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we're going to talk about quick
responses to everyday greetings so today
is going to be lots of phrases that you
can use to quickly respond to very
common questions so the idea is you
don't have to think so much about these
so today i'm going to cover very quick
greetings very basic greetings like
what's up how are you how's it going
then we're going to talk about some like
greetings where you want to give details
sometimes and then finally we'll talk
about greetings asking about your future
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so i will now begin the lesson okay so
let's begin today's lesson by talking
about quick greetings really quick
greetings so
the very first one i want to talk about
is what's up what's up so very simple
very common greeting in american english
what's up
what's up is a little more casual than
how are you so how do you respond to
what's up respond to what's up with one
of these
usually we respond with not much you
not much you at native speed sounds like
how much you
so this is very very casual not much you
sounds like not much you
question mark at the end
if you like just respond with the same
question what's up what's up you can
totally do that no problem hey what's up
hey what's up totally natural just reply
with the same thing if you can't
remember not much you just say the same
thing in return to the other person
what's up hey what's up fine totally
fine totally natural to do that
third
ask a different question how is it going
how's it going so we'll talk about this
in just a moment hey what's up hey how's
it going hey how's it going so this
how's it going
this is the reduced form of how is
this house is how is it going
how is it going but we do not say how is
it going it's very unnatural so how's it
going how's it going is another way to
say how are you
so it it in this sentence how is it
going means how is your life going how
like are the things in your life right
now how are you doing this is another
way to ask this question so
to quickly respond to what's up use one
of these so what's up not much you
what's up what's up totally fine or
what's up hey how's it going totally
good to use all of these so these are
easy to remember just train like
as i said just three of these so that
you can practice them quickly
okay
let's go to the next set of just super
super quick greetings so first let's
take a look at these greetings they are
how are you
how's it going which i just talked about
here
and how are things
so how are you i think many of you know
how are you
and how's it going as i just said how's
it going means like how is your life
going how is your life doing
and how are things how are things so
this question this things means like
things in your life how are the like
how's your family how's school how's
work how's everything so all of those
things how are they how are they how are
things so these all mean
how is your life right now how are you
so it's but it's a very small just
greeting question so at native speed
this sounds like hey how are you how's
it going how are things
so how do we answer these questions
of course with how are you
you can respond with good great and so
on but i want to talk a little bit about
maybe a few more uh ways to answer this
that maybe we don't see so often in
textbooks so let's take a look first
yeah good yeah good so when you when you
say this uh as a response
don't use like downward intonation i
would say use upward intonation to show
that you are good so for example how are
you yeah good yeah good so there's that
pause yeah good not like yeah good luck
that gives the wrong impression so maybe
you want to like sound kind of sad but
you want to use good it's kind of
strange you could do that but yeah good
yeah or yeah i'm good is also okay to
use
uh another so these are all answers to
these questions another one you can use
is i'm all right i'm all right so again
basically the same level as yeah good so
how are you or how's it going i'm all
right that's usually the intonation we
use how's it going i'm all right i'm all
right so all right is kind of like
fine it's like saying i'm fine
so it just sounds a little more friendly
like a little more casual how are you
i'm all right that's and i i feel like
personally i usually do this motion like
i'm all right i'm cool i'm good so i'm
all right point don't forget this i'm
um that i am the i am reduces to i'm so
not i alright i see that in comments a
lot i'm all right i'm all right i'm all
right that's how we pronounce it at
native speed uh and in regular
intonation
okay next one is not bad not bad so when
we say not bad we usually say not bad
not bad so kind of
that's sort of the sound of it that's
sort of the rhythm so how are you not
bad again this sort of i'm not bad so we
use
not bad to mean like i'm not great but
again i'm not bad either it's just sort
of so so but so so we don't use that
much in everyday conversation i'll tell
you a little a couple other ones you can
use instead of so so
okay
uh the next one is pretty good
pretty good when we say when we respond
with pretty good for example how's it
going pretty good
pretty good so we usually have this sort
of
like um yeah there's sort of like a an
agreement phrase or something like that
yeah uh-huh
to show we heard the other person
so how's it going yeah pretty good i'm
pretty good you could say too i'm pretty
good so again not great not bad but just
all right pretty good so these all mean
about the same thing you can choose
whichever you prefer here
this one same old same old and yes we
repeat it same old same old two times
there so this expression
emphasizes that nothing has changed so
we are doing the same old things or our
life it's like the same old life the
same old same old kind of thing so
nothing special nothing bad just same
old same old so when we reply we sound
like how's it going same old same old
that's really what it sounds like same
old same old same old same old so up and
then down not same old same old it
sounds really strange same old same old
so make sure your voice moves down when
you reply with this how's it going same
old same old or how are things same old
same old so this sounds very natural
when nothing is super special you have
nothing really exciting to report just
kind of the same as usual is the feel
here
okay
uh next one we're getting into these are
kind of more negative responses so right
here this group
this group
is a bit yeah i think thank you i think
we could see all of these
these responses are a little bit on the
negative side they have kind of a
negative feel about them so if you use
these responses
you will probably be asked a question
like you might want to give some more
information for example how are things
not so great not so great so when we say
not so great it sounds like hey how are
things not so great not so great so it
has that downward feel to it not so
great or i'm not so great is also okay
to use not so great so so great is a
good thing but i'm not so great so the
level is like down here in other words
it's kind of bad but we don't say kind
of bad i'm kind of bad we say not so
great i'm not so great i'm not so great
another one this one's very useful
uh is it's hard to see here it is a bit
sick a bit sick or you can change bit so
bit b-i-t means little little like i
said this today when i came in like our
control desk said how are you today and
i said i think i'm a little sick or i
think i'm getting sick maybe i'm getting
sick so if you feel like oh maybe i'm
catching a cold or i'm getting sick you
can say i'm a bit sick i'm a bit sick
so this is kind of like oh i'm not so
good so why in this case i'm a bit sick
i'm a little sick so
not so great i'm a bit sick
this one
uh this is maybe the most interesting
response on this list it is hanging in
there hanging in there
hanging in there
here it's maybe hard to see the spelling
this is h-a-n-g-i-n
i have an apostrophe here hanging
hanging this is cuz because um
this is like the short form the casual
form of hanging in there hanging in
there uh hanging in there means i'm
doing my best like something is
difficult for me but i'm still trying my
best so this again sounds like you're in
a challenging period of your life i'm
hanging in there
something is difficult for me but i'm
trying a lot i'm hanging in there so
maybe you have lots of work to do or
lots of stress or you haven't been
sleeping a lot recently you feel tired
you can say i'm hanging in there so hey
how are you i'm hanging in there hanging
in there hanging in there
someone in the chat said
um a bit suck no this sorry the g the g
connected uh here this should be a bit
sick a bit sick that's what this says on
the board s
i c
k the g connected sorry
so these are responses oh one more you
can use this last one
may be hard to see again this last one
is exhausted the pronunciation is
exhausted not exhausted but exhausted
like eggs you can think of the
pronunciation like eggs the food so
exhausted
exhausted means very very tired so you
can say i'm tired i'm pretty tired
uh also i i've learned in amer in
american english we use the word quite
to mean very so you can say i'm pretty
tired or i'm quite tired if you really
want to emphasize you're very very tired
you can say exhausted exhausted i'm
exhausted so in response how's it going
i'm exhausted or how are things i'm
exhausted so really super super tired
but again if you use one of these like
negative responses you probably should
be prepared to give some more
information
okay so these are our quick greetings
after this we're going to practice
detailed some some like detail related
questions so let's take one short break
and then we will come back uh so
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pdf but i always like to show the back
these are expressions you can use in
class yes but today's lesson
is uh something you can definitely use
with your classmates and with your
teachers as well so today's lesson you
can use at school for sure
the other one that i chose
was this one the family and relatives
one so these are also greetings you can
use and some other phrases here you can
use with your family members with your
relatives people in your neighborhood
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okie dokie so with that uh let's
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lesson i'm trying to check the chat
uh klau on facebook said can you man be
used when talking to a woman it depends
on it depends on the woman for me i
don't mind like i prefer to speak kind
of more roughly like on this channel i'm
very like maybe polite and proper but
when i'm speaking with my friends i
prefer to be kind of silly and like
like speak more roughly so in my case
that's fine but you have to kind of know
the person before you use something like
yo man what's up like giving the really
rough casual ways of speaking so give it
a little time to understand that person
okay thanks for the question i will try
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anyway let's move on to part two for
today part two for today is about
detailed greetings i'll go to this side
it's easier to see yes okay detailed
greetings so what i mean by detailed
greetings is that
you you need to think a little bit more
about what you want to say
but there are generally some very common
patterns that you can use to reply to
these questions so first let's take a
look at these two questions they are
very similar very similar first one is
how's your day or how's your week
this we saw this house in part one of
today's lesson yeah house is how is so
how's your day how's your week
this is a present tense question how is
your day how is your day how is your
week this greeting you can say to your
coworker to your classmate to your
friend how is your day today or how is
your week this week
so this is a present tense question
this question how was
your weekend or maybe how was your day
how was your week whatever this is a
past tense question so how is
how was how was your day how was your
weekend and so on
in fast speech though they sound
extremely similar so at native speed i
say how's your day how's your week and
this sounds like how's your weekend they
sound like almost exactly the same
so we know which question it is
based on the point in the week and the
point in the day so you need to use
context to understand is this a like
past question is this a present question
so think a little bit about the context
here
so to answer how do we answer
you can use these answers very easy like
very quick uh just adjective answers to
both of these questions so how's your
day good
fine how's your day busy so busy i have
a lot to do how is your week slow slow
this word slow i know we practice slow
for like something that travels at like
a not fast pace but slow for a schedule
means i don't have a lot to do i don't
have a lot to do how's your week slow so
maybe like you don't have a lot of work
that week or you don't have tests or you
don't have any uh homework to do
or you're not seeing many people you can
say it's slow my week is slow or my week
was slow so this does not mean like pace
like
of movement it means you don't have a
lot to do slow
this one all right the same all right
that we had so how's your day that's all
right it's all right so not bad not
great just okay it's all right you can
use okay so how's your day okay how's
your week okay
you can use these two as well these two
are very useful because depending on
your intonation
you can like
make a different impression hey nemwell
thanks very much for that appreciate it
on super chat awesome
um so these two are crazy and
unbelievable crazy and unbelievable
so depending on your intonation you can
create a positive or a negative feeling
with these words
so if someone says
how was your day or how was your week
how was your weekend you can say
crazy and it sounds like it was really
exciting or if you say how was your
weekend and you say crazy it sounds
negative you can use just your voice to
communicate different things with the
same word
same thing with this one unbelievable
unbelievable so unbelievable this means
it's something i cannot believe i cannot
believe something that is unbelievable
that was unbelievable so again this word
you can change the meaning with your
voice how was your weekend
unbelievable sounds excited and really
like happy or how was your weekend
unbelievable like it's really like it
was so bad you can't believe it so these
two can be quite useful of course if you
use a difficult to understand intonation
the other person might not understand
so you can use these in a couple
different ways and of course
finish oops sorry finish with you or how
about you so don't just wait for the
question ask them the question too so
how was your weekend it was all right
how about you how about yours as well
so please make sure to ask the question
in return too how was your weekend all
right how was your day good
my day today how's your day my day
how's your day control desk
my day is
all right
warm
warm busy live streams are always busy
very busy days okay good so let's
continue now to a more detailed uh
pattern to think about
what did you get up to
last weekend longer question yes
so maybe a lot of you know what did you
do
last weekend what did you do last
weekend
lots of at least american english
speakers will use a pattern like this
what did you get up to last weekend at
native speed this sounds like what'd you
get up to last weekend
what'd you get up to last weekend so
this what did you sounds like
uh
maybe not even that t
let's make this a d
sounds like it we cannot spell it like
this we can't spell it like this so i've
spelled it w-h-a-d-j-a
we do not use the spelling please do not
use the spelling in writing but this is
the way it's pronounced kind of so what
did you becomes
what'd you get up to last weekend what
did you do last weekend so to reply to
this you need to use probably a past
tense uh pattern so i've chosen just
some very common verbs that we use to
reply to this one so
i went to i went to i went to the movies
i went to the beach i went to a
different city i went to the symphony i
went to a club i went to a bar i went to
a pizza parlor whatever so any place i
went to something something
another verb you can use in past tense
is i ate i ate so this is for food if
you like food if you're like me and you
want to talk about something you ate use
this pattern i ate pizza i ate sushi i
ate ramen i ate thai food i ate turkish
food i ate a kebab whatever i ate plus
your food
i ate a michelin starred meal at a hotel
or like i ate some bad fish whatever you
can talk about the thing you ate just
with this pattern i h plus your food
another common activity i saw
i saw
i saw my friends i saw a movie i saw a
baseball game i saw a basketball game i
saw an artist live in concert so
something you saw with your eyes you can
use this past tense pattern to report
that i saw this thing i saw this thing
finally
i had i had this is good for an event so
a party um this could be like a wedding
it could be a birthday it could be some
other kind of gathering so like i had a
birthday party for my friends or i had a
big meeting this weekend or i had a
wedding to go to i had an anniversary
event to go to so something that's kind
of like an event or a gathering you can
use i had to describe that
ana on youtube says can i use i watched
yeah you can if you use watched make
sure it's for something that like you
focused your eyes on so there's a
difference between see and watch we have
a video about it on the channel um but
yes you can use watch you could say
something like i watched my favorite tv
show or i watched abc tv show that's
totally fine i watched a movie yeah
someone on facebook says can i say i saw
the movie say i saw a movie i saw a
movie or i saw abc movie so say
specifically which movie
uh lots of good examples coming in i ate
pizza last week good i am eating sushi
so if you want to talk about something
you're doing now it's a little different
than this pattern okay someone says i
ate crocodile wow someone says i saw a
ghost last week my gosh the comment
section okay good i don't see other
examples cocodrilo says
okay good so
let's finish this part with this group
of responses so if you did nothing how
do you explain that like you had no
plans this happened to me like last week
i didn't do anything it was not it was
not good so if you didn't do anything
you can reply with one of these example
sentences
i
didn't do much i didn't do much
so that means maybe like you went to the
supermarket or maybe you watched some tv
but nothing special you can communicate
that with i
didn't do
much at native speed i didn't do much so
uh what did you get up to last weekend i
didn't do much that's how we would say
it in a real conversation
second i didn't do anything i didn't do
anything like you stayed in the house
and maybe you stayed in your pajamas and
you ate pizza that's fine like no
judgment there but you didn't have
anything planned it was just you didn't
do anything at all you could say this
literally i didn't do anything i didn't
do anything
finally
just stayed at home i just stayed at
home
so what'd you do last weekend or what'd
you get up to last weekend i just stayed
at home i just stayed at home so again i
did not leave my house or this this
doesn't mean like i never left my house
it just means mainly i was in my home
maybe you went like to the supermarket
or to a coffee shop or something but i
just stayed at home
can i use i didn't do nothing no you
cannot it is not grammatically correct i
didn't do anything i didn't do anything
i am not we cannot use ammunt no i'm not
is the reduced form of i am not i am not
is i'm not i'm not can you say cocodrilo
again
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in the studio okay let's go to the last
part of today's lesson then that was
part two some more detailed greetings uh
so i'm going to finish today's lesson oh
my gosh it's already 30. uh with talking
about future plans uh so i guess i will
skip showing some more pdfs until the
end
let's finish today's lesson last
question for today is just this future
tense question asking about someone's
future plans as a greeting so this is
very common at the office
any plans for the weekend any plans for
the weekend
how do you answer this you can say
nothing much nothing much like no big
plans nothing much
or
you can say
i'm gonna go to i'm gonna this is going
to so use this uh to mean going to
in the same way as we talked about this
one a place i went to past tense for
future tense i'm gonna go to i'm gonna
go to a baseball game i'm gonna go to a
club i'm gonna go to a bar i'm gonna go
to my english lesson i'm gonna go to the
yoga studio i'm gonna go to the dentist
so whatever place i'm gonna go to
this one i might see i might see i might
see means you're not 100
sure yet you don't know 100
i might see so in this case i have the
verb c here you can change the verb so
like i might go i might watch i might do
in this case i have c you can change the
verb of course i might see a friend i
might see a movie i might see a baseball
game so you're not 100
sure yet
this one i think i'll check out i think
i'll check out here notice i'll this is
the reduced form of i will so i will
becomes i'll i think i'll check out
something
we use this one i think i'll check out
because we're not 100
sure this one i'm going uh i'm going oh
sorry i'm gonna go to i'm gonna go to is
like i've decided i'm gonna go to the
art museum
i'm gonna go to the aquarium this one i
think i'll check out is less sure like i
think i'll check out the art museum or i
think i'll check out the aquarium so the
level of certainty is lower we're not
quite so sure there i think i'll check
out the art museum so if you're really
sure i'm gonna go to if you're not sure
i think i'll check out something like
that
uh i wanna i wanna wanna is the reduced
form of want to want to something you
want to do but maybe you don't have a
plan for it yet so i wanna go to the
aquarium or i want to go listen to some
music this weekend or i want to eat
delicious food but maybe you don't have
a plan you just want to talk about
something you want to do
next
i'm planning to i'm planning to in the
progressive form so i'm planning to plus
a verb in the infinitive form i'm
planning to go to a baseball game i'm
planning to meet with my friends for
drinks i'm planning to go to the beach
i'm planning to swim in a lake i'm
planning to whatever so you can make
your plans very clear with this
expression almost done
uh i haven't decided yet oh i have
taught this phrase to so many students
over the years this i haven't decided
yet or
i don't know yet so i don't know i don't
know i don't know means i don't know i
don't know and this yet yet so this is
like i don't know at this time i will
decide later that's what this means i
haven't decided yet i haven't decided
yet more casually i don't know yet i
don't know and you can follow this with
a question
got any ideas got any ideas this is the
more casual version of do you have any
ideas
i don't know yet do you have any ideas
at native pace it sounds like that so i
said do you have
do you have
any ideas or you can use got any ideas
got any ideas do you have any ideas so
when you don't have any clues when you
don't have any ideas for your weekend
you can ask someone i don't know what
are you gonna do so you can you can ask
that question too what are you gonna do
as well
all righty that is everything for
today's lesson i will show pdfs on
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