hey in today's lesson i'm going to teach
you how to sound more like a native
english speaker as we observe a short
clip of an english conversation i am
going to break down the words and
expressions so that you can start
sounding like me are you ready
well then i'm teacher tiffany let's jump
right in so we're going to take a look
at a short clip from a conversation i
had with one of my friends the topic was
responsibility so pay attention to the
new words and the new expressions here
we go
okay
then
this is a little bit different this is
more about companies
still dealing with responsibility but
what should companies do to protect the
environment basically what
responsibility do companies have as it
relates to the environment you know
nowadays you're talking about the green
you know green piece and all that stuff
so i mean the first couple of things
that pop into my head is just
not using as much paper so that we don't
cut down as many trees so we have
cleaner air
um
and then something that i'm not as
familiar with but i know that it impacts
with the water and toxic stuff that
needs to be properly disposed of as
opposed to oh we're just going to pour
it down here or we're going to pour it
out here
so those are things that i think
companies should take into consideration
ways to dispose properly dispose of
toxic chemicals that they may use when
they make certain things
and
um reducing the use of paper
so i guess that's kind of the way the
technology has helped yeah because you
don't have as much of a paper trail
that's true and then if something
happens like with fire with a fire or
natural disasters that's
in other places so you don't absolutely
lose everything yeah
i agree i agree i think they have to be
mindful of what they're using and how
it's affecting the environment i agree
so that was a short clip from our
conversation but you notice there were
so many new words and expressions that
we used very naturally so i'm gonna
break down some of those expressions and
words to help you sound like us so the
first part of the conversation this is
what was said okay
then this is a little bit different this
is more about companies still dealing
with responsibility but what should
companies do to protect the environment
at this part of the conversation i was
asking my friend chanel i wanted to know
her opinion but notice i used dealing
with
dealing with so what does this actually
mean dealing with now dealing with
actually means to be about
or be on the subject of something again
to be about or be on the subject of
something here we go for example
i am teaching you english right now
so this lesson is dealing with
or deals with
english and teaching you how to speak
english fluently is my purpose right
this lesson is dealing with
english makes sense right so look at
this this english lesson deals with
english here's an example sentence her
new movie deals with
the relationship between a woman and her
sick daughter the movie is about the
movie is connected to the subject of the
woman and her sick daughter again in
english we say
dealing with dealing with this lesson
deals with english
makes sense right so the next part of
the conversation was also very important
in the next part of the conversation
this is what was said
basically
what responsibility do companies have
as it relates to
the environment
you know nowadays we're talking about
the green you know greenpeace and all
that stuff so
you see i was still breaking down the
question for my friend chanel but in my
breaking down of the question what did i
say
as it relates to again what you're
learning you're learning the expressions
the phrases the words that native
english speakers use in natural
conversations and you need to start
using them as well so as it relates to
what does this mean
relate to
it means to connect something
with
something else again connecting
something with
something else for example
they didn't relate their
symptoms to the food they'd eaten the
day before
again they didn't relate or connect
their symptoms to the food they'd eaten
the day before now i want you to stay
until the end because for story time i'm
going to tell you a story about the
first time i ate beef trust me you don't
want to miss the story but i also want
to explain something more about this
expression relate to again they didn't
relate their symptoms to the food they
eaten the day before so real quick i'm
going to give you an extra story
relate to
this happened when i
was
still at my parents home about maybe a
few six months ago again i was building
my business so my family my parents were
letting me stay with them and we were
still in the midst of the pandemic the
pandemic where covid was very
rampant a lot of people were getting
coveted
now i've been staying with my parents
and i mainly stayed at home because i
was working very hard but
one day i started getting really cold it
was the summer time
but i was walking around the house
wrapped in a blanket
and i felt extremely cold and i would
ask my parents you guys aren't cold and
they said no we're not cold remember i
stayed at home mainly so i didn't really
think about covid i had seen a friend or
two but i didn't put two and two
together there's another expression for
you two and two together
i started getting cold i i lost my
appetite and i started having other
symptoms but i didn't actually
relate my symptoms to
covid
you see i actually did catch covid
maybe it's been a year might have been a
year ago but i caught covet and my
symptoms i didn't relate my symptoms to
covet but eventually i found out that i
did have covid i made it through i'm
okay
but i didn't relate my symptoms to covet
right i didn't relate my symptoms to me
catching coven from my friend
makes sense right relate to now i'm
gonna continue with the conversation and
explaining the other expressions but if
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continuing on with the conversation the
next part of the conversation went like
this
i mean
the first couple of things that pop into
my head
not using as much paper so that we don't
cut down as many trees so we have
cleaner air
now my friend chanel started answering
my question and this was part of her
response
notice though that she said
pop into my head so pop into my head
this just means to suddenly
think of something suddenly something
pops into your head suddenly something
comes up in your mind
here's an example sentence
all at once an idea popped into
her head suddenly she started thinking
about something now i'll tell you about
a time when this happened to me
something popped into my head so i was
in grad school in south korea and i was
studying oriental painting and it came
to the end of my studies where i had to
take an exam the exam was going to be
all in korean plus chinese letters it
was a difficult exam and i was on my
third time the first two times i had
failed so i walked into the test room
and there are about a hundred students
including me waiting to take the exam
teacher
placed the exam in front of me and we
all waited for the instructions to start
finally the instructions were given and
we took the test and we turned it over
and i can hear pins writing behind me
almost immediately so i read the
question and i understood what the
question was asking but i didn't know
how to answer the question
and i suddenly started to panic why it
was my third time and i didn't know how
to answer the question i started praying
god please help me this is my third time
taking this test and i started getting
very stressed and all of a sudden
the answer popped into my head god had
helped me he had answered my prayer and
i knew the answer it popped into my head
and i started writing and i passed
praise god i passed that exam but you
see what i'm saying right
i didn't know in the beginning what the
answer was my mind was blank but
suddenly
it popped into my head and i started
writing the answer so again pop into my
head it means to suddenly think of
something
now what about the next part of the
conversation
in the next part of the conversation
this is what was said
um
and then something that i'm not as
familiar with
familiar with what does this mean
familiar with so familiar with means you
know it
or you know about it because you have
learned about it or experienced it
before
for example
if i say
5 w's
what am i referring to
who what when where and why exactly you
know the 5ws method because you've seen
my english lessons about the 5ws method
you are familiar with the 5ws method
exactly you have experience with it or
you know it because you've learned it
before the 5ws method
we say familiar with here's an example
sentence
the author assumes that his readers are
familiar with
certain basic ideas
makes sense right he thinks they've
learned about these ideas or they've
experienced them
in english we say familiar with just
like you are familiar with my 5ws method
who what when where and why now in the
next part of the conversation continuing
this is what was said
so
those are things that i think companies
should take into consideration
ways to properly dispose of toxic
chemicals that they may use when they
make certain things and reducing the use
of paper again chanel was continuing and
giving the rest of her response but she
said take into consideration
take into consideration now this just
means to think about something before
one makes a decision or forms an opinion
before you do something think about this
thing or think about this person hey
before you walk out that door
take into consideration dot dot dot or
before you do this take into
consideration think about this person or
think about this thing
take into consideration here's the
example sentence
we will take your experience
into consideration when we decide who
will get the job
you've done pretty good work and
we will consider your work your
experience we will take it into
consideration
make sense right so what we're going to
do right now now that you understand the
expressions that were used throughout
our conversation we're gonna watch it
one more time and you'll be amazed by
how much you actually understand here we
go check it out again
okay
then this is a little bit different this
is more about companies
still dealing with responsibility but
what should companies do
to protect the environment basically
what responsibility do companies have as
it relates to the environment you know
nowadays you talk about the green you
know green piece and all that stuff so i
mean the first couple of things that pop
into my head is just not using as much
paper so that we don't cut down as many
trees so we have cleaner air
um
and then something that i'm not as
familiar with but i know that it impacts
with the water and toxic stuff that
needs to be properly disposed of as
opposed to oh we're just going to pour
it down here or we're going to pour it
out here
so those are things that i think
companies should take into consideration
ways to dispose properly dispose of
toxic chemicals that they may use when
they make certain things
and
um reducing the use of paper
so i guess that's kind of a way the
technology has helped yeah because you
don't have as much of a paper trail
that's true and then if something
happens like with fi with a fire or
natural disasters that's
in other places so you don't absolutely
lose everything yeah
i agree i agree i think they have to be
mindful of what they're using and how
it's affecting the environment i agree
you understood more right
yes it made a lot more sense so i hope
you enjoyed this lesson remember don't
stop studying i'll talk to you next time
but also remember to check out my
channel english vocabulary with tiffany
and i'll see you next time
you still there
ha ha
you know what time it is it's
story time
hey i said a story time
all right
so i told you that i was going to tell
you a story about food and symptoms and
things of that nature so
this was about
man i think it's been 20 no it's
probably been about 30 years about 30
years ago i was in elementary school
middle school and i was really hungry
one morning and my uncle actually
happened to be taking me to school that
day he was taking me and also my friend
we were going to school and he asked us
if we were hungry we're like yes uncle
we're really hungry he said okay i'm
going to stop at the gas station and get
you guys some breakfast
we were excited so we stopped at the gas
station he said all right go inside
here's some money get whatever you want
so my friend and i we ran inside and we
saw that they had kind of what looked
like nachos but they also had chili so
my friend and i we said listen we don't
want a bag of chips we want a real meal
so we said okay so we went to the front
we piled the chips inside of our
containers and then we put the chili oh
it looked so good we put chili then we
put cheese on top and we were ready so
we paid the money we went back out to
the car and my uncle said are you guys
happy we said oh yeah so he took us to
school dropped us off and it was a
little early so class hadn't started yet
so we were sitting down and we were
punishing which means we were really
eating the food fast it tasted so good
we were licking our fingers
this is the best chili i've ever had and
the cheese was so good it was delicious
so we finished our food and then class
started we shared with our friends to
the class started
and then all of a sudden
our stomach started to feel a little
weird we were like whoa what is that
we were trying to stay focused in class
but
our stomach started making more noise
and all of us as a teacher
i need to go to the bathroom i don't
know what's going on
my stomach was killing me so i ran to
the bathroom and it just kept cramping
and hurting so bad
so much so that they had to call my
parents
i said we don't know what's wrong with
tiff but she's really not feeling well
and her stomach is really hurting so i
got on the phone with my parents and i
think it was my mom and she said honey
what happened i said i don't know my
stomach hurts really bad i said i i ate
breakfast my uncle stopped and we got
some food at the gas station she said
let me ask you a question what did you
get and i said i got nachos with chili
and with cheese like we have at home we
have haystacks haystacks are basically
taco salads she said baby
did that chili have beans only or did
they have beans and meat i said oh no
mommy they have beans and meat like we
have at the house she said honey
was the meat vegetarian because we were
vegetarians we ate fish but we ate fish
and turkey but we mainly didn't eat any
beef or anything like that i said no
mommy i think it was vegetarian chili
she said baby
they don't have vegetarian chili
at gas stations you just had beef now up
until that point i had never had beef
before in my life she said honey i think
you have food poisoning and that's
exactly what happened you see my body
wasn't used to beef now my mouth listen
it was delicious
but
since i was not used to eating meat the
moment i ate the meat my body started
responding negatively so of course i had
to you know go through the process of
getting it out of my body of course but
i will never forget that time because it
was such an enjoyable meal but the
results
were not that enjoyable so maybe you've
experienced that before where you ate
something you shouldn't have been eating
and you had to suffer the consequences i
hope you enjoyed this story i will talk
to you next time