business and money and books
ah business books and
hi james from invid
just trying to figure out why e has got
oh i get it we're doing an lvc lesson
today
okay so today's lesson is on how
books and reading can be used for
business and casual conversation we're
going to do an lvc and what is that this
is a lesson in which we're going to work
on your listening skills we're going to
increase your vocabulary and help you
with comprehension all at the same time
i think it's a difficult thing to do
stick with us and we'll get it done
how are we going to do it what i need
for you to do to help me help you
is grab a pen and paint a pen pencil and
grab some paper if you can't do that
don't worry about it just pay attention
you can always do this redo this later
on
and i'm going to
read a story to you i won't be visible
on the camera you're going to listen
reason why i'm doing that is our sense
of hearing gets better when we don't
watch something else
i'll read the story you'll listen to it
we'll come back i'll explain all of the
vocabulary that i have picked
specifically for you to learn
we'll go over that vocabulary then to
work on your comprehension what we're
going to do is we'll read the story
again
you will
then listen see how much you've got and
of course we'll test it finally with a
test at the end
are you ready
let's go
my mother told me that you can't judge a
book by its cover
this was especially true of mr e
he was a bookworm by nature and in my
book
he was a really good guy
some of his co-workers weren't as honest
as he was and would cook the books if it
made them more money
so you always had to read between the
lines
when you did business with them
one day mr e caught his colleague trying
to cheat a little old lady
so mr e ran him the riot act and
threatened to throw the book at him if
he ever did it again
like i said mr e is a good guy and i'm
going to take a page out of his book
and be a good guy too
all righty so we have done our listening
component where you heard a story
and a whole bunch of words you didn't
understand and we're going to take the
time now to work on the v part of our
lesson the vocabulary that i picked for
you
all right this will aid us in our
comprehension comprehension in our next
section so let's stand over here you
can't judge a book by its cover
and that means the outward appearance of
a thing doesn't tell you what's inside
okay
simple
just because it looks one way doesn't
mean it's that way all the way through a
perfect example is an egg an egg has an
outside hard shell and you knock on it
it's hard but if you crack an egg open
everybody knows the inside is liquid
it's not hard on the inside
you meet a person who is quiet
and shy but they could be like a
great fighter and you wouldn't see it on
the outside because they keep it on the
inside so don't judge a book by its
cover means just because it looks a
certain way it doesn't reveal to you the
true nature of the thing
number two bookworm someone who loves
books and loves reading
yep that's that's basically it e is a
worm
and a bookworm is someone like because
you know the worm goes in the ground and
stays there a person who's a bookworm
gets into books they love to read and
read a lot okay
you could say for instance if you have a
friend who loves reading all the time
he's a bookworm he's always in the
library and it would tell me right away
loves to read library it just makes
sense
in my book
it means in my opinion this is what i
think
right everybody's their own book in a
way of speaking as you live you create
your own story so in your book this is
how you believe or how you see it from
your perspective
cook the books to falsify facts and
figures
some of you might go falsify
it's when you change things you
shouldn't change
there was what's right and correct and
what's false is usually similar to wrong
so when you falsify you take something
and you change it so it's no longer true
example if someone has books for
accounting and they're counting things
and they have a thousand they might add
another zero and say it cost ten
thousand
that's not true that's false information
right
or fake news
next
read between the lines
there's an old joke actually i'll come
to that second it means to search for
the truth and the meaning of what is
said
there's what somebody says and what they
really
mean
okay so in that case when we say read
between the lines you've got line line
what's in between yeah some of you
caught it and if you didn't you can't
read between the lines it means there's
a real intent or
a real meaning but they may not be able
to say it for example
johnson you're a great worker we have
had a tremendous time working with you
as you know we have to let go of some of
the workforce here
and we've always appreciated work you've
done
you're being fired
he didn't say it read between the lines
we have always liked not we like we have
always they're talking in the past tense
you're gone
so there's the words they say but in
between is the real meaning
next
read someone the riot act it means to
strongly warn somebody to improve their
behavior the riot act is something in
many cities all over the world have
which is basically when the people are
acting out or protesting in the streets
if there's a riot act it means the
police will go out to control them and
say change your behavior you're being
too disruptive
when someone reads you the riot act
they're saying hey look this is what
you're doing and if you keep doing this
this is what's going to happen and it's
not going to be party with a cake and
your friends you're going to be in
trouble so when they read you the riot
act they tell you what you're doing
how they feel about it and what's going
to happen if you continue and it's not a
positive thing
okay
throw the book at someone and it means
to punish someone severely
now if you stop and think about it if i
took a book and i threw it at you it's
gonna hurt
and that's basically what this means
when you go to court if the judge throws
the book at you he's gonna say well
for doing this particular bad thing you
should go to jail for two years but i'm
sending you for 10 years
he's throwing the book at you because
that's the maximum in the book and he's
saying you're going to be punished this
much
okay last one
take a page out of someone's book do you
remember when i talked up here and i
said in my book we're all basically
books
well if you're a book you have many
pages because you've lived a long time
so
in this particular thing it says to act
in a way someone else would act
you were reading someone else's book and
you're saying i like that behavior i
want to be like that so i'm going to
take that page out put it in my book so
i can act like that
it's usually for things that we find
respectful in someone else or we've
respected someone else
so it could be working hard
being
tough
keeping your word being like you take
that page from someone else's book put
it in your book you want to take on
those characteristics
well guess what now that we've gone for
the vocabulary
let's try out your comprehension i bet
you're going to do better than you think
my mother told me that you can't judge a
book by its cover
this was especially true of mr e
he was a bookworm by nature
and in my book
he was a really good guy
some of his co-workers weren't so honest
or weren't as honest as he was and would
cook the books if it made them more
money
so you always had to read between the
lines when you did business with them
one day mr e caught his fellow colleague
trying to cheat a little old lady
so mr e read him the riot act and
threatened to throw the book at him
if he ever did it again
like i said
mr e is a good guy and i'm going to take
a page out of his book and be a good guy
too
all righty then
jim carrey
okay so let's test our comprehension
because we did the listening to
vocabulary i'm just going to go through
some questions to demonstrate no to
prove to you
that you have learned more than you
thought
so let's do the first one the accountant
worked i need a pen here
the accountant worked for the mafia and
would often something to hide their
money from the government what would he
do
well accountants work with what books
i do hope he makes a nice risotto
he would cook the books all right that
means change it falsify the information
in the books to make it look like it's
one thing when it's not
okay
next
something
is the best season
well that sounds like it's my opinion
does it not
yeah
so i would say
kind of helped you when i said in my
opinion right but it's in in my book
summer is the best season
what about number three
stop being uh
go outside and play with your friends
you're inside what would you do inside
besides
well the lesson is on books right
so i would say and we made a joke about
mr e i think he's a worm but he's not a
bookworm
and a bookworm loves to read
and they usually like to read inside so
go outside play with your friends get
some fresh air
what about number four
mr e's wife
i probably would be pretty upset
if i had a worm for a husband and he
came home late smelling of tequila
that's alcohol
sorry bad joke
okay
yes
read him the right act remember when you
read the riot act you threaten someone
that if you don't change your behavior
something bad is going to happen
so he's late he smells of alcohol
tequila
then you say hey if this happens again
blah blah blah blah blah
and now finally number five which is a
really long one so that should help you
a lot
okay so
ah that's right
you can't always get what no that's not
that's a song
it's a long one
that's right you can't always judge a
book by its cover
you see the cover could be really
exciting on the outside with bright
colors and inside it's a very
boring book
in this case you can't judge a book by
his cover he may be shy
but he's a good fighter
right so he just seems quiet and shy but
he can fight
now let us go and do the bonus and on
the bonus i have three words four sorry
three
phrases for you that have to do with
books and reading
and the first one is to close the books
well when you close the books you think
about it you read the page there's from
page 100 to page 400 you read all of it
to 400 and then you
close the book what does that mean
basically you're finished
so if you close the books on something
you're going to stop spending time and
effort on something so let's imagine mr
e
is with mrs e
and he's come home smelling of alcohol
and late for months at a time she may
close the books and said okay i'm
divorcing you that's it i'm done with
this relationship closing the books on
it you're done and you're moving on no
more energy or time to be spent on it
what about the next one to hit the books
well you're not actually punching them
but it means to study
all right so uh in order to pass my
ielts test i had to hit the books pretty
hard
right
study hard and finally there was a
president called george bush and it's
george herbert bush a long time ago and
he made a famous speech where he was
talking before a war he said read my
lips
uh no it was taxes i'm sorry it was like
read my lips no more new taxes listen
carefully watch them
so when somebody says read my lips it
means listen carefully
so if you ask your parents for instance
some of you are parents so your kids may
do this
mom and dad can i borrow the car
read my lips
no
because that's the answer okay and it
means listen carefully because i'm not
going to repeat it
that's what it is
so
you got your bonus you did your quiz
which i'm sure you probably got five out
of five on you're patting yourself on
the back which is great
once again i want to say thank you and
how do i thank you yes i'm a crazy
person so the way i thank you
is by giving you homework because with
homework or working on working at home
we can improve our english so you can
become a native speaker foster
and in that regard the two questions i
have for you today
are the following
when politicians speak you often have to
something to get to the truth
what phrase would go in there to make
that a true statement
and the second one is the judge
something at the criminal and sent her
to jail for 200 years
that sounds pretty serious to me
anyway the points for this one will be
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