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we're looking at how some famous
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is a model who has appeared on more than
1200 magazine covers she also played
supporting characters in movies such as
taxi and The Devil Wears Prada
's evolved with charitable activities
and environmental work in 2018 she
published a book called lessons my path
to a meaningful life
in this clip Giselle talks about being a
morning person and being a mom
a morning person I actually like to wake
up before this one I mean I love that's
great yeah
yeah I don't I used to be that person
but then it wasn't really working out
for me so well so I had to make a little
adjustment so sometimes you know we have
to adjust he's like you know we are like
there's different Cycles in our life and
when I was in my 20s maybe I was going
to bed at two o'clock in the morning but
now my mom I have you know kids they get
up early in the morning they need things
so I feel like if I can take care of
myself if I can put the oxygen mask on
me first and do something for me first
then I'm a much better Mom I'm much more
patient I'm much I'm happier
a person but then he wasn't really
working out for me so also I had to make
a little adjustment she uses a nice
phrasal verb here she says I used to be
that person but then it wasn't really
working out for me so well this is the
same as saying working so you could say
here it wasn't really working for me
or it wasn't really working out for me
sometimes we have situations like that
where the preposition is not really
necessary you know to use the phrasal
verb but by using the preposition the
phrasal verb it makes you sound more
natural she could have said it wasn't
really working for me but the fact that
she's saying it wasn't really working
out for me makes her sound more natural
we also have an expression that goes to
work something out when you work
something out when you work it out you
solve a tricky problem or a situation
check out this example I'm Gonna Be a
Millionaire
how
look I don't have it all worked out yet
but it's Gotta mean big money come on
identical hands
again I must go back to
how
you know just learning random words
without really checking the context it's
really not a good strategy let's take
the phrasal verb work out for example
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let's go back to the lesson yeah I don't
I used to be that person but then it
wasn't really working out for me so also
I had to make a little adjustment look
at this sentence I had to make a little
adjustment
the cool thing is that we can hear the
Giselle speaks the segment really
quickly she goes I had to make a little
adjustment I had to make a little
adjustment
so notice that the G for head is
pronounced as a stop consonant so we say
hat
hat and then immediately I connect with
the T for two so I had to had to also
the vowel in two is a schwa sound so we
would normally say ta instead
I had to make I had to make and then the
article a again a schwa sound
and that's how she says it so I had to
make a I had to make a little adjustment
I had to make a little adjustment even
the word adjustment she doesn't
pronounce adjustment with the true T in
the end she pronounces that t as a stop
T so she goes adjustment adjustment
listen again also I had to make a little
adjustment also I had to make a little
adjustment
when I was in my 20s maybe I was going
to bed at two o'clock in the morning but
now my mom I have you know kids they get
up early in the morning they need things
so again she speaks this phrase really
quickly she goes they get up early in
the morning they get up early in the
morning uh we also have a flap T sound
here in t forget so instead of get up we
go get up get up
get up but again what I find interesting
is that she speaks the sidemen really
quickly which is great
up early in the mornings
they get a morning
foreign
I feel like if I can take care of myself
if I can put the oxygen mask on me first
and do something for me first she's
using a nice analogy here in regards to
the airplane and being a mom because if
you have ever traveled by plane you know
that the protocol is in case of an
emergency or turbulence you need to put
the oxygen Max on you first and then you
are able to help other people which
makes sense right first to take care of
you so that then you can take care of
other people then I'm a much better Mom
I'm much more patient I'm much I'm
happier this is an interesting point
here also because she goes I'm much more
patient I'm much I'm happier you see
what she did there this is called
self-correction or self-awareness this
is really important for you to develop
as an English learner the ability to
correct yourself to listen if you make a
mistake or if you are about to make a
mistake because she says I'm much more
patient that's correct and then maybe
she was she was about to say I'm much
more happier but she stops right there
she goes I'm much
much happier which is the correct way
now my overall impression of Gisele
Bundchen's English is again she has
great English and really good flow yeah
I mean as she speaks some segments
rather quickly with good flow and
fluently and that's awesome
the feedback here the constructive
feedback that I wanted to give you based
on this clip is be careful not to speak
too fast sometimes yes speaking fast is
cool but you don't want to speak too
fast to the point that you are kind of
join the words too much together like
blending them too much together
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Rodrigo centauro is an actor who is
known for his portrayal of Persian King
Xerxes in the movie 300 and it's simple
300 Rise of an Empire
other famous movies include Love
Actually and Rio
he's appeared on the TV series Lost and
on HBO's Westworld in this clip Rodrigo
Santoro talks about his latest project
wolf pack a new series on Paramount Plus
uh you know it's it's it's a pretty
unknown uh territory for me I've never
done a supernatural you know show I've
always thought about well maybe one day
I'll do it and uh I thought the script
was great I I really like the part that
they they offered me for uh in this show
um but I think the viewers will be in
for a great ride but also I think
Wolfpack can
play a a big role you know in uh
normalizing conversations uh for the
Youth you know about anxiety about
depression isolation especially after
pandemics so many people suffering uh
from anxiety and it's it's it's been
stigmatized for so long you know so it's
very important to to have those
conversations
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uh you know it's it's it's a pretty
unknown uh territory for me I've never
done a supernatural you know show up
notice that Rodrigo says it's a pretty
unknown in this case we have the
adjective unknown and the word pretty
before the word pretty here acts as a
intensifier in this case specifically he
weakens the adjective so the fact that
you use pretty before unknown
is decreasing the effect or weakening
the adjective unknown look at this
example the movie was pretty good
if I say the movie was good okay the
movie was good now the movie was pretty
good I am decreasing or making weaker
the adjective good so I understand that
the movie was pretty good it's like
the movie was good but not so good you
know it was okay check out this example
from The Big Bang Theory that
illustrates this use of pretty very well
how's it going
pretty good
pretty good I'd think you were doing
very good
I've never done a supernatural you know
show I've always thought about well
maybe one day I'll do it Nice
pronunciation here notice that he
doesn't say I'll do it
but he says I'll do it
I'll do it so in this case he pronounces
the chi in it as a stop tea it it do it
I'll do it
maybe one day I'll do it
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I I really like the part that they they
offered me for in this show when talking
about movies series or even plays actors
get parts okay the part is a character
that an actor plays in this case here
let's say that an actor gets the part to
play a pirate in an action movie you see
that's the part of the pirate we also
have the expression to get the lead in
the movie if you get the lead in a movie
or series you are the protagonist you
play the main character of that story
check out this example from Friends
where Joey gets the lead in the movie
what
what's the movie about oh yeah it's
called shutter speed it's really cool
yeah um uh but I think the viewers will
be in for a great ride but also this is
a great expression to be in for a ride
he says the viewers will be in for a
great ride that is an exciting ride okay
in other words he's saying that people
who watch this series can expect lots of
excitement from it this expression can
change depending on the word you used
before ride for example you can say it's
been a wild ride in this case it's been
a crazy ride all right or you can even
say it's been a rough ride
that means it's been a hard difficult
ride check out this example from Better
Call Saul
Kim
it's been a rough ride
I've been thinking a lot and um
you should probably just check out and
go home but also I think Wolfpack can
play a big role you know in normalizing
conversations there's a nice grammar
Point here because he says wolf back can
play a big role in normalizing
conversations notice that we have the
preposition in and the verb normalize
the rule here is when you have a
preposition in a verb after the
preposition the verb is using the ing
form he says in normalizing all right
look at these examples I'm interested in
watching old movies I'm good at playing
guitar
Keep On Walking
which option below shows only
prepositions
fake after with
before of from
by stop without
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but also I think Wolfpack can play a big
role you know in normalizing
conversations for the Youth the word use
refers to young people for example the
youth needs to hear this
in other words young people need to hear
this you can also say in my use this is
a more formal way to say in my younger
days when I was young
check out this example
Loki's rage followed me here and your
people paid the price
and now again
in my youth I call to the war
normalizing conversations for the Youth
you know about anxiety about depression
isolation especially after pandemics one
interesting thing I find about Rodrigo's
English is that he pronounces the schwa
sounds very nicely
notice that he goes depression
can you hear the schwa sound there
depression
so here goes depression
isolation
shun again so he makes the schwa sounds
very well
you know about anxiety about the
depression isolation you know about
anxiety about
depression isolation
especially after pandemics so many
people suffering from anxiety and it's
it's it's been stigmatized for so long
you know so it's very important to the
word stigmatized is a verb any comes
from stigma
Stigler means prejudice so to stigmatize
means to look at something in a
disapproving way with prejudice it's
been stigmatized for so long you know so
it's very important to to have those
conversations notice that he doesn't say
important but he says important
important this sounds very American and
it's a very Advanced sound actually
because what he's doing here is we have
the T
the vowel and the N what we have to do
to make the sound is we have to
eliminate or cut out the vowel there is
no vowel sound to be pronounced so the
vowel disappears and then the T before
is a non-released t when I say the
letter t t t
i release my tongue my tongue goes up
and down
and then when it goes up and down you
have this
sound T So to make this sound you cannot
release the T you have to go import
import you see my tongue is kind of up
but it stops there import import and
then I continue the Sound by now making
it with my nose to pronounce the N it's
a um
putting it together I have important
important so my overall impression about
Rodrigo Santoro's English is that he has
great English he has really good command
of vocabulary and pronunciation he uses
a wide range of words and expressions
one piece of feedback that I would give
you as a learner as a viewer based on
this clip is watch out for filler words
you know filler words are uh you know
it's okay to use them but try not to use
them so much in their communication
Ironton Senna was a racing car driver
who won the Formula One World drivers
Championship three times he is ranked
the fifth most successful driver of all
time in terms of race wins and held many
other racing records during his career
in this clip he accepts the award for
international racing driver of the year
the interviewer then asks him about an
apparent disagreement he'd had with a
fellow team member
let's watch it I keep learning every day
you know about many things in life and
one thing that I have learned lately is
that
should
monitor very carefully your words
particularly if it's not your native
language
but uh
I'm afraid that that occasion in the
motor in the in the truck on the back of
the truck of McLaren uh I was not
monitoring my words at all
so we had a particular moment there but
I think
we know
know each other well enough to
understand
the some of the frustrations that we
both go through at different times in
different ways and
I think
we try to get the best out of each other
and I have to
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you should
monitor very carefully your words
particularly if it's not your native
language
all right so we have something
interesting here he says you should
monitor very carefully your words the
order of the words here is not really
ideal okay the ideal order here would be
you should monitor your words very
carefully that's a better way to
structure this sentence okay also the
word monitor is really formal okay so a
more casual way to say this here could
be for example you should watch your
words you should mind your words or even
you could say you need to be careful
with what you say but uh
I'm afraid that at that occasion in the
motor in the in the truck again he uses
the word occasion here which is also
more formal okay and uh this is really
interesting because in English we have
vocabulary they have Anglo-Saxon origin
and vocabulary they have Latin Latin
origin
Brazilian Portuguese is a Latin language
it comes from Latin so for us Brazilians
these words that he's using here monitor
occasion they are it's easy for us to
ignore them because they are very
similar to how we would say in
Portuguese it's important to mention
here that these words in English since
they come from Latin they are more
formal more academic okay so if you
wanna sound more casual in your
day-to-day communication try not to use
these kinds of words because they are
more formal let me give you some
examples we have the word fast
and Rapid Latin rapid is more formal
than fast we also have allow Anglo-Saxon
permit
from Latin if you want to be more casual
in this context here maybe instead of
saying at that occasion he could have
said at that moment it's not a problem
all right because we still understand
what he's saying I'm just pointing out
this difference between formal English
and informal English Anglo-Saxon
vocabulary versus Latin vocabulary all
right I was not monitoring my words at
all
notice that he pronounces the T here for
at as a true T he goes at all at all
which is okay we understand what he's
saying uh and in British English
specifically probably you would hear a
British person speaking with a t with a
true T here as well now in American
English this tea usually becomes a flap
T so we here at all at all
at all okay
I was not monitoring my words at all
I was not modeling during my Wars at all
we know
each other well enough to understand
the some of the frustrations that we
it's important to point out the correct
pronunciation of this word here because
the word is frustration okay that's the
correct way to pronounce this word so we
go for us again trust sound a for us and
then first tray and then another schwa
sound Shania
we have two schwa Sounds here
frustration
frustration that's the correct way to
pronounce this word okay the some of the
frustrations that we the some of the
frustrations that we
oh
understand
the some of the frustrations that we
both go through at different times this
is a gray phrasal verb that he uses here
so to go through means to experience
usually in this case experiencing
something bad or difficult check out
this example From Grace and Frankie I'm
just saying
it's harder for me you have no idea what
I'm going through
I lost my best friend you don't even
like Robert
try to get the best out
this is an interesting case he says I
think we tried to get the best out of
each other I think what he's trying to
say here is we try to bring out the best
in each other this expression to bring
out the best in each other or in someone
means to help someone develop or display
his or her best qualities so you
encourage the other person to be better
and to show to work on their qualities
their strengths so you bring out the
best in that person and I think that's
why he's trying to communicate here even
though the expression is not quite that
because he says get the best out of each
other when you get the best of someone
as an expression you get the best of
someone this means you defeat this
person in a competition you gain
advantage over someone okay so I think
he's actually trying to communicate the
first idea here he's basically saying
yes we have a little disagreement in the
past we had a fight but now we try to
bring out the best in each other that
would be a more appropriate way to use
this expression here so my overall
impression on Art in Santa's English is
that he had good operational English you
know he was able to travel to have an
international career a successful
International career by the way as a
racing car driver and he could
communicate at events sometimes it's not
the best way you know there are some
points here that we could improve but
overall I would say that he was a good
communicator in English he had good
communication skills the piece of
feedback for you that I want to give
from this clip is pay attention to the
order of the words okay the word order
how you structure your sentences this is
very important usually a typical
sentence is subject verb and compliment
all right all right it is the moment of
truth now it's time to watch all the
clips again without subtitles and see
how much you can understand without the
subtitles can you understand though
let's see
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uh you know it's it's a pretty unknown
uh territory for me I've never done a
supernatural you know show I've always
thought about well maybe one day I'll do
it and uh I thought the script was great
I I really like the part that they they
offered me for in this show uh but I
think the viewers will be in for a great
ride but also I think Wolfpack can
play a big role you know in uh
normalizing conversations uh for the
Youth you know about anxiety about uh
depression isolation especially after
pandemics so many people suffering uh
from anxiety and it's it's it's been
stigmatized for so long you know so it's
very important to to have those
conversations if something is
stigmatized it is looked at in an
approving way looked at in a
disapproving way looked at in a harmless
way
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yeah
I got it you see I'm a morning person I
actually like to wake up before this one
I mean I love oh that's great yeah I was
like that yeah I don't I used to be that
person but then it wasn't really working
out for me so well so I had to make a
little adjustment so sometimes you know
we have to adjust he's like you know we
are like there's different Cycles in our
life and when I was in my 20s maybe I
was going to bed at two o'clock in the
morning but now my mom I have you know
kids they get up early in the morning
they need things so I feel like if I can
take care of myself if I can put the
oxygen mask on me first and do something
for me first then I'm a much better Mom
I'm much more patient I'm much I'm
happier choose the correct option
he's too much taller
he's much more taller
he's much taller
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I I keep learning every day you know
about many things in life and one thing
that I have learned lately is that
you should
monitor very carefully your words
particularly if it's not your native
language
but uh
I'm afraid that that occasion
in the
motor in the in the truck on the back of
the truck of McLaren uh I was not
monitoring my words at all
so we had a particular moment there but
I think
we now
know each other well enough to
understand
the some of the frustrations that we
both go through at different times in
different ways and
I think
we try to get the best out of each other
and put the words in order to create a
sentence
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she sings this song beautifully
all right now it's time for the comment
of the day at the comment of the day
comes from joseani she laughed this
comment on the Last of Us lesson that we
did here on the channel about a month
ago and josiani says Chiago you really
inspire me when I listened to your good
English pronunciation being a Brazilian
who learned it I believe that other
Brazilians can achieve the same great
results josiani thank you so much for
the wonderful words it makes me really
happy I appreciate it and yes guys if I
could do it you can do it too so if you
are learning English as a second
language you can do it and we are here
to help you alright keep learning keep
developing yourselves and don't give up
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Chandler month there's only one banana
nut muffin left will order mine first
yeah but I'm I'm so much faster
give it to me
no
me
okay you can have it
here you go enjoy your cook
that was there when I got here
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