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okay today we are doing something a little bit different as you know this
channel is all about learning english in the most entertaining way possible and i
thought i know something very entertaining here we have my diary from when i was about 11 years old
it is horrific it's embarrassing it's horrible and i'm going to read it to
you and we are going to see if we can find some slang some vocabulary some idioms some
mistakes i'm sure i made some grammar mistakes when i was 11 to see if we can learn english
through my embarrassment let's get started let's open the first page dear diary a classic way to
start any diary entry in english by the way dear diary like you're talking to someone like you're
writing a letter that's normally what we do dear diary hopefully i'm going to stick to this diary
not like my other 300. straight away we have stick to this if you stick to something
or if you stick with something it means you you stay committed to it you keep doing it you don't
give up okay now i'm talking about my boyfriend at the time i was 11 years old but i had a boyfriend
about my boyfriend and this is what i wrote about him he's my boyfriend is that all you need to know
no okay my age tiny bit smaller than me really shy but really cute we were on and off for a while but
hopefully we'll stick to it for a while but where was i oh yeah so sweet there we go we have stick
to it again liz in like stay committed to the relationship don't give up on the relationship
and also we have on and off for a while we can say that with relationships you're on and off
you know if sometimes you break up sometimes you get back together then you break up again and
you get back together on and off classic i've had an argument with a friend are you ready for this
dear diary i've had a big fight with charlotte she's being so unreasonable saying that i've been
talking about her behind her back and yelling at me on msn what's that about and she's and and she
what is that handwriting she said that georgia said she never liked me we think she's trying to
split us up okay let's break this down i was so dramatic as an 11 year old i don't know you know
where that came from i'm not dramatic anymore so first off she's been saying that i've been talking
about her behind her back classic phrase that we say if you talk about someone behind their back
you're talking about them without them knowing and normally you're saying negative things about them
like oh i hate her dress oh she looks terrible in that talking about her behind her back and
also notice how i'm using the present perfect tense here i'm saying i've had a big fight with
charlotte i've had so sometimes we might use the present perfect tense for a recent event
or an event where the consequences or the feelings of that event are still relevant now
so clearly the fight was still relevant in my life clearly maybe we were still not on talking terms
and i was still angry about it so i'm going to use the present perfect because it's relevant now
then we had yelling at me we always say yell at shout at scream at normally if it's a verb
and you are communicating with someone but you don't really want to reply you're like
it's normally at yell at scream at shout out you're not expecting them to say anything back
okay this is where it gets serious all right this is where the real drama goes down okay dear diary
i've never been very popular i'm feeling so sorry for myself i've never been very
popular jenny has always been good with the boys oh yes everyone loves jenny
i'm sort of just something that comes with her while she's always talking to all her cool friends
i'm standing to one side doing nothing ah what a shame she always wants to go to the top field at
lunch where all the popular people go but i always want to go to the tennis courts where my friends
are i love the fact that i've called my friends not cool because they're not at the top field
she never lets me go there sounds like jenny was very controlling she never lets me go there even
when i do i tell her first she gives me a look and then at the end of lunch time why did you ditch me
classic ditching someone is a british slang word it might be american as well when we ditch someone
we just leave them normally in a place that's out of your home and you're with them and then
you just leave you ditch them so they're on their own and also this is useful she gives me a look
that is a lovely little phrase to give someone a look is always a negative look it's always like a
or maybe it's a or maybe it's a you know normally giving someone a look is a negative thing very
different to giving someone vi if you give someone vi that's normally like hey how are you you know
giving someone the eye is i like you but giving someone a look is most of the time negative oh my
word she drives me nuts driving me nuts is just another version of driving me crazy makes me go
more drama with jenny me and jenny were just not good friends dear diary i hate jenny this is what
happened today i walk in and jenny is talking to lara and she looks at me funny interesting now i'm
telling a story about something that happened in the past but i'm using the present simple
we do this a lot as like a stylistic choice if you're telling a story about
something that happened in the past you can use the present simple so i walk in
jenny is talking to lara and she looks at me funny because i don't know it helps you feel like
the person who's listening to my story they're here with me they're experiencing it with me
it's like a stylistic choice and then lara goes i don't know whether or not i want to be your friend
oh interesting so i sit down and ryan and josh come up to me that's another one as well come up
to me as a phrasal verb to come up to someone is like to approach them ryan and josh come up to me
and start laughing what's going on what's going on then when we all sit down lara goes to me that's
a very common um slang way of speaking as well she goes to me instead of saying she says to me
or say she goes to me so um i sat down and my mum went to me what are you doing here
went to me go to me instead of said to me it's a weird one it's very informal so lara
goes to me i'm only being like how i am because what jenny said you did was really disgusting
what did i do that was so disgusting then it turns out that jenny told
everyone about when two years ago i flashed my bum at her
i can't believe i'm having friendship drama because i flashed my bum flashing someone means to
show your private parts to them um and my bum is my bottom so apparently i got my bottom out
and i thought that would be funny and it is funny you know what these guys were just
they didn't understand my sense of humor i was really funny so everyone is making fun of me
and i hate it lara has been hanging around with me but i can still tell she thinks i'm a minger
wow a minger we don't say that anymore it's a very old fashioned word it basically it used to
mean like someone who is disgusting someone who is ugly a minger but we don't really say it anymore
oh this is about to get sad are you ready for this this is dramatic dear diary my boyfriend dumped me
oh my goodness dumped broken up with if you dump someone you break up with
them i'm a single woman now see i was sort of feeling that way anyway he never spoke to me
great relationship it's always good to have a boyfriend who doesn't speak to you
i think it's you know really uh gives you firm foundations for a long relationship
so i grew up in church and in my house there were just certain things you didn't do um and it was
just just listen to this okay okay on to another subject today my topic is swearing i try not to do
it but i do i mean the works not just crap and ass and stuff everything this is my confession
this is like i'm really really trying here i'm saying you know i don't just say crap an ass
i say everything the works you know this is a phrase we say when we say the works we mean
all of it so we might say oh for my wedding i'm going to have a band a dj and a singer the works
it's like i'm going to have everything all of it i shouldn't be proud of it i'm not i keep trying to
stop but it's so hard it's because all my friends do it and it's also a habit a very bad habit
wow i was just really trying to be to be good you know should hear me now i never stop swearing well
i've clearly moved on from my boyfriend because there's a new boy on the scene oh my goodness
adam this is a boy i really liked at church adam oh no lauren says he clearly likes me but i don't
know he's been texting me like all friendly but when we get face to face he seems i don't know
different but i wouldn't say no whoa face to face lovely phrase just means when you're in
person with them face to face not to be confused with a heart to heart if you have a heart to heart
it means you are having a open honest emotional discussion with someone you talk about your
feelings you are vulnerable a heart to heart also not to be confused with eye to eye if you see eye
to eye with someone it means you agree with them so we spoke for ages and ages but now i think i
finally see eye to eye with my boss we agree oh this is so sad i feel like this diary is so sad
lara seems really popular with all the boys in our form i get well jealous that's a very useful way
of speaking to put well in front of an adjective i was well sad oh i was well hungry or i am well
annoyed about that to put well in front of it's not grammatically correct it's just a kind of
slang youthful way of speaking i don't know if americans or australians do it but definitely in
britain you'll hear that a lot with young cool people so if you're young and cool put well in
front of an adjective why not everyone loves lara they all pretend to like me but they obviously
prefer her i wish i was as funny as her when i try to be funny it just fails oh well i'm funny now so
there and all through this diary i'm using a lot of the present perfect tense because everything
that i was writing was happening on the same day so it's a recent event in the past normally i was
writing about things that were affecting me still so i was still thinking about them or they were
still relevant to me present perfect present perfect present perfect and there we have it i
hope that was entertaining for you to get a little insight into my life when i was 11 years old
and hopefully you've learned some new words and phrases along the way if you enjoyed this video
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