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Hey, everyone; this is Ceema.
And as your English teacher, I want to
remind you that if you want to make
your journey of English learning impeccable, then you
must use the best advanced English phrases.
Well, that is the reason why I am
bringing you a lesson on the advanced English
phrases using a very common word, thing.
Now, the word thing, let me tell you,
it is one of the most vague word.
I mean, thing could be anything, right?
It could be a laptop.
It could be a mobile.
So what advanced phrases can I use
out of this really vague word?
Well, let me tell you that because it
is a vague word, you can use this
word in many, many, many advanced English phrases.
And let me tell you, advanced English
phrases are also called c, one phrases
or advanced level of English phrases.
And that is why, if you use
these phrases, what's going to happen?
Well, it is guaranteed to make
your language natural and fluent.
And that's our goal, isn't it?
To sound natural and fluent.
Before we proceed further in this lesson,
let me show you something really interesting.
Well, we have designed a smart English fluency course.
Well, what course is this?
Now, as you can see, this course has got three parts.
But as the name suggests, this course is
meant to make you a natural and a
fluent speaker, which is our goal, right?
Let me tell you that this entire course
has a total of 400 best phrases, best
advanced English phrases which will make you sound
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Now, a lot of times, most of you sound very
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You are using textbookish English, right?
But with this course, you will sound
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All right.
Well, that's about learning English
the more natural way.
But as we are at it, let me
get on to this lesson, which is thing.
And our first phrase for thing
is having a thing about something.
Well, this sounds like too many things are
in one phrase, but let me tell you,
having a thing about something is a very
smart English phrase, which means you are describing
something that you are very strongly interested in.
You really like it a lot, right?
In fact, sometimes you may even
have an obsession with it.
You may be obsessed with it.
So you either like it a lot or you are obsessed
with it, which sort of is the same thing, right?
So in a sentence, you can say,
he always had a thing about robotics.
Maybe that's why he got into AI learning. AI.
Is the short form of artificial intelligence, right?
So he always had a thing about robotics,
which means he was strongly interested in it.
In fact, he was obsessed with it.
And that is what having a thing about something means.
What do you have a thing about?
Make sure you put that in the comments below.
So, as you can see, if I say I
am strongly interested, well, that's sort of basic English.
But on the other hand, if I say I
have a thing about robotics, or I have a
thing about photography, it sounds more advanced and it
sounds more natural, just like a natural speaker. Okay.
Anyway, let's move on to our next phrase,
which is just one of those things.
Well, there are many things.
But if I'm referring to just one of
those many things, what does that mean?
Let's have a look.
This is a phrase, and you're using this phrase why?
Because you want to say that something has
happened, some incident, and you had no power.
You did not have the power or the ability to change it.
Well, that's life, right?
A lot of things happen in life, and sometimes you
don't have the power to do anything about it.
That's when you can use this phrase.
Let's look at this phrase in a sentence.
Losing my keys this morning was just one of those
things that added to the chaos of my day.
Well, this happens to a lot of us, right?
When we have an especially bad day, everything
seems to go wrong, and you have no
power, you have no ability to change it.
That's when you can say, well,
I lost my keys this morning.
I had an accident with my car.
Well, it was just one of those things
that added to the chaos of my day.
Our next expression is a thing of the past.
Well, as you can tell, the word past refers
to something that has already happened, and therefore the
meaning is referring to something which is old fashioned.
Or you're trying to say that this
is a thing that only older people
from the older generation are interested in.
So searching on Google will soon
become a thing of the past.
Well, Google was supposed to be like,
the best thing that ever happened.
But now with AI and so many other tools, well,
people say that searching on Google might become an old
fashioned thing that only the older generation may use.
Well, we don't know, but let's have
a look if that really happens.
In the meantime, we'll go on to our
next expression, which is the in thing.
Now, I have put in in inverted commas, because
in refers to something very unique over here.
What does it refer to?
It refers to something that
is fashionable or very trendy. Okay.
Anything which is in fashion.
It's the opposite of the previous expression, isn't it?
Anyway, in a sentence you could say, in the
90s, high waist hipster style pants were the insane.
Okay?
Well, in the 90s, these were some kind
of pants where you sort of wore them
all the way up to your upper waist.
And they were fashionable, they were trendy.
So in other words, they were the in thing.
Well, what is the in thing?
Right now, I'm not very sure, but if you
know, please put them in the comments below.
We'll look at our next expression, which is, for
one thing, now, let me tell you that this
phrase, it does not really have its own meaning.
It has no meaning of its own.
However, it is used at the beginning of a sentence.
It's sort of a transition phrase.
And it's used at the beginning of a
sentence to give a reason for something.
So when you're explaining something as you want
to start giving a reason, you've got to
start doing that by using this expression.
How do you do that?
Let's have a look.
I won't be watching the match at the stadium.
Now, you want to give a reason.
So you say, for one thing,
those tickets are too expensive, right?
So when you're explaining something to someone, maybe in
a group discussion in your office or your colleague,
with your colleague at work, you can use this.
You can say, for one thing,
well, this is the reason, okay?
This is a great way of giving a reason.
And it sounds so natural and you sound like a nice,
fluent speaker, which is what we want to do, right?
Anyway, moving on to our next expression, which is, it's
a good thing that now, again, I believe that this
phrase, it does not have an inherent meaning of its
own, but it is again, used to explain something that
you are going to talk about.
So this is a phrase that is
used to express how fortunate or lucky.
The other word for fortunate is lucky, how lucky you
are about something you did or something that happened.
So sometimes we're lucky because we ended up doing
something or something just ended up happening to us.
So it's a good thing when that happens,
we say it's a good thing that we
left early for the airport, or we would
have definitely missed our flight because of traffic.
How many of you agree that sometimes we fortunately
end up doing something even though we did not
intend to do it, but that thing turned out
to be lucky for us, right?
When that happens, you can say it's a good thing and
then express what is it that was fortunate for you.
Okay?
Please make those sentences in the comments below.
Well, our next expression is also very interesting.
It says a thing or two.
What does that mean?
This is a very simple expression which is used to refer
to a few things, not many things, but a few things.
So in a sentence, you could say, this boot camp
taught us a thing or two about self discipline.
It was really, really useful.
In fact, I would suggest that you use this phrase
when you are referring to things that you cannot quantify.
Well, self discipline is a skill.
You can't really quantify what you've learned about it.
That's when you will use this phrase,
which sort of talks about everything that
you've learned about self discipline.
Well, these are our expressions with
the word sing in it.
Are these not interesting phrases?
Well, you must use these expressions. You know why?
For one thing, I'm giving a reason now.
For one thing, these phrases will
make you sound natural and fluent.
And, yes, as I was talking about being natural
and fluent, do not forget to cheque the link
in the description for our course, which gives you
those 400 phrases where you learn everything that you
have to learn about natural English.
So go ahead, learn natural English and sound
like a native speaker and speak naturally.
I'll see you back with some more lessons.
Until then, this is me saying bye.