- Do you have any travel planned?
Whether you are taking a vacation
or going on a business trip,
the expressions in this lesson
will help you sound more advanced and more natural
when you talk about your travel plans in English.
Are you ready?
Let's go.
Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina,
and welcome to Business English with Christina
where you become better at business
by becoming better at English.
A lot of my clients are entrepreneurs and business owners
and one of their big goals
is to speak English more naturally,
to sound more advanced.
And one easy way to do that is
by learning expressions with little simple words
like go for example.
Now, because this is the time of year
when a lot of people go on vacation
and maybe take some business trips as well
but especially a lot of summer vacation.
I'm actually on vacation when you're watching this video
because we organized everything a bit in advanced
so that I could send you a new lesson
while I am off enjoying some time off for vacation.
Anyway, if for you, it's the same,
you're going to be on vacation
or you're taking a business trip soon,
maybe you'll have to talk
about your travel plans in English
and that's why you'll need lots of expressions
with the verb go like these.
You can use expressions with go
to talk about how long you'll be absent.
For example, I'm going away for the weekend
but I'll be back on Monday
or I'm going away for a few weeks in July.
We also use go to explain the purpose of our travel
like why we're traveling.
For example, I have to go away on business
or do you plan to go on vacation this year?
And I hope the answer to that is yes.
And there are expressions with go
to tell us about where you're going.
For example, I'm going abroad in August,
I'm going abroad, I'm going to another country
or I'm going out of town for a few days
so I'm leaving the town that we're in.
Now, as a neuro language coach,
I know that I have to help you
to be more active in your learning,
not just listening to videos, which is great,
it's a good place to start,
but we wanna continue and help you actively learn.
So in the next part of this lesson,
we're gonna play a little game.
You're gonna listen to people
talk about places that they visited.
They're going to use a lot of expressions with go
and you're going to guess the places that they visited,
and if you want to get a list of all those expressions
plus get the answer to the quiz
to know where they visited,
you can find all of that over on my blog
and the link to the blog post is down below this video.
Okay, first person is Karen,
one of the teachers from my team?
- [Karen] I had to go away recently on business.
It wasn't a long flight, thankfully
and I still had time to go shopping,
go sight seeing and go for a run near the Tims River.
One evening after my conference,
I even went to the theater and saw a play.
You have probably heard of the playwright, he's famous.
- Okay, do you have an idea?
If you wanna check your answer,
go check the blog post.
Now, here is the second place
and this time you'll hear from Matthew
another one of my teachers
- [Mathew] Recently, I went away for a few weeks
to visit some friends.
I wanted to stay for a while
because I had to go abroad to get there
and I had to go by plane.
It's an 18 hour flight from where I live which is Thailand.
Luckily I run my own business
and can manage my team remotely.
My family lives in a beautiful city
where you can go skiing in the winter
at famous ski resorts nearby
like Whistler Blackcomb and Mt. Baker
but since I went in the summer,
I went sea kayaking,
I also went to the beach.
It's not hot like back home in Thailand
but it's still fun.
- Okay, so could you understand the places
that they were talking about
and did you catch all of those expressions with go?
Now, sometimes it was in the past
and sometimes it was in the present,
but of course conjugation is important.
Anyway, if you want to check your answers
to see if you guessed all three places
and also again to review this list of expressions with go,
it's very useful for your business English
but also for your general conversations.
Like I said, go over to the blog post
and you'll find all the answers, a vocabulary list,
everything you need right over there
and then you'll be one step closer to feeling more confident
about talking about your travel plans in English.
Now, as I always say,
if you don't use it, you lose it.
So here's how you can use
some of the things that you learned today.
In the comments down below, tell me,
did you go on a vacation or a business trip recently?
Tell me where you went and maybe what you did there
and maybe see how many expressions would go.
You can use, give yourself a good challenge,
have fun with it.
And if you enjoyed this lesson, I would love to know.
And there are three ways that you can tell me.
Give this video a thumbs up on YouTube
and subscribe to my channel
so that I can continue making
business English lessons for you.
Number two, of course, like I said, go over to the blog,
check your answers to the quiz
and get the vocabulary list of those expressions with go.
And the third thing is to continue learning with me
with this lesson about how to speak more naturally
using have and got.
And of course, thank you so much
for improving your English and improving yourself
with Business English with Christina
and I'll see you next time.