Do your friends ever have a conversation and you just nod along
even though you're not really sure what they're talking about?
I'm telling you, it's totally unconstitutional.
I totally agree.
Yeah.
Aww, yeah.
Welcome to learn English with TV series.
I'm Thiago, your RealLife coach.
And today we are learning English with Joey from Friends.
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Our method is simple.
First, you're going to watch the entire scene with subtitles in English.
Then we're going to teach you everything about that scene
the vocabulary, the grammar and the pronunciation features.
And at the end of the video, you will have the chance
to test your knowledge by watching the scene again.
But this time without subtitles. Got it.
So as you saw at the beginning of the video today,
Joey is not very good with uncommon, more sophisticated words.
I mean, it was like the Algonquin kids table.
In the clip we're going to watch today.
Joey mixes up the word omnipotent
for something else, something quite funny, actually.
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- Phoebe. - Okay. Okay.
If I were omnipotent for a day, I would want world peace.
No more hunger.
Good things for the rainforest.
And bigger boobs.
So you took mine.
Chandler, what about you?
If I were omnipotent for a day, I'd make myself up nipping it forever.
See, there's always one guy.
If I had a wish.
I wish for three more wishes.
Joey Hey, buddy.
Hey, Joey.
What would you do if you were omnipotent?
Probably
Kill myself.
Excuse me.
Hey, if little Joey's dead, then I got no reason.
Joey Omnipotent.
You are?
Ross, I’m...
Phoebe. Okay. Okay.
If I were omnipotent for a day, I would want world peace.
No more hunger.
Good things for the rainforest.
And bigger boobs.
Omnipotent is the quality of having unlimited power.
The friends are each sharing what they would do if they had all this power.
The prefix omni is used to express everywhere or everything.
For example, omnipotent means all potency
or all power, as we just saw.
Omnipresent means present everywhere.
Check out this clip from Lucifer, where these words are used.
In fact, things will only get better.
I'll become omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, all the ominous.
But how is that good for our relationship?
I'll be there for you whenever and wherever you need me.
I know exactly what you're thinking, Phoebe.
Okay. Okay.
If I were omnipotent for a day, I would want world peace.
No more hunger for good things for the rainforest.
Hunger is the state or condition of being hungry.
Hunger is a noun.
Nouns express the abstract idea of something.
Nouns are also commonly used in formal English.
Here's another example.
We have the verb to laugh. Right.
If I add this suffix ter at the end of this word, I formed the noun.
LAUGHTER.
Let's watch another clip from friends where this word is used.
Look around you guys.
This was your first home,
and it was a happy place,
filled with love and laughter.
How about a quick test?
What's the noun form of the words below?
Certain. Employee.
Examine
certainty.
Employment examination or exam.
And bigger boobs.
Boobs is a colloquial way to refer to a woman's breasts.
Another colloquial way to say this is bosom.
Here's a clip from Two and a Half Men with this word.
I remember one time we were kids.
We were in my bedroom playing Stratego and my blouse came unbuttoned.
And Alan, instead of sneaking a peek like a lot of guys would do, averted
his eyes and said, Jamie bosom.
So you took mine.
Chandler, What about you?
Notice the connected speech patterns we have here.
The tee in what is pronounced as a flap t sound, a deaf,
which then connects to the vowel A in about.
So we hear what?
Then the T in about is pronounced as a stop t.
This means that the T is not fully pronounced.
Instead, there is an abrupt stopping the airflow
about putting it all together.
We have. What about you?
What about you, Chandler?
What about you?
Chandler One way or another, colloquial
way to ask this question is how about you?
Check out this clip from the Big Bang Theory, where
Penny is invited to dance.
Care to dance?
I'm sorry.
I'm engaged to.
How about you?
Oh, what the hell?
If I were omnipotent for a day.
I'd make myself up nipping in forever.
The main grammatical structure we see being used in this scene
is the second conditional.
We have four kinds of conditionals in English.
Zero conditional.
First, conditional.
Second conditional and mixed conditional.
Today we are working with second conditional.
We use the second conditional to talk about
hypothetical imaginary situations, usually things that are not true or real
in the present moment, but that we still imagine an alternative reality to them.
In this scene, the friends are discussing what each one of them would do
if they were omnipotent.
This is an imaginary situation.
They are just playing with each other and imagining different scenarios.
Here's how we form the second conditional.
If a simple passed plus would add base verb.
If I were omnipotent for a day,
I would make myself omnipotent forever.
No, it is that the order of the sentences is irrelevant.
You can invert them if you want.
In that case, it will look like this.
I would make myself omnipotent forever.
If I were omnipotent for a day.
This structure is used throughout the entire scene in many different forms.
We can see this structure being used in its full form
and its contracted form and in its question form.
Check it out.
If I were omnipotent for a day, I would want world peace.
No more hunger.
If I were omnipotent for a day, I'd make myself omnipotent forever.
What would you do if you were omnipotent?
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So now let's get back to the lesson.
Choose the correct option.
If she was a dentist, she would have her own office.
If she were a dentist.
She would have her own office and
both are correct.
In the second conditional, you can use water with all pronouns like this.
If I were. If you were.
If he were. If she were.
If it were.
If we were. If they were.
This is actually the proper way to use this conditional.
But if you want to sound more casual, you could say if I was.
If you were.
If he was.
If she was.
If it was. If we were.
If they were.
By the way, let us know in the comments.
If you would like us to create another lesson about the other conditionals.
See, there's always one guy.
I wish. I wish for three more wishes.
Rachel is making fun of Chandler by saying that there is always
one guy who tries to be smart by using one wish to ask for more wishes.
There's actually reminds me of a really cool lesson
we did on the channel a little while ago about the Disney movie Aladdin,
where the main character finds a magic lamp
and can only have three wishes from the genie.
I'll leave the link to the lesson in the description so you can watch it
later.
Hey Joey, what would you do if you were omnipotent?
We have two instances of connected speech here.
First, the D-plus y combination like him.
Would you?
This combination usually has a jr sound, as you can hear in the scene.
Monica says, Why would you?
Why would you listen again?
Do it.
What would you do if you were omnipotent?
Hey, Joey, what would you do if you were omnipotent?
Second, notice how Joey dramatically reduces the word.
Probably.
He says praw-bee.
Praw-bee.
Listen again.
Probably kill myself.
Excuse me.
Hey, if Little Joe is dead, then I got no reason.
Joey, uh, Omnipotent.
You are.
When Joey says if little Joey is dead, he is talking about his penis.
That's why this scene is funny.
Remember I told you at the beginning of the video today
how Joey is not the best with more uncommon, sophisticated words.
This is a great example of that.
He confuses the word omnipotent, which, as you've already learned,
means having a limited power with I'm impotent.
We use the word impotent to refer
to a man who is not able to perform sexually.
Even though Joey is not so good with fancy words.
He's great at dating girls and interacting with them.
The idea of becoming impotent
is obviously terrifying for Joey.
That's why he says he would probably kill himself.
And the joke doesn't stop there trying to be a good friend.
Ross repeats the word omnipotence to Joey,
this time slower, hoping he will get it.
But Joey thinks Ross is saying I'm impotent
and proceeded to try to console him.
Watch this part again.
Hey, if little Joey is dead, then I got no reason.
Pretty cool, isn't it?
You know, a lot of the humor in series like Friends
lies exactly in the way the language is used.
But now let's test your knowledge by watching this scene again
without subtitles and answering some questions.
Let's do it, Phoebe. Okay. Okay.
If I were omnipotent for a day, I would want world peace.
No more hunger.
Good things for the rainforest.
And bigger boobs.
So you took mine.
The prefix omni in omnipotent means everywhere.
Everything. All
nowhere.
Nothing.
None.
And bigger boobs.
So you took mine.
Chandler, what about you?
If I were omnipotent for a day, I'd make myself omnipotent forever.
See, there's always one guy.
Vida, Wish I'd wish for three more.
We can.
Using the structure.
You just learned the second conditional.
Choose the option that best fills the gaps.
If I anything about teaching English,
I hear making this video.
Joey. Hey, buddy.
Hey, Joy.
What would you do if you were omnipotent?
I may kill myself.
Excuse me.
Hey, if Little Joe is dead, then I got no reason.
How can you reduce the word?
Probably when speaking English.
Probably.
I hope you enjoy today's lesson.
Don't forget to download your free power lesson PDF from today's lesson.
And if you want to keep learning with Joey Tribbiani, check out this lesson next.
As enjoy seeing as you've got the most experience.
I want you to take these dances
and teach in the combination.
But Joey, come on, it's easy, you know, It's
hand-to-hand, head to head.
Up out of Ray. Ray.
Big turn here, Randy.
Sharp slide.
Step, step.
And yes,
it says step by step in jazz hands.
Have fun by.