Gossip Rumors Words and Phrases Learn English
rolling hi everybody welcome back to
English class 101 comms weekly
livestream my name is Alisha and today
we are going to talk about expressions
that you can use for gossip so I know
gossip has kind of a bad reputation but
I think everybody at some point talks
about the goings-on around them at work
or with your friends or whatever so
today we’re going to talk about some
expressions you can use for gossip and
rumors look at this thumbnail I look
very shocked in this one I look very
sneaky in this one so this is going to
be today’s topic we are going to start
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always like to share something from the
previous week’s lesson so last week if
you joined us we talked about
Valentine’s Day and some sort of like
love and dating related words so I saw
in a comment on the video on the live
stream video from last week there was
this really nice little thing that I saw
in the comments section here I took a
screenshot of it someone said like they
hope that they that someone says yes to
them on Valentine’s Day and then a
fellow commenter said you found someone
would you like to have like a range of
Skype conversation or something so this
person had a great very cute follow-up
to this person’s comment in the live
stream last week I saw that I loved it I
thought it was so cute so I wanted to
share ok but maybe you used it I guess
in it still it’s Valentine’s Day in some
country
still right now so I hope you enjoyed a
nice Valentine’s Day but this week yes
this week we’ll talk about a different
topic gossip and discussing other
people’s things but I had a couple
questions last week we had some we had
one good question I want to talk about
I did not see live davood asked do men
always invite women for dates in the US
and the answer is no it’s common for
women to invite men also so it doesn’t
matter if you’re a man or a woman
you can invite anybody anybody can
invite anybody on a date is my point
there so please feel free anyone can
make an invitation for a date okay
great we are about three minutes in I
see lots of people in the YouTube chat
hi YouTube and I see a couple people in
the facebook chat - hi Facebook hi Celso
hi I don’t remember you and Ray Andre as
well and Allen Fernandez hi someone from
Bangladesh in YouTube - okay but let us
begin so as I said gossip has sort of
like a negative image I think but it is
useful to be able to do so today I’m
going to introduce one some expressions
that you can use to start a conversation
like start like by sharing some gossip
either like about someone you know or
something that happened to you then
we’re going to talk about how to like
respond to gossip and we’ll talk about
also maybe some expressions you can use
for giving advice relating to gossip so
I hope that there’s some useful
information in here for everybody this
week so let’s begin I want to start
today by talking about ways to introduce
a topic so when you first meet a friend
like for coffee for drink and you have
some exciting gossip some exciting news
you want to share let’s take a look at a
few expressions you can use to begin
your conversation so these are
expressions you can use these are
expressions you can use that have like a
kick they’re like really like Oh
pay attention to me so if you were in
our livestream two weeks ago maybe you
remember this this OMG
which means oh my god so I used oh em
gee here because oh my gosh or oh my god
takes space but use this oh my god guess
what happened oh thank you God that’s
very nice so oh my god guess what
happened or you can also include this to
me at the end of the expression so if
you want to share something that
happened to you something someone did to
you or something are you personally
experienced you can use to me if you
don’t want to talk about yourself you
want to talk about something you saw
something you heard but it wasn’t
related to you it did not happen to you
you can remove to me so just say oh my
god guess what happened to share
something just outside of you so this is
a really great one very casual this
expression oh my god guess what happened
to me okay that’s one this one this one
is probably something pretty shocking or
pretty exciting so the expression is
you’ll never believe what happened so
here you see this you’ll you will you
will so if you remember we studied this
a long time ago this will we use it for
like things that we decide at the moment
of speaking so the person saying right
now you are never you will never believe
what happened to me
so this is quite quite promising this
sounds like something really exciting
you’ll never believe what happened so
past tense something happened in the
past tense and you the listener will
never believe it so it’s quite shocking
of course if you want something very
simple very quick very easy use the
expression guess what guess what this is
really easy to use very common to use if
these two are difficult I suggest this
one guess what
so I have here like this question mark
exclamation point guess what so you
should say it with that like excited
sort of upward intonation yeah so these
are three ways to intrude
some exciting gossip or some shocking
information so oh my god guess what
happened to me or you’ll never believe
what happened or just guess what okay
but keep in mind if you use this guess
what expression the listener might try
to guess so sometimes it depends on who
you’re talking to but the listener might
say something rude or try to make a joke
or they’ll just try to guess what your
news is so if you use this or if you use
this as well guess you’re inviting the
listener to make a guess what do you
think happened so sometimes your
listener will make a guess here but you
should be prepared to just follow up
quickly with the information okay so
that’s our first point for today is how
to introduce some news some exciting
news okay let’s move on I’m gonna steal
the mask I’ll thank you sorry to the
next point okay so um you have thanks
Kyle
so you have introduced it you’ve
introduced I have some exciting news now
what do you do so it’s a good idea this
is just perhaps from me a storytelling
point I think if you introduce your news
with this exciting expression oh my god
guess what happened to me you should
report your information quickly and
efficiently so don’t I don’t think
anyway you should begin with a long
story of and like lots and lots of
background but perhaps begin with the
key information so to report your gossip
then for grammar I would recommend these
two points these two things a quick way
to report your news one is a simple past
tense statement a simple past tense
statement so like my neighbors got
divorced or my coworker finally quit his
job something like that so so again
slowly I said my neighbors got divorced
or my co-worker finally quit his job so
these are very short and simple past
tense statements so it just tells you
the information
away simple past tense the action has
happened it is finished it is done
another good one to use is a present
progressive tense statement so this is
useful present progressive tense
remember present progressive tense if
you have forgotten present progressive
tenses this ing form of the verb yeah so
when you use the present progressive
tense it’s like you heard some news
about an activity that is going on like
our friends are dating or let’s see I’m
being investigated or something like
that I don’t know so so you can use the
present progressive tense to talk about
an ongoing action so to report your
gossip it’s a good idea and it’s kind of
like exciting for the listener to use a
quick short statement maybe with one of
these grammar points so it doesn’t have
to be these two but these might be
useful ways to do it
so given this let’s begin so get ready
to send something in the chat then to do
our first chat practice question for
today please share an exciting piece of
gossip please share a piece of gossip
so here I’ve used peace a piece of
gossip this is what we use to talk about
this a piece of gossip something small
so for example I could say president
Trump said something terrible on Twitter
again or like I said my difficult
co-worker finally quit his job or I
think my neighbors are getting divorced
so try to share a piece of gossip on
Facebook MD Siddiq said I lost my phone
okay keep in mind though gossip tends to
be about people gossip tends to be about
people I mean if you have something like
like my friend was in a car accident
like that’s about a person
it’s like shocking news about a person
but just remember gossip tends to be
about like people something about people
oh gee hey junior junior says guess what
I saw my friend stealing something from
the store nice one good good good okay
Justin said oh my god today my
girlfriend asked me out but I don’t know
what to say really you don’t know what
to say she’s your girlfriend I’ll leave
that up to you okay uh sharif says hi
Streif yeah you’ll never believe what
happened Selena Gomez broke up on the
weekend Oh
broke up with someone on the weekend
great so broke up with a person Oh broke
up oh the weekend is his name-o the
weekend is his name thanks Kyle really
the weekend is a person is that really
it’s a rapper oh god I’m so out of the
loop Wow the weekend is a person thanks
YouTube you taught me something today
great okay
broke up with the weekend alright the
weekend is a person it is not a time
period only anymore okay great um Julie
up on YouTube says my sister’s
ex-boyfriend is gay wow you guys have
some interesting gossip um what else
guess what I saw UFO it’s not true okay
MD is Siddiq says I can’t find my
girlfriend oh my gosh you guys have like
some very heavy Goths I hope these
aren’t true I hope all of these aren’t
true oh my gosh okay great very very
nice so you you know everybody not
everybody lots of people are using oh my
god to introduce these things it’s
awesome perfect really really nicely
done and guess what guess what my sister
traveled to the USA great I can’t read
your name but very nice okay Justin this
is an American English I have an
American English accent I’m from the
west coast
okay great gossip you guys that was
hilarious okay but let’s take a break
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these are vocabulary phrases and
questions that you can use in some
different every
day situations so today we’re talking
about gossip a little bit last week we
talked about like love and romance but
if there’s something in your life that
you know that you need to work on that
vocabulary like for example maybe for
today’s lesson the family and relatives
one could be a good vocabulary kind of
group to review like if you want to talk
about something your family member did
or as a person near you in your life you
might want to check like that one or
maybe you can check the the school one
too to refresh your mind about maybe
something that happened on campus so you
can take a look at these these are
totally free if you have an account on
the website if you don’t have an account
you can make an account very quickly so
please check that out okay but let’s get
back to today’s live lesson if you have
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today we are talking about gossip we’re
talking about gossips
so we began today by introducing your
gossip introducing something exciting
and then sharing it some grammar points
you can use to share it now let’s talk
about some things that the listener
might ask you or of course you might ask
someone else when they share some gossip
with you so let’s take a look at three
quest Jeon
yes thanks girl okay so these three
questions are asking about background
then so you share your gossip like what
did I say what was one of mine like
President Trump said something terrible
on Twitter for example how do you know
so how do you know is one expression I
want to talk about but I want to
introduce this one too first how did you
find out how did you find out so many
people asked about this how how so think
of this how not like in what way but
rather think of this as like why why do
you know that or
what was the source of your information
so how did you find out find out is a
casual expression we use which means
like discover to discover something or
to learn something so how do you know
why do you know that or how did you find
out so where is your source where did
you discover that if however the gossip
is about something that happened to the
speaker you can say what happened that’s
a very general expression asking for
more background information so here if
someone says what happened or if you ask
what happened it’s asking for the
details of the story so I got in a car
accident what happened so asking for the
other things that happened before the
accident
in other words so here when someone asks
how do you know or how did you find out
you can say the source where did you
hear the information so here again we
would probably use a simple past tense
or a progressive tense statement like
we’ll see a couple examples here in just
a moment
actually I’ll introduce it actually
quite a few patterns that you can use to
report information not just gossip
actually so let’s take a look at how to
respond to these questions I have quite
a few patterns here so here if you saw
the video that went up on the channel I
think earlier this week about the verbs
say tell and speak I talked a little bit
about this word so this is tell in the
past tense told so if you received
information from someone you can use it
here the person’s name like my mom told
me or my manager told me or my friend
told me some information if the source
is something you saw you saw it with
your eyes so you can say I saw my
neighbors on a date or I saw it on
Twitter for example you can use past
tense saw to report the information you
can also use the verb he
I heard it where it is the news it is
your piece of gossip
so I heard it from my coworker or I
heard it from the management at my
company so again this should prop this
will be the source so keep in mind this
is I heard it so it’s some information
you heard with your ear so you would not
probably use like newspaper here so I
heard it okay the next one though this
is an interesting word over heard so
here you can see the verb here is in the
is in the word at the end here but to
over here over here is the present tense
of this verb - over here means to hear
something but it’s not intended for you
so I think everybody has the experience
for example you’re sitting in the office
or you’re sitting in a coffee shop and
you can hear someone else’s conversation
but the conversation is not for you you
just you can hear it so we say over here
- over here something it’s like by
accident you hear something by accident
so I overheard it in the office the
other day for example you could try
saying they announced it at the meeting
this morning for example or for
information you read and please be
careful of the pronunciation here I read
it in the newspaper or I read it in a
recent memo for example so these are all
some past tense examples of how you can
report your source of gossip good some
examples in the chat - I heard it from
you good I saw an accident good I saw a
couple enjoying Valentine’s Day nice
nice so keep in mind how did you get the
information with your eyes with your
ears did you read it did you watch it so
keep that in mind when you share the
source you might also hear an
interesting word maybe some of you have
heard the word eavesdropping
eavesdropping so I talked about the word
over here
which means to hear something on
accident but this word eavesdropping
eavesdropping this is as a noun here to
eaves drop to eavesdrop on a situation
means to listen on purpose to a private
conversation so it’s like standing
outside the door listening to something
on purpose to eavesdrop on a
conversation this word has a very
interesting history about people who
stand out under the eaves so the eaves
of a building are like the parts where
the gutter is the outside of a building
that extends from the roof so a person
who stands under the roof that the
extended part of the roof and listens to
a conversation secretly
that’s an eavesdropper little word
history okay so let’s go back to the
piece of gossip you shared in the first
part of today’s lesson so some of you
said like I can’t find my girlfriend or
what else did you say you had you guys
had some pretty shocking things I don’t
know if they were all true but anyway
please share how did you find out about
the piece of gossip you shared earlier
so please share how you learned about
your piece of gossip so I saw or I heard
it from for example so in my case like
president Trump said something terrible
on Twitter I could say I saw it on
Twitter I saw it on Twitter or I heard
it from my friend hmm so how did you
find out how did you learn about your
piece of gossip okay uh-oh Wow somebody
somebody made a big sentence or lots of
stuff in YouTube with all of the
examples nice job okay oh wow we have
Barack Hussein Obama in the chat today
hello mr. president so how did you learn
about your piece of gossip your piece of
gossip so in my case like I find out my
neighbors are dating I can say oh my
gosh I saw it or sorry I saw them like
holding hands or I saw them on a date do
you pay nice one I heard it from Yahoo
News keep in mind if you read it
member if it’s something you read you
can say I read it on Yahoo News I read
it on Yahoo News ah
garrison hears and says I heard that
from Gossip Girl isn’t any TV show yeah
good
please talk about my accent I don’t know
how to talk about my accent um I heard
it from my newspaper
yeah keep in mind like I said if it’s
something that you read if it’s a source
you read please use the verb read so I
read it in my newspaper I read it in my
newspaper so if it’s a source you you
read use the verb read Mary says I saw
it on the news great nice one Anderson
says I heard it from the horse’s mouth
that’s an interesting expression I heard
it from television good I heard it on TV
good I heard it from a TV show
good good good nice very nice lots of
good ones there okay time is going quick
though so let’s finish up today I want
to finish up today with two points and
actually um I want to do something we
don’t get a chance to do this really so
often I want to try to do a little a
little review of kind of some intonation
I know that I can’t hear you guys
unfortunately and I can’t practice
directly with you but I just want to
remind you about the importance of
intonation in your conversation so let’s
say you have heard some gossip or you
have heard some background information
so let’s talk about reacting to that
naturally so before we begin this last
section I just want to mention two
points about intonation about using your
intonation when you are interested in
something try to use I’ve got an up
arrow here this upward intonation when
you respond to someone if you’re not
interested you can use downward
intonation so I’m going to share with
you a big list of words you can use to
react to someone but please keep in mind
when you’re interested in something you
want to continue the conversation or
your
interested in the topic you can use
upward intonation in your responses that
helps the listener that helps the
speaker understand that you want to
continue if you use downward intonation
it’s like a little clue that maybe the
topic should change so let’s look at
some examples how can we do this okay
so I have a big list over here so pretty
much almost all of these words we can
use this intonation rule with so if
you’re interested here for example if
you say whoa with upward intonation you
sound excited you can say really great
that’s terrible oh my god unbelievable
amazing I see uh-huh all of those with
upward intonation they sound like you’re
interested in the conversation if
however you use downward intonation like
whoa really great that’s terrible oh my
god unbelievable amazing
I see uh-huh you don’t sound as
interested so please keep this in mind
it’s not only about the vocabulary words
you use when you’re listening to someone
but it’s also about the sound of your
voice and how engaged how much interest
you’re showing in the conversation so
all of these words can be used please
keep in mind this word like amazing is
or great these are positive words so if
you use these two words with downward
intonation you’ll sound kind of
sarcastic like not so genuine so please
keep that in mind but you should be
thinking about the sound of your voice
when you respond with one of these words
so please keep this in mind this is just
a small intonation point that I hope can
help you in your in your responses and
in listening to responses for other
people too okay okay
but we are running out of time so let’s
go to the last point for today so you
hear some gossip or you share some
gossip and then maybe you want to end
the conversation with some advice or
your friend wants to give you some
advice too so let’s talk about a few
patterns
can use yeah to share some advice or you
might hear some advice as well so here I
think you should ah see you doctor or I
think you should start looking for
another job I think you should blah blah
blah so here this is just a very general
advice pattern a very general advice
pattern in this one we’ve talked about
this kind of pattern a few times if I
were you I would do something so in
other words the speaker is saying if it
were me if I were in your situation I
would choose this course of action I
would do this thing so if I were you I
would take a long vacation I don’t know
if I were you I would find a new hobby
for example so think about these two of
course if it’s a very maybe not such a
serious situation and you want to just
help the other person relax you can say
don’t worry about this the problem in
other words the problem the person has
introduced so don’t worry about your
coworker or don’t worry about that noisy
neighbor or don’t worry about that girl
or that guy so maybe things will be okay
so this one is kind of a light like ah
don’t worry about it
garrison has a nice one on Facebook I
think you should mind your own business
that’s that’s an expression so he seized
I think you should mind your own
business mind your own business means
it’s not about you so I don’t want to
talk to you about that thing mind your
own business mind your own business
nice one nice one so it’s a little bit
different from these expressions for
sure alright so those are a few ways to
give advice to people so I hope that
those are useful for you in listening
and in speaking as well
alrighty wow we are already almost done
that was fast
always so fast but we need to finish up
today’s live streams so thank you as
always for joining us but we’ll wrap up
too
lesson and thank you as always to
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week’s lesson but next week we are going
to talk about work slang this is next
week’s topic so at office at office at
the office or at work so there might be
like some business slang or like some
expressions that are unique to the
office we’re going to talk about some
examples of those and maybe how to use
them and what they mean so we’re going
to talk about this next week that will
be wednesday february 21st that’s 9 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time so that means New
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New York City time next Wednesday
February 21st so please join us then
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