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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we're going
to be talking about 20 travel phrases
that you should know so let's go do you
have any recommendations the first
phrase is do you have any
recommendations this is great to use
when you get to a restaurant where you
don't know what the food is you don't
know anything about the local cuisine or
you're just feeling a little bit
adventurous you can ask the wait staff
do you have any recommendations how much
is this how much is this this is useful
when you're out shopping or when you're
in a restaurant and the price is not
clearly marked or something is not clear
to you so you can ask how much is this
usually when you point to something i
would recommend like pointing to the
menu or pointing to an item how much is
this
i'd like this you can point to something
and say i'd like this uh if you want to
say i'd like uh one for example i don't
know you're getting beer i'd like one of
these
if however you're in a situation where
you can't point you can say i'd like 10
of the blah blah blah i'd like 10 of the
blue t-shirts please can i try this on
is useful when you're shopping for
clothes so you find something that you'd
like to try just ask the staff can i try
this on you can just say i want to try
this on if you like do you speak english
you might get asked this phrase so you
should say if you're watching this video
you should probably say yes or you can
say yes a little if you're not feeling
very confident if you're watching this
video and you're understanding this part
and you say no then
things that's a little strange i have a
reservation usually the staff will greet
you and you can say i have a reservation
hello i have a reservation it's at seven
o'clock the name is alicia usually we
say the name is or it's under meaning
the reservation is under my name or um
it's for name
or uh it's in name water please
depending on which country you're from
water may or may not automatically be
brought to your table when you're at a
restaurant if you would like more water
however you can say water please to make
it a little more polite i would like
wave at the wait staff and say could i
please have some more water do you take
credit cards do you take credit cards in
case you're not sure if the shop that
you're in will accept credit cards or
debit cards you can ask them do you take
credit cards so it doesn't mean do you
take meaning are you going to take my
card but this take means do you accept
credit cards this isn't what i ordered
so if you're at a restaurant you order
steak and you get lobster instead you
can look at it and go ah this isn't what
i ordered be careful though say this
politely if you look at the wait staff
and you say this isn't what i ordered
they're gonna be like
i don't know just be a nice customer
excuse me but i don't think this is what
i ordered or this isn't what i ordered
can you please check could we have the
menu please if for some reason you don't
receive a menu when you come to the
table you can again just waive a a
member of the staff and say could we
have the menu please could you give me a
discount could you give me a discount
means uh i would like a cheaper price
essentially it depends on which country
you're in if haggling or bargaining
meaning talking to the seller to try to
reduce the price my family didn't
bargain we didn't haggle so i don't
haggle depends on you and your culture
but uh just yeah just be be aware of the
culture that you're in and the place
that you're in before you ask this
question do you have any vegetarian
dishes ah this is useful some people
have specific eating requirements or
eating needs maybe food allergies for
example you can replace vegetarian with
the specific dietary requirement that
you have do you have any vegan dishes do
you have any gluten free dishes do you
have any low fat dishes do you have any
low carb dishes do you have any fish
free dishes do you have any
could you take a picture of me please
if you are in a location where you would
like to take a picture but you don't
want to do a selfie or you don't have a
selfie stick or whatever you want
someone else to take a picture of you a
stranger that you don't know you can ask
them could you take a picture of me
please or excuse me would you mind
taking a picture of me please i'm
allergic to blah blah blah if you have a
food allergy or even
an allergy to a medicine this is the
phrase you can use to explain that i'm
allergic to wheat or i can't eat wheat
for example
is the wi-fi free meaning can i use the
wi-fi free of charge keep in mind some
places have a a password that you have
to ask the staff for
so you can say is the wi-fi free if they
say yes you can then follow that up with
can i have the password i'd like to have
a non-smoking seat please so when you go
to a restaurant you have an option
between smoking and non-smoking sections
the staff will say smoking or
non-smoking you can say i'd like to have
a non-smoking seat please quite honestly
though the most natural response is just
to say non-smoking could i get a map
maybe it's a map of the subway system
for the city that you're in or maybe
it's a map of the area around your hotel
you could say could i have a map as well
could i have the check you're finished
at your cafe you're finished at the
restaurant and it's time to leave it's
time to pay so you say to the wait staff
excuse me could i have the check another
more common expression perhaps is excuse
me check please you might also hear bill
excuse me can i have the bill where is
the bathroom very important question if
you're traveling in america we don't
really use the word toilet or washroom
very much we use bathroom or restroom to
talk about
toilet facilities excuse me can you tell
me where the bathroom is or excuse me
i'm looking for the bathroom or i'm
looking for the restroom is this the
train for blah blah blah or is this the
train that goes to blah blah blah to
confirm with someone
that i'm indeed on the correct train
line if i say is this the train bound
for san francisco you can use that to
check if you're correct 10 compliments
that you always want to hear
let's go
i love your cooking this is my personal
favorite compliment oh my god i love
cooking like i'm always posting like
pictures of things that i cooked on
twitter i'm just like crazy about food
uh so this would be a compliment that i
would love to get like the ultimate
compliment for me though would be will
you make my birthday cake that would be
such a compliment like it's it's a
question but it's it there's so much
behind that will you make my birthday
cake
you would give that to me so maybe after
you can use this after a meal for
example i love your cooking and the
other person will be like
next is great job great job this is a
compliment that you can use anytime you
can use it uh to your with your friend
with your
not with your boss your boss might use
it with you an employee a co-worker a
colleague a pet even whatever it's it's
just
a very small scale very easy to use
compliment that means you think whatever
has just happened is good i use great
job all the time i use great job and i
use good job sometimes
when i make a mistake or something funny
happens that i'm alone at my house and i
want to make fun of myself i'll be like
yeah great job alicia
but if i'm if i'm trying to be positive
about a failure or laugh at myself a bit
but in general it's just a good easy
compliment to give someone great job you
have a way with words you have a way
with words this can be speaking this can
be writing it means you think that the
other person is a good communicator or
maybe even more so than just a good
communicator you think that the way they
speak or the way that they write is
particularly good so that could mean
funny it could mean romantic it could
mean dramatic something about the way
they speak or the way that they write
you really enjoy that you can say you
have a way with words
it's quite a nice compliment i think
it's kind of like a you know bit smart
it's a bit of a smart thing you have a
way with words or you can say you're
good with words you're really good with
words yeah all right next one you look
gorgeous you look gorgeous very nice
compliment to give just be very careful
with the way that you say this for an
everyday compliment i tend not to say
you look nice or you look gorgeous today
or something like that because the
underlying comment there is on the other
days that person doesn't look nice
like
so
if i want to compliment someone's
appearance i try to pick a specific
thing i'm like oh i've never seen you
wear that sweater before it looks nice
on you something like that like
yesterday my friend had a new dress on
and i was like is that a new dress and
because i thought she looked nice
but i didn't i didn't want to make it
sound like i don't think she looks nice
every day so i said is that a new dress
and she goes yeah i said i think that
color is really really nice on you it
looks really good and she was so happy
about that so
i yes there there are these compliments
like you look nice you look great you
look gorgeous and so on but i personally
kind of prefer to level them up a little
bit and just say pick a specific thing
like did you get a new haircut did you
dye your hair or you did you get
something did something happen like what
whatever it is try to pick up on a
specific thing because then that shows
you're paying attention to the other
person
and you think that whatever they have
chosen to do whatever like clothing or
whatever haircut whatever it is you
think that they have good sense there
too or good style so it's kind of like a
double that's a very subtle double
compliment
yeah
the next word is you have good taste you
have good taste this can be for
food uh fashion style for decorating
sense
music in movies whatever if you think
that that person's uh artistic selection
is in whatever capacity if you think
that that person makes good choices with
uh their
their appearance or their hobbies or
whatever you can say you have good taste
this is a fairly sophisticated
compliment i think
we use you have good taste for something
like it's it sounds a bit more
sophisticated maybe if you both choose
the same bottle of wine perhaps like it
has kind of a more formal adult-ish
sophisticated feeling about it this
compliment
so yeah maybe
maybe wine is a good example of that
yeah oh nice bottle choice like i really
like that you have good taste you can
follow this by the way you have good
taste in blah blah
you have good taste in movies you have
good taste in music if you want to be
specific about something that you think
that person is really good at choosing
you have good taste in
noun
okay yeah okay
um next one is you have a great sense of
humor you have a great sense of humor
this is the this is the underlying
compliment in the phrase you are so
funny this is the underlying compliment
you have a great sense of humor means
the other person thinks you're funny
that you are good at telling jokes or
you make them laugh this is actually one
of my favorite compliments to get you
have a great sense of humor um
yeah because i think that like you know
people like to laugh so it's an if
someone makes you laugh you can say this
you have a great sense of humor or
you're very funny yeah it's a good one
it's a really good one
um
so you can say after a joke for example
or
after maybe you've you're you've
finished laughing at something the other
person has said you can say oh you have
a great sense of humor good next one is
your resume is impressive
this is a weird compliment to say to
your friends
unless you're like reviewing your
friend's resume it's a bit weird this is
something that perhaps uh someone
interviewing another person for a job
would say the candidate comes in for the
interview the interviewer says wow your
resume is very impressive i'd like to
ask you a few questions about it yay
so this is good to hear in a work
situation yeah you really probably won't
need to use this with your friends if
you do it's kind of weird oh wow this
next one is quite a compliment
nobody's ever said this man
to be fair if somebody said this next
one to me i would feel a little bit of
like pressure the compliment here is you
make me want to be a better person this
is something that i think you see in
movies from time to time first yeah i've
had i had one person say like like
uh oh that something you did inspired me
and that was like really like oh that
was really exciting like somebody was
inspired by something like wow that's
great i want to be like you that's a
really cool compliment but if someone
says you want to make me be a better
person it's like oh wow like that means
i'm really important to that person
which is really flattering
but at the same time if someone said
that i would also be like
if it's like my friend i would be like
but i i want you to be you like i think
you're a cool person already yeah it's
like oh you make me want to be a better
person like in that person's viewpoint
you're like somehow above them and
that's uncomfortable
yeah just i would rather say
you inspire me i think that that or like
this thing that you did really inspired
me like if somebody said like i saw that
picture that she posted on twitter of
that pizza today alicia and it really
inspired me and i made my own pizza i'd
be like yay
[Laughter]
oh
next one is nice actually i say this to
my friends quite a bit you are an
awesome friend this is really really
good to use after your friend has helped
you with something maybe you're moving
to a new apartment a new house or maybe
you've had some trouble and your friend
gave you some good advice or your friend
just listened to you when you really
needed to talk to someone
after that experience you could say
thanks so much you were an awesome
friend
or maybe your friend did something
really really cool and you just want to
like tell them like i think you're
really awesome just say you are an
awesome friend they'll be happy to hear
that or just you can abbreviate it to
you are awesome not just you're an
awesome friend just you are awesome
you're a cool person you are awesome
you're fantastic
you are an awesome friend you're an
awesome friend ten ways to motivate
yourself when learning english let's go
the first way to motivate yourself is to
imagine that one day you will live in
the united states so to do this imagine
what is your day going to be like when
you live in the u.s where will you go
who will you meet where will you shop
and so on imagine your day in the united
states
okay the second way to motivate yourself
when you're studying english is to study
other aspects of the culture too which
makes it more rewarding to study english
okay so this means of course studying
english as a language but if there's a
specific country that you would like to
visit or a specific part of that
country's culture try to learn about
that too if you like music if you like
the food if you like the history try to
find something about a specific country
or a specific part of that country's
culture that you enjoy in addition to
studying the language okay
way number three to motivate yourself is
finding funny words in english okay so
finding a word that sounds funny or a
word that you enjoy using or a phrase
that you enjoy using can really increase
your motivation for using that word and
for interacting with people so if you
can find those phrases that you think
are funny or are fun they can be really
really helpful for you as you learn your
language the next way to motivate
yourself is to make friends with people
who speak english
so of course if you don't have any
friends who are english speakers
especially native english speakers it's
a really good idea to make some friends
this way you can practice with them you
can learn from them and you can just see
maybe what their life is like and how
their life is different from yours so
this is a great way to practice a great
way to learn and a great way to think
more internationally as well the next
way to motivate yourself is watching
youtube videos of other people who have
successfully learned english so you can
listen to people what worked for them
how did they study where did they go
what materials did they use
what did they find not helpful
so you can try to find a strategy that
works well for you through using
resources like youtube for example it's
a great way to find people
that maybe match with what you need okay
the next way to motivate yourself is 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 are 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 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 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 flashcards of useful
words and phrases for 15 minutes every
day on the train i actually do do this i
use uh 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 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 uh 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 hi everybody
my name is alicia welcome back to our
english class channel today we're going
to be talking about the difference
between by and until so let's get
started
okay so first we're going to talk about
buy buy marks a deadline for an action
to finish buy marks the point where an
action completes or is replaced by
another action so really think about
using buy to express a deadline
something is going to stop or you must
finish an action
at this point in time so
um we can think about by
as marking some point in the future
so by marked some point in the future
where an action
is going to finish an action is going to
be completed so in an example sentence i
have i'll be at the office by 7 pm so in
this sentence the speaker is not at the
office but
7 pm is the deadline this is the point
in time at which the speaker will be at
the office the speaker is not at the
office now but
by 7 pm by the 7 pm deadline the speaker
will be at the office this will shows us
this is a future tense expression
and by shows us the deadline the point
at which that expression or the point at
which that action is going to be
completed
so this is how we use by to think about
it like a deadline some point in time at
which an action will be completed or
finished okay so let's continue on to
the other grammar point for today which
is until
until also has a more casual form we can
use till
t-i-l-l or apostrophe t-i-l you might
see both spellings used for until till
or till
in most cases it's good to use until in
casual speaking and maybe in casual
writing you can use the casual form but
until is always polite and is always
correct
okay so when we use until let's talk
about when to use until we use until to
talk about a continuing situation or a
continuing state
now in the present or in the future
but it's going to change or stop
so the key difference one key difference
here perhaps is a continuing situation a
continuing state with bi
the nuance is a deadline something is
going to finish at a deadline here
however until gives us the nuance of
something that's continuing
something true now for example
but that may not be true in the future
until
marks the point where that action or
that state is going to finish or change
okay so
we can think of it
rather than as a deadline as a key point
in the future somewhere
where action a continues
until a point where we use until and
then a second action begins
something is going to change at the
until point with by however we don't
have the nuance of an action changing we
only have the nuance of a deadline so
here until is used to show that
something different is going to happen
or something something will finish
but there's going to be a change
after the the until point so for example
this sentence very similar to the by
example sentence is i'll be at the
office until
7 pm
so here we have the future tense aisle i
will i'll be at the office until 7 pm
this sentence shows us the speaker is at
the office right now however
at 7 pm
until shows us that 7 p.m is the point
at which
the situation or the state is going to
change so at 7 pm the speaker is
probably going to leave the office
until shows us that right here the
action or the state is going to change
so please keep that in mind until shows
you a change in something bi shows more
of a deadline for an action
that is continuing so i hope that we can
practice this in a few example sentences
now
okay
so let's try to choose the correct word
to use in these example sentences should
we use buy or should we use until in
these cases so the first one i have is
he has to find a new job
blah blah blah march so in this case
we see
a point in time
we can think about it should we use buy
or until here if we use buy we see that
the deadline
the deadline nuance matches here he has
to find a new job by march
if we use until he has to find a new job
until
march there's no information in this
sentence that shows us a hint or that
gives us a hint about how the action is
going to change
until does not make sense for this
question so we should use buy in this
case he has to find a new job by march
is the correct answer for this sentence
in the second sentence
i'm not going to go to bed blah blah
blah i finish this movie so in this
sentence we have at the end
i finish this movie so there's some
action
maybe that's continuing here
and we have another action i'm not going
to go to bed in this case it's a
negative so there are two actions here
this is a pretty good hint that there's
an action that's going to change at some
point instead of the nuance of a
deadline so for this sentence until is
the best answer i'm not going to go to
bed until
until i finish this movie this shows us
that at this point the point where i
finish the movie i'm going to go to bed
this marks the change in the continuing
state or the continuing situation
so the next sentence is they need to
write their reports blah blah blah
tomorrow so this sentence there's no
change in the sentence we don't have any
hints about some kind of different
action that's going to happen instead we
have maybe what seems to be a deadline
some requirement here too
so if we try to use until it doesn't
make sense there's no changing action we
can't guess about what might happen in
the future or a change that might happen
so buy is the best answer here they need
to write their reports by tomorrow
tomorrow is the deadline so we can guess
that tomorrow is the deadline here by
shows us that it's the deadline in this
case for this task
all right
let's take a look at something a little
bit different here we have we can't
leave the house blah blah blah your
mother calls so again there are two
situations there are two actions
involved in this sentence we have leave
the house and your mother calls makes a
phone call so because there are two
actions here
we can guess that there's some change
that's going to happen so because we
learned that until
marks a change in actions we know that
until
is the better answer here
okay
we can't leave the house until your
mother calls would be the correct
sentence here
all right
uh so let's look at the next sentence
though this one is a tricky sentence
this one is a little bit difficult we
have i'm not going to be there something
something 8 pm
so here
we have 8 p.m at the end of a sentence
which looks like a deadline right
we have uh going to be there
so should we use by or until for this
sentence it's difficult because actually
both are okay for this sentence
i'm not going to be there
by 8 pm is correct and i'm not going to
be there
until 8 pm is also correct however the
meanings are very different just as we
practiced
in these two sentences i'll be at the
office until i'll be at the office by 7
pm
the same is true here i'm not going to
be there by 8 pm
means i'm not going to be there at 8 pm
it's not possible for me i can't go
however i'm not going to be there until
8 pm
this sentence means
after 8 pm or beginning at 8 pm and
after i'm going to be there so please be
careful in some cases both by and until
are correct but they change the meaning
of the sentence okay
let's continue to another example so
the next example sentence is also a
little bit difficult
it's if my date doesn't arrive something
something 7 pm i'm leaving okay so here
we have we do have two actions uh
doesn't arrive my date doesn't arrive a
negative point and i'm leaving so it
seems like there are two actions here
however we have this 7 pm this marks a
deadline right so
if my date doesn't arrive there's some
deadline here
if this is not uh completed
something is going to happen the person
is going to leave so in this case 7 pm
is showing a deadline
so we have to use
buy if my date doesn't arrive until 7 pm
we could use that
but it doesn't sound so natural so
the nuance again here is of a deadline
there's something that is going to
happen uh at 7 pm 7 pm marks the end
point in this situation so we use buy
here okay
let's go to the next pair again these
are very interesting points
we have to leave the beach blah blah 10
a.m
and we have to stay at the beach blah
blah blah 10 a.m okay so these two
sentences i included because i wanted to
show the emphasis of changing actions
and continuing actions so we can see the
verbs
are different here in the first sentence
we have leave so this is a change
leaving a location in the second
sentence i have stay which shows a
continuing action stay in one place
so here as you can guess then we have to
leave the beach blah blah blah 10 a.m
some change some deadline so
we'll use bye to show our deadline
in the second sentence we have to stay
at the beach stay shows a continuing
action
and then it's going to finish here so
we'll use until we have to stay at the
beach
until
10 a.m this shows us a continuing action
and maybe at 10 a.m we'll leave the
beach
all right
uh let's go on to the next sentence i'm
not going to travel abroad blah blah
blah i learn english okay so here
there's no time point there's no 10 a.m
8 p.m
uh tomorrow and so on so this is a
little more complex maybe we have travel
abroad and learn english so it seems
there's no real
deadline here
but we have maybe a change maybe this
shows us some kind of change learning
english marks a change so
i'm not going to travel abroad until
i learn english
this shows us that something different
is going to happen in the future so we
should use until to mark that change
okay
our last example sentence for today is
we told him to wake up blah blah blah 6
a.m so once more our last sentence may
be a little bit uh simple but 6 a.m
shows us an action sort of this deadline
you can see a lot of these use a time to
mark a deadline for an action so here we
told him to wake up by 6 a.m this is the
point at which something must happen so
we should use buy here
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about
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use by or until keep in mind however
there are some cases where both by or
until are correct
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significantly depending on the one you
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ten words for connecting thoughts these
are going to be 10 words that you can
use to transition between ideas very
useful in both speech and in writing
let's
go
also
also also is a word that you can use to
add information
i went to the store this morning also i
went and got coffee
that's true
however
however however is used to contrast or
to contrast depending on your
pronunciation to
differentiate to show a difference
between two pieces of information a good
pattern would be a however
b
so
for example
i love tonkotsu ramen however it is very
high in calories so i don't eat it often
also true on the other hand on the other
hand on the other hand is i feel used
more commonly in speech than it is in
writing
again it's used to present
like two sides to a story or two sides
to some information so for example
i'm thinking about visiting taiwan
sometime this year but on the other hand
i'm also thinking about visiting
thailand
still
so it might be common to use still with
the word like but or a word like even
though so you're saying even though
there's some other factor
like um like i'm really really tired
this week or even though i have a lot of
homework to do i still want to go out
with my friends or i still want to
see a movie this weekend so there's this
other there's this thing that's maybe
makes this other action difficult to do
or tough to do or whatever
but even though
there's this you still
have this over here so maybe the two are
kind of used as a pair i still want to
go out later even though i'm tired
then
then yes a very useful word we use then
when telling stories a lot um so for
example if i could tell a story about my
morning today when i got up i brushed my
teeth and then
i
cooked breakfast then i did a little bit
of work then i took a shower
then i did some cooking blah blah blah
you'll often hear and then as well
and then i and then we and then you and
so on so then is is really really useful
for sequencing so a useful word i think
besides besides so it's commonly used in
a pattern like besides that meaning
other than something else i went out
with my friends this weekend but besides
that i didn't really do much so another
way to say that sentence is i went out
with my friends this weekend but other
than that other than that activity i
didn't do very much
okay meanwhile meanwhile or you might
hear the similar expression in the mean
time it means
while you're doing action a
at the same times maybe somewhere else
action b is happening
this is used while telling stories a lot
so for example i was working at my
office all week last week
meanwhile my co-workers across town were
having a party without me
so these two things are happening at the
same time
but maybe separate from one another
meanwhile
likewise
okay likewise i don't really use this
word personally myself at all it's often
used after an introduction
um
similar to the pleasure is all mine in a
formal situation so
maybe somebody says you know hey it was
really great to see you last weekend
thanks very much for coming to my
barbecue you can say yeah likewise it
was really good to see you in your
family so likewise means i have the same
feeling or i have the same idea it's
kind of a friendly phrase but personally
i don't really use that to transition
between thoughts
um i would just use and i suppose but
no
that's how i would use it
instead
instead so
so instead it's used like instead of i
want to
a instead of be
can be used to express your plans or
what you want to do i want to have
chinese food instead of italian food
tonight so you're presenting two
alternatives essentially so instead of
means in place of or as a substitute for
so
i
should have drank a lot of water
this morning but instead i drank a lot
of coffee
that's true
uh i wanted to
have dinner with my friends this weekend
instead i had dinner at home
in addition in addition this is a really
good word for more formal situations i
like to use in addition in writing i
don't really use in addition in speaking
unless i'm trying to be very formal for
some reason
similar to additionally as well so you
make point a and point b and then when
you want to make one more point that's
related to point a and point b you can
say in addition point c so you're like
building an argument and in addition can
be used to kind of finish that argument
off a little bit our new marketing plan
worked really well last month we noticed
increased sales in product a in addition
uh we've gained a lot of new customers
something like that so just you're
quickly presenting a series of ideas
that are related to one another you can
use in addition to finish it off 20
words you'll need for the beach let's go
sunglasses the first word is sunglasses
sunglasses are those dark glasses that
you wear on your face when it's bright
outside in a sentence i forgot my
sunglasses hold on i forgot my
sunglasses beach
beach is the place near the ocean you
might have a beach in your city or in
your country
the beach is usually visited in the
summer time
the image is lots of sun you can get a
tan you can get a sunburn
but it's usually a fun place to spend
time with family and friends in a
sentence i'm going to the beach with my
friends this weekend i'm so excited in
this sentence she walked along the beach
swimming
the next word is swimming swimming is of
course a popular activity to do at the
beach i go swimming at the beach every
summer or in this sentence be very
careful when swimming in the pacific
ocean
it might be shocks
sun
sun is that big bright thing in the sky
that will make your skin change color if
you stay in it for too long
so the sun um
in a sentence
the sun is really bright let's get out
of the sun
palm tree the next word is palm tree so
palm trees are
our type of tree they're usually seen in
like tropical places like hawaii has
palm trees any place close to the
equator then the middle line of the
earth uh i think that's where palm trees
tend to grow it's kind of an image of
the beach
so palm trees
there are a lot of palm trees near the
beach in california
that palm tree is almost 60 feet tall
seashell
the next word is seashell seashell are
those little
objects you find on the beach like in
the sand or in the water in some cases
they're like
shells from like clams or maybe oysters
sometimes too depending on what you
consider a seashell but if you break the
word down it's sea and shell so like
something from the ocean and the shell
or like the covering the outside of
something so usually a small creature a
small animal has lived inside the
seashell
and then you can collect them and i
don't know look at them or make
something from them little kids like to
collect them i used to collect seashells
when i was a kid oh my gosh look at this
example sentence it says it's bad luck
to take seashells from the beach
oops
swimsuit swimsuit is the
clothing you wear to swim in your
swimming suit there are men's swimsuits
women's swimsuits usually men's
swimsuits are like
shorts board shorts or i suppose there's
the what like speedo makes like the
men's swimsuits as well the really small
ones and then for women they have a one
piece swimsuits they have and then they
have bikini swimsuits the two-piece
swimsuit so in a sentence i
hate swimsuit shopping in this sentence
i need a new swimsuit this summer ocean
the next word is ocean ocean is the big
blue the big water the big
deep blue sea in a sentence the ocean is
so beautiful at night in this sentence
he dipped his feet in the ocean
lifeguard
lifeguard a lifeguard is a person at the
beach life guard so someone who guards
lives if someone gets into trouble in
the water they start to drown or they
start to have trouble if there's an
accident at the beach the lifeguard at
the beach is responsible for handling
that problem so they'll call an
ambulance or they know how to do first
aid to save people
so in a sentence it's important to go to
beaches where there are lifeguards
available if you need help in this
sentence uh there isn't a lifeguard on
duty here
jet ski next word is jet ski a jet ski
is a like a water motorcycle you can
ride around it on with your friends
alone riding jet skis is a lot of fun
in the sentence if you have a driver's
license you can drive a jet ski beach
towel the next expression is beach towel
beach towel beach towel is different
from regular towel because usually beach
towels have like a bright color a bright
pattern or
there are towels that you don't mind or
towels that are okay to get sand or dirt
in them usually in a towel you use in
your house you don't want to get your
towel really really dirty so a beach
towel is a towel you use only at the
beach in a sentence
i bought a new beach towel and it has a
picture of a
hamburger on it in this sentence oh no i
got sand all over my beach towel that's
the point of beach towel
beach chair the next expression is beach
chair as you can probably guess it is a
chair you use only at the beach so again
this is a chair you don't mind it's okay
if it gets dirty or sandy usually a
beach chair is easy to fold or easy to
carry too
in a sentence
i have a couple of beach chairs that i'm
going to bring to the barbecue this
weekend in this sentence can we use
these beach chairs
sand castle the next word is sand
castles 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 tide the next word is tide tide
is the level of the water the the level
of the ocean water at different times of
day so if you are interested in this
sort of thing you might know about high
tide and low tide high tide means the
water level at the beach is high low
tide means the water level at the beach
is low so tide is
how high or low the water is in this
sentence uh the tide ebbed and revealed
a starfish ebbed means it went away a
little bit so tide is the flow of water
tan
so tan is uh
we use it as a noun like to get a tan in
a sentence it means that your skin turns
a darker color so um be careful there
are two words we use in english tan
means your skin gets a little bit darker
and we also use the word sun burn or
just burn
burn means your skin gets red it means
like it's damaged it maybe your skin
peels a bit so
in america anyway in the u.s anyway a
tan is usually considered a positive
thing many people want uh tan skin but
sun burn where your skin is red and
damaged is bad so be careful those are
two different words we use to talk about
this the changing skin color i got a tan
last summer at the beach in this
sentence you got such a nice tan in
florida snorkeling the next word is
snorkeling snorkeling is really really
fun snorkeling is swimming but you have
a like a hose you have a pipe
that you can breathe through as you swim
so you can you usually put goggles you
wear goggles as you're swimming in the
ocean you can look down and see fish or
you can see things in the ocean but you
can still breathe so this is a really
fun thing to do to look at fish or just
to just to hang out and see a different
point of view i went snorkeling for the
first time maybe when i was 22 23. in
this sentence she bought goggles so that
she could go snorkeling in hawaii
flip-flop the next word is flip-flop
flip-flop
is a very common beach sandal many
people like to wear flip-flops in
everyday life too some people prefer not
to it's up to you
like in california i know especially in
beach towns everybody just wears
flip-flops it's very comfortable
so flip-flops kind of have an image of
being a little bit cheap or just very
very simple it's it's the most basic
possible sandal why are they called flip
flops because i always thought it was
because of the sound that they make
sound i guess maybe it sounds like
flip-flop in a sentence i usually don't
wear flip-flops in this sentence these
flip-flops keep breaking
sunscreen next word is sunscreen
sunscreen or you might also hear sun
block these are
products you can put on your skin to
prevent
a tan or to prevent a sunburn
sun screen so it's a protection it's a
protection against the sunlight i just
hit this screen so sunscreen is
quite important like it is said that you
should use sunscreen to prevent to help
prevent skin cancer in a sentence i'm
out of sunscreen i need to buy more in
this sentence mom i don't need sunscreen
bikini
the next word is bikini bikini we talked
about um swimsuit a little bit earlier
but bikini is usually a swimsuit for
women and it's
two pieces there's a bottom half and an
upper half and oftentimes the the top
half of the bikini or sometimes the
bottom half you have to tie a knot or
you have to latch something i suppose if
you don't tie it carefully it can create
a problem like it could fall off so
bikini it's a popular style of swimsuit
for women are you going to wear your
bikini to the beach tomorrow in this
sentence my bikini came undone in front
of everyone it was so embarrassing five
sentence patterns that you can use as a
beginner of english let's go the first
expression that you can use as a
beginner is 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 edit 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
dinosaur
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 guy 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
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 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
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
you can use this in two ways but this
must be completed with a noun phrase at
the end of the sentence 10 things to do
in the summer in the united states so
let's go to travel abroad to travel
abroad to travel abroad abroad means
outside of your country so meaning to
travel to a place not the united states
in my case please don't forget to in
this expression so many of my students
will say this
summer i'm going europe you need to use
two before the place you do not however
need to use two before there so like
students sometimes will say uh i want to
go to there you can't do that you have
to use two before the specific name of a
place there is not a specific place so
you don't need to use two keep that one
in mind to relax at the beach
to relax at the beach ah that sounds
fantastic right now to relax at the
beach you go to the beach and you just
relax there you lay in the sun you go
swimming maybe you drink a beer you get
a tan if you would like to do that of
course some people don't you put on
sunscreen whatever it is that you like
to do at the beach you just do that and
enjoy in a sentence i would rather relax
at the beach than have a really active
vacation
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to have a barbecue oh yeah the next one
is one of my favorite things ever to do
in summer wherever i am it's to have a
barbecue or to have a bbq is also okay
but barbecue usually bbq is in like
writing i love having barbecues with my
friends in the summer every fourth of
july my family has a big barbecue
to party all night the next expression
is to party all night to party all night
you don't it doesn't have to be summer
or the united states to party all night
just saying
anyway to party all night means to do
something you enjoy presumably with your
friends or not i guess i've partied like
all night at home tweeted pajamas are
the best and then i tweeted a picture of
myself really excited about a cookie and
was very embarrassed about that the next
day so i deleted it in the morning since
i won't have school in the morning i'm
going to party all night in a different
sentence i don't like partying all night
i get tired
i always hit a wall at like three a.m
like i'm like yay and then three a.m i'm
like i'm running to sleep to get a tan
to get a tan to get a tan
in some cultures this is a good thing in
some cultures it's not a good thing it
means to sit in the sun or lay in the
sun and let the sun
change the color of your skin be careful
there's there are two expressions in
english there is one to get a tan and
another is to get a sun burn so in us
culture anyway getting a tan means like
your skin turns like a darker brown
color but when it turns red it's bad
that means you've burned your skin so
tan good burn bad so we'd have two
separate words to describe that in a
sentence you'll find me poolside getting
a tan
to go hiking the next expression is to
go hiking so hiking means walking or
trekking usually in a mountain or in a
nature setting so in a sentence i used
to go hiking with my family every summer
that's roughly true
in this sentence i'm going to hike the
pacific crest trail
to work a part-time job the next
expression is to work a part-time job to
work a part-time job is very common if
you're a student especially so when you
have your summer vacation it's a chance
for you to earn a little bit of money by
working at a part-time job
in a sentence unfortunately she can't go
because she has to work at her part-time
job when i was
a teenager i had a part-time job at a
golf course
yeah because i was on the golf team at
school very convenient lovely
experiences
a plus everybody
to have fun with friends
to have fun with friends also something
that you do not need to only do in
summer but which you can do
anytime we're having fun now aren't we
hey
so to have fun with friends is just to
enjoy time with your friends it's great
uh in a sentence i love having fun with
my friends whenever i can he has fun
with friends but he doesn't do much else
to attend summer school the next one is
to attend summer school to attend summer
school usually has kind of a bad image
in i feel in you in the u.s anyway
because it sounds like maybe you missed
something in regular school
but for some people maybe there's a
special course they want to attend or
like a special internship program or
just something special extra that they
would like to study in a sentence
i hated going to summer school when i
was a kid since i failed the class i'll
have to attend summer school 20 must
know family words so let's go mother
mother is the person who gave birth to
you mother you can say mom mother mom
mama mommy uh my mother has amazing
cooking it's true
father father father is the person who
did not give birth to you but who
helped make you happen
so we say father dad daddy paw pop my
father is a very level-headed person
that's also true sister sister is a
female sibling so my brother might say i
have an older sister anyone who is
yeah
a female sibling or someone you can use
this for friends that you feel very very
close to like she's like my sister
that's fine as well brother brother we
sometimes use bro for this uh i would
say i have a younger brother
like sister you can use brother for any
male that you feel is similar to a
brother someone you feel very close to
so he's like a brother to me or you're
like my brother grandmother grandmother
when you put grand plus something else
it means the next generation or the the
previous generation so you have your
mother and father in this case grand
mother means your mother or your
father's uh mother it can be either of
them so grandmother my grandmother was
born a long time ago
grandfather grandfather so just like
grandmother
your mother or your father's father is
your grandfather my grandfather liked to
play tennis that's true uncle uncle your
uncle is either your mother or your
father's brother someone uh directly
related to one of your parents who is a
man is your uncle uh my uncle is very
good with woodworking also true
aunt
aunt you might also hear aunt both of
them are correct you can say aunt or
aunt an aunt or an aunt is your mother
or your father's female sibling one of
my aunts gave me a stamp collection when
i was a little kid that's also true
cousin cousin a cousin
is
your aunt or uncle's children it can be
on any side so typically these people
are of the same generation as you not
always but cousins are generally about
the same age at least in my family they
are it's really fun to see all my
cousins at family barbecues nephew
nephew a nephew is a sibling's
male child so if you have a brother or a
sister and they have children any male
children are your nephews nephews
i don't have any nephews
niece
niece niece so your brother or your
sister's female children
any female children they have you can
say she's my niece or i have two nieces
how many nieces do you have or i have a
lot of nieces
wife
wife so this is a
female partner that you are married to
she is my wife or how is your wife wife
is only used when you are married to
that person husband husband is a male
that someone is married to so uh
how is your husband this is my husband
again husband is only used when you are
married to that person
parent parent parent it's typically used
generally for a mother or a father like
i'm a parent he is my parent she is my
parent
it's often used in the plural they are
my parents these are my parents my
parents are home my parents are not at
home
but you can also use parent to describe
someone who raised you so maybe your
biological mother or father did not
raise you but someone else like an aunt
or an uncle or perhaps a different
figure in your community did raise you
you can say she's like a parent to me or
she had a parenting role in my life
child child child is a
a small human a small human as a child
it doesn't necessarily have to be of
your family like if you're just at the
park and you see kids running around you
can say ah look at that child you can
use a child in the singular but be
careful child changes in the plural form
to children so not childs but children
one child two children please be careful
this has an irregular plural form maybe
i'll have a child someday son
son is a male child a male offspring
my
uncle has a lot of sons that's not true
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
my partner's father so my father-in-law
is very kind
mother-in-law
mother-in-law meaning my partner's
mother in a sentence my mother-in-law
and i get along really well
hi everybody my name is alicia today i'm
going to be talking about the simple
future tense today i'm going to talk
about will and won't and going to and
not going to so these are a few grammar
points that learners make mistakes with
when should you use will or won't when
should you use going to or not going to
so i'm going to talk about a few of
these points a few basic points that i
hope can help you decide when to use
will and when to use going to so let's
begin
okay
the first point i want to talk about is
going to or not going to uh the positive
form and the negative form going to not
going to
uh for today i want to talk about two
times when we'll use these grammar
points so the first time uh the first
situation where you use going to or not
going to is for plans decided before the
conversation so if you make a decision
about your future plans or someone else
makes the decision before the
conversation about their plans for the
future you should use going to or not
going to
it's something that is probably going to
happen a high certainty
so this is a plan that has a high level
of certainty meaning there's a good
chance this plan is going to happen you
decided it before the conversation
meaning you've probably had some time to
plan uh your future to plan your
schedule a little bit so please use
going to for something you decide before
the conversation so on a timeline it
might look like this we have past
now and future here
so your plan is for the future yes
but
you decided
on the plan sometime before the
conversation so if this point this is
now this is your conversation you made
the plan you made the decision before
the conversation in this case
use going to i'm going to at the
beginning of this video i said i'm going
to talk about simple future tense will
and going to i decided before this video
started
about my plans i decided what i was
going to talk to you about before the
video started so i used going to to
introduce that plan
uh so please keep this in mind okay but
let's talk about will now so
we use will and won't for decisions that
are made at the moment of speaking
so keep in mind will is the positive
form won't is the negative form here so
a decision made at the moment of
speaking this is one way to use will or
won't
you can use this for example at
restaurants you can use this to talk
about plans you make quickly after
learning information from a friend keep
in mind will and won't
tends to have a lower certainty there's
a lower chance the plan is going to
happen
because you've made the plan at the
moment of speaking going to is used for
plans made before the conversation but
will is used for a plan made spur of the
moment or a very quick plan you've just
made so that's kind of the image is the
decision you just made
use will or use won't in those cases if
you made the decision before the
conversation there's a good chance you
should use going to
so
to go back to our timeline here if going
to is used for a decision you made in
the past about your future plans
will
is used for a decision
you make in the conversation during the
conversation the plan
can be any time in the future
but the decision
the point at which you make the decision
is the difference here
one point about this two points about
this actually first will
if you've made a decision at the moment
of speaking and you therefore should use
will to communicate that decision you
can improve or you can communicate that
there's a high chance
it's going to happen with the word
probably
so
here
i'll show you this in an example
sentence in a moment but you can use
probably with will and won't i'll
probably i probably won't remember that
order though i'll probably or i probably
will or probably won't
point number two i want to mention about
both of these grammar points is to make
your pronunciation a little more natural
try shortening both of these expressions
going to shortens to gona g-o-n-n-a
gonna i'm gonna i'm not gonna this
sounds much more natural at least than
american english
for will and for won't
when you use will use the contracted
form with your subject for example i
will becomes isle you will becomes yule
they will becomes veil using the
contracted form sounds a lot more
natural in everyday conversation it's
correct to say you will they will but it
sounds really stiff and unnatural so
please use the contracted form to sound
a bit more natural you can use the
contracted form with probably for will
i'll probably they'll probably wheel
probably these are all
pretty good okay so let's practice using
them
all right
first example sentence maybe something
something go hiking tomorrow so how do
we know
is this a will sentence or a going-to
sentence we have a hint here maybe maybe
so meaning there's a low level of
certainty perhaps a low chance that this
is going to happen so
let's say maybe
i'll go hiking tomorrow this is probably
the best answer maybe i'm going to
while you can communicate the idea yes
it sounds like you decided your plan
before the conversation
but you're using maybe so it doesn't
quite match instead use aisle maybe i'll
go hiking tomorrow
okay
let's look at the next sentence i'm
there's a big hint here a grammar hint
i'm something something go to france
next year so next year this go to france
next year this is a pretty big decision
most people probably
would not make this decision at the
moment of speaking so we should use
going to
i'm going to go to france next year this
is the correct
use of going to in this case a decision
made before the moment of speaking and
there's a high level of certainty here
okay
uh let's look at the next one i decided
here's a hint past tense decided if you
watched a different video
oops i decided
that i'm something something go out for
dinner i'm too tired okay so past tense
this shows us a big hint past tense
decided
this implies the decision was made
before the conversation
so i'm something something go out for
dinner i'm too tired here's another hint
so go out for dinner and too tired
this should probably be
i'm not
going
to go out for dinner i'm too tired
so this person has decided
i'm not going to go out for dinner we
should use going to the negative not
going to because the speaker made the
decision before the conversation happen
and there's a high level of certainty
there's a high chance that this is going
to happen so we should use going to in
this sentence okay
okay so the next sentence i included
because i think it's a really good one
to remember anytime you visit a bar a
restaurant some kind of service
situation you can use this pattern
specifically to make a request for
something so let's take a look
here my example sentence is i something
something have a glass of wine please in
this case maybe it's at a restaurant or
at a bar
but in this case you've just made the
decision looking at the menu
looking at a catalog looking at
something
you made a decision
just then at that moment and you're
asking for that item you're asking for
that service so
we'll use
will i'll have a glass of wine please
so in this example sentence i used glass
of wine to show my request to ask for a
glass of wine but if you want to use
this pattern to make a request in a
service situation just replace glass of
wine with the item or service that you
would like so for example i'll have a
beer i'll have a steak i'll have a
hamburger these are all things you can
order at a restaurant or at a bar
if you're shopping you can say i'll have
the blue one please for example so just
make your request
using the same pattern but replacing
that glass of wine section that i used
in my example sentence
okay next one uh this one is maybe a
little bit challenging uh it's you're
running late so you something something
have to take a taxi to your next meeting
so maybe this is an assistant or someone
supporting another person with their
schedule
okay so in the next sentence we're
looking at a situation where there's
been a sudden or quick change to a
schedule someone is running late and
there's a new decision that's made at
the moment of speaking or a new decision
is made to reflect the new situation so
let's take a look
you're running late so
you'll
or you will
have to take a taxi
you could say uh you're running late so
you have to take a taxi but maybe this
is a future plan something that's going
to happen in an hour from now maybe this
is something
the speaker is planning for
later in the day so you will is a nice
way to use that you're running late so
you'll have to take a taxi
to the next meeting okay
the last one i want to talk about this
uses probably which i mentioned over
here so probably remember we can use
probably to sort of improve or we can
use probably to communicate a higher
level of certainty with the decision we
made at the moment of speaking so
here
you're not going to the party then i
probably something something go either
okay so either is a big hint here
remember we use either to show agreement
but negative
okay so in the last example sentence for
today we're going to look at a situation
where the listener has heard some new
information they use the expression
you're not going to go to the party so
they're confirming new information they
have just heard
after that they're going to make a
decision about what their plans are for
the party so let's take a look
we know that probably
can be used with will and won't
and we know
from then
the speaker just made this decision
and we know it's a negative with either
so
we should use
won't
you're not going to go to the party
then i probably won't go either
so the speaker uses uh won't hear to
show a decision made at the moment of
speaking but the speaker also uses
probably won't to show there's a high
chance that this is going to happen
there's a high chance that this is the
future plan probably won't okay so
there's a lot of information
communicated there with small words like
then and either and probably as well so
please keep this in mind when you're
trying to decide when to use will won't
going to and not going to okay
so
uh so that's my recap of a few useful
grammar points how to talk about your
future tense plans
so i'm going to finish the lesson now
i hope that you enjoyed this lesson if
you have any questions please feel free
to leave it in a comment or if you want
to try out a few practice sentences
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hi everybody my name is alicia today
we're going to be talking about simple
past tense we're going to talk about how
to make simple past tense statements in
english so let's get started okay
so first let's talk about when we should
use the simple past tense simple past
tense statements for today
are for actions that started and ended
in the past so these are things that
both started or began and ended in the
past both of those must be true to use
simple past tense
the second point for today is these are
actions which happened at a specific
point in time so a specific point in
time can be yesterday it can be
an hour ago it can be last year it can
be when you were a kid all of these are
a specific point in time but the key is
that we know when the action happened so
a specific point in time is point two
for this grammar point
third uh we can use simple past tense
for repeated actions in the past so
things you did every week or every month
or every year every summer every hour if
you like but one point about this
make sure to include a frequency
indicator if you want to talk about an
action that repeated in the past
frequency indicator
for example i just mentioned a few every
week every month every year so frequency
meaning how often an indicator shows how
often you did that so you can use
repeated actions with past tense to show
let's see something you did a lot in the
past for example so to give you a visual
uh
the past is down here now is this point
here and future is up here
when we use the simple past tense it's
an action that started
and ended
in the past somewhere before now that's
one
it's at a specific point in time so this
action and this action we know when they
happened it could be this morning it
could be
yesterday for example but we know when
these actions happen
third we can use for repeated action so
maybe these actions repeat
but we know
when the repetition happened we know
when we repeated these actions so it's
okay to use simple past tense to
describe those okay
so now we know uh when we should use
simple past tense we know why we should
use simple past tense but how do we make
simple past tense statements so when you
want to use the simple past tense to
explain an action that happened in the
past you need to conjugate your verb you
need to change your verb so that means
when you're using a regular verb you do
verb plus ed so verb plus e d is the
basic form for simple past tense verbs
uh but keep in mind this is only for
regular verbs not all verbs are regular
verbs so for example some common ones
are talk which becomes talked
start which becomes started and enjoy
which becomes enjoyed please be careful
however you'll notice that the past
tense form of verbs has a few different
pronunciations so for example start
becomes started it has an id sound it's
not an ed sound but an id sound you
might hear a word like walked also which
has a sort of t sound about it walk
becomes walked started becomes started
and id sound and then there's also a
sound like in breathed a very soft d
sound so there are three past tense verb
sounds to listen for an id sound started
a soft d sound like breathed and then a
more hard t sound like walked so pay
attention to that when you're trying to
make these past tense verb conjugations
okay
but
some verbs are irregular verbs irregular
verbs do not have a simple rule for
understanding past tense conjugation how
to change them in past tense there's no
rule for these you simply have to
practice you have to remember them read
them listen to them
until you can remember the correct
conjugation the correct way to change
these verbs into the past tense so for
example some common ones are eat which
becomes eight
speak becomes spoke and make becomes
made
if you see a verb somewhere that that
seems a little odd or you're not sure
what the present tense form would be you
can check a dictionary and try to
remember it from there so
now we've talked about simple past tense
irregular and regular verbs let's try to
use them to make some sentences i
prepared a few example sentences so
let's take a look
okay first sentence he something
something a towel and sunglasses to the
beach so the verb here is bring i want
to use the verb bring
bring however is an irregular verb so i
can't use the ed rule for regular verbs
the correct conjugation is brought
b-r-o-u
g-h-t he brought a towel and sunglasses
to the beach this is the correct
conjugation here so bring is an
irregular verb
okay
let's go to the next sentence they
something something to the gym every day
last week so here i'm showing you a
repeated action here i'm using everyday
this is a frequency indicator how often
did i do that action and last week shows
the specific point in time so i'm using
both of these two points in addition to
a simple past the basic simple past
structure here so the verb that we want
to use here is go but go is an irregular
verb so we can't use goad for example go
changes to went in the past tense so
went is the correct answer for this
sentence here okay
let's try the next one
i something something to tell my boss
about my schedule
so the verb i want to use here is forget
forget is a very useful word i think to
remember but again forget is not a
regular verb forget is an irregular verb
so we cannot use the ed form forget in
the past tense becomes forgot
okay
so i forgot to tell my boss about my
schedule it's the correct sentence here
all right let's go to something a little
bit different uh here's a negative
sentence i don't think they something
something a reservation at the
restaurant okay so here i'm using a
phrase i want to use the phrase make a
reservation to make a reservation so the
verb here is make this was one of my
example verbs for the irregular form so
make becomes made i don't think
they made
a reservation at the restaurant is the
correct verb form to use here all right
uh the next sentence we something
something junk food almost every day
last month so here again i have uh every
day
but i have almost here so almost every
day not every day but close to every day
and then last month last month is my
specific point in time in this case so
here we have junk food that means that
the verb we want to use is probably eat
and we learn that eat
is an irregular verb there's no rule for
conjugating this we just know that eat
becomes eight we ate junk food almost
every day last month
great okay
so next sentence
has two spaces for verbs actually okay
so the next sentence that i've prepared
i included because a lot of my students
ask about how to report information when
you want to report information share
something that you heard from a friend a
past tense action you need to conjugate
the reporting verb for example say
becomes said or hear becomes heard you
need to conjugate this verb and you need
to conjugate the information that you
heard so there are two past tense
conjugations that should happen when you
report information let's take a look so
here we have she something something she
something something a great time at the
party so here
she blah blah blah a great time at the
party
so we use the expression to have a great
time to have a great time again have is
an irregular verb so we conjugate it to
had she had
a great time at the party okay
but then to report your speech so
someone
gave you information past tense give
becomes gave you information
so the verb for giving information a
neutral way to pass information is say
so
to conjugate say into the past tense
it's an irregular verb so we use sed say
becomes said so
she
said
she had a great time at the party okay
please be careful of your pronunciation
with the word said a lot of people i've
heard use said say it is not correct so
please use sed it sounds like s-e-d the
pronunciation
but it's said s-a-i-d is the spelling
say becomes said she said she had a
great time at the party okay
so last one
okay so the last example sentence for
today includes spaces for a few
different verbs i included this because
i wanted to show you that you can use a
lot of different information in one
sentence just by connecting your past
tense verbs together so let's take a
look
okay yesterday i something something
late something something shocking and
something something to my mother okay
so the verbs i want to use for this
sentence are sleep go and speak sleep go
and speak these are all
irregular verbs there are no regular
verbs in this sentence so
sleep in past tense becomes slept
go in past tense becomes went
and speak in past tense becomes spoke
so here in one sentence i have i have
explained three things about my day
yesterday
uh yesterday i slept late i went
shopping and i spoke to my mother so you
can explain a lot of things with past
tense and a few connecting words in this
case i've just used and to connect the
last two things in this sentence so
please keep this in mind when you're
sharing information about your past
events
so today we talked about the simple past
tense and we talked about how to
conjugate both regular and irregular
verbs it might seem a little bit
difficult to understand which verbs are
regular and which verbs are irregular
but with some practice it will become
easier so i hope that you enjoyed this
video if you have any questions or
comments please be sure to leave us a
comment and let us know also please be
sure to like this video and subscribe to
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why isn't the jurassic park fans coming
out hi everybody my name is alicia and
today we're going to be talking about 15
questions that you should know so these
are 15 questions that not necessarily
you need to know how to ask them perhaps
you know some of the questions already
but you will probably also hear these
questions as well so we'll practice a
few different answers for these
questions too
so
let's get started do you like american
food the first question is do you like
american food you will probably be asked
this question do you like american food
you can either say yes or no
or you can give a specific example
someone says do you like american food
yes i love philly cheesesteaks i would
recommend saying
yes or a little
or
or or you can just say i don't know what
do you recommend
have you been to the united states the
next question is have you been to the
united states have you been to the
united states so someone asks you have
you been to the united states you should
reply with either yes i have or no i
haven't or maybe no i haven't yet but i
want to when you want to ask someone
this question you can say have you been
to japan have you been to egypt have you
been to china whatever you can use your
own country when you ask this question
how are you how are you when someone
asks how are you
don't say i'm fine thank you and you
please don't say that please say
something more natural like good
great i'm good how are you something
like that is much better than i'm going
thank you and you be a little more
genuine in your reply also when you ask
this question maybe one point to help
you sound a little more natural when you
ask someone else don't like try to say
how are you how are you instead of how
are you or
and make make sure your intonation is
correct i've had a few people ask me uh
how are you like a little too
yeah with this question or like how are
you but how are you should be the
intonation with this how are you how are
you is a little bit more natural
how long have you been studying english
great question to know the answer to
your answer should be i have been
studying english for blah blah blah
years or blah blah blah months or blah
blah weeks but if that's too much for
you you can just use the time how long
have you been studying english six years
how long have you been studying english
two months so just pick the time uh if
if the whole sentence is quite long for
you
how old are you we don't really go
around asking people how old they are
like just the first time you meet them
necessarily especially if they're older
much older than you like in particular
it's sometimes considered rude to ask
especially women how old they are so
just be careful with this question
but if you're about the same age group
you know maybe you're at an event or a
party or something and you just want to
check how old the other person is you
can use this phrase when you reply to
this just say
uh i'm plus the number to make a really
simple response so how old are you i'm
15 how old are you i'm 42. whatever the
answer is just stick i'm in front of it
not i but i'm i am but use the
contracted form to sound more natural
i'm number if you want to make a full
sentence you can say i'm number years
old don't forget that s in years i'm
a million years old what did you say
what did you say if you couldn't quite
hear something that someone else said
you can use this question to confirm
sorry what did you say it's a little
nicer than just saying what
what did you say or what did you just
say sorry what did you say i couldn't
hear you
what's this
what's this when you don't know what
something is what's this when you're out
for dinner you're out for lunch or
something and you find a new food or you
just you're curious just say what's this
to reply to this question just say it's
blah blah blah what's your name what's
your name of course you should know how
to ask this question and how to answer
this question what's your name is a
little more natural than what is your
name
again contracted form will help you
sound much more natural so what's your
name someone asks you you can just give
your name alicia that's fine you can say
alicia you can say i'm alicia that's
fine too you could say my name is or my
name's alicia
either any of those are fine in a more
formal situation a business situation i
would i would use my name is blah blah
blah while i shake hands or something
what's your phone number the next one is
what's your phone number i would not ask
this question right away like maybe
you've met the person a few times but
you'd like to contact them whether it's
because you're romantically interested
in them or because you want to be better
friends with them but just
if you meet someone for the first time
and you're like what's your phone number
it's like a little
it's a little too much so use this
question after you've met the person a
few times and you know you want to
become better friends when you want to
give your phone number just say it's and
the number that's fine just it's blah
blah blah or my phone number is blah
blah blah with the number 555 one
million and five two six
when is your birthday so maybe you wanna
plan a birthday party for example or
it's just another fun question the first
time you meet someone when is your
birthday so when you want to tell
someone your birthday just give the
month and the date
january 15th august
42nd
that's a real day if you want to make a
full sentence you can say my birthday is
month date
where are you from the next word the
next question is where are you from this
can refer to your country or your city
but i i feel like prob more stuff and it
refers to your country so where are you
from your answer should be i'm from
place i'm from china i'm from japan i'm
from vietnam i'm from america whatever
i'm from
where did you learn english the next
question is where did you learn english
where did you learn english if you're
speaking great english you can say i
learned english at englishclass101.com
because you did because you're watching
now
anyway where did you learn english in
this case in the case of like these
videos i learned english online or i
learned english from
and then the school name or the program
name so i learned english from
englishclass101.com for example if you
studied english at university you can
say i learned english at university or i
learned english from my friends perhaps
where do you live where do you live
depending on the situation where you're
asked this this can mean your country
like uh i live in america i live in
china sometimes it's about the place in
the city where you live sometimes it's
about the country where you live so you
can kind of feel i think which question
which type of question is being asked
where do you work where do you work is
talking about your job you can use the
pattern i work at company name or i work
for
company name either is fine i work at
abc company i work for abc company
either is okay but you know if if you
have answered with the wrong information
the other person will just ask you like
oh i mean where is your office or oh i
mean which company do you work for use
the force for this one
where is the bathroom where is the
bathroom very important question where
is the bathroom in american english
where is the bathroom or where is the
restroom is more common than where is
the toilet using the word toilet is a
little bit too direct in american
english so i recommend bathroom or
restroom so those are 15 questions that
you should definitely know know how to
ask these questions and know how to
answer these questions they are very
useful
and very important for everyday
conversation
thanks very much for joining us thank
you very much for um subscribing if you
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did you know my birthday is january 15th
before you said that no is it really
is it really yeah
thunderdome in my stomach
that's going at the end of a video i'm
sure
hi everybody my name is alicia and today
i'm joined again in the studio by
michael hello and today we're going to
be talking about bad habits in english
so these are some things that we've
heard before or mistakes that native
speakers and non-native speakers of
english make and that drive us crazy so
let us
begin
you start what's your first
thing um this doesn't bug me too much
until
someone points it out about me and then
it drives me nuts
yeah okay once you tell someone that
they say
um
or like
too much then every time they say it
they notice it and it's really hard to
get a thought out because these are
filler words that you almost always use
or i always use maybe americans always
use but
it's yeah it's really tough not to use
the word like or um i think when you're
just speaking casually right
yeah right well yeah i mean like
right now see why did you have to make
it the first word why did you have to
make it the first one actually we talked
about that we have a video i think
probably like a year ago one of the
english weekly words videos where uh the
word like was one of the words that
americans overuse uh i don't i don't
know where that information came from
but um that was see oh my god now i'm
suddenly aware of it why oh my god
this whole thing i'm gonna be thinking
about how often i say liking them okay
let's see i'm gonna go to one that i
think all of us talked about and all of
us were aware of before we even turned
the camera on but um this is a this one
is written this is a written problem
that drives me nuts and there are so
many variations on this with other words
but this is the big one your y-o-u-r
this is a do not equal sign y-o-u
apostrophe r-e so this one your y-o-u-r
is a possessive word this is your shirt
your bag your whatever
y-o-u-apostrophe-r-e
is a contracted form of u-r
interestingly enough though i will say
that i rarely see non-native speakers of
english make this mistake most of the
time it's native speakers who make this
mistake
come on guys
really
i just it just drives me nuts yeah that
one really drives me nuts that one bugs
me too because it's it's really simple i
mean there's another one that still kind
of bugs me but i'm more forgiving is
it's and it's
because they're both
i-t-s
and one of them has an apostrophe and in
both cases
it seems reasonable because you can use
an apostrophe for possessive or for a
contraction so both seem reasonable and
you just have to do like you know
mnemonic device figure it out there's
rules i'm sure there's a
you know english language english class
101 episode on it you know no apostrophe
is the one that's the possessive the
apostrophe s is the one that's stored
for it has or it is
right
but it makes sense it's kind of tough
for some people to remember um
you or you're in your that that really
upsets me yeah just because it's so easy
it's simple that and uh there we talked
about this earlier before this that
they're there and there the possessive
t-h-e-i-r
for that's their house that's their dog
t-h-e-r-e it's over there and t-h-e-y
apostrophe-r-e they are they're three
different there there theirs sound the
same but they have different meanings
and they should be spelled differently
too so come on native speakers
get us together
okay all right next one for you what's
your next one
ah along the same lines of being uh just
like correct
could of so i think the problem with a
lot of these words
is so it's supposed to be could have
but when you're speaking the language
any language you you make it quicker and
quicker and you kind of slur the words
together so like for example grandma
or grandma you like native speakers you
don't really say the d you say grandma
grandma and so as a kid i thought that's
how you spelled it and i remember
spelling g-r-a-m-m-a
someone told me no that's not it
so could have it makes sense why people
would say could've but it doesn't it's
not proper and you shouldn't get in the
habit of doing it i think most of these
things you can be forgiving when they're
kids but it's best to to nip it in the
bud
because
you know it just becomes a bad habit
yeah and i mean with could have there is
a correct contracted spelled version
it's just could of apostrophe v e
could've i mean
i would argue that it's more casual and
it's perhaps not the most correct
thing to write i would i probably would
just write could have i probably
wouldn't use the contracted form so much
use of contractions will make you sound
more casual if you want to write a
formal letter you should i i feel you
should not use contractions if you're
writing an academic paper as well don't
use contractions
spell it out spell the whole thing out
you'll sound much more formal and more
at least in my mind more educated
all right uh great this topic is getting
me all like
fancy okay let's see i'm gonna go to
okay another another pronunciation issue
that i feel like almost is cool now
okay
let me ask you a question
this pronunciation okay so i've written
acts on this card but the it's
ask ask let me ask okay so this lemmy
which we talked about in a previous
video which is short for let me i've
contracted it here to the very casual
lemmy um but i've used lemmy here
because this is this is typically said
in a very very casual setting let me ask
you a question
but the pronunciation of ask should not
be ax it's ask let me ask you a question
i want to ask you something it's not ax
it's ask
ask yeah this one
again so like lemmy lemmy is okay i
think most people say lemmy i think
that's okay but for some reason acts i
think a lot of these just are not even
close at all let me when you say it
really fast it sounds like lemmy i mean
right but when you say
ax it's just totally wrong well it's
reversing the the consonants in the word
ask right it's not faster you're not
making it quicker you're not slurring or
making you know putting it into one
little like fluid blob
it's just you just switch the two
uh yeah syllables similarly i hear this
with the word uh asterisk as well the
little star that's on like the number
eight on your keyboard or whatever that
this looking thing it's not an asterisk
or what i don't even know it's asterisk
so
overpronunciation so this one is kind of
the opposite direction so this whole
time we've been kind of nitpicking when
you use the incorrect version of a word
i think overpronunciation can also be
equally as damaging but instead of
making you look stupid it makes you look
pretentious so for example
we don't say in english we don't use all
of the syllables with chocolate so it's
choc like when you spell it chocolate
and so like maybe in spanish or
something like that they would still say
that like chocolate or something
whatever but with english we took it out
and so even though you still spell all
of those syllables native speakers now
say chocolate chocolate or like
comfortable
comfortable that's how it's spelled but
native english speakers we say
comfortable
and this is like now it's it's
i think it's like unanimous so maybe
when it becomes when slang becomes so
popular that it's part of the new
language the language is now evolved if
you don't go with the flow even though
it's incorrect i think you sound
pretentious that's a great one i like
that a lot all right uh i'm gonna
wrap it up i have two actually i'll just
i think i can do them quickly though do
you have any more by the way
no no okay then i'll go quickly um these
are two the my last two are just a
couple that my students actually
struggle with um so maybe this this is
something that you can work on as well
um this one just an example sentence i
want to go to there i've underlined the
word to here
we use the word too when we're talking
about a specific city or a specific
country like i want to go to new york i
want to go to europe
but there is not a specific location i
want to go to there uh is is not a
specific place so we you don't need to
use two in this sentence i want to go
there it's perfectly fine so this is a
mistake that um non-native speakers it
seems seem to make from time to time
um perhaps okay uh and then another one
that i've heard a lot recently is this
phrase uh in case of and then a country
so for example in case of china in case
of egypt or whatever
where someone is trying to explain like
the political situation or a policy in
that country uh in case of in case of um
but actually you don't need to use kasib
just in china in europe in japan
whatever you don't need to use kasiv
this pattern in case of is used for like
an emergency situation or used uh to
talk about
alternate plans often to to do with
weather so for example in case of rain
the event will be cancelled or in case
of tornado please
go to your nearest evacuation center i
don't know something like that so it's
used for like an emergency situation
it's not used to talk about
policies in the countries just use in
plus the place it's much better much
more natural so those are a few things
that i've noticed that non-native
speakers uh struggle with sometimes so
perhaps they'll be helpful for you as
well so thanks very much for watching if
you have a bad habit that you've noticed
when you're speaking english or
if you've noticed a bad habit and
somebody else in their english speaking
or their writing or whatever please
leave it in a comment and let's compare
it might be interesting to see if there
are any other things that people tend to
struggle with thanks very much for
watching this episode and we will see
you again soon bye
hi everybody my name is alicia and today
we're going to be talking about 10 of
the hardest words to pronounce according
to you guys so we collected some
information from you on facebook thanks
very much for sending in your ideas and
these were the top 10 uh most difficult
words for you to pronounce so let's get
started absolutely
absolutely absolutely might be tough to
pronounce absolutely means 100
absolutely is
an agreement phrase are you going to
that music event next week absolutely
yes 100 definitely absolutely
loot like a loot l-u-t-e
big rime
the grime apparently means dirty i've
never heard nor used this word before
but perhaps it's
difficult to pronounce big grime the
door to my apartment was begrimed in the
storm last week
breakfast
the next word is breakfast breakfast is
hard to pronounce but that is the
meaning of breakfast you're breaking the
fast so a fast is a period of time
without eating and to break means to
just well in this case breaking
something it doesn't refer to like
crushing
a thing but um stopping something to
break the fast of
the night in other words so you're
fasting during the night you're not
eating so you wake up in the morning you
break the fast but we don't say
breakfast we say breakfast in a sentence
this morning for breakfast i ate
a bowl of cereal with grapes and i had a
coffee too
colleague
colleague yes colleague many of my
students struggle with this they say
colleague or they say call you
or something because the spelling of
this word is really really strange
there's that g-u-e at the end or more
commonly i feel it's just co-worker
colleague sounds slightly more formal to
me than co-worker somebody who you work
with or somebody who you have a business
relationship with in some sense could be
a person from another company could be
somebody from your own company anyone
who you do business dealings with is
your colleague can be your colleague in
a sentence i'm going
to a networking event with my colleagues
next week
miscellaneous
that misc miscellaneous it's just the
spelling i think maybe is confusing for
this word miscellaneous miscellaneous
just means
other stuff or just other uncategorized
stuff i keep a lot of miscellaneous
items in a drawer in my house maybe they
don't they don't really fit into one
category like it's not kitchen things
it's not clothing it's just sort of a
mixture of of things miscellaneous
things negotiation the next word is
negotiation negotiation yeah there are
two t's in this but neither t is a hard
t they're both very soft that sh sound
because they're followed by the i and
another vowel that she
a
negotiation negotiation refers to a
compromise between two people you're
trying to make a decision and you
negotiate in this case it's a noun form
negotiation business negotiations
continued for more than a month with
this important deal
realm
realm i see why this one's hard it's
that rome part little
realm it's a weird word isn't it it's
used to talk about just like the kind of
a fantasy world is sort of the nuance of
this phrase the realm uh in a sentence
let us go to the realm where the
elves live and eat their bread
unfortunately the next word is
unfortunately unfortunately
unfortunately it just means too bad uh
you can use this to to start bad news
for example like unfortunately i can't
come to work today because i'm sick or
unfortunately i broke my arm at the
basketball game last week or
unfortunately
my haircut is bad
vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocab
vocabulary vocabulary
vocabulary just refers to the
uh words in a language my vocabulary in
my second language is really really low
i need a bigger vocabulary so that i can
express myself more clearly world
world
ah i see why this one's hard world world
hard to pronounce that rld i think
together is tough plus that w at the
beginning as well it's such a short word
but you have to say so many weird things
at the same time whirled your tongue is
going
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like this in a sentence i have traveled
all over the world and the best food is
in
my stomach that's the end so those were
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hi everybody my name is alicia and today
we're going to be talking about 10
phrases that you always want to hear so
let's begin
you win
the first phrase is you win you win if
you hear the phrase you win it means you
have won something you are probably
going to receive something for free
that's a very happy thing right you want
to get free things congratulations you
win a car yay
here are the keys to your new car great
thank you
i brought you something special this is
exciting to hear because it means this
little something special is like oh i
thought only a view so i brought you
this i brought you something special
really thank you
i miss you i miss you i miss you it's
nice you can use this with your friends
your family members your partner whoever
i miss you shows that you want to meet
the other person probably you haven't
you haven't seen them as much as you
would like to so you can say i miss you
i miss you call your husband or wife or
boyfriend girlfriend whoever on the
phone maybe you haven't seen them for a
long time you can say
i miss you
i miss you too
take a break i'll do the cleaning today
this means someone else is going to
clean up your house for you or clean up
something for you i would be very happy
to hear this phrase right now because my
apartment is a disaster because i'm only
there to sleep so maybe you've had a
long day at work or a long day doing
something you come home and somebody
else has offered to do this for you so
take a break i'll do the cleaning today
and you can reply
really thank you so much i'm gonna relax
the budget is unlimited the next phrase
that you always want to hear is the
budget is unlimited the budget is
unlimited this could be at work this
could be a budget a personal budget
maybe but it just means there's no limit
to the budget you can spend as much
money as you want woohoo very exciting
so let's see in a business context
perhaps you have this new client who's
going to give you a lot of money to
build a new house or something maybe
you're building houses that's your
project your boss comes to you the
budget for this project is unlimited
really let's go crazy
there'll be a bonus at the end of the
month yeah this is a phrase that you
probably are very excited to hear it
means you are going to receive extra
money from your job at the end of the
month woohoo very exciting extra money
maybe you'll hear this from your boss or
your manager or maybe your co-worker at
work or maybe you see it in an email
there'll be a bonus at the end of the
month really i'm gonna use mine to buy a
new car
really i'm gonna use mine to go out on a
date really
i'm gonna use mine to get a new
fish
you did a great job
you did a great job you did a great job
of something you'll probably hear from
well i don't know you could hear this
from pretty much anybody anytime you've
done a good job someone will
congratulate you or tell you their
opinion with this phrase you did a great
job you finished a project at work and
your boss says you did a great job
nice thank you so much it was really fun
or thank you
just just say thank you you look great
today you look great today the other
person thinks that your physical
appearance is nice today don't think
about the today part you know just just
just take the compliment be like oh
really thank you so much you look great
today oh thank you so much i got a new
haircut thank you so much i
i got enough sleep yeah
you were right
you were right this means that um
something that you said in the past was
correct and everybody likes to be
correct i think i saw that movie that
you recommended you were right it was
really good oh good i'm glad you enjoyed
it don't be like i know or yeah i knew i
was right don't do that just say oh good
i'm glad you're an excellent cook you're
an excellent cook this is a nice
compliment especially for someone who
enjoys cooking if you say you're an
excellent cook it means you enjoyed
their food so let's see at a dinner
party for example you're an excellent
cook this food is delicious oh thank you
so much i'm really glad you enjoyed it
and that's the end so those are things
that you want to hear so keep in mind
it's nice for you to hear these things
but other people also want to hear them
too so compliment other people tell them
that they are awesome if they're awesome
tell them that they have good skills in
whatever it is that they like to do
people like to be complimented people
want to be liked so write them a message
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i guess i don't really need to do that
i'm so sorry amped all the time japanese
hi everybody my name is alicia and i'm
here in the studio today with michael
hello
and today we're going to be talking
about things that every american kid
knows so let's get right into it these
are going to be things that we think
that maybe
now i imagine
most or all american kids are aware of
or have done to some degree
so let's compare why don't you start us
off um
ah this is a good one i think everybody
knows this everybody still should know
this is the magic word
so usually when you want to like get
someone to say please you're trying to
teach little kids uh
how to be polite teach them proper
manners and so you say what's the magic
word
and they say please so like for example
hey mom can i have a cookie
what's the magic word can i have a
cookie please and then you give them the
cookie yep yep it's it's better than
saying say please i feel like saying
what's the magic word is i don't know
it's kind of like a more fun way to to
tell kids like be polite you know
say please and thank you kind of
hypocritical to be like say please yeah
well that's not very polite mom yeah
yeah that's true nice nice one okay good
uh all right i'll go to my first one i
picked
okay you'll see in a second maybe what i
picked um let's start with let's see oh
i'll start with this one
i think kids probably all over the world
are aware of this one or some variation
i don't know what it's called many
different languages but hide and seek um
hide and seek is a very very
basic game i mean the the game is
explained pretty much here hide and seek
so a bunch of kids hide and then one
person usually seeks or looks for all
the other kids um so this was one of
those games that you'd play with a group
of friends or even just you know like
with one of your siblings uh if you
don't have a whole lot of people um but
um the basic concept of the game is
one or more people hide and then a few
seconds later you go look for those
people um
i i assume that you played this game i
assume that every child played this game
hours and hours and hours spent playing
this game so i mean there's different
variations of the game but like you have
a home base usually and so that's where
the person starts and you usually count
to like what 30 100 yeah something like
that yeah yeah and so you close your
eyes the person who's it and they okay
one two three and then when you are
finished you say ready or not here i
come and you try to find them um
and then if you are hiding
and you make it to the home base and you
touch it you're free you made it you win
yeah um
or like
i don't know multiple people can win
it's it's really like a young young kid
game yeah like i don't think i played it
after nine years old yeah i think maybe
around junior high school was probably
the last time that i played it yeah okay
uh hide and seek yeah play hide and seek
if you haven't i don't know i bet it'd
be fun as an adult too in the right in
the right situation make it a drinking
game something like that you said it so
i didn't have to okay um let's go to
your next one what's your next one um
i guess talking about games
thumb war
thumb
so i think most people do this around
the world they they know the thumb war
which is like
like this and you you try to catch them
but the thing that not everyone knows is
and i think every american kid knows is
you say
one two three four i declare a thumb
more ready go yeah did you not have
already go i don't remember that last
part i had to ready go okay and then you
try to get him so yeah you try to you
try to fight
you keep the other person's thumb down
in retrospect that's not a very good
game is it nah yeah these are all
terrible game
yeah yeah i did it too though i did it
too though but like
people would always people would always
kind of like get a little bit too into
it and then they'd sort of like kind of
try and rip their hands out of like
right or do the you use this finger you
cheat what is that called the hook like
no hooks am not aware of that so like
this
and then you use this finger so you're
trying to do it it's hard and then you
ha you just cheat basically so yeah it's
stupid game for little kids basically
there's like it's like tic tac toe you
can play it like a million times
and usually you get a tie it's just like
something to do when the teacher's
talking and it's just easy you don't
need a ball you're just kind of like
okay let's play them
you're a terrible child orange yeah i
was pretty bad never listen
okay
all right i'm gonna go to my next one
another game i picked duck duck goose
yes
yeah
as i was writing this card i was
thinking to myself why is it called duck
duck goose of all things okay so the
game is very very simple i think you
need you need a group of people for this
one though but uh you form a ring a ring
of children usually and then there's one
person who walks around the outside of
the ring and they touch each each person
on the head as they walk by and say duck
duck duck and then randomly this one
person will select one child and say
goose you're the goose and so if you are
chosen as the goose you have to get up
and chase the other person around the
circle
and try to get back to your the place
where you were sitting down before them
no you have to tag them right
the the person who
was going duck duck duck and then goose
they try to run around the circle and
steal your spot right and you if you're
fast enough you can run around and if
you tag them then they keep going and
you get your spots too right right so
it's it's it's like a seated version of
tag almost but i don't know why we call
it duck duck goose yeah no clue i don't
know okay
so this one is actually i think it's
like from
scotland or something i don't know i
forgot i looked it up but
eeny meeny miny moe so usually when
you're trying to decide who let's say
you want to play hide and seek
and you don't know who's gonna be the
one who's it so then you'll go eenie
meenie miney moe
catch a tiger by his toe if he hollers
make him pay a thousand dollars every
day okay you're it and there's a few
variations of that
um pretty much everyone knows that i
still use it to this day honestly
most people shorten it though because
the tiger the whole tiger thing is quite
long so i think eeny meeny miny moe it's
just a rhyme to choose someone i mean
you could flip a coin or do like rock
paper scissors or something like that
but for whatever reason we do this eenie
meenie miney moe thing
did you ever do nose goes
uh
as a child no as an adult for a drinking
game
see this is the yes all the things that
were like children's games become adult
drinking games when you grow up
slowly get perfect very very mature okay
uh my last one is truth or dare um
perhaps this is um more for like junior
high school and high school age when you
start getting a little bit more like
curious is maybe the right word
so the game is um you have there are two
choices that you can make this game
truth where your friends will ask you a
question and you have to reply with the
truth to that question so usually truth
is like who's who's the person that you
like or do you want a boyfriend or do
you want a girlfriend usually it's
something like that if you don't choose
truth then you have to choose dare so
dare
is the choice where your friends get to
tell you to do something and it's
usually something crazy
um so you either have the option of
being in other words humiliated by
sharing something secret or humiliated
by doing something embarrassing um it's
a it's a fun game of humiliation to play
with your friends um
i i've i have some i actually have some
good memories playing this game nothing
nothing like bad really just really
really silly stuff actually like singing
weird songs in front of like my my
friend's parents that kind of thing
right put underwear on your head or
something yeah yeah yeah the one i
remember that just came to mind is they
told me i was like okay dare and then
they said to uh go outside act like a
cow get on all fours and take a big
mouthful of the grass and chew it
so that was kind of that's a creative
dare yeah yeah that was like that's why
i still remember it because usually
they're just kind of like i dare you to
like i don't know drink too much ketchup
or something i don't know just something
kind of uh-huh i don't know i was pretty
good i'm drinking too much ketchup no
maybe i've never heard that wearing too
much ketchup is that that's too much
ketchup
i decided two tablespoons is adequate
it's like the and you win
sorry every every time all right uh i'm
out i think maybe you're out okay great
so those are a few things that perhaps i
think most if not all american kids know
or are aware of a lot of them were games
maybe you have similar games in your
country so if you uh if you've had some
interesting experiences playing these
games or if you have a game that's
similar um to one of the games or one of
the
ideas that we've talked about here
please let us know in a comment and it'd
be interesting to compare any other
ideas that's about it that's about it
okay
well thanks very much for joining us for
this episode of english topics and we
will see you again soon take care bye
hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we're going
to talk about 10 different ways to
remember words so these are actually
some ways to remember words that you
have sent in to us so i'm really excited
to see what your recommendations are i
study other languages so let's talk
about it let's see
i associate new words with words that
sound similar in my native language if
you're studying english
your native language might share some
words so like i'm studying japanese and
for example the word chocolate sounds
very very similar in in japanese so in
english the word is chocolate in
japanese the word is chocoreto so it
sounds similar so that's an easy word
for me to remember i learn about the
roots of words and how different words
are related to each other many words in
english have roots in
very very old languages like latin so a
word like omniscient for example can be
broken down into maybe two parts
the omni omni meaning all or everything
and shint the sheen part relates to
knowledge or knowing so together the
word means all knowing omniscient maybe
you can guess the meaning even if it's
the first time you've seen the word okay
i listen to songs and memorize the
lyrics this is also a common way to to
help kids learn things too through songs
opposite of b plus or minus the square
root b squared minus four is e all over
2a it's a quadratic function equation
because it's a song it's still in my
head thank you mrs time
i often watch tv or youtube videos that
are designed for young children that's
how children in the native language
learn so it's a great tool for you don't
be embarrassed to do that i do that in
english we have dora the explorer we
have sesame street we have another
channel that's made for children's
content but it could be useful for you
it's called kids versus life so please
be sure to check that out i speak as
often as possible with native speakers a
native speaker can go ah that's that's a
strange thing that you're saying so
there are a lot of small factors that
you can't get unless you're speaking
with a native speaker so this is a
really really great tip if you're
interested in doing this with us we have
on englishclass101.com
a special subscription which is called
the elite level of subscription where
you get to actually study with one of
our teachers here
so if if you don't have somebody that
you can study with now that might be a
way to do it please check that out if
you're interested i try to use the
language routinely in the context of
daily life
when you're alone uh just doing stuff at
home like making breakfast or cooking or
doing the laundry if you use the
language just to say like now i'm going
to i don't know cut vegetables or oh i
need to do laundry later today or
thinking about your appointment whatever
another good example is really i put my
phone into my target language you're
telling little stories when you're
having conversations with people so get
used to telling yourself the story i use
repetition reading writing and speaking
words over and over again keep repeating
in your studies um even if it feels like
you know you're not making any progress
you are just just the act of doing that
repetition can be helpful for you if a
football player never throws a football
he's not going to be able to throw it
very well is he you have to repeat
repeat repeat and then when you're faced
with the actual situation where you need
to throw the football you need to use
that vocabulary word you're ready you
already know how to say the word so yes
repeat it's good i try to think in
english so it becomes natural to my
thought process
i do this
i think about what i need to do i think
about what i have done i think about
what i'm going to do
and so in that way you can practice past
tense future tense and present tense
recently this has been happening to me
i've started dreaming in japanese from
time to time or i dream bilingually it's
exciting i think i try to use the word
in a simple sentence so i learn whole
phrases not just individual words yes
this is a huge tip so vocabulary is
important of course if you don't know a
key word
you might miss the meaning of something
but context is important too so there
might be two words which seem very
similar like big and large for example
but when should i use large when should
i use big like if you're close shopping
and you say
do you have this in a big size it might
not be the correct way to use the word
instead do you have this in a large size
is the correct phrase so learning how to
use the correct vocabulary word at the
correct time is important and you can do
that through studying sentences and
phrases instead of just vocabulary this
is why reading is important i feel
reading as much as possible especially
the newspaper helps me to remember words
when i was a kid i just read everything
i was i was so into reading i loved it
and i think that it helped it actually
helped my language skills improve even
in my native language again at first
it's really hard to do and you might
have to use a dictionary a lot but
you'll learn gradually more natural
speaking patterns more natural writing
patterns too which will help you to
sound more natural when you speak and
maybe it can help your listening skills
too when you can listen for those
patterns that you see in textbooks that
you see in newspapers in novels whatever
it's a great tool reading and thank
goodness that's the end so those are 10
tips that you can use to remember new
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i have to go to the bathroom
you've arrived at your hotel and are
almost ready to relax after your long
trip but the person at the front desk
only speaks english how do you check in
hi alicia here checking in at a hotel in
english is easy in this lesson you'll
learn how gustavo just arrived at his
hotel in new york let's watch
good evening sir
hi
my name is gustavo silva i have a
reservation
thank you very much mr silva could you
spell your name please
s i s-i-l-v-a
thank you
ah yes mr silva here's your room key
is there a shop in this hotel
no but there's a small grocery store in
the next building
and is there any shampoo or conditioner
in the room
yes sir
thank you
oh and a wake-up call please
of course what time at seven but what
time is breakfast
from 6 to 7 30 a.m
in the dining room on the first floor
now with
subtitles good evening sir
hi
my name is gustavo silva i have a
reservation
thank you very much mr silva could you
spell your name please
s i
l v a
thank you
ah yes mr silva here's your room key
is there a shop in this hotel
no but there's a small grocery store in
the next building
and is there any shampoo or conditioner
in the room
yes sir
thank you
oh and a wake up call please
of course what time at seven but what
time is breakfast
from 6 to 7 30 a.m
in the dining room on the first floor
here are the key words from the scene
grocery store
shampoo
conditioner
dining room
reservation
good evening
good
evening
good evening
sir
room key
small
next
building
building of course
of
course
of course
what time
what
time
what time
floor
here are the key phrases from the scene
in the scene how did the hotel clerk ask
gustavo to spell his name
could you spell your name please
first is the phrase
could you
next is the word spell
after this is the phrase
your name
and last is the word
please
together it's
could you spell your name please
to respond
you would give the spelling of your last
name first name or both
now you try
say the hotel clerk's line when he asks
gustavo to spell his name
thank you very much mr silva
could you spell your name please
in the scene how did gustavo ask for a
wake-up call
and the wake-up call please
first is the phrase
a wake-up call
next is the word
please
together it's
a wake-up call please
keep in mind that you will also have to
tell the hotel clerk what time you want
the wake-up call
now you try
say gustavo's line to request a wake-up
call
oh
and a wake-up call please
in the scene
how did gustavo ask what time breakfast
is served
what time's breakfast
the first word is
what
next is a contraction of the words time
and is
times
last is the word
breakfast
together it's
what times breakfast
this is a very useful
shortened way of asking about what time
something is happening
you try
say gustavo's line to find out when
breakfast will be served
but
what time's breakfast
now the lesson focused here's how to
check in at a hotel ready
do you remember the first thing gustavo
said to the hotel clerk in the scene
after he introduces himself
i have a
reservation
first is the phrase
i have
next is the phrase
a reservation
together it's
i have a reservation
use this expression to indicate that
you've reserved a room in advance
you can also use this phrase in other
situations where you made a reservation
such as at a restaurant
now you try
imagine you have just come to a
restaurant where you've made a
reservation
what would you say
i have a reservation
now imagine you've booked a rental car
online and you're checking in to pick up
your car
what would you say
i have a
reservation
do you remember how gustavo asked if the
hotel has a shop
is there a shop in this hotel
first is the phrase
is there
and next is the phrase a shop
last is the phrase
in this hotel
together it's
is there a shop in this hotel
this structure allows you to easily ask
if something is nearby or in a
particular location
start your question with
is there
and then insert something you are
looking for
finally add a location
now you try
imagine you're checking into a hotel and
want to know if there's an atm in the
hotel
what would you say
is there an atm in this hotel
now imagine you're in a shopping mall
and want to find out if there's a coffee
shop in the mall
what would you say
is there a coffee shop in this mall
do you remember how gustavo asks if
there is shampoo or conditioner in the
room
there any shampoo or conditioner in the
room
first is the phrase
is there any
next is the phrase
shampoo or
conditioner and last is the phrase
in the room
together it's
is there any shampoo or conditioner in
the room
this phrase structure is very similar to
the one we just learned except the word
any is used to refer to uncountable
nouns such as shampoo water or bread
the structure is
is there any
followed by the item and location
now you try
imagine you're checking into a hotel
and you want to know if there is bottled
water in the room
what would you say
is there any bottled water in the room
imagine you're baking cookies and you
want to know if there's any milk in the
refrigerator
what would you say
is there any milk in the refrigerator
now it's time to practice your new
ability
let's practice
this is your chance to try checking in
at a hotel in english
try to remember what you learned and
practice speaking
ready here we go
what's the first thing you say to the
hotel clerk to indicate that you've made
a reservation in advance
i have a reservation
the clerk asks you to spell your name
how do you respond
could you spell your name please
the letters of your last name
s-i-l-v-a
after the hotel clerk gives you a room
key you want to know if there's a store
in the hotel
how do you ask
is there a store in this hotel
after the hotel clerk has answered your
question
he asks you if you need anything else
how do you request a wake-up call
a wake-up call please
great job you just mastered checking
into a hotel in english
these phrases are very useful so be sure
to keep practicing
well done now watch the scene one more
time after that practice role playing
with an american friend another english
learner or with us in the comments bye
good evening sir hi
my name is gustavo silva i have a
reservation
thank you very much mr silva could you
spell your name please
s-i-l-v-a
thank you
ah yes mr silva here's your room key
is there a shop in this hotel
no but there's a small grocery store in
the next building
and is there any shampoo or conditioner
in the room
yes sir
thank you
oh and a wake up call please
of course what time at seven but what
time is breakfast
from six to seven thirty a.m
in the dining room on the first floor
imagine you've just landed after a long
flight to america and you're almost free
but first you need to go through
passport control what will they ask you
how should you respond hi alicia here
navigating passport control isn't as
hard as you might think in this lesson
you'll learn how
gustavo has just arrived in new york
he's in line at passport control let's
watch
next
passport please hello here you are
how long will you be staying
for six weeks
and where will you be staying
at the four seasons hotel
what's the purpose of your visit
i'm here on business
okay thank you welcome to the united
states
now with subtitles
next
passport please hello here you are
how long will you be staying
for six weeks
and where will you be staying
at the four seasons hotel
what's the purpose of your visit
i'm here on business
okay thank you welcome to the united
states
here are the key words from the scene
passport
please
hello
business
okay
thank you
here are the key phrases from the scene
in the scene
what did gustavo say when he gave his
passport to the immigration officer
here you are
this short sentence helps indicate that
someone is giving something to someone
in response to a request
first is the word
here
next is the word
you
and last is the word
are
together it's
here you are
try saying this as gustavo hands his
passport over to the immigration officer
passport please hello
here you are
at the end of the scene
how does the immigration officer welcome
gustavo
welcome to the united states
this is a polite and sometimes friendly
way to indicate to someone that you're
glad to have them to a home
place of work or another place somehow
belonging to you
it starts with the core phrase
welcome to
and then finishes with the location
in this case
the united states
try saying this after the immigration
officer speaks
okay thank you
welcome to the united states
now the lesson focus here's what you say
to navigate passport control ready
do you remember the first question the
immigration officer asked after gustavo
gave him his passport
how long will you be staying
immigration officers ask this question
to find out about the length of a
visitor's stay
they want to know if a visitor plans to
stay for two weeks for example or one
month
first is the phrase
how long
next is the word
will
after this is the word
you
and last is the phrase
be staying
gustavo responds with a length of time
for six weeks
first is the word
for
next is the number
six
and last is the word weeks
together it's
for six weeks
the sentence structure to answer the
question how long will you be staying is
four
plus number of days or weeks
imagine you're going to stay for two
weeks
answer the question
how long will you be staying
for two weeks
do you remember the second question the
immigration officer asked gustavo in the
scene
and where will you be staying
this question is identical to the first
question except instead of saying
how long
the immigration officer asked
where
the immigration officer is asking to
find out which hotel or address a
visitor will be staying at
again it's
where will you be staying
in response gustavo gives the name of
his hotel
at the four seasons hotel
first is the word
at
and after this is the name of the hotel
the four seasons hotel together it's
at the four seasons hotel
the sentence structure to answer the
question
where will you be staying
is at plus your hotel name
imagine you'll be staying at the plaza
hotel
answer the question
where will you be staying
at the plaza hotel
do you remember the third question the
immigration officer asked in the scene
what's the purpose of your visit
the immigration officer asks this to
understand why gustavo is visiting
first is a contraction of what and is
what
next is the word
the after this is the word
purpose
next is the word
of
following this is the word
you're
and last is the word
visit
together it's
what's the purpose of your visit
in response gustavo answers
i'm here on
business
this starts with the core phrase
i'm here on
following this core phrase is the word
business
all together it's
i'm here on business
this means that gustavo is in the
country to do business and not just to
sightsee
alternatively he could have said
i'm here for pleasure this is the same
pattern as the first response
the only difference is that
on business
has been taken out and
for pleasure
is used instead
again
that's
i'm here for pleasure
now you try
imagine your trip is for sightseeing
answer the question
what's the purpose of your visit
i'm here for pleasure
now imagine you are visiting the us on
business
answer the question
what's the purpose of your visit
i'm here on business
now it's time to practice your new
ability
you've arrived to the united states and
you'll need to go through passport
control
ready
here we go
the immigration officer asks you to show
her your passport
what do you say when you give your
passport to her
here you are
how do you answer the question
how long will you stay
for
the number of days or weeks
for six weeks
how do you answer the question
where will you stay
at your hotel name
at the four seasons hotel
you are on business in new york
how do you answer the question
what's the purpose of your stay
i'm here on business
great job
you're ready to go through passport
control
keep up the good work and remember to
practice
well done
now watch the scene one more time after
that practice with us in the comments
until you're ready to go bye
next
passport please hello here you are
how long will you be staying
for six weeks
and where will you be staying
at the four seasons hotel
what's the purpose of your visit i'm
here on business
okay thank you welcome to the united
states
hi everybody my name is alicia and today
i'm joined by michael hello
and today we're going to be talking
about the college experience in the
united states so we're going to be
sharing some things that we think are
maybe very common if you attend a
college in the united states so let's
begin why don't we start with you
michael what is your first item
first item is
four years
um this is something i mean it's not too
exciting to talk about but one of my
friends from the uk was asking me about
you know how long does it take what's
the typical amount of time
because i guess in the uk and i'm sure
this is different from wherever you are
in the world um you know they do three
years three years something like that
for us typically
you do your secondary education is high
school and that's four years so grade 9
10 11 12 you graduate around 18 years
old
17 18 and then you go to university and
the degrees are the most common is four
years which is your bachelor's right and
some people do two years for an
associates and then you can go on and
get masters and it you know that kind of
varies how long you want to take
personally how many majors blah blah
blah but um i guess in the uk it's
typically three years um for
university yeah for for the average
university time because they
yeah their their education their high
school is different too so oh i actually
didn't know that yeah me either until
just last week oh okay um the first year
um each each year in college has a name
and as well as in high school too so the
first year um
is called uh or the students the
students that are the first year
students are called the freshmen
freshmen if you think about that word
fresh man so fresh meaning new and man
in this case i'm just meaning people but
man um so
um the first year there's this thing
called the freshman 15 which maybe
you've heard of the freshman 15
um i don't know if you know this one
freshman 15 the 15 and freshman 15
refers to 15 pounds or
pounds in terms of body weight so kind
of a joke that's that you might hear if
you go to a college in the us or maybe
in another country too you have this um
is freshmen move out of their parents
home
and go to school where they start eating
cafeteria food anytime they like they
can get their own snacks they're on
their own essentially and the joke is
that
freshmen gain 15 pounds in their
freshman year of college do you know
about the freshman 15. yeah i know it
all too well i i gained the you got the
fresh freshman 20 or something like that
so
my problem
is i mean partly i think the typical
thing is it's because of the freedom
your parents have a set meal you have
you know like extracurricular activities
i actually lost weight my first time of
college um but then after that i changed
things up a bit and then i was like i
was just like a monster celebration i
was actually i was looking at pictures
like just like last week or something
like that
whoa it was such a difference actually
yeah i had a bit of
well just watching old english in three
minutes video you'll get you'll get the
idea yeah okay yeah so freshman 15.
that's a common one then all right uh
what's your next one so i mean this kind
of relates to the freshman 15 is
is
to party partying party all the time
party on wayne party on garth
so i mean you're free so maybe in high
school a lot of people drink and go
party but you have to keep it secret
from your parents you have to you know
do the thing where you you call and you
say i'm gonna stay at alicia's house and
alicia's parents think she's staying at
my house and we both go to a party where
the parents are out of town you have to
be very secret but in college
any time there's always somebody who
wants to party and there's always the
bad influence who just doesn't care they
want to drop out so there's always a
party if you seek it it's there
so with that um you know that's where
you can gain the freshman 15 is drinking
a lot of calories this leads actually
perfectly into
um
slight variation i wrote themed parties
for one of my cards
because this beyond especially beyond
the freshman year so the second year of
college is called sophomore the students
are called sophomores
third year they're called juniors and
fourth year seniors so in your sophomore
junior and senior year of college
typically i would say you move out of
the dorm and into a house or an
apartment and it is there uh in the
freedom beyond the college campus um
that you can have themed parties so
i'm i'm
betting that you have some stories we
had some themed parties my friends and i
what kind of we did of course halloween
parties we did those we had a blacklight
party one time where we replaced all the
all the lights in the house with black
lights and everyone wore a white t-shirt
and brought a highlighter and then if we
would draw things or write things on
people's t-shirts that was fun
yeah
like that that was that was actually
really fun
uh we did a camo cam everybody had to
wear camo at the party that was
a thing we did
there's a very very key
thing that appears in beer pong which is
this the red solo cup so solo is the
brand of cup that is just
it's if you've watched a movie um that's
set in an american
uh or
if you've watched a movie
um that's uh set in college in the u.s
you will have seen the characters at the
party holding this red plastic cup uh
and it's
the brand is solo and i don't know
how it came to be that this was just the
college cup but it is it's just at every
party it's just cheap and i didn't know
this until recently um but there are
lines on that red solo
like maybe the homographic here i don't
know but there are lines on that red
solo cup
where
the bottom line on the cup is
the amount of a shot
like a shot a spirit straw the next line
up is one serving of wine after that is
a beer i think um so i like the lines
actually have a meaning to them
apparently i don't know if that's true i
read that recently though because i was
looking for them yeah my liners they
could not find them
i couldn't find them but yes that that
cup is the college cup the the college
cup of the
college experience
okay
experimenting
is my next one
because actually my favorite place to go
as far as clubs are gay clubs i love gay
clubs and the first time i went to a gay
club was in university and the whole
atmosphere is just very
accepting so i think probably because in
the lgbt community
there's discrimination
and so they're as a demographic
generally very accepting very laid back
so i could go there and just have fun
you can wear whatever you want you can
talk and dance to whoever just a lot of
fun and i think
in university like this is actually a
phrase that my friends would always say
and i don't know if this is an idiom or
something or maybe just my friends but
it's college is about experiences and
you always hear that and like when
someone's you know not sure they don't
want to do something you're like hey
come on college is about experiences
let's go hike that mountain and
experiment in many different ways
did you have anything like this i was
honestly trying to think of
something some big change like i i did i
did start drinking in college yes
but i really didn't do anything that was
honestly i really i've never been like a
super crazy crazy person i'll try new
things like i'll try like new food or
like i don't know i like going to
interesting events or like festivals or
that kind of thing is fine but as far as
like you know making a drastic change to
my appearance or
anything like that i really didn't
uh sororities and fraternities
sororities and fraternities a sorority
um is a group of girls who live together
in one house
and do things i was not a member of a
sorority so i don't really know details
somebody i'm sure out there probably
knows more than me fraternities on the
other hand are groups of men who live
together called their so they're college
age women and college age men who live
together and they do things together um
the image of a sorority or a fraternity
is that they're kind of um at least my
image is that they're
wealthy
kind of uh privileged kids which is not
even necessarily true but this is i feel
like this is the image that appears in a
lot of movies about um college
experiences in america
uh or in the states all right very nice
very nice it's interesting to compare
our different experiences any final
thoughts on college in the us
that's it yeah if you have a chance give
it a try or just you know studying in
any country outside your own it's an
interesting experience so as michael
said before you know experimenting can
be an interesting way to
broaden your horizons whatever that
means for you
uh okay so that's all for us for today
about uh the college experience in the
usa thanks very much for watching and we
will see you again soon bye
hi everybody welcome back to english
topics my name is alicia and i'm here
today again with michael hello and today
we're going to be talking about
questions that we have been asked so
let's begin what is the first question
that you would like to discuss today
michael i would like to discuss
what's the main difference between
british and american english
so
for me
i'd like to get this out of the way
canadians and americans sound pretty
much the same it's hard for us to tell
the difference even even native english
speakers there's a couple telltale signs
you know they'll say some things but
it's usually regional so i guess north
americans and then like uk english
and again there's a lot of different
accents and dialects you know it all
depends but for me the easiest way
is
americans
um enunciate every word we're very loud
and we open our mouths a lot hello how
are you where are you from teacher water
we enunciate every sound so
for me a dead giveaway is that that r
that end r
right it's tough uh i listen for vowel
sounds and try to guess based on that so
your question is about
british english and american english
there's also australian english there's
scottish english there's irish english
there's so many different
english-speaking dialects and honestly
sometimes it's hard for us to understand
we're both from relatively the same part
of america so we have the same speaking
style our accents are the same um but to
go through all of the different dialects
to try and approximate to try them to
try and say them badly to would probably
just be a waste of time but you're on
the internet
look it up
okay i guess we'll go to the next one um
let's see my questions
let's see i'm gonna start with a grammar
question that i get a lot uh a grammar
question that i come across students ask
me
this question the present tense versus
the progressive tense uh what is the
difference when should i use present
tense versus progressive tense so by
this i mean of verbs the present tense
is used for
facts things which are always true
things which are part of your regular
schedule the progressive tense has a few
different meanings to it a few different
uses to it but one of the meanings or
one of the uses is to express something
which is temporary which is not part of
your regular schedule or uh another uses
to describe a trend to use a very common
mistake um as an example
if i ask the question
where do you work
a lot of times the response i get from
my students is i am working in america
um
depending on on on the situation that
sentence could be correct but if you're
talking about the place where you work
always every day you go to that job it
could be the location of your office it
could be the country or the city where
you work if it's a part of your regular
schedule you want to explain a fact that
is true about your life you should use
the present tense not the progressive
tense so
the correct version of that sentence
should be i work in america that's part
of my regular schedule if however you're
only in america for the week for example
you can use the progressive tense but
it's more natural to say for example
this week i'm working in america that's
a much much more natural sentence to use
how do i pronounce the th sound
so
you know depending on who i'm
teaching english to
they'll have problems with different
pronunciation sounds but for me i think
one that's that's common with a lot of
different cultures is the th sound
and um i think again this goes back to
like the different ways of speaking and
how americans we enunciate every word
and we push our the way we speak to the
very tip of our mouth
that's the th sound so most people are
capable of of making the th sound but
they're just a little shy and it just
doesn't seem natural it's almost as if
you can bite the tip of your tongue off
when you say the
sound
right
and then just another thing to note is
that th can have a hard or a soft or
voiced or unvoiced
sound so
the is hard or voiced you hum
the
the and then with like think it's a soft
or unvoiced you don't hum you don't
vibrate you just say
think
but it's still the tongue goes touches
your teeth
think
that
um this is another grammar point that i
get questions about from time to time
it is the present perfect tense versus
the simple past tense um the question is
when do i use them so present perfect
tense uh let's see an example of present
perfect tense would be i have been to
paris
uh simple past tense would be uh i went
to paris what is the difference we use
the present perfect tense to talk about
a life experience or something which
occurred in the past but which still
affects the present so in this case in
my paris example sentence it's something
that happened in the past but when
exactly when is not important we just
want to say i have had the life
experience of going to paris
simple past however is used to refer to
a specific point in time in the past so
for example i went to paris last summer
it's important that you know i went last
summer if the time point when you went
to paris is not important use the
present perfect tense
so this is really useful for talking
about your travel experiences for
talking about your study experiences
foods you have and have not eaten
um so keep just try to keep in mind when
when you should use these two uh they're
very commonly used together like for
example you might use the present
perfect tense to introduce a question
have you ever been to paris and the
follow-up answer oh yes i have been to
paris using the present perfect tense
again but then a common pattern is to
follow that answer up with a simple past
question when did you go so you can see
it changes from present perfect tense to
simple past tense so a larger life
experience to a more simple life
experience so they're used together but
just be careful try to be aware of am i
talking about an overall life experience
or a very specific life experience this
is one that many of my students struggle
with
this is more cultural
why do americans wear shoes inside the
house
on the bed etc
um
i feel like this depends and this is
starting to change i take my shoes off
in most houses but i guess it's more so
for comfort whereas i feel like on the
east
side of the world uh it's more of like a
cleanliness kind of a thing and if you
do still wear your shoes it's pretty
taboo whereas in the states i feel like
most people from my experience anecdotal
evidence just personal experience
most places you take off your shoes but
if they have a party they let people
wear shoes inside the house they don't
care
and a lot of my friends will see
american movies and they see somebody a
main character wearing their shoes on
the bed on the couch something like that
um
again from my experience it's not that
big of a deal but typically you wouldn't
do that for me the the rule of thumb
like the or the unsaid rule is that you
can put your shoes up
but you don't let your shoes um touch
the couch you kind of you hang off right
so you can if you want to lay on the
couch without taking your shoes off you
let your feet hang off
because yeah of course they're going to
get dirty but yeah it's just not as
emphasized as much in our culture i
don't know the last question i have is
can i ask a question
the answer is yes
the answer is yes and and probably 95 of
cases the answer to the question can i
ask a question is yes
um
okay
why did i choose this question my
students sometimes will put their hands
up in my lesson and say
can i ask a question like one this is
your english class yes please ask
questions um but two also this is a
discussion i've been having with a few
people recently just about the mindset
that i think is really important when
speaking english
we have experience teaching in asia
where maybe there's a different approach
to conversations i don't know if this is
the same cultural approach to
conversations that people from other
countries have but
don't wait for permission to speak don't
wait to jump into a conversation just go
for it um
don't wait for someone to say
oh would you like to speak now because
that's never going to happen
so don't be shy get your tongue out and
say things and um don't worry if it
sounds rude or too polite or whatever um
yeah i couldn't agree more yeah yeah
just it's a shift in mindset if you when
you when you start speaking that second
language like you said if you just
change your mind just a little bit just
make a small shift in your mindset maybe
you'll see
ah that's what it takes just let go a
little bit
of of your home language and see what
happens great so those are some
questions that we have been asked about
teaching about
english about culture
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