Idiom Practice Living Under A Rock
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so today we’re gonna be talking about
the idiom under a rock so I wouldn’t
give you a little a little
a little test if I said to you what have
you been doing have you been living
under a rock what do you think that
means if I said that to you in a
conversation what do you mean have you
been living under a rock what would you
think that this idiom might mean
what do you think mm oh Ehrmann says put
in your hand under a rock maybe means
having responsibility Jorge just says
vanessa rocks well i hope that this
lesson will rock for you what do you
think it means when someone says have
you been living under a rock have you
been living under a rock
oh it’s similar RUP ricardo says have
you been living in a cave Oh
Sean has a great idea he says that means
I guess you don’t know what’s going on
out there yes
this is exactly it Sean you’re the
winner it means you don’t know what’s
going on something that is understood by
everyone so let me give you a quick
example and I’m gonna write it on my
notebook just so you can see how it’s
written or on my clipboard and there are
a lot of ways to use this the way that I
just used it is probably the most common
if you say something to someone like
it’s 2017 and they say what it’s 2017
everyone should know that it’s 2017
already it’s not a surprise it’s not a
mystery it’s everywhere everyone should
know it’s 2017 so if someone says what
it’s 2017 already you might say have you
been living under a
rakh so we could use it as a question
and to be polite make sure that you have
a smile on your face have you been
living under a rock kind of a joke
have you been living under a rock so
this is our first way we could just use
it as a question but today to practice
with you I want to use this in a full
sentence so let’s talk about some events
that happened in 2016 that everyone
knows about maybe everyone in your
country or everyone in the world we
could say what’s something that happened
last year that everyone knows about oh
well in the US it’s it was a pretty big
deal that some famous people died so
some famous people died last year a lot
of famous people actually died last year
so the most recent is the Star Wars hero
Carrie Fisher she played Princess Leia
who had the hair like this so we might
say if you don’t know let’s give an
example here that Carrie Fisher died you
might be living it’s under a rock and
this is something that’s that is for
specifically American culture because
excuse me
maybe in your culture Star Wars is not
important maybe you don’t follow celebra
newse it’s okay so in the US if you
don’t know that Carrie Fisher died you
might be living under a rock it’s
something that everyone’s talking about
it’s all over the internet it’s probably
all over TV um I don’t have a TV so I
don’t know but I’m sure it’s all over TV
it’s certainly all over the internet so
we could use this to talk about events
that are really common everyone should
know about we’ve got some great examples
coming in thank you for sharing these so
the airman says I had been living under
a rock Wow George Michael died so he
died and you didn’t know and then you
found out later oh that’s an interesting
way to use this so you feel like I
should have known but I was not aware of
things happening so I was living under a
rock when he died okay
Oh Dennis has a great a concise example
he says oh I just missed it oh here it
is living under a rock means a person
doesn’t know anything outside even the
name of his president for example yes so
maybe you could add here if you don’t
know that Donald Trump is the US
president you are definitely living
under a rock and I think that’s probably
worldwide it’s news everywhere so you
should know that it’s everywhere it’s in
the news so you’re probably living under
a rock oh that’s a great way to say Ness
says uh if one says I don’t know who the
new President of the United States is
one would probably say you have been
living under a rock
beautiful yes in fact I think I’m going
to take a drink of water I’ve been
getting over a cold for a couple days
Dan - we got sick at the same time so I
need some water
but thankfully for Christmas my
mother-in-law bought everyone in our
family these cool water bottles that
have our names on them pretty cool so
thanks to her I have some water
Oh betty has a beautiful sentence and
let’s use this idea to talk about some
other things too Betty says my boss has
been living under a rock he still uses a
typewriter to fill out some forms I used
to have a professor like this
he never typed anything he always hand
wrote everything and then used a copier
to give it to his students but his
handwriting was so hard to read so you
could definitely use this Betty
my boss is living under a rock he thinks
that typewriters are the newest
technology we should use a computer but
he’s still using a typewriter excellent
method great
Oh Manuel says when a person doesn’t
know about recent news culture or
entertainment that’s extremely well
known we could say that they’re living
under a rock yes so what are some things
that are extremely well known like
diesel says if you don’t know that
Morocco is located in the north of
Africa you might be living under a rock
yes or you might have missed that day in
school where you studied about it or you
might have never looked at a map which
means that you’re probably living under
a rock so you should know those basic
things you might be living under a rock
I think that is a great way to use this
let me read I missed one up here I want
to make sure that I’ve said this Oh
Jorge is talking about a in Brazil there
was a really tragic plane crash with a
soccer team or football team and uh he
says uh he or you or somebody you must
have been living under a rock for not
knowing anything about the plane
accident so if you’re talking with
someone and you mentioned that last year
I think it was December maybe November
there was a really bad plane accident
and you say oh it’s such a shame that
that happened I can’t believe it and the
person you’re talking to says what plane
accident what plane crash this was huge
news especially in Brazil but I’m sure
worldwide too you could say what have
you been living under a rock
this was a huge news everyone should
know about it so this is something that
is common for a lot of people yes Bruno
has a great concise idea too
that people don’t know about things that
are happening around them we sometimes
miss some things but big events usually
you hear about
excuse me even for me I don’t have a TV
but I still know about things going on
around me because of the internet I
don’t need a TV with the internet that’s
all I need
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so it says if you if you don’t know
Vanessa you might be living under a rock
well if you’re living under a rock and
you haven’t joined our live lessons come
out from under the rock and join us you
can do it
Oh Kelly says if you don’t know that
there’s a war in Syria you might be
living under a rock that is certainly
true it’s everywhere it’s in the news
it’s everywhere that you probably know
that there’s a war so you might be
living under a rock oh that’s as if some
if someone is an English Learner and
doesn’t know about Vanessa’s YouTube
channel he may be living under a rock
Wow lots of comments like that well
thank you Louie says you didn’t know
that Donald Trump had won the election
you must be living under a rock great
way to say this because this is most
typical in a conversation you’re using
it as an exclamation like you must be
living under a rock where have you been
what’s going on so you’re using it to
kind of uh show the other person that
they should know this why don’t they
know this you should know this so maybe
for me because I have a cough as you can
tell and sore throat my nose is
exploding it’s okay you might say to me
Vanessa didn’t you know that when you
have a cold you should stay in bed you
should sleep have you been living under
a rock don’t work too hard
relax this is great you’re trying to
give me advice that I should know but
maybe I’m not using that is
excellent oh now this is my next
question Paola says in Italy we say
you’re living under the clouds so I want
to know in your country do you have an
expression similar to living under a
rock apparently in Italian you can say
you’re living under the clouds but in in
your country what would you say instead
of living under a rock I’m curious in
your country what it would be I think
that the person who recommended this
lesson today is German I forget the
exact expression in German that he used
if you are German then let me know what
do you say in Germany or if you have
something like this you let us know what
you might say oh Santa would welcome he
says if you haven’t joined Vanessa’s
fearless fluency Club please join
otherwise you will be living under a
rock well if you would like to join The
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Jairo says in this case in Brazil we ask
if you’ve been living on another planet
ok another planet in Mexico we say
living under the stars or living in the
moon Oh huh these are all kind of a out
out in space type of things in Hungary
we say living under a bubble Oh in
Thailand we call someone who doesn’t
know it living oh I missed your comment
it went by it says living behind the
mountain oh these are really creative so
in English we have living under a rock
for you maybe in French jean-jacques
says you’re living behind the moon
living behind the world in Korea and
interesting Colombia
what world are you living in in the
Ukraine get out of the cave these are so
creative so Oh in German you’re living
behind the moon so we’ve got lots of
faraway ideas the moon the cloud the
cave the mountains in English just under
a rock usually this means you’re
isolated you don’t know anything you’re
hidden from the world and you might
actually see this in fact I use this I
don’t use this every day when the
situation comes up I use this but I saw
this in a comic the other day because
it’s it was the end of the year so the
comic showed someone coming from
underneath a rock and asking someone
what happened in 2016
did I miss anything and that other
person said nah you didn’t miss anything
but the idea is there hidden under a
rock they don’t know anything so if you
see this kind of image with a rock and
someone underneath or someone coming out
of the rock now you know this implies
that they don’t know about current
events they’re hidden very interesting
so I hope that this idiom is useful to
you and if you watch English TV shows or
movies I’m sure that you will hear this
expression and I hope in your
conversations if you use this make sure
you use it with a smile because if you
say it to someone like what are you
living under a rock really serious maybe
it’s a little rude because they don’t
know okay maybe you think they should
know but it’s okay they don’t know you
can tell them the news or whatever it is
that they should know so make sure you
say it joking
what
smile Oh have you been living under a
rock of course this happened so make
sure you say it with a smile or you can
use it to talk about someone else like
Betty used earlier with her boss he uses
a typewriter he’s living under a rock
what’s he doing so you can use it to
talk about someone else
our final sentence from Ehrmann says
those who don’t know how to use the
Internet in this century are living
under a rock
Wow well you all here are certainly not
living under a rock because you figured
out how to join YouTube how to join the
live lesson and how to participate in
right comments so I hope that for you
you are not completely living under a
rock sometimes we wish we were so that
we could stay away from news or other
things but I hope that for you you can
really enjoy live lessons and
participating online because you’re not
living under a rock well thank you
everyone for joining me today for this
lively s’en and I hope you can join me
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est hopefully next week I won’t be
coughing I hope it’s not too loud for
you I tried to cough away from the
microphone we’ll see good news is that
because it’s the Internet you can’t get
sick because you won’t get my germs
that’s great so I hope that for you 2017
started easily smoothly and happily for
you it’s only been three days
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