hello hello hello everybody my name is Steve Ford and welcome to your English
lesson today I'm going to teach you some key phrases that you can use that native
speakers use and I'm going to teach you how to say them slowly medium and super
fast so are you ready let's go
no doubt most of you who are watching this video are still in lockdown that
means that you're in your apartments you're in your houses wherever you are I
hope that you're safe and I wanted to give you a phrase that we hear a lot
these days and that's we are going to get through this together we are going
to get through this together now get through is a great phrasal verb it
means that you are going to survive something and then do better after so
maybe we are having difficulties now but we are going to get through things and
then things are going to get better so let's break this down
we are becomes were and that's the same as saying in the past were it's the same
sound were and then going to you've probably seen this and many of my other
videos becomes gonna so we're gonna and then get through we want to take the T
on the end of get and because the next word starts with the T th in this case
through then we can drop the T off of get and it becomes get through get
through we're gonna get through this and then together
now when I say together in its full form that's one thing that's an O sound
together but when we say it quickly that o becomes a schwa sound up it's very
short ah so we say tuk tuk together so I'm going to say it slowly we're gonna
get through this together I'm gonna say it at medium speed we're gonna get
through this together and then super fast we're gonna get through this
together we're gonna get through this together
we're gonna get through this together oh yeah
now we have another phrasal verb that we use a lot which is hold up and hold up
in the way that I'm going to use it we use it in a question and we will say how
are you holding up so hold up means in this case how are you surviving in this
situation are you okay I know the situation is not easy but how are you
dealing with the situation so we would say in its full form how are you holding
up similar to the last one we want to use a contraction so how are becomes
power power and when we say holding in a friendly way if you're talking to your
friends if you're talking to your peers you can drop that G sound and instead of
saying holding you saying Holden Holden but be careful I wouldn't be using this
at work so you could to say it faster you could say how are you holding up how
are you holding up so you have to listen carefully because we have holding up
that's one thing if I'm saying in its full form and then holding up can you
hear the difference holding up full form holding up when we drop that G so I'm
gonna say it slowly how are you holding up
medium fast how are you holding up and then really fast how are you holding
up how are you holding up this next phrase is used by a lot of people it's
specially used by the younger crowd when they say I am NOT going to lie so if
somebody asks you how are you holding up and you don't want to hide the fact that
things are not so good right now you could say I am NOT going to lie so
similar to the first one we're gonna get through this
gonna we can say the same here we can say I am
I'm not going to gonna I'm not gonna and then lie I'm not gonna lie a great
phrasal verb when you want to give somebody some words of support is
another phrase of work when we say hang in there hang in there and hang in you
probably learned hangouts like hang out with your friends
oh not maybe yeah maybe online yeah but hang in there
it means try to keep going you can do it hang in there we know things are
difficult but hang in there you can do it now this next one a lot of students
will ask me what exactly figure out means because we have find out figure
out so many phrasal verbs without which I will be talking about in my next
lesson so stay tuned for that one in this case we want to use this as a
positive way of thinking in this difficult situation so to figure
something out means to solve the problem to find a solution and when we say we
will figure it out when we do a contraction of we will we say wheel now
that wheel is the same as this here wheel it's the same wheel and I know
that's strange so you could say like that you could say
we'll figure it out or you could say we'll it's the same pronunciation so you
could say like that even faster we'll figure it out and when we connect figure
and it and out we relax the t's here so especially on that it it becomes a sound
I do so we say figure it out figure it doubt doubt and you'll notice that we
drop that last T we just keep it we cut that short doubt doubt did I say the T
on the end no I didn't doubt slowly we'll figure it out or we'll figure it
out medium speed we'll figure it out we'll figure it out and then really fast
we'll figure it out we'll figure it out we'll figure it out so that has a lot of
rhythm for me it's very musical now I know that we have so many good people in
the world and that united we stand divided we fall so we could also use
another expression we got a lot of good people I love this so we have got a lot
of good people we have got a lot of good people nobody says that that slowly only
English teachers but when we start to do the contractions we have becomes we've
and then we've got a lot becomes God ah God ah so we have that sound
we've got a Lada once again we've got that awesome we've got a Lada we've got
a lot of good people so that middle part there got a lotta got a lotta is
something you can train something that you can practice to make your English
faster we got a lot of good people and you'll notice in that last way I've said
it that I drop the contraction altogether I just said we got a lot of
we got a lotta so if I say it's slowly it's we've got a lot of good people if I
say it medium speed we've got a lot of good people and if I say it really fast
we've got a lot of good people we've got a lot of good people we've got a lot of
good people we've got a lot of good people okay everybody so I'm going to
play you a dialogue here so that you can hear all of this pronunciation in action
hello oh hey Rob its Tim hey Tim how you holding up I'm okay how about you I'm
okay but I'm not gonna lie this quarantine
thing is driving me nuts well do you get outside much just for the basic stuff
like buying food and supplies but I had to call my psychiatrist because I'm
starting to talk to the walls oh I'm sure you'll figure it out we're all
gonna get through this together by the way what did your psychiatrist
say about you talking to the walls you said hang in there and please only call
me if the walls start talking back to you okay everybody so I hope that this
lesson was useful for you to make your English faster more natural like a
native speaker I really recommend that you go back and try to listen to the
lesson again particularly the dialogue so that you can really train through
repetition this kind of pronunciation and then practice it yourself if you
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bye everybody