Hello!
This video is about 'there'.
'There' as in 'not here'; 'There' as in 'there is'; 'There' as on 'there were', 'there will
be' and more.
Hope you enjoy it!
Scene One - There, answering the question 'where is?'
Here are two ladies with a pair of glasses on the table, one of them can't see so the
other one is saying (I'll just write there) "Your glasses are on" (sorry, there), "your
glasses are there, on the table".
Or you could equally say it the other way round "there are your glasses, on the table",
notice the pronounciation - "THERE are your glasses, on the table".
In fact, I'll even write at the bottom here 'pronunciation', just write the word 'pronunciation'
there and I'll write it using the international phonetic alphabet - 'there' which is different
from 'there is' which we'll be seeing in scene two.
But let's stay on scene one at the moment and here's a picture of a classroom and the
bell is ringing and the teaching is saying (I'll write it at the bottom here) "There's
the bell", so that's more like time than place, "we'll stop there", at that point.
So, over on the left here We've got more about place so I'll just right at the top there
"in that place", that's what you see on the left and on the right it's more about time
or a moment in a process, so we'll put "at that point".
So we've got "in that place" and "at that point".
Right that's all for scene one now we'll move on to scene two.
Right, here's scene two and the first thing I'll do is put a picture of a little park
here which is quite near my house so I'll write here "There's a park at the end, at
the end of our street", "There's a park at the end of our street".
And, as you can see in the picture, there's a cafe, a woman and some tables and chairs
so I'll write here "there's a cafe near the entrance", "there's a cafe near the (oops,
a bit crooked, that's better) there's a cafe near the entrance".
So the pronounciation is different to the pronunciation in the previous scene, so I'll
just write at the bottom here 'pronunciation' and then I'll write it again using the international
phonetic alphabet (if I can remember it!), yes,' there's a', 'there's a' 'there's a park'
or even instead of 'e' it could be an 'u' so I'll just write an 'u' underneath there,
'there's a park'.
So there's a park at the end of our street or "there's a cafe" (ð?rz ?), just ð?rz
?.
But it's a bit more than that, the park I'll add the other half of the park here and here
you can see some trees and some swings and some benches so I can write over here "There
are swings, there are swings for the kids", for the children, if you like - "there are
swings for the kids".
"There're", notice it's got a plural form - 'there's' is the singular and 'there're'
is the plural.
On the left you can see trees, with benches and people so I'll just write there "And there
are plenty of (notice it's plural), there're plenty of trees with benches in the shade,
in the shade.
So we've got 'there is' (singular) and there are (plural) but in a sentence we say 'there're'.
I'll just write at the bottom there in the international phonetic alphabet 'there're'
or if you want to speak really quickly even 'there're'.
There're plenty of swings, there're plenty of trees.
Right, let's move on to the next scene, scene three and here we have a text which I'm going
to put up here - 'A Difficult Meeting' . Here's the person speaking, here's my little drawing
(not very good) of the man speaking.
There was a man at the meeting who expressed very strong opinions, and there were two women
who didn't like it.
There would have been a big row, but the meeting came to an end just then."
"There will be trouble at the next meeting."
"Well, there may be, but I hope not.
I'll do my best to keep the peace".
Now here's a picture of the meeting, here we are there's the chairman, the women walking
out, they didn't like it, there's the man with a stroppy opinions.
So let's just go over the text again, we start off with "there was", I'll just underline
it, "there was a man" (past tense) and then "there were two women" and then a conditional
"there would have been" and then we move on to a future "there will be" and finally a
possibility "there may be".
So you see there are lots of different ways of using 'there' with 'is', 'are', 'was',
'were' and lots of other verb forms.
Just a quick reminder of the pronunciation, I'll put at the bottom here "there was", don't
forget it was "there was a man", "there was a man" or in the plural "there were two women"
"there were".
I've put the 'r' in brackets because in some accents you hear it all the time and in all
accents you here it if there the next letter is a vowel.
Alright, let's move on to the last scene which is quite short, just two little phrases I
want to mention here.
I'll write out the first one "there you are".
Quite a common phrase that we use in two rather different ways, I'll drag in the first way,
here it is, "I was looking for you", if you were looking for somebody at a party or something
you'd say "oh, there you are!".
And another use "I knew it would be ok", someone's got a problem you can say "there you are,
it's fine".
And now to finish here's a picture of a lady consoling a child and she's saying "there,
there, it'll be alright", that's what we say to children when they hurt themselves.
That's all I've got to say about 'there', there's more to say but I think that's probably
enough for today.
Bye for now!