset that you
create for yourself so that you get the
best outcome possible um you know people
use positive affirmations in different
situations and I've come to believe that
affirmations really do work they help us
create a positive mindset and the right
mindset for things to happen in the way
that we want them to so say something to
yourself like I am a learner and I love
to learn or you know the learning
process is a beautiful thing learning
and studying Every Day brings me closer
to my goals those are the kinds of posit
positive affirmations I think that could
work for any language learner and by the
way I have some affirmations already
recorded and I do hope to share them in
the near future hey my hippo's here as
well good to have another regular hello
to you I know it's um you're coming in
from Japan thank you thank you for
staying up late I know it's um late in
the evening if you're in the in in that
time zone but let me do a quick um
sharing if I can work my little magic
here share my screen and show you guys
um what I see if you visit my store by
the way so these are just a few of the
products I have up there already I hope
to add more um I hope to add the
affirmations soon so that you can get a
model of the kinds of positive
statements you can use before you start
your study session right just to create
that positive mindset and get have the
have the right intentions to get a
positive outcome so I have um actually I
can give you a glimpse of it I think I
have it here oh no that's the learner
pledge but in any case um you know the
learner pledge is another thing that
I've already recorded um it's a PDF that
you'll be able to download if you buy it
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just click um on the product that
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you download it you get that nice PDF
and um the MP3 recording so it's my
voice and you can listen read along and
learn it and use that as a pledge to
move forward um in your learning in a
positive way but I will be adding a set
of affirmations as well that um you can
listen and learn from and use to create
your own affirmations um I really think
that if positive statements regularly it
will create the right mindset and help
you um
have not just the inspiration but the
motivation and to to sustain your
studies not just to start but to sustain
meaning to continue okay all right let
me get back to the screen here and we'll
see if there are any questions coming
in 900 a.m. Manuel you'd be sleeping I
think most people have to be up to work
by 9: unless you have a lot of
flexibility
right all right no questions or being
posted is bizarre to learn
that fall
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down okay out the dog when I
run what kind of sentences that menuel I
see out the dog run when I open the door
entrance that's a I would out the dog
out the dog ran past tense when I opened
the door I would take out entrance right
out the door the dog
ran probably like outside the dog ran
when I open the door right you have the
right idea and I will address fronting
it's something that you guys asked about
last month I addressed briefly and I'd
like to return to that topic today okay
let's jump into it guys here we go um
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thing we can do today is because it's
September 1st I always always like to
remember the poem that I learned as a
child to remember how many days are in
each month I shared this a long time ago
in a video on YouTube um so why not read
it again now it's
2023 this is a fun way that we remember
it's a way to remember how many days
each month has which one has which ones
have 30 and which ones have 31 you may
have heard it before I'll read it again
let me go a little bigger for those of
you who are on small
devices 30 days has September April June
and November all the rest have 31 except
February which has 24 + 4 till leap year
gives it one day more and as you know Le
be adds 29 there's an alternative ending
it goes like this except February which
has 28 in fine till leap year makes it
29 by the way does anyone know when the
next leap year is you can Google that
and let me know I don't when is when did
we have our last leap year I can't
remember oh men well explained he's
working the the night shift that is
rough so your schedule can be different
well thank you for taking time to get up
or stay up for this morning session for
me it's morning all right let me read it
again again if you'd like to read along
I'll go a bit slower we want to read
smoothly and follow my rhythm listen or
listen and read along with me as well
here we
go 30 days has September April June and
November all the rest have 31 except
February which has 24 + 4 till leap year
gives it One Day More
let's read these alternative
lines except February which has 28 in
fine till leap year makes it
29 do you have a different way to
remember the months I think it was in
Russia somebody taught me about using
your knuckles like January February
March April so like it basically
alternates so if it's on a knuckle it's
31 if it goes down it's not 31 so
January February March April May June
July I guess it works I like the poem
though so if you love poetry and
especially a bit deeper poetry um
remember I have a collection of poems in
my store and you could download that
collection use it to listen use it for
pronunciation use it just for your
personal
enjoyment
okay ah you're I see stunning lot one is
exploring the different um particles
that can uh be used in a certain
combination when we make phrasal verbs
fall down fall apart yes I will return
to that playlist I started to make the
playlist of the most common phrasal
verbs I need to get back to that so all
right so nice poem to learn um remember
I do have more poetry in my shop if you
have questions again you're welcome to
post them I'll try to keep track of the
chat again if I miss anything I
apologize we'll go back at the end and
see if there's anything that I
missed oh Manuel says you guys use the
knuckle technique
there all right all right so a first
question um came in recently about
stress in compound
nouns by the way Patron members have a
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little lesson on stress and compound
nouns so let's remember what compound
nouns are um here's a good example look
at the nice picture and tell me what do
we call a house that is like a boat
let's put an article in there like a
boat because because it is on water what
do we call a house that is like a boat
because it is on water and would you
like to live in such a
health what do you think and I'm going
to test my members to write it because
I'm curious to see how you're going to
write it I'm going to check in the
dictionary to make sure that I'm right
too and you're not when you're not sure
how to write something look it
up and remember if you really want to
confirm look it up in more than one
dictionary because there are um more
sometimes there's more than one
acceptable spelling one more than one
acceptable format when we talk about
compound nouns basically we're talking
about three possibilities it could be
one word two separate words or a
hyphenated
word stunning ladwood says he knows that
rhyme
too I don't know if it's a song I don't
know if there's a Melody to it there you
go houseboat and that's how the
dictionary um lists it I looked it up in
Miriam Webster houseboat as one word
houseboat mhm so here you see a number
of words that are compound nouns and
look how I wrote them look how I group
them this first column we have words
that are written as two words became one
in the middle column the compound nouns
are made up of two words and but we
perceive it as one unit one idea okay
and then the last column here we have
hyphenated compound nouns all right so
if you're unsure check a dictionary now
the interesting thing is
stress listen to the difference if I
just talk about a house or a nice house
and a boat and a big boat if I simply
use an adjective before the head noun
the main noun the noun is still the
final content word in my phrase in my
thought group and that's What receives
the most stress that's a nice house
that's a big boat but when we say
compound nouns the stress shifts a house
boat we're going to put stress more more
stress on the first word okay so that's
what we're going to patter uh we're
going to practice right now the pattern
of stressing the first word in a
compound noun and follow my model and
repeat after me okay
houseboat
toothbrush
payday
makeup
dishwasher notice if we do make a
compound noun and it is a a noun that
could be plural we use the singular so
we don't talk about teethbrush even
though we're brushing more than one
tooth we say toothbrush right and of
course we put more than one dish in a
dishwasher but we use the singular
dishwasher yes a house boat is not a
barge a barge is a long flat ship and
it's used to transport lots of cargo
lots of big shipment boxes and
containers
oh that's interesting a
float is not we not consider that as a
noun right it's a float that's a
reference to its status so a houseboat
is continuously on the water um it's a
boat that's on a house but it doesn't
sail anywhere by the way you can see by
the picture um it's constantly anchored
it just has that there will constantly
be that sensation um there's not full
stability because you're on the water
some people like that um rocking motion
I imagine it could be very gentle but if
there's a storm there could be some
gentle rocking I've never lived on a
houseboat although I've worked on ships
okay let's practice the second column
stressing the first word repeat after me
tennis
ball cup
holder safety
net application form
window
washer and again a window washer
probably washes more than one window but
we don't use the plural window
washer KN
how show
off sing
along brother-in-law and that's P the
pattern holds for all the in-laws
brother-in-law in-law sister-in-law
mother-in-law father-in-law okay stress
on the
first
running notice um this came from a
phrasal verb so if we talk about showing
off that's a phrasal verb and we stress
the particle if it's at the end of my
sentence the end of a thought group you
know um I have a friend named Katie
she's really talented and she loves to
show off because she knows she's so
talented so showing off is displaying
something you have it could be a
possession or a talent and you want to
impress people so if Katie loves to show
off she is a showoff showof is the
person Kno how if you know how to do
something you have the knowhow the
knowledge the skill set to do something
so again these are hyphenated compound
nouns Kno how show off um when I was a
kid uh before we had karaoke or before
karaoke became a big thing sometimes
they'd um show like cartoons and songs
and they would put the words on the
screen and they'd say follow the
bouncing ball and you could sing along
and they'd show the words we didn't call
it karaoke it was just a sing along and
you sang along um with the people on the
screen whatever it was if was a cartoon
character and you followed the bouncing
ball and you sang along so you can sing
along because it's a singalong these are
compound nouns brother-in-law runin
again another phrasal verb that lends
itself to a compound noun if you run
into somebody it's a chance encounter it
wasn't planned it just happened but if
you have a runin that's an event an
episode um often the examples are not
very positive you can have a runin with
authorities a runin with the police it's
like you um encounter them and you get
in trouble for something
okay um and well you know what you're
writing worried sick those are night
that's like an adjective um those are
adjectives terrible terribly sorry I
would call them adjective phrases you're
using adjectives and adverbs um worried
sick terribly sorry I am terribly sorry
yeah the those are phrases not compound
nouns okay because worried is treated
like an adjective I am worried I'm
worried sick sick is also a Content word
so I place stress on sick I was worried
sick I'm terribly sorry terribly is an
adverb sorry is an ad adjective adverbs
and adjectives are content words
whatever is the final content word will
receive the most stress worried sick
terribly sorry
okay um preschool that's a prefix
preschool and plus a
noun can't fight with my fingers that's
an interesting
phrase okay all right so stress and
compound nouns is means that we the
pattern usually means that we stress the
first word and in terms of writing if
you have any doubt check a dictionary
compound nouns can be a one long word
two separate words or hyphenated word
okay okay um quick little check to have
some fun let me get out of here so you
can pay attention to me and not the
screen there we go and I'll look at
the oh Middle School is a going but
middle could be considered an adjective
too middle but Middle School all right I
have a little list of compound nouns and
I will give um a hint and you can write
the answer so it's partly a listening
quiz and partly a writing quiz because I
need to see that you're writing them
correctly
okay first group has to do with our face
um what's the skin that covers our eyes
what's that called The Skin that covers
our
eyes if you're saying it stress on the
first I'll go on to the second one I
know there's a bit of a lag what do we
call the Hair the little hairs above our
eyes what are
these there we go yep thank you my hippo
mhm
eyelid and this is
my I have
one or
two and I'll move on to the next one we
have different bones lots of Bones
actually but which ones are these right
um these are my cheeks and I have bones
here so what kind of bone is
that I have one I have
two good mhm
eyelid eyebrow these are my eyebrows bu
bu and these are my yes eyelashes that's
another one eyelid eyebrow
eyelash
good
what bones are these ladies like to put
a little bit of blush on
our cheekbones yes and very good all of
these are written correctly as one word
eyelid eyebrow eyelash cheekbone one
more these are my ears and I put my
earrings in the fat part the fat fleshy
part at the bottom of our ear is our
H what is
it
yeah five-story building there's a
compound noun with a number a noun and
number noun hyphenated before the head
noun a fivestory building the stress is
a bit different in those ones like a
2-year-old child a 100 page book a
five-page essay the stress is a bit
different in those but in these um
compound nouns made up of two elements
the stress is on the first
earlobes very good uh stiff lip I would
separate it and treat stiff as an
adjective like a stiff upper lip
actually is what we say a stiff upper
lip Okay next group um let's see if you
know words associated with the car okay
actually computer too when you sit in
the driver's seat you have all the
information in front of you on your
H also when you um come into a program
you log in and you see all your basic
information that's your H so whether
you're in a car or on a platform the
basic um display is your
hm yeah a lot of the rooms in the house
that's another good category right
bathroom for
example
no because I actually see that more as a
jiren like living room dining room and
as you know jirens behave like nouns
living room dining room bum bum bum
that's the stress living room dining
room did anyone get it there you go hey
good to see fam ho here dashboard
dashboard okay what do we turn on to see
at night um I'll give you a hint
actually at night you need your
H but in the daytime you have Daylights
um there are usually Daylights that are
on all the time um that wasn't the case
let's say 20 30 years ago but cars today
have Daylights bump bum at night we use
our
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H and two other fun words um if you have
a car and there's a window on top
there's two ways to describe it if it's
a window that you can um look through
and actually open that's a h but if it's
simply a window it doesn't open but you
could at least look um out and see the
sky or see the moon that's
a do you know those
words okay so I'm looking for what we
turn on at night when we're
driving and what we call those glass
windows on um on the roof of our car
there's two ways to describe them
because there's two kinds and then also
what keeps us safe is a
hm there we go mhm household
sunroof from ho glad you're
here yep but did you get the other one
sunroof actually opens the kind that
doesn't open you could at least see the
moon and we call that a moon roof sun
roof moon roof watch your stress mhm we
turn on the uh headlights it's true you
have house lights as well around your
home perhaps but headlights and write
that as one word who can write that for
me headlights Daylights sunroof moon
roof um let's write that as one word
interesting um you I saw you took that
one away stunning lad one safety belt
um we put it on when we're sitting in
our seat so here in the US we call it a
interesting you say safety belt we say
seat belt and we write it as two words
so you have safety belt we have seat
belt um both variations are written as
two words
okay marry up um R
it I don't know if those are not all
phrasal verbs Manuel lend themselves to
compound nouns um some do like a runin a
showoff with Mary down I wouldn't treat
that as a noun I just keep it as a
phrasal verb when somebody has a
marriage that either elevates or lowers
their social status um that we say they
marry up or they marry down um I don't
think I've heard it used as a compound
noun how about lifetime that's a good
one over the course of our lifetime what
do we hope to do okay all right good
practice um I'll give a little bit more
practice to my members I'll give some uh
hints on the community Tab and you can
guess um the compound noun and also if
you have any doubt double check the way
that we write it um again compound nouns
can be single words two separate words
or a hyphenated word okay all right
let's get into the next one guys here we
go question two um was fronting because
we started last month and I wanted to do
a bit more with this um question there's
more to say um fronting front means you
put information at the front of the
sentence and we do that for emphasis we
do that for emphasis
oops I see my box was covering that what
do we put at the front it's information
that usually goes towards the end or at
the end of a sentence but again we're
moving it towards the front for emphasis
so what usually comes at the end adverbs
prepositional phrases um examples with
Place Manner and time so for example up
in the trees we saw two monkeys this is
an example of fronting or how I
understand it because in in a neutral
statement would simply say we saw two
monkeys up in the trees that's one of
the most common patterns so we have
subject verb object and normally we put
the adverbial um at the end but with
fronting we move it there in the initial
position okay I see some
more good examples of compound nouns
there bedroom match point oh yeah that'd
be a fun quiz or like a game challenge
name all the compound nouns associated
with
sports yeah Match Point that's a good
one okay look at my next example of
fronting without any warning my sister
got up early and drove off again here's
my main Clause that's my main idea INF
fronting happens with this prepositional
phrase it's an example of manner I'd
normally say my sister got up early and
drove off without any warning but if I
really want to emphasize the manner I
could say you know without any warning
my sister got up and drove off never
said goodbye with this kind of um
fronting and we put a prepositional
phrase there we need a comma if that
preposition prepositional phrase goes
back at the end of the sentence we do
not need a comma before it but in this
initial position we do in the morning I
always do stretches that's true in a
neutral statement I'd simply say I
always do stretches in the morning
subject this is an adverb of frequency
here's my verb object of the verb and
normally I'd put the adverbial at the
end that's an adverbial of time a
prepositional phrase of time but with
fronting we can move play Place Manner
and time at the front use a comma and
it's emphasized why would I do this um I
could simply say oh I always do you
stretch yeah I stretch I always stretch
in the morning but if you ask me well
what is your exercise routine and I want
to break it up into morning afternoon
and evening now I might choose to
emphasize the time of day in the morning
I do stretches in the afternoon I take a
walk in the evening I get on the
exercise bike so it's it's possible to
do that so you guys try go ahead right
here AB whoops let me make this bigger
for
you can you please guys rewrite A and B
and use fronting search for Place manner
time shift it to the beginning front it
use a
comma
I will address um inversion menuel up in
the trees to I
wouldn't up in the
trees no and I'll tell you why that
sounds a little strange to me when you
say um up in the trees two monkeys we
saw I I'll explain why it doesn't quite
work
um it actually makes me think of Yoda I
don't know if we have any Star Wars fans
out there um we talk about the way the
character y Yoda speaks and it's
actually called yoda speak um you can go
on to U just Google it I think there are
actually websites um and apps that
translate any sentence into Yoda speak
and basically um it is fun by the way uh
from the standpoint of an English
language learner Yoda speak should sound
interesting and funny to you because it
plays around with syntax um Yoda is
known known for moving and changing the
usual word order so instead of saying
like we saw two monkeys two monkeys we
saw um Yoda shifts objects to the front
but normally we don't do that um in
everyday
English very good stunning lad one with
the oop just watch a little um typo
utmost with the utmost care she lifted
The Fragile vase good Manuel suddenly he
hit the brakes just again I know typos
are hard you guys are typing fast thank
you for typing just watch um yeah the
comma so comma after suddenly and then a
space I know your fingers are moving
fast typos are very easy to make I do
them all the time you probably see me
correct them okay so right we're going
to stick this at the
beginning
whoopsies with the utmost care he lifted
The Fragile vase
we take out suddenly move it to the
beginning and we could also use this for
dramatic purposes so that's why um
fronting can work especially with Manor
with the utmost care he lifted The
Fragile vase suddenly he hit the
brakes so it can lend itself uh it can
increase the drama of our statements
very good all right inversion so Manuel
was starting to play around with this um
it sounds more literary you're not going
to do this as much in everyday
conversation it can happen with the verb
to be look on the top shelf was a
collection of rare books what I'm really
saying is a collection of rare books was
on the top shelf right so I have my
subject verb and then the um location
but I'm moving the location the place to
the front of the sentence this way and
because I did that I'm now switching
around
the subject and the verb that with
inversion that's what inversion means
subject verb inversion we switch it
around this is my subject a collection
of rare books I'm doing that with the
verb to be here I'm doing it with a verb
for place behind the curtain stood the
nervous child waiting to
perform what's the subject the nervous
child the verb stood where behind the
curtain
and then this is a reduced adjective
Clause who was waiting to perform okay
behind the curtain stood the nervous
child waiting to
perform so I did it with the verb to be
I can do it with a verb that expresses
place and we could possibly do it with
movement seemingly out of nowhere came a
strong wind again this is descriptive
it's literary it's what you'd find in a
book when the author can't show you but
can describe describe to you um what is
happening seemingly out of nowhere came
a strong wind subject and here's my verb
a strong
wind seemingly came out of nowhere so a
strong wind came out of nowhere we um
shift and we move things around we front
the adverbial or the the place or the
manner and then we have to use inversion
we don't have to but it's it's
descriptive okay I could say on the top
shelf there was a collection of rare
books mhm um behind the curtain the
nervous child stood and he was waiting
to
perform and I can sometimes do it not
with all past participles gone is a
common one um again in this literary
tone gone are the days when writing
could only be done by humans because we
have chat GPT now gone are the days when
writing could only be done by humans
again what is my subject here the day
days which days the days when writing
could only be done by humans and then
here's my verb it actually works nice
because the subject is so big and um so
this this word order works well so men
well your verb with saw it's not place
and it's not movement so these are
guidelines but generally a verb like saw
wouldn't work with inversion up in the
up in the trees we saw two monkeys
but I wouldn't say up in the trees two
monkeys we saw okay but up in the trees
um I don't know shrieked a group of
monkeys perhaps no shriek when we're up
in the trees shriek doesn't work either
um Swang the monkeys perhaps up in the
sky circled two vultures I don't know
I'm trying to think what would work
again it's it's literary I I can't think
as easily and come up with examples off
the top of my head um authors have more
time to create those lovely colorful
examples so guys try this it's not
something that you're going to do as
often but you can play around with it
right now okay um C and
D what are we going to front move
something Place manner time to the front
of the
sentence or a past participle use
inversion put the verb
before the subject no commas are needed
here upmost I don't think utmost is a
word stunning lad one utmost
utmost sometimes we create our own words
right they totally make sense I could be
wrong um I'll just double check but up
upmost no I don't think that's a word
I've been in that situation too is that
a word when I play Scrabble with my kids
uh sometimes we have to use the
dictionary to double check is that a
word upmost is it uppermost oh I take it
back up yeah uppermost I would say the
uppermost that's why I would I didn't
recognize it the upmost means the
highest like the
uppermost beam the
uppermost rafter I'm thinking
architecture because even in everyday
English I'd say the highest the highest
floor for example so it's not a word
that I recognized it's a low frequency
word um for too
long you've been in the Sha for too long
you've stood in the shadows I'd say it
that way for for too long you've stood
in the
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shadows you're right I upmost is a word
it's not one that I use upmost uppermost
are the same thing and it means like the
highest but I don't think it's one
that's commonly used at least not in
American
English dark have been my dreams of late
yes that sounds very
literary could be poet a poem
too out of
nowhere
mm okay so here guys what would I
do move it to the
front
you could go like this into the Blue Sky
the but if we're going to use the
inversion I'll go like this and it's
possible it's movement Into the Blue Sky
Rose the hot air balloon higher and
higher drifting like I don't know
drifting among the
clouds Into the Blue Sky Rose the hot
air balloon yes Manuel okay and it's not
something that sounds like everyday
conversational English okay it's
something that you'd write so if you
want to sound flowery and colorful you
could do that okay gone this is an
example of a past participle gone is the
only one I can really think of that
sounds natural that I would actually
possibly use so we're going to put that
at the
beginning this is my subject so I need
to find the verb it's right there and
shift it cuz we're inverting and now we
have our new sentence gone were the
Carefree days of childhood and this
sounds nostalgic like up here if you're
like oh my gosh like some of us are
embracing chat GPT and some people are
like oh my gosh it's Doom it spells Doom
for the authors around the world gone
are the days oh it's like sounds like
you're lamenting this gone were the
Carefree days of childhood okay okay
again this is an example of fronting
with inversion most of the uh examples
that you're going to use with fronting
will have adverbials for Place Manner
and time okay um and then um as I was
searching a uh on on the internet I came
across um the Cambridge Dictionary and I
like their notes so I'm just noting that
if you go onto Google or whatever um
browser you love um look at the
Cambridge Dictionary and uh type in
fronting they have some nice examples
and they reminded me oh yeah we do that
too this is not something you would
write this is something you speak
there's this double subject what we're
really saying in this sentence is that
um the coffee you recommended is good
but what happens in conversation
sometimes we use this long description
so that we convey to our listener what
exactly we're talking about and then we
restate the subject with a short pronoun
so we go from big descriptive to short
and concise you do not need a double
subject like this um in writing um but
in speaking we sometimes do that we
might even preface such a statement with
you know you know the coffee you
recommended it's so good or the coffee
you recommend it it's so good the coffee
you recommend it it's so good so this is
what I'm saying initially to be specific
so you know what I'm talking about and
then I restate the subject with a
pronoun um so this could possibly fall
into the category of fronting as well um
we're fronting our whole statement with
a long description my teacher the one
I've been studying with she just
published a book okay so you wouldn't
understand the pronoun without more
description and I'm putting all the
description upfront right I thought that
was an interesting Edition that um
Cambridge Dictionary came up with okay
again things that you would not write
but you could say I'll read them again
so you can feel the flow um of the
statements it's something you would hear
the coffee you recommended it's so good
my teacher the one I've been studying
with she just published a book and do
you hear my intonation I'm like do you
know what I'm talking about that thing
I'm talking about that person I'm rising
and then I go with falling intonation to
give my main message the coffee you
recommend it it's so good my teacher the
one I've been studying with she just
published a book
okay is that interesting how grammar and
pronunciation and specifically
intonation work
together yep stunning L
one yes it is possible we we I have some
flexibility in well oh it's so good that
coffee you recommended but then again if
I jump straight into oh it's so good
like what is it there's a problem with
refer reference words both in speaking
and in writing some things are very
clear in our minds um what we're talking
about but sometimes our our thoughts
come out so quickly and we just assume
that our listener knows what we're
talking about you have to be careful
with reference words like pronouns um if
they don't have the background
information or the topic they're going
to be lost what's what's so good that's
why um this kind of fronting Works a
little better because you're you're
being specific and then you're restating
with um the pronoun
okay super guys thanks for the
participation and I'll give some more
practice on the community tab for my
members let's move on to the final
question guys there was a request for um
looking at formal English versus more
conversational English so I'll just
scroll back so you'll see this and then
I'll scroll in to make it easier for
those on smaller devices I have three
paragraphs and as you can see by the
arrow this is indicating a draw drop in
formality I want you to sense the
difference between something more formal
something just more neutral everyday
English versus very conversational okay
what makes it formal let me come down to
this one okay listen and try to identify
the elements the aspects that make this
a more formal
text in the month of September patreon
members will enjoy the theme mysteries
in history the ranote colony is a
possible discussion topic although the
event was previously addressed in an
Instagram video students were not given
the opportunity to discuss it The
Disappearance of an entire colony in the
late 16th century prompts much
speculation to this
day yeah I think by the way stuning lad
your latest comment it reminds me I
think my kids are saying just like
there's um there there's like Yoda speak
translators you put in everyday English
and it translates the statement into
Yoda speak I think there's one for
Shakespeare um or you could always play
that game you know how would Shakespeare
talk instead of you know hey how are you
doing today how are how art
thou I don't know it's just funny to how
language has changed over time I
wouldn't say that either so good was the
coffee you recommended
does not sound like everyday
English mysteries in
history yes this is the topic my Patron
vot members voted for so I'm excited
we'll see what topics we come up
with okay is anyone picking up on
elements
aspects of this text that make it more
formal
I see connecting words I'm not saying
this as formal but use of connecting
words transition words um you know more
attention to that kind of uh more
sophisticated grammar it's typical also
look at this was previously addressed is
that active or
passive was previously
addressed verb be plus the past
participle
passive okay passive is more typical of
formal um English doesn't mean that we
don't use the passive in conversational
English we do um but a lot of passive
verbs um that would be more typical of
formal English and then the vocabulary
if your eyes scan the more difficult
words the the lower frequency words the
ones that we don't use as often um
increase the difficulty and complexity
and sophistication of this text so
things like previously um we did don't
there are other Alternatives you know
before a while a while ago a while back
prompts as another word you know there
are other everyday
Alternatives speculation instead of
saying um prompts much speculation we
could say makes people wonder so
prompting is making and pushing and
speculation is about speculating
guessing thinking
wondering
okay now I want you to compare this
basic idea this basic text with the next
one we're moving down down down there we
go you can listen um since the September
theme on patreon is Mysteries and
history I may choose to address the
ranote colony a while back I explained
the invent in an Instagram video The
Disappearance of a whole group of
colonists in the late 1500s remains an
unsolved mystery students might enjoy
some conversation on this
topic do you feel that it's a little
less formal hopefully you do something
um that both texts have in common no
contractions right the contractions um
are more typical of conversational
informal English so no
contractions
up here we had an example of
passive we lost that here instead of
what was addressed or explained or I
explained the
event so the shift from passive to
active in the use of a personal pronoun
like I or we um also shifts away from
formal to more informal right if you
want to sound more formal you wouldn't
use I as much um that's true of academic
writing it's not what I think I believe
we know it's your essay and it's your
thoughts and your beliefs so you
wouldn't include the pronoun I as
much you think speculation is bad
speculation can be interesting an
interesting activity to engage in right
if you wonder what
happened okay oh humankind there's a
good phrasal verb or not phrasal verb
compound
noun um since has more than one meaning
I'm using it here as
because um so I'd say that's a little
bit more typical of uh everyday English
you know because the theme is since the
theme is Mysteries and history um I lost
previously and chose to go with a while
back right uh a whole group I shifted
from 16 Century to the late 1500s that
was just a
preference and then here I lost um were
not given the opportunity I decided to
express that idea as students might
enjoy some conversation on this topic
the level of vocabulary is easier um I
don't have those lower frequency or more
difficult words in this text now compare
that one to the last one okay and you
also hear it in my tone mysteries in
history is going to be the theme on
patreon in September so I may end up
talking about the Rono Colony I
explained about it in an older Instagram
video basically a whole group of
colonists disappeared in the late 1500s
it's like whoosh they vanished and no
one's really figured out for sure what
happened so it would be fun to discuss
it a
bit and I could even have a little bit
of fun and go like this
I usually don't write that contraction
but I'd say it it'd be fun it would be
fun and again I might
say is going to be the theme but I
wouldn't write
it here's an one contraction there
really is an opportunity for
contractions in this text but when I did
have the opportunity I used
it again easier high frequency um
everyday word choices here phrasal verbs
are more common uh in conversational
informal
English
basically right where something that
that's a more typical um introductory
word in an informal text we might say
um what would I say in General on the
whole in in essence maybe something like
that using a conjunction like so to
start a sentence is acceptable in every
day in formal English um back in the day
we were taught not to start sentences
with and but and so but is an exception
but um I would actually start a sentence
at this level with but I generally avoid
starting sentences with and or so but I
would do that if the level were
conversational okay
yes yes um stunning glad one came up
with some conversational language they
like whoosh they did a disappearing act
they did a disappearing trick I tell you
it was it's still a mystery today right
that kind of personal tone using I or
addressing you um that more familiar
tone is typical of conversational
English definitely using a a word like a
sound we're using sound effects now
whoosh is um informal English and you
know it's like cuz I really don't need
all of this I could say they simply
vanished and no one has oh by the way
here's my other contraction no one has
really figured out so I do have two
contractions when I had the opportunity
I used them I used a uh coordinating
conjunction
there as to start a sentence more like a
continu kind of like well or so that
that's
conversational
okay yo we can discuss this it be it's
going to be so
cool all right so you can feel the sense
of lowering the level the register and
what exactly contributes to that use of
contractions is going to be at the
lowest level that's
conversational higher level more
academic vocabulary is going to be at
the highest level words it's like
previously prompt
speculation
um connecting words transition words
instead of although I could say um
despite the fact that the event was
previously addressed right that's it's
wordy but also formal sounding um
connect connecting words and transitions
I'd use at a formal level um at this one
I still May avoid contractions but I'm
going to use more everyday English um
higher frequency words and then finally
when I become conversational I'm writing
as I might talk right so that's why I
have words like it's like so I can
include um anamia
whoosh and my connecting words are very
simple I'm just sticking to the Fanboys
nothing complicated Fanboys right those
are our coordinating conjunctions I have
a video on that if you need to review
for and nor fan but or yet and so
Fanboys so I'll give some practice with
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I like the sticker get down and Boogie
you must know your past living in the
present think about the future oh the
stunning lad one thank you thank you and
I like the hippo the spinning hippo on a
on a desk chair on a desk chair thanks
for the super thanks or super sticker
actually super sticker that's adjective
super sticker but super thanks a thank
you sticker that would be a compound
noun in any case thank you all right um
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anything you must know your past living
in the present um Manuel's statement is
interesting you must know your past I
might say I think this is the way I
understand it Manuel you must know your
past while still living in the present
and thinking about the future future or
while living in the present you must
know your past and think about the
future I guess it depends on what time
period you wish to focus
on I might emphasize the present we all
want to be present right while living in
the present you can you must know your
past and think about the future I think
that would be my
preference
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