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in this video you’ll learn 20 of the

most common words and phrases in english

hi everybody my name is alicia welcome

to the 800

core english words and phrases video

series this series will teach you the

800 most

common words and phrases in english but

there’s a twist

with each new lesson in this series

we’ll include the previous lessons at

the end

so after you’ve learned the new words

and phrases stick around

and review what you learned in previous

lessons reviewing is one of the most

important parts of learning a language

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okay let’s get started first is

hello hello

hello hello is the most

basic greeting that you can use you can

use it with your friends with your

family members with your co-workers

any time of day is fine hello how have

you been

hello how have you been hello

how have you been

excuse me excuse me

excuse me so excuse me is the

expression you can use when you bump

into somebody

or when you need to interrupt somebody

who’s working on something

it’s a nice like apology expression to

use

excuse me how much is this excuse me

how much is this excuse me

how much is this

i’m sorry i’m sorry

i’m sorry so

we use i’m sorry in cases where

we make a mistake so i did something

wrong or i did something bad

i use i’m sorry to apologize

i’m sorry it was a typo i’m sorry

it was a typo i’m sorry

it was a typo

good night good night

good night so good night is the

expression we use

at the end of the day when we want to

say goodbye to someone

or when we want to wish our family

members a good night of sleep

good night grandma good night grandma

good night grandma

nice to meet you nice to meet you

nice to meet you

so nice to meet you is the expression we

use the first time we meet someone we

don’t use this like the second or the

third time we see someone

only for the first time please come in

nice to meet you please come in nice to

meet you

please come in nice

to meet you how are you

how are you how are

you so how are you is used as a very

general greeting when we see our

co-worker for the first time

or we see a classmate for the first time

we ask

how are you meaning what’s your

condition right now

it’s been a long time how are you

it’s been a long time

how are you

yes yes

yes so yes is the word we use to agree

with something or

to show we think something is good or

correct you can use yes

in any of those cases yes this one

please

yes this one please yes

this one please

no no

no so no is the opposite of yes

we use it when we want to disagree or

show

that we think something is not good or

is maybe not the best

option no i haven’t eaten yet

no i haven’t eaten yet no

i haven’t eaten yet

thank you thank you

thank you so thank you is used to

express your appreciation for something

you can use this after you receive a

gift or someone does something for you

thank you very much for the invitation

thank you very much for the

invitation i’m

i’m i’m

so i’m is the reduced form of i

and am becomes i’m make sure to clearly

pronounce that

m sound like when you’re introducing

yourself

i’m john i’m john

i’m john

goodbye goodbye

good bye so goodbye is one way to

say like something at the end of the day

usually to say

bye to someone goodbye sounds a little

bit more formal than just

bi but you can use it to sound polite

goodbye

see you again goodbye see you again

good bye see you again

bad bad

bad okay so bad

is a word that means not good you can

use it to describe

something you don’t like or that you

think is inappropriate

be careful of bad people be careful of

bad people

be careful of bad people

good good

good so good is the opposite of bad

you can use it when you want to express

that you like something or that you

think something is positive

my teacher is a good person my teacher

is a good person

my teacher is a good person

pretty pretty

pretty so pretty is used to describe

someone or something’s physical

appearance something that we think is

beautiful

i have a pretty girlfriend i have a

pretty girlfriend

i have a pretty girlfriend

ugly ugly

ugly so ugly is the opposite of pretty

we use this word to describe something

that we think is not pleasing or is

unpleasant

ugly face ugly face

ugly face

easy easy

easy so easy is used to talk about

something that is not

difficult it’s maybe something that’s

simple to do

easy exam easy exam

easy exam

difficult difficult

de fe cult so difficult

describe something that is hard or

something that is challenging to do

difficult problem difficult

problem difficult

problem

near near

near near is used to talk about

something that is close to us

it’s something that we can go to quickly

and easily

i live near the university i live near

the university

i live near the university

far far

far so far is the opposite of near

far means something that is at great

distance

from something else there’s like a long

way to get to something

the station is far from here the station

is far from here

the station is far from here

small small

small so small is the opposite of big

we use it to describe things that are

little you can use it for

concepts for objects or for people

small mistake small mistake

okay let’s get started first is

today today

today today means this day

we use this when we want to talk about

something that’s happening on this day

like part of a schedule today’s homework

today’s homework today’s

homework yesterday

yesterday yesterday

so yesterday means the day before today

so you can use this word when you’re

talking about like past

actions yesterday morning

yesterday morning yesterday

morning tomorrow

tomorrow to

mar so tomorrow

is like the opposite of yesterday it

means the day

after today so we use this when we’re

talking about our future plans

see you tomorrow see you tomorrow

see you tomorrow

week week

week so week refers to

seven days that seven day period so we

use

week when we want to talk about making

plans or schedules and so on

i’m busy this week i’m busy this week

i’m busy this week

year year

year so a year is 365

days so we use year when we’re talking

about points

in time like historical events

one year one year

one year

second second

second so second

refers to a very short period of time

so the amount of time that’s inside one

minute for example

there are 60 seconds in a minute

there are 60 seconds

in a minute

minute minute

min so

minute refers to again a period of time

we learned that there are 60 seconds in

a minute and we can use

minutes when we’re talking about times

of day

three minutes three minutes

three minutes

hour hour

hour so an hour

refers to one of those 24

blocks of time throughout the day i

sleep for eight hours every day

i sleep for eight hours every day i

sleep for eight hours

every day clock

clock clock

a clock is an object that we use to

understand what time of day it is we can

have

analog or digital alarm clock

alarm clock alarm

clock a clock

a clock a clock

so a clock is used after a number from

one to twelve

to show that it’s a specific hour

let’s meet at the station at nine

o’clock

let’s meet at the station at nine

o’clock

let’s meet at the station at nine

o’clock calendar

calendar cal endure

so a calendar is something we use to

understand the dates

of the year there are 12 months on a

typical

calendar i marked our anniversary on the

calendar

i marked our anniversary on the calendar

i marked our anniversary

on the calendar

monday monday

monday so monday is for most people

the first day of the work week

i go to work on monday i go to work on

monday

i go to work on monday

tuesday tuesday

tuesday tuesday is for most people

the second day of the work week

tuesday january 1st tuesday january

1st tuesday

january 1st

wednesday wednesday

wednesday so wednesday is the middle day

of the week but

keep in mind this is pronounced

wednesday there’s a d

there but we don’t say wednesday we say

wednesday wednesday the 18th

wednesday the 18th wednesday

the 18th

thursday thursday

thursday so thursday is the fourth day

of the work week the day that comes

before friday

so most people get a little bit excited

for friday and thus thursday

is kind of the day when some people

start their weekends a little bit early

thursday january 3rd

friday friday

friday so friday is the last day of the

work week

and lots of people get excited about

friday and they do things on friday

nights with their friends or their

co-workers

are you free this friday are you free

this friday

are you free this

friday saturday

saturday saturday

so saturday is the first day of the

weekend lots of people choose to

do things like their hobbies or maybe

take a trip somewhere

it’s a day to relax for lots of people

saturday night saturday night

saturday night

sunday sunday

sun day so sunday is the last day of the

weekend usually

sunday tends to be a more relaxing day

so we’re kind of recharging a little bit

and taking it easy sunday morning

breakfast

sunday morning breakfast

do do

do so do

is used when we’re referring to some

kind of activity

we’re making something happen we are

taking care of something

do homework do homework

do homework

go go

go so the verb go

means to move from one place to another

place

we use this when we’re traveling or

maybe even

when we’re talking about some place we

would like to go or like to travel to

go to the park go to the park

go to the park okay

let’s get started first is laugh

laugh laugh

so laugh can be used as either a noun or

as a verb so we use this when we

find something funny the couple

is laughing at a joke

the couple is laughing at a joke

the couple is laughing at

a joke delicious

delicious delicious

so delicious is a word we use when we

think something tastes good we can use

this for food or drinks

chinese food is delicious chinese food

is delicious

chinese food is delicious

water water

water so water

is just the word we use for the thing we

drink the most basic thing to drink can

i have some water please

can i have some water please can

i have some water

please tea

tea tea

so tea is another very popular drink you

can have it cold or

hot would you like a cup of tea

would you like a cup of tea would

you like a cup of tea

coffee coffee

coffee coffee is yet another very

popular drink

we usually have this in the morning cup

of coffee

cup of coffee cup of

coffee beer

beer beer

so beer yet another very popular drink

for adults we usually enjoy beer

after work cold beer

cold beer cold

beer wine

wine wine

so wine is something that we tend to

enjoy with kind of special occasions or

we like to pair it with foods

glass of wine glass of wine

glass of wine

beef beef

beef so beef refers to

meat that comes from a cow this can mean

anything that comes from a cow beef

steak

beef steak beef

steak chicken

chicken chicken

so chicken refers to the animal but also

the meat when you want to talk about one

like of the animal you can say

a chicken chicken can be fried

baked or roasted chicken can be fried

baked or roasted chicken

can be fried baked or

roasted pork

pork pork

so pork is another very popular meat we

often have it

at breakfast as bacon or maybe in the

evening as like a pork chop

pork is the meat from a pig pork is the

meat from a pig

pork is the meat from a pig

fish fish

fish so fish

is anything that comes from the ocean

anything that comes from the ocean or

from other

bodies of water chicken or fish

chicken or fish chicken

or fish

lamb lamb

lamb so lamb refers to

meat that comes from a baby sheep

lamb is extremely delicious lamb is

extremely delicious

lamb is extremely delicious

doctor doctor

doctor so a doctor is a person who helps

other people with their health

if you get sick go to the doctor if you

get sick

go to the doctor if you get

sick go to the doctor

police officer police officer

police officer

so a police officer is someone in a city

that

helps other people when they are in

trouble i’ll ask a police officer for

help

i’ll ask a police officer for help

i’ll ask a police officer for

help teacher

teacher teacher

so a teacher is someone who shares

information who helps students or other

people to learn something

english teacher english teacher

english teacher

employee employee

employee an employee

is someone who works at a company or

someone who works

for someone else female employee

female employee female

employee come

come come

so we use the verb come to mean to move

from one location

to the place where we are now the girl

came towards the video camera

the girl came towards the video camera

the girl came towards the video

camera c

c c

so we use the verb c to mean to use our

eyes to focus

on something the tourists saw the sunset

the tourists saw the sunset the tourists

saw the sunset

make make

make we use the verb make when we talk

about

creating something the chef makes orange

juice

the chef makes orange juice

use use

use so we use the verb use

when we want to talk about like applying

something or we want to talk about

utilizing something for something else

the programmer used the computer

the programmer used the computer the

programmer

used the computer okay let’s get started

first is can

can can

so can is used to mean something we are

able to do can jump over

can jump over can

jump over

zero zero

z row so zero is used to refer to the

number

which means nothing so we also read this

as o

sometimes number zero

number zero number

zero one

one one

so one means the first number so we use

it anytime there’s a single

number of something one degree

one degree one

degree two

two two

so two is the second number we use it to

talk about

pairs or couples of things the number

two is my favorite number

the number two is my favorite number

three three

three so the third number in english

is the number three three dollars

three dollars three

dollars four

four four

so the fourth number in english is the

number four

keep in mind that the spelling is

different from for which means a purpose

number four number four

number four

five five

five so the next number is the number

five the starfish has five legs

the starfish has five legs

the starfish has five

legs six

six six

so the next number in our sequence is

the number six

we have a six day vacation next month

we have a six day vacation

next month

seven seven

se then so the next number in this

sequence is the number

seven there are seven days in every week

there are seven days in every week

there are seven days in every

week eight

eight eight

so the next number is the number h this

has an interesting spelling it’s

pronounced

eight eight is a lucky number

eight is a lucky number

nine nine

nine so the next number in this series

is the number nine

nine floors nine floors

nine floors

ten ten

ten so ten is the first

double digit number that means there are

two digits

one and zero ten grams

ten grams 10

grams salesman

salesman sales

men so a salesman is a male

a man who sells things car salesman

car salesman car

sales men manager

manager man

a juror so a manager is a person at a

workplace that is responsible

for other people department manager

department manager department

manager cook

cook cook

so a cook is a person who makes food a

cook

is different from a chef in that a chef

went to school

a cook has their experience on the job

the cook fried an egg the cook

fried an egg the cook

fried an egg

engineer engineer

engineer so an

engineer is a technology related job an

engineer can create things in many

different industries

i’m an engineer i’m an engineer

i am an engineer

programmer programmer

programmer so a programmer is a person

who

writes or who creates programs

i am a computer programmer

i’m a computer programmer

i am a computer programmer

nurse nurse

nurse so a nurse is someone who works at

a hospital or a clinic or at like a

nursing home

so they help patients the woman is a

nurse

the woman is a nurse the woman

is a nurse body

body body

so a body can be a human body it’s just

your actual body

all of your different parts we can also

use this for animals too

food is fuel for the body food is fuel

for the body

food is fuel for

the body head

head head

so head refers to this part of your body

the very top part

of your body head injuries are very

dangerous

head injuries are very dangerous

head injuries are very

dangerous okay let’s get started

first is hand

hand hand

so your hand it’s a part of your body

this part of your body is your hand

left hand left hand

left hand

arm arm

arm so the arm is this part of your body

from here to the end of your hand

muscular arm muscular arm

muscular arm

foot foot

foot so your foot just one

is the part of your body that’s at the

very very bottom

right foot right foot

right foot leg

leg leg

so your leg is the entire long part of

your body one

leg that you walk on long legs

long legs long

legs finger

finger finger

so your fingers are these parts of your

body so

finger is a countable noun we count it

one finger

two finger three fingers and so on

pinky finger pinky finger

pinky finger

back back

back so your back is like the reverse

part of your

body we think of this as the front part

our back

is behind us my back hurts

my back hurts my back

hurts stomach

stomach

so your stomach is the part of your body

that digests

food so we often talk about our stomach

because it feels uncomfortable

my stomach hurts my stomach hurts

my stomach hurts

chest chest

chest so your chest is the upper part of

the front

of your body i have chest pains

i have chest pains i have

chest pains

january january

january

january is the first month of the year

in north america

it is typically a cold month it’s very

cold here in january

it’s very cold here in january

february february

february

so february has an interesting spelling

that first

r isn’t really pronounced february is

the shortest month with 28 days

february is the shortest month with 28

days

february is the shortest month with 28

days

march march

march march is the third month of the

year

we think of march as the time when

spring begins

it is now april so last month was march

it is now april so last month

was march april

april april

april is the fourth month of the year

and we think of this as a time when

flowers start to bloom

april showers bring may flowers

april showers bring may

flowers may

may may

may is the fifth month of the year we

think of may as just the time before

summer so the weather is typically

really really nice

and spring is in full like bloom

may 31st is world no smoking day

may 31st is world no

smoking day june

june june

june is the sixth month of the year it

feels a little bit warmer than

may but it’s not quite summer

a warm june a warm

june a warm

june july

july july

so july the seventh month of the year is

typically when many people think of

summer as

beginning in the u.s july is one of

seven months

with 31 days july

is one of seven months with 31 days

july is one of seven months with 31 days

august august

august august the eighth month of the

year tends to be

quite hot and there’s a lot of fun

summer activities to do

the school is closed in august

the school is closed

in august september

september september

september is kind of the beginning of

fall or autumn and it’s also typically

the time of year when students go back

to school

today is saturday september 10th

october october

october so

october is when the weather gets a

little bit cooler and we start to see

some popular autumn foods appearing

halloween falls on october 31st

halloween falls on october

31st november

november no

them burr so november

is very well known in the u.s for having

thanksgiving when we enjoy a huge meal

with family or friends

november is one of four months with 30

days

november is one of four months with 30

days

november is one of four months

with 30 days

december december

december december is the last month of

the year and we think of it as a time

for celebration

december 31st is new year’s eve

december 31st is new year’s

eve

the secret to speaking more of your

target language

if you’re like most language learners

then above all you want to speak

and understand more of your target

language but how do you speak more when

you’re just starting out

when you can’t yet create sentences off

the top of your head

here are some tips let’s jump into part

one

how to prepare ahead of time to speak

so what’s the secret to speaking more of

your target language

it’s something called preparation and

believe it or not

you’ve likely used it if you’ve ever had

to give a speech or a presentation

so what do we mean by preparation

imagine that you have to go open a bank

account in the language that you’re

learning

how would you do it you can go in there

grunt and use body language

or you can first come up with a list of

words and phrases you need to know

before you go

like debit card bank account i want to

open a bank account and

minimum balance you may want to look up

the grammar rules for how to say

i want to once you know these words and

phrases

you translate them into your target

language and you go over to the bank to

open an account

or let’s say you’re meeting a person for

the first time

what are some things you’d say to them

things like what’s your name

my name is where are you from i am from

and so on

so you prepare a list of words and

phrases all the things you’d want to say

in that situation

you translate them ahead of time so that

you can communicate effectively

that’s preparation and preparation works

because most conversations are

predictable to a degree

for example most conversations with

friends start with greetings and

catching up on how you’ve been

and if you know the lines for greetings

catching up and talking about your

weekend

then you can easily handle such a

conversation the point is

the more you prepare the more you learn

to speak without needing a teacher

so how do you prepare part two

how to speak more through preparation

here are some tips

if you’re using our learning program one

take our audio

and video lessons you’ll find these in

our lesson library and just focus on the

conversational lessons

lessons are just three to fifteen

minutes in length and in the first

minute you’ll hear a practical

conversation

for example meeting someone new catching

up with a friend or ordering in a

restaurant

then our teachers break down and explain

every word and grammar rule

so you can learn these lines and

conversations ahead of time

number two download the audio dialogue

track

this gives you just the conversation so

when you finish a lesson

download it for easy review then make a

playlist out of all of them and play the

conversations on repeat

this will make them much easier to

remember number three

save the lesson notes the lesson notes

give you the lesson in writing

so you can read the lesson dialogue the

grammar explanations and cultural

insights for every lesson

download and keep the notes for

conversations you think are useful

for example if you want to talk about

the weather and you took a lesson on

that

then download the lesson notes for that

lesson now if you’re looking to prepare

ahead of time for specific topics then

do this next one

number four use our free pdf

conversation cheat sheets

these conversation cheat sheets teach

you words and phrases for

all kinds of common conversation topics

like weather hobbies family

plans and much more you can prepare for

the most common conversations with these

cheat sheets

if you want to access our free

conversation cheat sheets

related to your topics with our lesson

library

on our site we have hundreds of lessons

that teach you conversations so

if you’re looking for lessons related to

restaurants and food

you’ll get all kinds of conversations

that you can use for yourself

and number six if you’re a premium plus

user

get in touch with your teacher be a my

teacher and try a conversation with them

they’ll help you every step of the way

correct your writing and give you the

lines to use in a conversation

that way you can prepare ahead of time

and when it comes time to speak

you’ll know what to say so thank you for

watching this episode of monthly review

if you’re like most language learners

then your number one goal is to speak

more right

you want to have fluid conversations

with natives it’s a great goal to have

but for most language learners speaking

also happens to be their weakest skill

you may not know enough of the language

to express yourself

you tend to run out of words and things

to say and you’re just not sure how to

start conversation

if you have at least one of these issues

then talking points are just what you

need

part one what’s a talking point a

talking point is a topic that invites

discussion or argument

in other words just something to talk

about it could be about yourself

your work your hobbies the weather food

or what you did this past weekend

all of these are talking points here’s

an example to help you better understand

talking points think of a conversation

you’d have with a friend

you can ask what did you do this weekend

they’ll reply

and then ask you back the talking point

here is the weekend

let’s say your friend says they went to

a restaurant that’s a natural talking

point to explore next

you can ask what kind of restaurants do

you like now you’ve covered

two talking points the more talking

points you have the more you can speak

and the same goes for your target

language the only challenge is you need

to know the relevant words and phrases

for that topic

for example if you want to talk about

the weekend you need to know phrases and

questions like what did you do this

weekend

i did this what about you in the next

part you’ll discover

five easy talking points that you can

master with our learning program

let’s get into part two part two five

talking points you can use

the first one is learn how to introduce

yourself in your target language

why is this a powerful talking point

introducing yourself is something you’ll

again and again every time you meet

someone new so

learning the relevant phrases is a must

if you’ve done the first few lessons on

our site you can already do this

if not then check out our absolute

beginner lessons and the top 25

questions you must know lessons you’ll

learn basic conversations with our quick

3 to 15 minute lessons we’ll give you

the exact lines to use

along with the translations so that you

can use them in conversations

you can also use this talking point to

continue a conversation

for example if you’ve started with a

different point like the weather

then it makes sense to say by the way my

name is

talking point number two the weather

this is a universal talking point

people like to talk or complain about

the weather all over the world

in fact just saying it’s really nice

today is enough to start a conversation

with a native speaker

if you want to talk about the weather

check out our can-do lesson pathway

called

can talk about weather you’ll find this

pathway in the absolute beginner level

of our lesson library

talking point number three compliments

compliments are another great way to

start a conversation or continue one

if you’re running out of things to say

you can quickly transition

and say something about their city their

country or just hey

i like your shirt if you want to learn

how to complement

check out our compliments phrase list

this list is free to access for all

users

if you don’t know where to find it on

our site leave a comment in the comments

below and we’ll follow up

point number four ask for help for

example

you can ask for directions or about the

price and let the conversation go from

there

these are very basic phrases that you

learn in our survival phrases lessons

if you want to strike up a quick

dialogue this is a great talking point

to use

point number five learn phrases for

transactions like getting a room at a

hotel

shopping ordering food or telling the

taxi driver where to go

you may think that this isn’t much of a

talking point but for the learners that

are shy about talking to random native

speakers for no reason

this is an easy way to start a dialogue

you have a good excuse

you want to buy something so the staff

will be happy to respond

again you learn all of these with our

survival phrases lessons

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top 10 language learning strategies

let’s begin

befriending or dating someone who speaks

english

watching movies or listening to music in

english

read english newspapers or magazines

record your voice and compare your

pronunciation with

native english speakers download

dialogue tracks and listen to english

conversations

repeat the phrases that you hear out

loud again

and again review all the lessons

on englishclass101.com to master them

completely read lines slowly at first

then re-read and increase your speed

set small and measurable learning goals

with your personal deadlines

try harder lessons to challenge yourself

and improve faster

10 ways to stop translating in your head

let’s get started identify

objects around you in english the first

way to stop

translating in your head is to identify

the objects

around you in your target language so if

you’re studying english that means

you look at the objects around the room

look at the things

in your life don’t think of them in your

native language first think of them in

your target language first

so if i look around the room i see a

computer i shouldn’t think

my native language word i should think

my target language word so start with

the items and the situations in your

everyday life if i say computer in

english maybe i should say computa in

japanese

i should say not i don’t know water in

english i should say omizu

in japanese so start associating the

words

in your target language with your

everyday life

now so if you’re studying english that

means start

getting familiar with the things in your

everyday life

in english repeat phrases you hear

native speakers use

tip number two is to repeat the phrases

that you hear

native speakers use so if you’re

watching

this channel for example or you’re

watching a

tv show or a movie uh listen for the way

that native speakers

make those phrases if you hear a phrase

you have never heard before

or you hear an interesting combination

of words

try to repeat them yourself don’t just

listen try to say them yourself if

you’re in a public space

and it’s difficult for you to do that

fine practice in a place where you feel

more comfortable maybe if you have some

private space to practice

just repeat them get your mouth used to

saying the words

the way that the speakers the native

speakers do

so if you never actually say words if

you’re only taking

in if you’re only listening and you’re

not actually producing the language it’s

it’s kind of hard to to practice and to

to really hone your pronunciation to

improve your pronunciation

so when you listen to native speakers

try to repeat

after them so for example if you’re

studying english

you can try to repeat after this video

you can repeat after the things i’m

saying

because maybe i’m using an expression or

i’m using

a certain uh series of vocabulary words

together

the way a native speaker would and it’s

maybe a good idea to try to practice the

ways that native speakers put their

words together so try to repeat

after native speakers especially when

you’re looking at media

and you can do this when you’re reading

books too you can try to read out

read out loud interesting lines of books

that you find or something that maybe is

difficult for you

very nice practice tip make a situation

where you can’t escape into your native

language

make a situation where you can’t escape

into your native language

essentially means immerse yourself of

course

going to that country or going to a

place where you

can speak only that language is very

difficult for some of you

totally understand but if in your life

you can create

a situation in your library in your room

in your house somewhere for just an hour

i don’t know maybe a day i don’t know

what your schedule is like but

if you can create a situation or create

an environment where you have

no choice but to use that language

and you cannot escape meaning you cannot

go back to using your native language as

a crutch you can’t use the native

language at all

it forces you to use the language that

you’re studying

so of course if you are lucky enough to

live in the country or to live in a

place

where people speak the language you’re

studying great but you have to go

out and interact with people you have to

put yourself in a place

where you have no choice but to speak

it’s very hard and it’s very scary and

it’s very embarrassing at first

but if you take time to find places and

to make

environments that are comfortable for

you where you feel comfortable making

mistakes

and asking questions it’s very valuable

for your learning process this is

actually something that i did totally i

totally did this

my japanese wasn’t very good for a long

time

but then i started making friends who

could not speak

english uh actually i just did this

through finding hobbies there was a

hobby that i had

i joined a group i joined actually a

school to where i could learn how to do

that hobby

and everything was taught only in

japanese

and the people in my class only spoke

japanese mostly

and then maybe we would go off for

drinks and food late at night or on the

weekends and

everybody spoke only japanese and if i

couldn’t communicate

even simply in japanese i had no hope of

keeping that friendship together

so it forced me to study it forced me to

think about the words they were using

and to try to learn those words those

patterns as well as how to produce them

naturally myself so i was learning the

vocabulary words

the people around me were using and

learning how to apply them on my own

that was only possible because i had no

escape

in those situations so try to do that

even if you can do it yourself in your

house it’s super helpful i think

watch tv and movies in your target

language without subtitles

tip number four is to watch tv and

movies in your target language

without subtitles without subtitles so

i think that watching uh with subtitles

can be very beneficial

um so if i’m watching something or if

you want to watch something with

subtitles on

great but i sometimes find that i can in

my case i

i think too much about reading the

subtitles and i forget to listen

so maybe if you’ve seen a movie in your

target language a few times

with the subtitles on try turning the

subtitles

off and think about the like characters

body language the words they’re using

you can always look that up later look

up the you know the words you don’t know

in a dictionary but

try to do it where you’re focusing

completely

on the way that people are using their

words try

not to use the subtitles so kind of play

around with it a little bit if there’s a

word that’s difficult for you to hear

you can actually turn on the subtitles

in like the

in the native language of the movie as

well

that’s something that i’ve done like if

uh like if i wanted to study japanese

it’s very useful when the actual words

spoken

in japanese appear on the screen

sometimes it’s easier for me to catch

a word if i see it visually and i hear

it at the same time

so another way to kind of explore

how you can use tv and movies is to

actually turn on the closed captions

like the

the um the words on the screen in the

native language of the movie

so uh so this is sort of two points in

one so one

watch movies without subtitles meaning

subtitles in your native language

and hint two is to watch movies um with

closed captioning on

but the closed captioning is in your

target language not in your native

language so you can try those two things

with tv and with

movies don’t bring a dictionary to your

lesson

tip number five is don’t bring a

dictionary to your lesson

okay so give me a second here so i

understand the dictionaries

especially dictionaries we have them on

our phones now are very very convenient

um of course it’s important to use them

and it’s a they’re a great resource to

have

however one thing that really bothers me

and that i think is detrimental it’s not

helpful for students is when uh students

are in a lesson and they’re practicing

conversation

and they reach a point in the

conversation where they don’t know the

word they want to use they know it in

their native language

and they don’t know how to say it in

their target language

they pull out their dictionary they say

to this the person listening to them

their practice partner

in their lesson where they have a

limited period of time

just a moment and then they look it up

on their phone it takes

a few seconds the flow of the

conversation stops

and then they say a word and it’s like

whoa

no that’s not you don’t have that

ability you don’t have

the ability to do that in a conversation

with a native speaker

most people like if you go to a bank and

try to open a bank account are you

really going to pull out your dictionary

and sit there and try to communicate you

know just a moment just a moment

as you look up each word you don’t know

no or if you do that’s not a real

conversation

so instead try using a different

strategy by that i mean

if you find a word you don’t know in

conversation

explain the word to your conversation

partner

maybe they know the word if you’re

speaking with a native speaker this is a

chance for them to teach you a word

i find that when people take the time to

teach me a word

i remember the word much better than

just looking it up on my dictionary

so try to resist maybe you can bring a

dictionary to your lesson but don’t use

it or try

not to use it in your conversation

practice it’s just

it destroys the flow of a conversation

so instead

practice the skill of describing the

vocabulary word you want to use

and learn how to ask the meaning of a

word or learn how to ask for

a vocabulary word from your partner so

you can use an expression like ah what’s

the word that means blah blah blah

or um you know it’s this thing that does

this and this and this so

this is an opportunity for you to

describe characteristics of something or

find a different way you can use your

body language you can use

whatever you have a lot of tools but try

not to use a dictionary in a

conversation because it’s not realistic

train responses to common questions

number six is a quick one i think number

six hint number six i have

is just to train responses to common

questions train responses to common

questions

so for example a very common question in

english is hey how are you

you should know how to answer this

question just have a default response

hey how are you

i’m good if it takes you

a long time to answer the question hey

how are you

you need to practice i think that’s a

pretty good uh

a pretty good indicator so for example

sometimes i ask

students a question like that they they

haven’t quite

gotten the idea of how to respond just

yet they they’re not so

quick at responding i say uh hey how are

you and they say yes

and then they think and they go i’m uh

i’m

good that’s a very common question

so think about just a default response

that you can spit out that you can

quickly say

if it’s how was your weekend or hey

what’s up or

what do you want to do for dinner

tonight think about like

just a handful meaning just a few

responses to those

questions and train them quickly just

how are you i’m good how are you i’m

okay

how are you not bad there’s three so

it’s just training responses to those

questions there’s no reason to be

surprised

by a question like how are you like

that’s a very common question

so for those common questions train

responses to that we’ve got a bunch of

videos

especially beginner level videos for

some example responses you can do

so don’t get stuck with these little

questions just train a few responses

practice a few responses till they feel

natural to you it’ll save you time

and it’ll help the person asking the

question too to move forward in the

conversation

okay study with materials that don’t

provide a translation

the next tip is to study with materials

that don’t

provide a translation so by this i mean

if you’re using worksheets and or some

kind of textbook

or whatever and it has your target

language the language you’re studying

and it has your native language next to

it while this can be

useful i feel that if you can

studying your materials only in your

target language

and then simplified explanations for

more detailed points

also in your target language can be a

little bit better

so i don’t want to say like you should

only study things in your target

language and nothing

from your native language because of

course like it’s it can be helpful

sometimes to look up a word or to

understand a grammar point in your

native language

but where possible if you can find

something that provides simplified

explanations in your target language it

can be really really helpful because

again

you’re thinking you’re learning to think

on like a simpler on a more basic

level about the language you’re studying

in the language that you’re studying so

this can be really really good so

finding some materials to use where

there’s no

translation maybe you can practice um

of course with with books and with

written materials

but also with like video materials as

well so

there are a variety of different ways

that you can

find materials in your target language

like in video and tv so some things to

think about

there are the level of vocabulary words

people are using in the media content

you’re watching

um who the media content is intended for

children young adults adults

uh the speed at which the speaker is

talking so like i have the ability

to change the level of difficulty of

videos based on the rate of speech the

vocabulary words that i use and how many

like idioms and things i use

so i could make a video very difficult

we could make a very like a very

difficult video

series by leveling up our vocabulary use

or by speaking very quickly

or as you might see in like our english

and three minutes series

we can also use very simple vocabulary

and speak at a low rate of speech so

maybe right now this is a very

intermediate level video

so please think about that so not just

for

written materials but also for your

audio and visual materials think about

um who your audience is the level of the

material and so on

it can be really fun uh and it can be

helpful to think about

um your your target language in your

target language

all right we’re almost done study

phrases in addition to single vocabulary

the next tip is study phrases in

addition to single vocabulary words so

yes of course vocabulary is important

but

i find it personally very very useful

to look at how a vocabulary word is used

in a phrase because sometimes using it

in a phrase

helps you understand the nuance of that

vocabulary word

really really well so if i like a word

like crazy for example in english

depending on the situation where the

word crazy

is used it could mean something

different it could mean like

a person who is mentally confused or

mixed up

it could also mean something really good

it could mean something really bad

so if we look only at the word crazy

it’s quite difficult to understand

really the meaning of the word

but if you look at the way the word is

used in a phrase

you can get a lot more information so

take a look at the way people use words

phrases not just as single vocabulary

words you can learn a lot more that way

i think do your daily activities in

english where possible

the next tip is to do your daily

activities in your target language

so if you’re studying english that means

try to do some daily activities

in english if possible so this can be

very very boring stuff but just think

about it

when you’re doing the activity so like

right now i’m

filming a video for englishclass101.com

i’m going to work i’m cooking breakfast

i’m doing the laundry

what do i have to do tomorrow so try

thinking about your

everyday life in english if you’re

studying english

try thinking about your everyday

activities the people that you meet

what are you doing so this is a way to

help you practice your verbs so if you

don’t know if you’re

i don’t know you’re doing something at

work and you’re like oh my gosh how do i

explain the

what’s the verb for you know a picture

like i want to

blah blah a picture what’s the word you

can check a dictionary at that point and

go ah it’s

draw i i need to use the verb draw for

draw a picture

so you can find these little gaps in

your everyday life these little gaps in

your knowledge

if you think about your everyday

activities

in your target language if you don’t

think about it in your target language

you might not realize you have

vocabulary gaps or phrase gaps here and

there so this is a really good and kind

of funny

actually way to study use a learner’s

dictionary for new words

the last tip is to use a learner’s

dictionary for new words so in

english there are learners dictionaries

available in english so

my favorite my personal favorite is

merriam-webster merriam-webster is a

fantastic dictionary resource they’re so

interesting and they have

tons of like historical information i

really do

just sit and like read things on the

dictionary page

lately it’s true but um

of course there’s a definition there’s a

meaning for words there are example

sentences for words

but merriam-webster also has what’s

called a

learner’s dictionary if you find a word

that you don’t recognize you can check

in a dictionary in a learner’s

dictionary and it gives you a

simplified a simple explanation in

simple english

of that word so instead of checking it

in your native language you can check it

in your target language so again

this helps you to understand the word um

that you are that you’re focused on but

you understand it

from um the language you’re studying not

from your native language so using a

learner’s dictionary can be really

really useful as well

all right how are your english listening

skills

first you’ll see an image and hear a

question

next comes a short dialogue listen

carefully and see if you can answer

correctly

we’ll show you the answer at the end

a man and a woman are talking what are

they going to do first

[Music]

what do you want to do today i want to

go see a movie

ok i want to watch the baseball game on

also i want to go shopping the baseball

game

starts at one o’clock okay so let’s see

the movie first

and then you can watch the baseball game

all right

then we’ll go shopping in the evening

what are they going to do first

a man and a woman are talking what are

they going to do first

what do you want to do today i want to

go see a movie

okay i want to watch the baseball game

on tv

also i want to go shopping the baseball

game starts at one o’clock

okay so let’s see the movie first and

then you can watch the baseball game

alright then we’ll go shopping in the

evening

a teacher and a student are talking

when will the student go to the

teacher’s office

[Music]

i didn’t really understand today’s class

i see what was confusing

several things do you have time now

actually i’m a little busy could you

come to my office in the afternoon

i’ll be there from 1pm to 4pm

okay i’ll be there at 2pm

when will the student go to the

teacher’s office

a teacher and a student are talking

when will the student go to the

teacher’s office

i didn’t really understand today’s class

i see what was confusing

several things do you have time now

actually i’m a little busy could you

come to my office in the afternoon

i’ll be there from 1pm to 4pm

ok i’ll be there at 2pm

a woman is having lunch in a restaurant

what is she going to order

[Music]

would you like to have coffee or dessert

after the meal

what desserts do you have we have

pudding and

apple pie hmm actually

i’ll just have coffee do you want cream

or sugar

cream please

what is she going to order

a woman is having lunch in a restaurant

what is she going to order would you

like to have coffee or dessert

after the meal what desserts do you have

we have pudding and apple pie

hmm actually i’ll just have coffee

do you want cream or sugar cream

please did you get it

good evening in room dining this is alex

how may i be of service

hello i would like to order some food

of course ma’am just to confirm this is

mrs rossen in room 417

yes it is excellent may i take your

order

yes i would like a turkey sandwich on a

parmesan

and what to drink a diet coke

will there be anything else yes i would

also like a wake-up call for seven

a woman is waiting for a man

where is the woman now

[Music]

hey really sorry but it looks like i’ll

be 30 minutes late

okay i’ll wait for you at the cafe

where is it it’s next to the bookstore

there’s a bakery across from the cafe

okay

where is the woman now

a woman is waiting for a man

where is the woman now hey

really sorry but it looks like i’ll be

30 minutes late

okay i’ll wait for you at the cafe

cafe where is it it’s next to the

bookstore

there’s a bakery across from the cafe

okay

a man and a woman are talking about

summer vacation

what is the woman going to do on her

summer vacation

[Music]

have you already planned for the summer

vacation

not yet i’m thinking about going to the

sea

or the mountains i’m going to the beach

with some friends we’re going surfing

sounds nice why don’t you come with us

wow sure thanks

what is the woman going to do on her

summer vacation

a man and a woman are talking about

summer vacation

what is the woman going to do on her

summer vacation

have you already planned for the summer

vacation

not yet i’m thinking about going to the

sea or the mountains

i’m going to the beach with some friends

we’re going surfing

sounds nice why don’t you come with us

wow sure thanks

a man and a woman are talking

what did the woman eat this morning

[Music]

oh i’m hungry did you eat anything for

breakfast

yes i did but only a little

what did you eat i had yogurt and coffee

that’s not enough you’ll need some bread

and fruit

too

what did the woman eat this morning

a man and a woman are talking

what did the woman eat this morning

oh i’m hungry did you eat anything for

breakfast

yes i did but only a little

what did you eat i had yogurt and coffee

that’s not enough you’ll need some bread

and fruit

too did you forget our study date at 10

this morning i’m sorry naomi

at 10 i was talking with my professor

and couldn’t get away

i’m sorry i should have called

that’s okay so how did the meeting go

with the professor

it went fine he gave me an extension on

my paper and i can still take the

midterm

how was your study group yesterday well

we were studying together during lunch

when i noticed an old friend of mine

from high school in the same cafe

my concentration quickly switched from

class to catching up with my friend

so i didn’t get much done you’ve taken

that class before right

yeah last semester i was always asking

questions in that class because it was

so difficult

well i was hoping that you could lend me

a hand with my paper

i can’t think of anything else to write

sure no problem that is if you can help

me study for our history test

sounds like a deal

hi everyone i’m gabriella how are your

english listening skills

in this video you’ll have a chance to

test them out with a quiz

first you’ll see an image and hear a

question

next comes a short dialogue listen

carefully and see if you can answer

correctly

we’ll show you the answer at the end are

you ready

a woman is in a department store

which floor is she going to

[Music]

excuse me where are the children’s

clothes

they’re on the 5th and 6th floors

do you also have baby clothes yes

they’re on the sixth floor we have a lot

there

thank you very much i’ll go and have a

look there

which floor is she going to

a woman is in a department store

which floor is she going to excuse me

where are the children’s clothes they’re

on the 5th and 6th floors

do you also have baby clothes yes

they’re on the sixth floor we have a lot

there

thank you very much i’ll go and have a

look there

a woman is asking a store clerk

something at a bookstore

which book does the woman want to see

[Music]

excuse me i’d like to take a look at a

book on that shelf

which book would you like the one about

cars

one moment please this one

yep that’s right here you go

which book does the woman want to see

a woman is asking a store clerk

something at a bookstore

which book does the woman want to see

excuse me i’d like to take a look at a

book on that shelf

which book would you like the one about

cars

one moment please this one

yep that’s right here you go

a man and a woman are looking over a

menu at a restaurant

what’s the man going to order

[Music]

what are you going to order the pizza

looks delicious

i think i’ll go with that i had pizza

yesterday

so okay then what about the hamburger

sounds good i’ll go with that

what’s the man going to order

a man and a woman are looking over a

menu at a restaurant

what’s the man going to order what are

you going to order

the pizza looks delicious i think i’ll

go with that

i had pizza yesterday so

okay then what about the hamburger

sounds good

i’ll go with that

a man is calling the doctor’s office

what time does he need to be at the

doctor’s office by

[Music]

hello how can i help you what time do

you close today

we close at six o’clock but please come

in before 5

okay thank you

what time does he need to be at the

doctor’s office by

a man is calling the doctor’s office

what time does he need to be at the

doctor’s office by

hello how can i help you what time do

you close today

we close at six o’clock but please come

in before 5

okay thank you

did you may i have your first and last

names

melissa west thank you ma’am

i have found your reservation here’s the

registration information

does everything look correct to you

yes it seems to be correct excellent

now i will just need a photo id for

legal purposes

will my passport do that would be just

fine ma’am

checkout is between noon and two o’clock

you may request an extension of up to

five hours free of charge

what if i need more time then a late

charge of five percent will be added to

your bill

how are your english listening skills

first you’ll see an image

and hear a question next comes a short

dialogue

listen carefully and see if you can

answer correctly we’ll show you the

answer at the end

a boy is reading from his journal what

was the first thing the boy did today

[Music]

the weather was great today i went

swimming this afternoon at the pool

and i went to a movie in the evening i

also studied all morning

today wasn’t bad

what was the first thing the boy did

today

a boy is reading from his journal

what was the first thing the boy did

today

the weather was great today i went

swimming this afternoon at the pool

and i went to a movie in the evening i

also studied all morning

today wasn’t bad

a woman and a man are looking at a

photograph

which photo are they looking at

this is a photo of the soccer team your

son is on isn’t it

which one is your son this one

oh he’s the tallest one yep

he’s even taller than the coach

which photo are they looking at

a woman and a man are looking at a

photograph which

photo are they looking at this is a

photo of the soccer team your son is on

isn’t it which one is your son this one

oh he’s the tallest one yep

he’s even taller than the coach

a man and a woman are talking when are

they going to see the movie

[Music]

why don’t we go see a movie on saturday

yes i’d love to

but i have to work a shift in the

morning what time will you finish

i’ll finish at two o’clock then let’s

meet up at the cafe

at three o’clock and see a movie at four

o’clock

okay

when are they going to see the movie

a man and a woman are talking when are

they going to see the movie

why don’t we go see a movie on saturday

yes i’d love to but i have to work a

shift in the morning

what time will you finish i’ll finish at

2 o’clock

then let’s meet up at the cafe at three

o’clock and see a movie at four o’clock

okay hi everybody my name is alicia and

today i’m going to talk about the

correct use of the word

only let’s take a look at a few examples

and see how moving

the word only around in a sentence can

change the meaning of the sentence

all right let’s begin first i want to

define the word only and how i’m going

to use it for this lesson

the word only for this lesson we’re

going to look at it as an

adverb so an adverb which means a single

case or a single

instance of something so there’s nothing

uh different

nothing more nothing less there’s just

this one thing this one

case of something but i want to focus

for this lesson on the importance of the

position

of only in a sentence so

one key to keep in mind when you use the

word only and this is a point for native

speakers and for

non-native speakers we need to place the

word only as close as possible to the

word or to the phrase that it modifies

and by modifies i mean only is connected

to that phrase only is

changing that phrase in some way and

when i say

places and place it as close as possible

to that word i mean

before that word it needs to come before

the word it’s changing before the word

it’s modifying

so i want to show a few examples of how

to do this

but i’m going to move the word only

around in the same sentence so let’s

take a look i’ll show you what i mean

let’s take a look at this this sentence

uh the base sentence here

is sarah saw michael at the park a

simple sentence

so there are two people involved one

action

in this case the past tense saw and then

a location at the park

but i’m going to use the word only here

in a few different positions

to show how much it can change the

meaning of the sentence

depending on where we place it so the

first example here i have is

only sarah saw michael at the park here

the word only

comes before sarah so that means that

these two words are connected

only is modifying sarah in this case

this sentence therefore means that sarah

perhaps in a group of people or with

somebody else

sarah was the only person the single

person

who saw michael at the park maybe there

were other people in the group

she was with but she was the single

person the only person

who saw michael so only sarah saw

michael at the park that’s the meaning

with the placement of only before sarah

here

let’s look at the next sentence sarah

only saw michael at the park

so here only is coming before the word

saw so in this case it’s modifying this

verb

saw this sentence therefore means that

sarah the only thing

sarah did her only action was to see

she only saw michael at the park meaning

no other actions happened sarah did not

wave to michael sarah did not greet

michael sarah did not throw something at

michael

uh whatever there was no other action

the only action the single action the

sole action

was uh that she saw michael sarah only

saw

michael at the part so the placement

before the verb gives us

this meaning let’s look at one more

example

sarah saw only michael at the park here

only comes before michael in this case

so the connection the modification is

happening here

sarah saw only michael at the park means

she did not see any other people at the

park

so this could mean that there were no

other people

at the park or that maybe

she just she just didn’t see anybody at

the park so

this sentence is a little bit tricky

it’s a little hard to understand

exactly what the writer wants to say but

it could mean

that there were perhaps no people at the

park no

other people at the park that sarah saw

so she went to the park

she saw only michael there was only one

person a single person it was

michael that sarah saw so placing only

before

in this case michael gives us this

meaning

all right one more sentence sarah saw

michael

only at the park so here the word only

is coming before this phrase at the park

this location in this case

meaning that there was a single place

where sarah saw michael so sarah did not

see michael at the supermarket she did

not see him at the store she did not see

him at school

she saw him only at the park so there’s

single location where she saw michael so

these four sentences

show us how much the meaning of a

sentence can change depending on our

placement of the

of the word only so it’s important to

keep in mind

another thing that i’ve done throughout

this lesson a little bit

is i’ve emphasized with my voice the

word that only is modifying

but i want to make one more point here

in speech

when actually speaking we can stress

words for emphasis

and for clarity to make it very clear

which word in the sentence we want to

emphasize which word we want only to

modify so for example i can say only

sarah

saw michael at the park or sarah only

saw michael at the park

so with your voice you have the ability

to emphasize certain words and certain

phrases

in the sentences however in

writing it’s not possible to do this so

correct placement of the word only is

quite

important so i wanted to give you a few

examples

and it’s just something to think about

the next time you use the word only so

make sure

that you’re placing the word only as

close as possible

to the word that it modifies so just

something to keep in mind alright so

that’s it for this lesson if you have

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hi everybody my name is alicia today i’m

going to talk about how to use the word

almost i’m going to show a few different

example sentences

and give you a couple pointers some

things to watch out for when you’re

using this word

so first let’s look at uh the meaning of

the word almost so almost

is an adverb it’s a word that means

nearly or

not quite or not completely it can also

mean

similar to something but not exactly

like something

so i’ve got a lot of example sentences

here that i hope to

uh talk about to kind of explain the use

of almost

before i do that though i want to

mention um this point over here

almost comes before the word it modifies

so modifies means like almost is

attached you can think of it as being

attached to another word

and almost changes the meaning of that

word so

um using almost before another word or

before another phrase

adds this meaning of nearly or not quite

or not completely

to that word or to that phrase so let’s

begin with that

and look at a few examples i almost

forgot my homework so here almost comes

before the verb

forgot in this case meaning i nearly

forgot my homework

so the word almost like i said almost

should come

before the word it modifies so here it’s

modifying the word

forgot so i nearly forgot my homework i

was very close to forgetting my homework

another example he almost always calls

on his way home so here it comes before

the work

it comes before the word always in this

case

almost always meaning maybe like 95

percent of the time or 90

of the time so not always but

nearly very nearly always calls on his

way home

is the meaning of this sentence okay

let’s look at another one maybe

uh an opposite meaning here they almost

never

leave the house so here we we’ve got

never as the word that almost is

modifying

so almost never means you can think of

it in terms of a percentage for example

like five percent of the time they leave

the house

very very close to zero but not

quite zero so almost never not quite

never but very near to never

the next one you’re almost finished

you’re almost finished so here almost is

modifying the word

finished so in other words you’re nearly

finished in this case maybe you’re

nearly finished with your job for the

day or you’re nearly finished with

your homework for example you’re almost

finished is the meaning here

let’s look at the next sentence then so

the next sentence is we’re almost

home we’re almost home in this case

almost is modifying the word

home home in this case means uh

at your place of residence so to be in a

status and a status of being at your

at your place yet you’re dwelling at

your residence so to be

almost home means nearly at your house

in other words

so we can modify in this way

similar to this negative i used up here

with never

we’ve got there’s almost nothing left in

the refrigerator

so again almost nothing in this case so

very nearly no things very nearly maybe

nothing to eat or no

food in the refrigerator so this

sentence means

there’s something in the refrigerator a

few things maybe

but almost nothing so very little of

something

okay the next sentence shows another

point that i want to make about the

placement of the word

almost i mentioned in these initial

example

sentences that the word almost comes

before the word it modifies

as we’ve seen so far however when you’re

using the verb

to be and the variations of it like was

and were for example

almost comes after that verb so let’s

look at an example of that

here we have here here i have uh he was

almost fired from his job so here is my

2b verb in this case using

was he was almost fired from his job so

here

almost follows the verb to be this is a

slight change

i’ll show you one more example sentence

later so again let’s go back to this

first pattern

almost no one came to her party so here

almost

begins the sentence it’s modifying the

word no one

almost no one came to her party so

meaning very few people

came to her party lastly let’s look at

one more to be

example here i was almost late

for the movie so again here’s our to be

verb i

was and almost follows that to be verb i

was almost

late for the movie okay so these are

quite a few

examples of how we can use almost

i want to talk a little bit about some

other ways to use

almost we use almost with time and

quantity

expressions so in these cases

we use the word almost before the time

or before the quantity let’s look at

some examples

for example we’ve been waiting almost

two hours so here

two hours is a length of time we use

almost before that so

nearly two hours not quite two hours but

nearly two hours the next example i’ve

lived here for

almost five years so that doesn’t mean

five years exactly

but very nearly five years same thing

here

he said they were almost i’m sorry he

said there were

almost 5 000 people so almost 5 000

not quite maybe like 4 900 for example

very nearly 5 000. again the recipe made

almost 200 cookies so again not quite

is the meaning here so all of these kind

of um

we use this when it maybe it’s easier to

round up to use like the next

easily recognizable number like it might

sound strange

in the last example to say the recipe

made 498 cookies

it sounds very very specific and it also

sounds like maybe the speaker

counted each individual cookie so

sometimes that’s really

not reasonable or it might just sound a

little bit strange

so um or also it’s just sometimes not

possible to count

exactly how many people or how many of

something we’re in a situation

but using almost we can make a guess

sometimes

so this is quite a useful thing for time

and quantity expressions

okay so as we’ve seen so far in this

lesson

we can use always with words like always

and never i used it over here for

example heat almost

always and they almost never so just

keep in mind that these have very very

different meanings kind of opposite

meanings so

i almost always means very nearly always

and

almost never means very nearly never but

not quite

same thing with um all or nothing or no

so i used an example here there’s almost

nothing for example um

so here it means very close to zero if i

used

almost all like almost all the people

were happy

it means very nearly everybody as well

so you can kind of see a pattern here

and the same one is

we can see here at the end everyone and

no one it’s like

extreme so um like 100 versus 0

of something so all or nothing everyone

or no one

we can use almost to show that we are

very near

to these levels but not quite at these

levels

the last thing i want to mention in this

lesson is

a word of caution just be careful about

where you place

almost in a sentence because it can

really affect the meaning of the

sentence

so here let’s look at two very similar

sentences

one he almost told his boss all the

secrets

and two he told his boss almost all the

secrets

these are very different sentences but

they seem very similar

here i’ve used almost before the verb

told

so almost is modifying the word told

here

he almost told his boss all the secrets

meaning he

very nearly told his boss all the

secrets

but he did not he did not so

here almost modifies this verb told

meaning the action itself he almost did

this action

but he did not do the action in this

sentence however

he told his boss almost all the secrets

almost because of its positioning is

modifying the word

all he told his boss almost all the

secrets

meaning he told his boss very nearly

everything all of the secrets so maybe

like 95

90 to 95 of the secrets he told his boss

so the action happened he did tell his

boss

but he didn’t tell everything in this

case so

please keep this in mind your placement

the place in the sentence where you use

the word

almost can create very very different

meanings

so remember this point here almost

should come before the word it modifies

so when you’re writing and when you’re

speaking you should think carefully

about this

also remember when you’re using the verb

to be almost should come

after that verb finally when you’re

speaking as i

am right now we do have the ability to

use our voices we can emphasize

key words uh we can stress them with our

voices to make it clear

which word we want to emphasize however

we can’t really do that in writing

so it’s really important to consider to

think about

where we place the word almost when

we’re writing so i hope that this lesson

was useful for you

if you have any questions or any

comments please feel free to let us know

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hi everybody my name is alicia today i’m

going to talk about the difference

between

which and that which and that are both

relative

pronouns but a lot of people confuse the

two so let’s talk about how to use them

okay first a quick overview

which first we use which in what are

called non-restrictive relative clauses

we use that on the other hand in

restrictive

relative clauses so before we continue

let’s talk about the difference between

non-restrictive clauses and restrictive

clauses the difference here

a non-restrictive clause first of all

where we use

which is a clause that does not have

information

essential to understanding the noun it

is connected to i’ll show you some

examples in just a minute

a restrictive clause however is a clause

that has

information essential to our

understanding of that noun

so we need the information in the

restrictive clause

to completely understand the noun or the

noun phrase

it is attached to a non-restrictive

clause is sort of

extra information we don’t need the

information to understand the noun or

the noun phrase

it just provides some more information

so let’s take a look at a few examples

of this

the first example i have is rather

extreme but it’s just to show the

differences between these two

first the school that i parked my car

next to

is dangerous so here my noun is school

here i’ve got the relative pronoun that

i have the school

that i parked my car next to is

dangerous

i’ve used that here because my clause is

a restrictive clause

i need this information the school that

i parked my car

next to is dangerous if i remove this

the school is dangerous the sentence is

correct

however the meaning changes

the key here is that i parked my car

there so i want to

explain that specifically the school

that i parked my car

next to this school in particular is

dangerous

so that shows us that it’s a restrictive

clause we have to use that

in this sentence because the information

is essential to our

understanding in this sentence however

the school which has a tennis court is

dangerous

i’ve used which so which is a

non-restrictive is used in

non-restrictive clauses

this shows us it is extra information

the school

has a tennis court do i need to know

this information

no it’s just extra information if i

remove this clause

the school is dangerous the root

sentence the basic sentence

stays the same this is just extra

information it doesn’t necessarily tell

uh essential information about the

situation

so we use which to show that it’s a

non-restrictive relative clause

as i said this is a rather extreme

example

so let’s take a look at something that’s

a little bit more

uh complex okay let’s look at the next

two sentences

first the car which i bought last year

is already having trouble and

the car that i bought last year is

already having trouble

these are very similar sounding

sentences however

our choice of which or that as well as

the commas which i’ll talk about later

have changed the meaning so there are a

couple key differences here

one by seeing that uh in the first

sentence that we’re using a

non-restrictive clause here with which

we see the car which i bought last year

this shows us that this is

extra information about the car here

however

we see that this is essential

information the car that i bought last

year is already having trouble

so the speaker could be saying here with

this sentence the second sentence

the car that i bought last year

specifically a car that the speaker

purchased the previous year

this sentence means therefore the

speaker might have

other cars the speaker is specifically

meaning

this specific car that they he or she

bought last year

in this sentence with the

non-restrictive clause we don’t have the

same nuance

the car which i bought last year is just

extra

information in this sentence so here

the car that i bought last year this is

indicating a specific car

this one with the non-restrictive clause

it’s just giving us extra information

so the speaker may or may not have

another car um we don’t know

so that’s all i want to say about that

okay but

a question that many people have is how

do you know whether it’s a restrictive

or a non-restrictive clause so this is a

quick tip a quick hint

for native speakers and non-native

speakers actually

is it restrictive non-restrictive how do

i know to do that

remove the clause just take the clause

out of the sentence

is the meaning of the sentence the same

is the sentence still grammatically

correct is it okay

if yes if the sentence is okay the

meaning is the same

it’s a non-restrictive clause if no if

the meaning

changes if you lose some key information

it is a restrictive clause

so this is a quick hint if you’re not

sure whether to use which

or whether to use that try this test

this quick test just take it out and see

if the meaning

changes the last thing i want to talk

about here

is the use of commas so you’ll notice i

used commas

throughout this lesson and also when i

was reading they kind of create a

natural pause around this extra

information

but when do you use them we should use

commas

around non-restrictive clauses so you

can see

i used them here

and here in the example sentences we use

commas around non-restrictive clauses

only

again this lesson comma which is being

recorded

comma is about which and that so

when you’re reading it creates a natural

pause so the reader knows there’s going

to be like

extra information there the reader can

understand through use of these commas

however do not use commas around

restrictive clauses for example

the lesson that i just taught was about

how to use which

and that this is a restrictive clause so

mean specifically this lesson that i

just taught

was about how to use which and that i

should not include commas here

because i’m not including any extra

information all of the information

is essential it’s the same with all of

the other example sentences i used in

this lesson there are no commas included

because all of the information is

essential

the reader needs to understand

everything in one piece

you can think of it that way okay so

that’s an overview of the differences

between

which and that restrictive clauses as

well

and a couple of comma tips too so i hope

that this was a useful lesson for you

if you have any questions of course

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ten ways to report speech let’s

go say the first word

is say say as a verb say

is a very neutral word you can use to

report

someone’s speech to explain something

someone said in the past so for example

he said the barbecue was cancelled

just a simple neutral report

tell the next verb is tell

tell is used when one person is giving

information to

another to tell someone something they

did not know before

don’t say tell me your phone number

that’s weird but like

can you tell me where the station is can

you tell me where to buy

a hamburger can you tell me where to

pick up my new car like so giving

someone information they don’t know or

or on the other hand explaining

something one way to another person

so don’t tell me what i can’t do is a

very good lost reference if you’ve ever

watched lost

so tell another example sentence my boss

told me i was doing a good job

speak the next one is

speak speak so we use speak

when we’re talking about language

ability like i speak english i speak

japanese

we can use speak in the past tense to

report something but it usually sounds a

little more

formal so like i spoke to my boss about

i spoke to my parents about or i spoke

to my

boyfriend or girlfriend about blah blah

blah

that using speak instead of talked

it makes it sound a little bit more

formal so you can use speak

but it’s going to sound polite in a

sentence my colleagues spoke with me

about an upcoming project

was like okay the next one uh the next

two

actually are very very casual

expressions

so when you’re speaking with friends and

you’re kind of talking about a quick

maybe somewhat emotional conversation

you will hear

native speakers especially americans

perhaps this is unique somewhat

to americans use the phrase was like

i was like he was like she was like

this is a very casual way to report

speech

and you’ll hear it often very very

quickly

together so someone will say i was like

what and then she was like no and then i

was like yeah

that’s the kind of pattern you’ll hear

it in very very quick ways to report

speech

but the subject changes i was like he

was like she was like we were like

this is a way to share what happens

quickly instead of i said he said she

said

which might sound a little too formal we

can use i was like

he was like to do that instead so this

is a really fun one

and if you can use this uh naturally i

think that it’ll really help you sound

more natural too

so in a sentence and then he was like i

love that movie

was all the next one is also a similar

to was like

we have the expression was all so was

all don’t worry about all all does not

have the meaning of the whole of

something or a complete something

instead was all this set phrase is used

to report speech

usually this one is used when there’s

some kind of emotional

uh emotional aspect to your conversation

or it’s a little dramatic or

maybe a little exciting we use it the

same way as

was like in that very very quick style

of speaking

and then he was like and i was all and

she was like and i was all

we use those together but i was all has

a little more emphasis

i feel i tend to use it when my when i

want to express a stronger emotion

and i was all no way or and i was all

what

so you can use it for those very like

surprised emotions or maybe angry

emotions

was like and was all are both used in

very casual situations

so in a sentence and i was all oh my god

me too

talk the next word is talk

so talk similar to say

is a fairly neutral verb when reporting

speech

you’ll use it in a situation where

someone

is giving new information to you

but maybe it’s a two-way conversation so

for example

we talked about blah blah blah

for a topic or my boss talked

to me about blah blah blah so maybe

new information is being exchanged but

the conversation is

two way there are multiple participants

with tell it’s like

the nuance is sort of one person is

reporting information

giving information with talked it’s

there’s an exchange

happening there so keep in mind when you

use the word talk

you will say either i i talked to or i

talked

with someone and then you’ll usually

have a topic so i talked to my friend

about blah blah blah i talked to my

friend about my new apartment

i talked to my boss about a raise i

talked to my boss

no i talked to my dog about what dogs do

okay so there’s some kind of there’s

some kind of exchange

happening there you’ll need to use to or

with

when you’re referring to the person or

entity you’re talking to

and you’ll use about to refer to the

subject

so you can use this one um yeah when

you’re when you want to discuss

exchanges of information so in a

sentence she talked to me about my

family

mention let’s go to the next one the

next one is

mention mention is used when like

something

is just there’s just one small point in

a conversation like

just a little side note or maybe it’s

not the focus of a conversation but just

something someone says

quickly or there’s just a little thing

that you hear

oh you mentioned something about blah

blah blah or

you mentioned that a new project like

it’s it’s maybe not the focus of the

conversation but something that

you heard a little bit about that’s

that’s when we use the verb

mention we can also use it in a

statement like please

uh mention any skills you have on a

resume so

the nuance is sort of like a like just a

little bit of information

is when we use mention so in a sentence

our manager mentioned upcoming changes

at the company

to go on and on okay the next expression

is to go on

and on so to go on and on means just to

talk for a very long time so maybe you

have a co-worker or a friend or a family

member

that just talks and does not stop

talking

we say to go on and on that’s the

expression we use so in a sentence

the speaker at the seminar was going on

and on about the topic if you really

want to emphasize it you can say what’s

going on and on and on and on and on

that really emphasizes that the person

continues to speak

so if you know somebody um who does that

a lot you can use this

expression to talk about them according

the next expression here is according to

according to

is used uh actually in the news or like

to officially report something

so according to sources or according to

the police according to the government

official according to

my teacher according to my mother these

are like direct reports

of information and they’re direct

reports of information

from a specific source so according to

the newspaper

my f neighborhood has 50

000 amazing ramen shops

that’s not true but if

i want to instead of just saying my

neighborhood has 50 000

amazing ramen shops i’m giving a source

for that so according to my newspaper

this is this is where i got the

information so this is important to use

news and newspapers and any kind of

official documentation you will see and

hear according to

in these cases ah in a sentence

according to a witness at the scene the

suspect escaped

report great so um the next one is

report so

reports similar to according to we use

report in more official situations so

to officially share information like to

report to the police to report to your

teacher to report to

your boss sometimes it means to submit

documentation

like to to give someone a written report

sometimes

it’s to share information officially

just just with your voice to report

news or to report an update so when you

want to

give and give official information we’ll

use the verb report

so in a sentence sources in the area

report that the accident was not serious

thank goodness all right top 10

must know phrases for the restaurant

let’s get started

a table for three please a table for

three please

you tell them the number of people that

you are total so that the host can bring

you to an appropriate table

a table for two please a table for five

please

could i please see a menu could i please

see a menu

usually menus are given to you as soon

as you sit down at your table

but if that’s not the case and you need

to ask this is a polite way to do it

could i please see a menu i’d like to

try this dish

i’d like to try this dish when looking

at a menu

hopefully you’ll find something you want

to eat i’d like to try this dish

could you leave out the onions could you

leave out the onions

if there’s an ingredient in the dish

that you’re ordering that you don’t want

you can always ask the waiter if it

could be prepared

without that ingredient so for example i

might say

could i get the burger but with no

cheese could you pass the salt

could you pass the salt when you’re at a

restaurant especially if you’re at a big

table with a lot of people

you might not always be able to reach

things so

you would ask could you pass me the salt

could you pass me the ketchup could you

pass me another napkin

waiter waiter a waiter is someone who

takes your order

and brings you food in america and in

many other western countries

it’s more polite to call a waiter to

your table by simply saying

excuse me or if you see another waiter

walking by but it’s not your waiter

you can always say excuse me if you see

our waiter could you please let them

know to come to our table

is there any dairy in this dish is there

any dairy in this dish

this is something you would say if you

have a dairy allergy

a dairy intolerance or you just don’t

like dairy

you’re asking the waiter about the

ingredients in a particular dish

i do this all the time is there any

cheese in this

no okay and if there is an ingredient

that you don’t want

for example onions you could say are

there any onions

in this and the waiter might say yes and

if you don’t want it you could always

request

could you leave out the onions could you

prepare it without the onions please

can we get separate chex can we get

separate chex

this is actually something that’s very

common especially in america

if you might go out with a group of

friends or even if you’re on a date

sometimes you might want to get separate

checks pay for your

own things that way you can all pay

separately

just for what you yourself ordered and

you won’t have to worry about owing each

other money

or calculating off a big huge bill

are there any specials today are there

any specials today

a special at a restaurant is a dish that

isn’t usually

on the menu it’s something that’s

special but it’s a special that the chef

is offering that day or that week or

that month

so sometimes if you don’t see what the

specials are you’d ask your waiter

excuse me are there any specials today

could we have the bill please

could we have the bill please this is

how you request

that the check or the bill comes to your

table

can we get the check please could we get

the bill please

you’re asking this to your waiter who

will then bring you the check

and you can pay about 10 words that you

can use at a bar

let’s go to buy a round the first

expression is to buy

a round to buy a round means

to buy a round of drinks essentially a

round of drinks means

one drink for everyone in your group one

drink for everyone in your party

by the way the word party is used to

mean group at a bar or restaurant

the number of people in your party is

the number of people in your group

so to buy a round means to buy a drink

for

everybody in a sentence our boss began

the party by

buying everyone around in a different

sentence

you’re buying the next round on the

rocks

the next expression is on the rocks on

the rocks is a way to

order a drink when you say on the rocks

it means your drink on ice only so

rocks are the ice in your glass so you

can imagine the ice the pieces of ice in

your glass the ice cubes or an ice ball

these are like

rocks so saying i’d like whiskey

for example on the rocks means just

whiskey

served over ice that’s what on the rocks

mean so in a sentence

i’d like a gin on the rocks straight up

the next expression is straight up so a

straight up drink is different from an

on the rocks drink a straight up drink

is chilled

uh with ice but it’s strained so there’s

no ice

in the drink but it is it has been

chilled with ice so a straight up drink

there’s nothing else in the glass but it

is a chilled drink

in a sentence i’d like a martini

straight up

some people use the word straight or

straight up but they mean

neat which is the next word we’re going

to talk about so keep in mind straight

or straight up means chilled that’s one

of the key points here

so yeah a martini straight up is a

chilled martini

neat so the next expression is neat

to order a drink neat means the drink is

not chilled and there is no ice

it’s just it’s just the the alcohol it’s

just the liquor there’s nothing

special about it a neat drink is

only the drink that’s it nothing happens

to it so in a sentence

i’d like a whiskey neat pint

half pint the next expression is really

two

expressions these are words you use when

you order beer

they are pint and half pint depending on

the country that you live in

pint can be a different size they vary

by like a few milliliters depending on

the country where you live in

a half pint then is roughly half of the

pint

size so a half pint and a pint are two

ways two

sizes we use to order beer in a sentence

can i have a half

pint of this stout chaser the next

expression is

chaser so a chaser is something you use

follow an alcoholic drink chasers are

often used after

shots so shots are small drinks that are

usually kind of strong in alcohol

content

and they have a very strong taste so

some people like to

have something after that and they call

it a chaser so the image

is that the the second drink is chasing

the first drink into your body you can

think of it that way the chaser is a

non-alcoholic drink so it could be water

it could be soda it could be something

like that juice

maybe so chaser in a sentence shots of

tequila are often followed with chasers

to be tipsy the next word is to be tipsy

to be tipsy is a way to describe your

feeling when you’re drinking

so if you can imagine when you’re uh

when you’re standing

straight up uh when you’re standing as

regular you’re very like confident and

tall and you don’t move

very much but if you feel tipsy this

comes from the verb to

tip like this so something tips uh to

one side or another

think of your body in this way so we use

the word

tipsy the adjective tipsy um to describe

this feeling maybe

you’re not so steady on your feet you

could tip over

ah at any time that’s called being tipsy

from alcohol okay so in a sentence uh

let’s see

i’m a little tipsy i need some water to

be drunk

the next expression is to be drunk so we

talked about the word

tipsy so tipsy is a little bit like a

little unsteady but

drunk is just a mess you’re just you’re

just a disaster maybe you’re being noisy

you’re being loud it’s difficult to

control your body or your friend’s body

whatever so drunk is usually seen as a

negative thing

um so yeah so drunk uh

expresses yeah it’s it’s just not pretty

sometimes so in a sentence your friend

is drunk let’s take him home

to call it a night the next expression

is to call it

a night to call it a night means to

decide

to finish at the bar to go home

uh you’re ready to be done so uh here

i’m going to

call it i’m going to say this is tonight

tonight is finished

so in a sentence it’s been a long

evening

i’m going to call it a night i mean i’m

going to go home

i’m done it’s a casual expression

hangover

and then one more that you can use maybe

the day after you visit a bar

is hangover so a hangover is a noun

hangover is the word we use to describe

the feelings

after drinking too much so maybe you

feel sick

to your stomach you have a headache your

body is sore

there are a number of different feelings

you might have when you feel

hung over to be hungover is another way

to say it but when you have a hangover

it usually doesn’t feel very good in a

sentence

i have a hangover today i’m not going

drinking tonight

about the top 25 english phrases so

let’s get started

the first phrase is hello hello of

course is used as a greeting you can

greet your friends you can greet your

co-workers your family with this phrase

just by saying

hello hey hi what’s up hello sup

yo pretty much any time of day you can

use hello

hello the next phrase is good morning

good morning is used as a greeting in

the morning you can kind of feel when

morning ends for you good morning is

nice and polite

or even just morning with your close

friends or close co-workers

the next phrase is good night good night

is fine we don’t use this

to greet other people we use it when

we’re saying goodbye to other people at

night

family members particularly mothers and

fathers to say good night to their

children before they put them to bed

you can say it to your friend in a text

message or in an email if you’ve been

talking for a while good night

so the next word to talk about is

goodbye use it when you say goodbye to

your friends when you leave your friends

goodbye

bye of course take care have a nice day

peace out that’s another way to say

goodbye okay the next phrase is

i’m plus your name of course this is a

way to introduce yourself you can use

i’m in my case alicia i’m alicia to

introduce yourself in any situation

new friend i’m alicia okay the next

phrase is what’s your name what’s your

name is used to ask someone else what

their name

is so what is your name sounds a bit

tried to use what’s your name if you

forget someone’s name you can say

sorry what’s your name or sorry what’s

your name again next phrase is nice to

meet you nice to meet you

anytime you meet someone new nice to

meet you is fine

good to meet you is a little more casual

great to meet you sounds very

excited pleasure to meet you sounds like

maybe a formal

situation or a business context okay the

next phrase is how are you

how are you is it’s just a friendly way

to check in with the other person you

can use it with friends your family

your coworkers maybe even your boss to a

certain degree

uh how are you how you doing the next

phrase is i’m fine thanks and you

uh if you saw english in three minutes

we talked a lot about this phrase uh

instead of i’m fine thank you and you

say i’m good thanks how are you just

shorten it make it a little bit more

natural

how are you good how are you great how

are you

not so good how are you okay and so on

so when someone says how are you offer i

usually say

i’m good this week i blah blah give some

information about what you’ve been up to

maybe a hobby something that you did

recently an event

something interesting you saw whatever

people want to make that connection with

you and it’s a good chance for you to

continue speaking

the next word is please please is a

polite phrase used when you want

something from someone else

you can use this as a response when

someone offers you something like in a

restaurant for example would you like

more water would you like something to

drink oh please

the next phrase is thank you thank you

is used to express your appreciation you

can use thank you with

everybody the next phrase is you’re

welcome you’re welcome when someone says

thank you you can say you’re welcome ah

no biggie i use no biggie as in no

biggie is short for no big problem

the next word is yes yes of course yes

means is any positive expression

someone asks you a question and the

answer is a positive answer you say

yes yep

no next i’m guessing i know it yep the

next word is

no no is a negative response to

something when you have to give a

negative answer

so as you can probably guess um the long

form of no is

negative i like to use nope it’s very

very casual

not gonna happen my parents would use

that with me to soften that a little bit

if you want to show a negative

response to something like let’s go for

dinner tonight what do you want to do

like do you want to go out

uh not really no i don’t think so

to soften it the next word is okay okay

this word comes from copy editors okay

when they had to check a manuscript um

they had to label the manuscript

all clear ac but because they were copy

editors and they have a very very sick

sense of humor

they thought they would mark it okay for

all clear to make a joke because

o and k do not start all and clear but

it caught on

among everybody in the world anyway

okay is used to agree with somebody else

well it can be used actually to express

a positive or kind of a slight negative

i feel

transitioning in your conversation you

can say okay now we’re going to talk

about

blah blah blah okay the next phrase is

excuse me excuse me it’s used to get

someone’s attention

in english when you don’t know the other

person for example in a store

a supermarket maybe a stranger on the

street you need to ask directions you

can use

excuse me you can use excuse me in the

supermarket excuse me can you tell me

where the hot sauce is

if you’ve done something rude in public

you can use excuse me

i personally do not do rude things in

public ever i’m sorry is the next word

we’re gonna talk about i’m sorry is used

to apologize when you have made a

mistake or someone you know has made a

mistake and you’re connected to it or

you just feel bad you can use i’m sorry

you made a mistake at work i’m sorry you

forgot to feed your cat i’m sorry sorry

about that

you bump someone next to you oh sorry

what time is it is the next phrase when

you need to check what time it is

what time is it when you ask someone

else what time it is maybe you say this

to yourself too

check your watch check your phone check

a clock pretty straightforward phrase

there aren’t really any

short versions so that’s an easy one

where is the plus a location so you can

use this

for a building or a store we don’t we’re

not going to use this where is the

for a place a city name or a state name

or a country name

to do that you would need to remove the

but where is the bank where is the post

office you can use this to ask

directions to ask for help

in your house or at work where is the

copy machine

where is the file i need where is the

blah blah blah

where is the bathroom is perhaps a very

important question to know

the next one is may i use the restroom

may i use the restroom as a polite

and soft expression that you can use if

you need to use the toilet you need to

use the washroom

when you’re at someone’s house for the

very first time when you’re in a place

that you’re that is new to you

you can ask may i use the restroom more

casually can i go to the bathroom

to be very polite you can say may i go

to the bathroom the next phrase is i

would like to order

something you can use this at a

restaurant probably or in any situation

where you need to

place an order i’d like a pizza i’d like

a beer can i get the check please this

will be used at a restaurant when you’ve

finished your meal and it’s time to go

can i get the check please

in a very very casual situation you can

just say check please

that’s fine the next phrase is see you

soon see you soon is used with friends

and family members perhaps

uh when you expect to see them again

soon after saying goodbye to them this

is used at the end of the conversation

you’re going separate directions

see you soon see ya is also good or just

see you

to make it a little more formal you can

say i’ll see you again soon make a full

sentence out of it that way

the next phrases see you later see you

later it’s very similar to see you soon

but the point is

with see you later is that you’re

probably going to meet that person again

later on in the same day

the last phrase is really really is a

very useful word because you can use it

to show you’re interested in a

conversation with upward intonation

really really tell me more or to show

that you’re not so interested in the

conversation with downward intonation

really so there are many other words

that you can use similar to

really in this way like seriously or oh

oh and so on so it’s a really good

practice for your intonation

ways to say hi this should be fun let’s

get started first is yo

this one is a little bit casual in case

you couldn’t tell

used for close friends maybe family

members if you have kind of a silly

relationship with them

just quick short easy to do in a

sentence

yo how’s it going howdy howdy uh

traditionally associated with cowboy

culture i suppose you should play a

banjo maybe or you’ve just gotten off a

horse i don’t know i use howdy from time

to time howdy

howdy howdy howdy

that’s my banjo yeah in a sentence you

might say

howdy folks welcome to the

barbecue place

next is hey hey is good friendly phrase

you can usually use hey with a wave and

smile look happy

if you don’t people might think that

you’re down in the dumps people might

think you’re not in a very good mood in

a sentence hey

uh i heard you got engaged last week

congratulations

something like that it’s usually kind of

a cheery happy expression

all right next is what’s up uh what’s up

is the long form of

sup this does not literally mean what is

above you right now

if you want to be funny you can say the

ceiling or the sky but that joke gets

old really fast and chances are the

person you’re talking to has already

heard it before

it just means what are you up to what is

going on with you in a sentence

what’s up did you have a good weekend

typical response to what’s up is not

much

find out some more responses in english

in three minutes we did an episode on

this

nothing much how about you that’s pretty

good pretty good

pretty good pretty good

i don’t know what i’m doing the next one

is long time no see you can use this one

you haven’t seen the other person for a

long time

you’re at a party or an event or

whatever anytime it’s been a long break

you can decide how long long is not the

day before or the week before maybe a

few weeks or a month whatever is unusual

for you and this other person

when you see them you can say hey long

time no see how have you been

about ten words for talking about beauty

and

skin care so let’s begin all right the

first word is

makeup makeup is all makeup everything

we’re going to

talk about almost everything we’re going

to talk about later

is makeup makeup is usually used by

women but maybe men use makeup

too makeup is usually put on the face to

change the appearance of the face in

some way

so in a sentence i use makeup almost

every day

or i wear makeup almost every day use

and wear are both

okay the next word is eye shadow so

eyeshadow is makeup which goes on top of

the eye so

the eyelid this part is called your

eyelid eyeshadow

goes here on top of the eyelid so in a

sentence

what kind of eye shadow do you use

the next word is eye liner eyeliner so

eyeliner is used to draw a line to draw

lines

near the eyes that means it’s safe to

use

near eyes it depends on the person and

their style but maybe they use eyeliner

to make

lines in different ways on their on

their face on near their near their eyes

in a sentence eyeliner is really

difficult to put on

okay the next word is lipstick lipstick

uh there’s also lip gloss too lipstick

is kind of the traditional just

like a single color you apply it just on

your lips and it gives

i don’t know not sometimes shiny

sometimes a very

neutral i don’t know depends on the

lipstick lip gloss

gives lips like this very glossy almost

like liquidy appearance so lipstick and

lip gloss have different effects

in a sentence you have a lot of lipstick

the next expression is foundation

foundation

is the makeup product it is applied to

the skin

usually of the face so it’s used to make

the face seem

like all one color foundation maybe

people apply it with i don’t know like a

spongy thing

or with their hands or a brush there’s

like a

i forgot what it’s called isn’t like a

sponge i don’t know something

is it a beauty blender is that a thing i

think i i don’t know i don’t know i’m

the wrong person

i don’t know it’s a beauty it’s a beauty

blender thing i’m not very good at the

beauty stuff either i don’t know

anyway foundation is intended to make

your skin color appear

even foundation so it’s called

foundation because it’s like the base

the foundation

for the rest of your makeup so the

foundation is the

kind of the basis so once your skin

color is all

correct and the same then the other

parts we can fix the other parts

that’s my theory anyway in a sentence

there are a few different types of

foundation

all right the next expression is blush

blush is usually applied on your cheeks

and it’s like a

pink or red color it gives the

appearance of

blushing so when we feel embarrassed or

maybe we

feel excited our cheeks might turn red

so blush is makeup which creates that

effect

of blushing this is usually a pink or

red color

to simulate to make it look like you’re

blushing even if you’re not really

in a sentence do you wear blush the next

expression is

bronzer bronzer so we talked about blush

which is supposed to give your skin the

appearance of being pink or blushing

bronzer gives skin the appearance of

being

more bronze or more tan so you can apply

this maybe in summer and it makes your

skin look a little more

tan which you might like other people

also may use bronzer to create

shadows because it makes the skin a

little bit darker

in the places where it’s applied so

there are a few different ways to use

bronzer in a sentence bronzer is nice in

summer

the next word is face wash face wash so

this is a

special soap that’s for your face

specifically for the face

maybe your face is very sensitive or you

have some

trouble spots or i don’t know there’s a

specific

wash you use for your face only in a

sentence

a good face wash is important for clear

skin

oh the next word oh the dreaded i have a

couple words here that are maybe

problems all of us deal with the first

kind of problem word on this list is

acne

acne is an uncountable noun acne refers

usually this is this a problem happens

for

like teenagers or people around that age

but adults can also

have acne acne is like imperfections in

the skin sometimes they’re itchy or

they’re painful red

bumps on your skin or maybe they’re not

painful but they’re just

blotches or a number of different ways

that acne

can can be an issue which we’ll talk

about in the next word too but acne is

an uncountable noun

is just about that problem skin problem

in general acne bad acne in a sentence i

had

acne when i was a teenager so the next

word for today there are two words here

there’s pimple and zit

these are both words we use to refer to

the

individual parts of acne acne we can say

i have

bad acne or maybe my acne is improving

today

but acne is maybe the whole condition of

your face

like everything your face is situation

each part

each one of those little uh problem

spots we

we call that a pimple or a zit the

difference pimple sounds a little bit

smaller usually

zit sounds a bit bigger and maybe maybe

more painful

so but either way pimples and zits are

both

words we can use to describe acne so in

a sentence

i hate getting pimples 10 words you can

use to talk about

hygiene or cleanliness so let’s begin

to wash your hands the first expression

is to wash your hands to wash your hands

is with soap and water in the restroom

somewhere so wash your hands before

cooking or wash your hands

after using the toilet for example

in a sentence wash your hands after

using the bathroom

to shower the next expression is to

shower

to shower or to shower or maybe you

prefer to take a bath

so to shower is usually standing up

though you can do it sitting down

depending on the country you live in i

suppose to shower is that

yeah the water just hits you

continuously

to take a bath is you sit in the bathtub

you sit down and you are surrounded by

water

that is a bath surrounded by one

sitting down surrounded by water in your

home on purpose

is a bath if it’s not on purpose

you should probably call a plumber

that is not a bath that is an emergency

all right uh in a sentence i shower

every day or i love taking a bath every

once in a while

to brush your teeth the next expression

is to brush

your teeth to brush your teeth so with a

toothbrush

usually in the morning maybe at night as

well you brush your teeth you clean your

teeth

uh in a sentence make sure to brush your

teeth in the morning

to style your hair uh the next

expression is to

style your hair to style your hair means

to arrange or to fix your hair the way

you

like it so today i styled my hair like

this

you styled your hair like that eyes

tomorrow maybe i’ll style my hair

in a ponytail i probably won’t

maybe you can put your you can style

your hair in a mohawk

or in a faux hawk or in a bouffant

bouffant that’s that focus oh yeah it’s

focusing yeah

that’s a bouffant all right so to style

your hair

uh in a sentence it takes a long time to

style my hair that’s true

my hair is naturally explosive and so i

have to straighten it before like

everything and then as soon as humidity

gets it

it goes it makes that sound too

to shave the next expression is to

shave to shave is to remove hair like

if you’re a man here usually uh to

remove the hair here with a

razor with another like a a blade of

some kind or

maybe you remove body hair or hair on

your legs whatever

uh you we use the verb to shave

to shave uh with a razor in a sentence

shaving is a pain for sure meaning

shaving is troublesome

soap or cleanser the next word is soap

or cleanser so soap is just used to

clean your skin or yeah to clean your

face maybe

to clean your hands we do not use soap

for the stuff you use to clean your

teeth soap is used for

like body cleaner or maybe um

what you use to wash your clothes so

soap or a

body cleanser in a sentence i like nice

smelling soaps and cleansers

that is true who does not deodorant

the next word is deodorant deodorant so

deodorant is

the product you might put on your body

prevent unpleasant smells so usually

it goes in this region so this is called

the armpit this region so arm

and then pit so like yeah kind of this

cavish area in your arm we call the

armpit

but it’s common to apply deodorant here

you might put it

in other areas on your body but the goal

to prevent bad smells

or to in some cases just stop sweating

completely

so this is deodorant well deodorant

actually if i’m going to be strict here

deodorant

is used to stop unpleasant smells

antiperspirant is used to prevent

sweating so

perspirant comes from perspire

so to perspire means to sweat anti means

not or stop so an

anti-perspirant is a product to make you

stop sweating so deodorant is the smell

one antiperspirant is the sweat one

sometimes you can buy a deodorant and

antiperspirant together

great in a sentence wearing deodorant is

important especially in summer

mouthwash the next word is mouthwash

mouthwash i hope is easy to understand

it’s wash it’s

something to clean the inside of your

mouth so

uh you can use this like uh in the

morning maybe after you brush your teeth

or after lunch maybe to keep your breath

uh smelling fresh uh but it usually is

in like a blue or a green or maybe an

orange

color and kind of has a minty or citrusy

taste

but you put it in your mouth and kind of

swish like

i don’t know i can’t swish nothing you

swish it around in your mouth

and then spit it out and that’s

mouthwash so you’ve washed your mouth

with this product in a sentence i like

minty mouthwash

toothpaste the next word is toothpaste

so toothpaste we do not say like tooth

soap or tooth cleaner or whatever

we use tooth paste for uh the

product to clean our teeth the product

we use to brush our teeth is called

tooth paste uh so in a sentence

i need to buy more toothpaste shampoo

and conditioner

the next expression is shampoo and

conditioner so

shampoo and conditioner are commonly

used together

in the shower or in the bath maybe

shampoo usually comes first we shampoo

shampoo is soap for your hair really and

then conditioner

is a treatment for your hair conditioner

is used to make your hair feel softer or

moisturized so oftentimes they are used

for shampoo

and then conditioner together as a set

so in a sentence i like trying new

shampoos and conditioner

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at your verbs

hi everybody my name is alicia welcome

back to know your verbs in this episode

we’re going to talk about the verb

look so let’s go

the basic definition of the verb look is

to use your eyes to use your skills of

vision

uh to yeah to use your eyes to look to

turn your eyes towards something to use

your vision is to look

uh the difference between the verb see

if you watch the c

episode of know your verbs c means to

perceive

something with the eyes look means like

to focus the

eyes on something to direct your

attention towards something

whereas c is like to take in something

perceive to gain information with the

eyes

look is just focusing your attention in

something on something

conjugations let’s check out the

conjugations of this verb

present tense look or looks past tense

looked past participle looked

progressive or continuous tense

looking so

let’s check out some of the additional

meanings of the verb look

first to appear in accordance with here

are some examples

she’s had a rough year yeah she looks it

burn

second example he’s 60 he doesn’t look

okay so in these example sentences

look is referring to matching some

other information about a person or

about

a condition about a situation so in this

case

uh in the first example sentence we hear

she’s had a rough year

and then the response to that is yeah

she looks

it so it means it

in other words the it here means as

though she’s had a rough year

she looks meaning she appears in

accordance with the fact she has had a

rough

year but that’s a very long thing to say

instead we say yeah

she looks it she’s her appearance

suggests

what you have just said she’s had a

rough year yeah she looks

it where it equals rough year and looks

shows that matches so her look matches

this rough year

fact we’ve learned about her the second

sentence is similar

someone says he’s 60 meaning he’s 60

years old

but we hear the negative response he

doesn’t look

it meaning he does not appear as a 60

year old man

meaning in other words he probably looks

much younger than 60. he doesn’t look it

could be that he seems way way older

than 60 years old like if someone

looks ancient if someone has the

appearance of a very very old person

and you go oh my gosh he’s 60 he doesn’t

look it

that’s possible too that’s possible i

suppose so you just have to gauge

based on the intonation uh so we can use

an expression like that to mean someone

is significantly younger or

older the next meaning is to seem

to seem here are some examples this

looks pretty tough

this is looking like it’s going to be

easier than i thought in these example

sentences we can replace the verb

look with seem and the meaning stays the

same

so this looks pretty tough has the same

meaning as this

seems pretty tough so to seem and to

look

have the same meaning in these examples

in the second example sentence we saw

this is looking like it’s going to be

easier than i thought

we can replace looking with seeming and

the meaning stays the same this is

seeming like it’s going to be easier

than i thought

so both of these we can simply replace

the verb and we have the same meaning

in these cases so look means to seem

why would you use look instead of seam

what is the difference here

for me personally i think seam sounds

slightly more formal than look

i would not use seam in most cases i

would say looks in most cases

when i want to say seem if i want to

sound slightly more formal or slightly

more polite i would probably use

seam this seems to be the problem what

seems to be the problem

instead of what looks like the problem

look it looks like this one’s your

problem

like look sounds like not nearly as

formal

all right next is to have in mind

as a goal to have in mind as a goal here

are some examples

we’re looking to buy a new car by the

end of the month

he’s looking to complete his job

transfer by next month

so both of these sentences define a goal

they explain a goal

we’re also using the progressive form of

looking

so that means we are in the progress of

working towards a goal or in the

progress

of completing a goal in the first

example sentence we’re looking to buy a

new

car by the end of the month means our

goal is to buy a new car

by the end of the month and we are

currently trying to do that

but this is quite a long expression so

instead we use

look we are looking to buy a new car i

suppose we could replace this with the

verb aiming to we’re aiming to buy a new

car

aiming but aiming sounds rather formal

and

looking is a little bit more casual so

we’re looking to

buy a new car in the second sentence

he’s looking to complete his job

transfer by next month we see the same

thing his goal is to complete his job

transfer

and his aim is to do it by next month so

he is currently working towards his goal

he’s looking to complete something we

use it in the progressive tense

to show he is currently trying to

achieve this goal to achieve this

outcome

the next meaning is to express with your

eyes or with your face

so you’re actually you’re creating an

appearance with your eyes or your face

an expression in other words

here are some examples she looked

surprised

they look pretty angry here both of

these examples are talking about an

expression a

facial expression or some appearance

that is created

with the face or with the eyes so in the

first example we see she looked

surprised in past tense this indicates

that with her face

something about her face or her eyes

showed surprise

she created a surprised face

with her facial expression in other

words so she looked

surprised in the second example they

look pretty angry present tense

they look pretty angry means their

facial expression

appears angry they’re what something

they are doing with their face or their

eyes

creates an angry look look at the noun

here

so to they look pretty angry is their

expression appears

angry

let’s go on to some variations of this

how can we pair

other words with look to create a new

meaning

first is look into look into this means

to investigate here are some examples we

need to look into these accusations

have you looked into the requirements

for your license

both of these mean to examine or to

investigate something

so in the first example sentence we need

to look into these accusations

means we need to investigate these

accusations we need to maybe research we

need to

search for more information about

something so

look into kind of contains all of that

find more information about something

but look into

is much shorter and easier to say to

look into something

it does sound more casual you could

replace this with the verb

investigate we need to investigate these

accusations instead of

look into these accusations investigate

sounds more formal than look into in the

second sentence have you looked into the

requirements for your license

we see the same thing have you

investigated the requirements for your

license

but investigated sounds quite polite

quite formal so

instead we use have you looked into past

tense have you looked into the

requirements

past tense shows investigation but it

doesn’t sound

so formal as investigate the next

variation is

look the other way look the other way

this means

to direct your attention away from

something

unpleasant here are some examples you

can’t just look the other way while your

boss mistreats the employees in your

company

we shouldn’t look the other way when our

fellow humans are in trouble

so these example sentences show the use

of look the

other way meaning to look away from

something unpleasant

in the first example about a boss

mistreating employees in a company it

means

we can’t just turn our attention away

from the mistreatment of the employees

in the company or we should not do that

that’s a bad idea

we should not direct our attention away

from this unpleasant situation

if there’s a bad situation there we

should not

ignore that situation in other words we

should not look the other way we should

not turn our attention away from this

bad situation

and in the second example sentence we

shouldn’t look the other way when our

fellow humans are in trouble

it’s a more general statement but if

other humans fellow humans other people

are in trouble we should not uh ignore

it we should not ignore it we should not

turn our attention

in another way okay so i hope that this

video helped you level up your

understanding of the verb

look if you have any questions or

comments or know

some other uses of the word look please

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luke i am your father look at that

look at that look at that look at that

extremely correct yes excellent work

french tour guide

examine i looked away

i didn’t realize how much i used the

verb look oh my gosh

oh my gosh look hi everybody my name is

alicia

welcome back to know your verbs in this

episode we’re going to talk about the

verb

keep let’s get started

the basic definition of the verb keep

is to have in possession so like to own

something or to hold

something is to keep are the

conjugations for this verb

present tense keep keeps

past tense kept past participle tense

kept progressive tense keeping

now let’s talk about some additional

meanings of this verb

the first additional meaning for this

lesson is to stop

something from going somewhere this can

mean to

stop a person like from leaving or

from going to another place or to

stop an object from moving or from going

somewhere let’s look at some examples is

our manager at the

office can you keep her there for 10

more minutes

okay next one keep that car inside the

gates

so don’t let it go outside the gates

keep it

inside the gates meaning number two

additional meaning number two for the

verb

keep to cause to remain in a condition

or to cause to remain in a situation

let’s look at some examples sorry to

keep you waiting

so here sorry to keep sorry to

make you stay in the waiting

condition in the waiting situation sorry

to keep you waiting

the boss has kept us wondering about

changes for months

that was past participle the boss has

kept

us wondering so we remain

in the state of wondering here the boss

has

kept us wandering for months

so has caused us to wonder continuously

for a period of months is the meaning of

this sentence

meaning number three for this lesson is

just

to stay or to continue something

so this is a very broad example let’s

look at a couple examples first

keep your head keep your head sounds

really strange right

so to keep your head doesn’t mean like

hold on to your head

so but the expression keep your head

means

control your emotions so here your head

doesn’t refer to your head as the object

necessarily it refers to your emotions

so controlling your emotions

to keep your head means like to continue

your controlled emotional

state so if someone is getting

maybe too excited or they’re getting

really angry you can say

keep your head let’s look at another

example though

keep in your lane keep in your lane me

so it’s like

imagine you’re driving so elaine is the

lines on the road those are the lines on

the road that people can drive cars in

so keep in your lane means stay in your

lane

in other words continue in your lane we

say keep

but it doesn’t mean hold it means

continue in your lane

so if someone else if maybe the person

you’re driving with

is trying to move to a different lane

you can say keep in your lane just stay

there

so it means stay another example might

be keep quiet

keep quiet means stay quiet or continue

being quiet but we just say keep quiet

to mean

continue that state meaning number four

of keep is to persist in

a behavior so to persist means to do

something

many many times to continue doing

something many times

in this case a behavior a behavior is

repeating

so let’s look at some examples this guy

keeps calling me

so a guy in this case keeps calling my

phone

keeps he keeps calling me

so repeatedly this person is calling me

repeatedly he keeps

calling me another example we kept

sending messages until they responded

we kept sending messages until they

responded

so meaning we continuously we repeatedly

sent messages to someone or maybe to a

company

until we received a response so when we

received a response

we stopped sending messages we kept

sending messages until they responded

let’s go on to some variations of the

verb keep

the first variation is to keep an eye

on someone to keep an eye on someone

this expression means to watch to watch

like to watch someone closely

often too some examples yeah she’s

keeping an eye on me

she always keeps an eye on the screen

our boss keeps an eye on our work

example keep an eye on him he’s up to

something

if someone says keep an eye on him or

like keep an eye on her with that kind

of suspicious

intonation this is kind of a negative

expression like

that person is suspicious so watch that

person

to keep an eye on him but if you say

with an

upward intonation kind of happy like

whoa keep an eye on him

he’s doing exciting things that means

like you should watch that person

and expect something positive like we

have positive expectations for that

person

so this is an important phrase to listen

to the intonation

okay next example of that though i’m

keeping my eye on you

i’m keeping my eye on you so again this

is an

expression where intonation is important

i’m keeping my eye on you

and i’m keeping my eye on you have very

different meanings

so i’m keeping my eye on you with that

downward intonation

sounds suspicious i’m suspicious of you

i’m keeping my eye on you

if however we emphasize you with that

kind of upward intonation

in the sentence i’m keeping my eye on

you it sounds like i’m expecting

good things from you i’m going to watch

you with positive expectations

the next variation is to keep one’s eyes

open to keep my eyes open to keep your

eyes open

so to keep your eyes open i use this

actually a lot in like live streams i

think i say like keep your eyes open for

that or like keep an eye out for that

so actually you can use uh keep your

eyes

open or keep an eye out

it’s sort of a weird expression so let’s

start with keep your eyes

open so plural eyes two eyes keep your

eyes open

usually for a thing keep your eyes open

for new ideas

or i’ll be keeping my eyes open for the

exciting

announcement so that means i will be

watching

for an announcement or please watch for

new ideas in the first example sentence

so keep your eyes open means watch

for something watch for something the

expression

keep an eye out for means the same thing

but we use the singular i so keep an eye

out for

new ideas keep an eye out for an

exciting announcement

we can use either the singular or the

plural eye or eyes

so did you learn a little bit more about

the word

keep i hope so if you have some other

meanings or if you know some other

variations have any questions or if you

want to try to make an

example sentence please feel free to do

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welcome to

know your verbs in this episode we’re

going to talk about the verb

see so let’s get started

so the basic definition of c

is to perceive with your eyes

so this really means to use your eyes to

get information you use your eyes to

look at things

to maybe understand things to gain

knowledge

by looking at things by using your eyes

focusing your eyes on things

you can learn things or gain information

gain knowledge so this is

to perceive but the basic the basic

definition though

is just to perceive with your eyes to

use your eyes to perceive to gain

information to gain knowledge

okay let’s see the conjugations for the

verb

see see sees

saw seen seeing

let’s talk about a few additional

meanings of the verb

see first one to form a mental

picture of to form a mental picture of

means to use your mind to create

an image so see has the meaning of

creating an image in your mind

for example i can see my childhood home

clearly it was one story and had a big

yard

what do you see when you close your eyes

so in these example sentences we’re not

actually using our eyes to see

something in this use of the word see

we are imagining it and in our minds

we are making a picture um so we’re not

actually using our

eyes to see these items instead

maybe there are things we saw in the

past

and we are imagining them mentally we

are creating a mental image of something

so when i say i can see my house clearly

my childhood house it means

in my mind i can form a clear image of

the house in my mind

in the question what do you see it means

when you close your eyes what’s the

mental image that appears in your mind

so c is used to create mental images to

refer to creating mental images here

next is to examine or to watch

so in this use of the verb see there’s

sort of the nuance of an expectation we

want to use our eyes to watch

something as it changes or to examine a

change

as it happens to examine a behavior

let’s see how the team does in today’s

match

i can’t wait to see what the neighbors

do when they realize we bought a pool

in the example of let’s see how the team

does in today’s match we are talking

about using our eyes our actual

eyes perhaps if we are actually watching

the match if we go to the game or we see

the match

on tv perhaps we are using our eyes

however if we don’t go to the match and

we read the score from the game

or we s we hear on the radio something

about the game where we hear the results

of the game

we can still use the verb c c has this

nuance of examining something

so we’re expecting some result so let’s

see

in this case doesn’t only mean using

your

eyes to examine it can mean to examine

maybe the results of an

or the results of something to examine

the outcome of something

in the second example sentence let’s see

how the neighbors react

we see the same thing so it’s the same

it’s the same sort of nuance we are

expecting a reaction we are going to

watch for

a reaction from the neighbors when they

realize we bought a pool so

we want to examine their reaction we

want to examine an outcome we can use

the verb

see though maybe we use our ears like if

the neighbor says oh my gosh

they bought a pool um that’s sort of

examining you’re

you’re waiting for a reaction there we

can still use the verb

let’s see the expression let’s see to

talk about that

so let’s see what happens next for

example next one

to make sure to make sure

please see that this task is finished

he saw that all the arrangements had

been made

in these sentences the verb see is used

to mean

make sure or to confirm something

to ensure something in the first one

please

see that this task is finished we could

replace the verb

c with make sure please make sure that

this task is finished

so that’s a very clear sentence please c

is just a shortened way of saying make

sure please see that this task is

finished please ensure that this task is

finished we can replace

the verb here the second example

sentence is the same

he saw that all the arrangements had

been made so he made

sure that all the arrangements had been

made

in these example sentences c is

replacing the expression

make sure or ensure so we can use c

to mean the same thing it’s just a

shorter way

of saying make sure next to find

acceptable or attractive what do you see

in him

what do you see in her i don’t

understand what you see in this

restaurant

it’s terrible what are the qualities you

perceive

in that person or the qualities that you

can detect

in that situation what are the good

points you identify there we can use the

word

see to sort of communicate that quickly

and easily so what do you

see in him what do you see in her is a

much shorter way of saying what do you

find attractive

about him or her what do you find

appealing about him or her

or what characteristics of that person

attract you to that person saying what

do you see in him what do you see in her

is a much shorter way of saying what

qualities do you find attractive in that

person the same thing in the restaurant

example i don’t understand what you see

in this restaurant means

i don’t understand what it is that you

like about this restaurant i think it’s

bad

so instead we shorten it to i don’t

understand what you see

in this restaurant so c means finding

something attractive or interesting or

appealing in some way

now let’s talk about some variations so

some slight changes or some additions

to the verb see that change the meaning

first is

see through see through see through

means

to understand the true nature of

something to understand the real

characteristics of something

he saw through my attempts to work with

him and asked me on a date

my boss saw through my lie and scolded

me for faking sickness

so here we see the use in the past tense

in the first example sentence he saw

through my attempts to work with him

meaning he saw

the true nature of what i was doing so

he saw through my attempts to work with

him

and asked me on a date so in this

situation maybe

um the person the speaker was trying to

spend time with the he in this situation

and was asking maybe to work together a

lot

but he in the situation saw through

saw to the true nature of the speaker’s

request

saw the true characteristics or the

actual desire there

and asked the speaker on a date so in

this sentence

we understand that there was a

different motivation so something below

the surface

of the of the initial action that was

happening

so um the the other person in the

situation

understood the other motivation

the motivation below the surface

motivation

and so we use saw through or see-through

to communicate that so

i he saw through my attempts to work

with him

and he understood there was something

else i wanted to do

in the second example sentence my boss

saw through my lie

and scolded me for faking sickness so

again we see in past

tense my boss saw through my lie so

saw that i was lying in other words saw

through my lie

so saw the true character of my lie i

saw the true

nature of my statement and scolded me so

my boss understood i lied and scolded me

for faking sickness so i got in trouble

because i was

faking an illness faking sickness my

boss

saw through my behavior saw the true

character

understood the true nature of my of my

statement

next is c i to i c i to i

this means to have a common viewpoint or

to agree

we don’t see eye to eye most of the time

i’m glad we see eye to eye about this so

maybe this one is an easy one to

visualize so to see

eye to eye with someone else means

you agree with them you share a

viewpoint with them so you can kind of

imagine maybe two people standing across

from one another

and if they see eye to eye maybe they

match

their line of sight matches much in the

way that their viewpoints or their

opinions

match exactly exactly so they have kind

of the same

viewpoint they can see eye to eye so

their

their their eyesight maybe matches their

opinions

match so to see eye to eye and we can

say i’m glad we see i2i about this

meaning i’m happy we agree

about this or in a negative we don’t see

eye to eye most of the time means we

don’t agree

most of the time or we have different

opinions most of the time

all right so i hope that this video

helped you level up your knowledge of

the verb

see a little bit if you have any

questions or comments or if you know

another way of using the verb

see let us know in the comment section

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your verbs my name is alicia and in this

episode we’re going to talk about the

verb

ask so let’s get started

the basic definition of the verb ask is

to make

a request to make a request

here are the conjugations present tense

ask

asks past tense asked

past participle asked continuous or

progressive

asking

let’s talk about some additional

meanings of this verb first is

to require here are some examples you’re

asking too much of us

they asked a lot of him this year so in

these example sentences the verb

ask means to require to require

something from

someone else in the first sentence

you’re asking too much of us

means you are requiring too much of us

or you’re requiring too much of

something we are

able to do asking too much

shortens this expression so it’s not

only required but like requiring the

capabilities or requiring something

a person or a machine or an object is

able to do so require yes but also

require

plus capabilities in the second sentence

we see this as well

so the second sentence was they asked a

lot of him this year so

they required a lot of him we can’t

quite replace

require for asked here but we can

the nuance here of ask is they

required a lot of his capabilities or

they required a lot of work from him

this year

so asked instead condenses all of that

requiring him

requiring his work or his service or

something so

we condense all of that into one word

ask here

the next meaning is to set as a price

here are some examples the seller is

asking ten thousand dollars for the boat

she asked for one hundred dollars for

her old laptop all right in both of

these example sentences

ask shows the price of an item the price

a seller chooses for an item or the

price the seller hopes to receive for an

item it’s the price that the seller has

set for something in the first example

we see asking in the progressive or the

continuous tense

the seller is asking ten thousand

dollars meaning

the seller currently hopes to receive

ten thousand dollars for the boat so if

it’s helpful you can imagine the seller

asking the buyer for this amount the

seller requesting this amount from the

buyer for this amount so the seller is

asking for ten thousand dollars for the

boat uh is but we

we removed the preposition four asking

ten thousand dollars for the boat

is essentially requesting the seller for

ten thousand dollars

so requesting the seller for is like a

long way of saying this expression we

can shorten this to

asking the buyer is asking ten thousand

dollars for

in the second example sentence we see

she asked for one hundred dollars for

her old laptop

so in this example sentence we do see

the preposition four she asked for one

hundred dollars for her old laptop

we can’t include the preposition for but

it is okay to drop it in these cases

where it is clear that the meaning

is a price for an item so she asked is

past tense so a past tense situation

she wanted to receive 100 for her old

laptop

meaning she asked for or she requested

the buyer pay 100 for her old laptop so

requested the buyer pay is shortened to

asked for in this case so we can use it

uh with or without the for

preposition the next meaning is to call

for an answer here are some examples he

asked his boss about the upcoming

changes

she asks her neighbors for help every

year

so to ask in these cases it’s

not quite a request in this case but

rather we’re looking for information

we’re looking for an answer we have a

question about something or we need

some information and so we

inquire um for information i suppose you

can think of it like making an

information

request in that way but we’re looking

for some kind of answer we

go to someone to get information to get

answer about a question in the first

example he asked his boss about the

upcoming changes

the information he wants is about

these changes maybe at his company so he

asks

means he’s looking for an answer he

asked his boss

for information he’s looking for an

answer about something

in the second sentence she asks her

neighbors for help every year

means she’s looking for answers

something she needs an

answer to she’s looking for help she’s

looking for assistance

answers for some problem that she has so

she inquires about information she’s

looking for information

so to get an answer to something like a

problem or an issue

you need to solve we can use ask next is

invite to invite here are some examples

i asked some friends to come over this

weekend why don’t you ask your

co-workers to go out for a drink so in

the first example sentence we can

replace

asked in the past tense with invited in

past tense and the meaning stays the

same i invited some friends to come over

this weekend

we can use invite of course if we want

but invite sounds slightly more formal

than ask

instead of using the more formal invite

we can use the more casual

ask like i asked some people to come

over this weekend sounds slightly less

formal than

invited in the second example sentence

the same thing is true

why don’t you ask your co-workers to go

out for a drink we can replace

ask here with invite why don’t you

invite your co-workers out for a drink

again invite sounds slightly more formal

than ask

so ask sounds a little bit more casual

so it sounds maybe a little bit more

natural and a little more friendly

than the word invite okay

now let’s look at some other words we

can add to ask to make different

meanings

first is ask for it ask for it

this means to behave in a way that

invites punishment

or retribution so retribution means like

it can refer to punishment or it can

refer to it can refer to a reward as

well but in this case it’s more for a

negative reaction

a negative reaction let’s look at some

examples the drunk guy in the bar is

shouting at everyone he’s really asking

for it

your boyfriend broke up with you well

you kind of asked for it you never made

time for him

so in these example sentences we are

we see some behaviors that maybe invite

punishment or that

invite a negative outcome in the first

example

a drunk person in a bar is shouting at

everybody

so the speaker says he’s really asking

for it

meaning the drunk guy is inviting

punishment is inviting a negative

outcome because of his behavior he’s

really asking for it we see that this is

this is used in the progressive form

he’s asking for it

meaning that his current behavior the

behavior he is showing

now is inviting punishment or as

inviting a negative outcome

in the second sentence where a speaker

is probably having a conversation with

someone they say

you broke up with your boyfriend well

you kind of asked for it

past tense because you didn’t make time

for him you didn’t make any time for him

shows that perhaps in the past the

listener did not

behave in a way that invited a positive

outcome meaning you asked for

your boyfriend to break up with you or

you invited this negative outcome

because of your actions you did not make

time for your boyfriend

therefore he broke up with you so you

did not have the correct behavior you

invited

negative a negative outcome because of

your actions

okay the next one is ask for trouble ask

for trouble

this means to behave in a way that is

likely to

end in trouble this is very similar to

ask

for it but instead of just receiving

punishment

it could just be a troubling situation

that results

let’s look at some examples that kid is

running around kicking his classmates

he’s just asking for trouble trying to

enter the country without a passport is

just asking for trouble

so in both of these sentences we see

asking for

trouble is used in the progressive tense

so some action

doing some action is likely to

result in a troubling situation in the

future

perhaps it’s not necessarily punishment

but it’s going to cause trouble it’s

going to cause a problem

in the first example a kid running

around kicking his classmates is a bad

behavior

and it’s going to invite trouble in this

case it’s probably going to be

punishment

but to say he’s really asking for it

might suggest something a little bit too

violent like to say

he’s really asking for it sounds a

little bit too much for a little kid

so perhaps he’s asking for trouble

suggests that he’s causing a troubling

situation the kid

might not have like severe strong

punishment

as a result of his actions but he could

end up

in trouble because of his behavior in

the second example trying to enter the

country without a passport is just

asking for trouble it doesn’t

necessarily

mean that there will be a punishment for

trying to enter the country

while it might be likely that trouble

does result or that punishment does

result

it’s more general to say just asking for

trouble so

this action trying to enter the country

without a passport this action

is just asking for trouble is so is

inviting

some troubling situation to occur okay

i hope that this video helped you level

up your understanding of the verb ask

if you have any questions or comments or

if you know a different way of using the

verb ask please let us know in the

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know your verbs in this episode we’re

going to talk about the verb

work let’s get started

the basic definition of the verb work

is to fulfill duties for money

or for compensation compensation means

payment

so for example salary or an hourly

wage so compensation so to do things

in exchange for money is work this is a

basic definition of the verb work

now let’s look at the different

conjugations of this verb

present tense work works

past tense worked past participle tense

worked

progressive tense working

now let’s talk about some additional

meanings

of the verb work meaning one the first

additional meaning is to

function correctly to function correctly

means an object is behaving

is functioning in the proper way

so let’s look at some examples my

computer isn’t working today

what happened the mechanic fixed my car

and now it works perfectly

meaning two yeah yeah okay the second

definition is

to produce a desired effect or

result or to succeed at something

so some examples of this meaning his

plan is crazy

but i think it might work i don’t think

that’ll work

fun fact i took that example sentence i

don’t think that’ll work from a video

game called

indiana jones and the fate of atlantis i

don’t think that’ll work next one

is to control or to cause

to labor to cause to labor so labor

means like to fulfill your duties

to work as in the first the original

basic meaning of this word

so let’s look at some examples

management worked the team

way too hard last year today we’re

working the computer remotely

now let’s look at some variations the

first variation

is work on work on work

on means to try to affect or like to try

influence to try to persuade someone

some examples of this politicians often

work on voters fears so to work

on someone’s fears it’s like they’re

affecting

that they are trying to persuade

people by focusing on

their fears in this example sentence the

movie

works on viewers sympathy so here

work works on the movie works on means

the movie kind of

is affecting is affecting the sympathy

of the viewer

and then as a result influence happens

a change in emotion happens in this way

to work on

the second variation is work out work

out so work out means to exercise

work out can mean to lift weights to jog

to do sports whatever

work out just means exercise examples of

this

uh i never work out she’s been working

out

three days a week for the last year

overachiever

the third variation for this lesson is

work

up work up so work up means

to gradually make progress but

with difficulty examples of this he

worked up to asking the girl on a date

she worked her way up to becoming ceo of

a company

so to work up to something is like

slowly

and with difficulty making progress so

we can split this phrasal verb

like she worked her way up or

he worked up to asking the girl on a

date so we pair

work with the preposition up in this

example

okay do you know a little bit more about

the verb work

if you have any other variations or if

you know a different meaning of the verb

work or if you just want to practice

making a sentence

with this verb please feel free to do so

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it out

we’re working now live to work work to

live

which will you be her pen works that’s

true she just drew a picture of me

do it now have you ever thought about

how much you think about thinking

hi everybody my name is alicia welcome

to know your verbs

in this episode we’re going to talk

about the verb think

so let’s get started

the basic definition of think is

to have in the mind so something you can

keep in your mind like an idea

or an image something you keep

in your head something in your mind

something in your brain so to keep in

the mind

is think to think this is the basic

definition of

think so let’s look at the conjugations

of the verb

think present tense think thinks

past tense thought past participle

thought progressive or continuous tense

thinking think thinks

thought thought thinking

okay let’s look at some additional

meanings of the verb

think first is to consider or to reflect

on or to ponder

it means consider something carefully or

spend

time considering something so ponder

means to think for a long time or to

think hard about something

so consider carefully reflect on

examples can i have a day to think about

this

he’s thinking about what to do next so

in these example sentences can i have a

day to think about this

taking one day to reflect on something

like before you make a decision

is a pretty common thing to do before

like a big decision so can i have a day

to think about this

means can i have a day to consider this

carefully

or can i have a day to ponder this in

the second example sentence he’s

thinking about what to do next means

he’s considering carefully

his next step he’s considering carefully

what he should do

next so thinking is used in the

progressive tense here

to show that he is currently at this

time

considering something carefully but to

consider carefully we can make

shorter and use the verb thinking he’s

thinking about what to do

next okay next is to create

something by thinking or to create

something by considering

we usually use this with the word up

after the verb

think we thought up so many crazy party

ideas in college

she thought up a plan for product

promotion so both of these example

sentences mean to create

something by considering it in your mind

so in the first

example sentence we thought up crazy

ideas for parties in college

means we designed something using our

brains we

considered something and created an idea

we created something

by thinking so to think up blah blah

blah so

we thought up crazy party ideas so we

designed crazy party ideas by

thinking about them by considering

things in our minds

in the second example sentence we see

the same meaning but for

a business situation she thought up a

plan

for product promotion so in this case

past tense she

thought up she designed a plan for

product promotion but

when we say designed it sounds maybe

she planned something on a computer

perhaps when we use

she thought up it means she used her

mind

she considered the ideas she had and

created a plan

in her mind for promotion of the product

so thought up uses the mind to create

something

next is to have as an expectation to

have as an expectation to expect

something i didn’t think you’d arrive so

quickly

we thought it would take a lot longer to

finish dinner

so in the first example sentence we

didn’t think you’d arrive

so quickly it means the speaker expects

that the listener would take longer

to arrive or the listener was going to

arrive later

than they actually did so the speaker

the speaker in this case had the

expectation

that the listener was going to arrive

later so they used the negative

we didn’t think you’d arrive so quickly

so we didn’t think we didn’t expect

you’d arrive so quickly we can replace

the verb

think with expect here and it creates

the same meaning the same nuance really

but think sounds a little bit less

formal than expect

so we didn’t think you’d arrive so

quickly the second example sentence is

we thought it would take a lot longer to

finish dinner again

we expected we had the expectation it

would take a lot longer to finish dinner

we can replace the verb fought past

tense with the past tense expected we

expected it would take a lot longer to

finish dinner

so in this way think or in past tense

thought

is used in exactly the same way as

expected here

the next meaning is to consider

suitability

to consider suitability let’s look at

some examples

i’ve never thought of him like a manager

we’re thinking of her for a higher

position

so in the first sentence i’ve never

thought of him

like a manager in this way thought means

i’ve never

understood him to be suitable for the

position of

manager that’s a very long way of

explaining this sentence

but to condense everything we use the

word

thought i’ve never thought of him as a

manager means i’ve never

considered him to potentially be

suitable

as a manager in the second example

sentence we’re thinking of her

for a higher position it means we’re

considering whether or not she is

suitable for a higher position

at her job or a higher position at her

company so

in this way thinking in the progressive

tense means we are considering her

suitability for a position a higher

level position

so you’ll notice that the two example

sentences included here are related to

work

you’ll see though that this this meaning

tends to be used a lot with

jobs and maybe political positions so

kind of something

um maybe promotion related so promotion

related or kind of

hierarchy related you’ll often hear this

in work situations employment situations

let’s look at some variations some other

words we can attach to

think to create different meanings first

think better of think better of think

better of means to reconsider and make

a better decision or make an improved

decision it means to consider something

again and

change your decision hopefully to make a

an improved decision examples i wanted

to say something but i thought better of

it and kept my mouth shut

we’ll think better of you if you tell

the truth so in both of these sentences

there’s a reconsideration someone is

considering something again

and making an improved decision because

of that reconsideration

so in the first example sentence i

wanted to say something we see in past

tense i wanted to say

something but i thought better of

it so it in this case is the thing i

wanted to say in the first part of the

sentence i thought better of it means i

reconsidered it

and decided against my my first

inclination i decided not to do

the first thing i was thinking about and

i kept my mouth shut so in this case my

mouth remained

closed in other words i reconsidered my

initial action the action i initially

wanted to do

in the second sentence we’ll think

better of you if you tell the truth we

see

it’s it’s used for future we will think

better of you

if you tell the truth meaning if you

tell the truth our opinion of you

will improve we will think better of you

um so tell the truth and we’ll consider

you

again essentially and our opinion of you

will improve if you do this the next

variation is

think much of think much of this means

to have a positive view of or

to approve of examples

he doesn’t think much of his professor

we didn’t think much of last night’s

dinner

we see in the first example sentence he

didn’t think much of his professor

means he didn’t really approve of his

professor

or he didn’t have a very positive view

of his professor

so a shorter way to explain that feeling

is he didn’t think

much of his professor in the second

example sentence

we didn’t think much of last night’s

dinner this means

again we didn’t really approve of last

night’s dinner or we don’t have a very

positive view or a very positive opinion

of last night’s dinner

these are rather long so we can condense

it too we didn’t think much

of last night’s dinner so i hope that

this video helped you level up your

knowledge of how to use the verb

think if you have any questions or

comments or if you know another way to

use the word think please let us know in

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soon bye-bye oh i think that your

thought about my thought is the thinking

thought what my name is alicia for this

episode

first is

i’m thinking about summer gossip

let’s go oh my god so

the first phrase is oh my god

so so oh my god so is a

introductory phrase you can use to start

your topic

with like a surprise factor so you say

oh my god

and then so is your transition phrase so

for example oh my god so i have to tell

you about this movie i saw or

oh my god so i saw my neighbor in the

shopping mall this morning or

oh my god so did you see my new dog

it’s kind of a weird one usually it’s

about a person not about a dog but who

knows

you won’t believe what happened to me

the other day

the next expression is you won’t believe

what happened to me the other day

you won’t believe what happened to me

the other day

meaning something happened to you

and you think it’s going to be a

surprise

to the person listening to you you won’t

believe what happened to me the other

day

so it’s a very fast phrase because

it sounds like you want to share very

quickly like you won’t believe what

happened to me

you can drop the other day if you want

or you said you can say you won’t

believe what happened to me this morning

you won’t believe what happened to me

last night you won’t believe what

happened to me this weekend you won’t

believe what happened to me over my

winter vacation so that you won’t

believe what happened to me gets very

very quick

and short so examples uh you won’t

believe what happened to me the other

day

i ran into my ex-boss or you won’t

believe what happened to me the other

day

i tripped and fell down a flight of

stairs or

uh you won’t believe what happened to me

the other day i got

a new parrot

sure i don’t know maybe one of you can

use that

guess what the next phrase is very short

the next phrase is like an exclamation

so an excited statement and a question

guess what guess what so

guess what is inviting the listener to

guess what happened to you

guess what the full question would be

guess what happened or guess what

happened to me

but we only say guess what so guess what

and sometimes the listener guesses

and sometimes the listener just says

what usually the listener just says

what uh ask so meaning you should

continue the story

so if you say guess what i quit my job

guess what i saw my best friend

with a new guy i haven’t seen before

another example uh guess what i got a

new car

something like that so some kind of

shocking like

um difficult to guess situation

i haven’t told you about this yet the

next expression

is i haven’t told you about this yet i

haven’t

told you about this yet so have not

becomes

haven’t i haven’t told you about this

yet so maybe you’ve told you have told

other people but this specific person

maybe you have not told that person your

news or some information

yet but this yet implies

you are planning to or you want to tell

them this so

it’s it’s kind of creates a little

suspense i haven’t told you about this

yet

so we could use this like i haven’t told

you about this yet i’m going to france

next summer or i haven’t told you about

this yet but i broke up with my

boyfriend last night

or i haven’t told you about this yet but

i’m throwing a big party for my

co-worker this weekend can you come

other examples i haven’t told you about

this yet i saw

my boss out for dinner with someone

who’s

not his wife

oh my god that’s not true that’s not

true

or i haven’t told you about this yet i

heard that the company is gonna

go bankrupt also not true

okay so those are some pretty juicy

juicy gossip that’s an expression we use

we say

juicy gossip is something that’s like

really really

interesting gossip or really interesting

story about people we say

juicy gossip for that have you heard

about

the next expression is have you heard

about blah blah blah have you heard

about

can be followed with a noun phrase have

you heard about

a a person you can use a person or have

you heard about

a situation you can use both you can use

an object too so have you heard about

the new iphone or have you heard about

the new

office policies um you can use that

um for pretty much anything you want to

inform your listener about

so have you heard about is usually said

very quickly have you heard about so the

you becomes

shortened to yeah have you heard about

have you heard about blah blah blah so

have you heard about the new secretary

have you heard about our new boss

or have you heard about my co-worker

quitting his job

have you heard about the neighbors above

they’re moving so you can use people

here

for gossip expressions or you can use

objects um

in this expression just to introduce

something new very useful phrase

have you heard about my mom

sorry mom i don’t know why you came into

that one okay

so the other day the next expression

is kind of like the beginning to a story

maybe this can be for gossip maybe it

can just be

like a story something interesting or

maybe boring

that happened to you the expression is

so the other day

so the other day so the other day

the other day here means not today some

other day

which day it doesn’t really matter it’s

not really important but we say

the other day someday in the past this

expression is used for

so we can say so the other day i was

sitting at my desk in the office when my

manager came and asked if he could speak

to me

or so the other day i was shopping and i

ran into my ex-boyfriend

or so the other day i was renting a car

and the former president of the united

states

came into the car rental shop what all

right so the other day just some day

in the past so i was talking with

and the next one you can use

um maybe for gossip sometimes but also

you can use for making plans

it’s so i was talking with someone

and blah blah blah so i was talking with

someone means you were having a

conversation

uh at another time with a person

and you want to kind of report

information or share

something from that conversation with

the person

listening now so i might say

so i was talking with risa and i think

that we should plan a party for this

weekend what do you think

so i was talking with my team about this

and i think that we should make some

changes

so that’s a very kind of everyday work

situation

use of this phrase um but you can also

use it for gossip like

so i was talking to my best friend and i

think i’m gonna move

or i was talking to my parents and i

think

it’s best if we break up oh so it can be

for plans it can be for gossip it can be

for just

any conversation plus a report

what’s up with the next expression is

kind of a little like mysterious

then the expression is what’s up with

blah blah blah

usually what’s up with person for gossip

meaning there’s like the nuance here is

there’s some

problem or it seems like something’s

wrong with this person they’re unhappy

they’re sad they’re angry uh

some kind of negative emotion we use

this so it’s like what’s up with stevens

i haven’t heard from him lately

what’s up with your brother he seems

really upset or

what’s up with your neighbor why is he

so noisy

or what’s up with your boss he’s so

strict so

it sounds like there’s some problem we

usually use

this intonation what’s up with what’s up

with

to introduce somebody who has a problem

we don’t say

what’s up it’s not that it’s not that

sort of hello

expression it’s a it’s an expression for

a problem

you can also use a noun phrase that is

not a person here like

what’s up with this new office policy or

what’s up with this new rule at work or

what’s up with this new item on the menu

at this restaurant it’s super weird

so what’s up with blah blah blah has

sort of a negative nuance you can use it

for people

to talk about strange behavior what’s up

with

you have you heard from

lately the next expression is have you

heard from blah blah blah

lately have you heard from person lately

have you heard from stevens lately

i haven’t seen him have you heard from

your mom lately have you heard from your

dad lately have you heard from your

brother lately

have you heard from your landlord lately

i don’t know why you hear from your

landlord but

have you heard from someone lately there

is sort of an ex

like a little bit of an expectation that

you are

in contact with the person involved in

this sentence like you have some

relationship maybe it’s a family

relationship romantic relationship

professional relationship

there’s some relationship with this

person and

lately it’s like have you heard from

them recently

lately in the last few days in the last

few weeks

so you can use this if for example you

are

looking for someone or you’re worried

about someone you can use this here

um you can also use it just just to

check in

about some other person without asking

that person directly so like if i want

to ask about

i’m using risa in my example risa is our

japanese channel host

um if i want to ask about how risa is

but i don’t want to ask risa i know

maybe she’s busy or

i don’t know for some reason i it’s

difficult to talk to her

i can ask like my co-worker i can say

hey have you heard from risa lately

it seems she’s really busy or have you

heard from so and so lately it seems

they’re busy

so if i want to ask about another person

but i don’t want to bother this person

or that something makes it difficult

i can use have you heard from blah blah

blah recently or

lately to ask about them very useful

phrase

i have to tell you about next expression

the next expression is i have to tell

you about blah blah i have to tell you

have to becomes have to i have to tell

you about

it has a nice sound i have to tell you

about blah blah

or i have to tell you about something so

i have to tell you about my weekend i

have to tell you about stevens i have to

tell you about my mom

i have to tell you about my boyfriend i

should tell you about my girlfriend

whatever it is

some person used at the end of this

sentence

creates a nuance like there’s exciting

news about that person

or i have to tell you about this thing

that happened you can use a situation at

the end of the sentence too

but you’re using i have to at the

beginning of this sentence

so that sounds like it’s really

important like i feel

it’s so important it’s my responsibility

to tell you because

this is so exciting of course you can

use this in more boring situations as

well like i have to tell you about the

new office policy

you can use it in that way with a very

flat intonation

but for gossip purposes use i have to

tell you about

that sounds really good so what do you

have to tell somebody about

i have to tell you about this new idea i

have for a business or

i have to tell you about what happened

to me last night okay

so there are these really exciting ways

that we can introduce

things that happened or that we can talk

about people or whatever

okay ten words for talking about space

planet the first word is planet planet

so planets are those

really really big things that we have in

our solar system now there are

officially eight because pluto is no

longer considered a planet

in my example sentence pluto used to be

considered

a planet star the next word is

star star so stars are those very very

bright objects that you can see

in the sky sometimes at night the

closest star to us

is the sun the sun is a star and we can

see a lot of other stars if we look up

into the night sky

sometimes in a sentence it’s hard to see

stars from big cities

solar system the next expression is

solar system

solar system so solar system in our case

here on planet earth

refers to the system of planets and

objects

which are near our star so our solar

system now there are eight planets in

our solar system

used to be nine planets sorry again in

pluto eight planets in our solar system

and then um we can talk about other

objects which maybe

enter our solar system like uh like uh

comets for example or a meteor or

some other events might happen in space

within our solar

system so our solar system is the area

surrounding our sun and our planets that

we know of

in a sentence mercury is part of our

solar system

comet the next expression is comet a

comet is actually an icy body

that is uh slightly melting and then

releasing gases so that’s what produces

that look

a comet okay in a sentence comments are

really cool

meteor oh right so yes the next word is

meteor

meteor or just meteor so essentially

meteors are different from comets

because comets are made of ice

meteors however are made of rock so

these are two different kinds of objects

that can

that move around in space in a sentence

lots of meteors burn up before they pass

through the atmosphere

meteorite the next word is meteorite

meteorite so this is an important

distinction that many

people don’t know about actually this

drives me crazy too so a meteor is the

is the space rock it’s in space or it’s

in the atmosphere

a meteorite however is the rock if

if the meteor makes it if the meteor can

pass through the earth’s atmosphere

and fall to the surface of the earth

that rock then is called a meteorite

so in space in the atmosphere it’s a

meteor when it falls to earth it is a

meteorite that becomes a meteorite when

it hits the earth

so fun facts okay that’s the difference

between the two

in a sentence have you ever seen a

meteorite supernova

supernova supernova so the explosion of

a star is a

huge event a supernova is the name of it

so the star

explodes and that’s what we call it it’s

called a supernova a star

explosion in a sentence supernovas must

be incredible things

black hole ah alright the next

expression is

black hole black hole black holes are

the subject of a lot of study

they have intense gravitational pull so

meaning they have

very strong gravity black holes will

pull other objects into them

um it is said that like time stops in a

black hole or in like if you

get too close to a black hole if you get

too close to the event horizon of a

black hole you yourself will be pulled

into that hole too

it’s pretty crazy so like the event

horizon is the point at which um there’s

there’s no turning back from like you

can’t you can’t escape

essentially the gravitational pull of a

black hole once you’re within the event

horizon

of that space it’s like crazy you’re

done for

all this kind of stuff so interesting so

in a sentence

black holes are mysterious galaxy

okay uh all right so the next word is

galaxy galaxy before we talked about the

expression

solar system uh so solar system is kind

of our

region of space the region we’re

familiar with but

the next step up so if you think of the

solar system is kind of your

neighborhood a little bit

you could think of maybe the galaxy as

like your

city or your country maybe it’s sort of

the next step out

so a galaxy is made up of lots and lots

of stars maybe other planets

other solar systems many other solar

systems in one

galaxy so uh i think yeah we belong to

the milky way galaxy

i believe in a sentence our galaxy is

made of lots of different stars and

planets

earth the next expression is earth

earth earth is our planet earth is the

planet we live on

earth is yeah habitable meaning humans

can live here

this word i included it in this

vocabulary list because it is a very

good word to practice your pronunciation

it is the word

earth earth that r and the th sound

can be difficult to pronounce together

er f

earth so this is a great word to use to

practice your pronunciation

earth so in a sentence our planet is

called

earth ten words for talking about sleep

let’s go to wake up

the first word is to wake up to wake up

is to open your eyes

probably in your bed or the place where

you are sleeping to wake up

is to uh to become

conscious to become awake every day you

wake

up uh presumably hopefully in a sentence

i woke up three times last night

to get up to get out of bed all right

the next word is to get

up or to get out of bed so that means

to physically move your body from your

bed

out of bed to stand up from your bed to

get

out of your bed we say to get up or to

get out of bed

in a sentence i got up at eight o’clock

this morning

to snooze the next word is to snooze

so we have to snooze an alarm and also

to snooze so to snooze means to take a

short

sleep to have a short sleeping time or

to snooze an alarm is when your alarm

goes off in the morning

you have a button most alarm clocks have

some button

you can press so the alarm will turn on

again in like

know five or ten minutes or something so

to snooze an alarm is to

like to ask your alarm to wake you up

again

a few minutes later that’s uh to snooze

so we have to snooze an alarm

and two snooze meaning like a short

light sleep

in a sentence i always snooze my alarm

at least

once that is usually true

to oversleep the next word is to

over sleep to over sleep means to sleep

too much or to sleep

late uh actually no it doesn’t mean to

sleep late

to sleep late means just to sleep until

a late

time in the day over sleep means

sleeping

beyond the time you wanted to get up so

for example

if my alarm is set for eight o’clock

but i wake up at nine o’clock i

overslept

i slept beyond my wake-up time so we can

use oversleep to talk about

times when you sleep too much you sleep

more than your body needs you to so

maybe your body needs

depending on the person like six to nine

hours or so

but if you sleep like 14 hours we can

say that’s over

sleeping you’re sleeping too much that’s

the nuance here

in a sentence i overslept on my first

day of work

nap the next word is nap nap is a short

sleep so

a nap is maybe 30 minutes one hour just

short sleep a short rest so a lot of

people will take a nap in the afternoon

for example or maybe children actually

take

naps for example in preschool or when

they’re very very

young they have an afternoon nap a short

sleep like

yeah just like an hour or so i imagine

in a sentence

i love naps actually i do like naps i

don’t like naps because

when i take a nap it becomes a sleep

it’s always like

i wake up four hours later and i’m like

okay well i’ve destroyed my sleep

schedule

dream the next word is dream

dream so dreams are those those visions

those

images you see those maybe experiences

it seems like you have

when you are asleep in a sentence i

always have

weird dreams nightmare

so the next word is nightmare nightmare

is a word which means

bad dream or scary dream negative dream

so children maybe have nightmares a lot

they wake up crying or

they’re really upset by nightmares

monsters

terrifying things happening and so on in

a sentence

do you ever have nightmares to go to bed

the next word is to go to bed so before

we talked about to get up or to get out

of bed this is the opposite to go to bed

means to get in your bed uh

to to try to go to sleep to go to bed

in a sentence i usually go to bed fairly

late to hit the hay

to hit the sack the next expression is

kind of a s

i don’t know a slang expression uh we

have to hit the hay

and to hit the sack these both mean to

go to bed

um they both mean to try to fall asleep

but

we just use them in more casual

situations the image here of

hit the hay is with your body hitting

hay

like laying down in hay i believe

historically because

uh hay was used to stuff um things that

people slept on

um so that’s why we have this expression

to hit

the hay with your body same thing for to

hit the sack so a sack

full of something soft to sleep on uh is

where this expression comes from in a

sentence i think i’m gonna hit the hay

to fall asleep the next expression it is

to fall asleep to fall asleep you’re in

bed

and you finally you lose consciousness

you

you stop being aware you are asleep

in that moment we say you fall asleep

in a sentence it takes me a long time to

fall asleep

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let’s get started two two

i threw the ball to my dad

two is sort of directional it it’s

saying

that it’s going towards something

i wrote a letter to my mother

i went to the mall i went

to the park my mom asked me to go to the

store

to buy some bread to a destination

to a person from

from from is the opposite of two

from implies where it’s coming from the

place of

origin so if i’m going to the mall

i’m coming from my house this letter

is from my daughter from

how long does it take you to get from

your house

to your job to and from

they go together with with

with it means together with something

i am at the movies with my friend i went

out to eat

with my friends i go

shopping with my boyfriend with

means you are together with something

i like to have grilled cheese with

tomatoes on it i’m here with my book

at at is a very short word

i always go to bed at 11 o’clock if i’m

lucky i usually go to bed

at around 1 in the morning unfortunately

they get very little sleep

at specifies a time or a place

let’s go to the movies at two in the

afternoon

i’m at home right now where are you

we decided to meet at the beach

it’s a pinpoint of time or location

in in in

means you are inside of something or

in the middle of something it means

being immersed in something

i am in bed right now the cat

is in the box uh the child is in the

tree

the plane is in the sky i graduated

school

in 2019 in

on on i left the book

on my desk on means on top of

i like ketchup on my fries

so that means my french fries are here

and i like to put ketchup on them

the man is on the roof the car

is on the street the motorcycle

is on my nerves but

but i think i remember her name but i’m

not sure

but is a way to add a negative to a

sentence

so for example i really love eating cake

but i don’t eat it often because it’s

not healthy

i’d love to go to the movies with you

but

i have too much work to do i really

like you but i don’t want to date you

and and and is a very common word you

will hear

all the time it’s a way of adding on

a new subject or thing to your sentence

i love candy and pizza

i’m hungry and i’m tired my friend moved

to spain

and i moved to canada i love playing

outside

and i love being inside and is a way to

add on

a new subject or thing to what you’re

talking about

so so i have a toothache

so i went to the dentist so is a way of

adding an example another way to say

because of this i did this

you say something and then you add so

and then what follows is the effect so

there’s the cause

so the effect so i was feeling very

hungry

so i had some pizza this video is going

to be pizza themed everyone

apparently i was really tired so i took

a nap

i was in the mood for some adventure so

i got on an airplane

and flew to mexico that sounds nice

or or or is a way of presenting

a choice so for example

you can either have pizza or

you can have candy i don’t know if i

should go

to the movies or if i should go to the

mall

which color do you like better red

or green it presents differences

of choice today’s video is on words

americans overuse i haven’t seen these

words yet but um

apparently it’s going to be a series of

words that we as americans i’m american

um we overuse we use too often so let’s

start

uh oh the first word is definitely

is definitely a word that americans

overuse we use it to

put emphasis at the end of a phrase to

put emphasis at the end of a sentence

as in oh that party last week was so

great

yeah definitely or to agree with

somebody like that

uh oh god literally oh

just in the last few days i’ve seen the

word literally

so many times on the internet and used

in just such stupid ways

the word literally uh means

actually or truly something this is

literally the best hamburger i’ve ever

eaten

so literally meaning truly or actually

would mean that in that person’s entire

life that is the best hamburger they’ve

ever eaten

however it gets misused a lot in

sentences um

like george bush was literally

supporting the war in iraq or something

like that taking a phrase like that

literally would have to mean that you

know the president former president

would be

you know physically supporting a war

with his body

onward onward hilarious

hilarious is the next word i like to use

the word hilarious when something is

actually funny

um hilarious of course means something

that is really funny super funny

it’s a step above funny maybe two steps

three steps i don’t know

however people like to use this word in

place of laughter

so uh for example friends are talking

and instead of just

laughing the friend will say that’s

hilarious

well if it’s so hilarious just laugh oh

this must be the last one

because this is the worst one this word

is like

um i’ve probably said it several times

already today for the for the purposes

of this video

um the word like is used as a filler

word so

it’s the same as something such as

um or uh or hmm for example

we use like as a filler word when we’re

trying to think of something

it’s not uncommon to hear the word

repeated like three

four five times in a row when someone is

thinking

they’ll say oh you know that party that

i went to like

like uh like uh like uh do you know who

was there

it just invades your speech sometimes

when you’re trying to think of something

and no other filler words come out but

the word like does

ah this wasn’t the last word there is

another one

seriously seriously is used

oh it’s good for anytime you receive bad

news

um well not from your boss it’s a really

casual word

but if you hear something like your

friend lost their job and you can

sympathize with them or maybe empathize

with them by saying

seriously oh that’s too bad or oh tell

like all your problems oh my god i just

use like oh

god i hate myself want to speed up your

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