Full English Class 02 Learn Words Expressions Thought Organization and More

howdy welcome to this week’s weekly live

english class i feel like i’ve seen you

so much this week but i’m so excited

about our class

this afternoon for this week’s topic now

you guys know what we like to do

whenever i do a live class i love for

you guys to come in and say hello

it’s good to see all of you andre

what’s going on a virtual hug for you

as well my brother good to see you good

to see you

erica hey good to see you it

is a good day it’s a good

time to study english and i’m so happy

that you all

are here hey annalisa good to see you

i’m always happy

to see you here all right so i know our

other family members are going to be

joining us

soon um if you guys can share the link

the academy

link inside of the telegram group

because i know that some people

may not have had the link just share

with them the bulletin board link and

then they can come and join us so i see

we have some of us are here already oh

marcella

hey good to see you marcella it’s always

nice to see you

all right so again guys again in the

telegram group

don’t sell the don’t share the youtube

link but share the bulletin board

link okay so those that may not have

known where it was

will now know jasmine hey jasmine good

to

see you jael hey nice to see you

i hope you had a wonderful wonderful day

all right so again guys we are gonna

have our class today i know that many of

you know i’m doing the business english

marathon with

teacher julie that’s at six o’clock but

i said you know what

i don’t want our family members to miss

out on our weekly live class so i said

that’s okay

i prepared a class for you guys and i

know that you are going to enjoy

it monique hey monique how are you good

to see you

i am doing well i oh thank you so much i

look like i’m feeling well i am feeling

amazing all right guys so we’re going to

jump into our class for

today because we’re gonna be talking

about challenges

um i wanna again ask you all if you can

please put the link in the telegram

group

the link to the bulletin board thanks so

much hey marina i’m feeling good how are

you feeling

it is good to see you so good to see you

all right guys so we’re going to just

jump right into our class

this evening and we are going to see

what we have

in store for you this evening

alright so oh hold on one second guys

it’s just showing my desktop

hold on one second guys i’m going to

switch this so that you guys actually

see more than just the comments there we

go all right

now we’re all good hold on one second

let’s take this off the screen

there we go hey paola good to see you

good to see you paola i mentioned a

moment ago i think you already did it if

you could post the link for the tele in

the telegram group the link

in the academy for the class thank you

so much

murray hey good to see you good to see

you erica teacher tiffany you look so

wonderful full of energy

thank you so much i have lots of energy

the funny thing is

i actually went to bed very late last

night and woke up very early

uh it was funny yesterday during the

class the business english marathon

someone made a comment and said teacher

tiff now you know

it’s about to be past your bedtime it

was almost nine o’clock

he watched it late and i laughed because

you all know that i go to bed early

but thank you so much for that

compliment erica thank you so much

all right now we are ready to jump into

our topic

for this evening hey beside good to see

you good to see you

welcome welcome all right so this

evening guys we’re going to be talking

about

challenges but you know how our class is

broken down

five different sections we’re going to

have the introduction then vocabulary

words

then expressions and idioms thought

organization and discussion questions so

today’s topic guys our topic is

challenges so here’s the first question

what are some

common challenges people face again

what are some common challenges

people face sorry guys i don’t have to

turn my fan on

all right there we go okay what are some

common challenges

people face sorry i had to turn my fan

on it gets a little hot in my office

all right up somebody else came through

josie

hey how are you thank you so much i

really appreciate that i really

appreciate

that alright guys so the question again

what are

some common challenges that people

face so maybe you can think about

yourself think about some common

challenges you

face on a regular basis you know in the

world today again because of the

pandemic we’re all kind of

experiencing some challenges but what

are some

common challenges that people face here

we go

monique says to eat that’s true many

people

struggle to find food to eat doesn’t

matter what country you go to there are

people who are starving

or having a hard time finding food to

eat

jasmine says getting a job and following

a diet whoa

jasmine you know it’s true my friends

and i have this

joke because of the pandemic we’ve all

kind of gained

a few pounds so we call the weight

covered weight

like pandemic belly i have a pandemic

belly

so yes it’s hard to stick to a diet

that’s a challenge all right monique

says to earn

money exactly jael says to work

out very true erica says i am challenged

to learn

english and to finally speak english

fluently very true

paula says some have challenges to go to

college because

of financial problems very true you know

in life there are so many

challenges that we face this is why i

brought up this topic for this

week for our class because you need to

learn how to speak about this topic in

english

it’s such a common topic no matter where

you go alright

marcella says learning a second language

very

true maurice is definitely working out

these days

we’re on the same page alright annalisa

says if you ask me

the common challenges people face is

waking up in the morning and feeling

happy

even though all i think the rest is

going to come up all right

john says to have a job true people are

struggling nowadays some people have

lost

their jobs because of the pandemic and

some people can’t even

find jobs because of the pandemic so

there are many

challenges that we experience on a

regular basis so

we’re going to start off as always with

the vocabulary section and i want to

teach you all three

very useful vocabulary words that you

can use

immediately when you’re speaking about

challenges

marina says my biggest challenge is to

control myself

when i’m angry yes that is a big

challenge i’m short tempered and

sometimes

it’s quite hard to control my feelings

very well stated very well stated i

think many people struggle with that as

well

marina marceline says hello marceline

to learn more english and to be able to

speak really well

yes it is a challenge and remember i’ve

told you all so many times

i can speak korean but i also started

learning korean as an adult

so the challenge was real so i totally

understand the challenges that you all

face as it relates to english

so let’s get started with some

vocabulary words here we go

so the first vocabulary word i want us

to look at hold on someone asked me a

question

alessandra said how are you doing i

am doing amazing i actually just had a

wonderful smoothie right before class

so yes alessandra i’m doing great i hope

you are doing great

too all right so our first vocabulary

word is

obstacle again obstacle now i want us to

practice this pronunciation really

quickly so after me

obstacle good again

obstacle excellent now the last time at

a regular pace

obstacle good job good job

now the word obstacle just refers to

something that blocks you so that

movement

going forward or action is prevented

or made more difficult so for example if

i’m driving in my car right

i’m speeding down the highway i like to

drive fast guys i’m a safe driver but i

do like

to drive fast so i’m driving down the

highway right

and then i see that there’s construction

going on right

it’s way ahead of me and i see that they

have put some

blocks in the road those blocks are

obstacles why because i want to keep

going forward but i have to slow down

and move

out of the way right so that’s a

physical obstacle

we can also have other obstacles that

inhibit us from going forward

you’re learning english well sometimes

your job can be an obstacle you have to

work so many

hours so obstacle is a very useful word

here we go analysis says if you ask me

the common challenges

oh i got you oh okay and feel happy in

spite of everything going bad or being

bad got you

ali hey ali uh i’m good what’s good with

you

thank you so much ali andrei says a big

obstacle when you don’t understand

what’s happening in a conversation

oh a big obstacle to speaking in english

fluently

is when you don’t understand what is

going on in the conversation okay

not being able to understand all right

so let’s look at some example sentences

and you guys know as always

you can put your example sentences in

the comment section as i go over the

examples

now again right after this class i’ll

have the business english marathon

so we’ll still have our full class but i

won’t be doing as many examples

on the screen for you all like i’ll show

you the examples but i want you guys to

try to type

just a little bit faster today so that

we can get through our class

and learn everything alright so again

type your sentences

for the word obstacle here are the

examples first

money seems to be an obstacle for many

people great example think about it

you want to get a nicer house you want

to

move to another place but you don’t have

enough money

so it’s hindering you or stopping you

from moving forward

money can be an obstacle all right here

we go hey

excellent marceline says money can be an

obstacle if you cannot pay

your tuition okay money can be an

obstacle you can’t pay your tuition

got you something’s obstacle erica says

something’s obstacle came from

our form of thinking ah okay sometimes

the way we

think can be an obstacle again

sometimes the way we think can be an

obstacle

all right that is true though very true

all right next we have this one right

here

when you encounter an obstacle think

hard and ask a more mature person

for guidance alright this is another

great example

when you encounter or when you uh come

upon

an obstacle ask someone older or wiser

for help

hey christy good to see you too always

good to see you

welcome welcome all right and the last

example is right here

two large obstacles when beginning your

own business

are time and money

this is so true when i first started the

academy in

january of 2019 i was working extremely

long

hours why because it was the very

beginning of

the academy and i wanted to make sure

everything was great and i wanted to

produce more resources

so i spent lots of time so one of the

main obstacles was

time i didn’t have enough time so yes

this is a very good example of how to

use obstacle

mourinho says our life is full of

obstacles every now and then it’s hard

to

jump them to jump over them or to get

over them or get through them

but we need to go on very true erica

says

sometimes the way we think

can be an obstacle sometimes the way we

think can be an obstacle remember the s

off

at the end of sometimes jael says the

lack of knowledge in a new

job can be an obstacle got you

marcella says when you are out of the

woods it’s because you overcame the

obstacles ah

i like how you use that idiom when you

are out of

the woods it’s because you overcame the

obstacles

paula says money can be an obstacle in a

lot of different situations

good alum hey good to see you

no worries we’re glad that you’re here i

don’t find the link of the live class

okay remember guys the live class

is always you go to the bulletin board

and i have it set up

every month it’s set up right there so

you don’t have to wait

even for next week’s class and the

following week you go to the bulletin

board in the academy

all right analisa the the biggest

obstacle

so not the most big but the biggest

obstacle at university

is passing an exam in time or on time

okay

all right monique says to face obstacles

in life i always try to keep calm

and i make the list oh a list of the

pros and cons here we go

to face obstacles in life i always try

to keep calm and i make

a list of the pros and cons all right

erica my pleasure all right marcelo says

lack of money

is an obstacle to travel okay is an

obstacle

for many people who want to travel lack

of money is an obstacle for many people

who want to travel

hey shell good to see you the new mother

faced an obstacle to provide

time for her newborn baby she didn’t

have enough time

got you hey carmen good to see you

sometimes bad behavior could be an

obstacle to your knowledge or to gaining

knowledge

good example alright so again guys

obstacle is a very good word to use when

you’re speaking about

challenges all right so again keep

typing your examples it’s good to

practice

we’re going to move on to the next word

okay here we go

the next word we have dealing with

challenges is

decision making now you notice it’s two

words kind of put together like

hyphenated

but again it’s a very good i guess

combination word or hyphenated word to

use

decision making now this just means

the process of making choices

again both words you all know decision

and making right very simple when you

put them together they become very

useful so let me show you some sentences

using decision making here we go

first she plays no part

in daily decision making at

work so you see what’s happening right

it’s not a verb

saying ah there’s a decision-making team

these individuals normally make

decisions at our job

she’s not a part of that team or a part

of the process

so we can say she plays no part in daily

decision making

at work now next here we go

for children to feel empowered they must

be part of the family decision

making process again for children to

feel empowered

or apart they need to be a part of the

family decision making process

again they need to help make the

decisions i have a question really

quickly guys

do you agree with this statement for

children to feel empowered they must be

part of the family decision making pro

process real quick i’m very curious in

your own country

in your culture is it normal for

children to give their opinions this is

something that is very interesting

because i lived in korea

and in korea the opinions of children

no their opinions didn’t matter right

because it’s based on a hierarchical

system their culture whoever’s older

kind of has the more

is more important when it comes to

making decisions but in your own culture

do the opinions of children really make

a difference i’m very curious to know

how you all how your country is the

culture in your country do the opinions

of children

really matter in your country just real

quick you guys can let me know if the

opinions of children matter in your own

country

all right and we’ll keep looking at the

sentences but i wanted to know

about your culture all right and last

the bank gave decision-making authority

to individual businesses okay individual

businesses

so the individual businesses could make

the choices

could make the decisions and it says the

bank gave

decision-making authority to

individual businesses now again i think

it’s taking a little while to come

through but remember the question i was

asking you all is

in your own culture do children have the

right to

give their opinions um in america

when i was younger um it was not the

case

like people didn’t really ask kids um

what they thought about certain

situations they asked them their

you know how was their day but it was

mainly the adults things have

changed a lot over time but what about

your culture marina says

yes my father and brother don’t want to

listen to my opinion

but i always keep my voice or voice my

opinion i always voice my opinion

and my mom supports me okay good very

interesting anybody else again

tell us about your culture uh do

children play a part

in the decision making process

jae hell says it’s not very common dads

always decide and have the last word

usually they don’t ask the children

about their opinions

yeah okay that makes sense i see paula

says decision making has turned hard

during this pandemic because everything

is unstable

and uncertain yes decision making has

become

difficult during this pandemic because

everything is unstable

and uncertain yes gene kelly hey

says my daughter plays a good role in

decision making

ah for festivities okay

analysis says here we give a lot of

importance to

children they are in the center or at

the center of

every decision the life revolves or our

lives revolve around

children okay nice very interesting

erica says i like to hear

my children’s opinions nice monique says

it depends on the generation in my

country back in the day

i like how you use that children

couldn’t make decisions but now

parents try to listen to them as here in

europe oh you’re in

you’re in europe wait a minute monique

where are you where are you right now or

are you saying like they do in europe

let me know what country you’re

again right now christy says nowadays in

peru

young parents ask children for their

opinion

times are changing aren’t they marcella

says i think that it’s changing in my

country

years ago kids weren’t asked about

family decisions

now we are evolving and many parents are

caring about

teaching decision making skills to their

children very well stated marcella very

well stated

shell says absolutely yes as a filipino

citizen it’s important to hear the

opinions of the children

with respect very interesting shell

marceline says she took a decision

making for her next

wedding she decided to take a

decision-making role

for her next wedding sometimes they

don’t want the young people to give

their opinions

um and make decisions okay i see how you

combine them okay

all right andre says nowadays i always

listen to my daughter

her suggestion is always welcome i

always here we go

i always welcome her suggestions

i do that because my father never

did that for me all right okay oh

monique you’re in belgium okay nice

nice alam says nowadays people start

giving kids the right to make decisions

okay

you all see how the times are changing a

lot right back in the day

kids didn’t take part in the

decision-making process but now

kids are really a big part of the

decision-making process in families

all right let’s see let’s see um

shells is a good manager will try to

involve everyone in the decision making

process

great sentence great sentence alessandra

says in brazil it’s not very

common but i usually do that because i

like to listen to their opinions

got you murray hey moray murray says

it’s generally the same situation

um oh okay in turkey you have the same

situation as korea

but i’m lucky that i have the greatest

parents they’re acting like the world is

revolving around me and my sister oh

that’s beautiful

marina says the hardest decision-making

process is how to spend your precious

time

yes very hard decision powerless is

related to kids decision making

related to kids decision making in my

country i think depend it depends on the

state

some states are very old school good use

and the parents are really authoritarian

but others are similar to the us very

interesting

all right a few more carmen says in my

country the children are not usually

allowed to participate in decision

making

uh in the decision making process in

their family

got you jasmine says my mother never

asked me what i wanted to eat

right here’s a funny story guys talking

about that jasmine so jasmine when i was

growing up

my mom well she cooks really well the

food was always good but there were some

times when i didn’t want to eat what she

made

but she said you’re going to eat what’s

on the plate so let’s say if i didn’t

finish the food

she said no problem you’re going to eat

it for lunch i come back to lunch

exact same plate of food if i didn’t

finish it she said no problem you’re

going to eat it for dinner

so it was kind of this idea of you’re

going to eat what’s given to you no

matter what

but things have really changed currently

like in the present day kids now

have more uh more

power in the family so it’s very

interesting how things have changed

very interesting all right last one john

says the board is in charge of decision

making

oh the board is in charge of decision

making

in the company or at the company okay

good very good

all right so we all understand how to

use decision making in a sentence again

when you’re speaking about challenges

you can also use this

in a sentence now last here’s the last

one guys

mind set mind set now this is a person’s

way of thinking and their opinions

so i can say wow ja hell

you have a good mindset or wow shell you

have a good

mindset right so again it’s just a

person’s

way of thinking very simple but a very

useful word so

let me show you all how to use it in a

sentence here we go

having a fixed mindset

and being inflexible are detrimental to

one’s personal

growth ah let me explain this to you

really quickly you see that it says

a fixed mindset fixed mindset

well the word fixed means you can’t move

it for example

um let’s say uh

okay there’s a fan above me right now

right it’s

in the ceiling right i can’t move it

like i can’t push it and move it

anywhere

why because they’ve drilled holes in to

the ceiling

and put screws in it so it doesn’t move

so it’s a

fixed right it’s in a fixed position it

can’t be moved

so when we say a fixed mindset it’s

basically referring to someone who is

stubborn

right does not want to change their idea

they don’t want to

be flexible they don’t want to hear

anybody else so

again having a fixed mindset

and being inflexible are detrimental or

bad or harmful to one’s personal

growth now what about this one yuri

changed her mindset after years of being

close-minded now close-minded is

similar to fixed mindset close think

about this

close open close open

right now i’m i’m talking to you all

right but you can see that i’m kind of

open this is also a trick when you’re

giving a speech or when you’re speaking

people feel more comfortable the more

open you are

if i taught every class like this

hello everybody okay we’re gonna learn

you’d feel

very uncomfortable why because i’m

closed but as soon as i open up

hey guys you feel like you’re coming in

right

so that’s why we say close-minded

just means you don’t want anyone to come

in you don’t want anyone else’s ideas to

affect you

so yuri changed her mindset

or her way of thinking after years of

being closed-minded now i’m going to

give another example but remember guys

in the comment section try to make your

own sentence

using this word mindset again mindset

all right here’s the last one it’s

extraordinary

how hard it is to change the mindset

of the public and the press

it’s a very hard thing to change

people’s opinions

or to change the way people think right

the majority

that’s not easy right that’s a challenge

so i could say it really is a

challenge right trying to change the

mindset of the public

is a big challenge alright so again

in the comment section guys i want you

all to try to make your own

sentence right try to use the word

mindset

and figure out a way to talk about maybe

your situation

or what’s going on in the world and use

the word

mindset to do that okay all right so i

think you guys are thinking a lot

the comments are coming in a little bit

slower for this word

if it’s difficult let me know and i’ll

explain it a little bit more

okay all right but again as i wait for

you guys to write

here we go all right here we go here we

go all right

oh thank you marina tiff has the

oh tiff’s got the happiest mindset i’ve

ever seen thank you so much thank you so

much

gene kelly says sometimes it’s hard to

have a mindset on children decision

making

ah because they change their minds so

often okay

all right sometimes it’s hard to rely

on a child’s mindset or sometimes it’s

hard to respect

a child’s mindset because they change

their minds so

often or we can say when you are

thinking about the decision-making

process

it’s very hard to respect the mindset of

a child

because they change their minds so often

that was very long

but you can rewind later and write it

down all right

alam says having a positive mindset

helps you reach your goals easily good

job very true statement

paola says you can imagine how

hold up you can imagine how much your

mindset can affect your health and your

personal relationships okay

so i’ll change it for you you can

imagine

how much your mindset can affect your

health

and your personal relationships

shell says nowadays we need to shift our

mindset

to the blessings that we have instead of

the

obstacles in our lives oh i like that i

like that sentence

again i made some corrections but i like

the meaning it’s very good

murray says in my opinion traveling and

seeing new things that we’re not

familiar

with at all change changes

our mindset and broadens our mind okay

broadens our mind

christy says that man is really stubborn

no one could change his mindset

good job all right allam says coven 19

has changed people’s mindset very true

marcela says if you change your fixed

mindset

you’ll be able to face every single

obstacle very good be careful with the

spelling of obstacle

there’s no you but very good marceline

says with teacher tiffany

students are always happy and have a

good mindset

in class well i’m happy to hear that i’m

happy to hear that

all right analysis says the old man’s

mindset is is

different uh is different from the

younger man’s mindset

i think because the generation ah they

are from different generations

so for every season there will be a

different mindset i like the meaning of

your sentences

all right jael says having good habits

and a healthy

style or healthy lifestyle is a mindset

a little bit different so having good

habits

um let me see having good habits and a

healthy lifestyle is a mindset

um it’s kind of a practice so you can

say

um let’s see let’s see i know what

you’re trying to say

um it’s a good mindset like to try to

live healthy and to try to

make sure that you’re doing things well

um is a good mindset to have okay

focusing on living life um well and

eating healthy is a good mindset to have

okay all right and monique has a

positive mindset

uncovers great change good josie hey

josie says it’s hard to understand

who has a good mindset who has a good

mindset all right good job guys so again

the three words we went over again we

have

mindset decision making and obstacle all

right

these three now i want us to get into

the expressions all right i’ll get into

the expressions now again

expressions that’ll be useful when

you’re trying to talk about your

challenges

here’s one grasping at straws i’m going

to take a little sip of water really

quickly

now the word grasping right grasping

grasping literally just means to reach

for

and hold right to reach forward try to

reach for something and hold it right

grasping at straws now i just drank some

water

but sometimes you have a straw right and

you just suck it up

so grasping at straws what does this

mean this is a very useful expression

very useful

it means to make a desperate attempt

at saving something again to make a

desperate oh i really need to save this

i’m grasping at straws though

to make a desperate attempt at saving so

let me show you an example to this guys

here we go

the boss could see him grasping at

straws

to save his job so imagine again

currently because of covid so many

people have lost their jobs right

now imagine you’re in a situation and

your boss walks up to you and says hey

we’re gonna have to let about 10 people

go from this department so

we’re going to announce tomorrow who

those 10 people are

and you get really nervous so after the

boss walks away

you start thinking about oh man i’ve

done my job really well

you go to the boss’s office and you say

hey i just want to let you know that i

finished the project you gave me

i also did this last week i made sure

that i had everything in order

i wanted to make sure that you’re happy

with my job and everything that i’m

doing

i’m basically desperate i don’t want to

be let go you don’t want to be fired so

you’re grasping at straws to save

your job alright here’s another example

right here

i knew my mother was dying but i was

grasping at straws to save

her life i was trying desperately

to get her the best care the best doctor

the best facilities the best

medicine why because i didn’t want her

to die

so i was grasping at straws again trying

desperately attempting to save my mother

you can say grasping at straws again

think about that your family member your

mother your father husband

wife child someone is sick you don’t

want them to die that’s a

challenging situation so when you’re

trying to save that person or to do

something to

help eliminate their pain you can say

i’m grasping at straws to save their

life

make sense all right here we go last

example

is right here i tried to lie

but everyone knew i was wrong and only

grasping at straws again

making an attempt a desperate attempt to

make me believe something oh no no no

um i didn’t do that but everyone knows

wait a minute we know you’re lying

so grasping being desperate but everyone

knew that he or she

was lying all right so let’s see some

examples of this guys

grasping at straws put them in the

comments section here we go

annalisa says when we are wrong

sometimes we try to be right okay

okay i know what you’re saying um when

we are wrong

we start grasping at straws to make

things right

when we are wrong or when we are in the

wrong y’all can look that one up

when we are in the wrong we start

grasping at straws

to make things right okay all right good

example i just kind of corrected it for

you anna-lysa

all right anybody else again grasping at

straws try to make your own sentence

and put it in the comment section right

grasping at

straws all right let’s see i’m going to

go to the next expression but don’t

worry i’m just waiting

for the comments to come through i’ll

definitely put your sentence on

the screen all right here’s the next one

guys

last resort this means the only option

left now when i was preparing for

today’s class

and this expression came up i was so

happy

and i was happy because this is an

expression that americans

english speakers use on a regular

basis it’s very very important for you

to understand

this expression because if you’ve never

heard it before

you probably would have a hard time

guessing what it means

however telling you right now it means

the only

option left now we’re going to come back

to it because i see your sentences

coming through

here we go basak says she was just

grasping at straws trying desperately to

get out of trouble

excellent very good christie says

mother’s

pet was grasping at straws to save her

puppy

okay okay my mother’s pet or my mother’s

dog was grasping at straws

to save her puppy the baby was at the

top of the cliff

wow all right don’t worry anna-lysa it’s

okay remember what i told you all

earlier this week

mistakes prove that you’re improving

make

lots of mistakes that shows that you’re

trying so i don’t mind mistakes

at all it shows that you’re trying i

love you trying alright gene kelly says

the company that i work for

is downsizing i’m grasping at straws

to save my job so that i can pay my

mortgage

again go back and write down what i just

corrected for you alright

good job marceline says she found a new

job so she is grasping at straws

to not lose her place or lose her job or

lose

her house because she found a new job so

she’s trying not to lose her house all

right

marcella says the baby was crying

desperately he was just

grasping at straws to get to his mother

or to get his mother to hold him

okay islam says people around the world

are grasping at straws to save their

lives due to covet 19

or grasping at straws to save oh you

mean their lies physically yes to save

their lives right marina says when we

feel threatened by something or someone

we grasp at straws until the last

second very good paula says he had lost

the argument but he kept grasping at

straws

good good very good all right so

everyone

understands how to use grasping at

straws in a sentence

now this one we’re looking at right now

is the last

resort again the only option left so

here’s the first example sentence

i really wanted to attend the conference

but i ended up missing my flight which

was

my last resort all right

the last option that he or she had was

to get on the flight and fly out

but he or she missed the flight

and that flight was their last option or

only option their last

resort all right what about this one

right here

experts say warning labels like on food

or products

are a last resort or an only option left

when a hazard can’t be designed out of

a product for example think about bleach

right

we use bleach many times to clean things

in our homes right

now bleach is very very dangerous if you

drink it

or if it gets in your eyes it can really

cause a lot of harm

but bleach is necessary the ingredients

in bleach

are important so there are hazards

on written on the actual bottle that say

please do not

drink this or do not put this close to

your eyes

why because they had to put the

ingredients in that was their only

option so the warning labels are a last

resort like hey this is the only option

we have

these ingredients have to go in this

product so our only option is to

slap a sticker on there that says hey

don’t put this in your mouth all right

the last

resort all right here we go last one is

as a last resort teachers could always

open an online classroom with their

internet provider

or school again the only option left

the only option available we say the

last resort

all right so i want you guys to think

about this this expression

how can you use last resort in a

sentence think really hard

how can you use last resort in a

sentence again

i’ve had some students that have told me

teacher i really needed to learn

english i tried many other places i

tried institutes and other things but

i saw your academy and i said hey this

is my only option

your academy was my last resort and i’m

so happy

i decided to join so you see they’ve

tried everything else and then they

decided to join our family

this was their last resort but they’re

happy all right so

let me see some sentences that came

through here we go murha wit hold on one

second merhawwitz says

i’m grasping at straws to take care of

my family i have to work hard

good example gene kelly says joining

tiffany’s academy is my last resort to

improve my english

skills good notice i corrected a few

things though

monique says i still have the order i

still have some challenges in my life

and i’m grasping at straws to fix them

or to overcome all of them to overcome

all of them

shell says he’s desperately grasping at

straws to

explain why he failed

as a leader why he failed as a leader

yes christy the last resort basak says

she is only interested because he is the

last resort

good example all right paula says asking

for more time should be our last resort

we need to work harder good example

paola

marceline says excuse me peter lost

everything in the fire which happened

this morning he chooses bank of america

ah okay so he chose bank of america

the last resort as a last resort to

borrow money to repair his house

got you alright the english course is my

last resort oh this english course is my

last resort got you don’t worry you’re

in the right place

annalisa says you are my last resort to

improve my english

please make a miracle hey listen you

know i’ll give a hundred and ten percent

as long as you’re giving 110 percent to

you will succeed but again anna-lysa

you’re very active in the group and i’m

always happy so you will do it

all right christy says i had to warm up

the leftover spaghetti the day before

yesterday it was my last resort or it

was the last resort got you

karma says as a last resort i decided to

try a lottery

try the lottery to make money to try the

lottery to make money

alright two more alam says my last

resort is to improve my

english so as to make my dream come true

good

marina says joe biden and kamala harris

are the last resorts to save the us

yeah yeah good job guys good

job all right we’re gonna look at our

last expression before we go to our

discussion question okay

all right here’s the last expression

again a very useful one

back against the wall back against the

wall now this means to have very serious

problems that limit the ways in which

you can act all right your back is

against the wall so for example let’s

say

you work at a company and they want you

to travel to another country

and you say i’m so sorry i’m not going

to be able to go

and they say why you say well i have

five kids

my husband and i were very busy we have

to take care of our kids

and we don’t have anyone to watch them

while i’m away because my husband is

also gone a lot

so i have no other option i can’t do

anything it’s a very serious problem and

i can’t act

my back is against the wall i can’t do

anything my job wants me to go but i

can’t go

my back is against the wall so here’s an

example sentence guys

he owes money to everyone so he really

has his back against

the wall now think about it

he owes tons of money but he doesn’t

have a lot of money

so he’s really in a serious situation a

big challenge and he’s limited i owe a

thousand dollars but i only have

ten dollars what am i going to do i

don’t know what to do this is a serious

problem or a serious challenge

my back is against the wall

in this situation there’s nothing i can

do all right right here

we knew that with so little money left

to finish the project

we had our backs against the wall again

where you’re presented with a situation

or a challenge

and you don’t see how you’re going to

overcome it you don’t see how you’re

going to get

out of it or through the situation you

can say my back is against

the wall all right and finally here we

go guys right here

with her back against the wall sharon

quickly answered the frantic phone call

all right frantic means like

oh my gosh oh my goodness it’s kind of

like panicking

we call that frantic right like when

someone calls 9-1-1 like there’s an

emergency

normally they’re not hello someone was

shocked

can you please help us no you usually

like

oh my goodness someone was shot we need

help please come help us

they’re very frantic a frantic phone

call

so with her back against the wall

sharon quickly answered the frantic

phone call

now this is an expression again that’s

very useful but i want you guys to try

to

make a sentence using this expression

again

back against the wall now i’m going to

wait for you all to send your sentences

and i’m going to do something a little

bit different you know we have to go

through things a little bit quicker

today because there’s another class

but i want to quiz you guys i didn’t do

this last week

what i’m gonna do is i’m gonna tell you

guys uh

kind of a quick story or a situation and

i want you

all to tell me which expression

uh let’s start with the vocabulary words

all right there are three vocabulary

words i want you to tell me which

vocabulary word

matches the situation then we’ll go to

another one and i’ll tell you a

situation and i’ll ask you to match the

proper expression all right

see how good you guys were listening how

well you understood what i taught

all right hold on one second a sentence

came through all right again oh no this

is for last resort

again i’m looking for sentences using

back against

the wall right back against the wall

take about two or three

um okay i see what you’re doing

muradwood says when your house

started burning go out fast as a last

resort

leave the house okay when your house

catches on fire

go out or leave the house that’s your

last resort as opposed to trying to put

the fire out okay

paula says jj uh oh i love your examples

of frantic

thank you all right and elisa says

when my back is against the wall

my adrenaline goes up and i do

everything better hey

yeah that is true all right alam says in

2020

the world had its back against the wall

due to the coronavirus okay that makes

sense in 2020 the world

had its back against the wall due to the

coronavirus

gene kelly says unemployment puts so

many people’s

backs against the wall because they are

deeply in debt

notice how i changed a few things so

later on rewind and then write down the

way i changed it all right

all right two more and then i’ll give

you guys some example situations

marina says my mom is uh my mom’s back

is against the wall because she wants to

travel

oh i think it cut your sentence off but

i’ll wait till you write the rest

jasmine says he owes money to everyone

so his back

is against the wall all right so his

back is against the wall all right

okay guys now i’m gonna remind you i’m

gonna type in the comment section again

the vocabulary words remember the

vocabulary words we had

were let’s see again obstacle

all right then we had decision making

and we had what was the last one hold on

obstacle decision making

uh-oh guys your teacher forgot what the

last one was i have so many things

running through my mind right now

okay mindset all right and the last one

is

mind set all right so i’m going to give

you guys some examples and i

want you to tell me which word

matches okay which word matches here we

go picking from one of the vocabulary

words

oh hold on a sentence came through paula

says a lot of government

workers a lot of government workers have

their backs against the wall because of

the world crisis remember there’s one

government

but the people that work for the

government have their backs against the

wall

all right and marcella says he got his

back against the wall

when he lost all his money at the casino

all right

his back was against the wall because he

lost all of his money at the casino

all right so here we go guys i’m going

to give you guys two situations before

we uh go to our discussion question

all right here’s the first situation

again

listen to the situation and then tell me

which vocabulary word

matches the situation here we go um

i have many friends many friends um

they’re great people

great individuals um but i have this one

friend

she’s really really awesome now this

friend

no matter what the situation is no

matter how big of a challenge

she’s experiencing she’s always so

positive she always looks at the bright

side of situations

she always tries to encourage me and

other people no matter what’s going on

and we also encourage each other i

really like the way she

thinks she’s a positive way of thinking

she’s always

optimistic i really like her positive

what’s the vocabulary word pick from one

of the three we learned today

talking about my friend she’s always

thinking positively i really like the

way she thinks

she has a positive yes paola you got it

very good

she has a positive mindset excellent

marcella you got it as well

she has a positive mindset very good

shell got it excellent annalisa

excellent marina

excellent you guys got it very good

murray you got it

excellent very good alam excellent job

very good

gene kelly very very good christy hey

you guys all got it correct excellent

excellent

but stop very good andre’s like yeah

it’s me very good

excellent all right i’ll give you guys

one more now this time i’m gonna give

you a situation and i want you to find

out

which expression matches the situation

now the expressions again

grasping at straws last resort

and back against the wall alright

so here we go let me think of a very

difficult situation

all right okay so this is what happened

um

my friends and i we were going to go on

a trip together right we wanted to go on

a trip together

um so we all gathered money and we all

we each had a hundred dollars so it’s

about five friends of five hundred

dollars right

and we were trying to decide what to do

uh

and we also were trying to find out how

to get to our destination

so we had three choices we could either

rent a car rent a van

or we could actually rent an

rv an rv is kind of the larger truck or

larger van that has like a shower

bathroom and kitchen area in it the

thing is we only had 500

and when we looked up the prices we

realized that

the car was our only option

so even though we wanted to get a van we

realized hey

we only had one option and that one

option was the car

so our only option was the car which

means the car

was our what’s the expression

the car was our last option our only

option i gave you a hint

the only option was the car so what’s

the expression the car was our

what’s the expression we learned today

that means our only

option only one option left

yes excellent paola said last resort

very good

marcella last resort excellent shell

last resort good

marina excellent guys annalisa good

jasmine excellent alum excellent

josie good job christy good job and

gene kelly i think the end part of the

word cut off but i think you got it last

resort excellent job oh there you go you

typed it right now good good

excellent job so we see again that the

last resort is a very useful

expression guys you all are amazing oh

you got it too andre good job good job

last resort and also monique excellent

job excellent

now i’m looking at the time uh we’re

gonna go into our last

uh part of the discussion question and

again remember the discussion question

is where i want you guys to record a

video clip and put it

in our telegram group but let me go back

to my screen and we’re going to see what

the discussion question

is here we go all right so our

discussion question for today guys is

right here

i want you to answer this question the

question is

what do you do when faced with a

challenge

at work again what do you do when faced

with a challenge

at work now again i told you guys at the

beginning

only for today i do apologize we’re

gonna have to end

now um because i have to get prepared

for the business english marathon

but this is the question guys what do

you do when faced with a challenge

at work now last week i was so impressed

with you all

so many of you all accepted the

challenge i put

to you all to record yourself either a

video

or an audio clip answering the questions

so again i told you i do see the

messages

even though i don’t respond i do see the

messages in the group

so i want you all to answer this

question what do you do when faced with

a challenge

at work i want you to record your voice

or record a video clip of yourself very

quick video clip

answering the question what do you do

when faced with a challenge at work for

example for me i could say

whenever i’m faced with a challenge at

work i like to sit down

and write notes i want to process what’s

actually going on

and writing notes actually helps me

overcome the challenge

done you see it can be quick but i want

you to again either record a video clip

or record an audio clip answering this

question

right here what do you do when faced

with a challenge

at work now that’s your immediate

challenge for today for right now

alright

now the other questions you have for

this week to discuss

with your partners are right here

here we go these are the questions

dealing with challenges you have

challenges faced at work

challenges faced in life and also

challenges in other situations

very useful discussion questions and i

noticed right before we came on i think

paola you posted a

zoom link i think it was around 12 30. i

told you guys i see everything

i i noticed that you guys kind of met

via zoom so excellent i’m so happy when

you guys meet on zoom

you can do that this week meet on zoom

and talk about these questions um

let me see hey my pleasure my pleasure

show my pleasure

jasmine says what do you do when faced

with a challenge at work record our

voice or video thank you for writing

that jasmine yes

definitely so i know today a lot of our

family members weren’t able to join us

live

so if you guys again those of you who

are here as soon as we end

please go directly to the telegram group

record your voice

or record a video clip so that other

students will realize oh man we missed

out

but we can still participate in this

activity by recording themselves

answering the question all right

guys thank you so much i appreciate you

guys for understanding i had to kind of

go through this class a little faster

than usual

um but i do hope you guys learned a lot

so i’m gonna end our class here again

thank you guys all for joining

remember these are the questions and

you’ll find them in the academy

remember the link is in the academy

again you can find it on the bulletin

board

and you can practice those questions

with your partners

alright guys thank you again for joining

you