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yeah vamos a la playa now we’re going to

the beach

hi everybody welcome back to top words

my name is alicia and today we’re going

to be talking about 20 travel phrases

that you should know so let’s go do you

have any recommendations the first

phrase is do you have any

recommendations this is great to use

when you get to a restaurant where you

don’t know what the food is you don’t

know anything about the local cuisine or

you’re just feeling a little bit

adventurous you can ask the wait staff

do you have any recommendations how much

is this how much is this this is useful

when you’re out shopping or when you’re

in a restaurant and the price is not

clearly marked or something is not clear

to you so you can ask how much is this

usually when you point to something i

would recommend like pointing to the

menu or pointing to an item how much is

this

i’d like this you can point to something

and say i’d like this uh if you want to

say i’d like uh one for example i don’t

know you’re getting beer i’d like one of

these

if however you’re in a situation where

you can’t point you can say i’d like 10

of the blah blah blah i’d like 10 of the

blue t-shirts please can i try this on

is useful when you’re shopping for

clothes so you find something that you’d

like to try just ask the staff can i try

this on you can just say i want to try

this on if you like do you speak english

you might get asked this phrase so you

should say if you’re watching this video

you should probably say yes or you can

say yes a little if you’re not feeling

very confident if you’re watching this

video and you’re understanding this part

and you say no then

uh things that’s a little strange i have

a reservation usually the staff will

greet you and you can say i have a

reservation hello i have a reservation

it’s at seven o’clock the name is alicia

usually we say the name is or it’s under

meaning the reservation is under my name

or um it’s for name or uh it’s in name

water please depending on which country

you’re from water may or may not

automatically be brought to your table

when you’re at a restaurant if you would

like more water however you can say

water please to make it a little more

polite i would like wave at the wait

staff and say could i please have some

more water do you take credit cards do

you take credit cards in case you’re not

sure if the shop that you’re in will

accept credit cards or debit cards you

can ask them do you take credit cards so

it doesn’t mean do you take meaning are

you going to take my card but this take

means do you accept credit cards this

isn’t what i ordered so if you’re at a

restaurant you order steak and you get

lobster instead you can look at it and

go ah this isn’t what i ordered be

careful though say this politely if you

look at the wait staff and you say this

isn’t what i ordered they’re gonna be

i don’t know just be a nice customer

excuse me but i don’t think this is what

i ordered or this isn’t what i ordered

can you please check could we have the

menu please if for some reason you don’t

receive a menu when you come to the

table you can again just waive at a

member of the staff and say could we

have the menu please could you give me a

discount could you give me a discount

means uh i would like a cheaper price

essentially it depends on which country

you’re in if haggling or bargaining

meaning talking to the seller to try to

reduce the price my family didn’t

bargain we didn’t haggle so i don’t

haggle depends on you and your culture

but uh just yeah just be be aware of the

culture that you’re in and the place

that you’re in before you ask this

question do you have any vegetarian

dishes ah this is useful some people

have specific eating requirements or

eating needs maybe food allergies for

example you can replace vegetarian with

the specific dietary requirement that

you have do you have any vegan dishes do

you have any gluten-free dishes do you

have any low-fat dishes do you have any

low-carb dishes do you have any fish

free dishes do you have any

could you take a picture of me please

if you are in a location where you would

like to take a picture but you don’t

want to do a selfie or you don’t have a

selfie stick or whatever you want

someone else to take a picture of you a

stranger that you don’t know you can ask

them could you take a picture of me

please or excuse me would you mind

taking a picture of me please i’m

allergic to blah blah blah if you have a

food allergy or even

an allergy to a medicine this is the

phrase you can use to explain that i’m

allergic to wheat or i can’t eat wheat

for example

is the wi-fi free meaning can i use the

wi-fi free of charge keep in mind some

places have a password that you have to

ask the staff for

so you can say is the wi-fi free if they

say yes you can then follow that up with

can i have the password i’d like to have

a non-smoking seat please so when you go

to a restaurant you have an option

between smoking and non-smoking sections

the staff will say smoking or

non-smoking you can say i’d like to have

a non-smoking seat please quite honestly

though the most natural response is just

to say non-smoking could i get a map

maybe it’s a map of the subway system

for the city that you’re in or maybe

it’s a map of the area around your hotel

you could say could i have a map as well

could i have the check you’re finished

at your cafe you’re finished at the

restaurant and it’s time to leave it’s

time to pay so you say to the wait staff

excuse me could i have the check another

more common expression perhaps is excuse

me check please you might also hear bill

excuse me can i have the bill where is

the bathroom very important question if

you’re traveling in america we don’t

really use the word toilet or washroom

very much we use bathroom or restroom to

talk about

toilet facilities excuse me can you tell

me where the bathroom is or excuse me

i’m looking for the bathroom or i’m

looking for the restroom is this the

train for blah blah blah or is this the

train that goes to blah blah blah to

confirm with someone

that i’m indeed on the correct train

line if i say is this the train bound

for san francisco you can use that to

check if you’re correct 10 compliments

that you always want to hear

let’s go i love your cooking this is my

personal favorite compliment oh my god i

love cooking like i’m always posting

like pictures of things that i cooked on

twitter i’m just like crazy about food

uh so this would be a compliment that i

would love to get like the ultimate

compliment for me though would be will

you make my birthday cake that would be

such a compliment like it’s it’s a

question but it’s there’s so much behind

that will you make my birthday cake

you would give that to me so maybe after

you can use this after a meal for

example i love your cooking and the

other person will be like

next is great job great job this is a

compliment that you can use anytime you

can use it uh to your with your friend

with your

not with your boss your boss might use

it with you an employee a co-worker or

colleague a pet even whatever it’s it’s

just

a very small scale very easy to use

compliment that means you think whatever

has just happened is good i use great

job all the time i use great job and i

use good job sometimes

when i make a mistake or something funny

happens that i’m alone at my house and i

want to make fun of myself i’ll be like

yeah great job alicia

uh but if i’m if i’m trying to be

positive about a failure or laugh at

myself a bit but in general uh it’s just

a good easy compliment to give someone

great job you have a way with words you

have a way with words this can be

speaking this can be writing it means

you think that the other person is a

good communicator or maybe even more so

than just a good communicator you think

that the way they speak or the way that

they write is particularly good so that

could mean funny it could mean romantic

it could mean dramatic something about

the way they speak or the way that they

write

you really enjoy that you can say you

have a way with words

it’s quite a nice compliment i think

it’s kind of like a you know bit smart

it’s a bit of a smart thing you have a

way with words or you can say you’re

good with words you’re really good with

words yeah all right next one you look

gorgeous you look gorgeous very nice

compliment to give just be very careful

with the way that you say this for an

everyday compliment i tend not to say

you look nice or you look gorgeous today

or something like that because the

underlying comment there is on the other

days that person doesn’t look nice

if i want to compliment someone’s

appearance i try to pick a specific

thing i’m like oh i’ve never seen you

wear that sweater before it looks nice

on you something like that like

yesterday my friend had a new dress on

and i was like is that a new dress and

because i i thought she looked nice i

was but i didn’t i didn’t want to make

it sound like i don’t think she looks

nice every day so i said is that a new

dress and she goes yeah i said i think

that color is really really nice on you

it looks really good and she was so

happy about that so

i yes there there are these compliments

like you look nice you look great you

look gorgeous and so on but i personally

kind of prefer to level them up a little

bit and just say pick a specific thing

like did you get a new haircut did you

dye your hair or you did you get

something did something happen like what

whatever it is try to pick up on a

specific thing because then that shows

you’re paying attention to the other

person

and you think that whatever they have

chosen to do whatever like clothing or

whatever haircut whatever it is you

think that they have good sense there

too or good style so it’s kind of like a

double that’s a very subtle double

compliment

yeah

the next word is you have good taste you

have good taste this can be for

food uh fashion style for decorating

sense

music in movies whatever if you think

that that person’s uh artistic selection

is in whatever capacity if you think

that that person makes good choices with

uh their

their appearance or their hobbies or

whatever you can say you have good taste

this is a fairly sophisticated

compliment i think

we use you have good taste for something

like it’s it sounds a bit more

sophisticated maybe if you both choose

the same bottle of wine perhaps like it

has kind of a more formal adult-ish

sophisticated feeling about it this

compliment

yeah maybe

maybe wine is a good example of that

yeah oh nice bottle choice like i really

like that you have good taste you can

follow this by the way you have good

taste in blah blah blah

you have good taste in movies you have

good taste in music if you want to be

specific about something that you think

that person is really good at choosing

you have good taste in

noun okay yeah okay

um next one is you have a great sense of

humor you have a great sense of humor

this is the this is the underlying

compliment in the phrase you are so

funny this is the underlying compliment

you have a great sense of humor means

the other person thinks you’re funny

that you are good at telling jokes or

you make them laugh this is actually one

of my favorite compliments to get you

have a great sense of humor um

yeah because i think that like you know

people like to laugh so it’s an it’s an

if someone makes you laugh you can say

this you have a grain sense of humor or

you’re very funny yeah it’s a good one

it’s a really good one

so you can say after a joke for example

after maybe you’ve you’re you’ve

finished laughing at something the other

person has said you can say oh you have

a great sense of humor good next one is

your resume is impressive

this is a weird compliment to say to

your friends

unless you’re like reviewing your

friend’s resume it’s a bit weird this is

something that perhaps uh someone

interviewing another person for a job

would say the candidate comes in for the

interview the interviewer says wow your

resume is very impressive i’d like to

ask you a few questions about it yay

so this is good to hear in a work

situation yeah you really probably won’t

need to use this with your friends if

you do it’s kind of weird oh wow this

next one is quite a compliment nobody’s

ever said this

to be fair if somebody said this next

one to me i would feel a little bit of

like pressure the compliment here is you

make me want to be a better person this

is something that i think you see in

movies from time to time first yeah i’ve

had i had one person say like like

uh oh that something you did inspired me

and that was like really like oh that

was really exciting like somebody was

inspired by something like wow that’s

great i want to be like you that’s a

really cool compliment but if someone

says you want to make me be a better

person it’s like oh wow like that means

i’m really important to that person

which is really flattering

but at the same time if someone said

that i would also be like

if it’s like my friend i’d be like but i

i want you to be you like i think you’re

a cool person already yeah it’s like oh

you make me want to be a better person

like in that person’s viewpoint you’re

like somehow above them and that’s

uncomfortable

yeah just i would rather say

you inspire me i think that that or like

this thing that you did really inspired

me like if somebody said like i saw that

picture that she posted on twitter of

that pizza today alicia and it really

inspired me and i made my own pizza i’d

be like yay

[Laughter]

next one is nice actually i say this to

my friends quite a bit you are an

awesome friend this is really really

good to use after your friend has helped

you with something maybe you’re moving

to a new apartment a new house or maybe

you’ve had some trouble and your friend

gave you some good advice or your friend

just listened to you when you really

needed to talk to someone

after that experience you could say

thanks so much you were an awesome

friend or maybe your friend did

something really really cool and you

just want to like tell them like i think

you’re really awesome just say you are

an awesome friend they’ll be happy to

hear that or just you can abbreviate it

to you are awesome not just you’re an

awesome friend just you are awesome you

are a cool person you are awesome you’re

fantastic

you are an awesome friend you’re an

awesome friend 10 ways to motivate

yourself when learning english let’s go

the first way to motivate yourself is to

imagine that one day you will live in

the united states so to do this imagine

what is your day going to be like when

you live in the u.s where will you go

who will you meet where will you shop

and so on imagine your day in the united

states

okay the second way to motivate yourself

when you’re studying english is to study

other aspects of the culture too which

makes it more rewarding to study english

okay so this means of course studying

english as a language but if there’s a

specific country that you would like to

visit or a specific part of that

country’s culture try to learn about

that too if you like music if you like

the food if you like the history try to

find something about a specific country

or a specific part of that country’s

culture that you enjoy in addition to

studying the language okay

way number three to motivate yourself is

finding funny words in english okay so

finding a word that sounds funny or a

word that you enjoy using or a phrase

that you enjoy using can really increase

your motivation for using that word and

for interacting with people so if you

can find those phrases that you think

are funny or are fun they can be really

really helpful for you as you learn your

language the next way to motivate

yourself is to make friends with people

who speak english

so of course if you don’t have any

friends who are english speakers

especially native english speakers it’s

a really good idea to make some friends

this way you can practice with them you

can learn from them and you can just see

maybe what their life is like and how

their life is different from yours so

this is a great way to practice a great

way to learn and a great way to think

more internationally as well the next

way to motivate yourself is watching

youtube videos of other people who have

successfully learned english so you can

listen to people what worked for them

how did they study where did they go

what materials did they use

what did they find not helpful

so you can try to find a strategy that

works well for you through using

resources like youtube for example it’s

a great way to find people

that maybe match with what you need okay

the next way to motivate yourself is by

watching english movies and tv shows and

enjoying the feeling when you can

understand a word or a sentence yeah i

do this too

uh when you enjoy something when you

find entertainment value in something

like music movies tv and you there’s

that moment when you pick up or when you

understand what your favorite character

said or you understand like a key point

in the story it’s a really really good

feeling it makes you want to continue

watching i think so that’s a really

really nice feeling i think and you can

do that by enjoying media so it’s a fun

way to learn and it’s a fun feeling to

experience okay

the next way to motivate yourself is by

reading english news articles blogs and

magazines to get a feel for formal and

casual language so the style that we use

here like in english class

101 and this on the videos on this

channel is quite casual most of the time

or at least in these videos it’s very

casual but the way that i speak in the

way a newspaper is written the way a

magazine is written the way a

a newscaster presents the information

these are all different ways of

communicating we’re using the same

language yes but they’re different

styles so it’s important to try to

understand those differences

and to become familiar with them so try

to find a few different things that you

can enjoy

the next way to motivate yourself is

after dinner you write about your day in

a journal in english okay this is an

interesting idea so just take a few

minutes after dinner or before you go to

bed to write something in english about

what you did that day or maybe

so you have a chance to talk about

future tense or to use the future tense

you can use you can talk about your

upcoming plans or the things you’re

going to do the next day so you can talk

about past tense what you did that day

maybe present tense how you’re feeling

as you’re writing your journal for the

day and future tense to talk about your

upcoming plan so journaling can be a

really effective exercise for motivating

you okay

the next way to motivate yourself is by

practicing with flash cards of useful

words and phrases for 15 minutes every

day on the train i actually do do this i

use but i use an application to study in

japanese to study kanji and 15 minutes

every day adds up over the course of a

week you can learn a lot of information

in a short period of time

and

if you live in the country where

your target language is spoken then you

might even find the word you studied on

the train you see it like after you

leave the train you might see that word

later on in your day so you can

immediately

feel like an extra sense of motivation

by knowing that this thing you’re

studying is applicable it’s something

you can use right away it’s a really

cool feeling so this is a tip i honestly

i use this last

i make sure to thank anyone and everyone

who corrects my english uh yeah i i

think this is really important because

people are really nice they don’t want

to correct you when you make a mistake

but sometimes people do they’re really

polite about it and they tell you the

more tell you a more natural way or they

give you a suggestion for how to improve

your english make sure you say thank you

like repeat after them and then say

thank you

so that you know it’s motivation for

them uh to tell you again in the future

to help you again in the future so make

sure to say thank you to anyone who

helps you with your english hi everybody

my name is alicia welcome back to our

english class channel today we’re going

to be talking about the difference

between by and until so let’s get

started

so first we’re going to talk about buy

buy marks a deadline for an action to

finish buy marks the point where an

action completes or is replaced by

another action so really think about

using buy to express a deadline

something is going to stop or you must

finish an action

at this point in time so

we can think about by

as marking some point in the future

so buy marks some point in the future

where an action

is going to finish an action is going to

be completed so in an example sentence i

have i’ll be at the office by 7 pm so in

this sentence the speaker is not at the

office but

7 pm is the deadline this is the point

in time at which the speaker will be at

the office the speaker is not at the

office now but by 7 pm by the 7 pm

deadline the speaker will be at the

office this will shows us this is a

future tense expression

and by shows us the deadline the point

at which that expression or the point at

which that action is going to be

completed

so this is how we use by to think about

it like a deadline some point in time at

which an action will be completed or

finished okay

so let’s continue on to the other

grammar point for today which is until

until also has a more casual form we can

use till

t-i-l-l or apostrophe t-i-l you might

see both spellings used for until till

or till

in most cases it’s good to use until in

casual speaking and maybe in casual

writing you can use the casual form but

until is always polite and is always

correct

okay so when we use until let’s talk

about when to use until we use until to

talk about a continuing situation or a

continuing state

now in the present or in the future

but it’s going to change or stop

so the key difference one key difference

here perhaps is a continuing situation a

continuing state with bi

the nuance is a deadline something is

going to finish at a deadline here

however until gives us the nuance of

something that’s continuing

something true now for example

but that may not be true in the future

until marks the point where that action

or that state is going to finish or

change

okay so

we can think of it

rather than as a deadline as a key point

in the future somewhere

where action a continues

until a point where we use until and

then a second action begins

something is going to change at the

until point with bi however we don’t

have the nuance of an action changing we

only have the nuance of a deadline so

here until is used to show that

something different is going to happen

or something something will finish

but there’s going to be a change

after the the until point so for example

um this sentence very similar to the by

example sentence is i’ll be at the

office until

7 pm

so here we have the future tense aisle i

will i’ll be at the office until 7 pm

this sentence shows us the speaker is at

the office right now however

at 7 pm

until shows us that 7 pm is the point at

which

the situation or the state is going to

change so at 7 pm the speaker is

probably going to leave the office

until shows us that right here the

action or the state is going to change

so please keep that in mind until shows

you a change in something by shows more

of a deadline for an action

that is continuing so i hope that we can

practice this in a few example sentences

now

okay

so let’s try to choose the correct word

to use in these example sentences should

we use buy or should we use until in

these cases so the first one i have is

he has to find a new job blah blah blah

march so in this case

we see

a point in time

we can think about it should we use buy

or until here if we use buy we see that

the deadline

the deadline nuance matches here he has

to find a new job by march

if we use until he has to find a new job

until

march there’s no information in this

sentence that shows us a hint or that

gives us a hint about how the action is

going to change

until does not make sense for this

question so we should use buy in this

case he has to find a new job by march

is the correct answer for this sentence

in the second sentence

i’m not going to go to bed blah blah

blah i finish this movie so in this

sentence we have at the end

i finish this movie so there’s some

action

maybe that’s continuing here

and we have another action i’m not going

to go to bed in this case it’s a

negative

so there are two actions here this is a

pretty good hint that there’s an action

that’s going to change at some point

instead of the nuance of a deadline so

for this sentence until is the best

answer i’m not going to go to bed until

until i finish this movie this shows us

that at this point the point where i

finish the movie i’m going to go to bed

this marks the change in the continuing

state or the continuing situation

so the next sentence is they need to

write their reports blah blah blah

tomorrow so this sentence there’s no

change in the sentence we don’t have any

hints about some kind of different

action that’s going to happen instead we

have maybe what seems to be a deadline

some requirement here too

so if we try to use until it doesn’t

make sense there’s no changing action we

can’t guess about what might happen in

the future or a change that might happen

so buy is the best answer here they need

to write their reports by tomorrow

tomorrow is the deadline so we can guess

that tomorrow is the deadline here by

shows us that it’s the deadline in this

case for this task

all right

let’s take a look at something a little

bit different here we have we can’t

leave the house blah blah blah your

mother calls so again there are two

situations there are two actions

involved in this sentence we have leave

the house and your mother calls makes a

phone call so because there are two

actions here

we can guess that there’s some change

that’s going to happen so because we

learned that until

marks a change in actions we know that

until

is the better answer here

okay

we can’t leave the house until your

mother calls would be the correct

sentence here

all right

uh so let’s look at the next sentence

though this one is a tricky sentence

this one is a little bit difficult we

have i’m not going to be there something

something 8 pm

so here we have 8 p.m at the end of a

sentence which looks like a deadline

right

we have uh going to be there

so should we use by or until for this

sentence it’s difficult because actually

both are okay for this sentence

i’m not going to be there

by 8 pm is correct and i’m not going to

be there

until 8 pm is also correct however the

meanings are very different just as we

practiced

in these two sentences i’ll be at the

office until i’ll be at the office by 7

pm the same is true here i’m not going

to be there by 8 pm means i’m not going

to be there at 8 pm it’s not possible

for me i can’t go

however i’m not going to be there until

8 pm

this sentence means

after 8 pm or beginning at 8 pm and

after i’m going to be there so please be

careful in some cases both by and until

are correct but they change the meaning

of the sentence okay

let’s continue to another example so

the next example sentence is also a

little bit difficult

uh it’s if my date doesn’t arrive

something something 7 pm i’m leaving

okay

so here we have we do have two actions

uh doesn’t arrive my date doesn’t arrive

a negative point and i’m leaving so it

seems like there are two actions here

however we have this 7 pm this marks a

deadline right so

if my date doesn’t arrive there’s some

deadline here

if this is not

completed

something is going to happen the person

is going to leave so in this case 7 pm

is showing a deadline

so we have to use buy if my date doesn’t

arrive until 7 pm we could use that

but it doesn’t sound so natural so uh

the nuance again here is of a deadline

there’s something that is going to

happen

uh at 7 pm 7 p.m marks the end point in

this situation so we use buy here okay

let’s go to the next pair again these

are very interesting points

we have to leave the beach blah blah

blah 10 a.m

and we have to stay at the beach blah

blah blah 10 a.m okay so

these two sentences i included because i

wanted to show the emphasis of changing

actions and continuing actions so we can

see the verbs

are different here in the first sentence

we have leave so this is a change

leaving a location in the second

sentence i have stay which shows a

continuing action stay in one place

so here as you can guess then we have to

leave the beach blah blah blah 10 a.m

some change some deadline so

we’ll use bye to show our deadline

in the second sentence we have to stay

at the beach stay shows a continuing

action

and then it’s going to finish here so

we’ll use until we have to stay at the

beach

until

10 a.m this shows us a continuing action

and maybe at 10 a.m we’ll leave the

beach

all right

uh let’s go on to the next sentence i’m

not going to travel abroad blah blah

blah i learn english okay so here

there’s no time point there’s no 10 am 8

tomorrow and so on so this is a little

more complex maybe we have travel abroad

and learn english so it seems there’s no

real

uh deadline here but we have maybe a

change maybe this shows us some kind of

change learning english marks a change

i’m not going to travel abroad until

i learn english

this shows us that something different

is going to happen in the future so we

should use until to mark that change

okay our last example sentence for today

is we told him to wake up blah blah blah

6 a.m so once more our last sentence may

be a little bit uh simple but 6am shows

us an action sort of this deadline you

can see a lot of these use a time to

mark a deadline for an action so here we

told him to wake up

by 6 a.m this is the point at which

something must happen so we should use

buy here

okay great

so those are a few example sentences

that you can have a look at and think

about when you’re trying to decide

whether to use by or until keep in mind

however there are some cases where both

by or until are correct

but the meaning is going to change

significantly depending on the one you

use

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ten words for connecting thoughts these

are going to be 10 words that you can

use to transition between ideas very

useful in both speech and in writing

let’s

also

also also is a word that you can use to

add information

i went to the store this morning also i

went and got coffee

that’s true

however

however however is used to contrast or

to contrast depending on your

pronunciation to

differentiate to show a difference

between two pieces of information a good

pattern would be a however

be so

for example

i love

tonkotsu ramen however it is very high

in calories so i don’t eat it often

also true on the other hand on the other

hand on the other hand is i feel used

more commonly in speech than it is in

writing

again it’s used to present like two

sides to a story or two sides to some

information so for example

i’m thinking about visiting taiwan

sometime this year but on the other hand

i’m also thinking about visiting

thailand

still

so it might be common to use still with

the word like but or a word like even

though so you’re saying even though

there’s some other factor like like i’m

really really tired this week or even

though i have a lot of homework to do i

still want to go out with my friends or

i still want to

see a movie this weekend so there’s this

other there’s this thing that’s maybe

makes this other action difficult to do

or tough to do or whatever

but even though

there’s this you still have this over

here so maybe the two are kind of used

as a pair i still want to go out later

even though i’m tired

then

then yes a very useful word we use then

when telling stories a lot um so for

example if i could tell a story about my

morning today when i got up i brushed my

teeth and then

cooked breakfast then i did a little bit

of work then i took a shower

then i did some cooking blah blah blah

you’ll often hear and then as well

and then i and then we and then you and

so on so then is is really really useful

for sequencing so a useful word i think

besides besides so it’s commonly used in

a pattern like besides that meaning

other than something else i went out

with my friends this weekend but besides

that i didn’t really do much so

another way to say that sentence is i

went out with my friends this weekend

but other than that other than that

activity i didn’t do very much

okay meanwhile meanwhile or you might

hear the similar expression in the mean

time it means

while you’re doing action a at the same

times maybe somewhere else action b is

happening

this is used while telling stories a lot

so for example i was working at my

office all week last week

meanwhile my co-workers across town were

having a party without me

so these two things are happening at the

same time

but maybe separate from one another

meanwhile

likewise

okay likewise i don’t really use this

word personally myself at all it’s often

used after an introduction um

similar to the pleasure is all mine in a

formal situation so

maybe somebody says you know hey it was

really great to see you last weekend

thanks very much for coming to my

barbecue you can say yeah likewise it

was really good to see you in your

family so likewise means i have the same

feeling or i have the same idea it’s

kind of a friendly phrase but personally

i don’t really use that to transition

between thoughts

um i would just use and i suppose but

that’s how i would use it

instead

instead so

so instead it’s used like instead of i

want to

a instead of be

can be used to express your plans or

what you want to do i want to have

chinese food instead of italian food

tonight so you’re presenting two

alternatives essentially so instead of

means in place of or as a substitute for

should have drank a lot of water

this morning but instead i drank a lot

of coffee

that’s true

uh i wanted to

have dinner with my friends this weekend

instead i had dinner at home

in addition in addition this is a really

good word for more formal situations i

like to use in addition

in writing i don’t really use in

addition in speaking unless i’m trying

to be very formal for some reason

similar to additionally as well so you

make point a and point b and then when

you want to make one more point that’s

related to point a and point b you can

say in addition point c so you’re like

building an argument and in addition can

be used to kind of finish that argument

off a little bit our new marketing plan

worked really well last month we noticed

increased sales in product a in addition

uh we’ve gained a lot of new customers

something like that so just you’re

you’re quickly presenting a series of

ideas that are related to one another

you can use in addition to finish it off

20 words you’ll need for the beach let’s

sunglasses the first word is sunglasses

sunglasses are those dark glasses that

you wear on your face when it’s bright

outside in a sentence i forgot my

sunglasses hold on i forgot my

sunglasses beach

beach is the place near the ocean you

might have a beach in your city or in

your country

the beach is usually visited in the

summer time

the image is lots of sun you can get a

tan you can get a sunburn

but it’s usually a fun place to spend

time with family and friends in a

sentence i’m going to the beach with my

friends this weekend i’m so excited in

this sentence she walked along the beach

swimming the next word is swimming

swimming is of course a popular activity

to do at the beach i go swimming at the

beach every summer or in this sentence

be very careful when swimming in the

pacific ocean

it might be shocks

sun

sun is that big bright thing in the sky

that will make your skin change color if

you stay in it for too long

so the sun um

in a sentence

the sun is really bright let’s get out

of the sun

palm tree the next word is palm tree so

palm trees are

our type of tree they’re usually seen in

like tropical places like hawaii has

palm trees any place close to the

equator the middle line of the earth uh

i think that’s where palm trees tend to

grow it’s kind of an image of the beach

so palm trees

there are a lot of palm trees near the

beach in california

that palm tree is almost 60 feet tall

seashell

the next word is seashell seashell are

those little

objects you find on the beach like in

the sand or in the water in some cases

they’re like

shells from like clams or maybe oysters

sometimes too depending on what you

consider a seashell but if you break the

word down it’s c and shell so like

something from the ocean and the shell

or like the covering the outside of

something so usually a small creature a

small animal has lived inside the

seashell

and then you can collect them and i

don’t know look at them or make

something from them little kids like to

collect them i used to collect seashells

when i was a kid oh my gosh look at this

example sentence it says it’s bad luck

to take seashells from the beach

oops

swimsuit swimsuit is the

clothing you wear to swim in your

swimming suit there are men’s swimsuits

women’s swimsuits usually men’s

swimsuits are

shorts board shorts or i suppose there’s

the what like speedo makes like the

men’s swimsuits as well the really small

ones and then for women they have one

piece swimsuits they have and then they

have bikini swimsuits the two-piece

swimsuit so in a sentence i

hate swimsuit shopping in this sentence

i need a new swimsuit this summer ocean

the next word is ocean ocean is the big

blue the big water the big

deep blue sea in a sentence the ocean is

so beautiful at night in this sentence

he dipped his feet in the ocean

lifeguard

lifeguard a lifeguard is a person at the

beach life guard so someone who guards

lives if someone gets into trouble in

the water they start to drown or they

start to have trouble if there’s an

accident at the beach the lifeguard at

the beach is responsible for handling

that problem so they’ll call an

ambulance or they know how to do first

aid to save people

so in a sentence it’s important to go to

beaches where there are lifeguards

available if you need help in this

sentence uh there isn’t a lifeguard on

duty here

jet ski next word is jet ski a jet ski

is a like a water motorcycle you can

ride around it on with your friends

alone riding jet skis is a lot of fun

in the sentence if you have a driver’s

license you can drive a jet ski beach

towel the next expression is beach towel

beach towel beach towel is different

from regular towel because usually beach

towels have like a bright color a bright

pattern

there are towels that you don’t mind or

towels that are okay to get sand or dirt

in them usually in a towel you use in

your house you don’t want to get your

towel really really dirty so a beach

towel is a towel you use only at the

beach in a sentence

i bought a new beach towel and it has a

picture of a

hamburger on it in this sentence oh no i

got sand all over my beach towel that’s

the point of beach towel

beach chair the next expression is beach

chair as you can probably guess it is a

chair you use only at the beach so again

this is a chair you don’t mind it’s okay

if it gets dirty or sandy usually a

beach chair is easy to fold or easy to

carry too

in a sentence

i have a couple of beach chairs that i’m

going to bring to the barbecue this

weekend in this sentence can we use

these beach chairs

sand castle the next word is sandcastle

sand castles are usually kids make them

they use like buckets so kids will like

put sand in a bucket or like they move

sand into piles and design castles or

these really complicated mazes or

something they make things make

buildings out of sand we call those sand

castles um so in a sentence my brother

and i used to make sand castles on the

beach when we were kids that’s true in

this sentence get the buckets and we’ll

make a sand castle cooler

so cooler is a noun in this case cooler

is the place you keep your drinks and

your food it’s a it looks like a

suitcase but it has a special lining

inside that keeps cold things cold so

you can put ice inside and it will keep

your food and drinks cold while you are

at the beach in the hot weather so in a

sentence uh did you put a bunch of beers

in the cooler i forgot ice for the

cooler tide the next word is tide tide

is the level of the water the level of

the ocean water at different times of

day so if you are interested in this

sort of thing you might know about high

tide and low tide high tide means the

water level at the beach is high low

tide means the water level at the beach

is low so tide is

how high or low the water is in this

sentence uh the tide ebbed and revealed

a starfish ebbed means it went away a

little bit so tide is the flow of water

tan

so tan is uh

we use it as a noun like to get a tan in

a sentence it means that your skin turns

a darker color so um be careful there

are two words we use in english tan

means your skin gets a little bit darker

and we also use the word sun burn or

just burn

burn means your skin gets red it means

like it’s damaged it may be your skin

peels a bit so

in america anyway in the u.s anyway a

tan is usually considered a positive

thing many people want

tan skin but

sun burn where your skin is red and

damaged is bad so be careful those are

two different words we use to talk about

this the changing skin color i got a tan

last summer at the beach in this

sentence you got such a nice tan in

florida

snorkeling the next word is snorkeling

snorkeling is really really fun

snorkeling is swimming but you have a

like a hose you have a pipe

that you can breathe through as you swim

so you can you usually put goggles you

wear goggles as you’re swimming in the

ocean you can look down and see fish or

you can see things in the ocean but you

can still breathe so this is a really

fun thing to do to look at fish or just

to just to hang out and see a different

point of view i went snorkeling for the

first time maybe when i was 22 23. in

this sentence she bought goggles so that

she could go snorkeling in hawaii

flip flop the next word is flip flop

flip flop is a very common beach sandal

many people like to wear flip-flops in

everyday life too some people prefer not

to it’s up to you

like in california i know especially in

beach towns everybody just wears

flip-flops it’s very comfortable

so flip-flops kind of have an image of

being a little bit cheap or just very

very simple it’s the most basic possible

sandal why are they called flip-flops

because i always thought it was because

of the sound that they make

sound i guess maybe it sounds like

flip-flop in a sentence i usually don’t

wear flip-flops in this sentence these

flip-flops keep breaking

sunscreen

next word is sunscreen sunscreen or you

might also hear sun block these are

products you can put on your skin to

prevent a tan or to prevent a sunburn

sun screen so it’s a protection it’s a

protection against the sunlight i just

hit this screen so sunscreen is

quite important like it is said that

you should use sunscreen to prevent to

help prevent skin cancer in a sentence

i’m out of sunscreen i need to buy more

in this sentence mom i don’t need

sunscreen

bikini the next word is bikini bikini we

talked about um swimsuit a little bit

earlier but bikini is usually a swimsuit

for women and it’s

two pieces there’s a bottom half and an

upper half and oftentimes the the top

half of the bikini or sometimes the

bottom half you have to tie a knot or

you have to latch something i suppose if

you don’t tie it carefully it can create

a problem like it could fall off so

bikini it’s a popular style of swimsuit

for women are you going to wear your

bikini to the beach tomorrow in this

sentence my bikini came undone in front

of everyone it was so embarrassing five

sentence patterns that you can use as a

beginner of english let’s go the first

expression that you can use as a

beginner is personally i think that or i

would just use i think that personally

makes it sound a little bit more polite

i think you can use this to introduce an

opinion for example personally i think

that pizza is amazing personally i think

that dinosaurs

would have been delicious

personally i think that

cars should be

made

enjoy

with friends

okay i’m gonna edit there

personally i think that you shouldn’t

worry about it yes that’s probably a

much more useful sentence than dinosaurs

would be delicious

the next expression is what does blah

blah blah mean so where here is the word

you don’t know so for example what does

pasta mean what does

stegosaurus mean so a word like

stegosaurus is a really strange word

that you probably don’t know stegosaurus

is a type of dinosaur we’re on a very

dinosaur is i don’t know

jurassic we’re on a jurassic adventure

at the moment so this is a pattern you

use when you don’t know uh when you

don’t know the meaning of the word and

you would like someone to explain it to

you so if you say what does stegosaurus

mean then someone can say oh it’s a

dinosaur it’s kind of like it’s a sort

of short guy it has a bunch of spikes on

its back and it has a long tail and it

gets into a fight with the tyrannosaurus

rex if you saw the movie fantasia by

disney

okay

in this sentence what does complication

mean it means problem okay

the next pattern you can use is can you

tell me more about blah blah blah so on

a topic that you would like more

information about you can say can you

tell me more about the soccer game last

week can you tell me more about the

plan for the party next week so

something you would like more

information about you can say can you

tell me more about this thing okay so in

a sentence can you tell me more about

your

sandwich options

that is a useful sentence that is a

useful sentence okay in this sentence

here we don’t have that back home can

you tell me more about it

this is use the reverse pattern okay

uh the next expression is

if it were up to me if it were up to me

i had to teach this in a class a couple

weeks ago actually if it were up to me

means if i could make the decision if

this was my if this were my decision

uh blah blah blah so meaning if i could

make the choice this is what i would do

but one point here is the nuance is it

is not my decision this is not my

decision but

if it were my decision i would do blah

blah blah so for example if it were up

to me every day would be saturday

but it’s not right so

that’s that’s always the underlying

that’s always the kind of basic

nuance of this phrase some this decision

is not mine okay here the example is if

it were up to me

i would

take my boss to dinner

oh my

things just got scandalous

the next pattern is i feel like blah

blah you can use i feel like when you

introduce a suggestion or something that

you would like to do especially for food

drinks or activities so for example i

feel like coffee i feel like italian

food i feel like an action movie there’s

some activity or something you would

like to do at the end of this pattern i

feel like bowling this afternoon

something needs to go here some sort of

activity

of course

you can use this expression to talk

about your feelings i feel like

something but this something must be a

noun it must be a noun like if you feel

really great i feel like a million bucks

for example

if you feel really bad i feel like

garbage

that’s a nice expression that somehow

just came out of my head anyway

you can use this in two ways but this

must be completed with a noun phrase at

the end of the sentence 10 things to do

in the summer in the united states so

let’s go to travel abroad to travel

abroad to travel abroad abroad means

outside of your country so meaning to

travel to a place not the united states

in my case please don’t forget to in

this expression so many of my students

will say this

summer i’m going europe you need to use

two before the place you do not however

need to use two before there so like

students sometimes will say uh i want to

go to there you can’t do that you have

to use two before the specific name of a

place there is not a specific place so

you don’t need to use two keep that one

in mind to relax at the beach

to relax at the beach ah that sounds

fantastic right now to relax at the

beach you go to the beach and you just

relax there you lay in the sun you go

swimming maybe you drink a beer you get

a tan if you would like to do that of

course some people don’t you put on

sunscreen whatever it is that you like

to do at the beach you just do that and

enjoy in a sentence i would rather relax

at the beach than have a really active

vacation

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