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to cook
i'm going to cook dinner tonight
to cook
is to prepare a meal
using heat
tonight i'm going to cook chicken
marsala
i'm going to cook
beef stew
to fry
i don't want to fry the chicken because
it's too unhealthy
to fry something is to cook something in
hot fat or oil french fries are fried
and fried things are unhealthy so when
you eat fried foods you want to eat in
moderation i don't because fried stuff
is delicious but you should
to add
before you eat you should taste the food
and add salt if necessary
to add in this context means to add
something else onto a dish to put more
of something onto a dish so you might
add salt to a dish or add some paprika
to the chicken
to cut
could you please cut up that beef
to cut is to use a knife to cut food to
make it into smaller pieces usually so
you can bite it
or so you can mix it more easily i cut
my steak so i can eat it you make food
smaller into more bite-sized pieces by
cutting
to mix
mix all of the spices in a bowl before
putting them in your dish
to mix is to combine so you might
combine or mix all of your ingredients
together before cooking or doing
something else with them you might mix
ingredients together to create a dish
breast feed all right the first word is
breastfeed breastfeed means uh
feeding a baby
using the milk from the mother so
there's like baby formula which you can
give to babies um or there's just
natural milk the mother's milk which is
breast milk uh or what the verb that we
use is to breast feed a baby so in a
sentence uh many mothers choose to
breastfeed their children
in this sentence you're not supposed to
drink alcohol while breastfeeding
change a diaper
the next expression is change a diaper
change a diaper so diapers are the
um pieces of cloth or like the
disposable things that babies wear
because babies of course
don't have the ability to use the
bathroom like a grown uh human or like
even like children can so uh babies need
diapers so to change a diaper means uh
to take off a used diaper and put a new
clean diaper on a baby in a sentence i
had hoped that i'd never have to change
a diaper in my life
put on a bib the next expression is to
put on a bib so a bib is any is like a
protective
cloth that goes right here so actually
at some restaurants even for adults like
um where there's a like a lot of oil or
even like rib restaurants i think
sometimes they'll give you like
customers a bib but for babies who are
very messy eaters you can put a bib on
the baby to protect the baby's clothes
while they eat so in a sentence put on
his bib and give him some mashed carrots
change clothes
the next expression is change clothes
again of course you can use this for
yourself or for adults this is not an a
baby only phrase this is not a baby-only
phrase
so to change clothes
if the baby's clothes are dirty or it's
just time to i don't know you just need
to change the baby's clothes you can say
uh let's see like let's change the
baby's clothes
that's all uh so in a sentence after her
accident she had to change her clothes
that's a weird out-of-context sentence
sing a lullaby ah the next expression is
sing a lullaby sing a lullaby lullaby is
a song that is especially to help a
child go to sleep so they're usually
really like quiet soft songs they have
like a nice like soothing sound to them
so singing a lullaby is like a classic
way to calm
an upset child down
so for example let's see when i was
little my mother used to sing me a
lullaby before going to sleep that's
true she sang me edelweiss from the
sound of music my mom used to sing me
lullabies that she'd made up on the spot
that's that if i ever become a mom
that's going to be me like i'm just
making up the lullaby i'm gonna be like
go to sleep
i'm really tired i hope you go to sleep
now
i think you should
the first expression is i think you
should blah blah blah i think you should
is a very neutral not so strong not so
weak way to give advice i think you
should get a different haircut i think
you should find a new job i think you
should give me all your money
can't hurt i think you should is a very
typical
way to give advice or just i think is
okay or you should is okay too in this
sentence i think you should find a new
apartment
why don't you
the second expression is why don't you
blah blah blah so
it uses the negative why don't you so
that means it's a bit softer it's a bit
more of a weak way to give advice so why
don't you
take a day off or why don't you
help me with my homework
that's sort of a sneaky way to give
advice and ask for help at the same time
why don't you
um i don't know find a new hobby for
example so these are kind of
weak ways to give advice in this
sentence why don't you get a pet
have you thought about
have you thought about blah blah blah so
have you thought about it sounds it's
you're giving your advice but this is a
question for the listener so have you
thought about blah blah blah it's sat
you're you're sharing your opinion but
you're kind of making it sound like
maybe it was the listener's idea or
maybe the listener has thought of this
thing before so this is also a fairly
soft way to give advice so
like have you thought about
going to a different city have you
thought about moving in with your
friends something like that so these
these are probably going to be
questions that are a little bit more
serious like i don't feel like we would
use this for
really casual or really light questions
but maybe for something a little more
serious and a soft way to give advice in
this sentence
have you thought about looking for a new
job
i don't know if
is a good idea
so this is um kind of a negative way to
give advice or to share your opinion
it's i don't know if blah blah blah is a
good idea so
you're giving someone advice not to do
something so for example i don't know if
getting a pet is a good idea or i don't
know if
starting a new project is a good idea
these are different ways that you can
say uh you don't think
or you think that the other person
should not do something but this is a
soft way to express it in this sentence
i don't know if taking a year off work
is a good idea
maybe you should try
the next one is a suggestion to try
something so this is a soft but kind of
encouraging expression maybe you should
try blah blah blah maybe you should try
blah blah so uh you are encouraging
someone to
attempt something to try something maybe
not forever but just for a short period
of time so maybe you should try
volleyball maybe you should try playing
sports maybe you should try
uh
spicy food maybe you should try
something so it's encouragement to do
something new this is kind of positive
but it's a fairly soft way to give your
advice here
maybe you should try studying a new
skill a table for three please
a table for three please
you tell them the number of people that
you are total so that the host can bring
you to an appropriate table
a table for two please a table for five
please
could i please see a menu
usually menus are given to you as soon
as you sit down at your table but if
that's not the case and you need to ask
this is a polite way to do it could i
please see a menu i'd like to try this
dish
i'd like to try this dish
when looking at a menu hopefully you'll
find something you want to eat i'd like
to try this dish could you leave out the
onions
could you leave out the onions if
there's an ingredient in the dish that
you're ordering that you don't want you
can always ask the waiter if it could be
prepared without that ingredient so for
example i might say can i get the burger
but with no cheese could you pass the
salt could you pass the salt when you're
at a restaurant especially if you're at
a big table with a lot of people
you might not always be able to reach
things
so you would ask could you pass me the
salt could you pass me the ketchup could
you pass me another napkin
sing along to a favorite song alright so
the first tip for improving your
pronunciation is to sing along to a
favorite song so if you
i should add though this favorite song
should be in your target language so if
you're studying english pick a favorite
english song and sing along to that song
or try to sing to the song just from
memory too so singing along to your
favorite song can help you with
pronunciation can help you with the
rhythm sometimes of
the language you're trying to learn so
it can be really fun and it can be a
good way to practice your pronunciation
in a sentence i like singing along to my
favorite songs read out loud
the next tip for your pronunciation is
to read out loud so uh reading out loud
you can choose something that's
interesting for you and you're in
english if english is the language
you're studying so pick something maybe
it's a news article or maybe it's a book
you're interested in maybe there's an
author you're interested in find
something in your target language in
english and try reading it out loud so
don't just read in your mind but read
the words out loud speak them so that
you can get comfortable pronouncing
those words
and you can try reading
the same passage or the same sentence
multiple times to make it smoother
so this can be a really good tip
for and it i think it also improves uh
your natural
ability to pick up grammar too because
if you're reading something like in a
book for example you can kind of pick up
the natural rhythm of grammar and you
also slowly get a feeling for the
correct ways
that words should connect together so
this i think is a really good tip in a
sentence i sometimes read out loud to
practice pronunciation that's true
repeat lines you hear in tv shows the
next tip is to repeat lines you hear or
the words you hear in tv shows or movies
things like that so
this means
not only words don't only repeat single
vocabulary words yes maybe you find a
vocabulary word that is really
interesting um or it sounds funny or
something like that but by repeating
a full sentence or a full line in a tv
show or in a movie you're putting the
words together so not just one word but
making a whole sentence so feeling kind
of the flow of your language that you're
studying um so this can be a better way
to
actually practice making sentences and
repeating sentences instead of just
words so you can repeat after characters
and tv shows i sometimes do this when
i'm like watching japanese tv ah and
then i try and spit it back out it's
hard to do sometimes when it's like the
first time you've heard a word or the
first time you've heard a grammar point
but you can still understand that
sentence it's interesting so try to say
it and it's kind of fun actually i think
in a sentence try repeating lines from
tv shows to practice practice speaking
in phrases not single vocabulary words
the next tip this is very similar to my
tv show tip is to practice speaking in
phrases not in vocabulary words not just
single vocabulary words even if you're
not repeating lines from tv shows when
you practice speaking don't just speak
in nouns so sometimes for example
i'll hear people just use noun like
they'll use a noun and maybe a verb like
i tomorrow beach something like that and
yes we can probably guess based on that
how like the the meaning the speaker's
meaning but
you need to practice making a whole
sentence so yes you know those words i
tomorrow and beach and the listener can
probably guess what you mean but you
need to practice all those little words
in the middle like uh like i'm going to
the beach tomorrow so make a full
sentence practice making full sentences
don't only practice single vocabulary
words make the whole line it's really
good sometimes i think my students get
irritated like they'll
like i force them to practice full
sentences like so i'll say like uh
have you ever been to
germany and they'll say yes i'm like
okay for the purposes of practice can
you make a full sentence and they'll say
i have been to germany like that's an
extreme example but like i try to push
that
you know making the full sentence it's
it's silly sometimes but just trying to
do that
okay so in a sentence speaking in entire
phrases is helpful for practicing the
rhythm of a new language speak a lot
with your teacher and ask them to be
strict with you
onwards okay so the next tip is to speak
a lot with your teacher and ask them to
be strict with you so this is kind of
two tips in one one speak with your
teacher
so if you have a teacher
make sure you're speaking in their class
if you if
wherever possible sometimes i'll have
students join my class and maybe they
feel shy or whatever
and they don't speak very much but
please speak with your teacher so that
your teacher can correct you your
teacher can give you at least if they're
a native speaker or maybe even if they
aren't a native speaker your teacher can
give you corrections
and if you don't speak your teacher
cannot help you in most cases so please
speak with your teacher and if you like
you can tell them please be strict about
my pronunciation
so sometimes people will say please help
me with my pronunciation specifically
and then i can stop them every time they
make a mistake and we practice that
sound uh especially th sounds like the
like using um using your mouth a little
bit differently can be really
uncomfortable for some people but
if your teacher can point out those
things like th sounds the this that
these those those th sounds ending er
sounds
practicing those with your teacher can
be a really good way to work on your
pronunciation
so in a sentence speak a lot with your
teacher they can correct you and help
you improve
concert
the first word for talking about music
is concert concert is a live show
concert is yeah the performance is
happening in front of your eyes so
concerts are really popular worldwide i
think depending on where you live you
might hear them called live shows but
usually in american english we just say
concert a concert so in a sentence i'm
going to a concert this weekend
to see in concert
the next expression is the verb we use
for a live show so the next expression
is to see
in a concert or to see in concert so we
use uh the artist's name along with this
phrase so for example i'm going to see
coldplay in concert
i'm going to see adele in concert
so you use i'm going to see artist name
in concert or um
in a concert what is that in concert or
in a concert both are okay so in a
different sentence i'm going to see my
favorite band in concert meaning live
who do i want to sing in concert i want
to see michael jackson in concert
yeah i would have loved to see him in
concert he's my favorite
to listen to music to listen to artists
the next word or the next phrase is to
listen to plus music or to listen to an
artist so you can use
this verb with the type of music or with
the specific artist or band or group
that you like so i like to listen to
rock music i like to listen to
pop music whatever another sentence is i
like listening to beyonce
i like yeah so you can use to listen to
or listening to both are fine here i
like listening to
funk
it's fine i like listening to funky
artists it's fine i like listening to
queens of the stone age is fine all of
these are great who do you listen to i
listen to lots of things
to write a song to write music the next
expression is to write a song or to
write music
so if you want to make music yourself
you can say write a song which just
means one song maybe three or four
minutes usually
in popular music or to write music in
general so
you can use both of these expressions
song is more specific music is more
general so in a sentence my friends
started writing songs recently or in a
different sentence writing music is
really fun
track the next expression is track track
so we can use song yes but for example
when you look at a
an album
like on itunes or maybe like a cd for
example
each uh
each song is assigned a number that's
the track number so we can say uh i like
track number three or track three we use
track to talk about a song
so you can say this is a good song or
this is a good track both are okay to
use song and track are both fine
so in a sentence i really like that
track from his album happy the first
word is happy as you might have guessed
happy happy is a happy word when you
feel good when you feel positive when
you are excited you can say i'm happy
i was so happy to see my friend the
other day what makes me happy
food i'm happy right now
energetic energetic when you feel happy
perhaps you also feel energetic you have
that sort of
like uplifting feeling this chair is
squeaking every time i move up
i don't really describe my friends or
people as energetic i might say a dog or
a cat is energetic like wow your dog is
so energetic what is she doing she's
running everywhere is she okay maybe i
would say about myself i'm very
energetic today if i've had a lot of
coffee like now lonely the next word is
lonely
lonely i don't want to talk about this
word
maybe you've been spending a lot of time
alone or there's someone that you really
want to see or you want to see your
family members or maybe you're working
too much i don't know whatever it is
maybe you just you feel like you want to
talk to people or you want to see people
be around people but you can't
you can use the word lonely to describe
that feeling i i've only been working
for the last few months i haven't had a
chance to spend much time with my
friends i'm feeling kind of lonely
nervous the next word is nervous nervous
is used for any um tension any anxiety
excited but in a bad way about something
when i was a child before my piano
performances i would get so nervous
i would be so nervous my hands would
start to shake and then i couldn't play
the piece i'd been practicing for months
that's why this is great because you're
not here
forgive me don't be disappointed in me
upset upset is a really really useful
word anytime you feel sad angry
depressed disappointed unhappy in
general you can say
i'm upset or he or she is upset it's
just a general unhappy word but it
doesn't mean unhappy it just means
something is wrong there's a way a
person usually behaves but i'm upset
means something's not right in a
sentence i might say i'm really upset
about my performance last year i was too
nervous and my parents were disappointed
in me i'm sad now whoa yeah okay
equation the next math word is equation
equation so
up until now we've been talking about a
part of an equation but the whole math
problem
everything there
is called the equation so the process
that you need to do in order to solve
an equation an equation is something
that you do to solve a problem this this
part is the equation this part is the
solution uh the the ending the result is
the is the solution the problem is
called the equation the process the math
process you do to find a solution
percent percent this is very a very
useful word you can use
of course when doing math or math
problems but you can also use this uh
when shopping for example so a sale is
five percent off uh 10 percent off it
represents a discount you can also use
percent to describe um effort levels for
for example a sports team
a coach might tell his team i need you
to work at a hundred percent today so it
it's used to express the level of
something
but it can also be used in sales and in
math related terms npc npc means
non-playable character there are other
characters within the game that move the
story forward but that you cannot play
as you cannot become that character but
you interact with them i have to talk to
an npc in order to move this quest
forward next is camper a camper is
someone who is waiting
for
a
creature to spawn so a person who's
waiting for the monster to appear is
called the camper you can use camping as
a verb too to talk about that like i'm
camping this monster
really people camp other players i
suppose so depending on the kind of game
you're playing mmo is a massively
multiplayer online game means you can
play online with a lot of different
people essentially the next word is
sister a female sibling is your sister
you can also use sister for a female
person that you feel very very close
with so i might call my female friend
who's i'm very close to my sister my
brother likes to shorten it to sis you
might also hear sistah as well if you
are silly
sister whoopi goldberg was in a famous
movie called sister act the next word is
brother brother is a male sibling you
can also use brother to refer to a close
male friend common variations of brother
are brother bro bra
rosie broski depending on what kind of
person you are you can choose to use any
number of those like i might
sarcastically say to my friend cool
story bro like if he's told me a story
that's not very exciting in mario for
example the name of the mario games is
actually super mario brothers but
brothers is abbreviated as b-r-o-s super
mario bros yeah just be careful about
your use of bro because it sounds a
little bit like a college age boy
uh that's kind of a kind of the feeling
of the word bro oh brother where are
though
sand castle the next word is sand castle
sand castles are usually kids make them
they use like buckets so kids will like
put sand in a bucket or like they move
sand into piles and design castles or
these really complicated mazes or
something they make things make
buildings out of sand we call those sand
castles um so in a sentence my brother
and i used to make sand castles on the
beach when we were kids that's true in
this sentence get the buckets and we'll
make a sand castle cooler so cooler is a
noun in this case cooler is the place
you keep your drinks and your food it's
a it looks like a suitcase but it has a
special lining inside that keeps cold
things cold so you can put ice inside
and it will keep your food and drinks
cold while you are at the beach in the
hot weather so in a sentence uh did you
put a bunch of beers in the cooler i
forgot ice for the cooler the next word
is small small smaller smallest small
and little are extremely similar i would
pretty much use them in the same way
however we don't say when i was a small
kid we say when i was a little kid or
you could say when i was small the next
word is large large and big are very
much the same i will say though that
large is used on clothing sizes big is
not when we talked about big we talked
about how big can be used to refer to
something that's very popular large is
not used to refer to something that's
popular large is used on for for sizing
i feel only so like a house can be large
but it's used to refer to like the
physical size of something uh large and
in charge
large larger largest
this is the largest ah
the bottom is in the zoo
i have to go daughter daughter a
daughter is a female child i wonder if i
will ever have a daughter
brother-in-law
brother-in-law so we use in-law to mean
our married partners family members
not my brother but my partner's brother
in-law is used after any family member's
position or family member's title
to show they they belong to my partner's
family originally but now they're part
of my my extended family as well i'm
going out for drinks with my
brother-in-law tomorrow night
father-in-law
father-in-law so we have in-law here
meaning uh my partner's father so my
father-in-law is very kind
the next word is work be careful about
using work as a noun and work as a verb
your work refers to your job your
responsibilities your tasks at your
office or your workplace you can use it
in a phrase like i have a lot of work to
do or please help me with my work i like
to go to work it can be used to just
refer to anything artistic in general so
it can mean it can
be a painting it can be a building it
can be a sculpture it can be i don't
know whatever anything artsy can be
referred to as work as in i really like
that new work by that artist or did you
see so-and-so's new work twerk the next
word is week uh week refers to the seven
day period that we have decided is one
week here in the modern world commonly
used in expressions relating to your
activities as in i go to the gym once a
week or i see my friends twice a week or
i have to work every day of the week
monday through friday is referred to as
uh weekdays saturday and sunday weekend
next word is month month is um there are
12 months in a year my favorite month
depending on which country i'm in i
generally like autumn months like uh
october i think i usually like the month
of october september october is good
because it's not too hot not too cold
and halloween is coming and that's my
favorite holiday hannah montana try oh
my gosh try is the next word ah i'm
trying my best i try every day to work
very hard have you ever tried ramen i
tried ramen yesterday and it was really
good do you try to exercise every day
i'm trying to sleep go away the next
verb is leave leave leave me alone
leave
your doors unlocked don't leave your
doors unlocked i
have never
left
a
hot air balloon
without
first
taking a picture
the next verb is call call with the next
verb give me a call please call me later
call me maybe call your mom on her
birthday every year she'll be happy call
call
you're a seagull have you ever called
the wrong number
have you ever
called
a
dog
by
another dog's name
clothing
cloud
beard
beautiful
bed
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cut it out
the next phrase is
cut it out
now
this is usually what a parent would say
to a child when they want them to stop
doing something
stop it in other words cut it out really
it's any situation that you want to have
stopped now
let's say my friend likes to
click her pen all the time
and i'm getting really annoyed i would
turn to her and say
cut it out michelle
i'm upset
the next phrase is
i'm upset
upset here means
not happy
angry
frustrated
i'm upset you can say this in many
different ways the intonation is
important if you're trying to remain
calm what's wrong
becky
i'm upset
i mean i'm really upset but i'm not
going to show you or you can really just
yell this like i'm upset with you
i'm upset who do you think you are who
do you think you are
so you say this to someone when you feel
that they're being way too proud maybe
way too selfish they think they're
number one they've done something and
you can't believe they were so bold as
to do that like who do you think you are
superman you can't run that marathon
tomorrow with no training
who do you think you are who do you
think you are the president of the
universe
watch your mouth
we say this when someone is using bad
language or language we think is too
strong for the situation a lot of
parents will say this to their kids
or a lot of you know people fighting in
a relationship might say that to each
other so i'm not going to use the
language here but if i said something
very strong very rude
my mom or my friend might say hey watch
your mouth
be careful about what you say you're not
listening to me the next phrase is
you're not listening to me
pretty clear right
yeah you're not listening to me let me
say it again
i
don't want to go or something like that
you're not listening to me is used when
we're getting angry because we really
don't think that person is listening to
us so we say hey you're not listening to
me i've been saying it many times but
you're not listening to me let me say it
again i want a raise
let's stay together
loving you whether times are good or bad
happy or sad
al green from let's stay together
our first amazing love quote is
from al green
from his song let's stay together now
first i'm going to say it for you
then i'm going to sing it okay
let's stay together
loving you whether times are good or bad
happy or sad
now for al green it's very important
that you get very what we call groovy
you gotta get me feel the groove and
this chorus this comes from the chorus
let's
let's stay together
loving you weather
times are good or bad
happy or sad thank you al green that was
beautiful al green love it every time
nice slow song playing on a friday night
with your girlfriend or boyfriend so
this quote i love it because it means
that
al green or whoever is singing it to you
is going to love you
no matter if it's good times or bad
times if you're happy or if you're sad
and it kind of reminds me of the classic
american wedding vows that we say we say
i will love you this is not exact but we
say i will love you in sickness or in
health
till death do we part
i like this song a lot
we should love each other in good times
and bad right it's not true love if
you're just loving in good times right i
want you there in the bad times too
bette midler from wind beneath my wings
our second amazing love quote is
you are the wind beneath my wings
we first heard this from bette midler in
her song wind beneath my wings
now this is a very beautiful song about
it comes from a movie called beaches
that was about two
basically best friends so she's singing
this to her best girlfriend
and she's saying you are the wind
beneath my wings in fact you are the
person who
gives me this feeling that i can fly and
you support me
so that i feel like i can fly so you're
the wind kind of beneath my wings
and it's this line is in the chorus uh
repeated many times in the song and
uh it goes like this did you ever know
that you're my hero
you're everything i would like to be
i can fly
higher than an eagle
for you are the wind beneath my wings
something like that i love that that
movie will make you cry by the way girls
get the tissues ready oh and then the
spell was cast
and here we are in heaven
for you are mine
at last
edda james from at last
okay our third amazing love quote is
edda james this is from her song at last
oh and then the spell was cast
and here we are
in heaven
for you are mine at last
now let me talk for a minute about the
phrase the spell was cast
it's kind of like a witch that can cast
a spell on you
and so if you have a spell cast on you
it's like you are under this like
this um command from someone else and
you are acting different because they
made you do something but it's like
you're so in love with this person that
it's like you'll do anything for them
you're under a spell you know we might
say and so it's like we're in heaven
together it feels like we're in heaven
i've been waiting so long to be with you
here we are
um you are mine at last
now this may not surprise you but this
is a popular wedding song
um eddie james sang this i want to say
back in the 1960s i might have that
wrong but it also became popular from
the beyonce movie a few years ago where
she played etta james and beyonce sang
this song as well this quote is right in
the middle of the song so don't be don't
be surprised when i start very strong
here here we
go oh
and then
the spell was cast
[Music]
and here we are
in heaven
for you a man
at
last there's a lot of quaver in the
voice
in that song actually it does come at
the end of the song sorry not the not
the middle but beautiful song recommend
that song at last check it out by etta
james i keep the ends out for the tie
that binds
because you're mine i walk the line
johnny cash from i walk the line our
next amazing love quote is from johnny
cash one of my favorites the quote is a
little difficult i think so listen
closely i keep the ends out for the tie
that binds
because you're mine i walk the line the
tie that binds means a like a tie or a
connection to someone you're bound to
that person and johnny actually wrote
this song for his first wife vivian
as kind of a promise to her that he
would not cheat on her on the road so by
this lyric
he's saying i keep my eye out
in case anyone i keep the ends out here
he says there's like his eye i keep the
eye
my ends out for any
potential connection i don't want to be
connected to anyone else
because you're mine
i walk the line now walking the line
means like to follow a strict
line or path and not go out or away from
that line to follow the rules basically
because you're mine i'm following the
rules i am keeping my eye out in case i
make any connections that i'm not hoping
or wanting to make i keep the ends out
for the tie that binds
because you're mine i walk the line
sorry johnny had to go high on that one
johnny did not follow those rules in
fact when he met his second wife june
carter cash who turned out to be the
love of his life and on the day he met
her he said
you're the woman i'm gonna marry someday
my baby don't care for shows
my baby don't care for clothes
my baby just cares for me
nina simone from my baby just cares for
me
oh my god i love this song oh my god oh
my god i love this song the next amazing
love quote is i'm gonna say it's my
favorite i just love this song it's by
one of my favorite singers of all time
nina simone
absolute legend
wonderful pianist okay here's the quote
my baby don't care for shows
my baby don't care for clothes
my baby just cares for me
now maybe by the end there you realize
my baby is not her actual baby like baby
no no this is her lover her love
interest
so she's saying my baby don't care for
shows my baby doesn't care about going
to plays or maybe movies
my baby don't care for clothes my baby
doesn't my lover doesn't care about
buying the latest fashion trends
my baby just cares for me my lover just
cares about me so we don't need anything
fancy we don't have to do anything
special
we just need to care and be with each
other uh and so it's a it's a great it's
a great quote also notice here the
grammar is completely wrong
my baby don't you should say my baby
doesn't but this is for a stylistic
flair if you will so here is part of
this amazing song here we go my baby
don't care for shows
my baby don't care for clothes
my baby just cares for me
oh where is my piano back up that song
is gorgeous please check out the whole
song phrase number one i get to check
this off my bucket list in english we
have this phrase to kick the bucket
which means to die
so to make a bucket list is to make a
list of things to do before you die now
for me one of mine was to go in a hot
air balloon i had tried to do it for the
first time in 2009 but the morning i
went the trip was canceled so here i am
again
uh more than six years later and i'm
trying again and this time it was
successful so i get to check it off my
bucket list i get to do this thing
before i die and i did it english class
101 listeners it was so exciting so you
should make a list of things to do
before you die your own bucket list
phrase number two will you marry me
so today is actually valentine's day and
it's very popular on valentine's day and
anytime you're planning to propose to
your special someone
to go to a special place and i can't
think of a more special place than in a
hot air balloon there's enough space
trust me in the basket to kneel down at
least from my country the usa it's
customary to get down on one knee it
doesn't really matter which knee at
least i've never thought so and you get
down you kneel on one knee and you say
will you marry me now unfortunately
listeners i did not see any marriage
proposals on my balloon yesterday but i
bet you today there are over 30 balloons
that go off here in bagan myanmar i bet
you someone proposed oh it would have
been such a beautiful moment
will you marry me that is phrase number
two phrase number three this is a first
for me
so going in a hot air balloon as i said
i had never done it before so it is a
first for me a first being the first
time i have done something i'm sure
there are many firsts that you can think
of in your life that you've had and
maybe many more firsts that you'd like
to have
so this was a first for me or this is a
first for me phrase number three maybe a
first for you could be the first time
that you've ever
had sushi or the first time that you've
ever
climbed a mountain i mean there are so
many firsts that you can have
this is a first for me getting in a hot
air balloon phrase number four the view
is incredible from up here now this is
something that we use in english to say
whenever we've gone to the top of an
observation tower the top of a mountain
the top of a temple like i went to this
morning or really any high place that
you go to to take a great photo or to
get an incredible view we say the view
is incredible from up here phrase number
five what a ride champagne time so at
the end of my balloon ride yesterday as
soon as we dropped into the field below
we had a beautiful picnic basket
unfurled on the field in front of us and
we got to enjoy a glass of champagne to
celebrate and when we finish something
some incredible rides some maybe could
be in the car on a bus
it could be from a bad experience or a
good but we say what a ride
what a ride
and when we're about to drink champagne
we say champagne time this expression
from after riding in a hot air balloon
originally came from the pilots of these
balloons wanting to make sure the
farmers
in the fields where they landed didn't
get too upset so they would offer the
farmers some champagne along with any
guests they may have in their balloons
and that's where the tradition first
came from so what a ride champagne time
phrase number five how much is it
to how much is it to
how much is it to the airport
you might ask this question to find out
how much it costs to take a train or a
bus or a taxi to where you need to go
if you get into a taxi for example and
you ask how much is it to the airport
the taxi driver will tell you
30 dollars he'll tell you the price you
need to pay to get to the airport if
you're taking a train
you might ask the ticket seller how much
is it to the airport
and the ticket seller will tell you the
train to the airport costs ten dollars
for example
that way you know how much it costs to
go to where you need to be
does this bus go to
does this bus go to the suburbs
does this bus go to is a way of asking
whether or not the bus that you're
looking at has the destination that you
need
so you might get on the bus and ask the
bus driver does this bus go to
the suburbs whatever destination and the
bus driver will answer and tell you yes
get on or no you want a different bus
what time is the next bus
what time will the next bus arrive by
asking what time is the next bus you're
asking when the bus is going to come to
the bus stop or whatever station the bus
will stop at
this way you know what time you need to
be at that bus stop
the train is running late
the train is running late again
this is something i say all the time in
new york city the train is running late
if the train is running late that means
you will probably be running late when
you get off the train
where are the ticket machines
where are the ticket machines in this
station
a ticket machine is a machine that you
go to to purchase your tickets
you might see this in any station
whether it's a subway station or a
regular train station or sometimes even
a bus station there will be kiosks that
you can go to
to enter the information and purchase
your ticket by watching english movies
and tv shows and enjoying the feeling
when you can understand a word or a
sentence yeah i do this too uh when you
enjoy something when you find
entertainment value in something like
music movies tv and you there's that
moment when you pick up or when you
understand what your favorite character
said or you understand like a key point
in the story it's a really really good
feeling it makes you want to continue
watching i think so
that's a really really nice feeling i
think and you can do that by enjoying
media so it's a fun way to learn and
it's a fun feeling to experience okay
the next way to motivate yourself is by
reading english news articles blogs and
magazines to get a feel for formal and
casual language so the style that we use
here like in english class 101 and this
on the videos on this channel is quite
casual most of the time or at least in
these videos it's very casual but the
way that i speak in the way a newspaper
is written the way a magazine is written
the way a
a newscaster presents the information
these are all different ways of
communicating we're using the same
language yes but they're different
styles so it's important to try to
understand those differences
and to become familiar with them so try
to find a few different things that you
can enjoy
the next way to motivate yourself is
after dinner you write about
your day in a journal in english okay
this is an interesting idea so just take
a few minutes after dinner or before you
go to bed to write something in english
about what you did that day or maybe
so you have a chance to talk about
future tense or to use the future tense
you can use um you can talk about your
upcoming plans or the things you're
going to do the next day so you can talk
about past tense uh what you did that
day
maybe present tense how you're feeling
as you're writing your journal for the
day and future tense to talk about your
upcoming plan so journaling can be a
really effective exercise for motivating
you okay
the next way to motivate yourself is by
practicing with flash cards of useful
words and phrases for 15 minutes every
day on the train i actually do do this i
use but i use an application to study in
japanese to study kanji and 15 minutes
every day adds up over the course of a
week you can learn a lot of information
in a short period of time and
if you live in the country where
your target language is spoken then you
might even find the word you studied on
the train you see it like after you
leave the train you might see that word
later on in your day so you can
immediately
feel like an extra sense of motivation
by knowing that this thing you're
studying is applicable it's something
you can use right away it's a really
cool feeling so this is a tip i honestly
i use this last
i make sure to thank anyone and everyone
who corrects my english uh yeah i i
think this is really important because
people are really nice they don't want
to correct you when you make a mistake
but sometimes people do they're really
polite about it and they tell you the
more tell you a more natural way or they
give you a suggestion for how to improve
your english make sure you say thank you
like repeat after them and then say
thank you
so that you know it's motivation for
them
to tell you again in the future to help
you again in the future so make sure to
say thank you to anyone who helps you
with your english personally i think
that or i would just use i think that
personally makes it sound a little bit
more polite i think you can use this to
introduce an opinion for example
personally i think that pizza is amazing
personally i think that dinosaurs
would have been delicious
personally i think that
cars should be
made to
enjoy
with friends
okay i'm gonna end it there
personally i think that you shouldn't
worry about it yes that's probably a
much more useful sentence than dinosaurs
would be delicious
the next expression is what does blah
blah blah mean so where here is the word
you don't know so for example what does
pasta mean what does
stegosaurus mean so a word like
stegosaurus is a really strange word
that you probably don't know stegosaurus
is a type of dinosaur we're on a very
dinosaurs i don't know
jurassic we're on a jurassic adventure
at the moment so this is a pattern you
use when you don't know uh when you
don't know the meaning of the word and
you would like someone to explain it to
you so if you say what does stegosaurus
mean then someone can say oh it's a
dinosaur it's kind of like it's a sort
of short guide it has a bunch of spikes
on its back and it has a long tail and
it gets into a fight with the
tyrannosaurus rex if you saw the movie
fantasia by disney
okay
so
in this sentence what does complication
mean it means problem okay
the next pattern you can use is can you
tell me more about blah blah blah so on
a topic that you would like more
information about you can say can you
tell me more about the soccer game last
week can you tell me more about the
plan for the party next week so
something you would like more
information about you can say can you
tell me more about this thing okay so in
a sentence can you tell me more about
your
sandwich options
that is a useful sentence that is a
useful sentence okay in this sentence
here we don't have that back home can
you tell me more about it this is use
the reverse pattern
okay
uh the next expression is if it were up
to me if it were up to me i had to teach
this in a class a couple weeks ago
actually if it were up to me means if i
could make the decision if this was my
if this were my decision
uh blah blah blah so meaning if i could
make the choice this is what i would do
but one point here is the nuance is it
is not my decision this is not my
decision but if it were my decision i
would do blah blah blah so for example
if it were up to me every day would be
saturday
but it's not right so um
that's that's always the underlying
that's always the kind of basic um
nuance of this phrase some this decision
is not mine okay here the example is if
it were up to me
i would
take my boss to dinner
oh my
things just got scandalous
the next pattern is i feel like blah
blah blah you can use i feel like when
you introduce a suggestion or something
that you would like to do especially for
food drinks or activities so for example
i feel like coffee i feel like italian
food i feel like an action movie there's
some activity or something you would
like to do at the end of this pattern i
feel like bowling this afternoon
something needs to go here some sort of
activity um of course
you can use this expression to talk
about your feelings i feel like
something but this something must be a
noun it must be a noun like if you feel
really great i feel like a million bucks
for example
if you feel really bad i feel like
garbage
that's a nice expression that somehow
just came out of my head anyway um you
can use this in two ways but this must
be completed with a noun phrase at the
end of the sentence
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