How To Use INSTEAD OF Advanced English Expression Lesson

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welcome Douglas Kyle welcome it’s wrong

thanks for joining me Cooper from Turkey

I am from Indonesia you guys are awesome

Jacqueline Gabriela Jefferson hello

hello today we have a requested topic

one of the the members from The Fearless

fluency Club requested to talk about the

expression instead of and really we use

this all the time so I want to help you

use this in the way that we use it the

most often so you’re going to have a

chance to write sentences repeat it I’ll

give you some variations so that you can

say it how you feel best and if this

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shouldn’t below this video 5 steps to

becoming a confident English speaker I

want to help you become confident

fluency will come only after confidence

so let’s practice confidence using

instead of today instead of let’s start

with a basic question I want to know

what is something you don’t like doing

what is something that you would rather

do almost anything else what is

something you don’t like doing and I

will use one of these examples as we

practice instead of all right here on my

trusty clipboard what is something that

you’re not really not really a big fan

of something that you don’t like all

right Julian says I don’t like doing

exercises okay I think a lot of people

probably feel similarly especially at

the beginning of the year

kiyo says going to the dentist I don’t

like going to the dentist

oh yeah for me I don’t I don’t like I

always talk about the dishes but I’m not

a big fan of doing the dishes it’s okay

but it’s not my favorite activity I

would rather do a lot of other things

Oscar says I don’t like studying math Oh

Shawn says I don’t like taking an

examination okay hmm I don’t like doing

the dishes I don’t like studying Oh lots

of things I don’t like winter I don’t

like waking up early I’m not a big fan

of cleaning the house I don’t like to do

housework oh I see

so we’ve got a lot of things that people

don’t like doing let’s keep these in

mind let’s start with let’s start with a

simple word how about uh juyeon agrees

with me cleaning cleaning is something

that maybe you would rather

Jahnavi you’d rather spend time with

friends you’d rather do a lot of things

instead of instead of cleaning

so let me write our first Senate

structure here and I want to hear your

opinions all right let’s say instead

because we don’t like cleaning instead

of cleaning you can put anything here

instead of studying math instead of

waking up early instead of cleaning

I rather ah speak English great so let

me give you a little hint here we’ve got

this word is wood what alright so here

we have our first sample sentence with

instead of instead of something instead

of cleaning I’d rather speak English

instead of waking up early I’d rather

sleep so for you I want to know instead

of cleaning or you could change this if

you want instead of cleaning what would

you like to do what would you like to do

instead so we could also say instead of

cleaning I’d like to I’d like to speak

English

great great we’ve got a choice here oh

this is going to get a little

complicated I should have given some

more space I’d like to speak English so

you’ve got pretty much endless choices

these are just two choices Carlo says

instead of washing the dishes I’d rather

play the piano excellent Oh Sean says

instead of just watching video

lectures I’d rather attend the lectures

by myself and that’s kind of what I was

mentioning about these live lessons

instead of just watching the videos

you’d rather participate enjoying live

yourself

great Truong says instead of doing

housework I’d rather sleep oh oh I says

instead of learning French I’d rather

study English okay Douglas as instead of

watching TV I’d rather watch vanessa’s

videos from the fearless fluency Club

wow that’s a high compliment so I want

to give you a quick little tip about the

verb tenses the tenses that we’re using

so we need to use I ng here and then

here do you notice there’s no ing we

have just the regular verb so we need to

make sure for instead of like Julio says

instead of learning math learning

beautiful instead of learning math uh he

says oh I missed your comment instead of

learning math let’s say something

instead of learning math I’d like to

learn English great the first one has an

ing the second one doesn’t Oh Mohammed

says instead of studying English grammar

I’d rather listen to English beautiful

Rania says instead of cooking dinner I’d

like to read a story okay let’s take

this and twist it around a little bit

move it around a little bit

can we slip the two parts of this

sentence so the first part is instead of

cleaning and the second part is I’d

rather speak English let’s just put this

second part first

all right great I’d rather

study English over running out of space

I’d rather study English instead of

cleaning so we have the same the same

sentence

but we’ve just switched it no problem

this is excellent native speakers use

both of these all the time so if I

suggested to you

oh um Sean would you like to clean the

house this afternoon he could say to me

oh I’d rather do anything instead of

cleaning the house I’d rather go to the

dentist instead of cleaning the house

notice that we have the same verb tenses

here we have ing here we have ing and

then here we don’t just study so we

could flip this sentence as well

Chon says I’d rather dance instead of

sleeping oh you’ve got lots of energy

excellent

Julian says I’d rather watch movies

instead of reading books I’d rather

watch movies instead of reading books so

I hope with all of these examples you

can kind of get an idea of when we use

instead of instead of is gonna be

closest to the thing that you don’t like

to do the thing like cleaning or waking

up early all great jean-jacques says I’d

rather make my own croissants instead of

buying them and I’d rather eat your

homemade croissants then almost anything

else probably I bet they’re amazing so

for you this is something that you would

rather do and like I said we could

change this part instead of cleaning I’d

like to

speak English if we are speaking let’s

take this up to the next level if you’re

speaking to someone these are good for

speaking or writing but if you’re only

speaking maybe I give a suggestion like

a cherry says I’d rather walk instead of

running so if I said to cherry oh let’s

let’s run this afternoon I want to get

some exercise let’s run cherry could say

give me a giving me a suggestion uh

instead of running how about this is

gonna be a question how about we walk

instead of running how about we walk

this is a suggestion kind of question

instead of running how about we walk

really polite but we don’t use this when

we’re writing because usually we’re not

maybe if you’re writing a text message

to someone directly but if you’re

writing an email or a paper this is more

conversational so I recommend that you

use this when you’re talking directly to

someone so let’s underline again those

lovely verbs here running and walk look

we have a question about this comma this

comma here I added a comma and yes we

need to add this comma if you’re writing

especially writing a formal paper make

sure you add that if you’re speaking

don’t worry about it

but I want to see if you can come up

with some ideas for using how about how

about

let’s have it a suggestion Oh

going to the dentist it’s something that

not many people like in fact Dan my

husband went to the dentist yesterday

and he was not looking forward to it so

for him he might try to suggest instead

of going to the dentist how about I

brush my teeth ten times a day he’s

trying to avoid going to the dentist Oh

lovely ideas on Jack instead of going to

Rome how about we visit Vanessa

well my city’s not quite Rome but it

would be amazing if you visit it instead

of going to Rome how about we visit

Vanessa lovely oh let’s eat something

sweet Maggie says instead of cleaning

how about we cook something sweet oh yes

maybe like some some bread or some

pastries lovely Lucas hello Lucas says

instead of studying English out how

about we have classes with Vanessa then

you can sit in your house sit on your

bed you can play with your animals while

you’re studying beautiful beautiful

ideas Constantine has a healthy idea

instead of sitting home all day and

eating chocolate oh it sounds fun though

how about we work out probably should

instead of sitting home all day and

eating chocolate how about we work out

oh it would be nice yes how Sean says

instead of providing only online courses

how about you set up your own English

school Vanessa Wow

wouldn’t that be exciting and you could

travel from everywhere and come visit

Vanessa

Vanessa’s English school hmm where

should I have it hmm maybe close to you

since you suggested it

Oh instead Roberto says instead of going

to the doctor how about we eat healthy

food yes

prevention prevention is important I

think there’s a kind of a proverb or

idiom maybe more like a proverb that we

use about this idea preventing sickness

we say an ounce of prevention is worth a

pound of cure so for example yesterday

Dan had to go to the dentist and get a

cavity filled between his teeth I’m sure

it was not fun for him but if he had not

eaten so much chocolate maybe if he had

brushed his teeth more he could have

prevented so instead of going to the

dentist he could have brushed his teeth

more I’m not sure exactly I’m not a

dentist but instead of that problem he

could have tried to fix it and it would

have saved him a lot of trouble Angela

says instead of having a bad time with

English how about we learn with Vanessa

let’s do it you’re here now success so I

hope that this expression today is is

useful to you and is something that you

hear a lot native speakers use this all

the time I’m sure that in your native

language you use instead of all the time

because we want to give other options

instead of this how about this instead

of this I’d rather do this so you want

to always offer other suggestions that’s

part of conversation part of

communication so let’s try to use this

as much as possible and before we go

let’s say one sentence together a

beautiful sentence I want to give you a

chance to use your pronunciation muscles

and speak out loud so if you’re

somewhere quiet somewhere private

you have no excuse speak out loud with

me if you’re on the bus or somewhere

more public at work maybe you can say it

quietly it’s okay and then later shout

it loud so let’s try to say a sentence

using instead of together let’s start

with one of these first one so let’s

just say one of the first sentences like

this ah how about instead of sleeping

I’d rather study English yes instead of

sleeping I’d rather study English

there’s so many interesting materials

online in the world instead of sleeping

I’d rather study English instead of

sleeping I’d rather study English use

your pronunciation muscles and say it

out loud instead of sleeping I’d rather

study English Hiroyuki you got it yes

instead of sleeping I’d rather study

English maybe this means that you wake

up a little bit early so that you can

download a podcast and listen to it

while you’re on the way to work or maybe

this means that instead of going to bed

at 10 o’clock or 11 o’clock you can’t

wait to finish watching that English

movie it’s so interesting so you stay

awake until midnight instead of sleeping

I’d rather study English there’s a world

of possibilities out there excellent

Gyan Gyan says instead of sleeping I’d

rather study English great well I hope

for you you can sleep and study English

but thank you so much for joining me

it’s been great to help you use this

commonly used expression instead of

instead of with a lot of examples so

make sure that you watch this

lesson again if you have any questions

about how to use instead of make sure

you follow some of these verb rules and

ideas you can use the variations and the

next time you speak English use this and

also listen for it when other people are

speaking I’m sure now that we’ve talked

about it repeated it a lot together

you’ll be more aware when you hear this

in podcasts and YouTube videos TV shows

you’ll hear this expression more often

and you’ll be able to understand the

Senate structure more easily that’s the

goal at least well if this lesson was

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to think of a lot of instead of

sentences here instead of just watching

live lessons use what you’re learning

learn how to use it to become confident

how to use it to improve your speaking

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everyone have a beautiful day I’ll see

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