Idiom Practice Living Under A Rock

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so today we’re gonna be talking about

the idiom under a rock so I wouldn’t

give you a little a little

a little test if I said to you what have

you been doing have you been living

under a rock what do you think that

means if I said that to you in a

conversation what do you mean have you

been living under a rock what would you

think that this idiom might mean

what do you think mm oh Ehrmann says put

in your hand under a rock maybe means

having responsibility Jorge just says

vanessa rocks well i hope that this

lesson will rock for you what do you

think it means when someone says have

you been living under a rock have you

been living under a rock

oh it’s similar RUP ricardo says have

you been living in a cave Oh

Sean has a great idea he says that means

I guess you don’t know what’s going on

out there yes

this is exactly it Sean you’re the

winner it means you don’t know what’s

going on something that is understood by

everyone so let me give you a quick

example and I’m gonna write it on my

notebook just so you can see how it’s

written or on my clipboard and there are

a lot of ways to use this the way that I

just used it is probably the most common

if you say something to someone like

it’s 2017 and they say what it’s 2017

everyone should know that it’s 2017

already it’s not a surprise it’s not a

mystery it’s everywhere everyone should

know it’s 2017 so if someone says what

it’s 2017 already you might say have you

been living under a

rakh so we could use it as a question

and to be polite make sure that you have

a smile on your face have you been

living under a rock kind of a joke

have you been living under a rock so

this is our first way we could just use

it as a question but today to practice

with you I want to use this in a full

sentence so let’s talk about some events

that happened in 2016 that everyone

knows about maybe everyone in your

country or everyone in the world we

could say what’s something that happened

last year that everyone knows about oh

well in the US it’s it was a pretty big

deal that some famous people died so

some famous people died last year a lot

of famous people actually died last year

so the most recent is the Star Wars hero

Carrie Fisher she played Princess Leia

who had the hair like this so we might

say if you don’t know let’s give an

example here that Carrie Fisher died you

might be living it’s under a rock and

this is something that’s that is for

specifically American culture because

excuse me

maybe in your culture Star Wars is not

important maybe you don’t follow celebra

newse it’s okay so in the US if you

don’t know that Carrie Fisher died you

might be living under a rock it’s

something that everyone’s talking about

it’s all over the internet it’s probably

all over TV um I don’t have a TV so I

don’t know but I’m sure it’s all over TV

it’s certainly all over the internet so

we could use this to talk about events

that are really common everyone should

know about we’ve got some great examples

coming in thank you for sharing these so

the airman says I had been living under

a rock Wow George Michael died so he

died and you didn’t know and then you

found out later oh that’s an interesting

way to use this so you feel like I

should have known but I was not aware of

things happening so I was living under a

rock when he died okay

Oh Dennis has a great a concise example

he says oh I just missed it oh here it

is living under a rock means a person

doesn’t know anything outside even the

name of his president for example yes so

maybe you could add here if you don’t

know that Donald Trump is the US

president you are definitely living

under a rock and I think that’s probably

worldwide it’s news everywhere so you

should know that it’s everywhere it’s in

the news so you’re probably living under

a rock oh that’s a great way to say Ness

says uh if one says I don’t know who the

new President of the United States is

one would probably say you have been

living under a rock

beautiful yes in fact I think I’m going

to take a drink of water I’ve been

getting over a cold for a couple days

Dan - we got sick at the same time so I

need some water

but thankfully for Christmas my

mother-in-law bought everyone in our

family these cool water bottles that

have our names on them pretty cool so

thanks to her I have some water

Oh betty has a beautiful sentence and

let’s use this idea to talk about some

other things too Betty says my boss has

been living under a rock he still uses a

typewriter to fill out some forms I used

to have a professor like this

he never typed anything he always hand

wrote everything and then used a copier

to give it to his students but his

handwriting was so hard to read so you

could definitely use this Betty

my boss is living under a rock he thinks

that typewriters are the newest

technology we should use a computer but

he’s still using a typewriter excellent

method great

Oh Manuel says when a person doesn’t

know about recent news culture or

entertainment that’s extremely well

known we could say that they’re living

under a rock yes so what are some things

that are extremely well known like

diesel says if you don’t know that

Morocco is located in the north of

Africa you might be living under a rock

yes or you might have missed that day in

school where you studied about it or you

might have never looked at a map which

means that you’re probably living under

a rock so you should know those basic

things you might be living under a rock

I think that is a great way to use this

let me read I missed one up here I want

to make sure that I’ve said this Oh

Jorge is talking about a in Brazil there

was a really tragic plane crash with a

soccer team or football team and uh he

says uh he or you or somebody you must

have been living under a rock for not

knowing anything about the plane

accident so if you’re talking with

someone and you mentioned that last year

I think it was December maybe November

there was a really bad plane accident

and you say oh it’s such a shame that

that happened I can’t believe it and the

person you’re talking to says what plane

accident what plane crash this was huge

news especially in Brazil but I’m sure

worldwide too you could say what have

you been living under a rock

this was a huge news everyone should

know about it so this is something that

is common for a lot of people yes Bruno

has a great concise idea too

that people don’t know about things that

are happening around them we sometimes

miss some things but big events usually

you hear about

excuse me even for me I don’t have a TV

but I still know about things going on

around me because of the internet I

don’t need a TV with the internet that’s

all I need

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so it says if you if you don’t know

Vanessa you might be living under a rock

well if you’re living under a rock and

you haven’t joined our live lessons come

out from under the rock and join us you

can do it

Oh Kelly says if you don’t know that

there’s a war in Syria you might be

living under a rock that is certainly

true it’s everywhere it’s in the news

it’s everywhere that you probably know

that there’s a war so you might be

living under a rock oh that’s as if some

if someone is an English Learner and

doesn’t know about Vanessa’s YouTube

channel he may be living under a rock

Wow lots of comments like that well

thank you Louie says you didn’t know

that Donald Trump had won the election

you must be living under a rock great

way to say this because this is most

typical in a conversation you’re using

it as an exclamation like you must be

living under a rock where have you been

what’s going on so you’re using it to

kind of uh show the other person that

they should know this why don’t they

know this you should know this so maybe

for me because I have a cough as you can

tell and sore throat my nose is

exploding it’s okay you might say to me

Vanessa didn’t you know that when you

have a cold you should stay in bed you

should sleep have you been living under

a rock don’t work too hard

relax this is great you’re trying to

give me advice that I should know but

maybe I’m not using that is

excellent oh now this is my next

question Paola says in Italy we say

you’re living under the clouds so I want

to know in your country do you have an

expression similar to living under a

rock apparently in Italian you can say

you’re living under the clouds but in in

your country what would you say instead

of living under a rock I’m curious in

your country what it would be I think

that the person who recommended this

lesson today is German I forget the

exact expression in German that he used

if you are German then let me know what

do you say in Germany or if you have

something like this you let us know what

you might say oh Santa would welcome he

says if you haven’t joined Vanessa’s

fearless fluency Club please join

otherwise you will be living under a

rock well if you would like to join The

Fearless fluency Club you’re always

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Jairo says in this case in Brazil we ask

if you’ve been living on another planet

ok another planet in Mexico we say

living under the stars or living in the

moon Oh huh these are all kind of a out

out in space type of things in Hungary

we say living under a bubble Oh in

Thailand we call someone who doesn’t

know it living oh I missed your comment

it went by it says living behind the

mountain oh these are really creative so

in English we have living under a rock

for you maybe in French jean-jacques

says you’re living behind the moon

living behind the world in Korea and

interesting Colombia

what world are you living in in the

Ukraine get out of the cave these are so

creative so Oh in German you’re living

behind the moon so we’ve got lots of

faraway ideas the moon the cloud the

cave the mountains in English just under

a rock usually this means you’re

isolated you don’t know anything you’re

hidden from the world and you might

actually see this in fact I use this I

don’t use this every day when the

situation comes up I use this but I saw

this in a comic the other day because

it’s it was the end of the year so the

comic showed someone coming from

underneath a rock and asking someone

what happened in 2016

did I miss anything and that other

person said nah you didn’t miss anything

but the idea is there hidden under a

rock they don’t know anything so if you

see this kind of image with a rock and

someone underneath or someone coming out

of the rock now you know this implies

that they don’t know about current

events they’re hidden very interesting

so I hope that this idiom is useful to

you and if you watch English TV shows or

movies I’m sure that you will hear this

expression and I hope in your

conversations if you use this make sure

you use it with a smile because if you

say it to someone like what are you

living under a rock really serious maybe

it’s a little rude because they don’t

know okay maybe you think they should

know but it’s okay they don’t know you

can tell them the news or whatever it is

that they should know so make sure you

say it joking

what

smile Oh have you been living under a

rock of course this happened so make

sure you say it with a smile or you can

use it to talk about someone else like

Betty used earlier with her boss he uses

a typewriter he’s living under a rock

what’s he doing so you can use it to

talk about someone else

our final sentence from Ehrmann says

those who don’t know how to use the

Internet in this century are living

under a rock

Wow well you all here are certainly not

living under a rock because you figured

out how to join YouTube how to join the

live lesson and how to participate in

right comments so I hope that for you

you are not completely living under a

rock sometimes we wish we were so that

we could stay away from news or other

things but I hope that for you you can

really enjoy live lessons and

participating online because you’re not

living under a rock well thank you

everyone for joining me today for this

lively s’en and I hope you can join me

again non Tuesday next week at 9 a.m.

est hopefully next week I won’t be

coughing I hope it’s not too loud for

you I tried to cough away from the

microphone we’ll see good news is that

because it’s the Internet you can’t get

sick because you won’t get my germs

that’s great so I hope that for you 2017

started easily smoothly and happily for

you it’s only been three days

today is January 3rd so I hope that your

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