Advanced English Vocabulary The Fearless Fluency Club
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vanessa calm today you’re gonna see a
clip from the vocabulary lesson for the
fearless fluency club in this clip
you’re going to learn a couple new
vocabulary expressions to help you
become an advanced fluent and confident
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hi everyone welcome to the vocabulary
video for this month’s lesson set about
music so you probably already watched
the conversation conversation between
Jeff and I and just to kind of get an
idea about what we’re going to talk
about and today I’m with my husband Dan
hi and we’re going to talk about 19
vocabulary words that you heard in the
conversation video so we’re gonna give
some explanations for the words you’ll
get my perspective and also dance
perspective and hopefully some mmm just
just another point of view from ghin
right yes
point of view number two point of view
number two yes and then I’ll show you
the clip so after each vocabulary word
you can see the clip from the
conversation so if you haven’t seen the
conversation you might not know exactly
what’s going on in that clip so that’s
why I recommend watching the
conversation first just for a couple
minutes
so are you ready to get started ready
all right let’s start with word number
one the first word we’re going to talk
about is a whole other story and
sometimes we say a whole nother story
and this is simply the word another with
the word hole in the middle ah another a
whole nother it’s kind of strange to use
this in English we use this a lot right
yeah it’s strange it’s just kind of
shortened yeah not really correct but we
just say a whole nother story yes it’s
really quickly now this right end
is only used in casual situations so you
could use this while you’re speaking at
work but I don’t recommend writing it
because it’s really just a casual way to
talk about something completely
different so for example in the video
Jeff was talking about breaking his arm
and how he had to learn how to do
everything with his left arm and he was
gonna talk about playing the guitar and
then he mentioned oh I had to learn how
to write with my left hand but that’s a
whole other story right where we were we
weren’t gonna talk about how to write
with your left hand but anyway as he
mentioned it so he kind of went off the
original plan oh that’s a whole nother
story I’ll talk about that later
yeah you you would usually use this
phrase if you were telling somebody a
story right if you’re talking to them
about something that happened in the
past so maybe you were at dinner with
somebody and you’re telling them about
the dinner like oh the dinner was really
great but uh my mother-in-law was there
but that’s a whole other story
oh that’s a good one change the topic a
little bit so yeah instead of changing
the topic you just say oh that’s a whole
other story that’s a whole nother story
we’ll talk about that later
right so something completely different
all right let’s watch the clip what’s in
my arm was in a cast like this perfectly
what like you know awhile I guess it was
a cup you months uh-huh and I had to
like learn to write with my left hand it
was really that’s a whole other story
but but while I had my arm in the cast
first of all it’s definitely making me
reconsider the second expression we’re
going to talk about is to stick with
something in this vocabulary video we’re
going to talk about a lot of phrasal
verbs so this is the first one to stick
with something and it means to stay with
it to continue doing something so in the
video in the conversation conversation
video can I say that we’re today a
conversation video Jeff said that his
parents thought that he wouldn’t
with the guitar or stick with playing
the guitar they thought that he wasn’t
gonna keep doing it he wasn’t gonna stay
with it he was gonna quit and do
something else instead they thought he
wasn’t gonna stick with it right right
yeah you would often say stick with it
just like that
just simply stick with you know you’re
like oh I’m really tired of playing
baseball but you know what I’m gonna
stick with it
good motivation like I’m gonna keep
doing it continue you can do it mm-hmm
yeah I think if someone you know is
having a hard time you could use this
expression with them you could say hey
stick with it after one week it’s gonna
get much easier so for us we recently
started working out a gym it’s really
hard and last week we were so sore our
muscles hurt for a holdback yeah and
this is the perfect situation to use
this expression because we need to stick
with it if we want to get stronger we
need to stick with it so let’s watch the
clip started just taking a group guitar
class at my school my parents got me a
terrible guitar because they didn’t
think I was gonna stick with it so they
got me like this
yeah jalopy of a guitar we get out of
the car and we get thronged by like the
cool mean guys you know like the guys
who did drugs when they were 14 I’m like
and all the hot girls
we’re just surrounding us like hi hi can
we be your friends
I am definitely sticking with this
guitar Wow why don’t get a cheapo guitar
because first of all it won’t sound as
good so you want enjoy experience as
much but secondly you can end up with
poor technique if you start out with a
bad guitar so my parents got me a bad
guitar first but like I said earlier
they didn’t think I was going to stick
with it and what’s called the action
which means the third expression is to
under achieve so to achieve something is
to be successful but under achieve means
you’re not really doing your best
you might actually be successful because
you’re just naturally good at something
but underachieve is usually a negative
thing so in the video Jeff said he
underachieved in school he didn’t really
try his best and I think a lot of people
can understand that idea when you’re in
school especially some classes it’s just
not fun so maybe you underachieve yeah
it kind of means you don’t try like you
have the potential you are smart but you
under achieve so you don’t succeed even
though you could right and we even have
a noun for this we would call you not
you of course not you would be an
underachiever so a person who who has
potential and maybe is smart but doesn’t
finish tasks or doesn’t succeed you
would say he’s an entered achiever or
she’s an underachiever yes usually guys
so it’s not really a positive thing to
be an underachiever and just to let you
know there is the opposite of this as
well so we’ve got an achiever achiever
someone who’s successful underachiever
what do you think is the opposite over a
cheer overachiever is someone who does
much more than is expected so if your
mom says hey do you mind helping clean
the kitchen if you are an overachiever
you clean the kitchen you clean the
living room you clean the bedroom you do
more than is expected so maybe in some
situations people are under achievers
and are overachievers so even for you
maybe in certain places in your life you
feel more motivated to do things and
less motivated in other situations so
you’re not just one of these things you
could be all in different situations
yeah an overachiever kind of sounds
negative too like maybe you work too
much or you work too hard or colic or if
you say you’re an overachiever you also
think maybe that
brags about it right like if you say
she’s an overachiever you know maybe she
has her nose in the air listen Lily
she’s cocky
that’s another expression to mean the
same thing I think it generally has a
negative connotation in school mm-hmm
because if you’re in a classroom and
there’s one person who’s always raising
their hand think about Hermione in Harry
Potter yes in Harry Potter hermione is
definitely an overachiever she’s always
raising her hand and everyone hates her
because she always knows the answer so
it’s not really a bad thing she’s smart
she knows the answers but the other kids
don’t really like in school if you’re
young and immature maybe it’s a bad
thing yeah if you’re an adult being an
overachiever is good right you’re
keeping it up doing your best alright
let’s watch the clip where Jeff said
this my parents are always trying to get
me to be disciplined because I have a DD
and like you know I was always this
smart underachieving kid and they were
always like you know trying to get me to
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