Full English Class 02 Learn Words Expressions Thought Organization and More
howdy welcome to this week’s weekly live
english class i feel like i’ve seen you
so much this week but i’m so excited
about our class
this afternoon for this week’s topic now
you guys know what we like to do
whenever i do a live class i love for
you guys to come in and say hello
it’s good to see all of you andre
what’s going on a virtual hug for you
as well my brother good to see you good
to see you
erica hey good to see you it
is a good day it’s a good
time to study english and i’m so happy
that you all
are here hey annalisa good to see you
i’m always happy
to see you here all right so i know our
other family members are going to be
joining us
soon um if you guys can share the link
the academy
link inside of the telegram group
because i know that some people
may not have had the link just share
with them the bulletin board link and
then they can come and join us so i see
we have some of us are here already oh
marcella
hey good to see you marcella it’s always
nice to see you
all right so again guys again in the
telegram group
don’t sell the don’t share the youtube
link but share the bulletin board
link okay so those that may not have
known where it was
will now know jasmine hey jasmine good
to
see you jael hey nice to see you
i hope you had a wonderful wonderful day
all right so again guys we are gonna
have our class today i know that many of
you know i’m doing the business english
marathon with
teacher julie that’s at six o’clock but
i said you know what
i don’t want our family members to miss
out on our weekly live class so i said
that’s okay
i prepared a class for you guys and i
know that you are going to enjoy
it monique hey monique how are you good
to see you
i am doing well i oh thank you so much i
look like i’m feeling well i am feeling
amazing all right guys so we’re going to
jump into our class for
today because we’re gonna be talking
about challenges
um i wanna again ask you all if you can
please put the link in the telegram
group
the link to the bulletin board thanks so
much hey marina i’m feeling good how are
you feeling
it is good to see you so good to see you
all right guys so we’re going to just
jump right into our class
this evening and we are going to see
what we have
in store for you this evening
alright so oh hold on one second guys
it’s just showing my desktop
hold on one second guys i’m going to
switch this so that you guys actually
see more than just the comments there we
go all right
now we’re all good hold on one second
let’s take this off the screen
there we go hey paola good to see you
good to see you paola i mentioned a
moment ago i think you already did it if
you could post the link for the tele in
the telegram group the link
in the academy for the class thank you
so much
murray hey good to see you good to see
you erica teacher tiffany you look so
wonderful full of energy
thank you so much i have lots of energy
the funny thing is
i actually went to bed very late last
night and woke up very early
uh it was funny yesterday during the
class the business english marathon
someone made a comment and said teacher
tiff now you know
it’s about to be past your bedtime it
was almost nine o’clock
he watched it late and i laughed because
you all know that i go to bed early
but thank you so much for that
compliment erica thank you so much
all right now we are ready to jump into
our topic
for this evening hey beside good to see
you good to see you
welcome welcome all right so this
evening guys we’re going to be talking
about
challenges but you know how our class is
broken down
five different sections we’re going to
have the introduction then vocabulary
words
then expressions and idioms thought
organization and discussion questions so
today’s topic guys our topic is
challenges so here’s the first question
what are some
common challenges people face again
what are some common challenges
people face sorry guys i don’t have to
turn my fan on
all right there we go okay what are some
common challenges
people face sorry i had to turn my fan
on it gets a little hot in my office
all right up somebody else came through
josie
hey how are you thank you so much i
really appreciate that i really
appreciate
that alright guys so the question again
what are
some common challenges that people
face so maybe you can think about
yourself think about some common
challenges you
face on a regular basis you know in the
world today again because of the
pandemic we’re all kind of
experiencing some challenges but what
are some
common challenges that people face here
we go
monique says to eat that’s true many
people
struggle to find food to eat doesn’t
matter what country you go to there are
people who are starving
or having a hard time finding food to
eat
jasmine says getting a job and following
a diet whoa
jasmine you know it’s true my friends
and i have this
joke because of the pandemic we’ve all
kind of gained
a few pounds so we call the weight
covered weight
like pandemic belly i have a pandemic
belly
so yes it’s hard to stick to a diet
that’s a challenge all right monique
says to earn
money exactly jael says to work
out very true erica says i am challenged
to learn
english and to finally speak english
fluently very true
paula says some have challenges to go to
college because
of financial problems very true you know
in life there are so many
challenges that we face this is why i
brought up this topic for this
week for our class because you need to
learn how to speak about this topic in
english
it’s such a common topic no matter where
you go alright
marcella says learning a second language
very
true maurice is definitely working out
these days
we’re on the same page alright annalisa
says if you ask me
the common challenges people face is
waking up in the morning and feeling
happy
even though all i think the rest is
going to come up all right
john says to have a job true people are
struggling nowadays some people have
lost
their jobs because of the pandemic and
some people can’t even
find jobs because of the pandemic so
there are many
challenges that we experience on a
regular basis so
we’re going to start off as always with
the vocabulary section and i want to
teach you all three
very useful vocabulary words that you
can use
immediately when you’re speaking about
challenges
marina says my biggest challenge is to
control myself
when i’m angry yes that is a big
challenge i’m short tempered and
sometimes
it’s quite hard to control my feelings
very well stated very well stated i
think many people struggle with that as
well
marina marceline says hello marceline
to learn more english and to be able to
speak really well
yes it is a challenge and remember i’ve
told you all so many times
i can speak korean but i also started
learning korean as an adult
so the challenge was real so i totally
understand the challenges that you all
face as it relates to english
so let’s get started with some
vocabulary words here we go
so the first vocabulary word i want us
to look at hold on someone asked me a
question
alessandra said how are you doing i
am doing amazing i actually just had a
wonderful smoothie right before class
so yes alessandra i’m doing great i hope
you are doing great
too all right so our first vocabulary
word is
obstacle again obstacle now i want us to
practice this pronunciation really
quickly so after me
obstacle good again
obstacle excellent now the last time at
a regular pace
obstacle good job good job
now the word obstacle just refers to
something that blocks you so that
movement
going forward or action is prevented
or made more difficult so for example if
i’m driving in my car right
i’m speeding down the highway i like to
drive fast guys i’m a safe driver but i
do like
to drive fast so i’m driving down the
highway right
and then i see that there’s construction
going on right
it’s way ahead of me and i see that they
have put some
blocks in the road those blocks are
obstacles why because i want to keep
going forward but i have to slow down
and move
out of the way right so that’s a
physical obstacle
we can also have other obstacles that
inhibit us from going forward
you’re learning english well sometimes
your job can be an obstacle you have to
work so many
hours so obstacle is a very useful word
here we go analysis says if you ask me
the common challenges
oh i got you oh okay and feel happy in
spite of everything going bad or being
bad got you
ali hey ali uh i’m good what’s good with
you
thank you so much ali andrei says a big
obstacle when you don’t understand
what’s happening in a conversation
oh a big obstacle to speaking in english
fluently
is when you don’t understand what is
going on in the conversation okay
not being able to understand all right
so let’s look at some example sentences
and you guys know as always
you can put your example sentences in
the comment section as i go over the
examples
now again right after this class i’ll
have the business english marathon
so we’ll still have our full class but i
won’t be doing as many examples
on the screen for you all like i’ll show
you the examples but i want you guys to
try to type
just a little bit faster today so that
we can get through our class
and learn everything alright so again
type your sentences
for the word obstacle here are the
examples first
money seems to be an obstacle for many
people great example think about it
you want to get a nicer house you want
to
move to another place but you don’t have
enough money
so it’s hindering you or stopping you
from moving forward
money can be an obstacle all right here
we go hey
excellent marceline says money can be an
obstacle if you cannot pay
your tuition okay money can be an
obstacle you can’t pay your tuition
got you something’s obstacle erica says
something’s obstacle came from
our form of thinking ah okay sometimes
the way we
think can be an obstacle again
sometimes the way we think can be an
obstacle
all right that is true though very true
all right next we have this one right
here
when you encounter an obstacle think
hard and ask a more mature person
for guidance alright this is another
great example
when you encounter or when you uh come
upon
an obstacle ask someone older or wiser
for help
hey christy good to see you too always
good to see you
welcome welcome all right and the last
example is right here
two large obstacles when beginning your
own business
are time and money
this is so true when i first started the
academy in
january of 2019 i was working extremely
long
hours why because it was the very
beginning of
the academy and i wanted to make sure
everything was great and i wanted to
produce more resources
so i spent lots of time so one of the
main obstacles was
time i didn’t have enough time so yes
this is a very good example of how to
use obstacle
mourinho says our life is full of
obstacles every now and then it’s hard
to
jump them to jump over them or to get
over them or get through them
but we need to go on very true erica
says
sometimes the way we think
can be an obstacle sometimes the way we
think can be an obstacle remember the s
off
at the end of sometimes jael says the
lack of knowledge in a new
job can be an obstacle got you
marcella says when you are out of the
woods it’s because you overcame the
obstacles ah
i like how you use that idiom when you
are out of
the woods it’s because you overcame the
obstacles
paula says money can be an obstacle in a
lot of different situations
good alum hey good to see you
no worries we’re glad that you’re here i
don’t find the link of the live class
okay remember guys the live class
is always you go to the bulletin board
and i have it set up
every month it’s set up right there so
you don’t have to wait
even for next week’s class and the
following week you go to the bulletin
board in the academy
all right analisa the the biggest
obstacle
so not the most big but the biggest
obstacle at university
is passing an exam in time or on time
okay
all right monique says to face obstacles
in life i always try to keep calm
and i make the list oh a list of the
pros and cons here we go
to face obstacles in life i always try
to keep calm and i make
a list of the pros and cons all right
erica my pleasure all right marcelo says
lack of money
is an obstacle to travel okay is an
obstacle
for many people who want to travel lack
of money is an obstacle for many people
who want to travel
hey shell good to see you the new mother
faced an obstacle to provide
time for her newborn baby she didn’t
have enough time
got you hey carmen good to see you
sometimes bad behavior could be an
obstacle to your knowledge or to gaining
knowledge
good example alright so again guys
obstacle is a very good word to use when
you’re speaking about
challenges all right so again keep
typing your examples it’s good to
practice
we’re going to move on to the next word
okay here we go
the next word we have dealing with
challenges is
decision making now you notice it’s two
words kind of put together like
hyphenated
but again it’s a very good i guess
combination word or hyphenated word to
use
decision making now this just means
the process of making choices
again both words you all know decision
and making right very simple when you
put them together they become very
useful so let me show you some sentences
using decision making here we go
first she plays no part
in daily decision making at
work so you see what’s happening right
it’s not a verb
saying ah there’s a decision-making team
these individuals normally make
decisions at our job
she’s not a part of that team or a part
of the process
so we can say she plays no part in daily
decision making
at work now next here we go
for children to feel empowered they must
be part of the family decision
making process again for children to
feel empowered
or apart they need to be a part of the
family decision making process
again they need to help make the
decisions i have a question really
quickly guys
do you agree with this statement for
children to feel empowered they must be
part of the family decision making pro
process real quick i’m very curious in
your own country
in your culture is it normal for
children to give their opinions this is
something that is very interesting
because i lived in korea
and in korea the opinions of children
no their opinions didn’t matter right
because it’s based on a hierarchical
system their culture whoever’s older
kind of has the more
is more important when it comes to
making decisions but in your own culture
do the opinions of children really make
a difference i’m very curious to know
how you all how your country is the
culture in your country do the opinions
of children
really matter in your country just real
quick you guys can let me know if the
opinions of children matter in your own
country
all right and we’ll keep looking at the
sentences but i wanted to know
about your culture all right and last
the bank gave decision-making authority
to individual businesses okay individual
businesses
so the individual businesses could make
the choices
could make the decisions and it says the
bank gave
decision-making authority to
individual businesses now again i think
it’s taking a little while to come
through but remember the question i was
asking you all is
in your own culture do children have the
right to
give their opinions um in america
when i was younger um it was not the
case
like people didn’t really ask kids um
what they thought about certain
situations they asked them their
you know how was their day but it was
mainly the adults things have
changed a lot over time but what about
your culture marina says
yes my father and brother don’t want to
listen to my opinion
but i always keep my voice or voice my
opinion i always voice my opinion
and my mom supports me okay good very
interesting anybody else again
tell us about your culture uh do
children play a part
in the decision making process
jae hell says it’s not very common dads
always decide and have the last word
usually they don’t ask the children
about their opinions
yeah okay that makes sense i see paula
says decision making has turned hard
during this pandemic because everything
is unstable
and uncertain yes decision making has
become
difficult during this pandemic because
everything is unstable
and uncertain yes gene kelly hey
says my daughter plays a good role in
decision making
ah for festivities okay
analysis says here we give a lot of
importance to
children they are in the center or at
the center of
every decision the life revolves or our
lives revolve around
children okay nice very interesting
erica says i like to hear
my children’s opinions nice monique says
it depends on the generation in my
country back in the day
i like how you use that children
couldn’t make decisions but now
parents try to listen to them as here in
europe oh you’re in
you’re in europe wait a minute monique
where are you where are you right now or
are you saying like they do in europe
let me know what country you’re
again right now christy says nowadays in
peru
young parents ask children for their
opinion
times are changing aren’t they marcella
says i think that it’s changing in my
country
years ago kids weren’t asked about
family decisions
now we are evolving and many parents are
caring about
teaching decision making skills to their
children very well stated marcella very
well stated
shell says absolutely yes as a filipino
citizen it’s important to hear the
opinions of the children
with respect very interesting shell
marceline says she took a decision
making for her next
wedding she decided to take a
decision-making role
for her next wedding sometimes they
don’t want the young people to give
their opinions
um and make decisions okay i see how you
combine them okay
all right andre says nowadays i always
listen to my daughter
her suggestion is always welcome i
always here we go
i always welcome her suggestions
i do that because my father never
did that for me all right okay oh
monique you’re in belgium okay nice
nice alam says nowadays people start
giving kids the right to make decisions
okay
you all see how the times are changing a
lot right back in the day
kids didn’t take part in the
decision-making process but now
kids are really a big part of the
decision-making process in families
all right let’s see let’s see um
shells is a good manager will try to
involve everyone in the decision making
process
great sentence great sentence alessandra
says in brazil it’s not very
common but i usually do that because i
like to listen to their opinions
got you murray hey moray murray says
it’s generally the same situation
um oh okay in turkey you have the same
situation as korea
but i’m lucky that i have the greatest
parents they’re acting like the world is
revolving around me and my sister oh
that’s beautiful
marina says the hardest decision-making
process is how to spend your precious
time
yes very hard decision powerless is
related to kids decision making
related to kids decision making in my
country i think depend it depends on the
state
some states are very old school good use
and the parents are really authoritarian
but others are similar to the us very
interesting
all right a few more carmen says in my
country the children are not usually
allowed to participate in decision
making
uh in the decision making process in
their family
got you jasmine says my mother never
asked me what i wanted to eat
right here’s a funny story guys talking
about that jasmine so jasmine when i was
growing up
my mom well she cooks really well the
food was always good but there were some
times when i didn’t want to eat what she
made
but she said you’re going to eat what’s
on the plate so let’s say if i didn’t
finish the food
she said no problem you’re going to eat
it for lunch i come back to lunch
exact same plate of food if i didn’t
finish it she said no problem you’re
going to eat it for dinner
so it was kind of this idea of you’re
going to eat what’s given to you no
matter what
but things have really changed currently
like in the present day kids now
have more uh more
power in the family so it’s very
interesting how things have changed
very interesting all right last one john
says the board is in charge of decision
making
oh the board is in charge of decision
making
in the company or at the company okay
good very good
all right so we all understand how to
use decision making in a sentence again
when you’re speaking about challenges
you can also use this
in a sentence now last here’s the last
one guys
mind set mind set now this is a person’s
way of thinking and their opinions
so i can say wow ja hell
you have a good mindset or wow shell you
have a good
mindset right so again it’s just a
person’s
way of thinking very simple but a very
useful word so
let me show you all how to use it in a
sentence here we go
having a fixed mindset
and being inflexible are detrimental to
one’s personal
growth ah let me explain this to you
really quickly you see that it says
a fixed mindset fixed mindset
well the word fixed means you can’t move
it for example
um let’s say uh
okay there’s a fan above me right now
right it’s
in the ceiling right i can’t move it
like i can’t push it and move it
anywhere
why because they’ve drilled holes in to
the ceiling
and put screws in it so it doesn’t move
so it’s a
fixed right it’s in a fixed position it
can’t be moved
so when we say a fixed mindset it’s
basically referring to someone who is
stubborn
right does not want to change their idea
they don’t want to
be flexible they don’t want to hear
anybody else so
again having a fixed mindset
and being inflexible are detrimental or
bad or harmful to one’s personal
growth now what about this one yuri
changed her mindset after years of being
close-minded now close-minded is
similar to fixed mindset close think
about this
close open close open
right now i’m i’m talking to you all
right but you can see that i’m kind of
open this is also a trick when you’re
giving a speech or when you’re speaking
people feel more comfortable the more
open you are
if i taught every class like this
hello everybody okay we’re gonna learn
you’d feel
very uncomfortable why because i’m
closed but as soon as i open up
hey guys you feel like you’re coming in
right
so that’s why we say close-minded
just means you don’t want anyone to come
in you don’t want anyone else’s ideas to
affect you
so yuri changed her mindset
or her way of thinking after years of
being closed-minded now i’m going to
give another example but remember guys
in the comment section try to make your
own sentence
using this word mindset again mindset
all right here’s the last one it’s
extraordinary
how hard it is to change the mindset
of the public and the press
it’s a very hard thing to change
people’s opinions
or to change the way people think right
the majority
that’s not easy right that’s a challenge
so i could say it really is a
challenge right trying to change the
mindset of the public
is a big challenge alright so again
in the comment section guys i want you
all to try to make your own
sentence right try to use the word
mindset
and figure out a way to talk about maybe
your situation
or what’s going on in the world and use
the word
mindset to do that okay all right so i
think you guys are thinking a lot
the comments are coming in a little bit
slower for this word
if it’s difficult let me know and i’ll
explain it a little bit more
okay all right but again as i wait for
you guys to write
here we go all right here we go here we
go all right
oh thank you marina tiff has the
oh tiff’s got the happiest mindset i’ve
ever seen thank you so much thank you so
much
gene kelly says sometimes it’s hard to
have a mindset on children decision
making
ah because they change their minds so
often okay
all right sometimes it’s hard to rely
on a child’s mindset or sometimes it’s
hard to respect
a child’s mindset because they change
their minds so
often or we can say when you are
thinking about the decision-making
process
it’s very hard to respect the mindset of
a child
because they change their minds so often
that was very long
but you can rewind later and write it
down all right
alam says having a positive mindset
helps you reach your goals easily good
job very true statement
paola says you can imagine how
hold up you can imagine how much your
mindset can affect your health and your
personal relationships okay
so i’ll change it for you you can
imagine
how much your mindset can affect your
health
and your personal relationships
shell says nowadays we need to shift our
mindset
to the blessings that we have instead of
the
obstacles in our lives oh i like that i
like that sentence
again i made some corrections but i like
the meaning it’s very good
murray says in my opinion traveling and
seeing new things that we’re not
familiar
with at all change changes
our mindset and broadens our mind okay
broadens our mind
christy says that man is really stubborn
no one could change his mindset
good job all right allam says coven 19
has changed people’s mindset very true
marcela says if you change your fixed
mindset
you’ll be able to face every single
obstacle very good be careful with the
spelling of obstacle
there’s no you but very good marceline
says with teacher tiffany
students are always happy and have a
good mindset
in class well i’m happy to hear that i’m
happy to hear that
all right analysis says the old man’s
mindset is is
different uh is different from the
younger man’s mindset
i think because the generation ah they
are from different generations
so for every season there will be a
different mindset i like the meaning of
your sentences
all right jael says having good habits
and a healthy
style or healthy lifestyle is a mindset
a little bit different so having good
habits
um let me see having good habits and a
healthy lifestyle is a mindset
um it’s kind of a practice so you can
say
um let’s see let’s see i know what
you’re trying to say
um it’s a good mindset like to try to
live healthy and to try to
make sure that you’re doing things well
um is a good mindset to have okay
focusing on living life um well and
eating healthy is a good mindset to have
okay all right and monique has a
positive mindset
uncovers great change good josie hey
josie says it’s hard to understand
who has a good mindset who has a good
mindset all right good job guys so again
the three words we went over again we
have
mindset decision making and obstacle all
right
these three now i want us to get into
the expressions all right i’ll get into
the expressions now again
expressions that’ll be useful when
you’re trying to talk about your
challenges
here’s one grasping at straws i’m going
to take a little sip of water really
quickly
now the word grasping right grasping
grasping literally just means to reach
for
and hold right to reach forward try to
reach for something and hold it right
grasping at straws now i just drank some
water
but sometimes you have a straw right and
you just suck it up
so grasping at straws what does this
mean this is a very useful expression
very useful
it means to make a desperate attempt
at saving something again to make a
desperate oh i really need to save this
i’m grasping at straws though
to make a desperate attempt at saving so
let me show you an example to this guys
here we go
the boss could see him grasping at
straws
to save his job so imagine again
currently because of covid so many
people have lost their jobs right
now imagine you’re in a situation and
your boss walks up to you and says hey
we’re gonna have to let about 10 people
go from this department so
we’re going to announce tomorrow who
those 10 people are
and you get really nervous so after the
boss walks away
you start thinking about oh man i’ve
done my job really well
you go to the boss’s office and you say
hey i just want to let you know that i
finished the project you gave me
i also did this last week i made sure
that i had everything in order
i wanted to make sure that you’re happy
with my job and everything that i’m
doing
i’m basically desperate i don’t want to
be let go you don’t want to be fired so
you’re grasping at straws to save
your job alright here’s another example
right here
i knew my mother was dying but i was
grasping at straws to save
her life i was trying desperately
to get her the best care the best doctor
the best facilities the best
medicine why because i didn’t want her
to die
so i was grasping at straws again trying
desperately attempting to save my mother
you can say grasping at straws again
think about that your family member your
mother your father husband
wife child someone is sick you don’t
want them to die that’s a
challenging situation so when you’re
trying to save that person or to do
something to
help eliminate their pain you can say
i’m grasping at straws to save their
life
make sense all right here we go last
example
is right here i tried to lie
but everyone knew i was wrong and only
grasping at straws again
making an attempt a desperate attempt to
make me believe something oh no no no
um i didn’t do that but everyone knows
wait a minute we know you’re lying
so grasping being desperate but everyone
knew that he or she
was lying all right so let’s see some
examples of this guys
grasping at straws put them in the
comments section here we go
annalisa says when we are wrong
sometimes we try to be right okay
okay i know what you’re saying um when
we are wrong
we start grasping at straws to make
things right
when we are wrong or when we are in the
wrong y’all can look that one up
when we are in the wrong we start
grasping at straws
to make things right okay all right good
example i just kind of corrected it for
you anna-lysa
all right anybody else again grasping at
straws try to make your own sentence
and put it in the comment section right
grasping at
straws all right let’s see i’m going to
go to the next expression but don’t
worry i’m just waiting
for the comments to come through i’ll
definitely put your sentence on
the screen all right here’s the next one
guys
last resort this means the only option
left now when i was preparing for
today’s class
and this expression came up i was so
happy
and i was happy because this is an
expression that americans
english speakers use on a regular
basis it’s very very important for you
to understand
this expression because if you’ve never
heard it before
you probably would have a hard time
guessing what it means
however telling you right now it means
the only
option left now we’re going to come back
to it because i see your sentences
coming through
here we go basak says she was just
grasping at straws trying desperately to
get out of trouble
excellent very good christie says
mother’s
pet was grasping at straws to save her
puppy
okay okay my mother’s pet or my mother’s
dog was grasping at straws
to save her puppy the baby was at the
top of the cliff
wow all right don’t worry anna-lysa it’s
okay remember what i told you all
earlier this week
mistakes prove that you’re improving
make
lots of mistakes that shows that you’re
trying so i don’t mind mistakes
at all it shows that you’re trying i
love you trying alright gene kelly says
the company that i work for
is downsizing i’m grasping at straws
to save my job so that i can pay my
mortgage
again go back and write down what i just
corrected for you alright
good job marceline says she found a new
job so she is grasping at straws
to not lose her place or lose her job or
lose
her house because she found a new job so
she’s trying not to lose her house all
right
marcella says the baby was crying
desperately he was just
grasping at straws to get to his mother
or to get his mother to hold him
okay islam says people around the world
are grasping at straws to save their
lives due to covet 19
or grasping at straws to save oh you
mean their lies physically yes to save
their lives right marina says when we
feel threatened by something or someone
we grasp at straws until the last
second very good paula says he had lost
the argument but he kept grasping at
straws
good good very good all right so
everyone
understands how to use grasping at
straws in a sentence
now this one we’re looking at right now
is the last
resort again the only option left so
here’s the first example sentence
i really wanted to attend the conference
but i ended up missing my flight which
was
my last resort all right
the last option that he or she had was
to get on the flight and fly out
but he or she missed the flight
and that flight was their last option or
only option their last
resort all right what about this one
right here
experts say warning labels like on food
or products
are a last resort or an only option left
when a hazard can’t be designed out of
a product for example think about bleach
right
we use bleach many times to clean things
in our homes right
now bleach is very very dangerous if you
drink it
or if it gets in your eyes it can really
cause a lot of harm
but bleach is necessary the ingredients
in bleach
are important so there are hazards
on written on the actual bottle that say
please do not
drink this or do not put this close to
your eyes
why because they had to put the
ingredients in that was their only
option so the warning labels are a last
resort like hey this is the only option
we have
these ingredients have to go in this
product so our only option is to
slap a sticker on there that says hey
don’t put this in your mouth all right
the last
resort all right here we go last one is
as a last resort teachers could always
open an online classroom with their
internet provider
or school again the only option left
the only option available we say the
last resort
all right so i want you guys to think
about this this expression
how can you use last resort in a
sentence think really hard
how can you use last resort in a
sentence again
i’ve had some students that have told me
teacher i really needed to learn
english i tried many other places i
tried institutes and other things but
i saw your academy and i said hey this
is my only option
your academy was my last resort and i’m
so happy
i decided to join so you see they’ve
tried everything else and then they
decided to join our family
this was their last resort but they’re
happy all right so
let me see some sentences that came
through here we go murha wit hold on one
second merhawwitz says
i’m grasping at straws to take care of
my family i have to work hard
good example gene kelly says joining
tiffany’s academy is my last resort to
improve my english
skills good notice i corrected a few
things though
monique says i still have the order i
still have some challenges in my life
and i’m grasping at straws to fix them
or to overcome all of them to overcome
all of them
shell says he’s desperately grasping at
straws to
explain why he failed
as a leader why he failed as a leader
yes christy the last resort basak says
she is only interested because he is the
last resort
good example all right paula says asking
for more time should be our last resort
we need to work harder good example
paola
marceline says excuse me peter lost
everything in the fire which happened
this morning he chooses bank of america
ah okay so he chose bank of america
the last resort as a last resort to
borrow money to repair his house
got you alright the english course is my
last resort oh this english course is my
last resort got you don’t worry you’re
in the right place
annalisa says you are my last resort to
improve my english
please make a miracle hey listen you
know i’ll give a hundred and ten percent
as long as you’re giving 110 percent to
you will succeed but again anna-lysa
you’re very active in the group and i’m
always happy so you will do it
all right christy says i had to warm up
the leftover spaghetti the day before
yesterday it was my last resort or it
was the last resort got you
karma says as a last resort i decided to
try a lottery
try the lottery to make money to try the
lottery to make money
alright two more alam says my last
resort is to improve my
english so as to make my dream come true
good
marina says joe biden and kamala harris
are the last resorts to save the us
yeah yeah good job guys good
job all right we’re gonna look at our
last expression before we go to our
discussion question okay
all right here’s the last expression
again a very useful one
back against the wall back against the
wall now this means to have very serious
problems that limit the ways in which
you can act all right your back is
against the wall so for example let’s
say
you work at a company and they want you
to travel to another country
and you say i’m so sorry i’m not going
to be able to go
and they say why you say well i have
five kids
my husband and i were very busy we have
to take care of our kids
and we don’t have anyone to watch them
while i’m away because my husband is
also gone a lot
so i have no other option i can’t do
anything it’s a very serious problem and
i can’t act
my back is against the wall i can’t do
anything my job wants me to go but i
can’t go
my back is against the wall so here’s an
example sentence guys
he owes money to everyone so he really
has his back against
the wall now think about it
he owes tons of money but he doesn’t
have a lot of money
so he’s really in a serious situation a
big challenge and he’s limited i owe a
thousand dollars but i only have
ten dollars what am i going to do i
don’t know what to do this is a serious
problem or a serious challenge
my back is against the wall
in this situation there’s nothing i can
do all right right here
we knew that with so little money left
to finish the project
we had our backs against the wall again
where you’re presented with a situation
or a challenge
and you don’t see how you’re going to
overcome it you don’t see how you’re
going to get
out of it or through the situation you
can say my back is against
the wall all right and finally here we
go guys right here
with her back against the wall sharon
quickly answered the frantic phone call
all right frantic means like
oh my gosh oh my goodness it’s kind of
like panicking
we call that frantic right like when
someone calls 9-1-1 like there’s an
emergency
normally they’re not hello someone was
shocked
can you please help us no you usually
like
oh my goodness someone was shot we need
help please come help us
they’re very frantic a frantic phone
call
so with her back against the wall
sharon quickly answered the frantic
phone call
now this is an expression again that’s
very useful but i want you guys to try
to
make a sentence using this expression
again
back against the wall now i’m going to
wait for you all to send your sentences
and i’m going to do something a little
bit different you know we have to go
through things a little bit quicker
today because there’s another class
but i want to quiz you guys i didn’t do
this last week
what i’m gonna do is i’m gonna tell you
guys uh
kind of a quick story or a situation and
i want you
all to tell me which expression
uh let’s start with the vocabulary words
all right there are three vocabulary
words i want you to tell me which
vocabulary word
matches the situation then we’ll go to
another one and i’ll tell you a
situation and i’ll ask you to match the
proper expression all right
see how good you guys were listening how
well you understood what i taught
all right hold on one second a sentence
came through all right again oh no this
is for last resort
again i’m looking for sentences using
back against
the wall right back against the wall
take about two or three
um okay i see what you’re doing
muradwood says when your house
started burning go out fast as a last
resort
leave the house okay when your house
catches on fire
go out or leave the house that’s your
last resort as opposed to trying to put
the fire out okay
paula says jj uh oh i love your examples
of frantic
thank you all right and elisa says
when my back is against the wall
my adrenaline goes up and i do
everything better hey
yeah that is true all right alam says in
2020
the world had its back against the wall
due to the coronavirus okay that makes
sense in 2020 the world
had its back against the wall due to the
coronavirus
gene kelly says unemployment puts so
many people’s
backs against the wall because they are
deeply in debt
notice how i changed a few things so
later on rewind and then write down the
way i changed it all right
all right two more and then i’ll give
you guys some example situations
marina says my mom is uh my mom’s back
is against the wall because she wants to
travel
oh i think it cut your sentence off but
i’ll wait till you write the rest
jasmine says he owes money to everyone
so his back
is against the wall all right so his
back is against the wall all right
okay guys now i’m gonna remind you i’m
gonna type in the comment section again
the vocabulary words remember the
vocabulary words we had
were let’s see again obstacle
all right then we had decision making
and we had what was the last one hold on
obstacle decision making
uh-oh guys your teacher forgot what the
last one was i have so many things
running through my mind right now
okay mindset all right and the last one
is
mind set all right so i’m going to give
you guys some examples and i
want you to tell me which word
matches okay which word matches here we
go picking from one of the vocabulary
words
oh hold on a sentence came through paula
says a lot of government
workers a lot of government workers have
their backs against the wall because of
the world crisis remember there’s one
government
but the people that work for the
government have their backs against the
wall
all right and marcella says he got his
back against the wall
when he lost all his money at the casino
all right
his back was against the wall because he
lost all of his money at the casino
all right so here we go guys i’m going
to give you guys two situations before
we uh go to our discussion question
all right here’s the first situation
again
listen to the situation and then tell me
which vocabulary word
matches the situation here we go um
i have many friends many friends um
they’re great people
great individuals um but i have this one
friend
she’s really really awesome now this
friend
no matter what the situation is no
matter how big of a challenge
she’s experiencing she’s always so
positive she always looks at the bright
side of situations
she always tries to encourage me and
other people no matter what’s going on
and we also encourage each other i
really like the way she
thinks she’s a positive way of thinking
she’s always
optimistic i really like her positive
what’s the vocabulary word pick from one
of the three we learned today
talking about my friend she’s always
thinking positively i really like the
way she thinks
she has a positive yes paola you got it
very good
she has a positive mindset excellent
marcella you got it as well
she has a positive mindset very good
shell got it excellent annalisa
excellent marina
excellent you guys got it very good
murray you got it
excellent very good alam excellent job
very good
gene kelly very very good christy hey
you guys all got it correct excellent
excellent
but stop very good andre’s like yeah
it’s me very good
excellent all right i’ll give you guys
one more now this time i’m gonna give
you a situation and i want you to find
out
which expression matches the situation
now the expressions again
grasping at straws last resort
and back against the wall alright
so here we go let me think of a very
difficult situation
all right okay so this is what happened
um
my friends and i we were going to go on
a trip together right we wanted to go on
a trip together
um so we all gathered money and we all
we each had a hundred dollars so it’s
about five friends of five hundred
dollars right
and we were trying to decide what to do
uh
and we also were trying to find out how
to get to our destination
so we had three choices we could either
rent a car rent a van
or we could actually rent an
rv an rv is kind of the larger truck or
larger van that has like a shower
bathroom and kitchen area in it the
thing is we only had 500
and when we looked up the prices we
realized that
the car was our only option
so even though we wanted to get a van we
realized hey
we only had one option and that one
option was the car
so our only option was the car which
means the car
was our what’s the expression
the car was our last option our only
option i gave you a hint
the only option was the car so what’s
the expression the car was our
what’s the expression we learned today
that means our only
option only one option left
yes excellent paola said last resort
very good
marcella last resort excellent shell
last resort good
marina excellent guys annalisa good
jasmine excellent alum excellent
josie good job christy good job and
gene kelly i think the end part of the
word cut off but i think you got it last
resort excellent job oh there you go you
typed it right now good good
excellent job so we see again that the
last resort is a very useful
expression guys you all are amazing oh
you got it too andre good job good job
last resort and also monique excellent
job excellent
now i’m looking at the time uh we’re
gonna go into our last
uh part of the discussion question and
again remember the discussion question
is where i want you guys to record a
video clip and put it
in our telegram group but let me go back
to my screen and we’re going to see what
the discussion question
is here we go all right so our
discussion question for today guys is
right here
i want you to answer this question the
question is
what do you do when faced with a
challenge
at work again what do you do when faced
with a challenge
at work now again i told you guys at the
beginning
only for today i do apologize we’re
gonna have to end
now um because i have to get prepared
for the business english marathon
but this is the question guys what do
you do when faced with a challenge
at work now last week i was so impressed
with you all
so many of you all accepted the
challenge i put
to you all to record yourself either a
video
or an audio clip answering the questions
so again i told you i do see the
messages
even though i don’t respond i do see the
messages in the group
so i want you all to answer this
question what do you do when faced with
a challenge
at work i want you to record your voice
or record a video clip of yourself very
quick video clip
answering the question what do you do
when faced with a challenge at work for
example for me i could say
whenever i’m faced with a challenge at
work i like to sit down
and write notes i want to process what’s
actually going on
and writing notes actually helps me
overcome the challenge
done you see it can be quick but i want
you to again either record a video clip
or record an audio clip answering this
question
right here what do you do when faced
with a challenge
at work now that’s your immediate
challenge for today for right now
alright
now the other questions you have for
this week to discuss
with your partners are right here
here we go these are the questions
dealing with challenges you have
challenges faced at work
challenges faced in life and also
challenges in other situations
very useful discussion questions and i
noticed right before we came on i think
paola you posted a
zoom link i think it was around 12 30. i
told you guys i see everything
i i noticed that you guys kind of met
via zoom so excellent i’m so happy when
you guys meet on zoom
you can do that this week meet on zoom
and talk about these questions um
let me see hey my pleasure my pleasure
show my pleasure
jasmine says what do you do when faced
with a challenge at work record our
voice or video thank you for writing
that jasmine yes
definitely so i know today a lot of our
family members weren’t able to join us
live
so if you guys again those of you who
are here as soon as we end
please go directly to the telegram group
record your voice
or record a video clip so that other
students will realize oh man we missed
out
but we can still participate in this
activity by recording themselves
answering the question all right
guys thank you so much i appreciate you
guys for understanding i had to kind of
go through this class a little faster
than usual
um but i do hope you guys learned a lot
so i’m gonna end our class here again
thank you guys all for joining
remember these are the questions and
you’ll find them in the academy
remember the link is in the academy
again you can find it on the bulletin
board
and you can practice those questions
with your partners
alright guys thank you again for joining
you