Hi guys! Welcome to my channel! Um, I'm so going to make the best video you've ever seen in your
life! I've got so much to talk to you about! I'm so excited! Um, so, um... Oh my god! Toby I'm so
good on camera, aren't I? I'm a natural! What was that? You haven't done anything!
What are you talking about? This is great content! This video, Monica, is supposed to
be about my favorite word! SO! So...? Forget it, Monica. So is my favorite word. Yeah? So I want
this video to be the best video I have ever made in my life ever! My name is Toby, this
is SMASH English and here is everything you need to know about SO for the B2 First Cambridge exam.
SO as a discourse marker. We can use SO as the beginning of our speech and it means nothing.
I use so all the time and really I only use it to give myself some time to think.
So when you are in the speaking exam and you don't know what to say, say SO. Not only will
you give yourself time but you will also earn extra marks for using discourse markers. Toby,
what are discourse markers? That's a fantastic question! Thank you so much for asking! I love
teacher Toby! Watch this video here to learn all about discourse markers and how you, yes you,
can use them to score very very very high marks in your B2 First speaking exam. SO can mean very.
We can use SO before an adjective and this means VERY. For example: I am so excited! means: I am
very excited. And that Toby is so interesting! Guys if you think this video is so cool then
give this video a like! I like it, do you? We can use SO with quantifiers. We commonly use SO
before many and much to emphasize the great quantity of something. For example: yesterday
SMASH English got so many views and that's because you love SMASH English and I love SMASH English
and we all love SMASH English! Wow! this video is like a big ball of love all for SMASH English!
A big ball of love about SMASH English that's a very very sexy image! SO
can mean therefore. I have finished this video SO I will now watch another SMASH English video...
yeah! SO can be used with THAT. This is especially important for part two of the Use of English
paper: the Open Cloze part of the exam. We use SO to emphasize an adjective and we use THAT to talk
about the results of that adjective. That sounds confusing so let's look at some examples! He
is so fat that he cannot walk properly. Monica! No! That is fat shaming and fat shaming is wrong!
Okay, okay, fine. You are so skinny that you look like a little boy! Pathetic! Gross!
Sorry, Monica!? How is that any better? Eh I don't know but it's true right guys?
SO to avoid repetition of a phrase. Monica, it's been seven months of SMASH English
right we've got 1,000 subscribers, we've got 40,000 views, do you think that we could become,
you know, millionaires from doing this? Um well, yeah. I might become a millionaire I guess but
you? No I don't think so. Here instead of saying "I don't think you will become a millionaire"
Monica has said "I don't think so". This is to avoid repetition of the question.
It is unnecessary. Your words are precious so save them! Philosophy channel! Hello
philosophy! How you doing? So you will, and I won't? Uh!? What!? Why not me? Why you!? Well,
you know, you just don't have the celebrity factor but me? Wow I think that I... Alright shut up.
SO to say something is true. This is very similar to the previous use. Let's look at an example! He
said he passed the B2 First exam. Really!? Well if so it must have been because of SMASH English!
Here I have said IF SO instead of saying "if this is true". Actually he was lying, he'd failed. Oh
really!? Yeah, I'm afraid so. "I am afraid so" means "I am sad to say that this is true".
SO to avoid repetition of an adjective.
I think I'm more beautiful today! More so than yesterday. We're supposed to be recording a video
today, Monica! Stop looking at yourself for five minutes and help your master! Master? Weird.... Oh
someone's grumpy today! What's the matter, babe? Are your youtube views going down?
Oh no, babe! Don't you worry! Yeah? This face is your key to success! Yeah whatever. In Monica's
original sentence she said "I think I am more beautiful today! More so than yesterday". Here
SO replaces the adjective BEAUTIFUL to again avoid repetition. We often do this when we are using
MORE and LESS. Simple. Next! SO in inversions to express agreement. My beloved inversions!
We all love inversions here at SMASH English! All of us do! All of the team! Me and my friends...
My friends.... I have friends, probably... probably I have... I think I have friends. Yeah?
Friends? Friends? We are friends... Please? Guys, I love SMASH English! I agree with this statement!
Of course I do! Instead of saying "me too" I can say "so do I". The grammar is SO plus the
AUXILIARY VERB plus the SUBJECT. Easy right? Right! Yeah um, I am beautiful! And so am I!
Uh, No you're not. If you want to know more about using SO in this way then you are a
very very lucky human person! This link and you can learn all about inversion
and inversion is very important grammar for the speaking, for the writing, the use of english,
it's just fantastic. And if you don't watch this video you will lie in bed at night and think maybe
if only I had watched that video I would now know everything about inversion but I didn't watch it
because I'm a stupid, insufficient, inadequate.... Calm down, calm down... Just watch it! Please....
Give me a view. I love my views! SO before nouns and verbs for emphasis. This is informal so
please do not use this in formal writing however if you're writing a letter or an email to a friend
this is great. If you're talking to your partner during the speaking exam then this is also great.
For example instead of saying "I am definitely going to watch another SMASH English video
later on" you could say "I am so going to watch another SMASH English video later on!"
It's more informal, it also sounds very natural. Oh my god! What are you wearing!?
That is so 2019! Yeah? It's 2020 right? I wear pyjamas all day. I never even leave my bedroom
yeah? Staying in is so the new going out! God you're so ignorant! I can't stand you!
And with that we are finished! Now you know everything you need to know about SO
for the B2 First Cambridge exam. If you liked the video don't forget to SMASH that like button,
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