Advanced English Lesson Chocolate Shop Speaking Vocabulary Grammar Pronunciation

hi i’m vanessa from speak English with

vanessa calm today I have some good news

and some bad news

let’s talk about it the good news is

that you’re going to have a sneak peak

at the February lesson set for The

Fearless fluency Club we are going to go

inside the chocolate shop where my

husband Dan works you’re going to see

the chocolates we’re going to interview

and talk with the owner of the chocolate

shop and then we’re going to go into the

factory and we’re going to take a look

at how all of the chocolates are made

this is an extra special lesson so I’m

going to give you a sneak preview now so

that you can see what is going on in the

fearless fluency Club and learn English

with me hi everyone I’m here with Dale

who is the owner of the French fried

chocolate lounge and we’re really lucky

to talk to her today about story and how

you came to be the owner of this awesome

place so would you like to just briefly

introduce yourself

sure I’m Jan Ratigan my husband and I

started this business almost 10 years

ago together call in Asheville ten years

or so how did you get to be in Asheville

well we lived together in Costa Rica for

two years

whoa how did you get to coast through

time okay we’ll start at the very

beginning okay the beginning of the

beginning the beginning of the beginning

was in Minneapolis

let’s get something to eat

oh I’m doing great well it’s a little

cold today but I see you’ve got awesome

ice cream here what do you recommend

what are these these are actual cacao

pods

they’ve been dehydrated and they’re sent

to us from Costa Rica Nicaragua Peru and

Guatemala and they are pretty tough and

you can hear the food and the beans

which we make our chocolate whip will

grind up the chocolate are a little dry

that business and turn it into that and

then it is permanent it feels a flips up

so that’s the smaller set positive yeah

I guess yeah along with this great

conversation video for the month of

February if you join The Fearless

fluency Club you’re going to learn some

great expressions in a vocabulary video

with my husband and I we talk about each

word back and forth so that you can see

another conversation and you can hear

two perspectives this month in February

we’re going to talk about some idioms

like lighting a fire under me and also

you’ll learn three ways to use go

through something you’ll learn about

seventeen to twenty new expressions that

were used in this conversation the next

expression is to work out and it’s not

this kind of workout it is for something

to happen in a positive way to be

successful to be successful yes so in

the video with Jo

she said that they bought an abandoned

farm but it didn’t work out to live on

the farm they wanted to live on the farm

but it didn’t work out maybe the house

wasn’t stable enough for them to live in

or it was too far away or something

something didn’t work out and they

couldn’t live there

yeah and I would say this phrase kind of

means that you try to do it doesn’t mean

that you didn’t try it means you really

worked hard but it just didn’t work it

didn’t work out yeah or it did work out

so if you’re trying to ask that girl out

on Valentine’s Day and she says no when

your friends ask you what happened what

happened you could say oh it didn’t work

out

are you gonna just rub your shoulders

and say it just didn’t work out it just

didn’t work out no yeah and can you

explain that word that you just said

it’s not just shrug shrug track that’s

like I don’t know it’s no big no big

deal no big deal or as a gesture

oftentimes we just move our bodies

without saying anything or just go hmm

so this means hmm it’s not a big deal

but it didn’t work out

so what about for you in your life what

is something that has work to help for

you or maybe something that didn’t work

out well a lot of things have worked out

for me

luckily yeah I have a I have a good

relationship

now wonderful our relationship worked

out well for Valentine’s Day

only bruh Valentine every day and when

we went to teach English in Korea we put

a lot of work in to go to Korea and it

all worked out

yes so we put a lot of work into it and

it worked out it was successful sure

what about something that didn’t work

out something negative it doesn’t have

to be too serious either it could be I

tried to cook dinner and it didn’t work

out well I’ve had I’ve had a number of

jobs that didn’t work out I worked as a

photographer for a a company but it was

kind of a bad company where you would

line people up and you would try to get

them to take a picture like stand here

please take a picture King and then you

would try to sell them the picture

that’s that job didn’t work out mostly

because I didn’t like that job yeah and

this seems like nowadays with cell

phones and everyone has their own camera

you don’t need to pay someone right to

take your picture this was before they

went on a like a river cruise

yeah on a cruise yeah but they didn’t

ask to have their picture taken it was

kind of the photographer’s job to push

it so I’m glad that didn’t work out I

don’t think you I was weird

you weren’t very happy with that Tom all

right let’s watch the clip where she

said this yeah so it didn’t work out to

live on the land but we still we held on

to it and the significant screw as we

decided to move to a tional yeah so it

didn’t work out to live on the land but

we still we held on to it and the

significant screw as we decided to move

to Asheville yeah so it didn’t work out

to live on the land but we still we held

on to it and the significant screw as we

decided to professional in the grammar

lesson we’re going to talk about a

really commonly used sentence structure

this is called if hypothetical sentences

let’s take a quick look at the lesson

and you can see what I’m talking about

and how you can use this in daily life

welcome to this month’s grammar lesson

where we’re going to talk about how to

make if hypothetical sentences before we

get started I want to ask you a question

because I would’ve see if you can answer

this question before we even talk about

it together

my question is let’s imagine that you

can only eat one food for the rest of

your life what food would you eat how

would you answer this sentence how would

you answer this question what food would

you eat try to answer it in a full

sentence instead of just saying

watermelon try to say a complete

sentence start the sentence with the

word if that’s my hint for right now

start with if and you can imitate the

verbs in my class the fourth video

lesson that you can download for the

month of February in the fearless

fluency Club is the pronunciation lesson

in the month of February we’re going to

practice shadowing

something that the owner of the

chocolate shop said she said four

important sentences we’re going to

slowly shadow each sentence we’re going

to emphasize each word and I’m going to

help you with the intonation with

linking and with each vowel sound let’s

take a look at that pronunciation lesson

jail said trust and transparency are a

big part of our values let’s slowly say

each word I’m going to pause a little

bit after each word and I want you to

repeat out loud after me are you ready

trust imitate my mouth here especially

the vowel sound

I think vowel sounds are the hardest

part about a lot of languages so let’s

imitate these vowels trust and

transparency are aa big part of our

values huh this is a workout exercise

because we emphasized and we exaggerated

each vowel sound I hope that you can

take a look even use a little mirror and

see how your mouth compares to mind when

you’re saying this because Jael said

these so quickly I think it’s good to

take a step back and all say them slowly

for you so that we can practice let’s

take a look one more time at this

sentence I’m going to take it slowly and

if you have a little mirror take a look

at your lips and your tongue and make

sure that they’re open or wide or closed

at the same time as mine especially

focused on vowel sounds let’s say that

sentence one more time

to add all of these things all together

vocabulary grammar pronunciation I’ve

created a story this is a story using

different verb tenses but it’s also

using all of the elements that you’ve

learned in this lesson set so far you

can listen to the story you can read the

story you can answer some quick

questions about the story let’s take a

quick listen to what you’ll hear in the

February story jail and Dan had come up

with the crazy idea to quit graduate

school and move to Costa Rica and start

a new life graduate school

didn’t seem to be working out so it was

time to start over they decided to buy

an old school bus and finally of course

when you become a member of The Fearless

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you will meet other members and we have

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to ask me any questions and to practice

with other members it’s kind of lonely

to learn at home by yourself so I want

to create a community and this is a

beautiful place where you can feel

encouraged and get to know other members

who are learning English too well before

you get too worried there’s good and bad

news together it is that typically the

price for the fearless fluency Club is

27 US dollars per month this is

something that will be renewed each

month because I will give you a new

lesson set each month and of course you

can cancel whenever you like it’s just

your choice but this is $27 before

February 1st so if you join before

February 1st you can join for $27.00 per

month but if you join on February 1st or

after it for

ever it will be $35 per month

the price is increasing so I want to

give you a chance this is the little

good news I want to give you a final

chance to join at the original price if

you join before February 1st you can get

the original price and it will always be

the original price for you so if you are

already a member of The Fearless fluency

Club don’t worry if you joined before

February 1st don’t worry the price will

always be your starting price unless you

cancel and come back to the course

you’ll have to pay the new price but if

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your price is locked you will continue

with that price and if it’s the lower

price good news for you

that’s excellent how can you join The

Fearless fluency Club before the price

increases well there is a quick link in

the description below this video or you

can click on the screen here and you can

join the course and learn about

chocolate with us for the month of

February I hope to see you there bye