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hi everybody my name is alicia welcome
back to top words
today we're going to talk about 10 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
uh 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
uh 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 characters
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 um 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 uh 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
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
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 that'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 gonna 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 uh
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
um find materials in your target
language
um 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
um 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 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 words 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 is 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 as
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 as well
all right so those are 10 tips those are
10 tips to help you stop
translating in your head i know it's
very difficult but
it's it takes time and it takes practice
and i hope that these are
a few strategies that can help you as
you study
any language of course this is an
english language channel an english
language learning channel but i think
these tips are pretty good for learning
just about any language really so
i hope those are useful for you if you
have tried these strategies or if you
have any other comments or other tips
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hi everyone i'm bridget and welcome to
today's lesson
today's topic is 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 4 am
when you see someone you can say hello
and it will still be appropriate long
time
no c long time no
c it's not necessarily grammatically
correct
but it's a saying that we have hey long
time no c
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 is 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 are 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
that brings us to the end of this lesson
10 ways to say
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for more english okay everybody shift
information has been posted for the
month
it looks like we'll visit 25 cities in
30 days
do we normally visit 25 different cities
in one month
yes sometimes we visit even more
where's our first stop charlotte
hey i have friends in charlotte it would
be nice to see them
good evening in room dining this is alex
how may i be of service
hello i would like to order some food
of course ma'am just to confirm this is
mrs rossen
in room 417 yes it is
excellent may i take your order yes i
would like a turkey sandwich
on a parmesan bagel and what to drink
a diet coke will there be anything else
yes i would also like a wake-up call for
seven
my major is education how about you
i'm an english major cool
i like english oh and what's oksana's
major
she's also an english major that's nice
you can help each other study yep in
fact i need to meet her now so we can
study together
okay it was nice talking with you you
too
see you later see ya
good evening ma'am may i have your first
and last names
melissa west thank you ma'am
i have found your reservation here's the
registration information
does everything look correct to you
yes it seems to be correct excellent
now i will just need a photo id for
legal purposes
will my passport do that would be just
fine ma'am
checkout is between noon and two o'clock
you may request an extension of up to
five hours free of charge
what if i need more time then a late
charge of five percent will be added to
your bill
hey vicky did you forget our study date
at 10 this morning
i'm sorry naomi at 10 i was talking with
my professor and couldn't get away
i'm sorry i should have called
that's okay so how did the meeting go
with the professor
it went fine he gave me an extension on
my paper and i can still take the
midterm
how was your study group yesterday well
we were studying together during lunch
when i noticed an old friend of mine
from high school in the same cafe
my concentration quickly switched from
class to catching up with my friend
so i didn't get much done you've taken
that class before right
yeah last semester i was always asking
questions in that class because it was
so difficult
well i was hoping that you could rent me
a hand with my paper
i can't think of anything else to write
sure no problem that is if you can help
me study for our history test
sounds like a deal want to speak
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hi everyone i'm christine from
englishclass101.com
in this video we'll be talking about 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 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 so how was it if you have
any more questions please leave a
comment below
see you next time hey everyone i'm paris
from
englishclass101.com in this video we're
talking about how to ask
and give directions let's start to the
left to the left
the first phrase is where is the
where is the for example you can ask
where is the bank this can be used to
ask for a general location
or detailed directions don't be
surprised
if you only receive basic information
for example
next to the grocery store the next
phrase is
i need to go to the i need to go
to the for example you can say
i need to go to the police station the
word need is used
but this is used for non-emergencies as
well how do i get to the
how do i get to the for example
you can say how do i get to the museum
this question can be used to ask for
step-by-step directions
instead of a general location is the
near here is the near here for example
you can say is the library near here if
you're unfamiliar with an area
you can ask to get this information
about a specific place
where you want to go is the bathroom
near here
excuse me do you know where the is
excuse me do you know where the
is for example you can say excuse me
do you know where the park is only youth
excuse me
when you're starting a conversation with
a stranger another common phrase is
is the far from here is the
far from here for example you can say
is the post office from here this is an
indirect way to ask for directions
people will tell you how far the place
is and probably tell you the best way to
get there
walking taking a bus driving uber
now let's take a look at expressions to
give directions
turn left turn left for example
you can say turn left after two blocks
this gives you information about how far
you should go
before you make any changes in this case
you should
go left to the left to the left
turn right turn right
for example you can say turn right at
the third traffic light
this also gives you information about
how far you should go
before taking another action in this
case
you should go right go straight
go straight this simply tells you to go
in one direction
it also implies that if you keep going
straight that you will eventually find
what you're looking for
go past go past for example
you can say go past the church a
landmark is just an easily noticeable
place
for example a movie theater restaurant
at the corner of at the corner of
for example you can say it's at the
corner of
this means that a place is located at
the corner where two streets meet
in front of in front of
for example you can say the bus station
is in front of the supermarket
we use front to refer to the main
entrance of a building
it can also mean visible from the front
and doesn't necessarily mean
it's directly in front of something
behind
behind for example you can say the
parking lot is behind the movie theater
we use behind to say that something is
at the rear of a building
the front of a building is its main
entrance so which side it's facing the
street is really not important
next two next two for example
you can say the restaurant is next to
the park
this is an example of using a
non-specific location to give
general directions next two can be
anywhere beside in front of or around a
place
mcdonald's is next to my house between
between for example you can say
the store is between the coffee shop and
the pet store
between is used with two other places
when using between
the main place will always be in the
middle of the two other places
okay that's all for this lesson which
phrase do you like the most
leave us a comment and let us know and
i'll see you next time guys
bye hey guys i'm paris from
englishclass101.com
in this video we'll be talking about
making complaints in english
so let's get started the first complaint
is
i'm starving i'm starving
this is an exaggeration you can use when
you're hungry i am
always starving even right now the next
complaint is
it's noisy it's noisy
this kind of complaint is one that you
would make to a friend telling the staff
of a restaurant won't help since they
can't tell people to be
quiet i hate when it's noisy in
restaurants
save that for another time then we have
it's hot it's hot this can be used to
talk about the weather
or the temperature of a room you can add
a request like
can you turn on the air conditioner i am
never
hot so i like that the next complaint is
it's cold it's cold
this can be used to talk about the
weather or the temperature of a room
you can add a request like can you turn
on the heater
i always make this request because it's
always too cold
everywhere everywhere it's too expensive
it's too expensive even if you have
enough money to buy something
it may be more money than you want to
spend it would probably be considered
rude to say this to someone who works at
a store
but i always think okay i'm in gucci
it's way too expensive
another common complaint is i'm tired
i'm tired use this complaint to imply
that you want to sit down
relax go home take a break when i
babysit my five-year-old cousin
i leave thinking i'm tired
the next complaint is i gained weight
i gained weight this is a self-criticism
that implies that you want to lose
weight
many people say i got so fat
i'm always broke i'm always
broke use this to complain about never
having enough money
i am always broke because i always want
more money
the next complaint is my job is boring
my job is boring this is a really common
complaint
used by people who don't think their
jobs are very exciting
usually it means that you want to find a
different more fun job
it's all right teachers your job isn't
boring that person stinks
that person stinks you can use stings to
talk about a literal
physical smell or a general insult
meaning that you don't like how someone
smells
i hate when people smell on the bus
not good not okay the next complaint is
there's too much traffic there's too
much traffic this is a common complaint
among people who commute to work by car
certain roads are especially bad during
rush hour which is the time in the
morning
or night most people are going home or
to work
if i left at it was 7 pm i would be here
in 10 minutes
but because it's daytime in la it took
me 30 minutes to get here
and i drive really really fast and it
still took me 30 minutes
the next complaint is the wi-fi here is
too slow
the wi-fi here is too slow
this is just a general complaint you may
have about the internet speed
if you're at a cafe or somewhere with
wi-fi you can request that they reset
the wi-fi to improve the speed
if you're having a party and you're
having friends over and your wi-fi is
too
slow you might as well end that party
now
no wi-fi no party my boss is annoying
my boss is annoying annoying can be used
to mean that someone does things that
you don't like
or they ask you to do things that you
don't like
either way an annoying boss is a bad
experience
i am very familiar with this hey paris
grab me coffee
hey paris check my emails my boss is
annoying
but don't tell him i said that the pay
is too low
the pay is too low you can use this to
complain about how much you make
or to reject a job offer because it
doesn't pay enough
i'm a surgeon the pay is too low
i don't like it i don't like it
this is a very general complaint that
can be used for almost
anything what do i like
[Laughter]
posting a thousand selfies on instagram
i
don't like it um okay
that's it for this lesson which
complaint do you like more
leave us a comment and let me know and
we'll see you next time
bye you just got a text message from
your hotel's pickup service
what does the first number refer to
so
what does the first number refer to
the number in the text message refers to
the customer code
you are at a train station where you've
just bought an express ticket
which train car row and seat number are
you in
so
which train car row and seat number are
you in
the ticket says that you're in train car
number one in the eighth row
in seat c
you are at a train station where you're
attempting to buy an express ticket from
a ticket machine
which option should you choose to buy an
express ticket
which option should you choose to buy an
express ticket
the option on the bottom left is for an
express ticket
you are on a platform at a train station
where you're waiting for your train
suddenly a message appears on the
display
what does the message on the display
mean
what does the message on the display
mean
the display reads the next train will
not stop
you are at a train station where you're
reading the train schedule for an
express ticket that you've just bought
on which days are there no express
trains running
on which days are there no express
trains running
there are no express trains running on
public holidays and the third sunday of
every month
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you are on a platform at a train station
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suddenly a message appears on the
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what does the message on the display
mean
what does the message on the display
mean
the display reads the next train will
not stop
you are at a train station where you're
looking for the best exit to catch a
taxi
which exit should you take to get to the
taxi stop
which exit should you take to get to the
taxi stop
you should take the east exit in order
to get to the taxi stop
hi everybody my name is alicia and today
i am joined again in the studio by
michael hello and today we're going to
be talking about things that
were cool in the 90s so things that were
interesting or things that maybe we were
interested in in the 90s i'm guessing
that we're going to have some very
different opinions
uh based on our experiences at the 90s
so let's get right into it
michael your first item please um
okay boy bands so i remember boy bands
were very very popular
when i was a kid in the 90s i had three
older brothers who would punch me and
tell me boy bands are for girls don't
like boy bands
so that was my experience with them and
they became kind of uncool
i feel like after the 90s and then they
never were uncool in like
korea and like a lot of asian countries
they still had like a strong boy band
kind of uh
scene or whatever bands now is that
really what they're called no i don't
know i just mean i think i feel like boy
there are boy bands
that are now becoming boys to men maybe
so i mean now they came now it came back
like
what is the what's the british one now
it's kind of cool again oh one direction
one direction yeah so i think it's come
back it's full circle
didn't they just break up i'm gonna go
with something that i loved in the 90s
this is probably way too specific uh
probably but it's this show called doug
that was on nickelodeon and there
weren't a whole lot of episodes of doug
it was i don't know like 20 or 30 i feel
like not even that many did you ever see
this show
yeah that's very nostalgic for me i
don't 20 30 episodes i feel i feel like
i had i'd seen them all so i i
i know that i saw them all because it
would come back it would come on one day
after school and i'd be like i've seen
this episode
but the whole the whole idea with doug
is doug was like this just this
plain kid and he had an older sister he
went to school he had a dog get a best
friend
and he would just encounter these
everyday life scenarios
that would be kind of troubling or he
wouldn't know how to deal with them but
like he was kind of a role model i feel
like he was kind of
being like a good kid or sometimes he
would get into trouble but then you know
eventually he would solve the problem or
he'd find a way out of it so but i
really loved that show i really loved
nickelodeon in general um during the 90s
and
yeah did you watch that channel yeah of
course i loved nickelodeon um
i think it was more like fox stuff like
that but i guess i'll segue into another
one of mine
you're talking about wholesome so
something that's
my childhood i was raised on tv was
sitcoms yeah
so i think this has kind of died down
again like the boy bands where it people
think it's cheesy now it's all reality
tv shows that kind of stuff
but that's that is my childhood right
there is you know full house and these
kinds of shows step by step
where there's a moral at the end of the
story and so everyone there's always
kind of like
the the protagonist is always like maybe
he's unsure but by the end
they know the right thing to do and they
play like the violin kind of sad
not quite sad but like heartwarming
music
and then they're like well and then they
give a speech and as a kid you know you
don't really like think about it but
that gets into your
like man deep because of full house
if you lie i've learned this it's deep
in my subconscious
if you lie and then you keep lying
it snowballs and it gets worse and worse
and worse so it's best to just right
away
tell the truth that was a really common
theme in most sitcoms i think that like
they're just trying to teach kids don't
lie it's bad
you're right you're right sitcoms are
huge and by the way sitcoms um is
um is a portmanteau portmanteau meaning
two words put together
of situation and comedy so situation and
comedy equals sitcom in this case
okay nice nice um i'm gonna go to my
next one
um let's see i think probably every
little girl
in the 90s in america anyway knew what
this was i don't know if you knew
um it's this brand called lisa frank um
lisa frank are you aware of lisa frank
are you aware of lisa frank
no okay she knows she knows lisa frank
is
so lisa frank is um just
bright it was always like brightly
colored school supplies
uh like pinks and purples and blues and
it would always have unicorns and
dolphins and mystical creatures it was
just
bright and everybody all the girls loved
it i loved it i had lisa frank
just whatever i could get my hands on
it'd be pencils or erasers or
just pinks and rainbows and hearts and
stuff like that so i think every
every girl who grew up in the 90s knows
what lisa frank is
ah okay so talking about style and
whatnot
grunge grunge is something that i that
hits close to home for me and i think
that came out of the 90s
is i mean everybody knows around the
world i think most people know nirvana
yeah kurt cobain yeah and this is
something that i guess was
brought to the world from seattle and it
was a music genre
and it was kind of it's like rock but
sometimes slower
almost emo kind of like sad usually
undertones but anyways the style that
came with it
was the opposite of like the 80s and
early 90s of really bright colors you
know it was the opposite you just wear
holy jeans you don't really shower that
much you don't shave
and like plaid and just really like
dreary colors
so that was really popular i at least i
remember in like the early 90s
like mid 90s yeah and it's as soon as i
saw that card grunge i was like oh
nirvana that was that's the first thing
that comes to mind when i hear about
when i hear grunge
i didn't get into the grunge scene
though i was i was busy with boy bands
but
like grunge for me was never really
i was aware i was aware of nirvana but i
did not
i was not of the nirvana pod
okay i'm gonna go to a style point then
too because you've read up a style point
i'll put up
bring up maybe um a female style point
scrunchies
uh still popular perhaps among some
people
what is a scrunchie a scrunchie let's
see i don't have um
so there's regular rubber bands that you
can use to tie back long hair
he's making an o shape with his hands
yes this is very descriptive very
descriptive michael thank you so no
you're into that i'm the prop and then
you go like this
there's like i bet i bet there's an
awesome video team somewhere in the
somewhere that can put like a scrunchie
like right here
anyway um yeah a scrunchie is just it's
just a
a piece of elastic with some kind of
colorful cloth wrapped around it and it
but when not in use you would go and it
would
scrunch i think i think this is why we
call it a scrunchie
but then when you pull down you can
expand it a bit and wrap your hair up in
it and then when you're finished doing
that it would kind of
close around it i had a couple
nintendo anything any game related stuff
i remember game boys
anything handheld except when i was a
kid it wasn't like this fancy
3d high you know
highly like vibrant colors it was like
black and white and like you'd play it
in the car and you had to squint and it
hurts your head you know if you're
playing too much you're getting like
carsick and you're like you can barely
see mario
are you talking about game boy game boy
or any like there was handheld too there
was like atari and stuff like that and
like sega
sega was pretty good that would light up
i was thinking about nes when you said
nintendo i imagined my nes the one that
like when it wasn't working correctly
you could just pull the cassette out and
put it back in so you put the cartridge
in here right
and sometimes if it was really stubborn
and it didn't work
you would blow into this part and you
try and it really doesn't make a
difference
but you would take turns like me and my
brothers would be like no you want to be
the one to get it to work
so you take turns no no let me let me
let me and just by luck it would work
and you're like cece
yeah no this is super nostalgic i love
nintendo
i have a game too pogs
do you have pogs okay pogs are
either are simultaneously the most
brilliant game and the stupidest game
ever invented they're just
discs of cardboard about this size uh
and on one side there's a picture
and on the other side there's just
nothing and then you had a thing called
a slammer which was essentially just a
heavy pog
that you would use and you had to flip
you had to use the slammer to flip
those plain cardboard ones what i don't
even know it was that
stupid and forgettable of a game but it
was like crazy when i was about i don't
know like second or third grade or
something
everybody had pogs like we had pog gym
days at my school
i remember that excuse me america we're
really obese
let's go into the gym and sit there and
smash cardboard we played
pogs and like i was telling i was
telling her before we started this like
one day like my mom wanted me to get a
haircut and i was just being stubborn
and i wasn't having it i was in the mall
i was like i want to get a haircut she's
like i'll buy you
pogs and she did
it was like this giant tube of pogs and
i was just so thrilled and
i agreed to get my hair cut well
that was a lot of things that was that
were
exciting and or popular and or we were
into
in the 90s what were you into in the 90s
what was popular in your country i
really have no idea what was popular
around the world
at that time maybe some of these things
are similar please let us know
in the comments i'm very interested to
find out we read these by the way
um any thoughts any other any closing
thoughts about the 90s
you're not going to sing a song for us
oh that's copyright we can't do that
just like blur that all out no that was
that was very accurate so i'm sure we
can use that
very accurate i mean totally wrong
clearly we're very good at talking about
the 90s
okay but uh we hope that you are too we
hope that you learned something exciting
about the 90s
um that's all for us today thanks very
much for watching and we will see you
again soon bye
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 so 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
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
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
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 uh the the
atmosphere and
and realize 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 gotta 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 um
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 um
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
it really does butter them up kind of
get them open 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 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 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
please let us know if you have any other
strategies or anything else that you
would like to use or you tried to use
when you are having trouble keeping a
conversation going uh leave us a comment
and let us know what it is
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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we're going
to talk about 10 ways to express
fear and surprise let's get started
yeah you scared me the first expression
is
you scared me you scared me so too scare
is the verb here and we're using the
past tense you scared
me so you caused me to be frightened you
scared
me we use this when we feel surprised or
scared so your friend suddenly jumps out
from
you scared me i thought i thought you
tipped over a liquid onto the camera so
you scared me it's like yeah
oh my gosh you frightened me in other
words you caused me to be afraid
in a sentence ah you scared me
you scared the out of me the next
expression is you scared the
something out of me you scared the blah
blah blah
out of me in the blah blah blah here in
the space
we can use a lot of different words some
of them are really really rude words you
might have heard a few of these on like
tv
shows or in english speaking movies um
so in this lesson i'm going to introduce
like some kind of
not so rude words um you can use you
scared like the bejesus out of me you
scared the heck out of me you scared the
hell out of me so it's a more extreme
version of you scared me so you scared
that something
out of me it like the image is i was
so frightened that something came out of
my body
and it's usually like a negative or like
a rude word we use
to emphasize how frightened we were you
scared the hell out of me oh my gosh so
that's kind of a common expression so in
a sentence
jeez you scared the hell out of me that
really freaks me out
the next expression is that really
freaks me out
that really freaks me out so to freak
someone out or like to freak out is like
to cause a
strong emotion that's kind of a negative
nervous emotion or that's just if you
feel like you're kind of
overflowing with either like a
nervousness or like excitement
to freak out has a couple of different
meanings but when you say
that really freaks me out it's kind of a
negative like sort of
scared emotion so in a sentence ugh
cockroaches really freak me out so you
feel
like uncomfortable it's kind of like
this gross
like creepy crawly feeling about it it's
like ah that freaks me out
so that's one use ah that really freaks
me out
i'm freaking out right now the next
expression is i'm freaking out or i'm
freaking out right now
so in the last expression we saw that
really freaks
me out in this expression we say i'm
freaking out
in the progressive tense i'm freaking
out which means like i'm super super
super excited or i'm like super
like i have so much energy about
something so
freaking out sounds kind of like um a
nervous activity but we can use it for
like exciting things as well
i can say like oh my gosh i forgot my
car keys i'm freaking out right now how
am i going to get home
we can use it to express like
nervousness or anxiety
but we can also say something exciting
like you got tickets to beyonce i'm
freaking out right now
like we use it in a very positive way
sometimes as well so you can kind of
choose depending on your emotion
are you afraid or are you excited
surprised
both are okay that really creeped me out
the next expression is that really
creeped me out
that really creeped me out so creepy is
a word we've talked about in a previous
episode of top words on the
horror movie episode of top words uh so
something that is creepy causes nervous
feelings or like we
we can't relax it's kind of unsettling
or strange
so something that causes those feelings
in us
we can describe with a phrase that
creeped me out that
caused creepy feelings in me ugh that
thing creeped me out so like bugs creep
me out for example more than creep me
out i just
hate bugs so in another sentence yeah i
saw the ring it really creeped me out
so something that causes uneasy feelings
in you
i was so sketched out the next
expression is
i was so sketched out i was so sketched
out
so here we are using the word sketch or
sketched which doesn't actually mean
rough drawing here
this is sort of a slang phrase that has
become commonly used throughout
different types of english to be
sketched out
by something means to have like
nervous feelings that something is kind
of
dangerous so creepy is just sort of
unsettling like difficult to relax
sketchy is like is about a person
usually
or like a situation that seems it could
be
dangerous there could be something
dangerous actually it's not just that
it's kind of scary but there's maybe
some danger there
so sketchy sketchy like we don't know
what's going to happen next
in a sentence then i think a car was
following me today
i was so sketched out holy
the next expression is holy something
holy something so we can say holy cow
or holy other rude words you can check
some tv and movies for other words you
can finish this sentence with holy
something so we use this as just an
exclamation so when we're surprised or
when we're afraid or when we're excited
we can say holy cow or like holy
i'm not going to say other words that
people use because this is a family
channel but
uh holy something can mean anything
depending on the situation
and the sort of tone of voice that you
use with this word
uh holy cow is a pretty common
expression but
for surprise usually i would say the
kind of
rude expressions are more commonly used
for fear
oh my god the next expression is oh my
god oh my god so depending on your
intonation you can kind of change the
meaning of this word you can
express your surprise with oh my god or
you can express like fear like oh my god
so depending on the way you say this
word you can kind of change the meaning
but you can use this in a lot of
different expressions i'm sure you've
heard this expression before oh my god
also oh my gosh
dude if you don't like to use the word
god in an example sentence
oh my god there's a bee in the car
what okay the next expression looks kind
of funny on screen it's just
what what so we can use this as a very
casual form of surprise what
so when someone surprises you usually a
friend a good friend
and you're just stunned like you're so
surprised and shocked
but you don't feel like excited you're
just like whoa
it's difficult for you to kind of say
anything or do anything
some people react with what
like that kind of long a sound so it's
usually used for surprise actually or
something new that you just
oh my gosh i can't react to this it's
just what that's all
just that's a simple reaction so you
might hear this as well for
surprise generally in an example
a surprise party what
you got me good the last expression is
you got me good
you got me good this is an expression
you can use
when your friend or someone else you
know plays a joke
on you so your friend tries to trick you
or your friend tries to scare you or
whatever tries to get a reaction from
you
usually by scaring you or surprising you
if the trick or the joke was effective
you can say ah
you got me good you got me good this is
kind of like a ah
okay i admit like you got me you
defeated me in other words you made me
afraid or you surprised me
so you can say you got me good you got
me good
so that's the meaning of this expression
ah nice job in other words you got me
good in a sentence
ha you got me good those are 10 ways to
express
fear and surprise if there's another
expression you like to use please be
sure to let us know in the comments for
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bye-bye hi everybody welcome back to top
words my name is alicia
and in this episode we're going to talk
about 10 words and expressions for
talking about
thoughts and ideas so let's get started
i have an idea the first expression
is i have an idea i have an idea this is
a really
general expression you can use to
introduce
a new idea this is pretty
casual but you can use it in slightly
more formal situations as well
i have an idea let's get thai food for
lunch
or i have an idea let's go to the beach
this weekend
i have an idea let's take a nap
in this example sentence i have an idea
let's start a company
i've been thinking the next expression
is
i've been thinking i've been thinking
you can use this to say i've been
thinking
and then begin an idea or you can say
i've been thinking about
topic i've been thinking about topics so
i've been thinking about finding a new
job or
i've been thinking what do you want to
do for summer vacation
so you can use it in a couple of
different ways i've been thinking about
or i've been thinking
both are okay so in this sentence i've
been thinking about baking a cake
all day here's a thought
the next word is here's a thought here's
a thought so again this is a word you
can use to
introduce an idea here is a
thought in other words here is an idea a
thought
from my mind here you are here's a
thought so you can use this to
introduce an idea you have had here's a
thought
why don't you get a haircut in this
example sentence
here's a thought why don't you take
tomorrow off
what do you think the next expression is
what do you think what do you think very
common way to
ask for someone's opinion what do you
think
we connect the words do and you quite
closely in this expression what do you
think
what do you think sounds much more
natural than what do
you think so try to use what do you
think
so this is uh this is just a general way
to ask for someone else's
opinion about anything really in a
sentence
i kind of want to eat something spicy
for lunch
what do you think you want to know what
i think
the next expression is you want to know
what i think
so this is sort of a like a challenge
almost
like it's asking the other person
do you want to know my opinion do you
want to know what i think
because i'll tell you only if you want
to know
so you want to know what i think or you
can drop
wanna and say you know what i think so
that you
becomes ya you know what i think you
know becomes
you know so you know what i think or you
want to know what i think
so it's a little bit of a challenge a
little bit of an introduction
before you actually share your opinion
in a sentence
you want to know what i think it's a
terrible idea
i've thought about this a lot the next
expression is
i've thought about this a lot i've
thought about this a lot
in this expression we're actually using
the present perfect
tense i've thought i've thought so
that's
i have thought about this meaning
i started thinking about this in the
past
and my thinking has continued to the
present
i've thought about this a lot so this
implies
this tells the listener it's something
that has been
on your mind for a while i've thought
about this a lot
so your opinion is based on
all of this past thinking so something
you have been thinking about
for a long time in a sentence i've
thought about this a lot
and i really think you should quit the
company
i have no idea i have no
idea i have no idea means i don't know
but i have no idea means zero i have
no information no ideas i can't think of
anything absolutely nothing no idea
i have no idea so this is typically used
in response to a question for
information like
where's your brother i have no idea
like what did you do with the keys i
have no idea
so some things like you just you have no
information
absolutely no information you can say i
have no idea
i don't know please note though that the
idea part of the sentence is in the
singular form
i have no idea we'll talk about why in
just a moment but i have no idea to
refer to having
no information about something in
another sentence
the best hotel in the city i have no
idea
i have no ideas the next expression is
i have no ideas i have no ideas so
here different from i have no idea
we're using the plural form ideas
ideas meaning someone is asking you for
a proposal
someone is asking you like to create
something to make something perhaps
so they're asking for a suggestion
and if you don't have any suggestions
nothing to
propose you can say i have no ideas i
have no idea
so what do you want to do this weekend i
have no ideas
or what do you want to eat for lunch i
have no ideas really
so if you don't have any ideas nothing
to propose you can use this with an s
at the end of ideas in another sentence
something to do this weekend i have no
ideas
i don't know the next expression is i
don't know
i don't know so michael and i talked
about this in an episode of
english topics many years ago but i
don't know
is i don't know the casual contracted
version of i don't know
i don't know i don't know i don't know
so we use this when we
don't know the answer to something i
don't know or when we just want to kind
of like relieve
pressure or when we're when when we're
out of things to say
as well i don't know so when we're like
not feeling sure
not feeling confident as well we can use
this phrase
in a sentence why are you asking me i
don't know
i knew it the last expression is
i knew it i knew it so here we're using
the past
tense of no the verb to know something
meaning to understand or to comprehend
we're using the past tense new i knew it
so we used this expression when we
guessed correctly about something or
when
something we thought was true
is proven to be correct so i knew it
i knew it so this is typically said with
a positive
positive voice you hear this a lot in
movies as well i think
all right in a sentence you had my keys
i knew it so those are 10 words and
expressions that you can use for talking
about your thoughts
and ideas so i hope that's helpful if
you like you can try to make an
expression with one of these
in the comments section below the video
let us know if you have any other ideas
as well
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bye-bye hi everybody my name is alicia
and today i'm going to talk about the
correct use of the word
only let's take a look at a few examples
and see how moving
the word only around in a sentence can
change the meaning of the sentence
all right let's begin first i want to
define the word only and how i'm going
to use it for this lesson
the word only for this lesson we're
going to look at it as an adverb so
an adverb which means a single case or a
single
instance of something so there's nothing
uh different
nothing more nothing less there's just
this one thing this one
case of something but i want to focus
for this lesson on the importance of the
position
of only in a sentence so
one key to keep in mind when you use the
word only and this is a point for native
speakers and for
non-native speakers we need to place the
word only as close as possible to the
word
or to the phrase that it modifies and by
modifies i mean
only is connected to that phrase only is
changing that phrase in some way
and when i say places and place it as
close as possible to that word i mean
before that word it needs to come before
the word it's changing before the word
it's modifying
so i want to show a few examples of how
to do this
but i'm going to move the word only
around in the same sentence so
let's take a look i'll show you what i
mean let's take a look at this
this sentence uh the base sentence here
is sarah saw michael at the park
a simple sentence so there are two
people involved one action
in this case the past tense saw and then
a location
at the park but i'm going to use the
word only here in a few
different positions to show how much it
can change the meaning of the sentence
depending on where we place it so the
first example here i have is
only sarah saw michael at the park here
the word only
comes before sarah so that means that
these two words are connected
only is modifying sarah in this case
this sentence therefore means that sarah
perhaps in a group of people or with
somebody else
sarah was the only person the single
person
who saw michael at the park maybe there
were other people in the group
she was with but she was the single
person the only person
who saw michael so only sarah saw
michael at the park that's the meaning
with the placement of only before sarah
here
let's look at the next sentence sarah
only saw michael at the park
so here only is coming before the word
saw so in this case it's modifying this
verb
saw this sentence therefore means that
sarah the only thing sarah did her only
action
was to see she only saw michael at the
park
meaning no other actions happened sarah
did not wave to michael sarah did not
greet michael sarah did not throw
something at michael
uh whatever there was no other action
the only action the single action the
sole action
was that she saw michael sarah only saw
michael at the part so the placement
before the verb gives us
this meaning let's look at one more
example
sarah saw only michael at the park here
only comes before michael in this case
so the connection the modification is
happening here
sarah saw only michael at the park means
she did not see any other people at the
park
so this could mean that there were no
other people
at the park or that maybe
she just she just didn't see anybody at
the park so
this sentence is a little bit tricky
it's a little hard to understand
exactly what the writer wants to say but
it could mean
that there were perhaps no people at the
park no
other people at the park that sarah saw
so she went to the park
she saw only michael there was only one
person a single person it was
michael that sarah saw so placing only
before
in this case michael gives us this
meaning
all right one more sentence sarah saw
michael
only at the park so here the word only
is coming before this phrase at the park
this location
in this case meaning that there was a
single place
where sarah saw michael so sarah did not
see michael at the supermarket she did
not see him at the store she did not see
him at school
she saw him only at the park so there's
a single location where she saw michael
so these four sentences show us how much
the meaning of a sentence can change
depending on our placement of the
of the word only so it's important to
keep in mind
another thing that i've done throughout
this lesson a little bit
is i've emphasized with my voice the
word that only is modifying
but i want to make one more point here
in speech
when it's actually speaking we can
stress words for emphasis and for
clarity to make it very clear
which word in the sentence we want to
emphasize which word we want only
to modify so for example i can say only
sarah
saw michael at the park or sarah only
saw michael at the park
so with your voice you have the ability
to emphasize certain words and certain
phrases
in the sentences however in
writing it's not possible to do this so
correct placement of the word only is
quite important
so i wanted to give you a few examples
and it's just something to think about
the next time you use the word only so
make sure
that you're placing the word only as
close as possible
to the word that it modifies so just
something to keep in mind all right so
that's it for this lesson
if you have any questions or comments
please feel free to let us know in the
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hi everybody my name is alicia today i'm
going to talk about how to use the word
almost i'm going to show a few different
example sentences
and give you a couple pointers some
things to watch out for when you're
using this word
so first let's look at the meaning of
the word
almost so almost is an adverb
it's a word that means nearly or not
quite or
not completely it can also mean similar
to something
but not exactly like something so i've
got a lot of example sentences here that
i hope to
talk about to kind of explain the use of
almost
before i do that though i want to
mention this point over here
almost comes before the word it modifies
so modifies means like almost is
attached you can think of it as being
attached to another word
and almost changes the meaning of that
word so
um using almost before another word or
before another phrase
adds this meaning of nearly or not quite
or not completely
to that word or to that phrase so let's
begin with that
and look at a few examples i almost
forgot my homework so here almost comes
before the verb
forgot in this case meaning i nearly
forgot my homework
so the word almost like i said almost
should come
before the word it modifies so here it's
modifying the word forgot so i nearly
forgot my homework i was very close to
forgetting my homework
another example he almost always calls
on his way
home so here it comes before the work
it comes before the word always in this
case
almost always meaning maybe like 95
percent of the time or 90 percent of the
time
so not always but merely very
nearly always calls on his way home is
the meaning of this sentence
okay let's look at another one maybe an
opposite meaning here
they almost never leave the house so
here we
we've got never as the word that almost
is modifying
so almost never means you can think of
it in terms of a percentage for example
like five percent of the time they leave
the house
very very close to zero but not
quite zero so almost never not quite
never but very near to never
the next one you're almost finished
you're almost finished so here almost is
modifying the word
finished so in other words you're nearly
finished in this case maybe you're
nearly finished with your job for the
day or you're nearly finished with
your homework for example you're almost
finished is the meaning here
let's look at the next sentence then so
the next sentence is we're almost
home we're almost home in this case
almost is modifying the word home
home in this case means uh at your
place of residence so to be in a status
and a status of being
at your at your place yet you're
dwelling at your residence
so to be almost home means nearly at
your house
in other words so we can modify in this
way
similar to this negative i used up here
with never
we've got there's almost nothing left in
the refrigerator
so again almost nothing in this case so
very nearly no things very nearly maybe
nothing to eat or no
food in the refrigerator so this
sentence means
there's something in the refrigerator a
few things maybe
but almost nothing so very little of
something
okay the next sentence shows another
point that i want to make about the
placement of the word almost
i mentioned in these initial example
sentences
that the word almost comes before the
word it modifies
as we've seen so far however when you're
using the verb
to be and the variations of it like was
and were for example
almost comes after that verb so let's
look at an example of that
here we have here here i have uh he was
almost fired from his job so here is my
2b verb in this case using
was he was almost fired from his job so
here
almost follows the verb to be this is a
slight change
i'll show you one more example sentence
later so again let's go back to this
first pattern
almost no one came to her party so here
almost
begins the sentence it's modifying the
word no one
almost no one came to her party so
meaning very few people
came to her party lastly let's look at
one more
to be example here i was almost
late for the movie so again here's our
to be verb
i was and almost follows that to be verb
i was almost
late for the movie okay so these are
quite a few
examples of how we can use almost
i want to talk a little bit about some
other ways to use
almost we use almost with time and
quantity expressions
so in these cases we use the word almost
before the time or before the quantity
let's look at some examples
for example we've been waiting almost
two hours so here
two hours is a length of time we use
almost before that so
nearly two hours not quite two hours but
nearly two hours
the next example i've lived here for
almost five years so that doesn't mean
five years exactly but very nearly five
years
same thing here he said they were almost
i'm sorry he said there were
almost five thousand people so almost
five thousand
not quite maybe like four thousand nine
hundred for example
very nearly five thousand again the
recipe made
almost 200 cookies so again not quite
is the meaning here so all of these kind
of um
we use this when it maybe it's easier to
round up
to use like the next easily recognizable
number
like it might sound strange in the last
example to say the recipe made 498
cookies
it sounds very very specific and it also
sounds like maybe the speaker
counted each individual cookie so
sometimes that's really
not reasonable or it might just sound a
little bit strange
so um or also it's just sometimes not
possible to count
exactly how many people or how many of
something we're in a situation
but using almost we can make a guess
sometimes
so this is quite a useful thing for time
and quantity expressions
okay so as we've seen so far in this
lesson
we can use always with words like always
and never i used it over here for
example heat almost
always and they almost never so just
keep in mind that these have very very
different meanings kind of opposite
meanings so
i almost always means very nearly always
and almost never means very nearly never
but not quite
same thing with um all or nothing or no
so i used an example here there's almost
nothing for example
so here it means very close to zero if i
used almost
all like almost all the people were
happy it means very nearly
everybody as well so you can kind of see
a pattern here and the same one
is we can see here at the end everyone
and no one
it's like extreme so um like 100
versus zero percent of something so all
or nothing
everyone or no one we can use almost to
show
that we are very near to these levels
but not
quite at these levels the last thing i
want to mention in this lesson
is a word of caution just be careful
about where you place
almost in a sentence because it can
really affect the meaning of the
sentence
so here let's look at two very similar
sentences
one he almost told his boss all the
secrets
and two he told his boss almost all the
secrets
these are very different sentences but
they seem very similar
here i've used almost before the verb
told
so almost is modifying the word told
here
he almost told his boss all the secrets
meaning he
very nearly told his boss all the
secrets
but he did not he did not so
here almost modifies this verb told
meaning the action itself he almost did
this action
but he did not do the action in this
sentence however
he told his boss almost all the secrets
almost because of its positioning is
modifying the word
all he told his boss almost all the
secrets
meaning he told his boss very nearly
everything all of the secrets so maybe
like 95
90 to 95 percent of the secrets he told
his boss
so the action happened he did tell his
boss
but he didn't tell everything in this
case
so please keep this in mind your
placement the place in the sentence
where you use the word
almost can create very very different
meanings
so remember this point here almost
should come before the word it modifies
so when you're writing and when you're
speaking you should think carefully
about this
also remember when you're using the verb
to be almost should come
after that verb finally when you're
speaking as i am right now we
do have the ability to use our voices we
can emphasize
keywords we can stress them with our
voices to make it clear which word we
want to emphasize
however we can't really do that in
writing so it's really important
to consider to think about where we
place the word
almost when we're writing so i hope that
this lesson was useful for you
if you have any questions or any
comments please feel free to let us know
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hi everybody my name is alicia today i'm
going to talk about the difference
between
which and that which and that are both
relative
pronouns but a lot of people confuse the
two
so let's talk about how to use them okay
first a quick overview which
first we use which in what are called
non-restrictive relative clauses
we use that on the other hand in
restrictive
relative clauses so before we continue
let's talk about the difference between
non-restrictive clauses and restrictive
clauses
the difference here a non-restrictive
clause first of all where we use
which is a clause that does not have
information
essential to understanding the noun it
is connected to i'll show you some
examples in just a minute
a restrictive clause however is a clause
that has information
essential to our understanding of that
noun
so we need the information in the
restrictive clause
to completely understand the noun or the
noun phrase it is attached to
a non-restrictive clause is sort of
extra information
we don't need the information to
understand the noun or the noun phrase
it just provides some more information
so let's take a look at a few examples
of this the first example i have is
rather extreme
but it's just to show the differences
between these two
first the school that i parked my car
next to
is dangerous so here my noun is school
here i've got the relative pronoun that
i have the school that i parked my car
next to
is dangerous i've used that here because
my clause is a restrictive clause i need
this information the school that i
parked my car
next to is dangerous if i remove this
the school is dangerous the sentence is
correct
however the meaning changes uh
the key here is that i parked my car
there so i want to
explain that specifically the school
that i parked my car
next to this school in particular is
dangerous
so that shows us that it's a restrictive
clause we have to use that in this
sentence because the information
is essential to our understanding
in this sentence however the school
which has a tennis court
is dangerous i've used which so which
is a non-restrictive is used in
non-restrictive clauses
this shows us it is extra information
the school
has a tennis court do i need to know
this information
no it's just extra information if i
remove this clause
the school is dangerous the root
sentence the basic
sentence stays the same this is just
extra information
it doesn't necessarily tell us uh
essential information
about the situation so we use which to
show that it's a
non-restrictive relative clause as i
said this is a rather extreme
example so let's take a look at
something that's a little bit more
complex okay let's look at the next two
sentences
first the car which i bought last year
is already having trouble and
the car that i bought last year is
already having trouble
these are very similar sounding
sentences however
our choice of which or that as well as
the commas which i'll talk about later
have changed the meaning so there are a
couple key differences here
one by seeing that in the first sentence
that we're using a non-restrictive
clause here with which
we see the car which i bought last year
this shows us that this is extra
information about the car here however
we see that this is essential
information the car that i bought last
year is already having trouble
so the speaker could be saying here with
this sentence the second sentence
the car that i bought last year
specifically a car that the speaker
purchased the previous year
this sentence means therefore the
speaker might have
other cars the speaker is specifically
meaning this
specific car that they he or she bought
last year
in this sentence with the
non-restrictive clause we don't have the
same nuance
the car which i bought last year is just
extra information in this sentence
so here the car that i bought last year
this is indicating a specific car
this one with the non-restrictive claws
it's just giving us extra information
so the speaker may or may not have
another car
we don't know so that's all i want to
say about that okay
but a question that many people have is
how do you know whether it's a
restrictive or a non-restrictive clause
so this is a quick tip
a quick hint uh for native speakers and
non-native speakers actually is it
restrictive non-restrictive how do i
know
to do that remove the clause just take
the clause out of the sentence
is the meaning of the sentence the same
is the sentence still grammatically
correct is it okay
if yes if the sentence is okay the
meaning is the same
it's a non-restrictive clause if no if
the meaning changes if you lose some key
information
it is a restrictive clause so this is a
quick hint
if you're not sure whether to use which
or whether to use that
try this test this quick test just take
it out and see if the meaning
changes the last thing i want to talk
about here
is the use of commas so you'll notice i
used commas
throughout this lesson and also when i
was reading they kind of create a
natural pause around this extra
information
but when do you use them we should use
commas
around non-restrictive clauses so you
can see
i used them here
and here in the example sentences we use
commas around non-restrictive clauses
only
again this lesson comma which is being
recorded
comma is about which and that so
when you're reading it creates a natural
pause so the reader knows there's going
to be like
extra information there the reader can
understand through use of these commas
however do not use commas around
restrictive clauses for example
the lesson that i just taught was about
how to use which
and that this is a restrictive clause so
i
mean specifically this lesson that i
just taught
was about how to use which and that i
should not include commas here
because i'm not including any extra
information all of the information is
essential
it's the same with all of the other
example sentences i used in this lesson
there are no commas included
because all of the information is
essential the reader needs to understand
everything in one piece you can think of
it that way
okay so that's an overview of the
differences between
which and that restrictive clauses as
well and
a couple of comma tips too so i hope
that this was a useful lesson for you
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ten 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 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
uh 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 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
[Laughter]
so 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 um yeah 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
the next expression here is according to
according to
is used 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 and 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
is there any dairy in this dish is there
any dairy in this dish
this is something you would say if you
have a dairy allergy
a dairy intolerance or you just don't
like dairy
you're asking the waiter about the
ingredients in a particular dish
i do this all the time is there any
cheese in this
no okay and if there is an ingredient
that you don't want
for example onions you could say are
there any onions in this
and the waiter might say yes and if you
don't want it you could always request
could you leave out the onions could you
prepare it without the onions please
can we get separate chex can we get
separate chex
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 kick
off the first word is kick off kick
off to kick off means to start something
it usually has the nuance of something
big like a big project like
we're going to kick off a new project
next year or let's kick off this new
policy
in january or what time should we kick
off the party
as well we can use it for parties too uh
but for
business it means to start a project to
start something new
and it sounds like the beginning to
something big
so kick off to kick off something means
to start
something set out
the next phrasal verb is set out set out
means decide or determine or choose
something
so we usually use set out to mean to
decide
something within a project for example
we need to set
out some guidelines for this project or
we need to set out some rules for
dress code in the company or what do you
think about
setting out some new guidelines
for company parties for example so set
out means to decide
something and determine something
usually like a policy
rule guideline check in
the next phrasal verb is check in so
check in means update
or give a status report to share new
information
check in about something we usually say
to check
in about blah blah blah so for example
what time should we check in about the
project or do you have time to check in
about this later
or when can i check in with you we can
also use it
to refer to a person so can i check in
with you
about this later or will you check in
with me later
we usually say check in with please be
careful this is different
from check-in to a hotel totally
different meaning
here at work check in with someone or
check in
about something so check in with someone
means to give
someone an update to share new
information with them
check in about means to share new
information
probably with someone like in a meeting
about a specific project so you can use
check in with or check in
about something go through
go over the next one is go through or
go over we can use go through or go over
these both mean
to review something like i want to go
through your essay with you or i want to
go over
the latest draft with you i want to go
through our new policies with everyone
in the company
i want to go over some changes that are
going to happen
so it means review usually like review
plus maybe explain it means to do this
in detail usually too so introduce some
new ideas
review some old ideas perhaps and have a
chance to discuss things so to go
through or to go
over is sort of to examine to review
to look at some information with
somebody
so we can also say i want to go over
this
with you later or can we go through this
together
later so it means to look in detail to
examine something
clock in clock out the next
pair of expressions really is clock in
and clock
out clock in is to check in
at your office to clock in means to
begin your work day
officially to register the time you
begin work
and to clock out is the opposite to
register the time when you
leave work when you finish work for the
day so when you
maybe depending on your office you have
to clock in
in other words register or record the
time you begin work or arrive at your
office
and clock out so record the time you
leave your office
so in a sentence we could say i always
forget to clock in
to work or what time did i clock out
yesterday i totally forgot
or it's important to clock in and clock
out at the same time every day
start up okay so the next phrasal verb
is start
up start up means begin to begin
something
please be cautious start up something
like start up a new policy or start up
a new project means to begin a new
project however
you may see the noun expression no space
between start and
up startup maybe you can hear the slight
difference in pronunciation
when i say the phrasal verb start up
there's a disconnect between the words
like we need to start up a new project
for example however startup is a little
bit different startup as a noun
means a usually small new company
it's big in the news these days startups
so startup companies are very small
companies they are just
beginning that's the nuance of a startup
company that's the noun phrase a startup
however to start up something sounds a
little bit different like we should
start up some new projects this year
it's more used for like policies
projects uh maybe a new product launch
um we should start up some new things
for example but it means
to begin to begin something call back
the next phrasal verb is call back call
back
call back means to return a phone call
to return a phone call is
call back so some common examples are
just
i'll call you back later or please call
me back when you have time
um you can separate a call and back like
i just said please call
me back when you have time you can
separate the person receiving the call
you can separate call
and back and put the person receiving
the call
between call and back so please call
me back when you have time or i'll call
you
back so this person between call and
back
is the person receiving the call so uh
you should call her back later or
why don't you call your mother back
tonight for example
you can separate these two that's fine
uh one more example sentence would be i
need to call my clients back this
afternoon
send over the next expression is
send over send over means to email
or to physically mail something to send
over it means to send to
someone else's office or to send to
someone else's computer
send it over there is the idea sending
it away from you
over to a different building or to a
different department
please send this over when you have a
chance so again just as with callback
we can use the expression send over
separately we can separate these two
words uh please send
this over please send the files over
please send the documents over
or please send over the documents both
are fine we can use both of them here
so send over just means mail or send
something
in another example sentence hey can you
send over the updated files
clean up clean out the next phrasal verb
is really a pair
it's clean up or clean out we can use
clean up and clean out these are a
little bit different but i put them
together
because they both use the word clean so
to clean up
something means to tidy or to make it
nice again to clean up something like
you need to clean up your house we can
also use this at home
meaning like to wash windows or to to
wash
dishes or to to make something tidy and
clean to get rid of germs to keep germs
away
to clean up your house to clean up your
office to clean up your desk
there's a similar phrasal verb however
clean out
to clean out means to remove
everything from some location so if i
say
i'm cleaning out my desk it has the
nuance of i'm removing
everything from my desk maybe i'm
leaving my job
for example maybe i've quit or maybe my
desk just has a lot of things i don't
need
but clean out has the nuance of removing
a lot of things
we can also use this phrasal verb at
home like
clean out your closet i'm cleaning out
my closet so
cleaning out my closet in that case it
means removing
everything from your closet the same
nuance applies to your
desk so to clean out your desk at work
means to remove
everything you can also use this for the
refrigerator like i need to clean out
the refrigerator it smells really bad
so meaning take everything out clean it
and maybe put some things back
so clean up is just too tidy clean out
is like a deep clean of something
make up for the next phrasal verb is
make up make up usually make up for
please be careful not
makeup as in like things that we put on
our face to change our appearance makeup
but make up for something so to make
up for means to compensate to compensate
so if there's been a problem in a
project for example like a
delay or a schedule change or some
some unexpected thing happens and you
need to
compensate for that you need to make
some changes
to fix that problem you can use the
phrasal verb
make up for so for example our project
was delayed because
our president got sick for example we
need to make
up for lost time so we follow
make up for with the item uh that is the
problem
so in my example sentence we need to
make up for lost
time lost time is the problem we lost
time it should be a noun phrase we lost
time on the project we need to
compensate for it so we need to make up
for
lost time or we need to make up for the
mistake that we made last week or
we need to make up for lost sales last
quarter for example
angry first is the word angry
angry so angry is the most basic word
you can use i
feel angry she is angry he is angry
it's the basic level of a negative and
slightly
aggressive feeling my dog looks angry my
boss was
angry um we use it to talk about that
feeling so in a sentence
my mother was really angry with me
furious next is furious
furious so furious means very angry
so instead of saying i'm very angry you
can say i'm
furious this sounds much stronger it's
one word it means
very angry but it sounds like much
stronger than just
very angry so angry is aggressive and
negative
furious is like the next level or maybe
two levels up so like my boss was
furious at the team for their mistake or
my neighbors were
furious with me for my huge pool party
last night
or i was furious with my brother for
locking me out of the house
for example uh one more my teacher is
furious with us today mad
the next word is mad mad mad is like
going back down to that sort of basic
level
angry and mad or pretty much the same
thing mad
sounds like a word a little kid would
use though like i'm so
mad right now or i'm so mad i can't do
this or
it's like it's it's like unhappy with a
little bit of aggressive so it means
angry really but
um a lot of adults don't really use the
word mad
it sounds more childish the word mad
does like i'm really mad right now
um or i'm mad at you or she's mad at him
or something like that it sounds a
little bit childish the word
mad so another example sentence i'm so
mad i lost my keys
upset the next word is upset
upset this is a really useful word we
can use it to mean
angry yes but upset means just
that you are different from the regular
like your regular personality your
regular
level of emotion like your calm state
if you feel disappointed or you feel sad
or you feel angry
you can use the word upset to describe
that it means you're just
not in the right place you're not quite
in balance
upset so we can use the word upset
actually as a verb it's kind of an old
meaning but like if i use my water
bottle my thermos whatever
as an example the verb upset means to
move
something from its correct position like
so in my case i could say like i
upset my water bottle when i moved my
arm so i
moved it from its correct position we
can use the word
as an adjective then too i'm upset
meaning my emotions
have been moved from their original or
their correct position
so we can use it to mean angry too like
i'm so upset with my boss right now or
i'm so upset with
myself as well so we usually say like
i'm upset
with something or someone in another
example sentence
i'm really upset pissed off
okay warning next one is a little bit
rude a little bit rude
but you might hear it in uh in british
english and you'll hear it in american
english as well
um it's it's sort of light on the scale
of rude words but
um the expression is pissed off pissed
off
so to say i'm really pissed off it's a
casual word
but it's uh it's considered a rude word
i would say it's considered a curse word
in some families
um so uh to mean i'm pissed off is like
it's usually for um a fairly
small thing that creates a lot of anger
so maybe if for example someone in your
team or
one of your friends makes a really
really silly mistake or
just just there's no reason for this
mistake but it creates a huge
problem you might say ah i'm so pissed
off at that person right now or i'm just
so pissed off my feeling is that
so it's typically not for
a really really serious problem i
suppose you could use it in that way
but it usually has this like a very
casual
slangy rough feeling about it so do not
use this at work
don't use this with people that you
respect it is not a polite phrase but
you might hear it actually in
tv shows and in movies and in other
media
pissed off i'm really pissed off right
now so please be careful
that's what it means in a sentence
sounds like the neighbor is really
pissed off
seething with rage next expression is
seething with rage seething with rage so
i included a rather formal
kind of like spooky sort of a little bit
scary expression here
so like seething it sounds like your
whole body is just
filled it's like it's all your body is
almost moving because of
how angry you are so rage is a noun
rage means a very very high level of
anger so we talked about the word
furious near the beginning of this
lesson furious is an adjective
rage is a noun so anger is like an
aggressive
unhappy feeling anger as a noun rage is
like a few levels
up there so seething your body is
seething with rage it's like your body
is shaking it's like your body is almost
moving out of control because you are
so angry so this is a really serious
issue
this is a serious level um seething with
rage
however this is not an expression that's
commonly used in
speech we would use this in writing more
often than not you might hear this in
writing or perhaps
in maybe formal expressions i don't
think i've ever used this expression
myself to talk about my experience or my
feelings
but perhaps i could talk about it if
maybe maybe i see a fight happen for
example
i could say whoa that guy is like those
guys were like seething with rage for
example
so i don't know to me it sounds a little
bit too formal to use for everyday
conversations but if you
if you're writing a story for example or
you're reading a story
and you want to really communicate a
strong level of anger you can say
seething with rage in a sentence that
guy at the bar was seething with rage he
was scary
okay next one livid
the next word is livid livid livid
is an adjective i am livid right now so
livid means angry uh but i think
livid is like between angry and furious
so livid to me has the impression of
maybe like
extremely angry and maybe you'll you'll
shout
and or like your voice the volume of
your voice will pick up like just live
it
um about something so yeah
very angry about a mistake about
something bad that happened
um so it's i don't think it's quite at
the level of
furious uh maybe it's just a little bit
below furious but
um like my boss was livid when he saw
the reports
from last month for example so like
maybe
shouting or screaming or something like
that so it's not
in my head anyway the image is that
there's like a high volume reaction
um someone who is livid maybe has a very
loud voice
in that case in another sentence some
guy at the station was livid over a
ticket charge
lose one's temper okay the next
expression
is kind of a set expression um to lose
one's temper to lose your temper
so temper is like think of temper as
your anger
control your anger control so for you to
lose
your temper it means you lose control of
your anger
and you begin to shout or scream or cry
maybe
to lose your temper is to lose control
of your angry
feelings so this is a very common
expression like my boss lost his temper
with the management yesterday
or my mom lost her temper when the dog
ran into the house with
dirty feet or i don't know i lost my
temper when my computer wouldn't start
this morning for example
so you lose control of your anger in
another sentence
she lost her temper when her computer
crashed and her work disappeared
go off on someone the next expression is
go off on someone to go off on someone
this is a very casual expression very
casual that we use in american english
in past tense we'll say he went off or
she went off
on someone so to go off
the idea is like you can maybe think of
it as go off
like a bomb uh if it helps like
like a bomb could go off like a bomb
could explode
so to go off on someone is like to lose
your temper
at someone um so it's losing your temper
at the direction or in the direction of
some person
but we use the expression on that person
so my boss
went off on me today for all of my
mistakes
over the last month i don't know that's
not true or like
my neighbor went off on the delivery guy
for
being three hours late um i don't know
uh something that causes another person
they lose their temper
at someone or something in another
sentence
my boss went off on one of my co-workers
this afternoon
have a heated argument the last
expression is
have a heated argument have a heated
argument so here the word
heated is in there heated like hot so
meaning hot like aggressive so a high
level maybe like a high temperature
argument so to have an argument and to
have a heated argument
are similar heated just sounds like it's
there's a little more
intensity in the argument so you can
have an argument or you can have a
discussion whatever argument sounds
stronger than discussion
heated argument therefore is perhaps the
next level
of that kind of discussion or argument
so um
the neighbors are having a heated
argument over there or i heard my boss
and the ceo having a heated argument in
the conference room
one more sentence i got into a heated
argument with one of my friends
rhee the first prefix is re
re r e re means again
so we see the word re in like redo
or replay or reimagine
or recreate for example so it means to
do
the base word again so whatever you see
re in front of or not everything but
if you see re before a base word like
that it can mean
to do that thing again so in a sentence
i have to redo my homework
auntie the next prefix is auntie
auntie or you might hear anti as well
auntie or anti
both are fine um but it means against
or in opposition to or like kind of the
opposite
of something so against against anti so
we see this in like um
antifreeze or or
anti-inflammatory or antibiotics so they
all mean against
something so like the word antifreeze
for example means like against
freezing so it's a it's antifreeze is a
product
that prevents a liquid from freezing for
example
an antibiotic is a medicine that we take
to kill like bad microorganisms in our
body germs in other words so we see
bio in that word so relating to like
biology
antisocial refers to someone who does
not like social situations they are
against
social situations an anti-inflammatory
another type of medicine is against
inflammation so inflammation can mean
like swelling or like turning you red
for example so
anti means against something we see anti
before words which mean like
opposing or against that thing in a
sentence
my boss is anti overtime
so the next prefix is dis dis so dis
essentially this means
not so we see this in words like
disrespect or disapprove
or disconnect or like disagree for
example
so these words all mean not plus the
base word so like disagree for example
means to
not agree or disconnect means to not
connect so something is not connected to
the other thing
disrespect means to not respect
something for example so
dis means not plus that base word in a
sentence
a good editor should be disinterested
x the next prefix is x
x x means former former so
something that was once true is not true
anymore
we see this very commonly in
relationships so for example
my ex-husband ex-wife ex-girlfriend
ex-boyfriend
ex-boss so all of these mean my former
something my former boyfriend my former
girlfriend my former boss my former
roommate for example
in a sentence the ex-ceo was in the news
this week
mid the next prefix is mid
mid so mid means like in the middle of
or
during something so we can see this in a
word like uh
midnight or mid-summer for example or
mid-morning so
meaning in the middle of or roughly in
the middle of something
during that time period midnight means
in the middle of the night or
mid-morning it's like in the middle of
the morning
so all of these refer to mid something
we can also use it for like an action
like mid-meal for example or
she was uh mid-presentation when the
phone rang for example so
mid means in the middle of something in
a sentence
i was mid-breakfast when i heard the
news
ill the next one is ill
ill so ill means again not or it's like
a negative prefix
it means the base word but not
that base word so we see this in words
like illogical
or illegible or illegal for example so
these all mean not plus the base word so
illogical means not
logical ill legible illegible means
unable to read legible means readable
illegible means cannot read that thing
unable to read that illegal means not
legal in other words so an action that
is against the law
so ill means not in a sentence
highly illogical captain that's a star
trek reference
the next prefix is
also means not it means not words that
fit this pattern for example
could be impossible or impeccable
or improbable or imperfect for example
so again it means
not so imperfect means not perfect
uh impossible means not possible
so im means not it means not in a
sentence
this is impossible in
the next prefix is in in so again
in also means not it's a negative prefix
that we use
there are a lot of words that start with
this in meaning not so like
inconsiderate incapable inconceivable
um inappropriate so they all mean not
plus the base word for example like the
word
inappropriate means not appropriate so
behavior that is not appropriate
in a certain situation or incapable
means
not capable someone cannot do something
they are expected to do
so in means not plus our
base meaning the opposite then of that
meaning in a sentence
he's incapable of running the country
ear the next prefix is ear
ear so the pronunciation is ear even
though it's
ir ear for example we see this in like
irresponsible
or irredeemable or irregular so again
this means
not something so irresponsible means not
responsible
irregular not regular irredeemable
is something that cannot be made up we
cannot redeem
that thing so ear is another negative
prefix meaning
not or no in a sentence your behavior
was irresponsible
none the next prefix is
non-non-n-o-n so n-o-n is a prefix again
it means
not or against or like i shouldn't say
against
so non also means not something uh
so for example we see it in a word like
nonsense or like
non-sequential or non-sequitur
so these are words that all mean like
not
something so for example non-sense means
no
sense essentially not sense uh
non-sequitur so
sequitur the base there is like think of
the word
sequence we see that same sort of base
in sequence
as we see in non-sequitur and that
actually comes from the latin meaning
like to follow something so it
non-sequitur means like it does not
follow so a
non-sequitur means something that just
it's not part of the conversation it's
like a random comment
is a non-sequitur so it does not follow
non-sequitur is one so non means
not or no in a sentence this is nonsense
break fracture the first word
is break or fracture so these two
verbs are used interchangeably actually
they both refer to a broken bone or a
fractured bone so
two pieces of bone become separated or a
bone becomes
broken so fractured it comes apart
so to break a bone in present tense is i
broke a bone
in past tense fracture is a regular verb
which means the past tense is
fractured so in a sentence i broke my
wrist when i fell snowboarding
that's true that's true i broke my wrist
when i fell snowboarding
and that inspired today's lesson
spraying the next word is spraying
spraying to spraying something refers
to a refers to hurting or to injuring a
ligament
so a ligament are these sort of like
fibrous
things like kind of uh they connect
they're the parts of the body
inside your body they connect bones
to muscles or bones to or to like
organs they hold the parts of the body
together inside so a sprain
is damaged to a ligament a sprain
so we can say for example to sprain
a part of the body a specific part of
the body
um some common examples come from sports
injuries like
he sprained his ankle playing basketball
last week
or i sprained my wrist uh
working in the garden or something i
don't know but i think a sprain happens
when you push the like the joint or you
push that part of the body
beyond the possible or the reasonable
range of motion so my example sentence i
already said it but
he sprained his ankle at the basketball
game last week
bruise the next word is bruise bruise so
a bruise refers to taking like a
taking an impact something that's not a
sharp
impact it's usually like a blunt impact
i suppose
i don't know kind of depends but anyway
a bruise we can use it as a noun
or as a verb actually to bruise
something
means you damage usually like uh this
the
a certain area of skin and blood
collects under the skin creating like a
black or
blue or maybe even like greenish color
purple maybe
to use it as a noun we can say that that
spot is a bruise we refer to that
damaged area as a bruise
to use it as a verb however we can say i
bruised my arm or i bruised my leg
so to bruise something means to cause
damage but it's like
under the skin we can see the color
change
because of the damage the blood
collecting there so that's
to bruise something in a sentence i
bruised my
arm when i ran into the door cut
the next word is cut cut so cut is done
with a
sharp object a cut a cut refers to
an injury which causes blood
to emerge usually unless it's a very
shallow cut shallow is the opposite of
deep
so a cut is caused by a sharp object
so a knife is probably the most common
thing that comes to mind
when talking about cuts though another
very common
type of cut is is called a paper cut as
a noun so
if you've ever tried to take a piece of
paper
and the piece of paper has kind of
made a small cut on your hand that's
called a
paper cut a paper cut so it's that kind
of
slice motion that injures the body
is a cut alright in a sentence be
careful not to cut yourself
when using a knife wound
the next word is wound wound so a wound
is just a
place of injury on the body um we have
a couple of different words we can use
to be specific
about wounds they're like an open wound
and a closed wound i suppose you could
say but
usually people say things like don't
touch open
wounds so an open wound is usually like
a fresh
wound so something has been recently
damaged on the body recently injured
and the wound is fresh maybe we can see
blood or maybe we can see
into the body or something that's
considered an
open wound so a closed wound would be
perhaps
a wound which has been fixed by a doctor
or for small wounds like
maybe the body has created a new layer
over the top of the wound that's called
a scab you
you scabs you but that's that's not an
open wound then but we should still care
for it so a
wound is a place on the body that is
injured in some way a wound
um that's used as a noun we can also use
wound as a verb
which means um to hurt something
like um i wounded my arm but
wound is not so common i think in
everyday speech instead we use the verb
hurt i hurt my arm but i'll talk more
about this later
so in a sentence don't touch open wounds
injure
the next word is injure injure so i've
been talking a little bit about the word
injure to injure means to hurt a part of
the body
so to injure your arm to injure your
head to injure your neck
these mean to take damage on
that part of the body to injure
something
so it's typically a bad thing to injure
something
uh the noun form of this word is injury
injury so i have an injury we use this
word more with
uh like perhaps sports i guess military
yeah i guess so
um but for every day like just small
i don't know for small injuries i
suppose like paper cuts for example or
like maybe a cooking
accident um i suppose we don't really
say injury we will say we'll use the
verb
um hurt actually again i'll talk about
that word a little later but
injury injury is damaged taking damage
to a part of the body
in a sentence she injured her shoulder
this morning
tear the next word is tear
tear be careful this word is spelled
t-e-a-r
it looks like tear but used as a verb it
is tear
tear to talk about an injury so a tear
if you can imagine like a piece of paper
when we want to separate it into two
pieces we can
tear the piece of paper now imagine that
same
idea but with a muscle in the body
so a muscle tear refers to that kind of
damage
to the muscle so quite painful i think
you can imagine so
to tear a muscle uh requires yeah some
serious recovery time i imagine i have
never torn a muscle yeah that's a good
point
the past participle form is torn
torn have you ever torn a muscle uh or
in the past tense the past tense is tor
i tore
my shoulder muscle last week i don't
know
awful awful in a sentence tearing a
muscle is painful
pull pull pull so we use
pull again with muscles but this is
different from
tear so tetera muscle refers to this
kind of
break motion so to pull a muscle means
to stretch a muscle
too much so it's the muscle is like just
taken beyond
uh its limits essentially and so it kind
of causes some discomfort there's kind
of a bad feeling in the muscle
uh in a sentence i think i pulled a
muscle ouch
dislocate dislocate dislocate so here we
see
the word locate referring to location
and dis dis which means not in other
words so
to dislocate something refers to
removing a part of the body from its
correct
position and shifting it slightly so
this is something that you hear
with joints so a joint is a part of the
body where
two things come together so for example
a shoulder we can talk about the
shoulder and dislocate together
so if we say a sentence like i think i
dislocated my shoulder
maybe the correct position of part of
the shoulder is to fit into
another bone like this but maybe
dislocating the shoulder means like it
moved this way
or i don't know how to dislocate a
shoulder but either way the correct
position is here
the dislocated position is maybe here or
here
i don't know so the bone is not broken
there's no
crack there's no break there it's just a
shift in position
so the word we use is to dislocate
something
in a sentence he dislocated his shoulder
and
popped it back into place
hurt hurt to hurt something i've talked
about this verb a few times already in
this lesson
but to hurt means to injure or to wound
it's like the very
general verb that we can use to describe
all damage to the body so hurt generally
means kind of a small injury like
ah i hurt my finger i slammed it in the
door
or i think i hurt my arm playing tennis
last week
we usually use this for kind of minor
injuries not such
big injuries so in this case for example
if i say i hurt my wrist
it sounds a little too minor actually
this is probably a more severe injury
i would probably say yeah i i broke my
wrist i would use something very
specific
instead of hurt to prefer more generally
to just small
everyday damage to the body you can say
hurt
um we also use this word to refer to
pain in the body too like ow my
arm hurts ow my wrist hurts
instead of saying painful we use the
verb
hertz more often so it's less natural to
say
my wrist is so painful instead we say
my wrist hurts it hurts is better than
painful so try that out in a sentence
i hurt myself a lot on accident i have
an idea
the first expression is i have an idea
i have an idea this is a really general
expression
you can use to introduce a new idea
this is pretty casual but you can use it
in slightly more formal situations as
well
i have an idea let's get thai food for
lunch or
i have an idea let's go to the beach
this weekend
i have an idea let's take a nap
in this example sentence i have an idea
let's start a company
i've been thinking the next expression
is
i've been thinking i've been thinking
you can use this to say i've been
thinking
and then begin an idea or you can say
i've been thinking about topic
i've been thinking about topics so i've
been thinking about finding a new job or
i've been thinking what do you want to
do for summer vacation
so you can use it in a couple of
different ways i've been thinking about
or i've been thinking
both are okay so in this sentence i've
been thinking about baking a cake
all day here's a thought
the next word is here's a thought here's
a thought so again this is a word you
can use to introduce an idea
here is a thought in other words here is
an idea
a thought from my mind here you are
here's a thought
so you can use this to introduce an idea
you have had
here's a thought why don't you get a
haircut
in this example sentence here's a
thought why don't you take tomorrow
off what do you think
the next expression is what do you think
what do you think
very common way to ask for someone's
opinion
what do you think we connect the words
do
and you quite closely in this expression
what do you think what do you think
sounds much more natural than
what do you think so try to use what do
you think
so this is uh this is just a general way
to
ask for someone else's opinion about
anything
really in a sentence i kind of want to
eat something spicy for lunch
what do you think you want to know what
i think
the next expression is you want to know
what i think
so this is sort of a like a challenge
almost like it's asking the other person
do you want to know my opinion do you
want to know what i think
because i'll tell you only if you want
to know
so you want to know what i think or you
can drop
wanna and say you know what i think so
that
you becomes ya you know what i think you
know becomes you know
so you know what i think or you want to
know what i think so it's a little bit
of a challenge a little bit of an
introduction before you actually share
your opinion
in a sentence you want to know what i
think
it's a terrible idea i've thought about
this a lot
the next expression is i've thought
about this a lot
i've thought about this a lot in this
expression we're actually using the
present perfect tense
i've thought i've thought so that's i
have thought about this meaning i
started thinking about this in the past
and my thinking has continued to the
present
i've thought about this a lot so this
implies
this tells the listener it's something
that has been on your mind for a while
i've thought about this a lot
so your opinion is based on
all of this past thinking so something
you have been thinking about
for a long time in a sentence i've
thought about this a lot
and i really think you should quit the
company
i have no idea i have
no idea i have no idea means i don't
know
but i have no idea means zero i have no
information no ideas i can't think of
anything
absolutely nothing no idea i have no
idea
so this is typically used in response
to a question for information like
where's your brother
i have no idea like
what did you do with the keys i have no
idea
so some things like you just you have no
information
absolutely no information you can say i
have no idea
i don't know please note though that the
idea part of the sentence is in the
singular form
i have no idea we'll talk about why in
just a moment but i have no idea to
refer to having
no information about something in
another sentence
the best hotel in the city i have no
idea
i have no ideas the next expression is
i have no ideas i have no ideas so
here different from i have no idea
we're using the plural form ideas
ideas meaning someone is asking you for
a proposal
someone is asking you like to create
something to
make something perhaps so they're asking
for a suggestion
and if you don't have any suggestions
nothing to propose you can say
i have no ideas i have no idea so what
do you want to do this weekend
i have no ideas or what do you want to
eat for lunch
i have no ideas really so if you don't
have
any ideas nothing to propose you can use
this with an
s at the end of ideas in another
sentence
something to do this weekend i have no
ideas
i don't know the next expression is i
don't know
i don't know so michael and i talked
about this in an episode of english
topics many years ago
but i don't know is i don't know the
casual contracted version of
i don't know i don't know i don't know i
don't know
so we use this when we don't know the
answer to something i don't know or when
we just want to kind of like relieve
pressure or when we're when when we're
out of things to say
as well i don't know so when we're like
not feeling sure
not feeling confident as well we can use
this phrase
in a sentence why are you asking me i
don't know
i knew it the last expression is
i knew it i knew it so here we're using
the past
tense of no the verb to know something
meaning to
understand or to comprehend we're using
the past tense
new i knew it so we use this expression
when we
guessed correctly about something or
when
something we thought was true
uh is proven to be correct so i
knew it i knew it so this is typically
said with a positive
a positive voice you hear this a lot in
movies as well i think
all right in a sentence you had my keys
i knew it
let's begin with the basic definition of
this verb the basic definition of the
verb to put
is to place something in a location
examples
put your bag over there don't put your
feet on the sofa
let's look at some conjugations for this
verb now present
put puts past put
past participle put progressive
pudding
let's talk about some additional
meanings for the verb to put
the first one is to write to write
examples
put your name on this line she put her
name on the list
so when we say put in this way we refer
to writing so you're adding some
information to a written document or a
typed document
as well so it can mean to write or like
to type information
so put your name on this line means like
write your name or
type your name on this line in the
second example sentence she put her name
on the list
it means the same thing she wrote her
name on a list or she added her name to
a list in some way
it means writing information okay let's
go on to the second additional meaning
the second additional meaning is to use
words to express
something to use words to express
something examples
how should i put this you're putting it
quite simply
so we can replace the word put with
express
like how should i express this in the
first example sentence but we use
put because put sounds much less formal
than express
how should i express this it sounds way
too formal way too polite
instead we say how should i put this we
use that
expression when we're not quite sure how
to say
something like we're maybe talking about
a sensitive topic and we don't know the
correct words to use or
it's difficult to explain you can say
how should i put this
in the second example sentence you're
putting it quite simply
it means you're expressing things quite
simply so maybe it's a complex situation
but the listener
is explaining things or expressing
things uh maybe too simply
so the speaker in this case could say
you're putting it quite simply
okay let's go on to the third meaning
the third meaning is rather open and
kind of vague which is to cause to be
in a situation to cause to be in a
situation let's look at some examples
this change puts the whole company at
risk
your terrible driving puts us all in
danger
so in these examples we see put is used
to refer to
a situation that some group of people or
some person is
caused to be in so in the first example
sentence this
change puts the whole company at risk
this change causes the whole company to
be at risk in a situation of risk
in a condition of risk we use put to
refer to that to
refer to being caused to be in the
situation
of risk the second example sentence is
the same
your terrible driving this is the reason
why the people are in danger in this
example
sentence your terrible driving puts us
all in danger your terrible driving
causes us all to be in a condition of
danger it's very clumsy
but we use the verb put to make this
quite short and easy to say
your terrible driving puts us all in
danger okay
there are so many variations so many
phrasal verbs to use with put yeah so
check a dictionary for more these are
just a few i'm going to introduce but
check a dictionary for this
the first variation for the verb put is
put aside to put aside
so to put aside means to stop thinking
about something
to seize or to pause an activity while
you do something else
examples put aside your worries and
relax for a day
i put my phone aside and tried to focus
on my work
so in both of these example sentences we
see that one thing is kind of being
moved away
from the focus so for example in the
first example sentence
put aside your worries it means like
stop thinking about your worries like
put those to the side
in your mind like like uh don't think
about those things for a while
so in the second example sentence i'm
talking about my phone where i'm saying
i can literally put my phone aside
put my phone to the side of the thing
i'm doing and focus
on my work i put my phone aside so we
can use this to talk about a concept in
our minds or to
talk about a physical object as well
okay let's go on to the next variation
so the next variation is to put someone
down it means
to disrespect someone or to make fun of
someone to make them feel bad about
themselves
some examples don't put down your
classmates it's rude
his boss keeps putting him down in front
of his co-workers
so in both of these examples we see
situations where one person is being
disrespected
by another person so don't put down your
classmates it's rude so this in this
case um the
listener is maybe a kid in school who is
disrespectful to his or her classmates
so a parent or a teacher might say don't
put down meaning don't
disrespect your classmates don't be mean
to your classmates don't make fun of
your classmates
so you know be kind to them in other
words don't put down your classmates you
could also say don't put your classmates
down
if you like that's fine too in the
second example sentence we see a work
situation like his boss always puts him
down
in front of his co-workers means the
boss disrespects this person in front of
his co-workers so
it's a disrespectful situation okay
but one point about this the expression
to put someone down
refers to disrespect with regard to
humans however when talking about
animals like we had to put the cat down
we had to put the dog down
it means usually due to some serious
sickness or some serious
injury or illness the owners of the pet
usually a pet or the animal decide
that the pet should have doctor-assisted
death so to put down an animal means to
choose to
allow the animal to die peacefully
instead of
suffering so we used that expression i
had to put my cat
down this is a much more soft expression
than the doctor killed my cat which is
essentially what happens but it's
because of some kind of suffering
or some kind of illness or injury the
owner wants to prevent
we use the expression to put an animal
down
in those cases we do not use this for
people we don't say
i had to put my brother down though we
do actually have
an expression for babies which which we
use when we put babies to bed
like i'm going to put down the baby for
bed we do have that but please be
cautious of the differences between
animals and humans with this expression
to put someone down
has very different meanings okay let's
go on to the next variation
which is to put up with to put up with
means to tolerate
something examples i don't want to put
up with this crazy schedule anymore
don't put up with their bad behavior in
these examples put up with refers to
tolerating or being able to stand
something or continuing to live with
something
in the first example sentence i can't
put up with this crazy schedule anymore
means i don't want to live with this
crazy schedule anymore i can't stand it
i don't
want to do it anymore in the second
example sentence don't put up with their
bad behavior it means
don't tolerate their bad behavior so put
up with something means like to continue
living with something
and we often see it in the negative form
as in don't put up with
something
let's begin with the basic definition of
this verb the basic definition of carry
is to move
while holding or supporting something
examples can you carry this bag
i always carry a pen
okay let's look at the conjugations for
this verb present
carry carries past carried
past participle carried progressive
carrying
now let's talk about some additional
meanings for this verb the first
additional meaning is to move a person
or an object from one place to another
example veins carry blood throughout the
body
the bust carried the children to school
so here we see objects and people
being moved from one place to another
through or via
or by something else and we use the verb
carry to describe that in the first
example sentence
veins carry blood throughout the body
veins are the like you can see them on
your arm
usually blue colored they're the kind of
like
pipes i guess you could say like imagine
them as pipes that carry blood
so blood travels through the body
through these veins
so we can say veins carry blood
through the body so veins are the method
through which
blood moves throughout the body so veins
are carrying
the blood we kind of can imagine in that
way they're carrying they're responsible
for
carrying the blood so we can say that
veins are kind of responsible for
moving blood around the body we can use
the verb
carry to explain that in the second
example sentence
the bus carried the kids to school the
bus
is the method of transport for the kids
so the kids are
moving from one place to another place
the bus
is the method of movement so the bus
carried the kids to school we can use
carrie to talk about this transportation
the second additional meaning is to have
a gene
or illness examples
rodents are known to carry rabies
some people carry diseases they don't
know about
in the first example sentence we see
rodents are known to carry
rabies so rodents are like small
like rats or mice those kinds of dirty
sort of creatures
wild creatures rabies is a disease a
serious illness that like
causes you to behave strangely and your
body has really strange problems too
i won't talk about rabies that much not
so important here but
rodents are known to carry rabies so
the um the small like the biological
parts the things that cause rabies they
carry that
illness rodents are known to carry so it
doesn't mean
carry like a backpack really but carry
a gene or carry an illness carry a
sickness
inside the body in this case rodents are
known to carry the sickness that is
rabies
inside their bodies in the second
example sentence
some people carry diseases they don't
know about
it means some people have diseases in
their body
but they don't know about the disease so
you can imagine like we
carry the disease we hold it in our body
and we move around
but we don't know about it we use the
verb carry to talk about this
let's move on to the third meaning the
third additional meaning is to make
something a success to make something a
success
examples his leadership carried the team
through a difficult time
her performance carries the show so in
both of these examples we see that
someone carried something
so someone caused something to be
successful
because of their actions or because of
their leadership
as we see in the first example sentence
so his leadership
carried the team through a difficult
time means
the team was successful in a difficult
time because of his leadership but we
use the verb
carry to mean that so we can kind of
imagine that this one person in this
case his leadership
his leadership and his abilities to be a
good leader
in other words were kind of the thing
that carried the team so we can imagine
the whole team
is on top of this one guy's leadership
skill so he is responsible
for making the team a success in a
difficult time so we use
carry to explain that in the second
example sentence
her performance carried the show it
means her performance was so
good it was so important that the show
was a success because of it
so without her performance maybe the
show would not have been successful
but her performance was really really
good her performance
made the show a success her performance
carried
the show the fourth meaning of this verb
is to reach
a distance to reach a distance this can
be like sound or it can be something
physical
some examples of this the sound of the
thunder
carried 20 kilometers ash from the
volcano
carried into the air so here we're not
actually carrying a physical object
in the first example sentence it's sound
traveling
so the sound of thunder carried 20
kilometers it means
we were able to hear the sound of
thunder 20 kilometers away from the
source
so the sound carried in other words we
use carry to refer to
sound traveling a distance in the second
example sentence
ash from the volcano carried into the
air
it means the ash from the volcano moved
into the air
we could even say like the ash from the
volcano carried into the
next city for example so it traveled
into the next city it traveled some
distance but we can use
carry to talk about that as well
let's move on to some variations for
this verb so the first variation
is to get carried away to get carried
away this means to get too excited or
too involved in something usually it has
like a positive meaning we get carried
away because we're excited
uh about something but let's look at
some examples first
i got a little carried away baking last
night
he got carried away listening to music
both of these examples are pretty
innocent
in the first example sentence we see i
got a little carried away
baking last night it's like i baked too
much last night the idea is that i was
too excited about my baking
and i baked too much or maybe i stayed
up too late making something
i got carried away with it i did too
much of it because i was so
interested in this thing in the second
example sentence he got carried away
listening to music it maybe means he
spent too much time listening to music
maybe
he forgot to do his homework or he
forgot to go to work or he was late for
work or something
because he was carried away he was so
interested in listening to music
he forgot something or he did too much
of it in other words so
this generally just means that you're
too excited about something or too
involved in something so it can have a
positive meaning
the next variation is to carry over to
carry over means to continue
into the next period to continue into
the next period examples
unused data will carry over into the
next month
my airline miles carried over into this
year so these two
expressions both use like points or
miles or some kind of data
in the first example sentence it's like
a mobile phone contract
unused data will carry over into the
next month
if for example i have one gig of data
available on my mobile phone
every month but i only use 500 megabytes
i have 500 megabytes remaining that's my
unused data that amount carries
over to the next month that means i have
one gigabyte plus
500 megabytes of data to use in the next
month so
carry over means that amount continues
to the next period
we see the same thing in the second
example sentence my airline miles
carried over
into this year meaning my airline miles
from the previous year
carried over or continued into this year
so maybe i didn't use those miles last
year but they continued into this year
and i can still
use them so carrying over means
continuing something
we see it a lot in like credit card
contracts or like mileage plans or data
plans
anything with data points numbers we
might see that sort of thing
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