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ya vamos a la playa now we’re going to
the beach hi everybody welcome back to
top words my name is Alisha and today
we’re gonna be talking about 20 travel
phrases that you should know so let’s go
do you have any recommendations the
first phrase is do you have any
recommendations this is great to use
when you get to a restaurant where you
don’t know what the food is you don’t
know anything about the local cuisine or
you’re just feeling a little bit
adventurous you can ask the waitstaff do
you have any recommendations how much is
this how much is this this is useful
when you’re out shopping or when you’re
in a restaurant and the price is not
clearly marked or something is not clear
to you so you can ask how much is this
usually when you point to something I
would recommend like pointing to the
menu are pointing to an item how much is
this I’d like this you can point to
something and say I’d like this if you
want to say I’d like one for example I
don’t know you’re getting beer I’d like
one of these if however you’re in a
situation where you can’t point you can
say I’d like ten of the blah blah blah
I’d like ten of blue t-shirts please can
I try this on is useful when you’re
shopping for clothes so you find
something that you’d like to try just
ask the staff can I try this on you can
just say I want to try this on if you
like do you speak English you might get
asked this phrase so you should say if
you’re watching this videos you’d
probably say yes or you can say yes a
little if you’re not feeling very
confident if you’re watching this video
and you’re understanding this part and
you say no then things that’s a little
strange
I have a reservation usually the staff
will greet you and you can say I have a
reservation
hello I have a reservation it’s at 7
o’clock the name is Alisha usually we
say the name is or it’s under meaning
the reservation is under my name or it’s
for name or it’s in name
water please depending on which country
are from water may or
may not automatically be brought to your
table when you’re in a restaurant if you
would like more water however you can
say water please to make it a little
more polite
I would like wave at the waitstaff and
say could I please have some more water
do you take credit cards do you take
credit cards in case you’re not sure if
the shop that you’re in will accept
credit cards or debit cards you can ask
them do you take credit cards
it’s so it doesn’t mean do you take
meaning are you going to take my card
but this take means do you accept credit
cards this isn’t what I ordered so if
you’re at a restaurant you order steak
and you get lobster instead you can look
at it and go uh this isn’t what I
ordered
be careful though saying this politely
if you look at the waitstaff and you say
this isn’t what I ordered
they’re gonna be like I don’t know just
be a nice customer excuse me but I don’t
think this is what I ordered or this
isn’t what I ordered
can you please check could we have the
menu please if for some reason you don’t
receive a menu when you come to the
table you can again just wave it a
member of the staff and say could we
have the menu please could you give me a
discount could you give me a discount
means I would like a cheaper price
essentially it depends on which country
you’re in if haggling or bargaining
meaning talking to the seller to try to
reduce the price and my family didn’t
bargain we didn’t haggle so I don’t
haggle it depends on you and your
culture but just yeah just be be aware
of the culture that you’re in and the
place that you’re in before you ask this
question do you have any vegetarian
dishes
ah this is useful some people have
specific eating requirements or eating
needs maybe food allergies for example
you can replace vegetarian with the
specific dietary requirement that you
have do you have any vegan dishes do you
have any gluten-free dishes do you have
any low-fat dishes do you have any
low-carb dishes do you have any fish
free dishes do you have any could you
take a picture of me please if you are
in a location where you would like to
take a picture but you don’t want to do
a selfie or you don’t have a selfie
stick or whatever you
someone else to take a picture of you a
stranger that you don’t know you can ask
them could you take a picture of me
please or excuse me would you mind
taking a picture of me please I’m
allergic to blah blah blah if you have a
food allergy or even an allergy to a
medicine this is the phrase you can use
to explain that I’m allergic to wheat or
I can’t eat wheat for example is the
Wi-Fi free meaning can I use the Wi-Fi
free of charge
keep in mind some places have a password
that you have to ask the staff for so
you can say is the Wi-Fi free if they
say yes you can then follow that up with
can I have the password I’d like to have
a non-smoking seat please so when you go
to a restaurant you have an option
between smoking and non-smoking sections
the staff will say smoking or
non-smoking you can say I’d like to have
a non-smoking seat please
quite honestly though the most natural
response is just to say non-smoking
could I get a map maybe it’s a map of
the subway system for the city that
you’re in or maybe it’s a map of the
area around your hotel you could say
could I have a map as well could I have
the check you’re finished it’s your cafe
you’re finished at the restaurant and
it’s time to leave it’s time to pay so
you say to the waitstaff excuse me could
I have the check another more common
expression perhaps is excuse me check
please
you might also hear bill excuse me can I
have the bill where is the bathroom very
important question if you’re traveling
in America we don’t really use the word
toilet or washroom very much we use
bathroom or restroom to talk about
toilet facilities excuse me can you tell
me where the bathroom is or excuse me
I’m looking for the bathroom or I’m
looking for the restroom is this the
train for blah blah blah or is this the
train that goes to blah blah blah to
confirm with someone that I’m indeed on
the correct train line if I say is this
the train bound for San Francisco you
can use that to check if you’re correct
ten compliments that you always want to
hear let’s go I love your cooking this
is my personal favorite
limit oh my god I love cooking like I’m
always posting like pictures of things
that I cooked on Twitter I’m just like
crazy about food so this would be a
compliment that I would love to get like
the ultimate compliment for me that
would be will you make my birthday cake
that would be such a compliment like
it’s a question but it’s it there’s so
much behind that will you make my
birthday cake yeah you would give that
to me so maybe after you can use this
after a meal for example I love your
cooking and the other person will be
like next is great job great job this is
a compliment that you can use anytime
you can use it to your with your friend
with your not with your boss your boss
might use it with you an employee a
co-worker or colleague pet even whatever
it’s it’s just a very small scale very
easy to use compliment and it means you
think whatever has just happened is good
I use great job all the time I use great
job and I use good job sometimes when I
make a mistake or something funny
happens and I’m alone at my house and I
want to make fun of myself I’ll be like
yeah great job Alicia but if I’m if I’m
trying to be positive about a failure or
laugh at myself a bit but in general
it’s just a good easy compliment to give
someone great job you have a way with
words you have a way with words this can
be speaking this can be writing it means
you think that the other person is a
good communicator or maybe even more so
than just a good communicator you think
that the way they speak or the way that
they write is particularly good so that
could mean funny it could mean romantic
it could mean dramatic something about
the way they speak or the way that they
write you really enjoy that you can say
you have a way with words it’s quite a
nice compliment I think it’s kind of
like a you know it’s smart it’s a bit of
a smart thing you have a way with words
or you can say you’re good with words
you’re really good with words yeah
all right next one you look gorgeous you
look gorgeous very nice compliment to
give just be very careful with the way
that you say this for an everyday
compliment I tend not
to say you look nice or you look
gorgeous today or something like that
because the underlying comment there is
on the other days that person doesn’t
look nice like so if I want to
compliment someone’s appearance I try to
pick a specific thing I’m like oh I’ve
never seen you wear that sweater before
it looks nice on you something like that
like yesterday my friend had a new dress
on and like is that a new dress and cuz
I thought she looked nice but I didn’t I
didn’t want to make it sound like I
don’t think she looks nice every day so
I said he’s not a new dress and she goes
yeah and I said I think that color is
really really nice on you it looks
really good and she was so happy about
that so yes there there are these
compliments like you look nice you look
great you look gorgeous and so on but I
personally kind of prefer to level them
up a little bit and just say pick a
specific thing like did you get a new
haircut did you dye your hair or you did
you get something
did something happen like what whatever
it is trying to pick up on a specific
thing because then that shows you’re
paying attention to the other person and
you think that whatever they have chosen
to do whatever like clothing or whatever
haircut whatever it is you think that
they have good sense there too or good
style so it’s kind of like a double it’s
a very subtle double compliment yeah the
next word is you have good tastes you
have good taste this can be for food
fashion style for decorating sense music
in movies whatever if you think that
that person’s artistic selection is in
whatever capacity if you think that that
person makes good choices with their
their appearance or their hobbies or
whatever you can say you have good taste
this is a fairly sophisticated
compliment I think we use you have good
taste for something like it’s it sounds
a bit more sophisticated maybe if you
both choose the same bottle of wine
perhaps like it has kind of a more
formal adult dish sophisticated feeling
about it this compliment so yeah maybe
maybe wine is a good example of that
yeah
oh nice bottle choice like I really like
that you have good taste you can follow
this by the way you have good taste in
blah blah blah you have good taste in
movies you have good taste in music if
you want to be specific about something
that you think that person is really
good at choosing you have good taste in
now okay okay um next one is you have a
great sense of humor you have a great
sense of humor this is the this is the
underlying compliment in the phrase you
are so funny this is the underlying
compliment you have a great sense of
humor means the other person thinks you
are funny that you are good at telling
jokes or you make them laugh this is
actually one of my favorite compliments
to get you have a great sense of humor
yeah because I think that like you know
people like to laugh so it’s an it’s an
if someone makes you laugh you can say
this you have a great sense of humor or
you’re very funny yeah it’s a good one
it’s a really good one so you could say
after a joke for example or after maybe
you’ve you’re you finished laughing it’s
something the other person has said you
can say ah you have a great sense of
humor good next one is your resume is
impressive this is a weird compliment to
say to your friends unless you’re like
reviewing your friends resume it’s a bit
weird this is something that perhaps
someone interviewing another person for
a job would say the candidate comes in
for the interview the interviewer says
why your resume is very impressive I’d
like to ask you a few questions about it
so this is good to hear in a work
situation yeah you really probably won’t
need to use this with your friends if
you do it’s kind of weird oh wow this
next one is quite a compliment
nobody’s ever says this yeah to be fair
if somebody said this next one to me I
would feel a little bit of like pressure
the compliment here is you make me want
to be a better person this is something
that I think you see in movies from time
to time yeah I’ve had I had one person
say like like oh that something you did
inspired me and that was like really
like wow that was really exciting like
somebody was inspired by something like
wow that’s great I want to be like you
that’s a really cool compliment but if
someone says you want to
make me be a better person it’s like oh
wow like that means I’m really important
to that person which is really
flattering but at the same time if
someone said that I would also be like
if it’s like my friend I would be like
but I want you to be you like I think
you’re a cool person already yeah it’s
like oh you make me want to be a better
person like in that person’s viewpoint
you’re like somehow above them and
that’s uncomfortable yeah just I would
rather say you inspire me I think that
that or like this thing that you did
really inspired me like if somebody said
like I saw that picture that she posted
on Twitter of that pizza today Alicia
and it really inspired me and I made my
own pizza
I’d be like yay Oh next one is nice
actually I say this to my friends quite
a bit you are an awesome friend this is
really really good to use after your
friend has helped you with something
maybe you’re moving to a new apartment
or new house or maybe you’ve had some
trouble and your friend gave you some
good advice or your friend just listened
to you when you really needed to talk to
someone after that experience you could
say thanks so much you were an awesome
friend or maybe your friend did
something really really cool and you
just want to like tell them like I think
you’re really awesome just say you are
an awesome friend they’ll be happy to
hear that or just you can abbreviate it
- you are awesome not just you’re an
awesome friend just you are awesome
you’re a cool person you are awesome
you’re fantastic you are an awesome
foreign you’re an awesome friend ten
ways to motivate yourself when learning
English let’s go the first way to
motivate yourself is to imagine that one
day you will live in the United States
so to do this imagine what is your day
going to be like when you live in the
u.s. where will you go who will you meet
where will you shop and so on imagine
your day in the United States
okay the second way to motivate yourself
when you’re studying English is to study
other aspects of the culture - which
makes it more rewarding to study English
okay so this means of course studying
English as a language but if there’s a
specific country that you would like to
visit or a specific part of that
country’s culture try to learn about
that - if you like music
you like the food if you like the
history try to find something about a
specific country or a specific part of
that country’s culture that you enjoy in
addition to studying the language okay
way number three to motivate yourself is
finding funny words in English okay
so finding a word that sounds funny or a
word that you enjoy using or a phrase
that you enjoy using can really increase
your motivation for using that word and
for interacting with people so if you
can find those phrases that you think
are funny or are fun they can be really
really helpful for you as you learn your
language the next way to motivate
yourself is to make friends with people
who speak English so of course if you
don’t have any friends who are English
speakers especially native English
speakers it’s a really good idea to make
some friends
this way you can practice with them you
can learn from them and you can just see
maybe what their life is like and how
their life is different from yours so
this is a great way to practice a great
way to learn and a great way to think
more internationally as well the next
way to motivate yourself is watching
youtube videos of other people who have
successfully learned English so you can
listen to people what worked for them
how did they study where did they go
what materials did they use what did
they find
not helpful so you can try to find a
strategy that works well for you through
using resources like YouTube for example
it’s a great way to find people that
maybe match with what you need okay the
next way to motivate yourself is by
watching English movies and TV shows and
enjoying the feeling when you can
understand a word or a sentence yeah I
do this too when you enjoy something
when you find entertainment value in
something like music movies TV and you
there’s that moment when you pick up or
when you understand what your favorite
character said or you understand it like
a key point in the story it’s a really
really good feeling it makes you want to
continue watching I think so that’s a
really really nice feeling I think and
you can do that by enjoying media
so it’s a fun way to learn and it’s a
fun feeling to experience okay the next
way to motivate yourself is by reading
English news articles blogs and
magazines to get a feel for formal and
casual language so the style that we use
here like an English class 101 and this
on the videos on this channel is quite
casual most of the time or at least in
these videos it’s very casual but the
way that I speak in the way a newspaper
is written the way a magazine is written
the way a a newscaster presents the
information these are all different ways
of communicating we’re using the same
language yes but there are different
styles so it’s important to try to
understand those differences and to
become familiar with them so try to find
a few different things that you can
enjoy the next way to motivate yourself
is after dinner you write about your day
in a journal in English okay this is an
interesting idea so just take a few
minutes after dinner or before you go to
bed to write something in English about
what you did that day or maybe so you
have a chance to talk about future tense
or to use the future tense you can use
you can talk about your upcoming plans
or the things you’re going to do the
next day so you can talk about past
tense what you did that day maybe
present tense how you’re feeling as
you’re writing your journal for the day
and future tense to talk about your
upcoming plan so journaling can be a
really effective exercise for motivating
you okay the next way to motivate
yourself inspire practicing with
flashcards of useful words and phrases
for 15 minutes every day on the train I
actually do do this I use but I use an
application to study in Japanese to
study kanji and 15 minutes every day
adds up over the course of a week you
can learn a lot of information in a
short period of time and if you live in
the country where your target language
is spoken then you might even find the
word you studied on the train you see it
like after you leave the train you might
see that word later on in your day so
you can immediate
we feel like an extra sense of
motivation by knowing that this thing
you’re studying is applicable it’s
something you can use right away it’s a
really cool feeling so this is a tip I
honestly I use this last I make sure to
thank anyone and everyone who corrects
my English yeah I think this is really
important because people are really nice
they don’t want to correct you when you
make a mistake but sometimes people do
they’re really polite about it and they
tell you the more tell you a more
natural way or they give you a
suggestion for how to improve your
English make sure you say thank you like
repeat after them and then say thank you
so that you know it’s motivation for
them to tell you again in the future to
help you again in the future so make
sure to say thank you to anyone who
helps you with your English hi everybody
my name is Alisha welcome back to our
English class Channel today we’re gonna
be talking about the difference between
bye and until so let’s get started okay
so first we’re gonna talk about bye-bye
marks a deadline for an action to finish
by marks the point where an action
completes or is replaced by another
action so really think about using bi to
express a deadline something is going to
stop or you must finish an action at
this point in time so we can think about
bi as marking some point in the future
so by mark some point in the future
where an action is going to finish an
action is going to be completed so in an
example sentence I have I’ll be at the
office by 7:00 p.m. so in this sentence
the speaker is not at the office but
7:00 p.m. is the deadline this is the
point in time at which the speaker will
be at the office the speaker is not at
the office now but by 7:00 p.m. by the
7:00 p.m. deadline the speaker will be
at the office this will shows us this is
a future tense Express
and by shows us the deadline the point
at which that expression or the point at
which that action is going to be
completed so this is how we use by to
think about it like a deadline at some
point in time at which an action will be
completed or finished okay so let’s
continue on to the other grammar point
for today which is until until also has
a more casual form we can use till TI ll
or apostrophe TI l you might see both
spellings used for until til or til in
most cases it’s good to use until in
casual speaking and maybe in casual
writing you can use the casual form but
until is always polite and is always
correct okay so when we use until let’s
talk about when to use until we use
until to talk about a continuing
situation or a continuing state now in
the present or in the future but it’s
going to change or stop so the key
difference one key difference here
perhaps is a continuing situation a
continuing state with by the nuance is a
deadline something is going to finish at
a deadline here however until gives us
the nuance of something that’s
continuing something true now for
example but that may not be true in the
future until marks the points where that
action or that state is going to finish
or change
hmm okay so we can think of it rather
than as a deadline as a key point in the
future somewhere where action a
continues until a point where we use
until and then a second action begins
hmm something is going to change at the
until point with by however we don’t
have the nuance of an
action changing we only have the nuance
of a deadline so here until is used to
show that something different is going
to happen or something something will
finish but there’s going to be a change
after the the until point so for example
this sentence very similar to the by
example sentence is I’ll be at the
office until 7:00 p.m. so here we have
the future tense aisle I will I will be
at the office until 7:00 p.m. this
sentence shows us the speaker is at the
office right now however at 7:00 p.m.
until shows us that 7:00 p.m. is the
point at which the situation or the
state is going to change so at 7:00 p.m.
the speaker is probably going to leave
the office until shows us that right
here the action or the state is going to
change so please keep that in mind
until shows you a change in something by
shows more of a deadline for an action
that is continuing so I hope that we can
practice this in a few example sentences
now ok so let’s try to choose the
correct word to use in these example
sentences should we use by or should we
use until in these cases so the first
one I have is he has to find a new job
bla bla bla March so in this case we see
a point in time we can think about it
should we use bi or until here if we use
bi we see that the deadline the deadline
nuance matches here he has to find a new
job by March if we use until he has to
find a new job until March there’s no
information in this sentence that shows
us a hint or that gives us a hint about
how the action is going to change until
does not make sense for this question so
we should
used by in this case he has to find a
new job by March is the correct answer
for this sentence in the second sentence
I’m not going to go to bed
bla bla bla I finish this movie so in
this sentence we have at the end I
finish this movie so there’s some action
maybe that’s continuing here and we have
another action I’m not going to go to
bed in this case it’s a negative so
there are two actions here this is a
pretty good hint that there’s an action
that’s going to change at some point
instead of the nuance of a deadline so
for this sentence until is the best
answer
I’m not going to go to bed until until I
finish this movie this shows us that at
this point the point where I finish the
movie I’m going to go to bed this marks
the change in the continuing state or
the continuing situation so the next
sentence is they need to write their
reports blah blah blah tomorrow so this
sentence there’s no change in the
sentence we don’t have any hints about
some kind of different action that’s
going to happen instead we have maybe
what seems to be a deadline some
requirement here too so if we try to use
until it doesn’t make sense there’s no
changing action we can’t guess about
what might happen in the future or a
change that might happen so by is the
best answer here they need to write
their reports by tomorrow tomorrow is
the deadline so we can guess that
tomorrow is the deadline here by shows
us that it’s the deadline in this case
for this task alright let’s take a look
at something a little bit different here
we have we can’t leave the house
bla bla bla your mother calls so again
there are two situations there are two
actions involved in this sentence we
have leave the house and your mother
calls makes a phone call
so because there are two actions here we
can guess that there’s some change
that’s going to happen so because we
learned that until marks a change in
actions we know that until is the better
answer here okay we can’t leave the
house until your mother calls would be
the correct sentence here all right
so let’s look at the next sentence
though this one is a tricky sentence
this one is a little bit difficult we
have I’m not going to be there
something-something 8 p.m. hmm
so here we have 8 p.m. at the end of a
sentence which looks like a deadline
right we have going to be there mmm so
should we use by or until for this
sentence it’s difficult because actually
both are okay for this sentence I’m not
going to be there by 8:00 p.m. is
correct and I’m not going to be there
until 8 p.m. is also correct
however the meanings are very different
just as we practiced in these two
sentences I’ll be at the office until
I’ll be at the office by 7 p.m.
the same is true here I’m not going to
be there by 8:00 p.m. means I’m not
going to be there at 8 p.m. it’s not
possible for me I can’t go however I’m
not going to be there until 8 p.m. this
sentence means after 8 p.m. or beginning
at 8 p.m. and after I’m going to be
there so please be careful in some cases
both bye and until are correct but they
change the meaning of the sentence okay
let’s continue to another example
so the next example sentence is also a
little bit difficult it’s if my date
doesn’t arrive something something 7:00
p.m. I’m leaving okay so here we have we
do have to
actions doesn’t arrive my date doesn’t
arrive a negative point and I’m leaving
so it seems like there are two actions
here however we have this 7:00 p.m. this
marks a deadline right so if my date
doesn’t arrive there’s some deadline
here if this is not completed something
is going to happen the person is going
to leave so in this case 7:00 p.m. is
showing a deadline so we have to use bye
if my date doesn’t arrive until 7:00
p.m. we could use that but it doesn’t
sound so natural so the new once again
here is of a deadline there’s something
that is going to happen at 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. marks the endpoint in this
situation so we use by here okay let’s
go to the next pair again these are very
interesting points we have to leave the
beach but Beaubois 10:00 a.m. and we
have to stay at the beach bla bla bla
10:00 a.m. okay so these two sentences I
included because I wanted to show the
emphasis of changing actions and
continuing actions so we can see the
verbs are different here in the first
sentence we have leave so this is a
change leaving a location in the second
sentence I have stay which shows a
continuing action stay in one place so
here as you can guess then we have to
leave the beach bla bla bla 10:00 a.m.
some change some deadline so we’ll use
by to show our deadline in the second
sentence we have to stay at the beach
stay shows a continuing action and then
it’s going to finish here so we’ll use
unto we have to stay at the beach until
10 a.m. this shows us a continuing
action and maybe at 10:00 a
we’ll leave the beach all right let’s go
on to the next sentence
I’m not going to travel abroad blah blah
blah
I learn English okay so here there’s no
time point there’s no 10 a.m. 8 p.m.
tomorrow and so on so this is a little
more complex maybe we have travel abroad
and learn English so it seems there’s no
real deadline here but we have maybe a
change maybe this shows us some kind of
change learning English marks a change
so I’m not going to travel abroad until
I learn English hmm this shows us that
something different is going to happen
in the future so we should use until to
mark that change okay our last example
sentence for today is we told him to
wake up
bla bla bla 6 a.m. so once more our last
sentence may be a little bit simple but
6 a.m. shows us an action sort of this
deadline you can see a lot of these use
a time to mark a deadline for an action
so here we told him to wake up by 6 a.m.
this is the point at which something
must happen so we should use bye ok
great so those are a few examples
sentences that you can have a look at
and think about when you’re trying to
decide whether to use bye or until keep
in mind however there are some cases
where both by or until are correct but
the meaning is going to change
significantly depending on the one you
use so I hope this lesson was useful for
you if you have any questions or if you
want to try to make an example sentence
using bye
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ten words for connecting thoughts these
are going to be ten words that you can
use to transition between ideas very
useful in both speech and in writing
let’s move also also also is a word that
you can use to add information I went to
the store this morning also I went and
got coffee that’s true however however
however is used to contrast or to
contrast depending on your pronunciation
to differentiate to show a difference
between two pieces of information a good
pattern would be a however B so for
example I love to uncle Tadamon however
it is very high in calories so I don’t
eat it often also true on the other hand
on the other hand on the other hand is I
feel used more commonly in speech than
it is in writing again it’s used to
present like two sides to a story or two
sides to some information so for example
I’m thinking about visiting Taiwan
sometime this year but on the other hand
I’m also thinking about visiting
Thailand still so it might be common to
use still with the word like butt or
word like even though so you’re saying
even though there’s some other factor
like like I’m really really tired this
week or even though I have a lot of
homework to do I still want to go out
with my friends or I still want to see a
movie this weekend
so there’s this other there’s this thing
that’s maybe mix this other action
difficult to do or tough to do or
whatever but even though there’s this
you still have this over here so maybe
the two are kind of used as a pair I
still want to go out later even though
I’m tired
then then yes a very useful word we use
then when telling stories a lot so for
example if I could tell a story about my
morning today when I got up I brushed my
teeth and then I cooked breakfast
and I did a little bit of work then I
took a shower then I did some cooking
blah blah blah you’ll often hear and
then as well and then I and then we and
then you and so on so then it is really
really useful for sequence so a useful
word I think besides besides so it’s
commonly used in a pattern like besides
that meaning other than something else I
went out with my friends this weekend
but besides that I didn’t really do much
so another way to say that sentence is I
went out with my friends this weekend
but other than that other than that
activity I didn’t do very much ok
meanwhile meanwhile or you might hear
the similar expression in the meantime
it means while you’re doing action a at
the same times maybe somewhere else
action be is happening this is used
while telling stories a lot so for
example I was working at my office all
week last week meanwhile my co-workers
across town were having a party without
me so these two things are happening at
the same time but maybe separate from
one another
meanwhile likewise ok
likewise I don’t really use this word
personally myself at all it’s often used
after an introduction similar to the
pleasure is all mine in a formal
situation so maybe somebody says you
know hey it was really great to see you
last weekend thanks very much for coming
to my barbecue you can say yeah likewise
it was really good to see you in your
family so likewise means I have the same
feeling or I have the same idea it’s
kind of a friendly phrase but personally
I don’t really use that to transition
between thoughts um I would just use and
I suppose but mmm that’s how I would use
it instead instead so so instead it’s
used like instead of I want to a instead
of B can be used to express your plans
or what you want to do
I want to have Chinese food instead of
Italian food tonight so you’re
presenting two alternatives essentially
so instead of means in place of or as a
substitute for so I should have drank a
lot of water this morning but instead I
drank a lot of coffee that’s true I
wanted to have dinner with my friends
this weekend instead I had dinner at
home in addition in addition this is a
really good word for more formal
situations I like to use in addition in
writing I don’t really use in addition
in speaking unless I’m trying to be very
formal for some reason similar to
additionally as well so you make a point
a and point B and then when you want to
make one more point that’s related to
point a and point B you can say in
addition point C so you’re like building
an argument and in addition can be used
to kind of finish that argument off a
little bit our new marketing plan worked
really well last month we noticed
increased sales in product a in addition
we’ve gained a lot of new customers
something like that so just your your
quickly presenting a series of ideas
that are related to one another you can
use in addition to finish it off 20
words you’ll need for the beach let’s go
sunglasses the first word is sunglasses
sunglasses are those dark glasses that
you wear on your face when it’s bright
outside in a sentence I forgot my
sunglasses hold on I forgot my
sunglasses beach beach is the place near
the ocean you might have a beach in your
city or in your country the beach is
usually visited in the summertime the
image is lots of Sun you can get a tan
you can get a sunburn but it’s usually a
fun place to spend time with family and
friends in a sentence I’m going to the
beach with my friends this weekend I’m
so excited in this sentence
she walked along the beach swimming the
next word is swimming swimming is of
course a popular activity to do at the
beach
I go swimming at the beach every summer
or in this sentence be very careful when
swimming in the Pacific Ocean might be
sharks Sun Sun is that big bright thing
in the sky that will make your skin
change color if you stay in it for too
long the Sun in a sentence the Sun is
really bright let’s get out of the Sun
palm tree the next word is palm tree so
palm trees are a type of tree they’re
usually seen in like tropical places
like Hawaii has palm trees any place
close to the equator then the middle
line of the earth I think that’s where
palm trees tend to grow it’s kind of an
image of the beach so palm trees there
are a lot of palm trees near the beach
in California that palm tree is almost
60 feet tall seashell the next word is
seashell seashell are those little
objects you find on the beach like in
the sand or in the water in some cases
they’re like shells from like clams or
maybe oysters sometimes two depending on
what you consider a seashell but if you
break the word down its sea and shell so
like something from the ocean and the
shell or like the covering the outside
of something so usually a small creature
a small animal has lived inside the
seashell and then you can collect them
and look at them or make something from
them little kids like to collect them I
used to collect seashells when I was a
kid oh my gosh look at this example
sentence it says it’s bad luck to take
seashells from the beach oops swimsuit
swimsuit is the clothing you wear to
swim in your swimming suit there are
men’s swimsuits women’s swimsuits
usually men’s swimsuits are like short
sports shorts or I suppose there’s the
what like speedo makes like the men’s
swimsuits as well the really small ones
and then for women they have one-piece
swimsuits they have and then they have
bikini swimsuits the two-piece swimsuits
so in a sentence
I hate swimsuit shopping in this
sentence I need a new swimsuit this
summer ocean the next word is oh Sh
Oshin is the big blue the big water the
big deep blue sea in a sentence the
ocean is so beautiful at night in this
sentence he dipped his feet in the ocean
lifeguard lifeguard a lifeguard is a
person at the beach life guard so
someone who guards lives if someone gets
into trouble in the water they start to
drown or they start to have trouble if
there’s an accident at the beach the
lifeguard at the beach is responsible
for handling that problem so they’ll
call an ambulance or they know how to do
first aid to save people so in a
sentence it’s important to go to beaches
where there are lifeguards available if
you need help in the sentence there
isn’t a lifeguard on duty here jetski
next word is jetski a jetski is a like a
water motorcycle you can ride around it
on with your friends alone riding jet
skis is a lot of fun in the sentence if
you have a driver’s license you can
drive a jetski beach towel the next
expression is beach towel beach towel
beach towel is different from regular
towel because usually beach towels have
like a bright color a bright pattern or
there are towels that you don’t mind or
towels that are ok to get sand or dirt
in them usually in a towel you use in
your house you don’t want to get your
towel really really dirty so a beach
towel is it’s how you use only at the
beach in a sentence I bought a new beach
towel and it has a picture of a
hamburger
on it in this sentence oh no I got sand
all over my beach towel that’s the point
of beach tow' beach chair the next
expression is beach chair as you can
probably guess it is a chair you use
only at the beach so again this is a
chair you don’t mind it’s ok if it gets
dirty or sandy usually a beach chair is
easy to fold or easy to carry - in a
sentence I have a couple of beach chairs
that I’m going to bring to the barbecue
this weekend in this sentence can we use
these
each chairs sandcastle the next word is
sandcastle sandcastles are usually kids
make them they use like buckets so kids
will like put sand in a bucket or like
they move sand into piles and design
castles or these really complicated
mazes or something they make things make
buildings out of sand we call those sand
castles so in a sentence my brother and
I used to make sand castles on the beach
when we were kids that’s true
in this sentence get the buckets and
we’ll make a sandcastle cooler so cooler
is a noun in this case cooler is the
place you keep your drinks and your food
it’s a it looks like a suitcase but it
has a special lining inside that keeps
cold things cold so you can put ice
inside and it will keep your food and
drinks cold while you are at the beach
in the hot weather so in a sentence
did you put a bunch of beers in the
cooler I forgot ice for the cooler tide
the next word is tide tide is the level
of the water the the level of the ocean
water at different times of day so if
you are interested in this sort of thing
you might know about high tide and low
tide high tide means the water level at
the beach is high low tide means the
water level at the beach is low so tide
is how high or low the water is in this
sentence the tide ebbed and revealed a
starfish abdomens it went away a little
bit so tide is the flow of water tan so
tan is we use it as a noun like to get a
tan in a sentence it means that your
skin turns a darker color so be careful
there are two words we use in English
tan means your skin gets a little bit
darker and we also use the word sunburn
or just burn burn means your skin gets
red it means like it’s damaged it may be
your skin peels a bit so in America
anyway in the u.s. anyway a tan is
usually considered a positive thing men
people want tan skin but sunburn where
your skin is red and damaged is that so
be careful those are two different words
we use to talk about this the changing a
skin color I got a tan last summer at
the beach in this sentence you got such
a nice tan in Florida
snorkeling the next word is snorkeling
snorkeling is really really fun
snorkeling is swimming but you have a
like a hose you have a pipe that you can
breathe through as you swim so you can
you usually put goggles you wear goggles
as you’re swimming in the ocean you can
look down and see fish or you can see
things in the ocean but you can still
breathe so this is a really fun thing to
do to look at fish or just just to hang
out and see a different point of view I
went snorkeling for the first time maybe
when I was 20 to 23 in this sentence she
bought goggles so that she could go
snorkeling in Hawaii flip flop the next
word is flip flop flip flop is a very
common beach sandal many people like to
wear flip-flops in everyday life too
some people prefer not to it’s up to you
like in California I know especially in
beach towns everybody just wears
flip-flops it’s very comfortable
so flip-flops kind of have an image of
being a little bit cheaper just very
very simple it’s it’s the most basic
possible sandal why are they called
flip-flops because I always thought it
was because of the sound that they make
sound I guess maybe it sounds like
flip-flop in a sentence I usually don’t
wear flip-flops in this sentence these
flip-flops keep breaking sunscreen next
word is sunscreen sunscreen or you might
also hear sunblock these are products
you can put on your skin to prevent a
tan or to prevent a sunburn
Sun screen so it’s a protection it’s a
protection against the sunlight I just
hit this screen so sunscreen is quite
important like it is said that you
should use sunscreen to prevent to help
prevent skin cancer in a sentence I’m
out of sunscreen I need to buy more in
this scent
mom I don’t need sunscreen bikini the
next word is bikini bikini we talked
about swimsuit a little bit earlier but
bikini is usually a swimsuit for women
and it’s two pieces there’s a bottom
half and an upper half and oftentimes
the the top half of the bikini or
sometimes the bottom half you have to
tie a knot or you have to latch
something I suppose if you don’t tie it
carefully it can create a problem like
you could fall off so bikini it’s a
popular style of something for women are
you going to wear your bikini to the
beach tomorrow in this sentence
my bikini came undone in front of
everyone it was so embarrassing
five sentence patterns that you can use
as a beginner of English let’s go the
first expression that you can use as a
beginner is personally I think that or I
would just use I think that personally
makes it sound a little bit more polite
I think you can use this to introduce an
opinion for example personally I think
that pizza is amazing personally I think
that dinosaurs would have been delicious
personally I think that cars should be
made to enjoy with friends personally I
think that you shouldn’t worry about it
yes that’s probably a much more useful
sentence than dinosaurs would be the
next expression is what does blah blah
blah
mean so we’re here is the word you don’t
know so for example what does pasta mean
what does Stegosaurus mean so a word
like Stegosaurus is a really strange
word that you probably don’t know
Stegosaurus is a type of dinosaur we’re
gonna marry dinosaurs I don’t know
Jurassic we’re on a Jurassic adventure
at the moment so this is a pattern you
use when you don’t know when you don’t
know the meaning of the word and you
would like someone to explain it to you
so if you say what does Stegosaurus mean
then someone can say oh it’s a dinosaur
it’s kind of like it’s a sort of short
it has a bunch of spikes on its back and
it has a long tail and it gets into a
fight with a Tyrannosaurus Rex if you
saw the movie Fantasia by Disney okay in
this sentence
what does complication mean means
problem
okay the next pattern you can use is can
you tell me more about bla bla bla so on
a topic that you would like more
information about you can say can you
tell me more about the soccer game last
week can you tell me more about the plan
for the party next week so something you
would like more information about you
can say can you tell me more about this
thing okay so in a sentence can you tell
me more about your sandwich options that
is a useful sentence that is a useful
sentence okay in this sentence here we
don’t have that back home can you tell
me more about it
mmm this is used to the reverse pattern
okay the next expression is if it were
up to me if it were up to me I had to
teach this in a class couple weeks ago
actually if it were up to me means if I
could make the decision if this was my
if this were my decision
bla bla bla so meaning if I could make
the choice this is what I would do but
one point here is the nuance is it is
not my decision this is not my decision
but if it were my decision I would do
bla bla bla so for example if it were up
to me every day would be Saturday woo
but it’s not right so that’s that’s
always the underlying that’s always the
kind of basic nuance of this phrase some
this decision is not mine okay here the
example is if it were up to me I would
take my boss to dinner
oh my things just got scandalous the
next pattern is I feel like bla bla bla
you can use I feel like when you
introduce a suggestion or something that
you would like to do especially for food
drinks or activities so for example
I feel like coffee I feel like Italian
food
I feel like an action-movie there’s some
activity or something you would like to
do at the end of this pattern
I feel like bowling this afternoon
something needs to go here some sort of
activity of course you can use this
expression to talk about your feelings I
feel like something but this something
must be a noun it must be a noun like if
you feel really great I feel like a
million bucks for example if you feel
really bad I feel like garbage that’s a
nice expression that somehow it just
came out of my head anyway you can use
this in two ways but this must be
completed with a noun phrase at the end
of the sentence ten 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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barbecue oh yeah the 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 is also okay but barbecue
usually BB q is in like writing I love
having barbecues with my friends in the
summer every fourth 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 and
why since I won’t have school in the
morning I’m going to party all night in
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 ready 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 two separate
words to describe them in a sentence
you’ll find me poolside getting a tan to
go hiking the 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 Wow
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 aren’t we so to
have fun with friends is 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
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 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 twenty ‘must no family
word so let’s go mother mother is the
person who gave birth to you mother you
can say mom mother mom mama mummy
my mother has amazing cooking it’s true
father father father is the person who
did not give birth to you but who helped
make you happen so we say father dad
daddy pop-pop my father is a very
level-headed person that’s all
sister-sister is a female sibling so my
brother might say I have an older sister
anyone who is yeah
a female sibling or someone you can use
this for friends that you feel very very
close to like she’s like my sister
that’s fine as well
brother brother we sometimes use bro for
this I would say I have a younger
brother like sister you can use brother
for any male that you feel is similar to
a brother someone you feel very close to
so he’s like a brother to me or you’re
like my brother grandmother grandmother
when you put grande plus something else
it means the next generation or the the
previous generation so you have your
mother and father in this case grand
mother means your mother or your
father’s mother it can be either of them
so grandmother my grandmother was born a
long time ago
grandfather grandfathers are just like
grandmother your mother or your father’s
father is your grandfather my
grandfather liked to play tennis that’s
true
uncle uncle your uncle is either your
mother or your father’s brother someone
directly related to one of your parents
who is a man is your uncle my uncle is
very good with woodworking also true
aunt aunt you might also hear aunt both
of them are correct you can say aunt or
aunt an aunt or an aunt is your mother
or your father’s female sibling one of
my aunts gave me a stamp collection when
I was a little kid that’s also true
cousin cousin cousin is your aunt or
uncle’s
children it can be on any side so
typically these people are of the same
generation is you not always but cousins
are generally about the same age at
least in my family they are it’s really
fun to see all my cousins at family
barbecues nephew nephew a nephew is a
siblings male child so if you have a
brother or a sister and they have
children any may
children are your nephews nephews I
don’t have any nephews
nice nice nice so your brother or your
sisters female children any female
children they have you can say she’s my
niece
or I have two nieces how many nieces do
you have or I have a lot of nieces wife
wife so this is a female partner that
you are married to she is my wife or how
is your wife wife is only used when you
are married to that person husband
husband is a male that someone is
married to so how is your husband this
is my husband again husband is only used
when you are married to that person
parent parent parent it’s typically used
generally for a mother or a father like
I’m a parent he is my parent she is my
parent it’s often used in the plural
they are my parents these are my parents
my parents are home my parents are not
at home but you can also use parent to
describe someone who raised you so maybe
your biological mother or father did not
raise you but someone else like an aunt
or an uncle or perhaps a different
figure in your community did raise you
you can say she’s like a parent to me or
she had a parenting role in my life
child child child is a a small human a
small human as a child it doesn’t
necessarily have to be of your family
like if you’re just at the park and you
see kids running around you can say ah
look at that child you can use a child
in the singular but be careful child
changes in the plural form to children
so not child’s but children one child
two children please be careful this has
an irregular plural form maybe I’ll have
a child someday son son is a male child
a male offspring my uncle has a lot of
sons that’s not true daughter daughter a
daughter is a female child I wonder if I
will ever have a daughter brother-in-law
brother in
law so we use in law to mean our married
partners family members not my brother
but my partner’s brother in law is used
after any family members position or
family members title to show they belong
to my partner’s family originally but
now they’re part of my extended family
as well I’m going out for drinks with my
brother-in-law tomorrow night
father-in-law father-in-law so we have
in-law here meaning my partner’s father
so my father-in-law is very kind
mother-in-law mother-in-law meaning my
partner’s mother in a sentence my
mother-in-law and I get along really
well hi everybody my name is Alicia
today I’m going to be talking about the
simple future tense today I’m going to
talk about will and won’t and going to
and not going to so these are a few
grammar points that learners make
mistakes with when should you use will
or won’t when should you use going to or
not going to so I’m going to talk about
a few of these points a few basic points
that I hope can help you decide when to
use will and when to use going to so
let’s begin okay the first point I want
to talk about is going to or not going
to the positive form and the negative
form going to not going to for today I
want to talk about two times when we’ll
use these grammar points so the first
time the first situation where you use
going to or not going to is for plans
decided before the conversation so if
you make a decision about your future
plans or someone else makes the decision
before the conversation about their
plans for the future you should use
going to or not going to it’s something
that is probably going to happen a high
certainty so this is a plan that has a
high level of certainty meaning there’s
a good chance this plan is going to
happen
you decided it before the conversation
meaning you’ve probably had some time to
plan your future to plan your schedule a
little bit so please use going to for
something you decide before the
conversation so on a timeline it might
look like this
we have past now and future here so your
plan is for the future yes but you
decided on the plan sometime before the
conversation so if this point this is
now this is your conversation you made
the plan you made the decision before
the conversation in this case use going
to I’m going to at the beginning of this
video I said I’m going to talk about
simple future tense will and going to I
decided before this video started about
my plans I decided what I was going to
talk to you about before the video
started so I used going to to introduce
that plan so please keep this in mind
okay but let’s talk about will now so we
use will and won’t for decisions that
are made at the moment of speaking so
keep in mind will is the positive form
won’t is the negative form here so a
decision made at the moment of speaking
this is one way to use will or won’t you
can use this for example at restaurants
you can use this to talk about plans you
make quickly after learning information
from a friend
keep in mind will and won’t tends to
have a lower certainty there’s a lower
chance the plan is going to happen
because you made the plan at the moment
of speaking going to is used for plans
made before the conversation but will is
used for a plan made a
spur-of-the-moment or a very quick plan
you’ve just made so that’s kind of the
image is the decision you’ve just made
use will or use won’t in those case
if you made the decision before the
conversation there’s a good chance you
should use going to so to go back to our
timeline here if going to is used for a
decision you made in the past about your
future plans will is used for a decision
you make in the conversation during the
conversation the plan can be any time in
the future but the decision the point at
which you make the decision is the
difference here one point about this two
points about this actually first will if
you’ve made a decision at the moment of
speaking and you therefore should use
will to communicate that decision you
can improve or you can communicate that
there’s a high chance it’s going to
happen with the word probably mmm so
here I’ll show you this in an example
sentence in a moment but you can use
probably with will and won’t I’ll
probably I probably won’t remember that
order though I’ll probably or I probably
will or probably won’t mmm point number
two I want to mention about both of
these grammar points is to make your
pronunciation a little more natural try
shortening both of these expressions
going to shortens to gonna gon a gonna
I’m gonna I’m not gonna this sounds much
more natural at least in American
English for will and for won’t when you
use will use the contracted form with
your subject for example I will becomes
aisle you will becomes you’ll they will
becomes Vail using the contracted form
sounds a lot more natural and everyday
conversation it’s correct to say you
will they will but it sounds really
stiff and unnatural so please use the
contracted form to sound a bit more
natural you can use the contracted form
with probably for will aisle
probably they’ll probably we’ll probably
these are all pretty good okay so let’s
practice using them alright first
example sentence maybe something
something go hiking tomorrow so how do
we know is this a will sentence or a
going to sentence we have a hint here
maybe maybe so meaning there’s a low
level of certainty
perhaps a low chance that this is going
to happen so let’s say maybe I’ll go
hiking tomorrow this is probably the
best answer maybe I’m going to while you
can communicate the idea yes it sounds
like you decided your plan before the
conversation but you’re using maybe so
it doesn’t quite match instead use aisle
maybe I’ll go hiking tomorrow okay let’s
look at the next sentence
I’m mmm there’s a big hint here a
grammar hint I’m something something go
to France next year so next year this go
to France next year this is a pretty big
decision most people probably would not
make this decision at the moment of
speaking so we should use going to I’m
going to go to France next year this is
the correct use of going to in this case
a decision made before the moment of
speaking and there’s a high level of
certainty here okay let’s look at the
next one
I decided here’s a hint past tense
decided if you watched a different video
oops I decided that I am something
something go out for dinner I’m too
tired okay so past tense this shows us a
big hint past tense decided this implies
the decision was made before the
conversation hmm so I’m something
something go out for dinner I’m too
tired here’s another hint
so go out for dinner and too tired mmm
this should probably
I’m not going to go out for dinner I’m
too tired so this person has decided hmm
I’m not going to go out for dinner we
should use going to the negative not
going to because the speaker made the
decision before the conversation happen
and there’s a highest level of certainty
there’s a high chance that this is going
to happen so we should use going to in
this sentence okay okay so the next
sentence I included because I think it’s
a really good one to remember
any time you visit a bar a restaurant
some kind of service situation you can
use this pattern specifically to make a
request for something so let’s take a
look here my example sentence is I
something something have a glass of wine
please in this case maybe it’s at a
restaurant or at a bar but in this case
you’ve just made the decision looking at
the menu looking at a catalogue looking
at something you made a decision
just then at that moment and you’re
asking for that item you’re asking for
that service so we’ll use will I’ll have
a glass of wine please
so in this example sentence I used glass
of wine to show my request to ask for a
glass of wine but if you want to use
this pattern to make a request in a
service situation
just replace glass of wine with the item
or service that you would like so for
example I’ll have a beer I’ll have a
steak I’ll have a hamburger these are
all things you can order at a restaurant
or at a bar if you’re shopping you can
say I’ll have the blue one please for
example so just make your request using
the same pattern but replacing that
glass of wine section that I used in my
example sentence okay next one this one
is maybe a little bit challenging
it’s you’re running late so you
something-something have to take a taxi
to your next meeting so maybe this is an
assistant or someone supporting another
person with their schedule okay so in
the next sentence we’re looking at a
situation where there’s been a sudden or
quick change to a schedule someone is
running late and there’s a new decision
that’s made at the moment of speaking or
a new decision is made to reflect the
new situation so let’s take a look
you’re running late so you’ll or you
will have to take a taxi hmm
you could say you’re running late so you
have to take a taxi but maybe this is a
future plan something that’s going to
happen in an hour from now maybe this is
something the speaker is planning for
later in the day so you will is a nice
way to use that you’re running late so
you’ll have to take a taxi to the next
meeting okay the last one I want to talk
about this uses probably which I
mentioned over here so probably remember
we can use probably to sort of improve
or we can use probably to communicate a
higher level of certainty with the
decision we made at the moment of
speaking so here you’re not going to the
party then I probably something
something go either okay so either is a
big hint here remember we use either to
show agreement but negative okay so in
the last example sentence for today
we’re going to look at a situation where
the listener has heard some new
information they use the expression
you’re not going to go to the party so
they’re confirming new information they
have just heard after that they’re going
to make a decision about what their
plans are for the party so let’s take a
look we know that probably can be used
with will and won’t and we know from
then
the speaker just made this decision and
we know it’s a negative with either so
we should use won’t you’re not going to
go to the party and I probably won’t go
either
so the speaker uses won’t hear to show a
decision made at the moment of speaking
but the speaker also uses probably won’t
to show there’s a high chance that this
is going to happen there’s a high chance
that this is the future plan probably
won’t okay so there’s a lot of
information communicated there with
small words like then and either and
probably as well so please keep this in
mind when you’re trying to decide when
to use will won’t going to and not going
to okay so so that’s my recap of a few
useful grammar points how to talk about
your future tense plans so I’m going to
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bye bye hi everybody my name is Alisha
today we’re gonna be talking about
simple past tense we’re gonna talk about
how to make simple past tense statements
in English so let’s get started okay so
first let’s talk about when we should
use the simple past tense simple past
tense statements for today are for
actions that started and ended in the
past so these are things that both
started or began and ended in the past
both of those must be true to use simple
past tense
the second point for today is these are
actions which happened at a specific
point in time so a specific point in
time can be yesterday it can be an hour
ago it can be last year it can be when
you were a kid all of these are a
specific point in time but the key is
that we know when the action happened so
specific point in time is point two for
this grammar point third we can use
simple past tense for repeated actions
in the past so things you did every week
or every month or every year every
summer every hour if you like but one
point about this make sure to include a
frequency indicator if you want to talk
about an action that repeated in the
past frequency indicator for example I
just mentioned a few every week every
month every year so frequency meaning
how often an indicator shows how often
you did that so you can use repeated
actions with past tense to show let’s
see something you did a lot in the past
for example so to give you a visual the
past is down here now is this point here
and future is up here when we use the
simple past tense it’s an action that
started and ended in the past somewhere
before
now that’s one it’s at a specific point
in time so this action and this action
we know when they happened it could be
this morning
it could be yesterday for example but we
know when these actions happened
third we can use for repeated action so
maybe these actions repeat but we know
when the repetition happened we know
when we repeated these actions so it’s
okay to use simple past tense to
describe those okay so now we know when
we should use simple past tense we know
why we should use simple past tense but
how do we make simple past tense stay
it’s so when you want to use the simple
past tense to explain an action that
happens in the past you need to
conjugate your verb you need to change
your verb so that means when you’re
using a regular verb you do verb plus e
d so verb plus e d is the basic form for
simple past tense verbs but keep in mind
this is only for regular verbs not all
verbs are regular verbs so for example
some common ones are talk which becomes
talked start which become started and
enjoy which becomes enjoyed please be
careful however you’ll notice that the
past tense form of verbs has a few
different pronunciations so for example
start becomes started it has an ID sound
it’s not an e D sound but an ID sound
you might hear a word like walked also
which has a sort of T sound about it
walk becomes walked started becomes
started an ID sound and then there’s
also a sound like in breathed a very
soft D sound so there are three past
tense verb sounds to listen for an e d
sound started a soft D sound like
breathed and then a more hard T sound
like walked so pay attention to that
when you’re trying to make these past
tense verb conjugations okay but some
verbs are irregular verbs irregular
verbs do not have a simple rule for
understanding past tense conjugation how
to change them in past tense there’s no
rule for these you simply have to
practice you have to remember them read
them listen to them until you can
remember the correct conjugation the
correct way to change these verbs into
the past tense so for example some
common ones are eat which becomes ate
speak becomes spoke and make becomes
made if you see a verb somewhere that
that seems a little odd or you’re not
sure what the present tense form would
be you can check a dictionary and try to
remember
from there so now we’ve talked about
simple past tense irregular and regular
verbs let’s try to use them to make some
sentences I prepared a few example
sentences so let’s take a look okay
first sentence he something something a
towel and sunglasses to the beach so the
verb here is bring I want to use the
verb bring bring however is an irregular
verb so I can’t use the Eadie rule for
regular verbs the correct conjugation is
brought the RO u ght he brought a towel
and sunglasses to the beach this is the
correct conjugation here so bring is an
irregular verb okay let’s go to the next
sentence today something something to
the gym every day last week so here I’m
showing you a repeated action here I’m
using every day this is a frequency
indicator how often did I do that action
and last week shows the specific point
in time so I’m using both of these two
points in addition to a simple past the
basic simple past structure here so the
verb that we want to use here is go but
go is an irregular verb so we can’t use
code for example though changes to went
in the past tense so went is the correct
answer for this sentence here okay let’s
try the next one I something something
to tell my boss about my schedule so the
verb I want to use here is forget forget
is a very useful word I think to
remember but again forget is not a
regular verb forget is an irregular verb
so we cannot use the e D form forget in
the past tense becomes forgot okay
so I forgot to tell my boss about my
schedule is the correct sentence here
all right let’s go to something a little
bit different here’s a negative sentence
I don’t think they something-something a
reservation at the restaurant okay so
here I’m using a phrase I want to use
the phrase make a reservation to make a
reservation so the verb here is make
this was one of my example verbs for the
irregular form so make becomes made I
don’t think they made a reservation at
the restaurant is the correct verb form
to use here all right the next sentence
we something-something junk food almost
every day last month so here again I
have everyday but I have almost here so
almost every day not every day but close
to every day and then last month last
month is my specific point in time in
this case so here we have junk food that
means that the verb we want to use is
probably eat and we learned that eat is
an irregular verb there’s no rule for
conjugating this we just know that eat
becomes eight we ate junk food almost
every day last month great okay so next
sentence has two spaces for verbs
actually okay so the next sentence that
I’ve prepared I included because a lot
of my students asked about how to report
information when you want to report
information share something that you
heard from a friend a past tense action
you need to conjugate the reporting verb
for example say becomes said or here
becomes heard you need to conjugate this
verb and you need to conjugate the
information that you heard so there are
two past tense conjugations that should
happen when you report information let’s
take a look so here we have she
something something she something
something a great time at the party so
here she blah blah blah a great time at
the party
so we use the expression to have a great
time to have a great time again have is
an irregular verb so we conjugate it to
had she had a great time at the party
okay but then to report your speech so
someone gave you information past tense
give becomes gave you information so the
verb for giving information a neutral
way to pass information is say so to
conjugate say into the past tense it’s
an irregular verb so we use said say
becomes said so she said she had a great
time at the party okay please be careful
of your pronunciation with the word said
a lot of people I’ve heard use Sade Sade
is not correct so please use said it
sounds like sed the pronunciation but
it’s said si ID is the spelling say
becomes said she said she had a great
time at the party
okay so last one okay so the last
example sentence for today includes
spaces for a few different verbs I
included this because I wanted to show
you that you can use a lot of different
information in one sentence just by
connecting your past tense verbs
together so let’s take a look okay
yesterday I something-something late
something-something shopping and
something something to my mother okay so
the verbs I want to use for this
sentence are sleep go and speak sleep go
and speak these are all irregular verbs
there are no regular verbs in this
sentence so sleep in past tense becomes
slept go in past tense becomes went and
speak in past tense becomes spoke so
here in one sentence
I have I have explained three things
about my day yesterday
yesterday I slept late I went shopping
and I spoke to my mother so you can
explain a lot of things with past tense
and a few connecting words in this case
I’ve just used and to connect the last
two things in this sentence so please
keep this in mind when you’re sharing
information about your past events so
today we talked about the simple past
tense and we talked about how to
conjugate both regular and irregular
verbs it might seem a little bit
difficult to understand which verbs are
regular and which verbs are irregular
but with some practice it will become
easier so I hope that you enjoyed this
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