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in this video we’ll be talking about how

to curse like an english native

speaker piss a slang term for urine

for example don’t piss your pants

you can say this when you’re really

scared or anxious

for example if you’re about to go on

stage to

make a speech or perform someone can say

don’t piss your pants you can do it

pissed off

to be really angry when i’m angry

i can say hey i’m really pissed off at

you right now

why did you do that for loser used to

describe

an uncool person in high school my

friends and i would use this

a lot and we would say

hey loser how’s it going idiot

used to insult people by saying they’re

not intelligent

of all the mean things that you can say

this is on the lighter side

but people still use it shoot

this is used to show disappointment or

frustration without using a stronger

curse word

shoot i spilled my coffee shut up

you can use this when you want them to

be quiet

or there’s something surprising that you

just heard

you can say shut up no way

ticked off to be really angry you can

say this

with pissed off so this is actually an

older term

not many people use this as much anymore

because

most people actually just use pissed off

fool

this is similar to saying someone is

like a clown you can say

you’re acting like a fool right now jerk

this is a light insult used to describe

someone who is mean

for example if there’s someone bullying

another person

that person is being a jerk wimp

this means someone who isn’t strong

there is a movie out right now

called diary of a wimpy kid have you

seen it have you not

i haven’t yet so how was it if you have

any more questions please leave a

comment below

see you next time hey everyone i’m paris

from

englishclass101.com in this video we’re

talking about how to ask

and give directions let’s start to the

left to the

left the first phrase is

where is the where is the

for example you can ask where is the

bank

this can be used to ask for a general

location or detailed directions

don’t be surprised if you only receive

basic information

for example next to the grocery store

the next phrase is

i need to go to the i need to go

to the for example you can say

i need to go to the police station the

word need is used

but this is used for non-emergencies as

well how do i get to the how do i get

to the for example you can say

how do i get to the museum this question

can be used to ask for step-by-step

directions

instead of a general location is the

near here is the near here for example

you can say is the library near here if

you’re unfamiliar with an area

you can ask to get this information

about a specific place

where you want to go is the bathroom

near here

excuse me do you know where the is

excuse me do you know where the

is for example you can say excuse me

do you know where the park is only youth

excuse me

when you’re starting a conversation with

a stranger another common phrase is

is the far from here is the

far from here for example you can say

is the post office far from here this is

an indirect way to ask for directions

people will tell you how far the place

is and probably tell you the best way to

get there

walking taking a bus driving uber

now let’s take a look at expressions to

give directions

turn left turn left for example

you can say turn left after two blocks

this gives you information about how far

you should go

before you make any changes in this case

you should

go left to the left to the left

turn right turn right

for example you can say turn right at

the third traffic light

this also gives you information about

how far you should go

before taking another action in this

case

you should go right go straight

go straight this simply tells you to go

in one direction

it also implies that if you keep going

straight that you will eventually find

what you’re looking for

go past go past for example

you can say go past the church a

landmark is just an easily noticeable

place

for example a movie theater restaurant

at the corner of at the corner of

for example you can say it’s at the

corner of

this means that a place is located at

the corner where two streets meet

in front of in front of

for example you can say the bus station

is in front of the supermarket

we use front to refer to the main

entrance of a building

it can also mean visible from the front

and doesn’t necessarily mean it’s

directly in front of something

behind behind for example

you can say the parking lot is behind

the movie theater

we use behind to say that something is

at the rear of a building

the front of a building is its main

entrance so which side it’s facing the

street is really not important

next two next two for example

you can say the restaurant is next to

the park

this is an example of using a

non-specific location to give

general directions next two can be

anywhere beside

in front of or around a place mcdonald’s

next to my house between

between for example you can say

the store is between the coffee shop and

the pet store

between is used with two other places

when using between

the main place will always be in the

middle of the two other places

okay that’s all for this lesson which

phrase do you like the most

leave us a comment and let us know and

i’ll see you next time guys

bye hey guys i’m paris from

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in this video we’ll be talking about

making complaints in english

so let’s get started the first complaint

i’m starving i’m starving

this is an exaggeration you can use when

you’re hungry i am

always starving even right now the next

complaint is

it’s noisy it’s noisy

this kind of complaint is one that you

would make to a friend telling the staff

of a restaurant won’t help since i can’t

tell people to be

quiet i hate when it’s noisy in

restaurants

save that for another time then we have

it’s hot it’s hot this can be used to

talk about the weather

or the temperature of a room you can add

a request like

can you turn on the air conditioner i am

never

hot so i like that the next complaint is

it’s cold it’s cold

this can be used to talk about the

weather or the temperature of a room

you can add a request like can you turn

on the heater

i always make this request because it’s

always too cold

everywhere everywhere it’s too expensive

it’s too expensive even if you have

enough money to buy something

it may be more money than you want to

spend it would probably be considered

rude to say this to someone who works at

a store

but i always think okay i’m in gucci

it’s way too expensive another common

complaint is

i’m tired i’m tired

use this complaint to imply that you

want to sit down relax

go home take a break when i babysit my

five-year-old cousin

i leave thinking i’m tired

the next complaint is i gained weight

i gained weight this is a self-criticism

that implies that you want to lose

weight

many people say i got so fat

i’m always broke i’m always

broke use this to complain about never

having enough money

i am always broke because i always want

more money

the next complaint is my job is boring

my job is boring this is a really common

complaint used by people who don’t think

their jobs are very exciting

usually it means that you want to find a

different more fun job

it’s all right teachers your job isn’t

boring that person stinks

that person stinks you can use stings to

talk about a literal

physical smell or a general insult

meaning that you don’t like how someone

smells

i hate when people smell on the bus

not good not okay the next complaint is

there’s too much traffic there’s

too much traffic this is a common

complaint among people who commute to

work by car

certain roads are especially bad during

rush hour

which is the time in the morning or

night most people are going home

or to work if i left at it was 7 pm

i would be here in 10 minutes but

because it’s daytime in la

it took me 30 minutes to get here and i

drive really really fast

and it still took me 30 minutes the next

complaint is

the wi-fi here is too slow the wi-fi

here

is too slow this is just a general

complaint you may have about the

internet speed

if you’re at a cafe or somewhere with

wi-fi you can request that they reset

their wi-fi to improve the speed

if you’re having a party and you’re

having friends over and your wi-fi

is too slow you might as well end that

party

now no wi-fi no party

my boss is annoying my boss is

annoying annoying can be used to mean

that someone does things that you don’t

or they ask you to do things that you

don’t like

either way an annoying boss is a bad

experience

i am very familiar with this hey paris

grab me coffee

hey paris check my emails my boss is

annoying but don’t tell him i said that

the pay is too low the pay is too

low you can use this to complain about

how much you make

or to reject the job offer because it

doesn’t pay enough

i’m a surgeon the pay is too low

i don’t like it i don’t like it

this is a very general complaint that

can be used for almost

anything what do i like

[Laughter]

posting a thousand selfies on instagram

don’t like it okay

that’s it for this lesson which

complaint do you like more

leave us a comment and let me know and

we’ll see you next time

bye you just got a text message from

your hotel’s pickup service

what does the first number refer to

the number in the text message refers to

the customer code

you are at a train station where you’ve

just bought an express ticket

which train car row and seat number are

you in

which train car row and seat number are

you in

the ticket says that you’re in train car

number one in the eighth row

in seat c

you are at a train station where you’re

attempting to buy an express ticket from

a ticket machine

which option should you choose to buy an

express ticket

which option should you choose to buy an

express ticket

the option on the bottom left is for an

express ticket

you are on a platform at a train station

where you’re waiting for your train

suddenly a message appears on the

display

what does the message on the display

mean

what does the message on the display

mean

the display reads the next train will

not stop

you are at a train station where you’re

reading the train schedule for an

express ticket that you’ve just bought

on which days are there no express

trains running

on which days are there no express

trains running

there are no express trains running on

public holidays and the third sunday of

every month

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you are on a platform at a train station

where you’re waiting for your train

suddenly a message appears on the

display

what does the message on the display

mean

you

what does the message on the display

mean

the display reads the next train will

not stop

you are at a train station where you’re

looking for the best exit to catch a

taxi

which exit should you take to get to the

taxi stop

which exit should you take to get to the

taxi stop

you should take the east exit in order

to get to the taxi stop

hi everybody my name is alicia and today

i am joined again in the studio by

michael hello and today we’re going to

be talking about things that

were cool in the 90s so things that were

interesting or things that maybe we were

interested in in the 90s i’m guessing

that we’re going to have some very

different opinions

based on our experiences at the 90s so

let’s get right into it

michael your first item please um

okay boy bands so i remember boy bands

were very very popular

when i was a kid in the 90s i had three

older brothers who would punch me and

tell me boy bands are for girls don’t

like boy bands

so that was my experience with them and

they became kind of uncool

i feel like after the 90s and then they

never were uncool in like

korea and like a lot of asian countries

they still had like a strong boy band

kind of uh

scene or whatever bands now is that

really what they’re called no i don’t

know i just mean i think i feel like boy

there are boy bands

that are now becoming boys to men maybe

this

so i mean now they came now it came back

what is that what’s the british one now

it’s kind of cool again oh one direction

one direction yeah so i think it’s come

back it’s full circle

didn’t they just break up i’m gonna go

with something that i

loved in the 90s this is probably way

too specific

uh probably but it’s this show called

doug that was on nickelodeon and there

weren’t a whole lot of episodes of doug

it was i don’t know like 20 or 30 i feel

like not even that many did you ever see

this show

yeah that’s very nostalgic for me i

don’t 20 30 episodes i feel i feel like

i had i’d seen them all

so i i i know that i saw them all

because it would come back it would come

on one day after school and i’d be like

i’ve seen this episode

but the whole the whole idea with doug

is doug was like this just this

plain kid and he had an older sister he

went to school he had a dog get a best

friend

and he would just encounter these

everyday life scenarios

that would be kind of troubling or he

wouldn’t know how to deal with them but

like he was kind of a role model i feel

like he was kind of

being like a good kid um or sometimes he

would get into trouble but then you know

eventually he would solve the problem or

he’d find a way out of it so but i

really loved that show i really loved

nickelodeon in general um during the 90s

and

yeah did you watch that channel yeah of

course i loved nickelodeon um

i think it was more like fox stuff like

that but i guess i’ll segue into another

one of mine

you’re talking about wholesome so

something that’s

my childhood i was raised on tv was

sitcoms yeah

so i think this has kind of died down

again like the boy bands where it people

think it’s cheesy now it’s all reality

tv shows that kind of stuff

but that’s that is my childhood right

there is you know full house and these

kinds of shows step by step

where there’s a moral at the end of the

story and so everyone there’s always

kind of like

the the protagonist is always like maybe

he’s unsure but by the end

they know the right thing to do and they

play like the violin kind of sad

not quite sad but like heartwarming

music

and then they’re like well and then they

give a speech and as a kid you know you

don’t really like think about it but

that gets into your

like man deep because of full house

if you lie i’ve learned this it’s deep

in my subconscious

if you lie and then you keep lying

it snowballs and it gets worse and worse

and worse so it’s best to just right

away

tell the truth that was a really common

theme in most sitcoms i think that like

they’re just trying to teach kids don’t

lie it’s bad

you’re right you’re right sitcoms are

huge and by the way sitcoms um is

um is a portmanteau portmanteau meaning

two words put together

of situation and comedy so situation and

comedy equals sitcom in this case

okay nice nice um i’m gonna go to my

next one

um let’s see i think probably every

little girl

in the 90s in america anyway knew what

this was i don’t know if you knew

um it’s this brand called lisa frank um

lisa frank are you aware of lisa frank

are you aware lisa frank

no okay she knows she knows lisa frank

so lisa frank is um just

bright it was always like brightly

colored school supplies

uh like pinks and purples and blues and

it would always have unicorns and

dolphins and mystical creatures it was

just

bright and everybody all the girls loved

it i loved it i had lisa frank

just whatever i could get my hands on

it’d be pencils or erasers or

just pinks and rainbows and hearts and

stuff like that so i think every

every girl who grew up in the 90s knows

what lisa frank is

ah okay so talking about style and

whatnot

grunge grunge is something that i that

hits close to home for me and i think

that came out of the 90s

is um i mean everybody knows around the

world i think most people know nirvana

yeah kurt cobain yeah and this is

something that i guess was

brought to the world from seattle and it

was a music genre

and it was kind of it’s like rock but

sometimes slower

almost emo kind of like sad usually

undertones but anyways the style that

came with it

was the opposite of like the 80s and

early 90s of really bright colors you

know it was the opposite you just wear

holy jeans you don’t really shower that

much you don’t shave

and like plaid and just really like

dreary colors

so that was really popular i at least i

remember in like the early 90s

like mid 90s yeah and it’s as soon as i

saw that card grunge i was like oh

nirvana that was

that’s the first thing that comes to

mind when i hear about when i hear

grunge

i didn’t get into the grunge scene

though i was i was busy with boy bands

but

like grunge for me was never really i

was aware i was aware of nirvana but i

did not

i was not of the nirvana mod

okay i’m gonna go to a style point then

too because you’ve read up a style point

i’ll put up

bring up maybe um a female style point

scrunchies

uh still popular perhaps among some

people

what is a scrunchie a scrunchie let’s

see i don’t have

so there’s regular rubber bands that you

can use to tie back long hair

he’s making an oh with his hands

yes he’s a very descriptive very

descriptive michael thank you

for that i’m the prop and then you go

like this there’s like the

i bet there’s an awesome video team

somewhere in the somewhere

that can put like a scrunchie like right

here

anyway um yeah a scrunchie it’s just

it’s just a

a piece of elastic with some kind of

colorful cloth wrapped around it and it

but when not in use it would go and it

would

scrunch i think i think this is why we

called it a scrunchie

but then when you pulled on it you could

expand it a bit and wrap your hair up in

it and then when you’re finished doing

that it would kind of

close around it um i had a couple

nintendo um anything any game related

stuff i remember game boys

anything handheld um except when i was a

kid it wasn’t like this fancy

3d high you know

highly like vibrant colors it was like

black and white and like you’d play it

in the car and you had to squint and it

hurts your head you know if you’re

playing too much you’re getting like

carsick and you’re like you can barely

see mario

are you talking about game boy game boy

are any like there was handheld too

there was like atari and stuff like that

and like sega

sega was pretty good that would light up

i was thinking about nes when you said

nintendo i imagined my nes the one that

like when it wasn’t working correctly

you could just pull the cassette out and

put it back in so you put the cartridge

in here right

and sometimes if it was really stubborn

and it didn’t work

you would blow into this part and you

try and it really doesn’t make a

difference

but you would take turns like me and my

brothers would be like no you want to be

the one to get it to work

so you take turns you know let me let me

and just by luck it would work and

you’re like cc

no this is super nostalgic i love

nintendo i have a game too

pogs do you have pogs okay

pogs are either are simultaneously the

most brilliant

game and the stupidest game ever

invented they’re just

discs of cardboard about this size uh

and on one side there’s a picture

and on the other side there’s just

nothing and then you had a thing called

a slammer which was essentially just a

heavy pog

uh that you would use and you had to

flip

you had to use the slammer to flip those

i guess plain cardboard ones what i

don’t even know it was that

stupid and forgettable of a game but it

was like crazy when i was about

i don’t know like second or third grade

or something everybody had pogs like we

had pog

gym days at my school i remember that

america we’re really obese let’s go into

the gym and sit there and smash

cardboard

and like i was telling i was telling her

before we started this like

one day like my mom wanted me to get a

haircut and i was just being stubborn

and i wasn’t having it i was in the mall

i was like i want to get a haircut she’s

like i’ll buy you

pogs and she did

it was like this giant tube of pogs and

i was just so thrilled and

i agreed to get my hair cut well

that was a lot of things that was that

were

exciting and or popular and or we were

into

in the 90s what were you into in the 90s

what was popular

in your country i really have no idea

what was popular around the world

at that time maybe some of these things

are similar please let us know

in the comments i’m very interested to

find out we read these by the way

um any thoughts any other any closing

thoughts about the 90s

you’re not going to sing a song for us

oh that’s copyright we can’t do that

just like blur that all out no that was

that was very accurate so i’m sure we

can use that

very accurate i mean totally wrong

clearly we’re very good at talking about

the 90s

okay but uh we hope that you are too we

hope that you learned something exciting

about the 90s

um that’s all for us today thanks very

much for watching and we will see you

again soon bye

hi everybody my name is alicia and i’m

joined again in the studio by

michael hello and today we’re going to

be talking about

english conversation strategies so let’s

get right into it

let’s start with michael what is your

first strategy for keeping an english

conversation going

this is very important don’t say

i’m fine thank you and you you hear this

all the time from second language

english learners or non-native speakers

you learn this it’s one of the first

things you learn

in an english class it’s easy it’s good

it’s basic it’s foundation

okay that’s fine but as soon as you can

switch it up

because to me when i meet a foreigner

and they come up and if they say hey how

are you

say oh i’m fine you know i’m good

whatever how about you and they say i’m

fine thank you and you and it’s just

it’s almost robotic because i’ve said it

so many times and when i hear that i

think ah

their english isn’t that good and inside

i’m just gonna be really polite

and say hello and talk slowly and try to

get out of there as quick as i can

so really impress the foreigner in my

opinion i think the best way to do it is

say something

you know use a big word or just like a

slang word something like that

when i hear that i go wow man i want to

know what this person thinks i want to

get their point of view and i’m really

excited and then

i’ve had great conversations because of

that um yeah

that’s a really really good one and

actually i think on this youtube channel

actually

from a couple years ago there’s a video

all about better answers to the question

how are you

then i’m fine thank you and you or if

someone says hey how are you

i’m good you are fine you

never i’m fine thank you and you never

but try to actually use you know

a phrase that a native speaker would use

and then that’s a clue to the native

speaker that oh maybe this person is

ready for a conversation beyond

you know basic english so that’s a

really good point i like that i didn’t

think of things

not to do i only thought of things to do

so okay

cool um let’s see let’s go to my first

one

um so this strategy in general is just

ask the other person a question

i think and i’m guilty of this too when

i’m learning another language

i tend to only get input like somebody

else is always asking me the questions

and then i forget myself to ask the