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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we're
going to talk about 10 phrasal verbs for
talking about vehicles let's go the
first phrasal verb first phrasal verb is
pull in pull in so pull in is used
usually when you're driving very slowly
we usually use it for a parking lot so
we'll use it in an expression like pull
into that space or pull in over there in
this sentence pull into that space over
there it means usually to slowly move
your car into a space into a parking
space or maybe into a garage you're
going into something usually very slowly
so pull in over here pull in over there
pull into that parking lot pull into
that driveway for example so slowly move
in to another place we use the phrasal
verb pull in for that the next phrasal
verb is pull up pull up in this sentence
i'll pull the car up in front of the
hotel we usually use this when we want
to slowly drive and then stop at a
location so for example at a stop light
we would say pull up to the stop light
so it means to slowly drive to a place
and then stop so pull up next to the
mailbox or pull up next to my house pull
up over there means slowly drive and
then stop at that place is pull up
that's how we use pull up the next
expression is back up back up so back
means reverse to back up a car is to
move a car slowly in reverse so usually
in most cases we drive cars going
forward but you sometimes need to move
your car in the opposite direction back
up out of the driveway for example it
means to go slowly in reverse to back up
in this sentence the truck backed up
until it touched the loading dock the
next expression we talked about pull in
now we have back in back in
so pull in means to drive forward into
something back in means to slowly go
backward into something usually a
parking space or a garage or something
so back in is going river in reverse
pull in is going forward as usual so in
a sentence back into the parking space
the next expression is roll down roll
down this might be a little bit of an
outdated expression at this point in
time but prior to the use of automatic
windows usually now i think most cars
have a button and the window will
automatically roll down but we used to
have a manual a hand crank in
in cars to roll down windows so this
motion which was used to move the window
that was the that was also the verb we
use we use roll so this motion is like
roll and then the window comes down so
we combined the two to say roll down the
window in a sentence roll down your
window it's hot in here the next
expression is head up and head down
these are very common expressions when
you are trying to navigate in a city you
don't have to use these only in cars you
can use them when you're walking or
traveling on foot as well on bicycle
whatever you can use head up and head
down any time you are trying to go
somewhere so head up and head down
really just mean go so i could say like
head up the street until you see a
starbucks and then turn right generally
though the difference between up and
down here it has kind of like a north
and south at least in english it has a
north-south sort of feel so if for
example i'm talking about
the west coast of the usa seattle is in
the north and los angeles is in the
south i would say i'm heading down i'm
going to head down to los angeles from
seattle or i'm going to head up to
seattle from los angeles it sounds
really strange if i say head up to los
angeles because
los angeles is south of seattle so uh
when you're thinking when you're
speaking geographically when you're
speaking in terms of north and south for
places it's better to use head up or
head down depending on the location um
you're talking about coming from let's
see in this sentence head down this
street for a while
the next expression is run over run over
this is a this is a word that we use uh
when in a car let's say you're driving
your car and then an animal comes out in
front of the car but you continue going
we say you are going to run over so to
run in this case is not a human running
but a car running so the car is running
is going is continuing over something
else so we can say like don't run over
any animals or be careful not to run
over your brother in the example
sentence i think you ran over a squirrel
true story my little brother once ran
over me in a golf cart that is true my
brother and i were playing one time and
my grandparents had a golf cart and my
brother and i were outside running
around we were playing like a james bond
like kind of spy game like we're like
okay i'm gonna drive the golf cart and
you have to run alongside and jump in
and i was like okay but i tried to jump
i don't know i got nervous but it wasn't
really going that fast but like somehow
things went wrong and i fell down or
maybe i tripped or something like that
when i was running i fell down and he
just he ran over me
in the golf cart like ran over my leg
just drove right over my leg and i was
like
we got in big trouble i was fine yeah no
i died
the next word is pull over so pull over
means usually you are driving the car
and you want to make a stop so usually
we use this like on the side of the road
or in a place where you wouldn't usually
stop or in kind of a strange not
necessarily strange but maybe not a
typical place to stop a car so for
example if there's like a bee in the car
and you're like i need to get this bee
out of my car you can pull over to the
side of the road we usually use it like
pull over to the side of the road and
you know do what you need to do or maybe
you need to pull over at a rest stop
pull over at a bathroom essentially okay
so in a sentence pull over at the next
rest stop yeah so pull over is also used
by the police as well as like a command
it's a it's a temporary situation so the
police are going to stop you they say
pull over to the side of the road and
then you have to move your car to the
side of the road where it's safe and
they talk to you and then you can
continue down the road after you've
finished speaking to them police will
use it as a command the next phrasal
verb is pull out pull out so for example
when you are coming out of a parking
space for example you can say like pull
out of this parking space and turn left
it means like to exit something slowly
so to pull out of a parking space or to
pull out into traffic so turning from
one
one lane to another maybe busier lane
the image is going kind of slowly and
then picking up the pace somewhere else
so to pull out into is another common
expression pull out into traffic or pull
out of a space and turn left or pull out
of the driveway for example in this
example sentence a super slow truck
pulled out in front of us on the
mountain road
the next expression is get on get on we
use get on usually for large roads so a
highway or a major street usually the
traffic is moving very quickly we say
get on the highway get on the five so
like in the u.s lots of highways major
roads are labeled with numbers so like
california one a big state highway is
the number five highway the five so you
could say like get on the five at the
next exit or get on the five at the
street for example so to get on means
like to to join with your car
that uh major road in a sentence get on
the highway here okay so that's the end
those are 10 phrasal verbs for talking
about vehicles i hope that those were
useful and some of these phrasal verbs
you can use in situations other than
cars and automobiles thanks very much
for watching this episode of top words
and we'll see you again soon bye
english class
yes english class no did i say it weird
again english
the intros are like and my outros are
the hardest thing it should be the
easiest hey everyone i'm paris from
englishclass101.com
in this video we'll be talking about top
10 school subjects let's begin
art
arts usually refers to visual arts such
as painting a drawing a sculpture etc
but in general art can also include
things like music and movies for example
you can say i'm an art major
history
this is the study of past events usually
involves a lot of facts but it also
involves thinking about certain things
that happened
here is a sample sentence you can learn
a lot from history as things tend to
repeat themselves history always put me
to sleep but it's very important
then we have geography
geography
geography is the study of the earth it
involves things like the names of
countries and where certain places are
but it also includes information about
the physical characteristics of places
such as mountains rivers oceans etc for
example you can say he is a geography
major with a minor in psychology i need
to go back to school and learn my
geography
biology
some science subjects deal with
chemicals for example chemistry or space
like astronomy biology is a scientific
subject that deals with living things
and how they work
here is a sample sentence biology is the
study of living organisms biology was
always really gross for me in school so
i loved it
next subject is chemistry
chemistry
chemistry is a very important science
that focuses on non-living materials and
how the elements that everything is made
of interact with one another for example
you can say the laboratory is a place to
learn about chemistry i always try to
learn that chemistry chart never could
get it never
another common subject is physics
physics
physics is the scientific field that
deals with matter and how it moves
there's also a lot of attention paid to
energy and how it affects its
surroundings for example you can say i
know the basics of physics and if you do
to me you're genius
math
this is the study of numbers and how
they affect each other here's a sample
sentence my favorite subject in school
is math you would never hear that out of
me and i'm so glad that my cell phone
has a calculator now
the next subject is computer science
computer science
computer science is the study of how
computers work to perform tasks it can
also be used more generally to talk
about the basics of computers for
example you can say the field of
computer science is relatively new
physical education
physical education usually involves
studying human biology and exercise
it is also sometimes called pe when
referring to it as a class for example
my least favorite class is physical
education however that was my favorite
dodgeball tennis who can hate physical
education
english
english is a language but it's also the
study of english language literature
here's a sample sentence in english
class we have to read a lot of
shakespeare to be or not to be that's
all i remember
hey everyone i'm paris from
englishclass101.com
in this video we'll be talking about a
top 10 life events you should be able to
talk about in english let's begin
birth
this is when a woman has a baby the
actual verb is to give birth and the
event is just birth for example you can
say the birth of a child is a major
event
get a job
getting a job is a long and often
difficult process that requires
interviews resumes and searching for the
right company so there's a lot to talk
about for example you can say i need to
get a job after i finish school
engagement
when someone gets engaged it means that
they and their boyfriend or girlfriend
have decided to get married in the near
future
here is a sample sentence
what a beautiful engagement ring
wedding
a wedding is a ceremony often in a
church where two people get married
usually there's a party after the actual
ceremony this is called the reception
for example you can say did you get
invited to her wedding i met my husband
studying abroad in australia
um we did the long distance thing he's
from italy i'm from new york
we just did long distance for a while
and then we were together for four years
and finally got engaged and now we've
been married for two years so yeah it's
um it's really interesting i mean he
speaks fluent italian that's where he's
from and my family is jamaican so it's
quite the combination but it's really
cool and now i can speak italian
buy a house
most people wait until they're married
to buy a house some people even wait
until they have children
depending on where you live this can be
very expensive so it's considered a
major commitment for example you can say
you need to have a lot of money to buy a
house
anniversary anniversary an anniversary
is a celebration of an event usually
counted by years like a five-year
anniversary for example your birthday is
an anniversary of the day you were born
you can say silver is the traditional
gift for the 25th wedding anniversary
retire retire
once people reach a certain age they
usually stop working so that they can
enjoy the last few years of their lives
for example you can say my parents don't
work anymore they're retired
travel
traveling is a really fun hobby for many
people it's always exciting to see new
places that you've never been to
for example you can say it's a lot of
fun to travel there have you been to
italy
funeral
a funeral is a ceremony held for people
after they die
usually people talk about the deceased
person and family and friends can see
the person's body one last time before
they are buried
for example you can say the funeral will
be held this sunday
promotion
when you do very well at your job you
sometimes get a promotion this means
that you move to a higher position it
usually means you have more
responsibility and a higher salary
here's a sample sentence
after three years i finally got a
promotion at work
hey everyone i'm paris from
englishclass101.com in this video we'll
be talking about 10 words you need to
know at the airport let's go
terminal terminal a terminal is the
place where a plane stops to collect or
drop off passengers
for example you can say the plane will
pull into the terminal so we can exit
or the terminal will get changed 10
times so you'll miss your flight
luggage pickup
this is the place at an airport where
you get your luggage after your flight
for example you can say the luggage
pickup area is busy sometimes you can
also see baggage claim instead of
luggage pickup
then we have plane ticket
plane
ticket you need to keep your plane
ticket with you at all times when you're
at the airport at the airport this will
be called a boarding pass for example
you can say i purchased my plane ticket
online so you do not need that boarding
pass anymore i don't want to see those
boarding passes
the next word is
flight flight a flight is another name
for a plane that goes to a certain
destination
for example you might hear this flight
goes to new york you can say the flight
will leave in one hour or you can say
the flight will leave in 10 hours
because it's been delayed
next word is bored
bored
this verb means to get on a plane boat
etc for example you can say we need to
hurry to get on board on time
boarding gate
a boarding gate is the place where you
go to get on your flight
usually there's a gate number to help
you find your gate for example you can
say i couldn't find my boarding gate
or the boarding gate will be closing and
they'll say paris
delayed
if a flight or train is delayed it means
that it will leave later than expected
for example you can say the train
departure will be delayed for 20 minutes
it's always the worst when your plane or
train is delayed
take off
take off when something starts to fly
especially in an airplane we say that
it's taking off for example you can say
the plane will take off in 20 minutes
the next word is land
land when something descends and touches
the ground after flying we say that it
lands
for example you can say the plane will
land at the airport at 10 o'clock
the next word is reservation reservation
a reservation is used when you made
arrangements in advance for something
such as a restaurant hotel a tour etc
for example
you can say do you have a reservation in
la that's all i hear
okay guys that's it for this lesson
which word do you like the most leave us
a comment letting me know
see you next time guys bye hey guys i'm
paris from
englishclass101.com in this video we'll
be talking about making complaints in
english so let's get started
the first complaint is i'm starving
i'm starving
this is an exaggeration you can use when
you're hungry i am always starving even
right now
the next complaint is it's noisy it's
noisy this kind of complaint is one that
you would make to a friend telling the
staff of a restaurant won't help since
they can't tell people to be quiet i
hate when it's noisy in restaurants save
that for another time
then we have it's hot
it's hot this can be used to talk about
the weather or the temperature of a room
you can add a request like can you turn
on the air conditioner i am never hot so
i like that
the next complaint is it's cold
it's
cold this can be used to talk about the
weather or the temperature of a room you
can add a request like can you turn on
the heater
i always make this request because it's
always too cold everywhere
everywhere it's too expensive
it's too expensive
even if you have enough money to buy
something it may be more money than you
want to spend it would probably be
considered rude to say this to someone
who works at a store but i always think
okay i'm in gucci it's way too expensive
another common complaint is i'm tired
i'm tired
use this complaint to imply that you
want to sit down relax go home take a
break when i babysit my five-year-old
cousin i leave thinking i'm tired
the next complaint is
i gained weight
this is a self-criticism that implies
that you want to lose weight many people
say i got so fat
i'm always broke
use this to complain about never having
enough money i am always broke because i
always want more money
the next complaint is my job is boring
my job is boring this is a really common
complaint used by people who don't think
their jobs are very exciting usually it
means that you want to find a different
more fun job it's all right teachers
your job isn't boring
that person stinks
that person stinks you can use stings to
talk about a literal physical smell or a
general insult meaning that you don't
like how someone smells i hate when
people smell on the bus
not good not okay
the next complaint is there's too much
traffic
there's too much traffic
this is a common complaint among people
who commute to work by car
certain roads are especially bad during
rush hour which is the time in the
morning or night most people are going
home or to work if i left at it was 7
p.m i would be here in 10 minutes but
because it's daytime in la it took me 30
minutes to get here and i drive really
really fast
and it still took me 30 minutes the next
complaint is the wi-fi here is too slow
the wi-fi here is too slow
this is just a general complaint you may
have about the internet speed if you're
at a cafe or somewhere with wi-fi you
can request that they reset their wi-fi
to improve the speed if you're having a
party and you're having friends over and
your wi-fi is too slow you might as well
end that party now
no wi-fi no party
my boss is annoying my boss is annoying
annoying can be used to mean that
someone does things that you don't like
or they ask you to do things that you
don't like
either way an annoying boss is a bad
experience i am very familiar with this
hey paris grab me coffee hey paris check
my emails my boss is annoying but don't
tell him i said that
the pay is too low
the pay is too
low
you can use this to complain about how
much you make or to reject a job offer
because it doesn't pay enough i'm a
surgeon the pay is too low
i don't like it
i don't like it this is a very general
complaint that can be used for almost
anything what do i like
posting a thousand selfies on instagram
i don't like it
okay that's it for this lesson which
complaint do you like more leave us a
comment and let me know and we'll see
you next time
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hi everybody my name is alicia welcome
back to top words today we're going to
talk about 10 ways to stop translating
in your head let's get started
identify objects around you in english
the first way to stop translating in
your head is to identify the objects
around you in your target language so if
you're studying english that means you
look at the objects around the room look
at the things in your life don't think
of them in your native language first
think of them in your target language
first so if i look around the room i see
a computer i shouldn't think my native
language word i should think my target
language word so start with the items
and the situations in your everyday life
if i say computer in english maybe i
should say computa in japanese i should
say not i don't know water in english i
should say omizu in japanese so start
associating the words in your target
language with your everyday life now so
if you're studying english that means
start getting familiar with the things
in your everyday life in english
repeat phrases you hear native speakers
use
tip number two is to repeat the phrases
that you hear native speakers use so if
you're watching this channel for example
or you're watching a tv show or a movie
listen for the way that native speakers
make those phrases if you hear a phrase
you have never heard before or you hear
an interesting combination of words try
to repeat them yourself don't just
listen try to say them yourself if
you're in a public space and it's
difficult for you to do that fine
practice in a place where you feel more
comfortable maybe if you have some
private space to practice just repeat
them get your mouth used to saying the
words the way that the speakers the
native speakers do so if you never
actually say words if you're only taking
in if you're only listening and you're
not actually producing the language it's
it's kind of hard to
uh to practice and to
um to really hone your pronunciation to
improve your pronunciation so when you
listen to native speakers try to repeat
after them so for example if you're
studying english you can try to repeat
after this video you can repeat after
the things i'm saying because maybe i'm
using an expression or i'm using a
certain
series of vocabulary words together the
way a native speaker would and it's
maybe a good idea to try to practice the
ways that native speakers put their
words together so try to repeat after
native speakers especially when you're
looking at media and you can do this
when you're reading books too you can
try to read out
read out loud interesting lines of books
that you find or something that maybe is
difficult for you very nice practice tip
make a situation where you can't escape
into your native language
make a situation where you can't escape
into your native language essentially
means immerse yourself of course going
to that country or going to a place
where you can speak only that language
is very difficult for some of you
totally understand
but if in your life you can create a
situation in your library in your room
in your house somewhere for just an hour
or i don't know maybe a day i don't know
what your schedule is like but if you
can create a situation or create an
environment where you have no choice but
to use that language and you cannot
escape meaning you cannot
go back to using your native language as
a crutch you can't use the native
language at all it forces you to use the
language that you're studying so of
course if you are lucky enough to live
in the country or to live in a place
where people speak the language you're
studying great but you have to go out
and interact with people you have to put
yourself in a place where you have no
choice but to speak it's very hard and
it's very scary and it's very
embarrassing at first but if you take
time to find places and to make
environments that are comfortable for
you where you feel comfortable making
mistakes and asking questions it's very
valuable for your learning process this
is actually something that i did totally
i totally did this my japanese wasn't
very good for
a long time but then i started making
friends who could not speak english
actually i just did this through finding
hobbies there was a hobby that i had i
joined a group i joined actually a
school to where i could learn how to do
that hobby and everything was taught
only in japanese and the people in my
class only spoke japanese mostly and
then maybe we would go out for drinks
and food
late at night or on the weekends and
everybody spoke only japanese and if i
couldn't communicate even simply in
japanese i had no hope of keeping that
friendship together so it forced me to
study it forced me to think about the
words they were using
and to try to learn those words those
patterns as well as how to produce them
naturally myself so i was learning the
vocabulary words the people around me
were using and learning how to apply
them on my own that was only possible
because i had no escape in those
situations so try to do that
even if you can do it yourself in your
house it's super helpful i think
watch tv and movies in your target
language without subtitles
tip number four is to watch tv and
movies in your target language without
subtitles without subtitles so i think
that watching uh
with subtitles can be very beneficial um
so if i'm watching something or if you
want to watch something with subtitles
on great but i sometimes find that i can
in my case i i think too much about
reading the subtitles and i forget to
listen so maybe if you've seen a movie
in your target language a few times um
with the subtitles on try turning the
subtitles off and think about the like
characters body language the words
they're using
you can always look that up later look
up the you know the words you don't know
in a dictionary but try to do it where
you're focusing completely on the way
that people are using their words try
not to use the subtitles so um kind of
play around with it a little bit if
there's a word that's difficult for you
to hear you can actually turn on the
subtitles in like the in the native
language of the movie as well that's
something that i've done like if uh like
if i wanted to study japanese it's very
useful when the actual words spoken in
japanese appear on the screen sometimes
it's easier for me to catch a word if i
see it visually and i hear it at the
same time
so another way to kind of um explore how
you can use tv and movies is to actually
turn on the closed captions like the the
the words on the screen in the native
language of the movie so uh so this is
sort of two points in one so one watch
movies without subtitles meaning
subtitles in your native language and
hint two is to watch movies um with
closed captioning on but the closed
captioning is in your target language
not in your native language so you can
try those two things with tv and with
movies
don't bring a dictionary to your lesson
tip number five is don't bring a
dictionary to your lesson okay so
give me a second here so i understand
the dictionaries especially electronic
dictionaries we have them on our phones
now are very very convenient um of
course it's important to use them and
it's a they're a great resource to have
however
one thing that really bothers me
and
that i think is detrimental it's not
helpful for students is when
students are in a lesson and they're
practicing conversation and they reach a
point in the conversation where they
don't know the word they want to use
they know it in their native language
and they don't know how to say it in
their target language they pull out
their dictionary they say to this the
person listening to them their practice
partner in their lesson where they have
a limited period of time
just a moment and then they look it up
on their phone it takes a few seconds
the flow of the conversation stops and
then they say a word and that's like
whoa
no that's not you don't have that
ability you don't have the ability to do
that in a conversation with a native
speaker most people like if you go to a
bank and try to open a bank account are
you really going to pull out your
dictionary and sit there and try to
communicate you know just a moment just
a moment as you look up each word you
don't know no or if you do that's not a
real conversation so instead try using a
different strategy by that i mean if you
find a word you don't know in
conversation explain the word to your
conversation partner maybe they know the
word if you're speaking with a native
speaker this is a chance for them to
teach you a word i find that when people
take the time to teach me a word i
remember the word much better than just
looking it up on my dictionary so try to
resist maybe you can bring a dictionary
to your lesson but don't use it or try
not to use it in your conversation
practice it's just it destroys the flow
of a conversation so instead practice
the skill of describing the vocabulary
word you want to use and learn how to
ask the meaning of a word or learn how
to ask for a vocabulary word from your
partner so you can use an expression
like ah what's the word that means blah
blah blah or um you know it's this thing
that does this and this and this so this
is an opportunity for you to describe
characteristics of something or find a
different way you can use your body
language you can use whatever you have a
lot of tools but try not to use a
dictionary in a conversation because
it's not realistic
train responses to common questions
number six is a quick one i think number
six hint number six i have is just to
train responses to common questions
train responses to common questions so
for example a very common question in
english is hey how are you
you should know how to answer this
question just have a default response
hey how are you i'm good
if it takes you a long time to answer
the question hey how are you
you need to practice i think that's a
pretty good uh
a pretty good indicator so for example
sometimes i ask students a question like
that they they haven't quite
gotten the idea of how to respond just
yet they they're not so quick at
responding i say uh hey how are you and
they say yes
and then they think and they go i'm uh
i'm good and it's like that's a very
common question so think about just a
default response that you can spit out
that you can quickly say if it's how was
your weekend or hey what's up or what do
you want to do for dinner tonight think
about like just a handful meaning just a
few responses to those questions and
train them quickly just how are you i'm
good how are you i'm okay how are you
not bad there's three so
it's just training responses to those
questions there's no reason to be
surprised by a question like how are you
like that's a very common question so
for those common questions train
responses to that we've got a bunch of
videos especially beginner level videos
for some example responses you can do so
don't get
stuck with these little questions just
train a few responses practice a few
responses till they feel natural to you
it'll save you time and it'll help the
person asking the question too to move
forward in the conversation yay
study with materials that don't provide
a translation
the next tip is to study with materials
that don't provide a translation so by
this i mean if you're using worksheets
and or some kind of textbook or whatever
and it has
your
target language the language you're
studying and it has your native language
next to it while this can be useful i
feel that if you can studying your
materials only in your target language
and then simplified explanations for
more detailed points also in your target
language can be a little bit better so i
don't want to say like you should only
study things in your target language and
nothing from your native language
because of course like it can be helpful
sometimes to look up a word or to
understand a grammar point in your
native language but where possible if
you can find something that provides
simplified explanations in your target
language it can be really really helpful
because again you're thinking you're
learning to think on like a simpler on a
more basic level about the language
you're studying in the language that
you're studying so this can be really
really good so finding some materials to
use where there's no translation maybe
you can practice
of course with with books and with
written materials but also with like
video materials as well so there are a
variety of different ways that you can
find materials in your target language
um like in video and tv so some things
to think about there are the level of
vocabulary words people are using in the
media content you're watching um who the
media content is intended for children
young adults adults
the speed at which the speaker is
talking so like i have the ability to
change the level of difficulty of
videos based on the rate of speech the
vocabulary words that i use and how many
like idioms and things i use so i could
make a video very difficult we could
make a very like a very difficult video
series by
leveling up our vocabulary use or by
speaking very quickly or as you might
see in like our english and three
minutes series
we can also use very simple vocabulary
and speak at a low rate of speech so
maybe right now this is a very
intermediate level video so please think
about that so not just for written
materials but also for your audio and
visual materials think about
who your audience is the level of the
material and so on it can be really fun
and it can be helpful to think about
your your target language in your target
language all right we're almost done
study phrases in addition to single
vocabulary
the next tip is study phrases in
addition to single vocabulary words so
yes of course vocabulary is important
but i find it personally very very
useful to look at how a vocabulary word
is used in a phrase because sometimes
using it in a phrase helps you
understand the nuance of that vocabulary
word really really well so if i like a
word like crazy for example in english
depending on the situation where the
word crazy is used it could mean
something different it could mean like a
person who's mentally confused or mixed
up it could also mean something really
good it could mean something really bad
so if we look only at the word crazy
it's quite difficult to understand
really the meaning of the word but if
you look at the way the word is used in
a phrase you can get a lot more
information so take a look at the way
people use words in phrases not just as
single vocabulary words you can learn a
lot more that way i think
do your daily activities in english
where possible
the next tip is to do your daily
activities in your target language so if
you're studying english that means try
to do some daily activities in english
if possible so this can be very very
boring stuff but just think about it
when you're doing the activity so like
right now i'm filming a video for
englishclass101.com or i'm going to work
i'm cooking breakfast i'm doing the
laundry what do i have to do tomorrow so
try thinking about your everyday life in
english if you're studying english try
thinking about your everyday activities
the people that you meet what are you
doing so this is a way to help you
practice your verbs so if you don't know
if you're i don't know you're doing
something at work and you're like oh my
gosh how do i explain the what's the
verb for you know
a picture like i want to blah blah a
picture what's the word you can check a
dictionary at that point and go ah it's
draw i i need to use the verb draw for
draw a picture so you can find these
little gaps in your everyday life these
little gaps in your knowledge if you
think about
your everyday activities in your target
language if you don't think about it in
your target language you might not
realize you have vocabulary gaps or
phrase gaps here and there so this is a
really good and kind of funny actually
way to study
use a learner's dictionary for new words
the last tip is to use a learner's
dictionary for new words so in english
there are learners dictionaries
available in english so my favorite my
personal favorite is merriam-webster
merriam-webster is a fantastic
dictionary resource they're so
interesting and they have tons of like
historical information i really do just
sit and like read things on the
dictionary page lately it's true
but um of course there's a definition
there's a meaning for words there are
example sentences for words but
merriam-webster also has what's called a
learner's dictionary if you find a word
that you don't recognize you can check
it
in a dictionary in a learner's
dictionary and it gives you a simplified
a simple explanation in simple english
of that word so instead of checking it
in your native language you can check it
in your target language so again this
helps you to understand the word
that you are that you're focused on but
you understand it from
the language you're studying not from
your native language so using a
learner's dictionary can be really
really useful as well
all right so those are 10 tips those are
10 tips to help you stop translating in
your head i know it's very difficult but
it's it takes time and it takes practice
and i hope that these are a few
strategies that can help you as you
study
any language of course this is an
english language channel an english
language learning channel but i think
these tips are pretty good for learning
just about any language really so i hope
those are useful for you if you have
tried these strategies or if you have
any other comments or other tips please
let us know in the comments section
below this video thanks very much for
watching this episode of top words and i
will see you again soon bye
hi everybody my name is alicia welcome
back to top words today we're going to
talk about 10 phrases for gossip let's
go
oh my god so
the first phrase is oh my god so so oh
my god so is a introductory phrase you
can use to start your topic with like a
surprise factor so you say oh my god and
then so is your transition phrase so for
example oh my god so i have to tell you
about this movie i saw or oh my god so i
saw my neighbor
in the shopping mall this morning or oh
my god so
did you see my new dog it's kind of a
weird one usually it's about a person
not about a dog but who knows
you won't believe what happened to me
the other day
the next expression is you won't believe
what happened to me the other day you
won't believe what happened to me the
other day meaning something happened to
you
and you think it's going to be a
surprise to the person listening to you
you won't believe what happened to me
the other day so it's a very fast phrase
because it sounds like you want to share
very quickly like you won't believe what
happened to me you can drop the other
day if you want or you said you can say
you won't believe what happened to me
this morning you won't believe what
happened to me last night you won't
believe what happened to me this weekend
you won't believe what happened to me
over my winter vacation so that you
won't believe what happened to me gets
very very quick and short so examples uh
you won't believe what happened to me
the other day i ran into my ex-boss or
you won't believe what happened to me
the other day i
tripped and fell down a flight of stairs
or you won't believe what happened to me
the other day i got a new
parrot
sure i don't know maybe one of you can
use that
guess what
the next phrase is very short the next
phrase is like an exclamation so an
excited statement and a question
guess what
guess what so
guess what is inviting the listener to
guess
what happened to you guess what
the full question would be guess what
happened or guess what happened to me
but we only say guess what so guess what
and sometimes the listener
guesses and sometimes the listener just
says what usually the listener just says
what uh ask so meaning you should
continue the story so if you say guess
what i quit my job or guess what i saw
my
best friend with
a
new
guy i haven't seen before
another example uh guess what i got a
new car something like that so some kind
of shocking like
difficult to guess situation
i haven't told you about this yet
the next expression is i haven't told
you about this yet i haven't told you
about this yet so have not becomes
haven't i haven't told you about this
yet so maybe you've told you have told
other people but this specific person
maybe you have not told that person your
news or some information yet but this
yet implies you are planning to or you
want to tell them this so
it's it's kind of creates a little
suspense i haven't told you about this
yet so we could use this like i haven't
told you about this yet i'm going to
france next summer or i haven't told you
about this yet but i broke up with my
boyfriend last night or i haven't told
you about this yet but i'm throwing a
big party for my co-worker this weekend
can you come other examples i haven't
told you about this yet i saw my boss
out for dinner with someone who's
not his
wife
oh my god that's not true
that's not true
or i haven't told you about this yet
i
heard
that the company is gonna
go bankrupt
also not true
okay so those are some pretty juicy
juicy gossip that's an expression we use
we say juicy gossip is something that's
like really really interesting gossip or
really interesting story about people we
say juicy gossip for that
have you heard about
the next expression is have you heard
about blah blah blah have you heard
about can be followed with a noun phrase
have you heard about
a person you can use a person or have
you heard about a situation you can use
both
you can use a an object too so have you
heard about the new iphone or have you
heard about the new
office policies um you can use that um
for pretty much anything you want to
inform your listener about so have you
heard about
is usually said very quickly have you
heard about so the you becomes shortened
to yeah have you heard about have you
heard about blah blah blah so have you
heard about the new secretary have you
heard about our new boss or have you
heard about my co-worker quitting his
job have you heard about the neighbors
above us they're moving
so you can use people here for gossip
expressions or you can use objects um in
this expression just to introduce
something new very useful phrase have
you heard about my mom
sorry mom i don't know why you came into
that one okay
so the other day
the next expression is
kind of like the beginning to a story so
maybe this can be for gossip maybe it
can just be like a story something
interesting or maybe boring that
happened to you the expression is so the
other day
so the other day so the other day the
other day here means not today some
other day which day it doesn't really
matter it's not really important but we
say the other day someday in the past
this expression is used for it so we can
say so the other day i was sitting at my
desk in the office when my manager came
and asked if he could speak to me
or so the other day i was shopping and i
ran into my ex-boyfriend or so the other
day i was renting a car
and the
former president of the united states
came into the car rental shop what all
right so the other day just some day in
the past
so i was talking with
and
the next one you can use um maybe for
gossip sometimes but also you can use
for making plans it's so i was talking
with someone and blah blah so i was
talking with someone means you were
having a conversation
at another time with a person and you
want to kind of report information or
share something from that conversation
with the person listening now
so
i might say so i was talking with risa
and i think that we should plan a party
for this weekend what do you think so i
was talking with
my team about this and i think that we
should make some changes so that's a
very kind of
everyday work situation use of this
phrase um but you can also use it for
gossip like so i was talking to my best
friend and i think i'm gonna move or i
was talking to my parents and i think
it's best if we break up oh so it can be
for plans it can be for gossip it can be
for just any conversation plus a report
what's up with
the next expression is kind of a little
like mysterious then the expression is
what's up with blah blah blah usually
what's up with person for gossip meaning
there's like the nuance here is there's
some problem where it seems like
something's wrong with this person
they're unhappy they're sad they're
angry uh some kind of negative emotion
we use this so it's like what's up with
stevens i haven't heard from him lately
what's up with your brother he seems
really upset or what's up with your
neighbor why is he so noisy or what's up
with your boss he's so strict so it
sounds like there's some problem we
usually use this intonation what's up
with what's up with
to introduce somebody who has a problem
we don't say what's up it's not that
it's not that sort of hello um
expression it's a it's an expression for
a problem you can also use a noun phrase
that is not a person here like what's up
with this new office policy or what's up
with this new rule at work or what's up
with this new item on the menu at this
restaurant it's super weird so what's up
with blah blah blah has sort of a
negative nuance you can use it for
people to talk about strange behavior
what's up with
you
have you heard from
lately the next expression is have you
heard from blah blah blah lately have
you heard from person lately have you
heard from stevens lately i haven't seen
him have you heard from your mom lately
have you heard from your dad lately have
you heard from your brother lately have
you heard from your landlord lately i
don't know why you hear from your
landlord but have you heard from someone
lately there is sort of an ex like
a little bit of an expectation that you
are in contact with the person involved
in this sentence like you have some
relationship maybe it's a family
relationship romantic relationship
professional relationship there's some
relationship with this person and lately
it's like have you heard from them
recently lately
in the last few days in the last few
weeks
so you can use this if for example you
are looking for someone or you're
worried about someone you can use this
here
you can also use it just just to check
in about some other person without
asking that person directly so like if i
want to ask about i'm using risa in my
example risa is our japanese channel
host um
if i want to ask about how risa is but i
don't want to ask risa i know maybe
she's busy or i don't know for some
reason i it's difficult to talk to her i
can ask like my co-worker i can say hey
have you heard from risa lately it seems
she's really busy or have you heard from
so and so lately it seems they're busy
so if i want to ask about another person
but i don't want to bother this person
or that something makes it difficult i
can use have you heard from blah blah
blah recently or lately to ask about
them very useful phrase
i have to tell you about
next expression um the next expression
is i have to tell you about blah blah
blah i have to tell you so half 2
becomes hafta i have to tell you about
it has a nice
sound i have to tell you about blah blah
blah or i have to tell you about
something so i have to tell you about my
weekend i have to tell you about stevens
i have to tell you about my mom i have
to tell you about my boyfriend i should
tell you about my girlfriend whatever it
is some
person used at the end of this sentence
creates a nuance like there's exciting
news about that person or i have to tell
you about this thing that happened you
can use a situation at the end of the
sentence too but you're using i have to
at the beginning of this sentence so
that sounds like it's really important
like i feel it's so important it's my
responsibility to tell you because this
is so exciting of course you can use
this in more boring situations as well
like i have to tell you about the new
office policy
you can use it in that way with a very
flat intonation but for gossip purposes
use i have to tell you about blah blah
blah that sounds really good so what do
you have to tell somebody about i have
to tell you about this new idea i have
for a business or i have to tell you
about what happened to me last night
okay so there are these really exciting
ways that we can introduce things that
happened or that we can talk about
people or whatever okay so those are 10
phrases that you can use for gossip i
hope that those are useful i hope you
don't gossip too much i don't really
like to gossip that much but sometimes
it's a little bit useful so give them a
try if you want to try them out a little
bit you can do so in the comment section
below the video for sure thank you very
much for watching this episode of top
words and i will see you again soon bye
hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we're
going to talk about 10 employment
related words so let's go
to apply for a job
the first expression is to apply for a
job when you apply for a job you do a
job application a job application form
where you have to write your personal
information and then you often have to
submit some other materials your cv or
your resume
and then maybe maybe a photograph to
something like that so to apply for a
job is to
essentially notify the owner or the
manager at the company that you are
interested in that you would like to
work there that is to apply for a job so
in a sentence i applied for a job at
apple
to interview for to have an interview
the next expression is to interview for
something or to have an interview so
after you apply for a job if you pass
the application stage you may be asked
to have an interview so to have an
interview is the stage where you meet
your
prospective maybe meet your potential
future employer or manager or co-workers
and you have a discussion they interview
you they talk to you about your skills
your goals who you are as a person an
interview to have an interview or we can
say to interview for a position so for
example i'm going to interview for a
sales position i'm going to interview
for a teacher position i'm going to
interview for a
baking cake making position you never
know
you never know cakes need to be baked uh
anyway so if you decide you're going to
apply to be a cake baker you say i'm
going i have
an interview for a cake baker position
in this sentence i got an interview for
a new job
to get an offer
the next expression is to get an offer
to get an offer so after the application
and perhaps after the interview if the
employer or manager or whoever they like
you uh the next phase is usually an
offer and offer a job offer so we would
say uh
i got an offer for a job i got an offer
from apple i got an offer for a
management position so we can use offer
for a job to be very general an offer
for a specific position i got an offer
for a
donut
taste tester position
or we can say i got a job offer from
a company i got a job offer from
kleenex
okay there are three different ways that
we can use this expression another
sentence i got a really great job offer
accept an offer
the next expression is to accept an
offer so when the offer comes you can
choose to accept or decline the offer
accept means yes decline means no so to
accept an offer means to say yes to
agree to work for that position
sorry to agree to work in that position
to agree to work for the company
to agree to do that job which you
applied for to accept an offer in this
sentence are you going to accept the
offer from that company
to start working
the next expression is to start working
so to start working at a new job we can
use this to talk about the job your
responsibilities specifically or the
company so i'm going to start working at
apple next week or i'm going to start
working at my new job next week or i'm
going to start working as a sales
management professional next week for
example so to start working is
is an expression that's used for a new
job sometimes people will say like about
their regular schedules like i start
working every day at eight o'clock it's
okay you can use that as well i would
say i start work every day at eight
o'clock i start my job every day at
eight o'clock
but when you join a new company you can
also say i start working for my new
company on monday for example
to get a promotion the next expression
is to get a promotion to get a promotion
a promotion means essentially like to
level up at work to go to the next level
in terms of money in terms of
responsibility in terms of prestige
prestige means like kind of like the
respect or the um
the yeah like the respect of a position
so to get a promotion is usually seen as
a positive thing
so if you do a good job in your position
you may get a promotion in this sentence
do you think you'll get a promotion next
year
to get a raise
the next expression is to get a raise to
get a raise is specifically
an increase in your pay an increase in
your pay which may or may not be
accompanied by be together with a
promotion so maybe you get a promotion
and a raise at the same time that could
be or maybe you have the same job
description but you get a raise so it's
kind of it's like a type of promotion
really getting getting a raise is like a
type of promotion sort of like a
monetary promotion i guess
now that i think about it though
promotion feels really kind of more
about the job title the job or
responsibility level uh and then that
may or may not have a raise attached to
it so to get a raise means to get more
money to have a higher salary higher
hourly wage to get a raise
i have heard some people say get a rise
in pay as well but that might be more
common in british english americans say
get a raise in a sentence i hope i get a
raise this year
to demote the next expression is to
demote demote so i talked about the word
to promote or to get a promotion meaning
to go up a level to
increase your responsibilities at your
job but if you have bad performance or
if there is a problem at your job or
something goes awry something goes bad
there's a there's an issue or you have
to take responsibility for a company
problem whatever you have to go down a
level uh we say that that's being
demoted that would be to demote someone
so we have promote to go up and demote
meaning to go down
in a sentence i heard the manager in the
next department was demoted
to quit
the next expression is to quit to quit
so to quit be careful of your
pronunciation i hear sometimes my
students say to quite my job that's a
funny one too quite it is not too quite
it is to quit to quit there's that tall
eye sound quit
um
sounds like
bit or kit or mitt or
it so to quit a job to quit a job means
to stop working somewhere to finish your
response well maybe not finish your
responsibility it means to stop working
a specific position it means to stop
working at a specific company of course
you can say to quit a job you can also
quit other things in your life for
example like to quit a task on a
computer or to quit dating someone
people could say that to quit
staying up late at night you can use
that for
any number of actions
any action that you want to stop doing
we can use to quit but when you
want to stop working at a company the
vocabulary word we use is to quit in
this sentence i think i need to quit my
job
to be fired
oh the next expression is to be fired to
be fired so the previous word to quit is
your own choice you choose to quit a job
to quit something however
if there's a big problem that is your
responsibility or maybe
there's some circumstance something
happens i don't know what but it is not
your choice to leave your job but your
employer's choice or your manager's
choice they decide you cannot continue
working here this is the expression to
be fired like i got fired from my job i
was fired from my job to be fired means
to lose your job to be
forced to quit your job is to be fired
in this sentence one of my colleagues
was fired last week
so that's the end those are 10
employment related words i hope that
those are helpful for you in applying
for jobs and maybe even applying for
universities to some degree i don't know
thanks very much for watching this
episode of top words and we will see you
again soon bye
going to work we're at work
employment related words we're working
this is what i do all day when i work
pretty much okay stop that let's talk
seriously about serious things there's
not really like a promotion
there's no promotion in this job
it's not like i'm gonna be like i mean
maybe you're raised
can i already read that i don't know i
forgot i forgot i forgot if i said the
example sentence
i had a very strong coffee at lunch
promoting what am i doing
if i was gonna try and do something with
that but nothing's coming out so we're
gonna stop that right now welcome to
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that's an old song isn't it yeah but i
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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we're
going to talk about 10 crime related
words so let's begin
suspect the first word is suspect
suspect as a noun please be careful not
the verb form to suspect though we can
use that suspect and suspect have
slightly different pronunciations as a
noun suspect means a person who may or
may not have committed a crime may or
may not have done something bad to
suspect someone means to be suspicious
to think they may or may not have done
something so please be careful depending
on the grammar
suspect and suspect have different
pronunciations despite the same spelling
so suspect in a sentence the suspect was
seen running away from the scene
criminal the next expression is criminal
so a criminal is a person who is
convicted of a crime so to put that more
simply a criminal is a person who has
been determined to have done something
against the law they have done something
bad it has been decided
by a court of law or the governing body
so a criminal has indeed yes
been found guilty an expression we'll
talk about later so a criminal is
someone we know has committed a crime in
a sentence they arrested the criminal on
wednesday
victim the next expression is victim
victim a victim is a person who suffers
because of a crime or because of a
natural disaster also we can use victims
for natural disasters and for crimes so
they are innocent they are they've had
no reason to be affected uh they're just
maybe the wrong place the wrong time
either way they are well i shouldn't say
innocent but they are the person who
suffers in this situation a victim is
the person who suffers in this situation
in a sentence the victim was an elderly
woman
guilty so the next expression is guilty
he is guilty of blah blah blah crime or
he was found guilty of blah blah blah
crime the nuance of guilty is having
done something bad so if you are guilty
of a crime it means you have done that
crime
but someone can look guilty we can use
guilty as an adjective to talk about the
way someone looks so guilty in a court
or guilty in discussing a criminal case
can mean
he or she did the crime he is guilty she
is guilty however we can say he looks
guilty or the dog looks guilty that
means that that person or that object or
that animal looks like they did
something bad but we don't know for sure
so guilty means has the nuance of doing
something bad in a sentence you look
very guilty
not guilty okay so on the other hand not
guilty not guilty is the verdict so
verdict is the word used for decision in
criminal cases not guilty means uh not
doing the crime the crime was not done
by that person so a person who is found
or determined not guilty means they did
not do the crime or it's been decided
that that person did not do the crime
they are not guilty
okay in a sentence he was found not
guilty of the crime to plead to plead so
to plead is similar to to beg so to
plead means to humbly request something
it's this this is the image of pleading
like your hands together hoping very
much for something asking very humbly
for something but this is the verb that
we use in court cases in criminal cases
so we'll say
i want to plead not guilty for the crime
of blah blah blah so to plead uh means
to request consideration for something
so i want to plead not guilty means i
want to request you the court the judge
whoever my community you find me you
consider me not guilty i did not do the
crime so uh but we use instead of that
very long expression we say i plead not
guilty this is a much easier way to
express that situation of course you can
plead guilty to a crime too in some
cases so he plead this is past tense to
plead changes to plead he pled guilty to
the crime of manslaughter for example
so in a sentence
the defendant pled not guilty
murder
homicide so the next expression uh i
have murder and homicide here so murder
and homicide if you watch police shows
or if you watch you know movies dramas
which use uh like police and
fbi and so on you might have heard these
words but what's the difference so
murder and homicide are used to mean the
same thing it means killing another
person with intention so to murder
someone else means to kill another
person and with intention there's a plan
to do it homicide is the word that is
used in legal terminology or in forensic
forensic meaning analysis of bodies
analysis of like blood for example of
bacteria so kind of
scientific analysis of a crime scene
so in those cases in the investigation
side and in the legal side they might
use the word homicide perhaps more
you might also hear homicide in news but
in everyday conversation murder is
perhaps more common so
the defendant was convicted of murder
the defendant was found guilty of murder
in a sentence she was found guilty of
murder manslaughter all right so another
expression manslaughter this is an
interesting word so manslaughter you can
see the word slaughter is there so
slaughter refers to killing something we
use slaughter uh in many cases to refer
to slaughter houses where cattle are
killed like pigs and cows for example
so it has the image of like brutally
killing however manslaughter refers to
an accidental killing so for example
driving in a car and just through some
strange accident
maybe a person
is hit by the car and they die but there
was no intention on the part of the
driver there was no plan there it was an
accident a terrible terrible accident in
those cases the word manslaughter is
applied
meaning an accidental death so in a
sentence this is a case of manslaughter
jury the next expression is jury jury
you may or may not have a jury system in
your country in the u.s jury system
there's a jury of your peers so peers
are people in your community people in
theory who are similar to you in some
way so a jury is a group of people who
makes a decision about a court case you
often have to give a presentation to a
jury so
yeah you might see these uh juries that
is in movies and in tv shows about crime
as well in a sentence the jury was
divided on the case meaning the jury did
not know how to vote yes or no guilty
judge the next expression is judge judge
so uh again your country may or may not
have something similar but a judge is
kind of uh if you if you've watched like
u.s crime shows or whatever you might
have seen these people they're men and
women who wear like these big black
robes usually and they sit high in
courtrooms above the other people
usually we also have in the u.s the
supreme court the supreme court is our
well supreme meaning most high the best
the highest level uh the supreme court
where we have uh what we call justices
but those those are essentially like
they are uh judges really they're the
highest level of judge in the u.s
so they have a special word justice but
they are judges so they make decisions
based on the law based on the legal
rules of the country or or of the city
or of the location where you are a judge
does that so in a sentence the judge had
a tough decision to make no oh that's
the end all right uh so those are 10
crime related words i hope that those
are useful for you keep an eye out for
these or keep an ear out for these
rather you might hear them in tv shows
and movies in the news as well and
thanks very much for watching this
episode of top words we'll see you again
soon bye this one's gonna be fun
i don't know i haven't driven a vehicle
in like nine years
okay begin
hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we're
going to talk about 10 phrases to use
when driving so let's go
now steering wheel
uh the first expression is steering
wheel steering wheel is that thing that
circular object in the car you use to
move the vehicle it's called the
steering wheel steering wheel so in a
sentence keep both hands on the steering
wheel
next
blinker turn signal
the next expression is blinker or turn
signal we have two words for this
blinker or turn signal this is the part
of the car the light
that blinks
so this sort of on off on off we say it
blinks that's the verb that we use to
describe that on off action
or turn signal is another way to explain
this one but we use this to signal when
we are turning to the right or turning
to the left so in a sentence make sure
to use your turn signals
windshield wiper the next expression is
windshield wiper windshield wiper your
windshield is that thing the piece of
glass
at the front of the car
that keeps the car separate from the
world outside it like that is your wind
shield literally windshield it shields
you the driver and your passengers from
the wind the windshield so a windshield
wiper is those those rubbery things they
wipe the windshield like rain or
other objects that might fall
okay in a sentence i accidentally turned
on the windshield wipers
fast lane the next expression is fast
lane and there's also a slow lane but
fast lane
is
the a specific lane a specific part of
the road for cars that want to drive
quickly so if you'd like to go fast you
should go in the fast lane if you do not
want to go fast you should go in the
slow lane or maybe just the regular lane
so there's a fast lane and a slow lane
on some roads and some highways in a
sentence keep a quick pace in the fast
lane
to hit the gas
to hit the gas the gas means the
accelerator so to hit the accelerator to
hit has the nuance of suddenly or
quickly doing something so to hit the
gas means to quickly increase speed so
in a sentence hit the gas you're going
too slow
to hit the brakes
then the other side of this expression
is to hit the brakes so the brakes are
those are the parts of the car that slow
the car down to hit the brakes means to
suddenly step on the brakes to suddenly
try to slow the car down or maybe stop
the car quickly is to hit the brakes you
can also say to slam on the brakes which
is even stronger than hit the brakes so
in a sentence don't hit the brakes so
hard
to break the speed limit the next
expression is to break the speed limit
so to break the speed limit means uh you
break the law actually break here break
does not refer to destroying something
or damaging something break instead is
the verb that we use to mean we have
violated a law we have done something
bad according to the rules in our
country or our city or something so to
break the speed limit or to break the
law means we are going faster than the
allowed speed limit if the speed limit
is
20 miles an hour or 20 kilometers an
hour and our car is traveling at 50
kilometers an hour or 50 miles an hour
whatever
your country uses this is breaking the
speed limit to break the speed limit it
is too fast so in a sentence i broke the
speed limit and i got a ticket
to pass
the next expression is to pass to pass
so this is used in a situation where
there is one car moving uh slower than
another car so car a is moving along uh
at a slow pace car b decides that it
wants to go faster than car a so to pass
means to move to the side of the slower
car
pass the car and then move back in front
and continue on
so sometimes there is a specific passing
lane to do this other times there are
specific marks on the road that indicate
are that show that it's okay to pass so
in the u.s it's a dotted line which
means you can pass in this part of the
road it's safe to pass so to pass means
to move beyond another car going more
slowly than you be careful to pass other
cars safely
to be in an accident to be in an
accident to be in an accident means in
this case a car accident a car crash so
something uh
unfortunate has happened and maybe
the car was damaged a person was hurt or
killed perhaps
in all of those situations we can say he
or she was in an accident or i was in an
accident
in a sentence have you ever been in an
accident fender bender
uh the next expression is a interesting
word it's called fender bender a fender
bender is a minor accident a small
accident this expression comes from a
fender fender is a part of a car fender
is at the front of a car
it's it's usually kind of a plastic
a plastic sort of barrier or a plastic
part right at the front of the car
above the wheels but below the hood of
the car
so a fender bender is a small accident
where maybe two cars collide a little
bit and the fender on the front of the
car becomes bent so there's a small bit
of damage to the fender only on the car
so fender bender is used to talk about
small scale accidents so sometimes this
might literally mean the fender of the
car was damaged but it can also mean
just a small bit of damage to a car
somewhere else so a small accident is
called a fender bender in a sentence my
friend got an offender bender last
weekend all right so that's the end so
those are 10 phrases to use when driving
i hope that you find them useful thanks
very much for watching and we will see
you again soon bye
do you ever do that in a car like you
get in and you turn it on it's like
my mom has done that yeah
it's always a good surprise you're like
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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we're
going to talk about 10 words for sports
and fitness so let's go
boom to work out
all right the first word is to work out
to work out means to exercise to work
out exercise to sweat to get healthy
presumably so in a sentence i try to
work out three times a week
to play
the next expression is to play plus
sport so uh to play plus the sport that
is used with the verb to play is usually
a ball sport a sport which uses a ball
like basketball football uh soccer
baseball golf
so i play golf i play soccer i play
basketball i play volleyball i play
badminton it uses a ball or a ball like
object
it's not a perfect rule but there's a
good chance that if you are playing a
ball
ish a ball related sport
you can use the verb to play so in a
sentence i used to play volleyball
that's true
rep or repetition
okay so the next word is rep or
repetition rep is the short form of
repetition so rep means a repeat in your
workout in your exercise or your
training routine training regimen
regimen means routine uh rep means like
the number of times you repeat something
for example you do 10 reps in each set
so for workout vocabulary a set is like
a group of exercises so for example i'm
going to do 10 push-ups and 10 sit-ups
and then 10
i don't know weight lifting some
something so those three things together
that's one set and inside each of those
is 10 10 and 10 of three different uh
exercises those are 10 reps in one set
so reps means repetitions in a sentence
do 10 reps in each set
personal record
the next expression is personal record
personal record or pr personal record
means your best something your best 5k
time your best
200 meter race you're
the most weight you were able to lift uh
the longest distance you were able to
run so a personal record is your best at
something best time best
um like heaviest weight whatever
something that's best for you in a
sentence i set a new personal record
last week
not true
to break a sweat to work up a sweat
the next expression is to break a sweat
to break a sweat means to start sweating
it doesn't mean to break anything it
just means uh you you break into like if
you know the if you know like uh
uh health care related words like break
out uh which means your skin has a
reaction to something you break out into
a rash or you break out into hives maybe
we'll talk about that in a different
video but um
to break out into sweat it's like
something begins suddenly in your body
that wasn't it wasn't there before so to
break a sweat uh or to work up a sweat
so the image of work up a sweat is over
time gradually you begin to sweat
and to break a sweat is like to start
sweating i really worked up a sweat this
afternoon that is now true okay
to stretch
the next expression is to stretch to
stretch so usually people well it's said
that you should stretch before and or
after a workout well and before and
after a workout to stretch is to uh it
means to stretch the muscles and tendons
in your body so like a simple stretch
that i can do on camera would be like to
try to stretch this this part right here
like the muscles in here you can kind of
pull your hand back to get a light
stretch but to stretch is all like
stretching everything you are going to
use in your workout during your exercise
so before you begin you should stretch
your body you should you should do some
stretches to use a noun form in a
sentence it's important to stretch
before you work out
to warm up
the next word is to warm up to warm up
means to get ready for a workout so it's
like your workout is kind of composed of
three parts which i'm going to talk
about i'm going to talk about part
number one and two now there's the warm
up which is getting ready like a light
exercise and then there's the main part
of your workout and then the next word
we'll talk about is the third part but
the warm-up is usually like stretch or
maybe you just start to break a sweat so
the warm-up is kind of the light
introduction to your workout in a
sentence i always warm up before i begin
a workout
to cool down
the next expression is to cool down to
cool down so the other part of your
workout we have not talked about so we
warm up we work out and we cool down at
the end of the workout so to cool down
is kind of the relaxing part the
conclusion to your workout
usually
they say don't just finish your workout
but have a cool down session so for
example if you go running
after you finish the main part of your
run maybe take a short walk to cool down
and maybe stretch
in a sentence
take some time to cool down after a
workout
to lift weights or to do weight training
the next expression is to lift weights
or to do weight training so lifting
weights you can probably see them
weights in any gym anywhere you go to i
imagine there's those big
heavy things that people lift up or like
push up whatever there are many
different things you can do
uh to
to do weight training so lifting weights
of course has maybe this sort of image
of lifting something but there are other
ways to do weight training like pulling
things or i don't know holding things in
place i don't even know i don't do much
weight training as you can imagine
but
so you can say lift weights or do weight
training is maybe a little more general
so in a sentence have you ever tried
lifting weights
to do
or
to
sport
the next expression is to do a sport
okay so the next expression is to do
it's actually i'm gonna separate it into
two groups here to do an activity and
two
plus a verb
so at the beginning of the lesson we
talked about sports usually sports which
use a ball like basketball baseball
football where we say to play basketball
to play football
however for activities like for example
gymnastics or yoga these are just kind
of um they're they're more i don't know
yes there's perhaps sports are
competitive but they don't really use a
ball and they're kind of um you might
some people might consider them more
like activities depending on the person
depending on the place that you're that
you're in but regardless we don't use
play with these we just use do so i like
doing yoga i want to do gymnastics those
are a couple sort of special cases where
we use do however for all the other
sporting activities like skiing
snowboarding swimming canoeing
rowing
whatever we don't use do or play or
anything we just use the verb so i like
to swim i like to snowboard i like to
ski
no play no do we can use go i like to go
skiing i like to go
bicycling
but you can simply use the verb for that
activity in place of any other verb like
go or play don't use play just don't use
play that's my point here
so
in a sentence i like doing yoga with the
do verb or i like skiing as a simple
activity sentence hi everyone my name is
bridget and welcome to today's lesson
the topic for this lesson is
top 10 lines you'll need to reject a
date
let's get started
sorry but i already have another
appointment
sorry but i already have another
appointment
if someone asks you out for a specific
day
this is a way of saying you won't be
available you already have plans then
sorry i already have another appointment
oh i have to work late today
this is a reasonable way to get out of
going on a date you don't want to go on
it's a way of saying you have too much
to do at work you won't have time for
anything else in the evening because you
have to work late
oh i'm late for class sorry i can't
this is something you would say if you
were in school at university
you're saying that you are running late
for a class you have to get to your
class your lecture
it's a way of getting away from someone
it means you're on a tight schedule oh
sorry i'm running late for class i can't
i'll be studying for finals
finals are final exams that come at the
end of a school year
this is a good thing to say if you're in
school because it shows that you care
about your grades you have too much
studying to do to be going on dates with
anyone
it's a very valid reason to stay in if
you care about your grades you have too
much studying to do
to be going out on dates that's not
important what's important is studying
oh i just made plans to go out with the
girls tonight sorry
oh i just made plans to go out with the
girls tonight sorry
this is a way of saying you've already
made plans with your group of friends
it means you can't do anything else that
night because you're already hanging out
with your girlfriends or if you're a guy
you could say you're going out with the
guys you already have plans so sorry you
don't have time for a date
i've got to check my schedule can i get
back to you later
i've got to check my schedule can i get
back to you later
this is a way of buying yourself some
time
it means you're not sure if you're
available so you need to double check
your schedule your calendar wherever you
put down the things that you have to do
your obligations
if you're sticky this is an easy way to
buy yourself some time to make other
plans so that you can get back to the
person who asked you on the date and say
actually i checked my schedule i have
something that day
i'm busy that day
i'm sorry i already have a boyfriend or
a girlfriend
i'm sorry i already have a boyfriend
this is a very very common way of
rejecting people
a lot of times at a bar if someone comes
up to you
sorry i already have a boyfriend
it means that you already have a
significant other in your life and
you're not looking for anything romantic
with anyone else it shows you're not
available so they should
turn their sights elsewhere
i'm not really interested in seeing
anyone right now
i'm not really interested in seeing
anyone right now
this is a very direct way of telling
someone that you're not looking for
anything romantic with anyone it means
you're happy to be single to be on your
own
not caught up in any romantic
entanglements
you're saying i'm actually not
interested in what you're interested if
that person is coming up to you and
trying to get something started
romantically asking you out on a date
you're saying
actually i'm not interested in anything
romantic in my life right now
i'm sorry i just don't like you in that
way
i'm sorry i just don't like you in that
way
this is a very direct way of rejecting
someone sometimes it's so direct that it
actually hurts someone else's feelings
you're telling them you don't see them
in a romantic way at all you're not
attracted to them romantically
to say i don't see you in that way
it means i don't see you in a romantic
way at all
i just want to be friends
this is a very very very common way
to reject someone i know i've used it it
means that you
have a friend who may start having
feelings for you and they ask you if you
want to do something romantic maybe go
on a date or something and this is how
you say
our friendship means so much to me and i
don't want to risk it i just want to be
friends i don't want to be anything more
than friends i don't want to be dating i
just want to be
pals
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lesson
the topic for this lesson is
top 10 airports in the united states
let's get started
hartsfield jackson
hartsfield jackson is the busiest
airport in the united states
this airport is so popular not because
everyone flies to be in georgia but
because a lot of different flights
connect there it's very popular for
connecting flights
los angeles international
also known as lax
in los angeles california
if you go to lax you may see a celebrity
this is the main airport in la in los
angeles and a lot of times when you see
famous people getting photographed at
the airport they are at lax
o'hare international
o'hare international in chicago illinois
i flew into o'hare to see the cubs play
a lot of people know this baseball team
as the team that never won the world
series but recently last year for the
first time in over 100 years the cubs
won the world series
so they are no longer known lovingly as
failures
this is the airport for chicago illinois
chicago known as the windy city dallas
fort worth international
dallas
fort worth international
this is the airport for dallas texas
a lot of cowboys can be seen at dallas
fort worth international
you would fly here to see dallas to
drive around texas
maybe go to some barbecues
maybe see a rodeo
i have never been to texas so this might
just be a bunch of stereotypes that do
not actually exist in this area but
i've heard texas is a very fun place
everything is bigger in texas as they
say
san francisco international
this airport is located in san francisco
california fly into san francisco
international airport if you want to
visit one of the most expensive cities
in america
san francisco is known both for being a
very beautiful city with cool
architecture and the golden gate bridge
and trolleys and winding streets
but it's also known for being very very
expensive to live there
charlotte douglas international
this airport is located in charlotte
north carolina
charlotte douglas airport is the second
biggest airport in the southeast
mccarran international
this airport is located in las vegas
nevada mccarran international is the
airport you would fly into to go to all
the casinos in las vegas
las vegas is a very fun city
if you're over 21 because in america you
have to be 21 years or older in order to
drink and gamble
so the mccarran international airport is
where you would fly into in order to go
and hit up the strip you'd see the luxor
the bellagio my personal favorite the
venetian
you'd see great shows have a lot of fun
partying
fly into mccarran international airport
orlando international
this airport is in orlando florida
orlando international airport is popular
with families flying to orlando to go to
disney world
yeah
one of the best places on earth
orlando is a very fun city because it
has
disney world and it also has
universal studios so these are two great
theme parks
so much fun
amazing rides
and if you're at disney you'll be in the
happiest place on earth having amazing
fun with your disney pals
you fly into orlando international
airport i am not being paid to say this
i just love disney
john f kennedy international
also known as jfk
this is in new york new york
a lot of people flying from abroad to
new york city will land in jfk airport
it's a very popular airport it's the
airport i most often use living in new
york city
this airport isn't in manhattan proper
but it's in one of the boroughs and you
can get to it just by taking the subway
so it's very convenient for a lot of
people especially the people who live in
new york city
honolulu international
this airport is located in honolulu
hawaii
hawaii when you get off the plane at
honolulu international they give you a
flower necklace
also known as a lay just the idea of
this is stirring up feelings of vacation
and warmth
and pig roast
and surfing i don't serve oh we're going
to the hooky lao so that's an actual
song i'm not making this up if you are
flying into honolulu international you
know you are in for an amazing time
a lot of people go to hawaii on vacation
and it's amazing
so
honolulu international
and that brings us to the end of today's
lesson yay
oh we're going
to the hooky wow
the who
hi everyone my name is bridget and
welcome to today's lesson the topic for
this lesson is
top 10 words to know before riding on an
airplane let's get started
cabin
the cabin of the plane is where all the
seats are when you get on an airplane
you have your ticket and you go into the
cabin to take your seat
you can take an aisle seat a middle seat
or my personal favorite a window seat so
you can look out the window and see all
the cool stuff go by
you are in the cabin
seat belt
please fasten your seat belt before
takeoff please fasten your seat belt
before takeoff the seat belt
is the belt that keeps you
safe
you always want to have your seat belt
fastened when you are seated
just like when you are in a car you have
a seat belt
when you are riding on the airplane you
want to fasten your seat belt click
seat belt
the seat belt clicks into place and it
protects you
the seat belt
always wear your seat belt
pillow
could i get another pillow a pillow is
the nice cushion that you get to lean
against or used to help your back a
pillow is great to have on very long
flights when you want to sleep it's
great to have a pillow
sometimes people buy neck pillows
which go around your neck and you can
lean your head on it
a pillow is a great thing to have to
make your flight much more comfortable
here is an example of a pillow
with the union jack flag on it
pillow
time difference
you should always be aware of the time
difference from the place you're coming
from and the place you're going to
when traveling from atlanta to los
angeles there is a three-hour time
difference if you're traveling between
time zones you will notice a time
difference
so the same thing happens if you are
calling your friend in china
you know that maybe it's 3 p.m where you
are but it might be three in the morning
where they are there's always going to
be a time difference when you're calling
or traveling between different time
zones
if i get on the flight
to russia
i get out in russia and it's morning
time
but back where i came from it might be
night time
because there is a time difference
time difference is a very common thing
to experience especially if you're
traveling very long distances
and after that you might get jet lag
because the place you go to
might be
starting early morning you arrive early
morning
but your body feels like the time back
where you're coming from so where you're
coming from it might be time to go to
bed
but you're getting out over here where
it's morning time
because there's a time difference
overhead storage compartment
please store your luggage in the
overhead storage compartment when you
get onto the airplane and you enter the
cabin and you find your seat number
you're going to need to put your small
carry-on item
in the overhead storage compartment
everything you need to know is right in
the name
it's an overhead
storage compartment
it's a place where you can store your
belongings and it's above your seat
emergency exit
please read the instructions if you are
sitting next to an emergency exit on any
airplane there are usually multiple
emergency exits
these are the exits that you need to use
in the event of an emergency
if anything happens and you need to exit
the airplane quickly
you use one of the emergency exits
it's always good to know where the
nearest emergency exit is located
god forbid in the terrible chance that
you ever need to use one
flight attendant
flight attendant if you have any
questions you can ask the flight
attendant for assistance
the flight attendants are the people who
work on the plane
who go down the aisles and give you
drinks
give you
headsets bring you your food
they are there to help you and to
provide any assistance you need while
you're on the flight
pilot
pilot i have been a pilot for more than
20 years the pilot is the person who
flies the airplane
this person sits in the cockpit it's
called the cockpit there is the pilot
there's usually a co-pilot
these are the people responsible for
getting you where you need to go pilots
usually make a lot of money because they
have a lot of responsibility
they are carrying hundreds of people on
the plane and need to fly as safely as
possible the pilot
first class
flying first class is a very memorable
experience first class
is the section of the plane that gets
better treatment when you buy your
ticket you have the option of selecting
first class
it costs a lot more money because you
get special perks
you might have a different food menu you
might get free drinks
your seats will be much more comfortable
you'll have more space
most people do not fly first class
because it's usually very expensive but
if you ever get the opportunity it's a
great experience to sit in first class
and get special treatment
economy class
most people fly economy class
because it's much cheaper economy class
is also known as coach
it's the way most people fly it's just a
standard ticket which means you just are
in the regular seats in the cabin of the
plane
you get regular treatment you get
regular food and that brings us to the
end of today's lesson hi everyone my
name is
sheamus say hi to everyone hi everyone
my name is bridget and welcome to
today's lesson
the topic for this lesson is top 10
phrases to never use in a relationship
let's get started
the first phrase you should never use in
a relationship is
i told you so
i told you so when someone says i told
you so
it's a very
know-it-all thing to say
it means you know you were right and you
want to rub it in that person's face
so for example if you tell someone
don't touch that dog that dog bites
and that person touches that dog anyway
and the dog bites
you would say
i told you so
it's not very nice because it's
it's boastful it means that you're
bragging you're making them feel bad for
not having listened to you
oh i'll do it myself
i'll do it myself
when you tell someone oh i'll do it
myself
it means that you are not happy with the
way the other person did something
it means you think you can probably do
it better
it's not something you want to use in a
relationship because it makes the other
person feel bad
like they didn't do a good job that they
did something poorly and
it doesn't make them feel good
you never listen to me
you never listen to me when you tell
someone you never listen to me it's
implying that the other person doesn't
really pay attention to what you say
it means that whatever you're talking
about they aren't paying attention
if you tell your girlfriend or boyfriend
or wife or husband you never listen to
me
that means two things it means one that
you feel that what you have to say is
very important
so if you say you never listen to me
you're implying that what you have to
say has great consequence
that the other person should be
listening at all times
but what it could also mean is that the
other person just isn't listening to you
and listening is a very important part
of a relationship
your significant other should always be
able to listen to you and hear what you
have to say and pay attention to your
feelings
we should talk
we should talk when you tell someone we
should talk or we need to talk
it's usually going to scare the other
person when you say we should talk or we
need to talk
it means you want to sit down with the
other person and have a serious
conversation
a lot of times that might mean you're
going to break up
it means that you have something
important to tell the other person but
you want to do it in person
never mind when you say never mind it
means forget it stop paying attention
think about something else
i don't want to talk anymore so if you
start to tell your boyfriend or
girlfriend
something it could be your feelings and
you say
you know lately i've been feeling
and then you stop and you say
never mind
that is telling the other person just to
stop paying attention to stop listening
just don't think about it never mind
when you tell the other person to never
mind
it makes it seem like you're belittling
your own feelings
it makes it seem like you don't want to
share your own feelings with your
significant other
which isn't a good thing because in a
relationship you always want to be able
to talk to one another
it's all your fault
it's all your fault this is something
you never want to say in a relationship
it means that if you get into a fight
and you say it's all your fault
that's putting the blame entirely on the
other person
and a lot of times in a relationship if
you fight or if something happens
a lot of times both of you are probably
a little bit at fault it means you both
are to blame
if you tell someone it's all your fault
it makes it seem like you think you are
perfect
it makes it seem like you think that you
are totally free of all fault you're not
culpable it has nothing to do with you
you're an angel the other person is at
fault so if you tell your boyfriend your
girlfriend your husband your wife if you
tell them it's all your fault it's not a
nice thing to say
especially because it probably isn't
only their fault
it takes two to tango
you overreact too much
this is something for you men out there
that you do not want to tell your
significant other you never want to tell
a girl you're overreacting or calm down
or you overreact too much
when you tell someone they are
overreacting
it means that their reaction was so far
above what should be normal for this
situation
but a lot of times it's not up to you to
decide
if you tell someone you overreact too
much
that's telling someone else how they
should be feeling and how they should be
reacting to a situation which is not
your place
you've changed you've changed if you
tell someone you've changed you've
changed since i first met you it implies
that the person
has become different that maybe parts of
his or her personality have begun to
change a bit
which might be a bad thing in some cases
if the person is becoming mean or angry
but a lot of times in a relationship you
do want to change you want to change
together you want to grow together so
telling someone you've changed in a
negative way
isn't something that someone wants to
hear
you've gained a lot of weight you've
gained a lot of weight
never ever ever say this to someone in a
relationship you never want to tell your
girlfriend or boyfriend that they've
gained weight
if you tell someone you've gained weight
it means you're telling them that they
look heavier they look fatter
they look bigger
and that's not something anyone wants to
hear from the person that they care
about or they love
so even if you think your girlfriend or
boyfriend has gained weight you don't
want to tell them this way because it's
not very nice and it's only going to
hurt their feelings
whatever
this is something i'm guilty of to say
whatever
it's it's a word that you use in a
conversation to imply that you do not
care anymore
if you say whatever
whatever
it's very dismissive
it's not very nice to hear
especially if your boyfriend or
girlfriend is saying something that they
believe is important or that they want
you to listen to if you react by saying
whatever
it means that you don't really care what
they have to say
that brings us to the end of this lesson
throat is making sounds yeah hi
everybody welcome back to top words my
name is alicia and today we're going to
be talking about tongue twisters tongue
twisters are phrases that are difficult
to say so they're really good chances to
practice your pronunciation let's go
sally sold seashells by the seashore
this one's difficult because of this and
she sounds sally sold seashells by the
seashore sally sold seashells by the
seashore that one's not so bad okay okay
we'll move on next betty botter bought
some butter but she said the butter's
bitter i've never seen this before okay
betty botter bought some butter but she
said the butter's bitter that's a good
one that's a good one i feel like he
could have thrown the word like butt in
there somewhere too betty bought her
bought some butter but she said the
butter's bitter
ah that's a good one it's very bubbly
betty bought her bought some butter but
she said the butter's bitter it's like
if i if i knew the words i could
probably say it faster betty bought her
bought some butter but she said the
butter's better butter butter's bitter
bitter butter butter better but she
bought some butter but she said the
butter's bitter this is enough
i don't know when to stop
how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if
a woodchuck could chuck wood the next
tug twister is also a classic one about
woodchucks woodchucks are real creatures
that exist on the west coast of the
united states primarily in washington
and oregon
they're like beavers but they don't live
in rivers they live in like forests and
rocks the tongue twister is how much
wood would a woodchuck chuck if a
woodchuck could chuck wood how much wood
would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood and then there's a
common response to that which is it
would chuck all the wood that a
woodchuck could if a woodchuck could
chuck wood we definitely talked about
this one in that english topics episode
we did about tongue twisters
lesser leather never weathered wetter
weather better oh i've never seen this
lesser leather never weathered wetter
weather better
hang on i'm just i'm just like astounded
by the grammar of this sentence lesser
leather never weathered wetter weather
better oh that's hard it's a wetter
weather better
wetter weather better part those last
three words lesser leather never
weathered wetter better
lesser leather never weathered wetter
weather better wetter weather better
weather
it's the weather better that's hard
weather better weather better weather
better wetter weather better yeah that's
it lesser leather never weathered wetter
weather better
on to the next one if two witches would
watch two watches which witch would
watch which watch
if two witches would watch two watches
which which would watch which watch
did you write these did you write these
did you find these on the internet
someone's brilliant if two witches would
watch two watches which witch would
watch which watch
that one's a good one if two witches
would watch two watches which which
would watch which would watch which
watch
ah alright that's the end wow those are
really good tongue twisters the one that
always gets me from that episode of
english topics that we did was uh irish
wristwatch
irish
wristwatch hard one and when we came up
with the other day was sushi session
that's a good one right they were like
let's go for a sushi session i was like
that's hard sushi session
that's a really good one too irish
wristwatch in sushi session all right so
those are uh what those are tongue
twisters give them a try they are really
really great ways to practice your
pronunciation if you know any other
tongue twisters please share them with
us in a comment so that we can all give
them a try thanks very much for watching
this episode and we'll see you again
soon bye
oh my god i i want to like i want to
have this job where i just sit at like
my desk and i just think of that's
probably what somebody does like they're
bored at their job and they just think
of these sorts of things hi everybody my
name is alicia welcome back to top words
today we're going to be talking about
the 10 must-know words to party in the
united states not that i would know
anything about that let's go party
party party is
a fun thing to do a party is a place
where you presumably you like all the
other people you know a bunch of people
your friends are there there's something
to eat there's something to drink
there's music to listen to maybe there
are cute guys or cute girls or cute
puppies you can enjoy whatever is
happening at a party in a sentence i
used to go to a party every week
in college that's mostly true in this
sentence the party tonight is going to
be crazy
to dance the next expression is to dance
to dance at a party sometimes when the
music is good you may feel compelled you
may feel that you would like to dance to
dances to move your body rhythmically in
accordance with beats
that's if you're a robot giving a
definition of the word to dance this is
how you dance too if you're that robot
okay in a sentence i like to dance at
clubs let's go see if those boys want to
dance with us
club the next word is club i am getting
so hot i'm gonna say some words now
clubs don't usually have a very good
reputation they kind of seem like places
for young people like late teens early
20s like there's loud music and lots of
cheap drinks and people go there to find
dates and
etc
so club
let's see in a sentence i visit a club
every once in a while this sentence says
every song on the radio is about going
to the club
rave the next word is rave rave is a is
a is a type of party the image of rave
though is like it's at night and there
are people with glow sticks and there's
like techno music and it's like it's
like that
and then everybody's like
which i don't say and then they have
like glowing
things and maybe there's black lights in
a sentence i don't think i've ever been
to a rave and in this sentence there's a
rave in my neighbor's field this weekend
festival the next word is festival
there's usually some kind of theme like
a music festival or a food festival
there's a theme and you can go there
maybe you need to buy tickets but
sometimes it covers like one or two days
a festival event does so
festivals can sometimes be a bit more
expensive than parties to participate in
in a sentence there are a lot of summer
music festivals
cheers
cheers cheers i think every country
probably has a word for this when you
want to start drinking with your friends
you touch glasses or you touch drinks
and you say cheers in american english
and
as well as in some other countries too
so cheers is the word we use in english
so
when everyone touches their glass
together say cheers
to drink the next word is to drink to
drink so in this case for parties it
means alcohol some kind of alcoholic
drink many of my students will say i
went to drink alcohol with my friends
last night or i like drinking alcohol or
whatever but in in a native speaker does
not say alcohol when we say i like
drinking we mean i like drinking alcohol
but we do not say alcohol don't worry
like no native speaker thinks like
you're talking about water when if you
say i like drinking if you like to drink
if you like beer wine whatever just say
i like drinking that's enough that's
fine it's very natural in a sentence i
go drinking once a month with my friends
in this sentence wow your friends really
like to drink
oh my
to get drunk okay the next expression is
one to be careful of it's to get drunk
to get drunk means to drink too much so
to be sick or to be in trouble or to
lose your memory something like that so
to have too much alcohol to drink is to
get drunk in a sentence i don't like
getting super drunk because i feel sick
the next day i don't like to get drunk
the night before work
vip the next word is vip it means very
important person so a vip at a club a
festival some kind of event is someone
who the owner or the manager thinks is
an important person they get special
treatment maybe free drinks and nice
place to sit a private room they get to
meet the stars at the music festival
whatever a vip usually it's a good thing
to be a vip in a sentence we're going to
the vip room later do you want to come
in this sentence if you're famous clubs
will let you sit in the vip section to
buy a round the next expression is to
buy a round to buy a round means to buy
a round of drinks meaning to buy one
drink for each person in your group so
if you're in a group of four people
maybe everybody buys one round of drinks
but if you're in a large group of people
and you decide to buy a round of drinks
for everyone in the group this can be
very expensive in a sentence uh the next
round of drinks is on me
meaning i'll buy the next
uh drink for everybody in this sentence
james bought a round of drinks for
everyone at his table and all right so
those are 10 must-know words to party in
the united states have you had any
partying experiences in the u.s if so
let us know good or bad i'm kind of
interested to see and we'll see you
again soon bye
i had a friend in high school who would
like to mispronounce club as curb gonna
go to the club later
did you see that bug
what a jerk
oh no there's another one
oh
bug fighting baby bug fight yeah we have
an intruder in this shoot he wants to
party in the usa
yeah
hi everyone i'm bridget and welcome to
today's lesson our lesson topic for
today is five biggest festivals in the
united states
coachella coachella
every year my friend goes to coachella
and talks about how hot it was coachella
is a very popular music and arts
festival that takes place in california
it's very popular with young adults and
people who love live music a lot of very
popular groups and bands perform at
coachella
mardi gras
mardi gras mardi gras is the most famous
festival that takes place in new orleans
mardi gras literally means fat tuesday
mardi gras it's a huge street festival
people flock to the streets listening to
good jazz music all kinds of music it's
all about having fun
comic con international
comic con international more than just
comics you can find
video games and movie stars at comic con
international for short you can just
call it comic con comic con is my
personal favorite festival
everyone dresses up like their favorite
characters from video games tv shows and
movies
it's a lot of fun to walk around and try
to guess who each character is
tribeca film festival
tribeca film festival tribeca film
festival is one of the most prestigious
events in film tribeca film festival
takes place in new york city
and people come to show off their new
feature-length films and short films
south by southwest
south by southwest south by southwest
always has the hottest indie bands
south by southwest is a festival that
takes place in texas
it has a music component it has a film
component it's a very well known and
popular festival in the us
and that brings us to the end of today's
lesson
five biggest festivals in the united
states which festivals are you familiar
with have you been to any of these
festivals
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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we're going
to talk about 10 phrasal verbs for
business so let's go
step up
the first phrasal verb is step up step
up means to move up or to level up
usually to some kind of new challenging
position or to a challenging project so
i want to step up and do more for my
company or i want to step up and take on
this project there's a nuance of a
challenge a move upward a promotion
perhaps and new challenges new
responsibilities so in a sentence the
new ceo really stepped up on this
project great
step down
the next word is the opposite step down
to step down often means to resign or to
quit one's job especially at the higher
levels of business so a ceo might step
down from his position or her position
if they've made a big mistake or if the
company has had problems
so sometimes this can mean resign
sometimes this means just moving to a
lower position in the company you can
you'll have to look into the specifics
of the situation to figure out exactly
the meaning but step down means to go to
a position of lower responsibility so in
a sentence following multiple serious
mistakes the government official stepped
down
measure up
the next expression is measure up
measure up is a word or a phrasal verb
that we use to mean compare
we say how does something measure up or
does this measure up to meaning
is item a
equal to item b
is item a better than item b this is a
question or a word that we use to ask
how one thing compares to another thing
so like how does candidate a measure up
to candidate b
is a question of comparison between
these two these two items or does this
project measure up to our past work in
other words is this project equal to or
is it comparable to our past works so
measure up is used when comparing two
things so in a sentence how does the new
plan measure up to our past ideas
step aside
the next expression we've talked about
step up step down now we'll talk about
step aside so step aside means to move
out of the way it doesn't mean
necessarily to move up in in position or
to move down in position but step aside
means
just temporarily to remove someone or to
remove yourself from a situation so
you can use this not just in business
but uh maybe in a very crowded space
like let's step aside and have this
discussion you can use that in a
business meeting as well to step aside
is to remove yourself from a main group
or from one situation go away from that
situation temporarily
that's how we use step aside so in a
sentence the company feels you should
step aside like please move away from
this project
swoop in
the next expression is swoop in swoop in
so we use swoop
for example with birds
we could say the bird swooped in but in
a business situation
it's somebody usually someone a person
or maybe a team that
suddenly joins the company or suddenly
joins a project and maybe makes a lot of
changes so for example a consulting firm
might swoop in to a situation or might
swoop into a project or maybe the boss
swooped into the meeting and made a lot
of changes so these uh these sentences
these are situations where something
suddenly happens by a one person or by a
group of people in another sentence the
consultant swooped in and changed around
our entire organization
shake up
the next phrasal verb is shake up shake
up means to
make a lot of changes at one time or to
maybe change an atmosphere or to change
a company feeling
this can also be applied to situations
outside of work like maybe uh art for
example uh other industries uh
manufacturing industry it means to make
changes for so one person or one group
makes changes so you could say for
example apple shook up the smartphone
industry when it introduced the iphone
so it means to make changes or to bring
about new change in a sentence she
really shook up our department with her
innovative ideas
come online
uh the next expression is come online
come online so this is interesting of
course you're watching this video
presumably probably on the internet
online right now but the expression come
online means become able to use
something usually publicly or at least
within your company
so when a new project comes online it
means it's it's now available it can be
used or it can be purchased
we typically use this expression for
some kind of service so for example a
web platform or
an application or something that other
people can use so come online means
become available come online means
become available in a sentence then our
new service is going to come online at
the end of the month
expand into
the next expression is expand into
expand into so we can use expand into to
mean moving
more or moving to another place or to
another industry
with your business operations
so we can use perhaps a country or a
region after this expression or we can
use an industry name after this
expression so you can say we want to
expand into china we want to expand into
japan with our business or you can say
we want to expand into the electronics
industry we want to expand into the
service industry expanding uh into
something talks about the direction you
want your company to move in expand into
so in a sentence we'd like to expand
into some other markets
to bring about
the next expression is to bring about to
bring about means to make something
happen to cause something to happen we
often use this to talk about change it
can be positive or it can be negative i
feel i tend to use this more in a
positive situation but that might just
be me
so to bring about means to cause
something or yeah to make something
happen in a sentence don't you think we
should try to bring about change in our
company
take on
the next expression is take on so take
on if you if you can kind of make a
visual with this phrasal verb you can
take something and attach it to yourself
to take on something but this thing
you're taking is responsibility
so to take on something
has the nuance of a challenge or a new
responsibility
it's something that is generally seen as
positive but perhaps could be maybe a
lot of new work or a big new project for
example
so i might say i want to take on some
new projects this year or you could use
it outside of business like in a kind of
aggressive situation like like i tried
to take on a really big guy at the club
but he punched me so
you could use this too but it has the
nuance of challenge every every time you
use it so in a different sentence i was
asked to take on more responsibilities
at the office
uh oh that's the end so those are ten
phrasal verbs for business i hope that
those are useful for you
if they are please let us know in the
comments if you have any questions also
please let us know there too thank you
very much for watching this episode of
top words and we will see you again soon
bye
hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we're going
to talk about 10 verbs with irregular
past tense form so let's go
by
bot
the first verb is by by the past tense
of by is bought bought it totally
changes so please don't say i bide it is
incorrect please say i bought a puppy i
bought a pizza i bought a bowl of
tonkotsu ramen for lunch that's a lie
anyway so bye becomes bought so i bought
my friend a new pair of headphones
okay in a different sentence i bought a
lot of food at the store
fly
flew the next verb is fly fly the past
tense of fly is flew flew f-l-e-w flew
so i flew from
my
house to my mom's house in an airplane
directly door by the doorway
or um let's see i flew a plane for the
first time last week we can also use flu
for an object in the air so like my
friend threw up through so throw becomes
through this is the same way through a
piece of paper and it flew
into my head
we can use it in this way too all right
so in another sentence we flew to london
via dubai
blow blue the next verb is blow blow
becomes blue blue b-l-u-e
is not the correct spelling it's b-l-e-w
please be careful blue the color like
this shirt and blue the past tense of
this verb have the same pronunciation
but they have different spellings so
please be careful if you see uh those
two words don't get them mixed up blue
is the past tense of blow we use it for
wind like the wind blew my hair around
this morning that's true yeah so we can
say like the expression like uh he
really blew it in that presentation so
that's a that's a sort of slang phrase
which means he made a huge mistake he
blew it like he totally missed his
chance to bloop to blow something
oh dear like i blew it or you blew it
means you totally made a mistake you
just messed up your chances so in a
different sentence the wind blew my hair
around
bring
brought
the next verb is bring bring the past
tense of bring is brought brought so
uh i brought
my
mom to
a club i brought a beach towel to the
beach i brought a coffee to my meeting
in the morning i brought shame upon my
family anytime you would like to bring
something please make sure you change it
to brought not bringed it is incorrect
so in a sentence i brought a cake to the
party
fight
fought the next uh verb is fight fight
so fight can mean a
a a fist fight like a physical fight but
we can also use fight to talk about uh
arguments uh with our words too so fight
in past tense becomes fought not fighted
but fought we fought so we fought about
this
haircut he gave me
we fought about dinner we thought about
um
where to go for lunch or you can say my
boss and i fought about my pay or i
fought with my dog trying to put the
collar on you can use this in a lot of
different situations to fight or to
argue they're both okay we use the same
verb here in a sentence my brother and i
fought almost every day when we were
little that is roughly true so you guys
are super tight yeah actually now we are
now we don't fight he is so funny teach
taught
all right let's go to the next verb the
next verb is teach teach teaches the
next verb i'm teaching
now
the past tense of teach is taught taught
t-a-u-g-h-t please be careful not
t-a-u-t tot which refers to something
like a piece of string or something a
material which is very tight they have
the same pronunciation taught um so we
use this to talk about times when we
transmit information we share
information i taught you about english
i taught my friend how to snowboard last
year that's not true
i taught my dog how to sit i don't have
a dog i taught my brother how to play
the banjo also not true i taught my
friend how to
make gyoza not
true my friend taught me how to make
gyoza that is true yeah so we can use
teach and taught to talk about sharing
information in this sentence i taught my
parrot how to talk and now i regret it
why do i have that example
i wonder what i was thinking when i
wrote that example sentence
speak
spoke the next word is speak speak the
past tense of speak is spoke spoke so we
use speak a lot like i speak english i
speak japanese
you probably would not use those so much
in past tense unless you want to say
like i spoke japanese when i was little
or i spoke japanese a little bit when i
visited tokyo you could use that but
instead we would use the past tense of
speak spoke
to report information so i spoke to my
mother yesterday i spoke to my boss this
morning i spoke to my dad
today something like that uh we can
expand this too like i spoke to my dad
about moving to a new house i spoke to
my brother about buying a ping pong
table
okay so in a sentence a different
sentence we spoke on the phone yesterday
read
okay next word is read read is
interesting because read in the past
tense there is no spelling change read
becomes red red it sounds like the color
red
but in past tense the spelling remains
the same r-e-a-d
read a book read a book so
uh we can use this for newspapers books
anything that is written i read
a
pamphlet about skydiving this summer
and really anything i read a billboard i
read an
email i read an instagram post i read a
tweet all of these use the verb read but
please use red in past tense not readed
red okay in another sentence i read a
book last month
drink
drank the next verb is drink drink the
past tense is drank d-r-a-n-k not drunk
drunk is a different grammatical point
also drunk is an adjective used to
describe when you have consumed too much
alcohol you have had too much to drink
becomes drunk but past tense is drank so
be careful the a sound and the u sound
may sound similar to you but they are in
fact different they are different
grammatical points so please be careful
i drank a lot of alcohol a couple days
ago i drank a coffee this morning i
drank tea before bed these are all
situations where we would use drank
okay in a different sentence i drank too
much yesterday that's not true think
thought
perhaps
the most useful verb in this list is the
verb think think so the past tense is
thought
you can use the past tense to show that
uh what you thought in the past was
different
from uh
from the actual situation so a real
example like just before this shoot i
said i thought we were starting at five
o'clock because i was wrong
we were starting at 2 30. oopsie
but
i can use that i thought to show that
there was something different from the
actual situation or maybe to suggest
there's a difference in understanding or
of course you can just use it for a
simple past tense statement like i
thought you looked very nice in that
dress please note though i just used
this the past tense i thought and i
thought you looked nice in that dress so
thought is past tense yes but the next
verb also should be past tense i thought
you were going to a wedding i thought
you looked nice i thought you had to
leave i thought you needed to do your
homework so yes the first verb in the
first thought is past tense but the
second verb also needs to be past tense
because that's also a past tense
situation a past tense idea so please be
careful this is very useful but make
sure all your verbs are correct okay in
another sentence i thought you were out
of town that's the end
those are ten verbs that have irregular
past tense forms there are many many
more thanks very much for watching this
episode of top words and i will see you
again soon bye
i love mom i know i'm talking about my
mom a lot today lots of moms
just like i just bring all the moms to
the club i'm in charge of bringing moms
hi mom hi everybody welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we're
going to talk about 10 ways to report
speech
let's go
say
the first word is say say as a verb say
is a very neutral word you can use to
report someone's speech to explain
something someone
said in the past so for example he said
the barbecue was cancelled
just a simple neutral report
tell
the next verb is tell
tell is used when one person is giving
information to another to tell someone
something they did not know before don't
say tell me your phone number that's
weird but like uh can you tell me where
the station is can you tell me where to
buy a
hamburger can you tell me where to pick
up my new car like so giving someone
information they don't know or or on the
other hand explaining something one way
to another person so
don't tell me what i can't do is a very
good lost reference if you've ever
watched lost
so tell another example sentence my boss
told me i was doing a good job
speak
the next one is speak speak so we use
speak when we're talking about
language ability like i speak english i
speak japanese we can use speak in the
past tense to report something but it
usually sounds a little more formal so
like i spoke to my boss about or i spoke
to my parents about or i spoke to my
boyfriend or girlfriend about blah blah
blah
that using speak instead of talked
it makes it sound a little bit more
formal so you can use speak but it's
going to sound polite in a sentence my
colleagues spoke with me about an
upcoming project
was like
okay the next one the next two actually
are very very casual expressions so when
you're speaking with friends and you're
kind of talking about a quick maybe
somewhat emotional conversation you will
hear native speakers especially
americans perhaps this is unique
somewhat to americans use the phrase was
like i was like he was like she was like
this is a very casual way to report
speech and you'll hear it often very
very quickly together
uh so someone will say i was like what
and then she was like no and then i was
like yeah
that's the kind of pattern you'll hear
it in very very quick ways to report
speech but the subject changes i was
like he was like she was like we were
like this is a way to share what happens
quickly instead of i said he said she
said which might sound a little too
formal we can use i was like he was like
to do that instead so this is a really
fun one and if you can use this uh
naturally i think that it'll really help
you sound more natural to you so in a
sentence and then he was like i love
that movie
was all
the next one is also a similar to was
like we have the expression was all so
was all
don't worry about all all does not have
the meaning of the whole of something or
a complete something instead was all
this set phrase is used to report speech
usually this one is used when there's
some kind of emotional
uh
emotional aspect to your conversation or
it's a little dramatic or maybe a little
exciting we use it the same way as was
like in that very very quick style of
speaking and then he was like and i was
all and then she was like and i was all
we use those together but i was all has
a little more emphasis i feel i tend to
use it when my when i want to express a
stronger emotion and i was all no way or
and i was all what so
you can use it for those very like
surprised emotions or maybe angry
emotions was like and was all are both
used in very casual situations so in a
sentence and i was all oh my god me too
talk
the next word is talk so talk similar to
say is a fairly neutral verb when
reporting speech
you'll use it in a situation where
someone is giving new information
to you
but maybe it's a two-way conversation so
for example we talked about blah blah
blah
for a topic or
my boss talked to me about blah blah
blah so maybe new information is being
exchanged but the conversation is
two-way there are multiple participants
with tell it's like the nuance is sort
of one person is reporting information
giving information with talked it's
there's an exchange happening there so
keep in mind when you use the word talk
you will say either i i talked to or i
talked with someone
and then you'll usually have a topic so
i talked to my friend about blah blah
blah
i talked to my friend about my new
apartment i talked to my boss about a
raise i talked to my boss no i talked to
my dog about
what dogs do
so if there's some kind of there's some
kind of exchange happening there you'll
need to use to or with
uh when you're referring to the person
or entity you're talking to
and you'll use about to refer to the
subject so uh you can use this one um
yeah when you're when you want to
discuss exchanges of information so in a
sentence she talked to me about my
family
mention
let's go to the next one the next one is
mention
mention is used when like something is
just there's just one small point in a
conversation like just a little side
note or maybe it's not the focus of a
conversation but just something someone
says
quickly or there's just a little thing
that you hear oh you mentioned something
about blah blah blah or you mentioned
that a new project like it's it's maybe
not the focus of the conversation but
something that you heard a little bit
about that's that's when we use the verb
mention we can also use it in a
statement like please uh mention any
skills you have on a resume so the
nuance is sort of like a like just a
little bit of information is when we use
mention so in a sentence our manager
mentioned upcoming changes at the
company
to go on and on
okay the next expression is to go on and
on so to go on and on means just to talk
for a very long time so maybe you have a
co-worker or a friend or a family member
that just talks and does not stop
talking
we say to go on and on that's the
expression we use so in a sentence the
speaker at the seminar was going on and
on about the topic if you really want to
emphasize it you can say what's going on
and on and on and on and on that really
emphasizes that the person continues to
speak so if you know somebody um who
does that a lot you can use this
expression to talk about them
according to
the next expression here is according to
according to is used uh actually in the
news or like to officially report
something so according to sources or
according to the police according to the
government official according to my
teacher according to my mother these are
like direct reports of information and
they're direct reports of information
from a specific source so according to
the newspaper
my f
neighborhood has 50 000
amazing
ramen shops that's not true
but if i want to instead of just saying
my neighborhood has 50 000 amazing ramen
shops i'm giving a source for that so
according to my newspaper
this is this is where i got the
information so this is important to use
in news and newspapers and any kind of
official documentation you will see and
hear according to in these cases ah in a
sentence according to a witness at the
scene the suspect escaped
report great so um the next one is
report so reports similar to according
to we use report in more official
situations so to officially share
information like to report to the police
to report to your teacher to report to
uh your boss sometimes it means to
submit documentation like to to give
someone a written report sometimes it's
to share information officially just
just with your voice to report news or
to report an update
so when you want to
give and give official information we'll
use the verb report so in a sentence
sources in the area report that the
accident was not serious
thank goodness
all right
okay ah that's the end that is the end
so those are 10 words and 10 phrases
that you can use to talk about talking
to talk about speech so i hope that
these are useful for you and i hope that
this helps
clear up a few things about the
difference between like say and tell and
speak and so on but if you have any
questions please let us know in the
comments bye
hi everyone my name is bridget and
welcome to today's lesson
our topic for this lesson is
five major cities in the united states
new york
new york new york new york new york
new york
new york city nyc
the 2-1-2
that's where i'm living
new york city my personal favorite the
city in which i live
the city that never sleeps it's also
known as the big apple new york new york
city
here we have the empire state building
the chrysler building we have central
park we've got great hot dogs great
pizza
the statue of liberty
the yankees new york is the place where
everything's happening you can find
every language spoken here you can find
every type of museum arts and culture
scene is thriving here there's always
something to do it's a great place to
visit it's a great place to work
it's a lot of fun
the subway sucks though okay i take it
back
the subway doesn't suck
chicago also known as the windy city
chicago is known for having had lots of
gangsters in the 1930s
one of the most famous gangsters from
chicago was al capone maybe you've heard
of al capone
chicago is known for lots of things one
of my favorite things though is deep
dish pizza chicago style pizza which is
very very thick can the graphics people
come up with a deep dish pizza it looks
different from new york pizza
i personally prefer
new york style pizza we have the best
pizza chicago is in the state of
illinois
los angeles
los angeles also known as l.a
los angeles is a city in california that
is very well known for one thing which
is hollywood
lots of celebrities live in los angeles
they're all living in l.a living the
lifestyles of the rich and the famous
los angeles is a great place to visit
not just because of hollywood and all
the glamour and
and famous people but because los
angeles is actually a very diverse place
there are different neighborhoods that
are known for different things different
food scenes different art scenes it's a
really great place to explore but you
should always remember that you need to
have a car in los angeles because you
have to drive everywhere and the traffic
is terrible
atlanta
atlanta is a city in georgia the state
of georgia did you hear about that
blizzard in atlanta atlanta is a very
famous city in the united states
atlanta has the world's busiest airport
atlanta actually weirdly enough has an
up-and-coming movie scene i guess the
taxes are low the incentives are high to
be filming there so they've got a
booming entertainment industry business
but most people go to atlanta
for the food for the night life and just
to explore
new orleans
new orleans is a city in louisiana
uh you can pronounce it new orleans you
can say naughtons
there are different ways to pronounce it
i think the most common thing you hear
is new orleans i grew up saying new
orleans which is incorrect new orleans
it's the birthplace of jazz
new orleans has a ton of culture they
love music they love good food they have
creole food creole influence and they
celebrate mardi gras they have huge
mardi gras parades and festivities it's
a very very fun city to visit and one of
the most famous in the united states
and with that we come to the end of
today's lesson five major cities in the
united states i was in the 2-1-2 and
it's done it's midnight oh it's after
midnight here i'm delusional he the song
all night on the beach to the
break-a-dawn
welcome to miami bienvenido
hi everyone my name is bridget and
welcome to today's lesson the topic for
this lesson is
top 10 pickup lines to use at your own
risk let's get started did it hurt when
you fell from heaven
did it hurt when you fell from heaven
the way this pickup line is typically
said is
a guy goes up to a girl and says did it
hurt
and the girl says did what hurt
and the guy says when you fell from
heaven
this one is so bad it's good a lot of
people will hear it and laugh
uh did it hurt when you fell from heaven
is implying that uh
you you are an angel or you're just so
wonderful
so it's a very easy way to flatter
someone
next one are your feet tired because
you've been running through my mind all
day are your feet tired because you've
been running through my mind all day
this is yet another cheesy pickup line
when you say you've been running through
my mind all day
it's another way of saying i can't stop
thinking about you
so this is a fun way to tell someone i
haven't been able to stop thinking about
you
you've been running through my mind all
day
you're so hot you would make the devil
sweat the next one is one i've never
heard before but here it goes you're so
hot
you would make the devil sweat
telling someone he or she is hot
is a way of saying he or she is
attractive
you're hot
she's hot he's hot
in english especially american english
we use hot to describe someone who is
physically attractive whose body looks
good
so if you tell someone you're so hot you
would make the devil sweat
is drawing a comparison between the word
hot
used to imply someone looks good but
also hot like
super hot
what number should i call
to say goodnight to you later
next one
what number should i call to say
goodnight to you later
this is a very presumptuous thing to say
it's a sly way of asking someone for
their phone number
oh what number should i call to say
goodnight to you later
it's saying can i have your phone number
what number should i use to say
goodnight is essentially saying hey i'm
gonna call you later can i have your
number
someone should call god because heaven
is missing an angel
next one someone should call god because
heaven is missing an angel
this is a very silly pickup line to tell
someone that they are angelic and so
wonderful and beautiful
someone should tell god that an angel is
missing because here you are you're an
angel
it's a big huge way to flatter someone
it's very silly it would probably make
the girl laugh
it's very similar to saying did it hurt
when you fell from heaven
you are like pizza even when you are bad
you're good
you're like pizza
even when you're bad you're good
pizza my favorite topic this first of
all is implying that no matter what
pizza is delicious
and this is fact pizza is always good
even bad pizza that might be oily or
overcooked it still tastes good
so this is telling someone no matter
what you are still good even when you're
bad you're good
it's implying that they can do no wrong
there's nothing they can do or say that
will turn you off that will make you not
like them
just like pizza it's a wonderful love
affair with pizza
is it hot in here or is it just you
next one is it hot in here or is it just
you
is it hot in here or is it just you
this is another play on words
in english especially american english
when you think someone is physically
attractive you would say they're hot
it's sort of a slang term
so if you go up to someone in a bar and
you say
is it hot in here or is it just you
that's a play on words because hot of
course is used to describe the
temperature
but it's also used to describe someone
who is attractive
so if you say it's hot in here it must
be you
it's a cute play on words
are you a thief
because you stole my heart next one are
you a thief
because you stole my heart
are you a thief
because you stole my heart telling
someone they've stolen your heart
is another way of saying
they have your heart uh
they
you have feelings for them your whole
heart belongs to them
so if you tell someone you've stolen my
heart it means you can't stop thinking
about them they have your heart
you have feelings for them
your heart belongs to them do you
believe in love at first sight
or should i walk by you again this next
one
is pretty good do you believe in love at
first sight
or should i walk by you again
love at first sight
is a phrase to describe when two people
fall in love the first time they see
each other you'll hear this a lot it was
love at first sight
maybe a guy talking about the first time
he saw someone who's now his wife he saw
her from across the room and she was so
beautiful he just fell in love with her
right then and there
it was love at first sight
so this pickup line which is cheesy is
do you believe in love at first sight or
should i walk by you again
it means do you believe in falling in
love the first time you see someone
or should i walk by you a second time to
give you another chance to fall in love
with me
life without you is like a broken pencil
it's pointless
next one
life without you
is like a broken pencil
pointless
saying something is pointless
means that there's no point it doesn't
make any sense
if a pencil has no point it's broken you
can't write with a pencil that doesn't
come to a point
so life without you doesn't make any
sense
life without you
is pointless
life without you
is like a broken pencil it's pointless
well that brings us to the end of
today's lesson i hope you guys enjoyed
the video if you have any questions or
comments leave them below and don't
forget to go to
englishclass101.com to learn more
english
hi everyone my name is bridget and
welcome to today's lesson the topic for
this lesson is
top 10 must-know prepositions and
conjunctions for english learners
let's get started
two
two i threw the ball to my dad
two is sort of directional it it's
saying that it's going
towards something
i wrote a letter to my mother i went
to the mall
i went
to the park my mom asked me to go to the
store to buy some bread
to a destination to a person
from
from is the opposite of two from implies
where it's coming from the place of
origin so if i'm going to the mall i'm
coming from my house this letter is from
my daughter
from
how long does it take you to get from
your house
to your job
to and from they go together
with
with it means
together with something
i am at the movies with my friend
i went out to eat with my friends
i go
shopping with my boyfriend
with means you are together with
something i like to have
grilled cheese with tomatoes on it
i'm here with my book
at
at is a very short word i always go to
bed at 11 o'clock if i'm lucky i usually
go to bed at around 1 in the morning
unfortunately i get very little sleep
at specifies a time or a place
let's go to the movies at
two in the afternoon
i'm at home right now where are you
we decided to meet at the beach
it's a pinpoint of time or location
in
means you are inside of something or in
the middle of something it means being
immersed in something i am in bed right
now
the cat is in the box
uh
the child is in the tree the plane is in
the sky
i graduated school in 2000
in
on
i left the book on my desk
on
means on top of i like ketchup on my
fries so that means my french fries are
here and i like to put ketchup on them
the man is on the roof
the car is on the street
the motorcycle is on my nerves
but
i think i remember her name but i'm not
sure
but is a way to add a negative to a
sentence
so for example
i really love eating cake
but i don't eat it often because it's
not healthy
i'd love to go to the movies with you
but i have too much work to do
i really like you but i don't want to
date you
and
and is a very common word you will hear
all the time
it's a way of adding on a new
subject or thing to your sentence
i love candy and pizza
i'm hungry and i'm tired
my friend moved to spain and i moved to
canada
i love playing outside and i love being
inside
and is a way to add on a new subject or
thing to what you're talking about
so
so i have a toothache so i went to the
dentist
so is a way of adding
an example another way to say because of
this i did this
you say something and then you add so
and then what follows is the effect
so there's the cause
so the effect
so
i was feeling very hungry so i had some
pizza
this video is going to be pizza themed
everyone apparently i was really tired
so i took a nap i was in the mood for
some adventure
so i got on an airplane and flew to
mexico
that sounds nice
or
or is a way of presenting a choice
so for example
you can either have pizza
or you can have candy i don't know if i
should go to the movies
or if i should go to the mall which
color do you like better
red or green it presents differences of
choice so that brings us to the end of
today's lesson top 10 must know
conjunctions and prepositions for
english learners cars are everywhere
people are crazy
so i'm going to go inside to film the
next video
it's all good in the hood guys don't
worry about a thing hi everyone my name
is bridget and welcome to today's lesson
the topic for this lesson is
top 15 must-know phrases to go shopping
how much is it how much is it when you
ask how much something is you are asking
for the price
so if you are in america and you say how
much is it someone will say it is
ten dollars it is
a thousand dollars it is a million
dollars
um
so you are going to use this phrase a
lot when you go shopping
especially at flea markets when the
prices aren't always listed on the
object or item themselves
do you have this in another color
a lot of times when you go clothing
shopping for example
you will try something on and you'll
like how you look but
you kind of want the shirt to be
not green but maybe red
red would look better
so you ask the person who's working
there excuse me do you have this in
another color
do you have this in another color
it's a way of asking literally if the
item
of the clothing that you are trying on
or
anything that you want to buy you're
asking if there are other variations of
it if there are
other colors of that item
do you have this in a medium
instead of medium you can put in
whatever your size is
so when you're shopping you might find a
dress that you really like you might
find a jacket or a coat you really like
and you're not really seeing your size
you're looking through all of them and
your size isn't here
so you ask someone who's working excuse
me do you have this in a medium
excuse me do you have this in an extra
small
i use this all the time when i'm
shopping so i'm sure you will too
it's a way of asking if they have your
size
i want two of these
if you tell someone i want two of these
it's literally saying i want two of
whatever it is you want to buy
that's all i could say about that
may i see it may i see it
if you ask may i see it it's usually
asking to see something that is behind
glass
so for example if you are looking to buy
jewelry you go to a jewelry store and
you see a beautiful ring
and it's behind glass so you ask the
person working there may i see this ring
may i see it
and the person will pull it out and give
it to you for you to try on in front of
them so they know you're not going to
steal it
can i try it on
can i try it on if you're ever shopping
if you're looking for a new sweater or a
new pair of jeans
you're going to want to try it on to
make sure that it fits you that it looks
good that it's your size
so if you find an article of clothing
you would go up to someone who works
there and you would ask
can i try this on
excuse me can i try this on
this is a very very common thing that
you hear in clothing stores people
always want to try on the clothing that
they want to buy
just to make sure that it fits and it
makes them look good
i like that one
i like that one i like that one if you
say i like that one
it means you're expressing which of your
options you prefer
it's probably going to be the one thing
you buy
i don't like this color
if you're buying a new set of plates
and you're shopping and you you like the
style of these plates but you don't like
the color
you would say
i don't like this color do you have this
in a different color
i just taught you that do you remember
i don't like this color it means that
you like the style maybe but you don't
like the color that it's painted or dyed
or whatever
i love this color
maybe you have a color of shirt that you
look so good in so anytime you see it
you go oh i love this color
if you ever say i love this color it's
probably something that either looks
really good on you or just looks really
good to you it's a color that you just
love to look at
do you take returns
when you ask someone who works in a
store
do you take returns
it means
that you bought something from the store
you brought it home and you decided you
don't really like it maybe when you were
at the store you didn't have time to try
it on so when you got home
you put it on in front of the mirror and
you realize
this does not look good on me or maybe
it doesn't fit
so when you come back you'd say do you
take returns i want to return
this pair of these these jeans that i
bought
i want to return this hat
do you take returns
every store you go to will have a
different return policy so it's always
smart to ask
what sort of return policy that store
has just in case you end up not liking
the item that you buy
do you take credit cards do you accept
credit cards
can i pay with a credit card
these are all ways to ask if you can use
your credit card to pay for whatever
purchase you are making
sometimes stores or restaurants
only accept cash
and it's always smart to know ahead of
time before you do all your shopping and
then realize you don't have any cash and
you only have a credit card so you can
say
do you take credit card
do you accept credit cards
can i pay with my credit card
can i get a receipt please
can i get a receipt please can i get my
receipt please so i know you didn't scam
me a receipt is a proof of purchase
it's it's something that you use to keep
track of the money you've spent to keep
track of everything you've bought
it's a little slip of paper that shows
the item and how much you paid this is
something that helps both you
and the company the company will have a
record of having sold this thing to you
and you will have this as a record of
how much you paid
and if you save the receipt you can use
that to do returns
can i use this coupon
a coupon is a discount that a company
offers to use at their store
a coupon is something that you have to
show to the cashier when you make your
purchase
so if you find a nice coat that you love
you would go and pay for it and present
your coupon if you have a coupon it
means that you are getting
a discount that you will have to pay
less money for the item
coupons are great to have and companies
that give out coupons are awesome it
helps you save money
could you gift wrap it please
to gift wrap something means to put
wrapping paper and make it look like a
present so around the holidays when
people are buying presents for one
another
a lot of times you will hear people
saying
could you gift rabbit please
which is telling the other person
look this is going to be a gift can you
make it look nice
can you make it look like a present
and sometimes that'll mean
gift wrapping paper or putting a nice
bow on top
to gift wrap something means to present
it to look like a gift
are there any sales going on
this is a very hopeful question to ask
in a store
you're asking if there are any sales at
this time a sale is a period of time
with discounted price it means you are
going to pay less which means saving
money
there are seasonal sales there are sales
for particular holidays
uh or just random sales to get rid of
old stock so you never know you should
always ask are there any sales going on
because it might save you money and that
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hi everyone it's chang from elite and
next to me is ali shah from english
class 101 this is our second video we
are doing with alisha and english class
101 hi everybody i'm alicia from
englishclass101.com
thanks so much for having me on eli
chang it's great to be a part of your
video oh and what is a topic today today
we're going to talk about the top five
mistakes that english learners make so
let's start
the position of adjectives
so the first mistake to talk about today
is the position of adjectives what do
you mean like the position of adjectives
do your students make mistakes with this
let me think very often i heard my
students say that
this is
a house beautiful so have you ever heard
that before yeah actually my students
are japanese they often make the same
mistake because the word order in
japanese uses the noun first and then
the adjective oh yeah the same in
vietnamese because people usually
translate from our mother language to
english so in vietnam we have
yeah means uh house okay and that means
beautiful
and then we translate it we have yeah
that means
house beautiful but actually it is
incredible right right so what is the
right order the right position of
adjective yeah so we should put the
adjective before the noun so in this
example sentence beautiful house is
correct it should be
this is a beautiful house right can you
explain that well i mean there are some
phrases that are just we just use the
same kind of patterns for them so using
just a simple adjective and a noun
together
whatever the adjective or maybe there
are more adjectives we want to use like
in this example of a beautiful house or
you i think you said like a red house
for example yeah we should put the
adjectives together before the noun
always like that's a beautiful red house
yeah normally sometimes i hear some
students say that
a dress
red long
when you want to describe their dress
actually what is it the correct one
right so in the same in the same as we
saw with the first example sentence we
should put the adjectives before the
noun so in this case i think it was long
and red yeah yeah that's a long red
dress
a long red dress it should be the
correct one right that's correct yeah
yeah so everyone make sure to put the
adjective
in front of the noun
the order of personal pronouns you and i
or i and you good okay so the next
mistake to talk about is the order of
personal pronouns so an example of this
is like you and i or i and you yeah it's
very funny for this because many people
just say
i and somebody do something yeah yeah i
heard that a lot a lot in vietnam so
have you heard that in japan i see yes i
have heard that like i and chang are
making a video yeah
not quite yeah i've heard that too so is
it not correct one right that's right
that's right it's not correct so we
should say chang and i are making a
video that's the correct sentence here
so in your opinion what could be the
reason
for this mistake uh the reason for the
mistake
oh that's a trip well it depends on the
country for your students i would
imagine it's perhaps a word order issue
for vietnamese students because in
vietnamese we usually say
when you are in a situation where you're
doing something with other people it
does sound kind of strange to say
i and you or i and chang did something
so as you're saying i think it's better
to put i at the end
okay so when you want to put yourself in
the list with the others remember to put
yourself at last
for example i would say
alistar and i am making a video it's
going to be perfect one
exactly sounds good
confusion over active and passive voice
and the next mistake will be the
confusion over active and passive voice
this is a really common one i think yeah
do you have an example of how this works
um yes of course because it's very
common mistake for example in vietnam
people sometimes say
i was went out with my friends yesterday
that's a perfect example of like it's
better to use just a simple active voice
to explain that i went out with my
friends yeah it should be i went out
with my friends yesterday it's because
in this case is a active voice ring
exactly not passive it's not passive in
this case exactly exactly yeah i've
heard another example of it like
something just a simple action like in
everyday action like uh in passive voice
uh the door was opened by my teacher for
example it's like a sentence like that
we can understand the sentence but it
doesn't need to be in passive yeah it's
not natural right that's right we should
say that my teacher opened the door yeah
yeah it's natural and it's easier to
communicate i think exactly exactly so
if you're thinking like how do i know
when should i use active voice when
should i use passive voice
when you want to uh express like the
person doing the action is not so
important or you don't know who did the
action like for example if your phone
was stolen yeah yeah but you don't know
who who stole the phone so we don't know
use passive voice then yeah or if that
person is not important use passive
voice yeah yeah and sometimes if you try
to translate from your mother language
to into english so um don't try to
translate what by words so another daily
life example could be like maybe
my mother cooking dinner for example so
i could say
my mother cooked dinner in the active
voice
or
dinner was cooked by my mother in that
sentence in the active sentence it's
clear who is the person who cooked
dinner it's my mother like she's the
important part here if i say dinner was
cooked by my mother dinner is more
important than my mother exactly so it
sounds not so nice so
dinner was cooked by my love my mother
me too me too so it's like we should say
my mother cooked dinner that's a much
better choice yeah so for daily use we
shoot you
active voice
active voice isn't very nice
incorrect is a present continuous
so number four would be incorrect use a
present continuous
that's a very common problem i've heard
absolutely absolutely so using the
continuous with a verb that we probably
should not use the continuous form with
yeah for example if i want to say that i
love my boyfriend a lot people will say
that i am loving him i'm loving him
normally we just say
i love him we don't need to put it in
present continuous in this case or when
people talk about the sports or their
hobbies that they enjoy they might say
for example i am liking baseball
or i am liking football for example but
in the same way we should not use the
continuous tense there let's just use
the simple present tense i like baseball
i like football so when you're using
these like mental state or emotion or
feeling verbs usually we use them in the
simple present tense of course sometimes
we use a word like thinking
yeah but sometimes i still hear that
people say i'm thinking about right
something exactly exactly so why we use
thing in kaya present continuous and in
which k we don't use that in present
continuous exactly well in that case
that's a perfect example using the word
think in the continuous tense that's
sort of like an action like at that
moment i'm thinking about something
that's an action in my mind that's an
action
exactly so in that case it's okay to use
it in the continuous sense so we have to
clarify the verbs is an action or the
verbs a kind of emotional state too
right exactly status your example of
like i am loving my boyfriend it sounds
a little like
like well that's a little different like
but what other other crazy examples can
we think of like oh sometimes my
students say understanding
they use it like they say like i am not
understanding
i'm like like thank you that's very
helpful for me but you should say i
don't understand i don't understand in
the present tense okay yeah alicia so
can you give her some
verbs and usually in
simple present not in brazilian
continuous yeah so we talked about for
example like and love know and
understand fear
hate yes a lot exactly exactly so those
very like emotion related words those
are definitely good examples of this so
just make sure to think about your verb
think think
think are you thinking about your verbs
answering the negative questions
and the next mistake and a very common
mistake is answering the negative
question
ah answering negative questions so for
example a question that begins with a
negative word right yeah yeah exactly
okay
for example i would take an example okay
yeah first of all people ask you
don't you want to learn english
don't you don't you yeah
don't you want to learn english people
will say
yes i don't
or no i don't yes i do no i do get very
confusing right actually though native
speakers sometimes get confused with
this point too but it's good to it's
good to discuss this yeah yeah yeah so
the correct answer to someone asking
don't you want to learn english you can
say yes i do
well i hope you do
if you want to learn english if you want
to learn english yeah you say yes i do
but if you hate english just say no i
don't i think people
especially native speakers use the
negative question to make the question a
little more polite or maybe to make the
question a little softer that's it but
just like you said just think of it like
a simple yes no question
don't you want to learn english do you
want to learn english we use them in the
same way they mean the same thing so can
you give us another example sure another
example maybe a daily life example
let's see didn't you go to that party
last weekend
and then you can answer with yes i did
in this case it's a past tense negative
didn't you go to that party so you can
answer yes i did or no i didn't in the
same way that you would answer
did you go to that party last weekend if
you get confused then just think of it
as a simple yes or no question replace
it with do don't you want to learn
english
so then we're talking about these
examples of these problems but what do
you think are some ways that students
can learn
these good word choices these more
natural word choices yeah my advice
would be try to use a lot of authentic
materials like um tv theory newspaper
songs movies a lot a lot to see how
native speaker choose a word do you have
anything is there like a favorite like
tv show or book or something that you
really enjoyed that helped you i really
enjoy friends
you know it i know it many people yeah
many people love using friends for study
and it's and it was such a popular show
among native speakers yeah yeah yeah
it's a great resource and it's funny
check it out friends bye
usually like the the teacher's surname
so like mr johnson or like ms
smith
didn't you go
sounds a little suspicious
right you know maybe you're checking
your friend like didn't you go to that
party last weekend
no do you want to stay with us oh should
i say it one more time a little less
silly good one
now you have a video of us fixing our
hair
hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we're going
to talk about 10 ways to improve your
writing so let's go
don't use text speak
okay so the first tip to improve your
writing is don't use text speak text
speak by that i mean for example like
brb or lol or
those kinds of words the words that you
use on the internet like sns or in text
messages with your friends those very
short like slang words ttyl or lmao or
those sorts of acronyms do not use those
in your formal writing if you are
writing a letter a
a business email whatever do not use
those the only one that you can use in a
business email so not in a letter of
recommendation not in a formal letter
but the only thing you can use that's
sort of text
speakish
is the acronym fyi which means for your
information you can use fyi in a mail to
your colleagues in an email to your
colleagues or your co-workers
but usually it's with somebody you have
a good relationship with you can say fyi
in those cases other texts speak other
acronyms like that don't use them you
you will sound
immature you will sound
too casual
not a good idea use proper punctuation
the next hint is to use proper
punctuation proper punctuation
punctuation for example we have commas
we have periods semicolons colons
apostrophes quotation marks parentheses
all of these are punctuation marks the
little points in our writing that tell
readers where to stop reading or how
sentences are connected
using proper punctuation in your writing
will help your reader understand you and
if your reader understands you well and
you've used proper punctuation you will
also look a bit smarter too if you're
not using proper punctuation like for
example if you forget to use an
apostrophe in a word it's gonna look
kind of bad honestly for example if you
use the word uh your y-o-u apostrophe
r-e if you leave out the apostrophe if
you just write y-o-u-r-e
it looks lazy it looks lazy so make sure
to use proper punctuation to avoid
appearing lazy so don't forget your
little periods comma semicolons all that
don't repeat the same vocabulary words
the next tip is don't repeat the same
vocabulary words don't repeat the same
vocabulary words she says repeating the
same sentence but don't repeat the same
vocabulary words means if you are using
like an adjective a specific adjective
in a sentence
don't use that same adjective in every
other sentence like try to use different
adjectives to describe your points if
you're always using exactly the same
words to describe your point like if for
example i want to write about
cake if i want to write
an article about cake and i just say
this cake is delicious this cake is so
delicious i loved this cake because it
was delicious this was so delicious
it's boring for the reader to read the
same word every single sentence or and
also you're not really communicating
very much if i just use the word
delicious to describe a cake the reader
doesn't understand why the cake is
delicious so give more detail when
you're sharing your opinions of course
this time it's a very simple opinion
about delicious cake but use a variety
of different adjectives
support your arguments with statements
that use different vocabulary words so
don't always say the same word to
describe something try to use a lot of
different vocabulary words and think a
lot about different adjectives you can
use if this is difficult for you there
is a tool you can use
the english word for it is thesaurus
thesaurus so many of you know what a
dictionary is a book or a resource to
check the meaning of a word but you can
also use what's called a thesaurus with
a thesaurus you can search for synonyms
words which have the same or similar
meaning as other words so if i look for
the word like delicious i might get
let's see some synonyms for the word
delicious might be yummy tasty
good
delectable for example so there are a
whole range of other words that you can
use if you find that you are using the
same word in every sentence try to find
a different word you can use a thesaurus
to help you do that so avoid using the
same word in every sentence or avoid
using this repeated vocabulary words
avoid use of very and really
okay the next tip is to avoid the use of
very and really by this i mean
instead of saying to go back to my cake
example the cake was very delicious the
cake was really delicious
very and really are sort of lazy words
of course they're very very useful
they're very very useful when we're
speaking casually and when we're
thinking quickly but if you're writing
and you have some time to think about
what you're writing instead of using a
word that's
common like delicious and just attaching
very like this cake is very delicious
what's a different word that means very
delicious so can i replace very and
delicious with one different word like
scrumptious for example this cake is
scrumptious scrumptious means very
delicious it's only one word so if you
can do this if you apply
a
a word that means the same thing as very
or really plus another word it's going
to level up your vocabulary and you're
going to reduce the number of words in
the sentence so if i say this cake is
very delicious or if i say this cake is
scrumptious scrumptious has a much
stronger meaning than just very
delicious so avoiding the use of very
and really can level up your speech
quite significantly so give it a try
use transition words and phrases
the next tip is to use transition words
and phrases use transition words and
phrases so transition words are words
and well and phrases we use to move from
one idea to the next idea so continuing
in my cake example if i want to
introduce my scrumptious cake and then i
want to move on to a description of the
store that sells that cake i might use a
transition phrase or some kind of
sequence phrase to help me do that so if
in paragraph a i'm talking about my
scrumptious cake and how much i enjoyed
it and the chocolate flavors and the
amazing frosting i could use a
transition phrase for example by the way
if you're interested you can purchase
this cake at abc store for example so in
that case my transition phrase was by
the way a very casual transition phrase
depending on the kind of thing you're
writing you can use different transition
phrases if you're writing an academic
paper for example
when you want to add information you can
say additionally moreover furthermore
you can also use plus if you'd like to
add information in addition is another
one that you can use so when you want to
add information there are some
transition phrases or some ways to give
more information
to describe a sequence you can say next
then following that you can use your
words like first second third fourth
depending on the sequence you can say
subsequently or
consequently as well so think about the
relationship between the points you're
introducing think about all these
different relationships how do you want
to connect these ideas so instead of
just listing your points each point try
to think about how to connect those
points naturally
so depending on what you're writing the
words you use will change which is fine
but just think about the way you'd like
your reader to understand your
information and choose transition words
and phrases accordingly
organize your writing intro body
conclusion
okay the next one is a tip about
organization so the next tip is organize
your paper or organize your writing into
an introduction a body and a conclusion
so these are the three basic elements of
an academic paper or of an essay perhaps
an article as well introduction is as it
sounds it's introducing the main points
what are you going to talk about what is
your opinion what is your argument we
introduced that in the introduction then
the next part is the body of the paper
in other words the main points the
your real arguments everything you would
like to say about the things you
introduced in your introduction this is
where you get into the details of that
so the body of the paper is typically
the longest part of the paper or the
longest part of the essay so there's a
lot of information in the body section
finally the conclusion the conclusion of
the paper concludes or finishes the
paper in the conclusion you will
summarize your points from the body of
the paper and you should connect those
points to the items you introduced in
the introduction of your paper so all of
these elements these three elements
should connect together so if you are
finding that it's difficult to organize
your thoughts or you don't know how to
approach your paper or this item maybe
even an email you're writing you can try
to separate it into three sort of
categories introduction body conclusion
so introduce idea explain idea summarize
idea this can be very helpful in writing
avoid use of second person
okay the next hint is avoid use of
second person second person this is
going to take a little explanation so in
english writing we have three sort of
ways that we can write we can write in
first person which means for example i
went to the store i wanted to buy
something i met a friend so first person
i am the person sharing the story
sharing the information
in second person which is kind of rare
actually except in very casual styles of
writing uh the subject of the sentence
is you like you go to the store you buy
some milk you call your friend this is
kind of rare we see this in children's
books and like i say in sort of informal
articles online third-person style
writing is using he she and character
names like he went to the store she
called her mother they needed to see a
doctor so there are these three types of
writing in english language so first
person second person third person
generally when you are writing
especially an academic paper you will
use first person or third person to do
that if you're writing something formal
you should probably not use second
person sometimes you'll see
like a person describing an experiment
for example like you should submerge the
item in water or you should bake this at
350 degrees using you is fine in casual
situations when you're giving
instructions for example
if you find it in a recipe fine it's
kind of sounds a bit more casual it's
very informal not so important however
if you find that you are using
you you you in an academic paper it
sounds a bit uh too casual too informal
so please avoid use of second person so
reminder second person is the subject of
the sentence is you you so it sounds
like you're kind of commanding the other
person commanding the reader or giving
advice to the reader or telling the
reader what to do it sounds very odd so
avoid use of second person in your
writing
consider the tense you're using
the next tip is to consider the tense
you're using consider the tense you're
using so i'm just going to talk about
two tenses here really uh present tense
and past tense um so we can use the
present tense uh and the present
continuous tense really to explain a
story or to tell a story like it's
actually happening so if i say like i go
to the store i see a friend of mine
she's buying milk for example if i use
the present tense and i use the present
continuous tense it sounds like the
listener or if it's in writing uh it
sounds like that's actually happening
it's easier for the listener or the
reader to kind of experience the story
in that moment so if you want to create
some tension in your writing if you want
to create some excitement you can use
the present tense and its associated
tenses to kind of heighten the energy
level if you use past tense however you
might create more of a report nuance so
for example when you watch the evening
news or you read the newspaper
you might find that it's written in past
tense it's just reporting information
what happened so simple past tense is
used past tense and the other associated
tenses in past tense are used so when
you're writing consider what do you want
the reader to feel or what do you want
the reader to experience are you writing
a report maybe you should just use past
tense are you writing about general
facts
then if you're writing about a general
fact you should probably use present
tense but if you want to create like a
fiction story for example and you want
your reader to experience the story and
kind of feel enthusiastic or energetic
about your story present tense and maybe
continuous tense um with present would
be a better choice so just think about
which tense you're using for your
writing
consider appropriate vocabulary
the next tip is to consider appropriate
vocabulary consider appropriate
vocabulary so depending on the type of
thing you're writing there are words
that are good to use and there are words
that are not so good to use if you're
writing an academic paper for example
don't use casual words don't use curse
words in your paper don't use anything
that could be interpreted or could be
understood as informal if you're writing
something very casual on the other hand
it's fine to use casual words it's fine
to be informal to be a little bit funny
and it might sound strange if you do use
informal words or extremely polite words
so consider the appropriate kinds of
vocabulary words to be using depending
on what you're writing
learn to use references
okay the last tip is maybe the most
difficult tip the last tip is learn to
use references learn to use references
this is especially important if you are
writing academic papers or if you are
writing something
you're going to publish in like a
journal or maybe even a magazine using
references means you are using
references reading references and
writing about them and including what's
called a citation in your writing so
you're taking a piece of something that
someone else has written putting it in
quotation marks perhaps depending on the
way you choose to cite it and then
adding a reference list at the end of
your document to show
which documents you referenced which
documents were important to you in
making your argument so if you can use
references in your writing to support
your argument it can be a very very good
tool so if you
have just kind of an opinion piece you
want to write an article even for the
internet for example it can be very very
helpful to support your argument with
links to other
references with links to other
information about your opinion so
yes i'm it's most important it's most
focused on in academics
in academia really
but if you're writing even for the
internet learning how to reference
properly learning how to include others
works properly in your work can be
extremely valuable so try that out it's
it's a big topic it's a difficult topic
but learning how to use references can
really help you improve your writing
so those are 10 ways to help you improve
your writing i hope that there were some
useful tips in there for you if you have
any questions or comments please feel
free to let us know in the description
no not the description okay i'll try it
again
okay so those are 10 ways that you can
hopefully improve your writing i hope
that those were useful for you if you
have any questions or comments please
let us know in the comment section below
this video thanks very much for watching
this episode of top words and i will see
you again soon bye
writing i love writing
sometimes seriously though writing when
you have to write is just
it's not fun don't use texty language
don't use text texty speak texty
language text speak that's hard to say
yeah text speak
text speak i guess i could be very tech
speak
that doesn't sound the same text speak
wow that's hard to say in english all
right
writing
i don't even know
hi english class 101 listeners we're
here in moshi tanzania and we're about
to climb mount kilimanjaro so here are
the top seven phrases you need to know
when climbing a mountain
everybody is here in line
to weigh the beds
we are headed for
registration give our passports sign up
so everybody knows we are officially on
this track
a lot of people
in each team
of climbers we've got about 25 planners
waiting
to go into
back into the vans and start the track
and then over here you've got the little
area where the trekkers are waiting
more than 100 troops wow
to pitch a tenth so to pitch a tent
means to put up a tent
and we are very lucky here in
kilimanjaro that the crew is pitching
the tent for us jumbo
we just have to get through this one
step at a time
there are many many steps to this
journey and if you look too far ahead on
the path you're you will never get there
but if you look just one step ahead of
you and you go one step at a time
you will get there
that's what i keep telling myself one
step
at a time
but
watch your step
at the same time because if you don't
you're gonna hit one of these boulders
we've been hiking for about
almost four hours now and we're about
to have lunch once we hit
shira camp one
on this path so
good luck to us one step at a time
crossing the creek is this the orleans
is that what it's called
what is this area called marlins
the more orleans
the next phrase is
out of breath or to be short of breath
so
we've been climbing now for three and a
half hours we've reached this lovely
piece of rock which to me looks like
pride rock from the lion king but there
have been several times
when i have been
out of breath
so it's only natural climbing i'm sure
it happens to you sometimes but i need
to sit down thank you
so the next phrase is low altitude and
high altitude so low altitude means
you're closer to sea level
so at zero
meters you are at sea level and we are
now here at shira to camp and we are at
3
850 meters above sea level so we are now
at quite a high altitude
so low altitude
high altitude and tomorrow we're going
even higher
can't wait we're on the barranco wall
right now
waiting our turn to climb how are you
doing nicholas
yeah how many well i know you climbed
this wall like 150 times you said
yeah
so many times
there's quite a lot i don't know i am so
in awe of these porters though we don't
know how they can carry chairs and tents
and everything else
wow okay here we go stand up for you all
right
warriors
um
getting on the road again in the morning
can be quite a challenge
wake your wake your body up again
at karanga camp elevation
3995 meters
how's everybody feeling morning of day
five
good good
ready
good
the highest game of checkers
what do you call this game in swahili
the next phrase is to rise to the
challenge so
late tomorrow night we need to rise to
the challenge or
get ourselves
ready and prepared to take on the
challenge of climbing to the top
of this mountain mount kilimanjaro which
is our whole
goal from the very beginning so we are
going to rise to the challenge
i think we can make it
let's see what happens tomorrow night
last stretch to the summit
the sign is just down here
oh yeah
we made this
we made it yeah to the top it was the
hardest thing i've ever done but we did
it
the next phrase is summit which is the
highest point of a mountain we are about
to summit mount kilimanjaro which is one
kilometer past this side called stella
point
ms nikki on our team being a diplomat
says she absolutely loves to fill out
paperwork
so she has been signing us all in at
every camp which you must do
when you arrive at the camp you have to
give your nationality your age
your name and your profession
and she's been loving it and taking care
of it for us sometimes you get stuck
behind somebody signing in for like 50
people so
it's funny
but this is a really pretty
beautiful
camp in
an alpine
moorland region which to us kind of
seems like
the rainforest but very beautiful
so our next phrase is base we're back at
the base or the bottom of the mountain
here we are we did it congratulations
everyone
this is what the finish line looks like
we have to sign out
and get out
bye
hi everybody my name is alicia welcome
back to top words today we're going to
talk about 10 phrasal verbs for sports
and exercise so let's go
go long
the first word is go long go long we use
this word when we're playing catch or
when we're throwing a ball so go long
means we combine the word go
with the word long meaning run
far away from me run a long distance
away from me so go is travel move and
long is a long distance away so go long
we'll usually shout this before we pass
a football for example or before we
throw a ball go long means i want to
throw this a long distance so please run
far far away and i will throw the ball
to you it's a nice one
in a sentence i'm gonna pass this next
one to you so go long
try out for
the next phrasal verb is try out for try
out for we use try out for to mean
audition like in sports but to audition
for a team to apply to be a member of a
team when you do that you usually have
to show your sports your your sport
sporting experience or you have to show
your athletic ability so to try out for
is like a test to join a team like i
want to try out for the volleyball team
next year or she says she's going to try
out for golf next year or have you
thought about trying out for the swim
team for example so to try out for a
team to try out for a sport this is how
we can use try out four work up
the next phrasal verb is work up as in
work up a sweat work up a sweat we use
work up a sweat to mean cause your body
to sweat because of exercise so by doing
something active like doing sports or
running for example anything active with
your body we cause our bodies to sweat
and we use the expression work up a
sweat to express that uh we use work
because we are working we are moving our
bodies we're active we are working our
bodies our bodies are working they're
moving they're functioning so we use
work up a sweat our bodies are working
and the temperature maybe increases so
our body starts to sweat to try to cool
us down so we say work up a sweat to
describe this
in some example sentences
i try to work up a sweat
at least twice a week or how often do
you work up a sweat or it feels really
good to work up a good sweat now and
then yeah
root four the next expression is root
four root four we use root four at
sporting events so root four means
support a team so to root for like i'm
going to root for the football team or
i'm going to root for my country's team
or i'm going to root for my cities team
route 4 means support so i like to root
for my college team every year or i like
to root for my college football team
every year that's true or
which team do you want to root for this
weekend
work off the next phrasal verb is work
off work off so we talked about work up
like work up a sweat but here the word
is work off we usually use this to talk
about calories so
i want to work off the cheesecake i ate
for a dessert last night or i want to
work off the burrito i had for lunch
today work off means a food you ate and
we we use the word work off to mean work
our bodies as in work through exercise
and work off so we want to take off from
our bodies the calories we added to it
by eating so example sentences would be
yeah i want to work off the cheesecake i
ate last night i want to work off all
the pizza that i ate last weekend or
um do you want to come with me i'm going
to go work off all these
ice creams i've been eating lately for
example so work off means to
exercise
with the intention of taking off or
taking away calories from food so if
you're dieting or if you're trying to
become healthy or you just want to
exercise away some extra calories you
can use the expression work off to work
off a food to work off some calories
okay cheer on cheer for
the next expression or maybe pair of
expressions is cheer on or cheer four so
i talked about the word root for and
cheer on and cheer four are very similar
we use them in pretty much the same way
so we use cheer on
usually before a team name like i'm
going to cheer on my high school team or
i'm going to cheer on my son or
daughter's team this weekend we can also
use cheer for i'm going to cheer for my
high school team i'm going to cheer for
my college team because we're using the
word cheer it sounds like we're going to
use our voice or use our bodies to
support that team you can maybe see a
great example of this among cheer
leaders
so you see cheerleaders a lot in movies
especially from the usa
they're men and women actually but they
wear a
uniform and their role their purpose is
to
help the audience cheer for that team to
cheer for the the team
that they are connected to so a cheer
leader is a person who leads cheering at
a sporting event so to cheer for someone
or to cheer on someone a team we can use
cheer on and cheer four to talk about
supporting with your voice or with some
kind of dance for example so
cheer on and cheer for uh are really fun
things um that you can talk use to talk
about uh supporting your favorite teams
knockout
uh the next expression is knock out
knock out or you might see ko as well
knock out means to usually through a
punch or through some kind of physical
action to cause someone to lose
consciousness so it doesn't mean to kill
someone it doesn't mean someone dies for
example
it means to cause someone to become
unconscious so unconscious it's like
going to sleep but it's kind of it's
dangerous like because of a head injury
usually a person goes unconscious or
they
they fall asleep it appears they fall
asleep but you see this in boxing for
example a knockout a ko
is
someone yeah becomes maybe unconscious
so they fall down for example and they
don't get back up that's a ko to knock
out your opponent so we we see this a
lot in boxing perhaps in other sports
occasionally but i think primarily it's
used in boxing so to knock out your
opponent or uh like he's going to try to
knock out his opponent in the last round
or did you see that guy get knocked out
last night you can use knockout outside
of sports but it's usually used for
fights like um i saw a guy get knocked
out outside a bar last night so
we can use this outside of sports but
it's usually for like fighting
situations okay
workout
the next phrasal verb is work out work
out this is one that many people seem to
struggle with when they see it so it
does not mean it has no connection to
actually working
to work out means to exercise to
exercise we use this as a set phrase
work out it means exercise that's it so
i want to work out three times a week or
i went to the gym for a workout last
night or do you want to work out with me
this weekend workout means exercise
always warm up
the next expression is warm up warm up
so warm meaning warm your body so
increase your body's temperature and up
meaning to increase something again so
warm becoming warm and up temperature
like increasing temperature so before
you begin a
some kind of exercise or some activity
it's common to begin with a warm-up a
short kind of easy exercise to prepare
your body to work out to exercise so a
warm up is often included in an exercise
routine warm up is the phrasal verb we
use so example sentences i like to do a
five-minute warm-up before i go jogging
or what do you usually do for your
warm-up or i think it's really important
to do a warm-up before you start working
out
cool down
all right the last one for today is cool
down cool down is really the opposite of
warm-up so we use warm-up to explain
raising our body's temperature before we
do a workout cool down is used to
explain cooling the body's temperature
after a workout reducing our energy
levels after a workout for example i
think it's important to take five
minutes to cool down after your workout
or what kind of things do you recommend
for
cooling down after your exercise alright
so those are 10 phrasal verbs that you
can use when talking about sports and
when talking about exercise i hope that
those are useful for you thanks very
much for watching this episode of top
words and i will see you again soon bye