How to Talk About Your Hobbies In English
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Alicia here in this series we’re going
to learn some easy ways to ask and
answer common questions in English it’s
really useful and it only takes three
minutes in this lesson you are going to
learn how to ask what someone’s hobbies
are without using the word hobbies
you’ve probably seen the question do you
have any hobbies or what are your
hobbies in an English textbook before
however native English speakers almost
never use the word hobbies when asking
about them a much more natural way to
ask the same question is what do you do
for fun let’s practice this question
what do you do for fun what do you do
for fun you can also ask what do you do
in your free time what do you do in your
free time so how would you answer this
question let’s look at how native
speakers would do it the easiest way is
to say I like to or just I like followed
by what you like to do for example if
you like watching movies you could say I
like to watch movies or I like watching
movies I like to watch movies or I like
watching movies and if you like golf you
could say I like to play golf or I like
playing golf I like to play golf or I
like playing golf you can emphasize how
much you like your hobby by adding a
word like really in front of like
for example I really like watching
movies on the other hand if you want to
play down how much you like something
you can say kind of for example I kind
of like playing tennis now it’s time for
Alisha’s advice if you don’t have any
special hobbies or don’t want to be
specific
a good way to reply is I like hanging
out with my friends and stuff like that
I like hanging out with my friends and
stuff like that just use I like and add
hanging out with my friends and then add
and stuff like that making you learn by
having fun it’s a thing infotainment ice
hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is Alisha and today we’re gonna
be talking about 10 things to do in the
summer in the United States so let’s go
to travel abroad to travel abroad to
travel abroad abroad means outside of
your country so meaning to travel to a
place not the United States in my case
please don’t forget to in this
expression so many of my students will
say this summer I’m going Europe you
need to use two before the place you do
not however need to use two before
they’re so like students sometimes will
say I want to go to there you can’t do
that
you have to use two before the specific
name of a place there is not a specific
place so you don’t need to use to keep
that one in mind to relax at the beach
to relax at the beach ah that sounds
fantastic right now to relax at the
beach you go to the beach and you just
relax there you lay in the Sun you go
swimming maybe you drink a beer you get
a tan if you would like to do that of
course some people don’t you put on
sunscreen whatever it is that you like
to do at the beach you just do that and
enjoy in a sentence I would rather relax
at the beach than have a really active
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next one is one of my favorite things
ever to do in summer wherever I am it’s
to have a barbecue or to have a BB q
it’s also okay but barbeque usually BB Q
is in like writing I love having
barbecues with my friends in the summer
every 4th of July my family has a big
barbecue to party all night the next
expression is to party all night to
party all night you don’t it doesn’t
have to be summer or in the United
States to party all night just say
anyway it’s a party all night means to
do something you enjoy presumably with
your friends or not I guess I partied
like all night at home I tweeted pajamas
are the best and then I tweeted a
picture of myself really excited about a
cookie and was very embarrassed about
that the next day so I deleted it since
I won’t have school in the morning I’m
going to party all night a different
sentence I don’t like partying all night
I get tired I always hit a wall like
r.e.m like I’m like yeah and then 3 a.m.
and I’m running to sleep to get a tan to
get a tan to get a tan it’s in some
cultures this is a good thing in some
cultures it’s not a good thing it means
to sit in the Sun or lay in the Sun and
let the Sun change the color of your
skin be careful there’s there are two
expressions in English there is one to
get a tan and another is to get a Sun
burn so in u.s. culture anyway getting a
tan means like your skin turns like a
darker brown color but when it turns red
it’s bad that means you’ve burned your
skin so tan good burn bad so we’d have 2
separate words to describe them in a
sentence you’ll find me poolside getting
a tan to go hiking
next expression is to go hiking so
hiking means walking or trekking usually
in a mountain or in a nature setting so
in a sentence I used to go hiking with
my family every summer
that’s roughly true in this sentence I’m
going to hike the Pacific Crest Trail to
work a part-time job the next expression
is to work a part-time job to work a
part-time job is very common if you’re a
student especially so when you have your
summer vacation it’s a chance for you to
earn a little bit of money by working at
a part-time job in a sentence
unfortunately she can’t go because she
has to work at her part-time job ah when
I was a teenager I had a part-time job
at a golf course yeah because I was on
the golf team at school
very convenient lovely experiences a
plus everybody to have fun with friends
to have fun with friends also something
that you do not need to only do in
summer but which you can do anytime
we’re having fun now are we so to have
fun with friends it’s just to enjoy time
with your friends it’s great in a
sentence I love having fun with my
friends whenever I can he has fun with
friends but he doesn’t do much else hmm
to attend summer school the next one is
to attend summer school to attend summer
school usually has kind of a bad image
and I feel in you in the u.s. anyway
because it sounds like maybe you missed
something in regular school but for some
people maybe there’s a special course
they want to attend or like a special
internship program or it’s just
something special extra that they would
like to study in a sentence I hated
going to summer school when I was a kid
since I failed the class I’ll have to
attend summer school so those are 10
things that you can do in the summer in
the US or in many other countries I
think if there’s something that you like
to do in the summer in your country or
in any country for that matter let us
know in the comments so thanks very much
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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 here a question next comes a
short dialogue listen carefully and see
if you can answer correctly will show
you the answer at the end are you ready
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 it 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 it two o’clock then let’s meet up
at the cafe at three o’clock and see a
movie at four o’clock okay a man is
talking with a salesperson at the mall
which shirt is he going to buy hmm which
shirt do you think is better the white
one or the blue one well I think the
blue one is better it goes well with
this gray jacket you think so
but it doesn’t go so well with this red
tie does it well that’s true okay then
I’ll take the white one not the blue one
which shirt is he going to buy
a man is talking with a salesperson at
the mall which shirt is he going to buy
hmm which shirt do you think is better
the white one or the blue one well I
think the blue one is better it goes
well with this gray jacket do you think
so but it doesn’t go so well with this
red tie does it well that’s true okay
then I’ll take the white one not the
blue one 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 1:00 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 1:00 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 did you get it right I hope you
learned something from this quiz let us
know if you have any questions see you
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learn how to ask someone about what
sports they like if you’re a sports fan
then you’ll know how much fun it is when
you meet someone who likes that sport as
much as you do even if they don’t like
your favorite team you may assume that
you just say what sports do you like of
course this is a normal way to ask this
question but there’s actually a more
natural way to ask this in idiomatic
English we use the phrase to follow a
sport to mean to like or be interested
in a sport so you can ask do you follow
sports or if you think it’s likely that
the other person does like sports you
can ask what sports do you follow you
can answer either of these questions by
saying yeah I follow and then the name
of the sport yeah I follow soccer or you
can say yeah I like soccer or you can
use the phrase I’m a fan of yeah I’m a
fan of soccer but what if you don’t like
sports again remember what we said
before about being careful not to hurt
the other person’s feelings by saying
anything too offensive just say no I
don’t really follow any sports lots of
people don’t like to watch sports but do
like to play sports if this is you then
you can say I don’t really follow sports
but I like playing and then the name of
the sport I don’t really follow sports
but I like playing soccer
a good place to expand the conversation
is if you answer yeah I follow soccer
and the other person answers me to or
something similar to then ask about what
teams they support all you say is what
team do you support
or as we said in previous lessons you
can expand the conversation by asking
the other person how about you once
you’ve finished answering now it’s time
for Alicia’s advice sports are a very
popular topic of conversation in the US
it’s a totally neutral easy to talk
about topic which avoids controversial
themes such as politics and religion
which are not usually considered
appropriate things to talk about with
someone you’ve just met what sports are
you into let us know in the comments hi
everyone I’m Bridget and welcome to
today’s lesson our topic for this lesson
is five most popular sports let’s get
started soccer soccer is probably the
most popular sport in the world in
America it’s called soccer in other
places in other countries it’s usually
called
football soccer is a game that’s played
totally without your hands you kick the
ball back and forth to your team members
trying to score a goal the biggest
soccer tournament in the world is the
FIFA World Cup where countries from
around the globe compete to be the very
best football football a lot of football
players get injured because it’s a very
rough sport in America we call this game
football but in other countries they say
American football football is a game
that’s played with a football that’s
carried in your hand which is very
counterintuitive you pass the football
you run yards and you try to score
touchdowns in America we have the Super
Bowl which is the biggest game of the
year everyone around the country watches
this big football game baseball baseball
is called America’s national pastime
baseball is a very popular sport around
the world there is a pitcher who pitches
the ball and then the
the batter who hits the ball and runs
around the bases to score runs
basketball basketball many basketball
players live like rock stars you dribble
the ball which means bouncing the ball
and you shoot it through a hoop to get
points hockey hockey hockey is
incredibly popular in Canada hockey is a
game that’s played on ice skates and the
players skate around on the ice with
hockey sticks hitting a hockey puck to
score goals and that brings us to the
end of this lesson five most popular
sports what is your favorite sport what
sport is most popular in your country
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to learn more English scores points hi
everybody and welcome back to english
topics my name is Alisha and today I’m
joined in the studio by I’m Davey
welcome Davey and thanks for joining us
so today our topic is going to be about
how to use movies and music and TV shows
to improve your English so we’re both
going to share from our own personal
experiences but maybe we’re going to
share a few things we haven’t done I
suppose but perhaps could help you or
not those kind of really thick anyway do
you want to start sure all right what’s
a way to improve English with music TV
movies all right any ideas my yes I do
have some ideas my first recommendation
is use subtitles in English as early as
possible this isn’t always very easy if
you’re just starting out learning
English if you’re starting out learning
English and you’re watching movies in
English you’re probably watching in
subtitles of your own language but as
soon as you’re comfortable reading in
English and when you’re comfortable
getting most of what you’re listening to
in English I think switching to
subtitles in English is really important
because I think when people are watching
movies and television shows in English
they think that it’s really going to
improve their listening more
anything else but I think you can
improve other skills to not only or
listening and so if you switch to
subtitles in English you’re also going
to improve your reading
you’ll learn to read faster you’ll match
the spellings of English words with how
they sound and that will really help
improve both skills a lot more quickly
and will help you understand what’s
going on home screen yeah actually I
really do agree with that but
interestingly enough I put maybe the
first step to what you just described
that was one of mine so I said listen to
movies in your target language with your
native language subtitles on so
initially I was thinking of this as an
initial tip so to get used to listening
to your target language but then being
able to familiarize yourself with your
Nate in your native language through
using subtitles but then after after you
get comfortable with that maybe you
watch the same movie a few times for
example you get familiar with the story
with the the things that the characters
say then you can switch to using
subtitles and familiarize yourself with
the story in a whole new way so that can
be a really fun way I think to practice
both your listening and your reading
skills I totally agree I suppose you
could even read the subtitles out loud
along with the characters too that’s
we’re getting ahead of ourselves oh my
that brings me to you should have gone
first oh but that brings me partly to my
second tip which is shadowing so you can
do this not only with movies and
television but with music as well
basically just trying to repeat what you
hear or what you’re reading as you’re
listening to it on the screen very
immediately after you hear it and so for
example if you hear a song lyric or a
phrase in the movie or TV show
immediately after you you hear it try
and repeat it back and that will help
kind of improve your speaking especially
regarding pronunciation and how you
connect different words together yes yep
yep I had to say one at the same point
about music mine was by mine in
particular was memorized song lyrics and
sing along so I think that gives you an
extra sort of way to study if you
actually have to read the song lyrics
and try to remember them and repeat them
back sometimes even without the
accompaniment of the artist that you’re
listening to that can
a good way to practice trying to create
or trying to just you know repeat
something without having necessarily
like the audio prompt but one point and
I was thinking about this as I was
writing this card tube it is a little
bit tricky like if there is something a
little bit different about music and I
think this differs from TV shows and
movies how so that sometimes one music
doesn’t always use perfect grammar
that’s true one and two sometimes
artists will kind of stretch sounds or
artists will kind of change sounds or
change emphasis to make the the words
that they’re using match the beat or the
rhythm of their song so sometimes it’s
not always the best way to to practice
your your target language and one more
point if I can add to that is that
frankly a lot of popular music there’s
lots of rude words you have to be really
careful about and there’s also just kind
of nonsense too so you can’t expect
everything that you hear and music to be
exactly the way that people speak but in
general yeah I think it’s exactly right
in terms of just getting familiar with
them a better more natural rhythm it can
be a really good tool to use
I completely agree yeah okay so we set
me up again my third one I’m just
blending right together okay my last
point here is don’t believe everything
you hear specifically to mean that yes
not only song lyrics but TV shows and
movies oftentimes use imperfect or
incorrect grammar as well and so you
can’t always think that that’s exactly
how something should be said just to
just because you heard it in a song or
saw it on TV
so for example right now I’m actually
rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I’m a very very open Buffy fan and as I
was watching Buffy just today I realize
how they speak on that show isn’t really
like most people speak English
especially that the writers of that show
and the characters on that show sort of
have their own way of speaking that
isn’t typical if you’re if you are a
learner
watching that show or watching other
shows too you might think that that’s
how people speak English and hearing
vocabulary that you’ve never heard
before but it’s just made up for the
show it’s only used on the show so
that’s a key point then so maybe if
you’re gonna watch TV you’re gonna watch
movies to try and study English maybe
like science fiction or fantasy or like
historical movies aren’t necessarily the
best well maybe historical movies to
some extent maybe it’s good to pick like
a modern or a more contemporary thing to
study from like I know friends is a
really popular TV show that’s comedy a
lot of people like to use bad so that is
a good point too I think okay we
actually differed finally on that I had
something totally different this is
something that I actually did when I was
studying which is translate songs you
enjoy or at least try to translate songs
that you enjoy because a song is usually
maybe three minutes four minutes long
and there probably aren’t going to be
words that entire time and there’s gonna
be some repetition of those words so if
you can identify if you can find a song
that you like an artist that you like
and maybe there’s something that’s just
you just love this particular track or
whatever it is if you try to translate
that even if it’s not a correct
translation you can still be learning
those words and you can still be
studying how those words fit together
and how maybe you can understand those
words in other situations so maybe a
word that you’ve translated in song a
you might hear again in song B maybe by
the same artist or a different artist so
because you took the time to try to
translate it or at least have an idea of
what it might mean you can identify it
in a different context in a different
situation so this is something that I
actually did that’s a very good idea
yeah yeah it was fun I think any any
time you hear a new word or any time you
hear a language that you’re studying
you’re doing that so you that so that
you can use that language in the future
in other contexts and so that’s a really
good first step to doing that taking
what you’ve learned trying to translate
it and using it in other ways I think so
okay that’s all I have do you have
anything else that’s that’s all I have
for now okay
and if you have any other ways that you
like to use music movies TV shows other
kinds of media to study English or to
study another language please let us
know in the comments all right thanks
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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is Alisha and today we’re
gonna be talking about 10 gamers speak
words I am excited about this one
let’s go curse word is achievement
achievement is used when you have
completed a mission in some games
there’s a very famous phrase that says
like achievement unlocked good feeling
beta beta it’s for something that’s not
quite finished but that’s maybe in like
a testing phase you could hear like the
beta release of something or like the
beta test version of blah blah blah for
example I am beta testing a running game
right now that is true
next is boss if you ever played a video
game probably you know about a boss
battle you’ve been playing through a
level and at the end of that level
there’s a boss that you have to fight
it’s kind of interesting now thinking
about it how we use boss for a main
challenger that you have to defeat in a
video game level but we also use it for
like our managers at work so the next
word is role-playing game role-playing
game is commonly abbreviated commonly
shortened to RPG this is a very popular
style of game a role-playing game
meaning you play a role role-playing
games have evolved over years now you
can play for example MMORPGs massively
multiplayer online role-playing games I
have been playing role-playing games
since I was like 11
my brother convinced me to play Final
Fantasy 7 the next word is checkpoint
you might also hear save point you save
your game and then you continue on in
the game and then if you die you go back
and you respawn you come back to life
from that checkpoint
I feel like checkpoint is used more in
like a racing game but save point is
used more in an RPG the next one is noob
and oob i love the word noob i mostly to
talk about myself actually when i’ve
made like a really stupid decision noob
means rookie it means someone who is
inexperienced at something you can use
noob in a game if you find someone who
has just joined the game they’re a brand
new player there are a noob they don’t
know anything
farming let’s talk about farming in
gaming terms it means you are trying to
collect a certain item it has like kind
of a reputation for being a bit boring
because you’re just killing like the
same creature over and over again NPC
NPC means non playable character there
are other characters within the game
that moved the story forward but that
you cannot play as you cannot become
that character but you interact with
them I have to talk to an NPC in order
to move this quest forward next is
camper a camper is someone who is
waiting for a creature to spawn so a
person who’s waiting for the monster to
appear is called a camper you can use
camping as a verb to to talk about that
like I’m camping this monster really
people camp other players
I suppose so depending on the kind of
game you’re playing MMO is a massively
multiplayer online game means you can
play online with a lot of different
people essentially well that’s all
that’s the end so those are 10 game or
speak words I really enjoyed doing this
lesson it’s been a long time since I’ve
thought about video games and now I want
to like go home and play it was really
fun if you enjoy video games and want to
use your English to be able to explain
them these are some words that might be
really really useful for you alright
thanks very much for watching and we
will see you again next time for more
fun stuff bye in this lesson you’re
going to learn how to ask and answer the
question have you seen this movie
sometimes when you’re talking to someone
you might run out of things to talk
about don’t worry it happens to everyone
this lesson is going to be really useful
in increasing your repertoire of small
talk questions by focusing on a topic
that most people are at least a little
bit interested in movies if you find
yourself with nothing to talk about or
if you just really like movies then you
can always start a conversation about a
new or controversial movie you do this
by asking have you seen and then the
name of the movie the question have you
seen is used when asking about movies
rather than did you see because you’re
asking about the person’s present state
there are several possible answers to
this if you have seen the movie there
are again several ways to reply
according to how much you enjoyed it
if you saw it and really enjoyed it you
can say yeah I really liked it or if you
saw it but only thought it was so so you
can say yeah it was okay or if you saw
it but didn’t like it yeah but it wasn’t
really my thing remember with this last
one that you shouldn’t criticize the
movie too much until you know what the
other person thinks of it in order to be
polite the logical follow-up to one of
these responses is to ask what the other
person thought of the movie you can just
say what did you think of it and then
this starts off a potentially
interesting conversation about your
opinions on the movie however how do you
answer if you haven’t seen the movie in
question all you have to say is no not
yet this not yet implies that you’re
planning to see the movie at some point
and so signals to the other person that
they shouldn’t tell you about key points
of the story if you don’t plan to see
the movie in question or if it’s not the
type of movie you like you can get this
across politely by saying no it’s not
really my sort of thing now it’s time
for Alicia’s advice if you have seen the
movie in question but the other person
hasn’t it’s a great conversation starter
to tell them about the plot of the movie
or about any particularly funny or
memorable scenes but be careful you
should always ask if the other person
plans to see the movie in the future
before telling them any important plot
points just say do you plan to see it at
some point
telling someone an important plot point
or the twist or ending of a movie is
called spoiling a movie the noun is a
spoiler as in don’t tell me any spoilers
it’s considered very bad manners to
reveal a spoiler without giving warning
first and some people can get very
annoyed if you do this so be careful in
general talking about movies is a pretty
safe topic if you don’t want to offend
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how are your English listening skills
first you’ll see an image and here a
question next comes a short dialogue
listen carefully and see if you can
answer correctly will show you the
answer at the end
a woman is calling on the phone to
reserve tickets for a play which two
seats did she get hello this is black
friars Playhouse can I help you I’d like
to get two tickets for King Lear at 5:30
this evening do you still have any
tickets available we do have a few seats
left but I’m sorry to say we don’t have
any next to each other if you don’t mind
though we can get you two seats
separately okay we don’t mind do you
have any particular requests well do you
have any aisle seats yes we have an
aisle seat at the left side of the
center section and to the right of it
three seats over we have another free
seat to the side okay then please book
that aisle seat certainly how about the
other one do you have any seats near the
center the only Center seats we have
left are from the first row to the third
row I’m not too crazy about having
actors spit on me so this room is
relatively small and I think you could
enjoy the play even at the end of the
row on the side is that so then I’ll
take the one you mentioned before on the
left side
which two seats did she get
a woman is calling on the phone to
reserve tickets for a play which two
seats did she get hello this is black
friars Playhouse can I help you I’d like
to get two tickets for King Lear at 5:30
this evening do you still have any
tickets available we do have a few seats
left but I’m sorry to say we don’t have
any next to each other if you don’t mind
though we can get you two seats
separately okay we don’t mind do you
have any particular requests well do you
have any aisle seats yes we have an
aisle seat at the left side of the
center section and to the right of it
three seats over we have another free
seat to the side okay then please book
that aisle seat certainly how about the
other one do you have any seats near the
center the only Center seats we have
left are from the first row to the third
row I’m not too crazy about having
actors spit on me so this room is
relatively small and I think you could
enjoy the play even at the end of the
row on the side is that so then I’ll
take the one you mentioned before on the
left side a woman is asking about a
library’s lending policy which materials
could she borrow at one time excuse me
can you tell me how to borrow books is
it your first time at this library yes
well then I’ll explain the rules to you
you can borrow up to six books and five
CDs or DVDs at a time per person but you
can only borrow up to ten items in total
at a time everything needs to be
returned in two weeks and if you’d like
to renew please let us know before then
can I also borrow magazines or
newspapers you can’t borrow newspapers
but you can borrow magazines except for
the latest issue can I return them
through the mail we can’t accept returns
through the mail please come to the
library to return them after hours you
can put them in the box next to the
entrance
but items that are overdue please return
them directly to this desk I see thank
you very much
which materials could she borrow at one
time
a woman is asking about a library’s
lending policy which materials could she
borrow at one time excuse me can you
tell me how to borrow books is it your
first time at this library yes
well then I’ll explain the rules to you
you can borrow up to six books and five
CDs or DVDs at a time per person but you
can only borrow up to ten items in total
at a time everything needs to be
returned in two weeks and if you’d like
to renew please let us know before then
can I also borrow magazines or
newspapers you can’t borrow newspapers
but you can borrow magazines except for
the latest issue can I return them
through the mail we can’t accept returns
through the mail please come to the
library to return them after hours you
can put them in the box next to the
entrance
but items that are overdue please return
them directly to this desk I see thank
you very much
did you get it right I hope you learned
something from this quiz let us know if
you have any questions see you next time
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