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hi everybody my name is alicia and i'm
joined again in the studio by
michael hello and today we're going to
be talking about english conversation
strategies so let's get right into it
let's start with michael what is your
first strategy for keeping an english
conversation going
this is very important don't say
i'm fine thank you and you you hear this
all the time from second language
english learners or non-native speakers
you learn this it's one of the first
things you learn
in an english class it's easy it's good
it's basic it's foundation
okay that's fine but as soon as you can
switch it up
because to me when i meet a foreigner
and they come up and if they say
hey how are you say oh i'm fine you know
i'm good whatever
how about you and they say i'm fine
thank you and you and it's just
it's almost robotic because i've said it
so many times and when i hear that
i think ah their english isn't that good
and inside i'm just gonna be really
polite and say
hello and talk slowly and try to get out
of there as quick as i can
so really impress the foreigner in my
opinion i think the best way to do it is
say something
you know use a big word or just like a
slang word something like that
when i hear that i go wow man i want to
know what this person thinks i want to
get their point of view and i'm really
excited and then
i've had great conversations because of
that um yeah
that's a really really good one and
actually i think on this youtube channel
actually
from a couple years ago there's a video
all about
better answers to the question how are
you then
i'm fine thank you and you or if someone
says hey how are you i'm good you
are fine you never i'm fine thank you
and you
never but try to actually use you know a
phrase that a native speaker would use
and then that's a clue to the native
speaker that oh maybe this person is
ready for a conversation beyond you know
basic
english so that's a really good point i
like that i didn't think of things
not to do i only thought of things to do
though okay
cool um let's see let's go to my first
one
um oh so um this strategy in general is
just ask the other person a question
i think and i'm guilty of this too when
i'm learning another language
i tend to only get input like somebody
else is always
asking me the questions and then i
forget myself to ask the other person a
question
so one question that i like to ask or
you know a variation
any kind of wh question is good like a
who question what
where something like this if you've been
paying attention you can use any way to
transition
in your conversation this was in a
previous video you can ask something
like anyway up to anything fun this
weekend this is a pretty
casual conversational question that you
can ask just about anybody
whether you've just met them or whether
you've known them for a while but just
just
get in the habit of asking other people
the question don't wait for someone else
to ask you the question
um so that that's one strategy that i
try to use to keep things going
yeah me too i agree and i'm gonna say
same zs because actually two of my
questions were exactly what you said
agree 100 this is kind of cheating these
should be
one but so always ask questions so you
know again you forget it's really easy
i'm
really guilty of this english
non-english whatever i'm i'm guilty of
this
um and the other thing is ask deep
open-ended questions so if you ask a yes
or no question so again like
alicia was saying it just dead ends you
can't just say you know
do you like cheese yes or no right so
you want to say what do you think about
cheese what is your favorite kind and
kind of open it up to something else
and let it let it just kind of snowball
right right yeah i think i think that
that's that's really a key like i have
another variation on it which i guess
i'll just continue on to because it kind
of relates to what you're talking about
like he's saying always ask questions
always ask deep open-ended questions so
like you may you just said don't ask a
yes or no question because
yes or no ends with the yes or the no so
one of the things that i'll do is um use
a pattern similar to this
like hey did you see or hey did you hear
about blah blah blah
so you can use this little blah blah
blah as your
you can ask about the news you can ask
about something funny you saw on the
internet you can ask about
um you know some something that you
heard from another friend of yours
whatever
uh it's just a way to check in with the
other person and say oh did you also
experience this thing that i experienced
let's talk about that so that might be
another question that you can use with
people
i like that one i really like that one
because you got to stay within people's
comfort zone
so maybe you ask and maybe they don't
want to right so a good thing is did you
hear about it that's up to them maybe
they don't want to talk about it they
can say oh yeah i heard about that
and you can kind of feel the the
atmosphere and
and realizing maybe i shouldn't talk
about this change the subject or
they get passionate and they start
talking about it and there you go and
just let it go
um yeah absolutely one thing again i'm
guilty of is is you do got to keep
keep returning it right don't let it
don't just say oh yeah and what i think
about that
bring it back ask them what about you
that's that's a common thing i forget
about
yeah yeah yeah okay um good i have one
more this one um use when you see
fit don't i guess just
okay i'll just introduce it compliment
the other person or compliment the other
person
this can be a nice strategy just to show
that you're enjoying the other person's
company
um it can be as simple as oh i like your
shirt today or oh that's a nice dress
you're wearing today or oh did you get a
new haircut that looks good on you
something like that so this is a nice
a nice way to make the other person
maybe want to spend more time with you
i think yeah i agree 100 um two things
one i think it's a good conversation
starter sometimes um
if you've got to be careful with a
stranger it can be creepy it can be
a little uncomfortable what you're
complimenting right but if it's
something like if they have a t-shirt
and it's a band that you both like
that's a great conversation starter and
you feel wow we're connected you know
number two the second thing i was
thinking about is that
keep it honest i love i love a sincere
compliment it really means a lot more
and and it really does butter them up
kind of
get them open to to having more
conversations deeper
that kind of thing um but one of the
things people do which which i don't
like is
let's say they say hey nice shirt and
then the person out of habit will say oh
you too i like your shirt too just my
opinion i don't think this feels
really natural doesn't really feel
sincere so i would i would
save it make a mental note and go hmm i
need to return the favor i need to give
them a compliment but
wait until you notice something you
really do like and say hey actually
i love blah blah yeah i think that's a
great point like
when you you can sense whether someone
is being sincere or not
what is your next strategy for
continuing an english conversation
well don't be afraid to open up
i like this one i think this is good a
lot of people will be kind of shy
they won't open up too much again within
within your comfort zone
but i like this one because people
return the favor
because if you're just having small talk
and you say you know the weather's nice
today blah blah
you can only go so far so don't be
afraid to say something personal
again trust your judgment don't be a
creeper don't go
we don't want to hear certain things
about your life don't don't be a creep
don't be a creep don't be weird don't be
strange and like what you're saying
about
opening up open up is just a phrase that
means to share something about yourself
um so it can be as simple as what you
did last weekend or what you're going to
do this weekend or
a project that you have coming up it
doesn't mean that you have to
spill all of your life's secrets to the
other person but just showing that
you're willing to share something more
personal about yourself can help
ingratiate yourself or can help you know
make the other person help the other
person understand you a little bit
better
that's a good tip i like that tip that's
hard to do though it's hard it's a
little bit scary i think to share parts
of yourself but it's good it's a good
way to meet people and make friends
all right i think that's all is that all
that you have yeah that's all i got
okay all right well those are some
interesting uh
strategies to keep an english
conversation going so give them a try if
you're ever at a loss for words and
don't know what to say you can try one
of these strategies
and hopefully it will help you out um
please let us know if you have any other
strategies or anything else that you
would like to use or you try to use
when you are having trouble keeping a
conversation going leave us a comment
and let us know what it is
top 10 language learning strategies
let's begin
befriending or dating someone who speaks
english
watching movies or listening to music in
english
read english newspapers or magazines
record your voice and compare your
pronunciation with
native english speakers download
dialogue tracks and listen to english
conversations
repeat the phrases that you hear out
loud again
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englishclass101.com to master them
completely read lines slowly at first
then re-read and increase your speed
set small and measurable learning goals
with your personal deadlines
try harder lessons to challenge yourself
and improve faster
and ways to stop translating in your
head
let's get started identify objects
around
you in english the first way to stop
translating in your head is to identify
the objects around you
in your target language so if you're
studying english that means
you look at the objects around the room
look at the things
in your life don't think of them in your
native language first think of them in
your target language first
so if i look around the room i see a
computer i shouldn't think
my native language word i should think
my target language word so
start with the items and the situations
in your everyday life
if i say computer in english maybe i
should say computa
in japanese i should say not i don't
know
water in english i should say omizu in
japanese so
start associating the words in your
target language with your everyday life
now so if you're studying english that
means start
getting familiar with the things in your
everyday life
in english repeat phrases you hear
native speakers use
tip number two is to repeat the phrases
that you hear
native speakers use so if you're
watching this channel for example
or you're watching a tv show or a movie
listen for the way that native speakers
make those phrases
if you hear a phrase you have never
heard before or you hear an interesting
combination of words
try to repeat them yourself don't just
listen
try to say them yourself if you're in a
public space and it's difficult for you
to do that
fine practice in a place where you feel
more comfortable maybe if you have some
private space to practice
just repeat them get your mouth used to
saying the words
the way that the speakers the native
speakers do
so if you never actually say words if
you're only taking
in if you're only listening and you're
not actually producing the language it's
it's kind of hard to to practice and to
to really hone your pronunciation to
improve your pronunciation
so when you listen to native speakers
try to repeat
after them so for example if you're
studying english
you can try to repeat after this video
you can repeat after the things
i'm saying because maybe i'm using an
expression or i'm using
a certain series of vocabulary words
together
the way a native speaker would and it's
maybe a good idea to try to practice the
ways that native speakers put their
words together so try to repeat
after native speakers especially when
you're looking at media
and you can do this when you're reading
books too you can try to read out
read out loud interesting lines of books
that you find or something that maybe is
difficult for you
very nice practice tip make a situation
where you can't escape into your native
language
make a situation where you can't escape
into your native language
essentially means immerse yourself of
course
going to that country or going to a
place where you
can speak only that language is very
difficult for some of you
totally understand but if in your life
you can create a situation in your
library in your room
in your house somewhere for just an hour
or i don't know maybe a day i don't know
what your schedule is like but
if you can create a situation or create
an environment where you have
no choice but to use that language
and you cannot escape meaning you cannot
go back to using your native language as
a crutch you can't use the native
language at all
it forces you to use the language that
you're studying
so of course if you are lucky enough to
live in the country or to
live in a place where people speak the
language you're studying
great but you have to go out and
interact with people you have to put
yourself in a place
where you have no choice but to speak
it's very hard and it's very scary and
it's very embarrassing at first
but if you take time to find places and
to make environments that are
comfortable for you
where you feel comfortable making
mistakes and asking questions it's very
valuable for your learning process this
is actually something that i did totally
i totally did this
my japanese wasn't very good for a long
time
but then i started making friends who
could not speak
english actually i just did this through
finding hobbies there was a hobby that i
had
i joined a group i joined actually a
school to where i could learn how to do
that hobby
and everything was taught only in
japanese
and the people in my class only spoke
japanese mostly
and then maybe we would go off for
drinks and food late at night or on the
weekends and everybody spoke only
japanese
and if i couldn't communicate even
simply in japanese i had no hope of
keeping that friendship together
so it forced me to study it forced me to
think about the words they were using
and to try to learn those words those
patterns
as well as how to produce them naturally
myself so i was learning the vocabulary
words
the people around me were using and
learning how to apply them
on my own that was only possible because
i had no escape
in those situations so try to do that
even if you can do it yourself in your
house it's super helpful i think
watch tv and movies in your target
language without subtitles
tip number four is to watch tv and
movies in your target language
without subtitles without subtitles so
i think that watching uh with subtitles
can be very beneficial
um so if i'm watching something or if
you want to watch something with
subtitles on
great but i sometimes find that i can in
my case i
i think too much about reading the
subtitles and i forget to listen
so maybe if you've seen a movie in your
target language a few times
with the subtitles on try turning the
subtitles
off and think about the like character's
body language the words they're using
um you can always look that up later
look up the you know the words you don't
know in a dictionary
but try to do it where you're focusing
completely
on the way that people are using their
words try
not to use the subtitles so kind of play
around with it a little bit if there's a
word that's difficult for you to hear
you can actually turn on the subtitles
in like the
in the native language of the movie as
well
that's something that i've done like if
uh like if i wanted to study japanese
it's very useful when the actual words
spoken
in japanese appear on the screen
sometimes it's easier for me to catch
a word if i see it visually and i hear
it at the same time
so another way to kind of um explore
how you can use tv and movies is to
actually turn on the closed captions
like the
the the words on the screen in the
native language of the movie
so uh so this is sort of two points in
one so one
watch movies without subtitles meaning
subtitles in your native language and
hint two is to watch movies
um with closed captioning on but the
closed captioning is in your target
language not in your native language so
you can try those two things with tv
and with movies don't bring a dictionary
to your lesson
tip number five is don't bring a
dictionary to your lesson
okay so give me a second here so i
understand the dictionaries
especially electronic dictionaries we
have them on our phones now are very
very convenient
um of course it's important to use them
and it's a they're a great resource to
have
however one thing that really bothers me
and that i think is detrimental it's not
helpful for students is when
students are in a lesson and they're
practicing conversation
and they reach a point in the
conversation where they don't know the
word they want to use they know it in
their native language
and they don't know how to say it in
their target language
they pull out their dictionary they say
to this the person
listening to them their practice partner
in their lesson where they have a
limited period of time
just a moment and then they look it up
on their phone it takes
a few seconds the flow of the
conversation stops
and then they say a word and it's like
whoa
no that's not you don't have that
ability you don't have
the ability to do that in a conversation
with a native speaker
most people like if you go to a bank and
try to open a bank account are you
really going to pull out your dictionary
and
sit there and try to communicate you
know just a moment just a moment
as you look up each word you don't know
no or if you do that's not a real
conversation
so instead try using a different
strategy
by that i mean if you find a word you
don't know in conversation
explain the word to your conversation
partner
maybe they know the word if you're
speaking with a native speaker this is a
chance for them to
teach you a word i find that when people
take the time
to teach me a word i remember the word
much
better than just looking it up on my
dictionary so
try to resist maybe you can bring a
dictionary to your lesson but don't use
it or try
not to use it in your conversation
practice
it's just it destroys the flow of a
conversation
so instead practice the skill of
describing the vocabulary word you want
to use
and learn how to ask the meaning of a
word or learn how to
ask for a vocabulary word from your
partner so
you can use an expression like ah what's
the word that means blah blah blah
or um you know it's this thing that does
this and this and this so
this is an opportunity for you to
describe characteristics of something or
find a different way you can use your
body language you can use
whatever you have a lot of tools but try
not to use a dictionary in a
conversation because it's not realistic
train responses to common questions
number six is a quick one i think number
six hint number six i have is just to
train
responses to common questions train
responses to common questions
so for example a very common question in
english is hey how are you
you should know how to answer this
question just have a default response
hey how are you
i'm good if it takes you
a long time to answer the question hey
how are you
you need to practice i think that's a
pretty good
a pretty good indicator so for example
sometimes i ask
students a question like that they they
haven't quite
gotten the idea of how to respond just
yet they
they're not so quick at responding i say
uh hey how
are you and they say yes and then they
think and they go i'm
uh i'm good and it's like
that's a very common question so think
about
just a default response that you can
spit out that you can quickly say
if it's how was your weekend or hey
what's up or
what do you want to do for dinner
tonight think about like
just a handful meaning just a few
responses to those questions and train
them
quickly just how are you i'm good how
are you i'm okay
how are you not bad there's three so
it's just training responses to those
questions there's no reason to be
surprised by a question like how are you
like that's a very common question so
for those common questions
train responses to that we've got a
bunch of videos
especially beginner level videos for
some example responses you can do
so don't get stuck with these little
questions just train a few responses
practice a few responses till they feel
natural to you it'll save you time
and it'll help the person asking the
question too to move forward in the
conversation
yay study with materials that don't
provide a translation
the next tip is to study with materials
that don't
provide a translation so by this i mean
if you're using worksheets and or some
kind of textbook
or whatever and it has your target
language the language you're studying
and it has your native language next to
it while this can be useful
i feel that if you can studying your
materials
only in your target language and then
simplified explanations for
more detailed points also in your target
language
can be a little bit better so i don't
want to say like you should only study
things
in your target language and nothing from
your native language because of course
like it can be helpful sometimes to look
up a word or to understand a grammar
point in your native language
but where possible if you can find
something that provides
simplified explanations in your target
language it can be really really helpful
because again you're thinking you're
learning to think on like a simpler on a
more basic
level about the language you're studying
in the language that you're studying so
this can be really really good so
finding some materials to use
where there's no translation maybe you
can practice
of course with with books and with
written materials
but also with like video materials as
well so
there are a variety of different ways
that you can
find materials in your target language
like in video and tv so some things to
think about there are the
level of vocabulary words people are
using in the media content you're
watching
who the media content is intended for
children young adults adults
the speed at which the speaker is
talking so like i have the ability to
change the level of difficulty
of videos based on the rate of speech
the vocabulary words that i use and
how many like idioms and things i use so
i could make a video very difficult we
could make a very like a very difficult
video series
by leveling up our vocabulary use or by
speaking very quickly
or as you might see in like our english
and three minutes series
we can also use very simple vocabulary
and speak at a low rate of speech so
maybe right now this is a very
intermediate level video
so please think about that so not just
for
written materials but also for your
audio and visual materials think about
um who your audience is the level of the
material and so on
it can be really fun uh and it can be
helpful to think about
your your target language in your target
language all right we're almost done
study phrases in addition to single
vocabulary
the next tip is study phrases in
addition to single vocabulary word so
yes of course vocabulary is important
but
i find it personally very very useful
to look at how a vocabulary word is
used in a phrase because sometimes
using it in a phrase helps you
understand the nuance of that vocabulary
word really really well
so if i like a word like crazy for
example in english
depending on the situation where the
word crazy is used it could mean
something
different it could mean like a person
who's mentally
confused or mixed up it could also mean
something really good it could mean
something really bad
so if we look only at the word crazy
it's quite difficult to understand
really the meaning of the word
but if you look at the way the word is
used in a phrase
you can get a lot more information so
take a look at the way people use words
in
phrases not just a single vocabulary
words you can learn a lot more that way
i think do your daily activities in
english where possible
the next tip is to do your daily
activities in your target language
so if you're studying english that means
try to do some daily activities
in english if possible so this can be
very very boring stuff but just think
about it
when you're doing the activity so like
right now i'm
filming a video for englishclass101.com
or
i'm going to work i'm cooking breakfast
i'm doing the laundry
what do i have to do tomorrow so try
thinking about your everyday
life in english if you're studying
english try thinking about your
everyday activities the people that you
meet what are you doing so this is a way
to help you practice your verbs so if
you don't know if you're
i don't know you're doing something at
work and you're like oh my gosh how do i
explain
the what's the verb for you know a
picture
like i want to blah blah a picture
what's the word you can check a
dictionary at that point and go ah it's
draw i
i need to use the verb draw for draw a
picture
so you can find these little gaps in
your everyday life these little gaps in
your knowledge
if you think about your everyday
activities in your target language if
you don't think about it in your target
language
you might not realize you have
vocabulary gaps or phrase gaps here and
there so this is a really good and kind
of funny
actually way to study use a learner's
dictionary for new words
the last tip is to use a learner's
dictionary for new words so in english
there are learners dictionaries
available in english so
my favorite my personal favorite is
merriam-webster merriam-webster
is a fantastic dictionary resource
they're so interesting and they have
tons of like historical information i
really do
just sit and like read things on the
dictionary page
lately it's true but um
of course there's a definition there's a
meaning for words there are example
sentences for words
but merriam-webster also has what's
called a
learner's dictionary if you find a word
that you don't recognize you can check
it
in a dictionary in a learner's
dictionary and it gives you
a simplified a simple explanation in
simple english
of that word so instead of checking it
in your native language you can check it
in your target language so again
this helps you to understand the word um
that you are
that you're focused on but you
understand it from
the language you're studying not from
your native language so using a
learner's dictionary can be really
really useful
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10 ways to report speech let's
go say the first word
is say say as a verb say
is a very neutral word you can use to
report
someone's speech to explain something
someone said in the past so for example
he said the barbecue was cancelled
just a simple neutral report
tell the next verb is tell
tell is used when one person is giving
information to another to tell someone
something they did not know before
don't say tell me your phone number
that's weird but like
can you tell me where the station is can
you tell me where to buy a
hamburger can you tell me where to
pick up my new car like so giving
someone
information they don't know or or on the
other hand explaining something
one way to another person so don't tell
me what i can't do
is a very good lost reference if you've
ever watched lost
so tell another example sentence my boss
told me i was doing a good job
speak uh the next one is
speak speak so we use speak
when we're talking about uh language
ability like i speak
english i speak japanese we can use
speak in the past
tense to report something but it usually
sounds a little more formal so like i
spoke to my boss
about or i spoke to my parents about
or i spoke to my boyfriend or girlfriend
about blah blah blah
that using speak instead of talked
makes it sound a little bit more formal
so you can use speak
but it's going to sound polite in a
sentence my colleagues spoke with me
about an upcoming project
was like okay the next one
the next two actually are very very
casual expressions
so when you're speaking with friends and
you're kind of talking about a quick
maybe somewhat emotional conversation
you will hear
native speakers especially americans
perhaps
this is unique somewhat to americans use
the phrase
was like i was like he was like
she was like this is a very casual way
to report
speech and you'll hear it often very
very quickly together
so someone will say i was like what and
then she was like
no and then i was like yeah that's the
kind of pattern you'll hear it in
very very quick ways to report speech
but the subject changes i was like he
was like she was like we were like
this is a way to share what happens
quickly instead of i said he said she
said
which might sound a little too formal we
can use i was like
he was like to do that instead so this
is a really fun one and if you can use
this
naturally i think that it'll really help
you sound more natural too
so in a sentence and then he was like i
love that movie
was all the next one is also a similar
to was like
we have the expression was all so it was
all don't worry about all all does not
have the meaning
of the whole of something or a complete
something
instead was all this set phrase is used
to report
speech usually this one is used when
there's some kind of emotional
uh emotional aspect to your conversation
or it's a little dramatic
or maybe a little exciting we use it the
same way as
was like in that very very quick style
of speaking
and then he was like and i was all and
then she was like and i was all
we use those together but i was all has
a little more emphasis
i feel i tend to use it when my when i
want to
express a stronger emotion and i was all
no way
or and i was all what so you can use it
for those very like surprised emotions
or maybe
angry emotions was like and was all
are both used in very casual situations
so in a sentence and i was all oh my god
me too
talk the next word is talk
so talk similar to uh say
is a fairly neutral verb when reporting
speech
you'll use it in a situation where
someone
is giving new information to you
but maybe it's a two-way conversation so
for example
we talked about blah blah blah
for a topic or my boss talked
to me about blah blah blah so maybe
new information is being exchanged but
the conversation is
two way there are multiple participants
with tell
it's like the nuance is sort of one
person is reporting information giving
information
with talked it's there's an exchange
happening there
so keep in mind when you use the word
talk
you will say either i i talked to or i
talked with someone and then you'll
usually
have a topic so i talked to my friend
about blah blah blah i talked to my
friend about my new apartment i talked
to my boss about a raise i talked to my
boss
no i talked to my dog about what dogs do
okay so if there's some kind of there's
some kind of exchange happening there
you'll need to use to or with when
you're referring to the person
or entity you're talking to and you'll
use about
to refer to the subject so you can use
this one
when you're when you want to discuss
exchanges of information so
in a sentence she talked to me about my
family
mention let's go to the next one the
next one is
mention mention is used when like
something
is just there's just one small point in
a conversation like
just a little side note or maybe it's
not the focus of a conversation but just
something
someone says quickly or there's just a
little thing that you hear
oh you mentioned something about blah
blah blah or
you mentioned that a new project like
it's it's maybe not the focus of the
conversation but something that
you heard a little bit about that's
that's when we use the verb
mention we can also use it in a
statement like please
uh mention any skills you have on a
resume so it's
the nuance is sort of like a like just a
little bit of information
is when we use mention so in a sentence
our manager mentioned upcoming changes
at the company
to go on and on okay the next expression
is to go
on and on so to go on and on means just
to talk for a
very long time so maybe you have a
co-worker or a friend or a family member
that just talks and does not stop
talking
we say to go on and on that's the
expression we use so in a sentence
the speaker at the seminar was going on
and on
about the topic if you really want to
emphasize it you can say what's going on
and on and on and on and on and that
really emphasizes that the person
continues to speak
so if you know somebody um who does that
a lot you can use this expression to
talk about them
according to uh the next expression here
is according to
according to is used uh actually in the
news or
like to officially report something so
according to sources or according to the
police
according to the government official
according to my
teacher according to my mother these are
like direct
reports of information and they're
direct reports of information
from a specific source so according to
the newspaper
my f neighborhood has 50 000
amazing ramen shops that's not true
but if i want to instead of just saying
my neighborhood has 50
000 amazing ramen shops i'm giving a
source for that so according to my
newspaper
this is this is where i got the
information so this is important to use
in news in newspapers and any kind of
official documentation
you will see and hear according to in
these cases
ah in a sentence according to a witness
at the scene the suspect
escaped report great so um the next one
is report
so reports similar to according to
we use report in more official
situations so
to officially share information like to
report to the police to report to
your teacher to report to your boss
sometimes it means to submit
documentation like to to give someone a
written report
sometimes it's to share information
officially just
just with your voice to report news or
to report an update
so when you want to give and give
official information
we'll use the verb report so in a
sentence
sources in the area report that the
accident was not
serious thank goodness all right
top 10 must know phrases for the
restaurant
let's get started a table for three
please
a table for three please you tell them
the number of people that you are total
so that the host can bring you to an
appropriate table
a table for two please a table
for five please could i please see a
menu
could i please see a menu usually menus
are given to you as soon as you sit down
at your table
but if that's not the case and you need
to ask this is a polite way to do it
could i please see a menu i'd like to
try this dish
i'd like to try this dish when looking
at a menu
hopefully you'll find something you want
to eat i'd like to try this dish
could you leave out the onions could you
leave out the onions
if there is an ingredient in the dish
that you're ordering that you don't want
you can always ask the waiter if it
could be prepared without that
ingredient
so for example i might say could i get
the burger but with no cheese
could you pass the salt could you pass
the salt
when you're at a restaurant especially
if you're at a big table with a lot of
people
you might not always be able to reach
things so
you would ask could you pass me the salt
could you pass me the ketchup could you
pass me another napkin
waiter waiter a waiter is someone who
takes your order
and brings you food in america and in
many other western countries
it's more polite to call a waiter to
your table by simply saying
excuse me or if you see another waiter
walking by but it's not your waiter
you can always say excuse me if you see
our waiter could you please let them
know to come to our table
can we get separate checks can we get
separate checks
this is actually something that's very
common especially in america
if you might go out with a group of
friends or even if you're on a date
sometimes you might want to get separate
checks pay for your
own things that way you can all pay
separately
just for what you yourself ordered and
you won't have to worry about owing each
other money
or calculating off a big huge bill
are there any specials today are there
any specials today
a special at a restaurant is a dish that
isn't usually
on the menu it's something that's
special but it's a special
that the chef is offering that day or
that
week or that month so sometimes if you
don't see what the specials are you'd
ask your waiter
excuse me are there any specials today
could we have the bill please
could we have the bill please this is
how you request
that the check or the bill comes to your
table
can we get the check please could we get
the bill please
you're asking this to your waiter who
will then bring you the check
and you can pay 10 words that you can
use at a bar
let's go to buy a round the first
expression is to buy
a round to buy a round means
uh to buy a round of drinks essentially
a round of drinks means one drink for
everyone in your group
one drink for everyone in your party by
the way
the word party is used to mean group at
a bar or restaurant
the number of people in your party is
the number of people in your group
so to buy a round means to buy a drink
for
everybody in a sentence our boss began
the party by buying everyone around
in a different sentence you're buying
the next round
on the rocks the next expression is on
the rocks
on the rocks is a way to order a drink
when you say
on the rocks it means your drink on
ice only so rocks are the ice in your
glass
so you can imagine the ice the pieces of
ice in your glass the ice cubes or an
ice ball these are like
rocks so saying i'd like a whiskey
for example on the rocks means just
whiskey
served over ice that's what on the rocks
mean so in a sentence
i'd like a gin on the rocks straight up
the next expression is straight up so a
straight
up drink is different from an on the
rocks drink a straight up drink is
chilled with ice but it's strained
so there's no ice in the drink but it is
it has been chilled with ice
so a straight up drink there's nothing
else in the glass but it is a chilled
drink
in a sentence uh i'd like a martini
straight up
some people use the word straight or
straight up but they mean
neat which is the next word we're going
to talk about so
keep in mind straight or straight up
means chilled
that's one of the key points here so
yeah a martini straight up
is a chilled martini neat so the next
expression is
neat to order a drink neat means the
drink is not
chilled and there is no ice it's just
it's just the
the alcohol it's just the liquor there's
nothing special about it
a neat drink is only the drink
that's it nothing happens to it so in a
sentence i'd like a whiskey
neat pint half pint
the next expression is really two
expressions these are words you use when
you order
beer they are pint and half pint
depending on the country that you live
in pint can be
a different size they vary by
a few milliliters depending on the
country where you live in
a half pint then is roughly half of the
pint
size so a half pint and a pint are two
ways two
sizes we use to order beer in a sentence
can i have a half pint of this stout
chaser the next expression is chaser
so a chaser is something you use to
follow
an alcoholic drink chasers are often
used after
shots so shots are small drinks that are
usually kind of strong in alcohol
content
and they have a very strong taste so
some people like to
have something after that and they call
it a chaser so the image
is that the the second drink is chasing
the first drink into your body you can
think of it that way the chaser is a
non-alcoholic drink so it could be water
it could be soda it could be something
like that juice
maybe so chaser in a sentence shots of
tequila are often followed with chasers
to be tipsy the next word is to be tipsy
to be tipsy is a way to describe your
feeling when you're drinking
so if you can imagine when you're uh
when you're standing
straight up uh when you're standing as
regular you're very like confident and
tall and you don't move
very much but if you feel tipsy this
comes from the verb to
tip like this so something tips to one
side or another
think of your body in this way so we use
the word
tipsy the adjective tipsy um to describe
this feeling maybe
you're not so steady on your feet you
could tip over
ah at any time that's called being tipsy
from alcohol okay so in a sentence uh
let's see i'm a little tipsy i need some
water
to be drunk the next expression is to be
drunk so we talked about the word tipsy
so tipsy is a little bit like a little
unsteady but
drunk is just a mess you're just you're
just a disaster maybe you're being noisy
you're being loud it's difficult to
control your body or your friend's body
whatever so drunk is usually
seen as a negative thing um so yeah so
drunk uh
expresses yeah it's it's just not pretty
sometimes so in a sentence your friend
is drunk let's take him home
to call it a night the next expression
is to call it
a night to call it a night means to
decide to
finish at the bar to go home uh you're
ready to be done
so uh here i'm going to call it i'm
going to say
this is tonight tonight is finished
so in a sentence it's been a long
evening
i'm gonna call it a night i mean i'm
going to go home
i'm done it's a casual expression
hangover
and then one more that you can use maybe
the day after you visit a bar
is hangover so a hangover is a noun
hangover is the word we use to describe
the feelings
after drinking too much so maybe you
feel sick to your stomach you have a
headache
your body is sore there are a number of
different feelings
you might have when you feel hung over
to be hungover is another way to say it
but when you have a hangover
it usually doesn't feel very good in a
sentence
i have a hangover today i'm not going
drinking tonight
about the top 25 english phrases so
let's get started
the first phrase is hello hello of
course is used as a greeting you can
greet your friends you can greet your
co-workers your family with this phrase
just by saying hello hey hi what's up
hello
sup yo pretty much any time of day you
can use hello
hello the next phrase is good morning
good morning is used as a greeting in
the morning you can kind of feel when
morning ends for you good morning is
nice and polite
or even just morning with your close
friends or close co-workers
the next phrase is good night good night
is fine we don't use this
to greet other people we use it when
we're saying goodbye to other people
at night family members particularly
mothers and fathers to say good night to
their children before they put them to
bed
you can say it to your friend in a text
message or in an email if you've been
talking for a while good night
so the next word to talk about is
goodbye use it when you say goodbye to
your friends when you leave your friends
goodbye
bye of course take care have a nice day
peace out that's another way to say
goodbye okay the next phrase is
i'm plus your name of course this is a
way to introduce yourself you can use
i'm in my case alicia i'm alicia to
introduce yourself in any situation
new friend i'm alicia okay the next
phrase is what's your name what's your
name is used to ask someone else what
their name
is so what is your name sounds a bit
tried to use what's your name
if you forget someone's name you can say
sorry what's your name
or sorry what's your name again next
phrase is nice to meet you nice to meet
you
anytime you meet someone new nice to
meet you is fine
good to meet you is a little more casual
great to meet you sounds very excited
pleasure to meet you sounds like uh
maybe a formal situation or a business
context
okay the next phrase is how are you how
are you
is it's just a friendly way to check in
with the other person you can use it
with friends your family
your co-workers maybe even your boss to
a certain degree
uh how are you how you doing the next
phrase is i'm fine thanks and you
uh if you saw english in three minutes
we talked a lot about this phrase uh
instead of i'm fine thank you and you
say i'm good thanks how are you just
shorten it make it a little bit more
natural
how are you good how are you great how
are you
not so good how are you okay and so on
so when someone says how are you
offer i usually say i'm good this week i
blah blah give some information about
what you've been up to maybe a hobby
something that you did recently an event
something interesting you saw whatever
people want to make that connection with
you and it's a good chance for you to
continue speaking
the next word is please please is a
polite phrase used when you want
something from someone else
you can use this as a response when
someone offers you something like in a
restaurant for example would you like
more water would you like
something to drink oh please the next
phrase is thank you thank you is used to
express your appreciation you can use
thank you with
everybody the next phrase is you're
welcome you're welcome when someone says
thank you you can say you're welcome no
biggie i use no biggie as in no biggie
is short for no big problem
next word is yes yes of course yes
means is any positive expression
someone asks you a question and the
answer is a positive answer you say
yes yep uh-huh
no next i'm guessing i know it yep the
next word is
no no is a negative response to
something when you have to give a
negative answer
so as you can probably guess um the long
form of no is
negative i like to use nope it's very
very casual
not gonna happen my parents would use
that with me to soften that a little bit
if you want to show a negative
response to something like let's go for
dinner tonight what do you want to do
like do you want to go out
uh not really no i don't think so
to soften it the next word is okay okay
this word comes from copy editors okay
when they had to check a manuscript um
they had to label the manuscript
all clear ac but because they were copy
editors and they have a very very sick
sense of humor
they thought they would mark it okay for
all clear to make a joke
because o and k do not start all and
clear
but it caught on among everybody in the
world
anyway okay is used to agree with
somebody else
well it can be used actually to express
a positive or kind of a slight negative
i feel
transitioning in your conversation you
can say okay now we're going to talk
about
blah blah blah okay the next phrase is
excuse me excuse me it's used to get
someone's attention
in english when you don't know the other
person for example in a store
a supermarket maybe a stranger on the
street you need to ask directions you
can use
excuse me you can use excuse me in the
supermarket excuse me can you tell me
where the hot sauce is
if you've done something rude in public
you can use excuse me
i personally do not do rude things in
public ever i'm sorry is the next word
we're gonna talk about i'm sorry is used
to apologize when you have made a
mistake or someone you know has made a
mistake and you're connected to it or
you just feel bad you can use
i'm sorry you made a mistake at work i'm
sorry
you forgot to feed your cat i'm sorry
sorry about that you bump someone next
to you oh sorry what time is it is the
next phrase when you need to check what
time it is
what time is it when you ask someone
else what time it is maybe you say this
to yourself too
check your watch check your phone check
a clock pretty straightforward phrase
there aren't really any
short versions so that's an easy one
where is the plus a location so you can
use this
for a building or a store we don't we're
not going to use this where
is the for a place a city name or a
state name or a country name
to do that you would need to remove the
but where is the bank where is the post
office you can use this to ask
directions to ask for help
in your house or at work where is the
copy machine
where is the file i need where is the
blah blah blah
where is the bathroom is perhaps a very
important question to know
the next one is may i use the restroom
may i use the restroom as a polite
uh and soft expression that you can use
if you need to use the toilet you need
to use the washroom
when you're at someone's house for the
very first time when you're in a place
that you're that is new to you you can
ask may i use the restroom
more casually can i go to the bathroom
to be very polite you can say may i go
to the bathroom
the next phrase is i would like to order
something
you can use this at a restaurant
probably or in any situation where you
need to
place an order i'd like a pizza i'd like
a beer can i get the check please this
will be used at a restaurant when you've
finished your meal and it's time to go
can i get the check please
in a very very casual situation you can
just say check please
that's fine the next phrase is see you
soon see you soon is used with friends
and family members perhaps
uh when you expect to see them again
soon after saying goodbye to them this
is used at the end of the conversation
you're going separate directions
see you soon see ya is also good or just
see you
to make it a little more formal you can
say i'll see you again soon make a full
sentence out of it that way
the next phrases see you later see you
later it's very similar to see you soon
but the point is
with see you later is that you're
probably going to meet that person again
later on in the same day the last phrase
is really really is a very useful word
because you can use it to show you're
interested in a conversation with upward
intonation
really really tell me more or to show
that you're not so interested in the
conversation with downward intonation
really so there are many other words
that you can use similar to
really in this way like seriously or oh
oh and so on so it's a really good
practice for your intonation but ways to
say
hi this should be fun let's get started
first is yo
this one is a little bit casual in case
you couldn't tell
used for close friends maybe family
members if you have kind of a silly
relationship with them
just quick short easy to do in a
sentence
yo how's it going howdy howdy uh
traditionally associated with cowboy
culture i suppose you should play a
banjo maybe or you've just gotten off a
horse i don't know i use howdy from time
to time howdy
howdy howdy
that's my banjo yeah in a sentence you
might say
howdy folks welcome to the
barbecue place
next is hey hey is good friendly phrase
you can usually use hey with a wave and
smile look happy
if you don't people might think that
you're down in the dumps people might
think you're not in a very good mood
in a sentence hey uh i heard you got
engaged last week congratulations
something like that it's usually kind of
a cheery
happy expression all right next is
what's up
uh what's up is the long form of sup
this does not literally mean
what is above you right now if you want
to be funny you can say the ceiling or
the sky
but that joke gets old really fast and
chances are the person you're talking to
has already heard it before
it just means what are you up to what is
going on with you in a sentence
what's up did you have a good weekend
typical response to what's up is not
much find out some more responses in
english in three minutes
we did an episode on this nothing much
how about you that's pretty good
pretty good pretty good pretty good
[Laughter]
i don't know what i'm doing the next one
is long time no see you can use this
when you haven't seen the other person
for a long time
you're at a party or an event or
whatever anytime it's been a long break
you can decide how long long is not the
day before or the week before maybe a
few weeks or a month whatever is unusual
for you and this other person
when you see them you can say hey long
time no see how have you been
ten words for talking about beauty and
skin care so
let's begin all right the first word is
makeup
makeup is all makeup everything we're
going to talk about almost
everything we're going to talk about
later is makeup
makeup is usually used by women but
maybe men use makeup
too makeup is usually put on the face to
change the appearance of the face in
some way
so in a sentence i use makeup almost
every day
or i wear makeup almost every day use
and wear are both
okay the next word is eye shadow so
eyeshadow is makeup which goes
on top of the eye so the eyelid this
part is called your eyelid
eyeshadow goes here on top of the eyelid
so
in a sentence what kind of eye shadow do
you use
the next word is eye liner eyeliner so
eyeliner is used to draw a line to draw
lines
near the eyes that means it's safe to
use
near eyes it depends on the person and
their style but maybe they use eyeliner
to make
lines in different ways on their on
their face on
near their near their eyes in a sentence
eyeliner is really difficult to put on
okay the next word is lipstick lipstick
uh there's also
lip gloss too uh lipstick is kind of the
traditional just
like a a single color you apply it just
on your lips and it gives
i don't know not sometimes shiny
sometimes a very
neutral i don't know depends on the
lipstick lip gloss
gives lips like this very glossy almost
like liquidy appearance so lipstick and
lip gloss
have different effects in a sentence you
have a lot of lipstick
the next expression is foundation
foundation
is the makeup product it is applied to
the skin
usually of the face so it's used to make
the face
seem like all one color foundation
maybe people apply it with i don't know
like a spongy thing
or with their hands or a brush there's
like a
i forgot what it's called isn't like a
sponge i don't know something
is it a beauty blender is that a thing i
think so i
i don't know i don't know i'm the wrong
person i don't know is it
it's a beauty blender a thing i'm not
very good at the beauty stuff either i
don't know
anyway foundation is intended to make
your skin color appear
even foundation so it's called
foundation because it's like the base
the foundation
for the rest of your makeup so the
foundation is the
kind of the basis so once your skin
color is all
correct and the same then the other
parts we can fix the other parts that's
my theory anyway
in a sentence there are a few different
types of foundation
all right the next expression is blush
blush is usually applied on your cheeks
and it's like a
pink or red color it gives the
appearance of
blushing so when we feel embarrassed or
maybe we feel excited
our cheeks might turn red so blush is
makeup which
creates that effect of blushing this is
usually a pink or red color to simulate
to make it look like you're blushing
even if you're not really in a sentence
do you wear blush the next expression is
bronzer
bronzer so we talked about blush which
is supposed to give your
skin the appearance of being pink or
blushing
bronzer gives skin the appearance of
being
more bronze or more tan so you can apply
this maybe in summer and it makes your
skin look a little more
tan which you might like other people
also may use bronzer to create
shadows because it makes the skin a
little bit darker
in the places where it's applied so
there are a few different ways to use
bronzer in a sentence bronzer is nice in
summer
the next word is face wash face wash so
this is a special soap
that's for your face specifically for
the face
maybe your face is very sensitive or you
have some
trouble spots or i don't know there's a
specific wash you
use for your face only in a sentence
a good face wash is important for clear
skin
oh the next word oh the dreaded i have a
couple words here that are maybe
problems all of us deal with the first
kind of problem
word on this list is acne acne is an
uncountable noun
acne refers to usually this is this
a problem happens for like teenagers or
people around that age but adults can
also
have acne acne is like imperfections in
the skin
sometimes they're itchy or they're
painful red bumps on your skin or maybe
they're not
painful but they're just blotches or a
number of different ways that acne
can can be an issue which we'll talk
about in the next word too but acne is
an uncountable noun
is just about that problem skin problem
in general acne bad acne in a sentence i
had
acne when i was a teenager so the next
word for today there are two words here
there's pimple and
zit these are both words we use to refer
to the
individual parts of acne acne we can say
i have
bad acne or maybe my acne is improving
today
but acne is maybe the whole condition of
your face
like everything your face is situation
each part
each one of those little uh problem
spots we
we call that a pimple or a zit the
difference
pimple sounds a little bit smaller
usually zit
sounds a bit bigger and maybe maybe more
painful
so but either way pimples and zits are
both
words we can use to describe acne so in
a sentence
i hate getting pimples 10 words you can
use to talk about
hygiene or cleanliness so let's begin
to wash your hands the first expression
is to wash your
hands to wash your hands is with soap
and water
uh in the restroom somewhere so wash
your hands before
cooking or wash your hands after using
the toilet
for example in a sentence wash your
hands after using the bathroom
to shower the next expression is to
shower
to shower or to shower or maybe you
prefer to take a bath
so to shower is usually standing up
though you can do it sitting down
depending on the country you live in i
suppose to shower is that
yeah the water just hits you
continuously
to take a bath is you sit in the bathtub
you sit down and you are surrounded by
water
that is a bath surrounded by one
sitting down surrounded by water in your
home on purpose
is a bath if it's not on purpose
you should probably call a plumber
because that is not a bath that is an
emergency
[Laughter]
all right uh in a sentence i shower
every day or i love taking a bath every
once in a while
to brush your teeth the next expression
is to brush
your teeth to brush your teeth so with a
toothbrush
usually in the morning maybe at night as
well you brush your teeth you clean your
teeth
uh in a sentence make sure to brush your
teeth
in the morning to style your hair
uh the next expression is to style your
hair
to style your hair means to to arrange
or to fix
your hair the way you like it so today i
styled my hair like this
you styled your hair like that eyes
tomorrow maybe i'll style my hair
in a ponytail i probably won't
maybe you can put your you can style
your hair in a mohawk
or in a fauxhawk or in a bouffant
bouffant that's that focus oh yeah it's
focusing yeah
that's a bouffant all right so to style
your hair
uh in a sentence it takes a long time to
style my hair that's true
my hair is naturally explosive and so i
have to straighten it before like
everything and then as soon as humidity
gets it
it goes it makes that sound too
to shave the next expression is to
shave to shave is to remove hair like
if you're a man here usually uh to
remove the hair
here with a razor with another like a a
blade of some kind or maybe you remove
body hair or hair on your legs whatever
uh you we use the verb to shave
to shave with a razor in a sentence
shaving is a pain or sure meaning
shaving is troublesome
soap or cleanser the next word is soap
or cleanser so soap is just used to
clean your skin or yeah to clean your
face maybe
to clean your hands we do not use soap
for the stuff you use to clean your
teeth
soap is used for like body cleaner or
maybe
um what you use to wash your clothes
so soap or a body cleanser in a sentence
i like nice smelling soaps and cleansers
that is true
who does not deodorant
the next word is deodorant deodorant so
deodorant is
the product you might put on your body
to
prevent unpleasant smells so usually
it goes in this region so this is called
the armpit
this region so arm and then pit so like
yeah kind of this cave-ish area in your
arm
we call the armpit but it's common to
apply deodorant here you might put it
in other areas on your body but the goal
is
to prevent bad smells or
um to in some cases just stop sweating
completely
uh so this is deodorant well deodorant
actually
if i'm gonna be strict here deodorant is
used to
stop unpleasant smells antiperspirant
is used to prevent sweating so
perspirant
comes from perspire so to perspire means
to sweat anti means not or stop so an
anti perspirant is a product to make you
stop
sweating so deodorant is the smell one
antiperspirant is the sweat one
sometimes you can buy a deodorant and
antiperspirant
together great in a sentence
wearing deodorant is important
especially in summer
mouthwash the next word is mouthwash
mouthwash
i hope is easy to understand it's wash
it's
something to clean the inside of your
mouth so
uh you can use this like
in the morning maybe after you brush
your teeth or after lunch maybe to keep
your breath
uh smelling fresh but it usually is in
like a blue or a green or maybe an
orange
color and kind of has a minty or citrusy
taste
but you put it in your mouth and kind of
swish like
i don't know i can't swish nothing you
swish it around in your mouth
and then spit it out and that's
mouthwash so you've washed your mouth
with this product in a sentence i like
minty mouthwash
toothpaste the next word is toothpaste
so toothpaste we do not say like tooth
soap or tooth cleaner or whatever
we use tooth paste for uh the
product to clean our teeth the product
we use to brush our teeth is called
tooth paste uh so in a sentence
i need to buy more toothpaste shampoo
and conditioner
the next expression is shampoo and
conditioner so
shampoo and conditioner are commonly
used together
in the shower or in the bath maybe
shampoo usually comes first we shampoo
shampoo is soap for your hair really and
then conditioner
is a treatment for your hair conditioner
is used to make your hair feel softer or
more
moisturized so often times they're used
for shampoo
and then conditioner together as a set
so in a sentence i like trying new
shampoos and conditioners
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gossip let's go oh my god
so the first phrase is
oh my god so so oh my god
so is a introductory phrase you can use
to
start your topic with like a surprise
factor so you say oh my god
and then so is your transition phrase so
for example oh my god so i have to tell
you about
this movie i saw or oh my god so i saw
my neighbor
in the shopping mall this morning or oh
my god so
did you see my new dog it's kind of a
weird one
usually it's about a person not about a
dog but who knows
you won't believe what happened to me
the other day
the next expression is you won't believe
what happened to me the other day
you won't believe what happened to me
the other day
meaning something happened to you
and you think it's going to be a
surprise
to the person listening to you you won't
believe what happened to me the other
day
so it's a very fast phrase because
it sounds like you want to share very
quickly like you won't believe what
happened to me
you can drop the other day if you want
or you said you can say you won't
believe what happened to me this morning
you won't believe what happened to me
last night you won't believe what
happened to me this weekend you won't
believe what happened to me over my
winter vacation so that you won't
believe what happened to me gets very
very quick
and short so examples uh you won't
believe what happened to me the other
day
i ran into my ex-boss or you won't
believe what happened to me the other
day
i tripped and fell down a flight of
stairs or
uh you won't believe what happened to me
the other day i got
a new parrot
sure i don't know maybe one of you can
use that
guess what the next phrase is very short
the next phrase is like an exclamation
so an excited statement and a question
guess what guess what so
guess what is inviting the listener to
guess what happened to you
guess what the full question would be
guess what happened or guess what
happened to me
but we only say guess what so guess what
and sometimes the listener guesses
and sometimes the listener just says
what usually the listener just says
what uh ask so meaning you should
continue the story
so if you say guess what i quit my job
or
guess what i saw my best friend
with a new guy i haven't seen before
another example uh guess what i got a
new car
something like that so some kind of
shocking like
um difficult to guess situation
i haven't told you about this yet the
next expression
is i haven't told you about this yet i
haven't
told you about this yet so have not
becomes
haven't i haven't told you about this
yet so maybe you've told you have told
other people but this specific person
maybe you have not told that person your
news or some information
yet but this yet implies
you are planning to or you want to tell
them this so
uh it's it's kind of creates a little
suspense i haven't told you about this
yet
so we could use this like i haven't told
you about this yet i'm going to france
next summer or i haven't told you about
this yet but i broke up with my
boyfriend last night
or i haven't told you about this yet but
i'm throwing a big party for my
co-worker this weekend can you come
other examples i haven't told you about
this yet i saw my boss
out for dinner with someone who's not
his wife oh my god that's not true
that's not true or i haven't told you
about this yet
i heard that the company is gonna
go bankrupt also not true
okay so those are some pretty juicy
juicy gossip that's an expression we use
we say
juicy gossip is something that's like
really really
interesting gossip or really interesting
story about people we say
juicy gossip for that have you heard
about
the next expression is have you heard
about blah blah blah
have you heard about can be followed
with a noun phrase have you heard about
a a person you can use a person or have
you heard about
a situation you can use both uh you can
use a
an object too so have you heard about
the new iphone or have you heard about
the new
office policies um you can use that
for pretty much anything you want to
inform your listener about
so have you heard about is usually said
very quickly
have you heard about so the you becomes
shortened
to yeah have you heard about have you
heard about blah blah blah so
have you heard about the new secretary
have you heard about our new boss
or have you heard about my co-worker
quitting his job
have you heard about the neighbors above
us
they're moving so you can use people
here
for gossip expressions or you can use
objects um
in this expression just to introduce
something new very useful phrase
have you heard about my mom
sorry mom i don't know why you came into
that one okay
so the other day the next expression
is kind of like the beginning to a story
so
maybe this can be for gossip maybe it
can just be
like a story something interesting or
maybe boring
that happened to you the expression is
so the other day
so the other day so the other day
the other day here means not today some
other day
which day it doesn't really matter it's
not really important but we say
the other day someday in the past this
expression is used for
so we can say so the other day i was
sitting at my desk in the office when my
manager came and asked if he could speak
to me
or so the other day i was shopping and i
ran into my ex-boyfriend
or so the other day i was renting a car
and the former president
of the united states came into the car
rental shop
what all right so the other day just
some day
in the past so i was talking with
and the next one you can use
um maybe for gossip sometimes but also
you can use for making plans
it's so i was talking with someone
and blah blah so i was talking with
someone means you were having a
conversation
uh at another time with a person
and you want to kind of report
information or share
something from that conversation with
the person
listening now so i might say
so i was talking with risa and i think
that we should plan a party for this
weekend what do you think
so i was talking with my
team about this and i think that we
should make some changes
so that's a very kind of everyday work
situation
use of this phrase um but you can also
use it for gossip like
so i was talking to my best friend and i
think i'm gonna move
or i was talking to my parents and i
think
it's best if we break up oh so it can be
for plans it can be for gossip it can be
for just
any conversation plus a report
what's up with the next expression is
kind of a little like mysterious
then the expression is what's up with
blah blah blah
usually what's up with person for gossip
meaning there's like the nuance here is
there's some
problem or it seems like something's
wrong with this person they're unhappy
they're sad they're angry uh
some kind of negative emotion we use
this so it's like
what's up with stevens i haven't heard
from him lately what's up with your
brother he seems really upset or what's
up with your
neighbor why is he so noisy or what's up
with your
boss he's so strict so it sounds like
there's some problem we usually use this
intonation what's up with
what's up with to introduce somebody who
has a problem we don't say
what's up it's not that it's not that
sort of hello
expression it's a it's an expression for
a problem
you can also use a noun phrase that is
not a person here like
what's up with this new office policy or
what's up with this new rule at work or
what's up with this new item on the menu
at this restaurant it's super weird
so what's up with blah blah blah has
sort of a negative nuance you can use it
for people
to talk about strange behavior what's up
with
you have you heard from
lately the next expression is have you
heard from blah blah blah
lately have you heard from person lately
have you heard from stevens lately
i haven't seen him have you heard from
your mom lately have you heard from your
dad lately have you heard from your
brother lately
have you heard from your landlord lately
i don't know why you hear from your
landlord but
have you heard from someone lately there
is sort of an ex
like a little bit of an expectation that
you
are in contact with the person involved
in this sentence like you have some
relationship maybe it's a family
relationship romantic relationship
professional relationship
there's some relationship with this
person and
lately it's like have you heard from
them recently
lately in the last few days in the last
few weeks
so you can use this if for example you
are
looking for someone or you're worried
about someone you can use this here
you can also use it just just to check
in about some other person
without asking that person directly so
like if
i want to ask about i'm using risa in my
example risa is our japanese channel
host
um if i want to ask about how risa is
but i don't want to ask risa i know
maybe she's busy or
i don't know for some reason i it's
difficult to talk to her
i can ask like my co-worker i can say
hey have you heard from risa lately
it seems she's really busy or have you
heard from so and so lately it seems
they're busy
so if i want to ask about another person
but i don't want to bother this person
or that something makes it difficult
i can use have you heard from blah blah
blah recently or
lately to ask about them very useful
phrase
i have to tell you about next expression
um the next expression is i have to tell
you about
blah blah i have to tell you so have to
becomes hafta i have to tell you about
it has a nice
sound i have to tell you about blah blah
or i have to tell you about
something so i have to tell you about my
weekend i have to tell you about stevens
i have to tell you about my mom i have
to tell you about my boyfriend i should
tell you about my girlfriend
whatever it is some person used at the
end of this sentence
creates a nuance like there's exciting
news about that person
or i have to tell you about this thing
that happened you can use a situation at
the end of the sentence too
but you're using i have to at the
beginning of this sentence
so that sounds like it's really
important like i feel
it's so important it's my responsibility
to tell you because
this is so exciting of course you can
use this in more boring situations as
well like i have to tell you about the
new office policy
you can use it in that way with a very
flat intonation
but for gossip purposes use i have to
tell you about blah blah blah
that sounds really good so what do you
have to tell somebody about
i have to tell you about this new idea i
have for a business or
i have to tell you about what happened
to me last night okay
so there are these really exciting ways
that we can introduce
things that happened or that we can talk
about people or whatever
okay ten words for talking about space
planet the first word is planet planet
so planets are those
really really big things that we have in
our solar system now there are
officially eight because pluto is no
longer considered a planet
in my example sentence pluto used to be
considered
a planet star the next word
is star star so stars are those very
very bright objects that you can see
in the sky sometimes at night that's the
closest star to us
is the sun the sun is a star and we can
see a lot of other stars if we look up
into the night sky
sometimes in a sentence it's hard to see
stars from big cities
solar system the next expression is
solar system
solar system so solar system in our case
here on
planet earth refers to the system of
planets and objects
which are near our star so our solar
system now there are eight planets in
our solar system
used to be nine planets sorry again in
pluto eight planets in our solar system
and then um we can talk about other
objects which maybe
enter our solar system like like
comets for example or a meteor or
some other events might happen in space
within our solar
system so our solar system is the area
surrounding our sun and our planets that
we know of
in a sentence mercury is part of our
solar system
comet the next expression is comet a
comet is actually an icy body
that is uh slightly melting and then
releasing gases so that's what produces
that look
a comment okay in a sentence comets are
really cool
meteor oh right so yes the next word is
meteor
meteor or just meteor so essentially
meteors are different from comets
because comets are made of ice
meteors however are made of rock so
these are two different kinds of objects
that can
that move around in space in a sentence
lots of meteors burn up before they pass
through the atmosphere
meteorite the next word is meteorite
meteorite so this is an important
distinction that many
people don't know about actually this
drives me crazy too so a meteor is the
is the space rock it's in space or it's
in the atmosphere
a meteorite however is the rock if
if the meteor makes it if the meteor can
pass through the earth's atmosphere
and fall to the surface of the earth
that rock then
is called a meteorite so in space
in the atmosphere it's a meteor when it
falls to earth it is a meteorite that
becomes a meteorite when it hits the
earth
so fun facts okay that's the difference
between the two
in a sentence have you ever seen a
meteorite supernova
supernova supernova so the explosion of
a star is a huge
event a supernova is the name of it so
the star
explodes and that's what we call it it's
called a supernova a star
explosion in a sentence supernovas must
be incredible things
black hole ah alright the next
expression is
black hole black hole black holes are
the subject of a lot of study
they have intense gravitational pull so
meaning they have
very strong gravity black holes will
pull other objects into them
um it is said that like a time stops in
a black hole or and like if you
get too close to a black hole if you get
too close to the event horizon of a
black hole you yourself will be pulled
into that hole too it's pretty crazy
so like the event horizon is the point
at which um there's no
there's no turning back from like you
can't you can't escape
essentially the gravitational pull of a
black hole once you're within the event
horizon
of that space it's like crazy you're
done for
all this kind of stuff so interesting so
in a sentence
black holes are mysterious galaxy
okay uh alright so the next word is
galaxy galaxy before we talked about the
expression
solar system so solar system is kind of
our
region of space the region we're
familiar with but
the next step up so if you think of the
solar system as kind of your
neighborhood a little bit
you could think of maybe the galaxy as
like your
city or your country maybe it's sort of
the next step out
so a galaxy is made up of lots and lots
of stars maybe other planets
other solar systems many other solar
systems in one
galaxy so i think yeah we belong to the
milky way galaxy
i believe in a sentence our galaxy is
made of lots of different stars and
planets
earth the next expression is earth
earth earth is our planet earth is the
planet we
live on earth is yeah habitable
meaning humans can live here this word i
included it in this vocabulary list
because it is a very good word to
practice your pronunciation it is the
word
earth earth that r and the th sound
can be difficult to pronounce together
er f
earth so this is a great word to use to
practice your pronunciation
earth so in a sentence our planet is
called
earth ten words for talking about sleep
let's go to wake up
the first word is to wake up to wake up
is to open your eyes
probably in your bed or the place where
you are sleeping to wake up
is to uh to become
conscious to become awake every day you
wake up uh presumably hopefully in a
sentence
i woke up three times last night
to get up to get out of bed all right
the next word is to get
up or to get out of bed so that means
to physically move your body from your
bed
out of bed to stand up from your bed to
get
out of your bed we say to get up or to
get out of bed
in a sentence i got up at eight o'clock
this morning
to snooze the next word is to snooze
so we have to snooze an alarm and also
to snooze so to snooze means to take a
short
sleep to have a short sleeping time or
to snooze an alarm is when your alarm
goes off in the morning
you have a button most alarm clocks have
some button
you can press so the alarm will turn on
again in like you know
five or ten minutes or something so to
snooze an alarm
is to like to ask your alarm to wake you
up again
a few minutes later that's uh to snooze
so we have to snooze an alarm
and two snooze meaning like a short
light sleep
in a sentence i always snooze my alarm
at least
once that is usually true
to oversleep the next word is to
over sleep to over sleep means to sleep
too much or to sleep
late actually no it doesn't mean to
sleep late
to sleep late means just to sleep until
a late
time in the day oversleep means sleeping
beyond the time you wanted to get up so
for example
if my alarm is set for eight o'clock
but i wake up at nine o'clock i
overslept
i slept beyond my wake-up time so we can
use oversleep to talk about
times when you sleep too much you sleep
more than your body needs you to so
maybe your body needs
depending on the person like six to nine
hours or so
but if you sleep like 14 hours we can
say that's over
sleeping you're sleeping too much that's
the nuance here
in a sentence i overslept on my first
day of work
nap the next word is nap nap is a
short sleep so a nap is maybe 30 minutes
one hour just a
short sleep a short rest so a lot of
people will take a nap in the afternoon
for example or maybe children actually
take naps
for example in preschool or when they're
very very young
they have an afternoon nap a short sleep
like
yeah just like an hour or so i imagine
in a sentence
i love naps actually i do like naps i
don't like naps because when i take a
nap
it becomes a sleep it's always like i
wake up four hours later and i'm like
okay well i've destroyed my sleep
schedule
dream the next word is dream
dream so dreams are those those visions
those
images you see those maybe experiences
it seems like you have when you are
asleep
in a sentence i always have weird dreams
nightmare so the next word is nightmare
nightmare is a word which means bad
dream or scary dream
negative dream so children
maybe have nightmares a lot they wake up
crying or
they're really upset by nightmares
monsters
terrifying things happening and so on in
a sentence
do you ever have nightmares to go to bed
the next word is to go to bed so before
we talked about to get up or to get out
of bed this is the opposite to
go to bed means to get in your bed uh to
to try to go to sleep to go to bed
in a sentence i usually go to bed fairly
late
to hit the hay to hit the sack the next
expression
is kind of a s i don't know a slang
expression
uh we have to hit the hay and to hit the
sack
these both mean to go to bed um
they both mean to try to fall asleep but
we just use them in more casual
situations the image here of
hit the hay is with your body hitting
hay
like laying down in hay i believe
historically because
hay was used to stuff things that people
slept on
so that's why we have this expression to
hit the hay with your body
same thing for to hit the sack so a sack
full of something
soft to sleep on is where this
expression comes from in a sentence i
think i'm gonna hit the hay
to fall asleep the next expression it is
to fall asleep to fall asleep you're in
bed
and you finally you lose consciousness
you
you stop being aware you are asleep
in that moment we say you fall asleep
in a sentence it takes me a long time to
fall asleep
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top 10 must know prepositions and
conjunctions for english learners
let's get started two two
i threw the ball to my dad
two is sort of directional it it's
saying
that it's going towards something
i wrote a letter to my mother
i went to the mall i went
to the park my mom asked me to go to the
store
to buy some bread to a destination
to a person from
from from is the opposite of two
from implies where it's coming from the
place of
origin so if i'm going to the mall
i'm coming from my house this letter
is from my daughter from
how long does it take you to get from
your house
to your job to and from
they go together with with
with it means together with something
i am at the movies with my friend i went
out to eat
with my friends i go
shopping with my boyfriend with
means you are together with something
i like to have grilled cheese with
tomatoes on it i'm here with my book
at at is a very short word
i always go to bed at 11 o'clock if i'm
lucky i usually go to bed at around
1 in the morning unfortunately i get
very little sleep
at specifies a time or a place
let's go to the movies at two in the
afternoon
um i'm at home right now where are you
we decided to meet at the beach
it's a pinpoint of time or location
in in in
means you are inside of something or
in the middle of something it means
being immersed in something
i am in bed right now the cat
is in the box uh the child is in the
tree
the plane is in the sky i
graduated school in 2019
in on on
i left the book on my desk
on means on top of i like
ketchup on my fries so that means my
french fries are here and i like to put
ketchup on them
the man is on the roof the car
is on the street the motorcycle
is on my nerves but
but i think i remember her name but i'm
not sure
but is a way to add a negative to a
sentence
so for example i really love eating
cake but i don't eat it often because
it's not healthy
i'd love to go to the movies with you
but
i have too much work to do i really like
you
but i don't want to date you and
and and is a very common word you will
hear
all the time it's a way of adding on
a new subject or thing to your sentence
i love candy and pizza
i'm hungry and i'm tired my friend
moved to spain and i moved to canada
i love playing outside and i love
being inside and is a way to add on
a new subject or thing to what you're
talking about
so so i have a toothache
so i went to the dentist so is a way
of adding an example another way to say
because of this i did this
you say something and then you add so
and then what follows is the effect so
there's the cause
so the effect so i was feeling very
hungry
so i had some pizza this video is going
to be pizza themed everyone
apparently i was really tired so i took
a nap
i was in the mood for some adventure so
i got on an airplane
and flew to mexico that sounds nice
or or or is a way of presenting
a choice so for example
you can either have pizza or
you can have candy i don't know if i
should go
to the movies or if i should go to the
mall
which color do you like better red
or green it presents differences
of choice today's video is on
words americans overuse i haven't seen
these words yet but
apparently it's going to be a series of
words that we as americans i'm american
um we overuse we use too often so let's
start
uh oh the first word is definitely
definitely is definitely a word that
americans overuse
we use it to put emphasis at the end of
a phrase to put emphasis at the end of a
sentence
as in oh that party last week was so
great
yeah definitely or to agree with
somebody like that uh
oh god literally oh just in the last few
days i've seen the word literally
so many times on the internet and used
in just such stupid ways
the word literally means
actually or truly something this is
literally the best hamburger i've ever
eaten
so literally meaning truly or actually
would mean that in that person's entire
life that is the best hamburger they've
ever eaten
however it gets misused a lot in
sentences um
like george bush was literally
supporting the war in iraq or something
like that taking a phrase like that
literally would have to mean that you
know the president
former president would be you know
physically supporting
a war with his body onward onward
hilarious hilarious is the next word
i like to use the word hilarious when
something is actually funny
hilarious of course means something that
is really funny super funny
it's a step above funny maybe two steps
three steps i don't know
however people like to use this word in
place of laughter
so uh for example friends are talking
and instead of just
laughing the friend will say that's
hilarious
well if it's so hilarious just laugh oh
this must be the last one
because this is the worst one this word
is like
um i've probably said it several times
already today for the for the purposes
of this video
the word like is used as a filler word
so
it's the same as something such as
um or uh or hmm for example
we use like as a filler word when we're
trying to think of something
you it's not uncommon to hear the word
repeated
like three four five times in a row when
someone is thinking
they'll say oh you know that party that
i went to like
like uh like uh like uh do you know who
was there
it just invades your speech sometimes
when you're trying to think of something
and no other filler words come out but
the word like does
ah this wasn't the last word there is
another one
seriously seriously is used oh it's good
for anytime you receive
bad news um well not from your boss it's
a really casual word
um but if you hear something um like
your friend lost their job
and you can sympathize with them or
maybe empathize with them by saying
seriously oh that's too bad or oh tell
me
like all your problems oh my god i just
use like oh
god oh i hate myself generic trademarks
oh
oh these are all examples of brands that
where the name of the brand has become
synonymous with whatever the brand
product itself is this is going to be
fun jacuzzi
oh really a jacuzzi is a brand i didn't
know that
see okay jacuzzi is a hot tub
essentially it's just it's a it's a type
of hot tub but so many people
have come to know that jacuzzi equals
hot tub that jacuzzi now just means hot
tub even though it's the name of the
brand
uh so you might say hey come over to my
house this weekend we're all gonna have
a no you might say oh i just bought a
new jacuzzi do you want to come in
no that's creepy too i'm thinking about
buying a jacuzzi
do you have any recommendations next
chapstick
you might use chapstick i use chapstick
chapstick is just a brand of lip balm so
whenever your lips feel dry or when they
feel
chapped you put chapstick on your lips
in a sentence you might say i carry my
chapstick with me everywhere
i love it kleenex kleenex is another
great example of a brand that now equals
a product oh
here's kleenex is this actually kleenex
no this is
ascool can you see it no this is
actually this is not kleenex but
we'd probably refer to this as kleenex
yeah tissue these are just they're just
tissues it's not even made by
not even made by kleenex can you pass me
a kleenex
next is post-its oh post-its are very
useful they're just
a small notepad here's another one
there's some notes written on it already
this is a small one also not made by
post-it but it's the same it's the same
sort of thing it's just a piece of paper
that has a sticky back and you can stick
it to things
but post-its now people will ask for a
post-it instead of just a
sticky back note paper i guess i guess
post-it is an easier thing to say
what else would you call it if not a
post-it sticky paper
arm glue note
i'm waiting for you entrepreneurs next
is band-aids this was the first one that
i thought of actually when i saw this
topic
band-aids when you get hurt when you get
a paper cut it's that little piece of
kind of tapey bandage
that you peel stuff off of and then you
stick on whatever you've just hurt
but that thing is just called a bandage
right it's a sticky bandage there are a
lot of sticky things on this list
most of the time i think when you get a
paper cut or something at work or at
school or whatever they'll say oh my
gosh do you need a band-aid there's
words that vary by
region creek i say creek you might hear
the word
crick crick and the word creek means
uh a small river essentially uh there's
a creek in my backyard
for example sure the next word is coyote
i say coyote
how do other people say this word coyote
oh yeah coyote i don't say that a coyote
is kind of a
dog-like animal it's a wild animal about
the size of a dog with a howl at night
we had them in oregon where i'm from uh
i definitely heard them at my house
last night i heard the coyotes out in my
pasture okay the next word is
root r-o-u-t-e root
it's how i say it you might also hear
the word pronounced
route root r-o-u-t-e means the way
through a city or a town or some kind of
path
in other words r-o-o-t which this word
sounds like
is the system that's at the bottom of a
plant that plant uses to get nutrients
you know with
little hairy fibers i'm so good at
explaining plant biology
oh i know a good route to get from
school to the park later let's take that
on our bicycles
that was oddly specific the next word is
apricot
or you might hear apricot as well it's a
fruit
um so you might say hey did you bring
any apricots to the picket
pick it to the bacon apricots no
it's not picket on the other hand is a
word that means protest
uh there's a freebie in there uh for
example you might say hey i really like
those apricots you brought me the other
day they were delicious
okay the next oh the next word is
caramel i say
i think i say caramel oh this is making
me doubt myself
there's caramel and there's caramel they
both refer to
a sugary sweet substance that's often a
type of candy or often inside a type of
candy
it's really really delicious so you
might say
oh my favorite kind of candy is caramel
or my favorite kind of candy is caramel
uh just depends on where you're from
apparently in the east the east coast
they say
caramel on the west coast it seems we
say
caramel that sounds about right to me
you can choose
phrases that aren't cool anymore woohoo
i probably say a whole lot of these
phrases so i'm about to embarrass myself
the first phrase is sweet oh sweet's not
cool anymore
sweet means cool sweet means something
that's good you might say oh man that
skateboard trick you just did was sweet
groovy i still say groovy um groovy
means cool groovy means good
it was used in the 70s when you know
funky groovy music was popular
in a sentence like oh hey those are some
groovy moves on the dance floor
i don't know if we can use that going
steady going steady is kind of an
old-fashioned phrase as well
going steady just means you're dating
someone who is dating someone else like
me and trisha are going steady
it just means you're dating you're a
couple not
oh this is this word is actually what
the entire holiday of april fool's day
is based around
that's a lie particularly i would say
for junior high school students this
phrase is um
very popular they might say something
like hey
steve thinks you're cute not
so in other words it's often used as an
insult duh
oh duh duh
duh is used when someone says something
really stupid or something
really obvious so if you say something
like
uh oh hey it's raining the other person
who can also maybe look out the window
you're both sitting in front of
might say duh because you've just
indicated something very very obvious
you can also use duh
to make fun of yourself when you do or
say something really stupid
as soon as you realize this you can go
ah duh yeah
intermediate latin phrases this is gonna
be fun
bonafide that sounds like an american
thing like
like we we bastardized that word a bit
bonafide then means something that's
genuine or something that's um truly
representative of something else um so
if someone says he's a bona fide
gentleman for example it means he's
truly a gentleman
i don't hear this word very often at
least among the people i spend time with
perhaps
you might hear it especially in an old
movie i think
vice versa vice versa means um basically
it just means to switch positions of
something
so you might say oh i could come to your
house
and then we could go no this is a
terrible example i could go to your
house or vice versa
meaning you come to my house so saying
vice versa it leaves the listener to
fill in the opposite of whatever else
you're saying
yeah that's actually kind of a useful
phrase that's still used quite a lot
i hear a lot in kind of business english
alma mater alma mater i'm a mater
alma mater just refers to the college
that you graduated from
so whatever it is uh whatever your
university is
you could be from you know harvard
university you would say oh harvard is
my alma mater
that's it carpe diem carpe diem
carpedia means seize the day so it's a
kind of a
motivating phrase um you can say it
maybe when you
leave the house for work for example if
you're feeling like you need an extra
bit of motivation you might say ah carpe
diem
to yourself status quo status quo refers
to
the norm or whatever is the regular in
society
for example right now let's see what's
this what's a status quo
i don't know politics that won't
infuriate anybody
so maybe uh in one place the status quo
might be to eat vegan maybe oh it's
you know eating vegan is the status quo
we're going to look at some common
english idioms let's begin
the first word or phrase rather is about
to about to means you're going to start
something you're going to begin doing
something
for example i'm about to start
explaining this idiom to you
hey okay the next word or phrase
idiom the next idiom is by the way
the word here they've used is
incidentally it's a way to transition to
another topic that's related to what
you're talking about
for example this week i'm going to a
party by the way did you hear about the
party happening
next week so they're somewhat related
okay uh the next idiom is in a way in a
way
this is kind of in a way it was a good
thing that the burrito shop was closed
because otherwise i would have eaten way
too much
and you can use this to show that there
are maybe two sides to a situation
maybe some things are negative maybe
some things are positive next
is on the other hand i hear this a lot
on the other hand is a way
of just saying however or to share two
different sides to a story
for example i think my co-worker is
really irritating
on the other hand at parties he's really
funny so you can show two maybe
different sides to a point with this
phrase next is a matter of fact as a
matter of fact as an idiom
this is a long way to just say actually
or really
it's a little bit more formal sounding
so you might use it in a business
meeting for example
everybody at the business meeting might
feel a little bit unsure about the
previous month sales
and you can begin your presentation by
saying something like i know everybody
was a little bit
unsure about last week's or last month
sales performance but as a matter of
fact
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how to curse like an english native
speaker
piss a slang term for urine for example
don't piss your pants you can say this
when
you're really scared or anxious for
example
if you're about to go on stage to make a
speech
or perform someone can say don't piss
your pants
you can do it pissed off
to be really angry when i'm
angry i can say hey i'm really pissed
off at you right now
why did you do that for loser
used to describe an uncool person
in high school my friends and i would
use this a lot
and we would say hey loser how's it
going
idiot you used to insult people by
saying they're not intelligent
of all the mean things that you can say
this is on the lighter side
but people still use it shoot
this is used to show disappointment or
frustration without using a stronger
curse word
shoot i spilled my coffee shut up
you can use this when you want them to
be quiet
or there's something surprising that you
just heard
you can say shut up no way
ticked off to be really angry you can
say this
with pissed off so this is actually an
older term
not many people use this as much anymore
because
most people actually just use pissed off
fool
this is similar to saying someone is
like a clown you can say
you're acting like a fool right now jerk
this is a light insult used to describe
someone who is mean
for example if there's someone bullying
another person
that person is being a jerk wimp
this means someone who isn't strong
there is a movie out right now
called diary of a wimpy kid have you
seen it have you not
i haven't yet 10 ways to say hello
in english good morning
good morning is the first thing you say
to someone when you see them in the
morning
good morning sir would you like a cup of
coffee
good morning could i please get some
orange juice
good morning i'm still tired from the
night before
hello hello is the most common greeting
you'll hear
that and hi hello is a polite
nice way to greet someone when you see
them hello
everyone says it you cannot go wrong
saying hello
hello can be used at any time of the day
no matter whether it's
morning or at night or at 4am
when you see someone you can say hello
and it will still be appropriate long
time no
see long time no see
it's not necessarily grammatically
correct but it's a saying that we have
hey long time no see what it means
is that you haven't seen that person in
a long time
so it literally means long time no
see long time no see is something you
say to someone when you haven't seen
them in a while
hey john long time no see
how are the wife and kids how have you
been
hey how have you been i haven't seen you
in a long time
how have you been is asking someone
how they're doing and how they've been
for the past
however long if you haven't seen them in
a while
you might say hey long time no see
how have you been how have you been
that's past tense it implies that you
haven't seen them in a while and you
want to hear about how they are
and how they've been for all of that
time that you haven't seen them
hey long time no see how have you been
how are you how are you
means how are you doing how are you
feeling
how is everything it's a standard thing
that you might say to
anyone even if you've seen them the day
before
you might see them today and say hey how
are you
how's it going hey how's it going
how's it going is a more informal way
to say how are you so how are you
and how's it going they mean the same
thing
it's asking how you're doing how you are
feeling is everything okay with you
what's up what's up is another way of
saying
hey how's it going but this one is even
more
informal so you might say this to
friends hey what's up
and they'll say nothing just living my
life you know
day in and day out hey what's up
hey what's up good afternoon
good afternoon how are you would you
like some
lunch good afternoon is a polite way to
greet someone
in the afternoon so if you run into your
boss
you might say good afternoon it's very
nice it's polite
not a lot of people say it to their
friends but it's
it's a polite way to greet someone good
evening
good evening is a nice way to greet
someone in the evening time
you can only use this phrase in the
evening
because it's wishing someone a good
evening it's saying hello at a certain
time
of day good evening would you like some
dinner
good evening have you eaten yet all of
my examples involve food it seems
it's nice to meet you it's nice to meet
you
this is something that's very common to
say
the first time that you meet someone you
might shake their hand
and say hi it's nice to meet you my name
is bridget
my name is it's telling that person
that you are happy to be meeting them
it's a pleasure
to meet them hi it's nice to meet you
hi everyone i'm gabriella how are your
english listening skills
in this video you'll have a chance to
test them out with a quiz
first you'll see an image and hear a
question
next comes a short dialogue listen
carefully and see if you can answer
correctly
we'll show you the answer at the end are
you ready
a woman is asking a store clerk
something at a bookstore
which book does the woman want to see
[Music]
excuse me i'd like to take a look at a
book on that shelf
which book would you like the one about
cars
one moment please this one
yep that's right here you go
which book does the woman want to see
a woman is asking a store clerk
something at a bookstore
which book does the woman want to see
excuse me i'd like to take a look at a
book on that shelf
which book would you like the one about
cars
one moment please this one
yep that's right here you go
a man and a woman are looking over a
menu at a restaurant
what's the man going to order
[Music]
what are you going to order the pizza
looks delicious
i think i'll go with that i had pizza
yesterday
so okay then what about the hamburger
sounds good i'll go with that
what's the man going to order
a man and a woman are looking over a
menu at a restaurant
what's the man going to order what are
you going to order
the pizza looks delicious i think i'll
go with that
i had pizza yesterday so
okay then what about the hamburger
sounds good
i'll go with that
a man is calling the doctor's office
what time does he need to be at the
doctor's office by
[Music]
hello how can i help you what time do
you close today
we close at six o'clock but please come
in before 5
30. okay thank you
what time does he need to be at the
doctor's office by
a man is calling the doctor's office
what time does he need to be at the
doctor's office by
hello how can i help you what time do
you close today
we close at six o'clock but please come
in before 5 30.
okay thank you
a boy is reading from his journal
what was the first thing the boy did
today
the weather was great today i went
swimming this afternoon at the pool
and i went to a movie in the evening i
also studied all morning
today wasn't bad
what was the first thing the boy did
today
a boy is reading from his journal
what was the first thing the boy did
today
the weather was great today i went
swimming this afternoon at the pool
and i went to a movie in the evening i
also studied all morning
today wasn't bad
a woman and a man are looking at a
photograph
which photo are they looking at
[Music]
this is a photo of the soccer team your
son is on isn't it
which one is your son this one
oh he's the tallest one yep
he's even taller than the coach
which photo are they looking at
a woman and a man are looking at a
photograph
which photo are they looking at
this is a photo of the soccer team your
son is on isn't it
which one is your son this one
oh he's the tallest one yep
he's even taller than the coach
did you get it right i hope you learned
something from this quiz
let us know if you have any questions
see you next time
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