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North American English today I am so psyched super stoked to introduce you to a brand new
Go natural English teacher. Her name is Sarah. She is lovely. She's experienced. She is awesome and
She is going to teach you ten inspiring phrases that are from
TEDx
Speeches these are phrases that you might want to use in your next presentation or public speaking or maybe business meeting
So these are great for improving your business English skills
Or just to improve our spruce up your English fluency. You're going to love them
So I'm going to hand over this lesson to Sarah our teacher today and I'll see you at the end
Bye for now
Hey guys, how's it going?
My name's Sarah and I'm one of your new English teachers here on go natural English today
I will be teaching you
ten
Inspirational phrases
that TED talk presenters use
so if you feel like your English is kind of boring or
You feel like you're using the same words over and over again
This video is for you. Our first phrase today is to seize the moment
When you seize the moment you take advantage of life's opportunities
Whenever and wherever they present themselves, it's the opposite of hesitating or doubting yourself
letting
Opportunities pass you by you may also hear the phrase seize the day which pretty much means the same thing
Just go for it. Just do it. You have this time
Use it make it work. Try it out take risks grab these opportunities and create your own
Opportunities in this moment or in this day our second phrases to step up and do something
When you step up and do something, it means you're taking action
You're taking initiative to make a change to make something happen
the leaders of the world
They step up and do things they look around and see everyone else
who's not doing those things and
They are very courageous. They say I will do it
I want to do it there needs to be a change
For example, we need to step up and do something about all this plastic in the ocean
You may hear this phrase used in a presentation like a TED talk
You might hear it in a debate when there's two different opinions
Maybe one side feels that one action needs to happen, but the other side
Disagrees, they think another action it needs to happen
Another common idiom that comes to my mind with this phrase is to step up to the plate
This is a common idiom in American English that comes from baseball
We actually have a lot of idioms in English
From baseball it's just a popular sport. So we use them a lot and our speaking as well
So if you step up to the plate
Think about having a baseball bat in your hand and you go to hit the ball
It's like you're taking on that challenge
You're saying I know the ball is going to come at me and I'm going to hit it
So when someone steps up to the plate?
They're saying I can do this. I have the confidence. I believe I can and
I'm going to try our third phrase today is to reinvent the wheel
If you reinvent the wheel you are
Wasting your time doing something that's already been
Done the wheel was invented
A very very very long time ago. It was one of humanity's
first inventions, so we would not waste our time trying to do it again, right so
this phrase is used when you just want to tell someone to
Just not waste their time trying to do something that's already been
Perfected maybe do something else instead or do something in a new and creative?
kind of way maybe adding to
That idea or doing it just a little differently with your own unique twist
our fourth phrase today is to be intrigued if you're intrigued by a
Person or thing. It means that you are curious about that person or thing
You want to learn more or research more about that?
some common expressions we use with this word are
I'm
intrigued or
You might hear someone say that's intriguing
It's very similar to using the word interesting so I might say hmm. That's interesting
Very very similar. However
when we say that something is
Intriguing we mean it in a very positive way. So we really do want to learn more
We are really curious about it
When we use the phrase, that's interesting
Sometimes it depends on the situation
You might look at that as a positive statement or it could be negative
for example if I said
Lauren was late to work today and
My friend or someone else said hmm, that's interesting
That's kind of seen as negative. It's kind of like saying that strange or different
So we would never say that's intriguing. That would be a little too positive
So you can see they're similar, but they are a little different so
Tell me in the comment section below. What is something you're
Intrigued with what is something that you find?
Intriguing or maybe a person that you find intriguing our fifth phrase today is to be a forward
thinker if you're a forward thinker it means that you're always
Thinking about the future you are planning for
What will happen next?
this is a
wonderful phrase to use in an interview or you might hear it in an interview if
Someone asks you what are some of your strengths you might say
Well, I'm a forward thinker forward thinkers are very creative
They're often very
successful as well
They can predict what the future might be or they can kind of foresee
What might happen in the future?
Are you a forward thinker we'd love to hear it in the comment section below
So tell us what are some things you do
How are you a forward thinker if you're preparing for an interview?
This is a wonderful phrase to practice and feel comfortable using so
Think of some wh questions. Why are you a forward thinker?
When are you a forward thinker?
where give us some examples of times in your
Life where you've been a forward thinker our sixth phrase today is to go all-in on something
when you go all-in on something it means that you give
100% of your time and energy and support to a person or a cause
You are doing it all you're going all-in
This is a common phrase we use in
Groups where you might be in a meeting or you're working on a project with other people you might say I'm all-in
Like I am one of the whole I am contributing my part to this whole group
Someone might ask you
Are you?
Or are you all in like are you part of this team? Are you a hundred percent?
Do you want to give to this cause for example, I might say I decided this year
2019 I'm gonna go all in and
create my first YouTube channel, or you might say I'm going to go all in and
Become fluent in English. I'm going to learn many phrases and expressions and
Meet other English speakers and travel and everything we do to improve our English, right?
Our seventh phrase today is to set out to do something when you set out to do something
It means that you have a goal something you want to accomplish something that you want to
do
so for example today I
set out to make a youtube video for go natural English and
Upload it for you all today
Tell us about something you set out to do
Today this week maybe this year in the comments section below. I'm
Curious to hear it could be anything it might be to learn English
It could be another goal or hobby. You want to start doing our 8th?
Inspirational TED talk phrase today is to be empowered when I think of inspirational TED talks
I think of this word in powered it means that you are strong and
Confident in the choices that you make in your life
That you feel like you can control your life and you can claim your rights as yours
TED talks are empowering because they make us feel like we can change the world one person at a time
What empowers you and how do you?
empower others
Tell us about it in the comments our 9th phrase today is to think outside the box
when we think outs of the box
We think in a new and different way about something. So if you think of a box as someone's mind
The average person's mind when we think outside of the box. We're thinking more creatively
We're doing something a little different than how the group does it to think outside
The box is a phrase. That is a common cliche. So it is overused a lot
It's important to know what this phrase means you'll hear it. Yes, you can use it but just be aware that
Sometimes it's used a little too much and our last phrase our tenth phrase for this video today is to shift gears
Or to switch gears. This means to suddenly change the topic we use this a lot
During meetings or just when you're with a group of people or giving a presentation
Even you might say that we're going to switch gears now
We're going to change the focus from one thing to a different thing
So that's it for today. I'm going to switch gears and put you in charge
So tell us in the comments section below how these phrases helped you today and practice using some of them
We'd love to hear them. See you next time. Bye Sarah. Thank you
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