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moving to a new apartment a new house or maybe you had some problem and your friend gave you some good advice or your friend just listened to you when you really

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ed to talk to someone after that experience you could say thank you so much you were an amazing friend or maybe your friend did something really cool and you just want to tell them that I think you're really awesome, just say you're an awesome friend, they'll be happy to do it. listen to that or you can just abbreviate it as you are amazing not only are you an amazing friend you are simply amazing you are a cool person you are amazing you are fantastic you are an amazing friend you are an amazing friend in ten ways To motivate yourself when

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ing English, come on, 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 your day will be like when you live in the United States.

Where will you go? Who will you meet? Where will you buy?, etc. Imagine your day in the United States. Ok, the second way to motivate yourself when studying English is to also study other aspects of the culture, which makes studying English more rewarding. This means, of course, studying English as a language, but if there is a specific country you would like to visit or a specific part of the culture of that country, try to

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about that too if you like music, if you like food, if If you like 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.

Well, way number three to motivate yourself is to find funny words in English. Well, then, find a word that sounds fun or a word that you like. that you like to use or a phrase that you like to use can really increase your motivation to use that word and to interact with people, so if you can find those phrases that you think are funny or funny, they can be really useful to you to As you learn your language, the next way to motivate yourself is to make friends with people who

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English, so of course, if you don't have any friends who

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English, especially native English speakers, it's a very good idea to make some English-speaking friends. way with which you can practice.

You can learn from them and maybe you can see what their life is like and how their life is different from yours. This is a great way to practice, a great way to learn, and a great way to think more internationally in the future too. One way to motivate yourself is to watch videos on YouTube of other people who have successfully learned English, so you can hear from people what worked for them, how they studied, where they went, what materials they used, what they didn't find useful, so you can try to do it. . Find a strategy that works well for you by using resources like YouTube for example, it's a great way to find people who maybe match what you

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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, yes, I do this too. When you enjoy something, when you find entertainment value in something like music, movies, television, and there comes that moment when you pick up or when you understand what your favorite character said or you understand. a key point in the story is a really good feeling, it makes you want to keep watching, I think it's a really very nice feeling I think, and you can do it by enjoying the media, so it's a fun way to learn and it's a fun feeling .

To experiment well, the next way to motivate yourself is by reading English news articles, blogs and magazines to get an idea of ​​formal and informal language, so the style we use here, like in English 101 class and in the videos of this channel, it is quite informal. most of the time or at least in these videos it is very informal, but the way I speak, the way a newspaper is written, the way a magazine is written, the way an announcer presents information, These are all different forms of communication that we are using. the same language, yes, but they are different styles, so it is important to try to understand those differences and get familiar with them, so try to find some different things that you can enjoy.

The next way to motivate yourself is after dinner, write about your day. in a diary in English, okay, this is an interesting idea, so take a few minutes after dinner or before going to bed to write something in English about what you did that day or maybe to have a chance to talk about the future tense or use the future tense you can use, you can talk about your upcoming plans or the things you are going to do the next day, so you can talk in the past tense, what you did that day, maybe in the present tense, how you sit while you are.

Write your journal for the future day and time to talk about your next plan, so journaling can be a really effective exercise to motivate you. Well, the next way to motivate yourself is to practice with cards of useful words and phrases for 15 minutes every day in training, I actually do this, I use uh, but I use a Japanese study app to study kanji and 15 minutes every day Added 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, you might even find the word you studied on the train.

How do you see her after getting off the train. You might see that word later in the day so you can immediately feel like an extra. Sense of motivation knowing that this thing you're studying is applicable, it's something you can use right away, it's a really great feeling, so this is advice. Honestly, I use the latter. I make sure to thank everyone who corrects my English. Yes, I think this is very important because people are very kind and they don't want to correct you when you make a mistake, but sometimes people do, they are very polite and they tell you in a more natural way.

Give you a suggestion on how to improve your English. Be sure to say thank you. Repeat after them and then say thank you so you know it is a motivation for them. Tell you again in the future to help you again in the future. So do it. I sure appreciate anyone who helps her with her English Hello everyone, my name is Alicia, welcome back to our English classes channel. Today we are going to talk about the difference between for and until, so let's get started. Well, first. let's talk about buy buy marks a deadline for an action to be completed buy marks the point where an action is completed or replaced by another action, so really think about using buy to express a deadline something will stop or you must finish an action right now, we can think of marking some point in the future, so marking some point in the future where an action is going to end, an action is going to be completed, so in an example sentence, I have i' I'll be in the office at 7 p.m. m., so in this sentence the speaker is not in the office, but 7 p.m. m.

It's the deadline. This is the time when the speaker will be in the office. The speaker is not in the office now, but before. 7 pm before the 7 pm deadline, the speaker will be in the office, this shows us that this is a future tense expression and 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 of it as a deadline, some time at which an action will be completed or finished, so let's continue with today's other grammar point, which is until until it also has a more informal form that we can use. until t-i-l-l or apostrophe t-i-l you may see both spellings used for until until or until in most cases it is good to use until in informal conversations and perhaps in informal writing you can use the informal form, but until is always polite and it is always correct, okay? we use until let's talk about when to use until we use until to talk about a continuing situation or a continuous state now in the present or in the future but it is going to change or stop then the key difference a key difference here maybe it is a continuation situation a continuous state with bi the nuance is a deadline something is going to end on a deadline here however it even gives us the nuance of something that continues something true now, for example, but which may not be true in the future until we mark the point where that action or that state is going to end or change, okay, so we can think of it instead of a deadline as a key point in the future somewhere where the action continues up to a point where we use until and then a second action begins. to change at the point until with However, we don't have the nuance of a change of action, we only have the nuance of a deadline, so here until is used to show that something different is going to happen or something will end but it will be a change after the period until, so for example, this sentence is very similar to the example sentence, I will be in the office until 7 pm, so here we have the hall in the future tense, I will be in the office until 7 p. m.

This sentence shows us that the speaker is in the office right now, however, at 7 p.m. m. until it shows us that 7 p.m. m. is the point at which the situation or state is going to change, so at 7 p.m. m. the speaker will probably leave office. office until it shows us that here the action or state is going to change so keep that in mind until it shows you a change in something bi it shows more of a deadline for an action that continues so I hope we can practice this in some example sentences now okay so let's try to choose the right word to use in these example sentences should we use buy or should we use up in these cases so the first one I have is you have to find a new job blah , blah blah, March. so in this case, we see a moment where we can think about whether we use buy or up to here, if we use buy, we see that the deadline matches the deadline nuance here, you have to find a new job before March if we use until he has to find a new job until March.

There is no information in this sentence that will show us a clue or give us a clue about how the stock is going to change until it makes sense for this question, so we should use buy in this case. 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 blah blah blah I finish this movie, so in this sentence we have at the end, I finish this movie, so there is Some action maybe continues here and we have another action. I'm not going to go to bed, in this case it's negative, so there are two actions here.

This is a good indication that there is a stock that is going to change at some point. of the nuance of a deadline so for this sentence even is the best answer I am not going to go to bed until I finish this movie this shows us that at this point in which I finish the movie I am going to go to bed, this marks the change in the continuous state or the continuous situation so the next sentence is that they need to write their reports blah blah blah tomorrow so in this sentence there is no change in the sentence we don't have any clue about some kind of difference. action that is going to happen instead, maybe we have what appears to be a deadline, some requirement here too, so if we try to use it until it doesn't make sense, there is no changing action, we can't guess what might happen in the future or a change that might happen so buying is the best answer here they need to write their reports tomorrow tomorrow is the deadline so we can guess that tomorrow is the deadline here it shows us what is the deadline in this case for this task, okay, let's take a look at something a little different here we have we can't leave the house blah, blah, blah, your mother calls so again there are two situations there are two actions involved in this sentence we have to leave the house and your mother calls make a phone call like that because there are two actions here we can guess that there will be some change that is going to happen because we learned that even marks a change in the actions we know that even is the best answer here it's okay, we can't leave from home until your mother calls would be the correct sentence here, okay, so let's look at the next sentence, although this is a complicated sentence, this one is a little difficult, we have, I'm not going to be there, something, something, at 8 p.m. m., so here we have 8. p.m. at the end of a sentence that looks like a deadline, right, we're going to be there so we should use before or until for this sentence, it's hard because actually both are okay for this sentence, I won't be there at 8. pm es correct and I will not be there until 8 pm is also correct, however the meanings are very different, just as we practice in these two sentences, I will be in the office until I am in the office at 7 pm the same is true here no I will be there at 8 pm means I will not be there at 8 pm it is not possible for me I cannot go however I will not be there until 8 pm this sentence means after 8 pm. m. or starting at 8 p.m. m. and after I goto be there, so be careful in some cases, both before and until are correct, but they change the meaning of the sentence, okay, let's continue with another example, so the next one the example sentence is also a little difficult is if my appointment doesn't arrive something something 7 pm I'm leaving okay so here we have we have two actions uh it doesn't arrive my appointment doesn't arrive a negative point and I'm leaving so it looks like there are two actions here, however, we have this 7 pm, this it marks a deadline, so if my date doesn't come, there is a deadline here, if this is not completed, something is going to happen, the person will leave. go out, so in this case 7 p.m. m. they show a deadline so we have to use buy if my date doesn't arrive until 7pm. m., we could use that, but it doesn't sound as natural, so the nuance here again is of a deadline. something that is going to happen at 7 pm 7 pm marks the end point in this situation, so we use buy here, okay, let's go to the next pair again, these are very interesting points, we have to get off the beach, blah blah , at 10 a.m. m. and we have to stay on the beach, blah, blah, blah, at 10 a.m. m., okay, so I included these two sentences because I wanted to show the emphasis of changing actions and continuous actions so we can see that 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 to stay which shows a continuous action stay in one place so here, as you can guess, then We have to leave the beach, blah, blah, blah, 10 a. m., some change, some deadline, so we will use goodbye to show our deadline in the second sentence, we have to stay on the beach, stay shows a continuous action and then it will end here, so we'll use it until we have to stay on the beach until 10 a.m.

This shows us a continuous action and maybe at 10 a.m. let's get off the beach, okay, let's move on to the next sentence, I'm not going abroad, blah blah. blah, I learn English, okay, so there's no time point here, there's no 10 a.m. m. nor 8 p. m., tomorrow etc. so this is a little more complex, maybe we have to travel abroad and learn English, so it seems like there is no real deadline here, but maybe we have 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 this shows us that something different is going to happen in the future so we should use even to mark that change, okay?

Our last example sentence today is that we told him to wake up blah blah blah at 6am. m., so once again, our last sentence may be a little simple, but 6 a.m. m. They show us a similar action at this deadline. You can see many of these uses. It's a time to set a deadline for an action, so here we told him to wake up at 6 a.m. m., this is the point where something needs to happen, so we should use buy here, okay, cool, so those are some example sentences you can look at. on and think about when you are trying to decide whether to use before or until.

Please note, however, there are some cases where both before and until are correct, but the meaning will change significantly depending on which one you use, so I hope this lesson was helpful to you if you have any questions or would like to try to do an example sentence using buy or until, be sure to leave us a comment. If you also liked this video, be sure to hit the thumbs up and subscribe. our channel, if you haven't already, thank you very much for watching this episode and see you soon, bye, ten words to connect thoughts, these will be 10 words that you can use to make the transition between ideas, very useful in both speech and in speech. write come on is also a word that you can use to add information I went to the store this morning I also went to buy coffee that is true however however it is used to contrast or 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 tonkotsu ramen 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 do I feel that it is used more commonly in speech than in writing?

It is used to present two sides of a story or two sides of some information. For example, I'm thinking about visiting Taiwan sometime this year, but on a different note. I'm also thinking about visiting Thailand yet, so it might be common to use still with the word like but or a word like although, then you're saying that there's some other factor like um, like I'm really really tired this week or even Although I have a lot of task 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 thing that maybe makes this other action hard to do or hard to do or whatever. but even though there is this, you still have this here, so maybe the two are used as a pair, I still want to go out later, even though I'm tired, so yeah, a very useful word that we use a lot when telling stories.

Um, so, for example, if I could tell a story about my morning today, when I got up, brushed my teeth, and then made breakfast, then worked a little, then took a shower, and then cooked a little, blah, blah, blah, you. We will often hear and then also and then I and then we and then you and so on, so it's actually very useful for sequencing, so I think it's a useful word besides in addition, so it's commonly used in a pattern like besides. that different meaning of something. Also, I went out with my friends this weekend, but other than that I didn't do much, so another way of saying that phrase is I went out with my friends this weekend, but other than that, other than that activity, I didn't do much . okay, meanwhile or you might hear a similar expression meanwhile, it means that while you are doing action a at the same time, maybe somewhere else action b is happening, this is used a lot in storytelling, so, For example, I was working in my office all week last week, meanwhile, my coworkers across town were having a party without me, so these two things are happening at the same time, but maybe separated from each other. yeah, meanwhile, okay, in the same way, I don't really use this word personally at all. often used after an introduction um similar to the pleasure is all mine in a formal situation, so maybe someone will say: you know, hey, it was great seeing you last weekend, thank you so much for coming to my barbecue, you can say yeah, in the same way, it was really It's good to see you in your family, so in the same way it means I have the same feeling or I have the same idea.

It's a friendly phrase, but I personally don't use it to transition between thoughts. um I would just use and I guess, but no. this is how I would use it instead like this instead is used as instead of want to instead of be 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 We are introducing two alternatives essentially, so instead of means instead of or as a substitute for, 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. I had dinner at home furthermore this is a very good word for more formal situations I like to use furthermore when writing I don't really use furthermore when speaking unless I'm trying to be very formal for some similar reason Also, you also do point a and point b and then when you want to make one more point that is related to point a and point b you can also say point c, that's how to build an argument and also it can be used to finish that argument a little bit, our new marketing plan worked very well last month, we noticed an increase in sales of the product and also we have gained a lot of new customers, something like that, so you are quickly presenting a series of ideas that are related to each other that you can also use to top off 20 words that you will need for the beach let's go sunglasses the first word is sunglasses sunglasses are those dark glasses that you put on your face when it's light outside in a sentence I forgot my sunglasses wait, I forgot my sunglasses beach beach is the place near the ocean you can have a beach in your city or in your country the beach is usually visited in the summer the image is a lot of sun you can get a tan you can get sunburned but it is generally 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 very excited in this sentence she walked along the beach swimming the next word is swimming, swimming is of course a popular activity to do on the beach.

I go swimming at the beach every summer or in this sentence, be very careful when swimming in the Pacific Ocean, it can cause shock, sun, sun, it's that big bright thing in the sky that will make your skin change color if you stay in it for a long time then the sun um in a sentence the sun is very bright let's get out of the sun palm tree the next word is palm tree so palm trees are our type of Tree usually seen in tropical places like Hawaii has palm trees anywhere nearby of the equator and then on the midline of the earth.

I think that's where palm trees tend to grow. It's kind of a picture of the beach, so there are palm trees there. there are many palm trees near the beach in california that palm tree is almost 60 feet tall shell the next word is shell shell are those small objects that you find on the beach like in the sand or in the water in some cases they are like clam shells or maybe oysters sometimes too, depending on what you consider a seashell, but if you break down the word, it's sea and shell, like something from the ocean and the shell or like the outer covering of something, so it's usually a small creature .

A small animal has lived inside the shell and then you can collect them and I don't know, look at them or do something with them. Little children like to collect them. I used to collect shells when I was a kid. OMG, look at this example. phrase says that it is bad luck to catch shells from the beach oops swimsuit swimsuit is the clothes you wear to swim in your swimsuit there are swimsuits for men swimsuits for women generally swimsuits for men are like shorts shorts or I guess there's what the speedo does swimsuits for men also the very small ones and then for women they have one piece swimsuits and then they have bikini type swimsuits, two piece swimsuits , so in a sentence I hate buying swimsuits in this sentence I need a new swimsuit this summer ocean the next word is ocean ocean is the big blue the big water the big deep blue sea in a sentence the ocean is so beautiful by the night in this sentence he dipped his feet in the ocean lifeguard lifeguard a lifeguard is a person on the beach life guard so someone who cares lives if someone gets into trouble in the water they start to drown or start to have problems if there is an accident in the beach the lifeguard on the beach is responsible to handle that problem then they will call an ambulance or they know how to give first aid to save people so in a sentence it is important to go to beaches where there are lifeguards available if you need help in this sentence, there is no lifeguard on duty here, jet ski, the next word is jet ski.

The jet ski is like a jet ski that you can ride with just your friends. Riding jet skis is a lot of fun in prayer, if you have a driver's license you can drive a jet ski with a beach towel. The next expression is a beach towel. towel Beach towel is different from normal towel because usually beach towels have a bright color and bright pattern or there are towels that you don't care about or towels that can get sand or dirt, usually in a towel that you use at home you don't want to get your towel too dirty so a beach towel is a towel that you only use on the beach in a sentence I bought a new beach towel and it has a picture of a hamburger in this sentence oh I don't have sand all over it my beach towel, that's the point of the beach towel, beach chair, the next expression is beach chair, since you can probably guess that it is a chair that you use only on the beach, so again, this is a chair you don't mind, it's fine. if it gets dirty or filled with sand, generally a beach chair is easy to fold or carry also in a sentence, I have a couple of beach chairs that I'm taking to the barbecue this weekend in this sentence, can we use these beach chairs? sand castle, the next word is sand castles, sand castles are usually made by children and use them as buckets, so children like to put sand in a bucket or move sand in piles and design castles or these really complicated mazes or something they do, things that make buildings. of sand we call them sand castles um so in a sentence my brother and I used to make sand castles on the beachwhen we were kids that's true in this sentence take the cubes and we'll make a sandcastle cooler so cooler is a noun in this case, refrigerator is the place where you keep your drinks and your food.

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 on the beach in hot weather so in a sentence did you put a lot of beers in the cooler? I forgot the ice for the coldest tide, the next word is tide, tide is the water level, the level of the ocean water. at different times of the day, so if you're interested in this sort of thing, you might know about high tide and low tide.

High tide means the water level on the beach is high. low tide means the water level on the beach is low, so the tide is how high or low the water is in this sentence uh the tide went out and revealed a starfish went down means it went a bit so the tide is the flow of water tan so tan is uh we use it as a noun like tan in a sentence it means that your skin becomes a darker color so be careful there are two words that we use in English tan means that your skin becomes a little bit darker and we also use the word sunburn or just burn burn means your skin turns red it means like it's damaged maybe your skin peels a little bit so in America anyway in the US In the US, a tan is generally considered a positive thing, many people want tanned skin, but sunburns where the skin is red and damaged are bad, so be careful, that's two. different words we use to talk about this the change in skin color I got a tan last summer at the beach in this sentence you have such a nice tan in Florida snorkeling the next word is snorkeling snorkeling is really a lot of fun snorkeling is swim but you have one like a hose, you have a tube that you can breathe through while you swim, so normally you put on goggles, you wear goggles while you swim in the ocean, you can look down and see fish or you can see things in the ocean, but I can still breathe, so it's a really fun thing to do. do to watch fish or just hang out and see a different point of view.

I went diving for the first time, maybe when I was 22 23 years old. In this sentence, she bought goggles so she could snorkel in Hawaiian flip-flops. The next word is flip flops flip flops is a very common beach sandal. Many people also like to wear flip flops in daily life. Some people prefer not to. It's up to you, like in California I know, especially in the coastal cities, everyone wears flip flops. -Flip flops are very comfortable, so flip flops have the image of being a little cheap or just very, very simple. It is the most basic sandal possible.

Why are they called flip flops? Because I always thought it was because of the sound they make. make sound I guess maybe it sounds like flip flops in a sentence I usually don't wear flip flops in this sentence these flip flops keep breaking up the sunscreen the next word is sunscreen sunscreen or you can also hear sunscreen these are products that you can put on your skin to prevent a tan or to prevent a sunburn sunscreen so it's a protection it's a protection against sunlight I just pressed this screen so sunscreen is very important as they say you should use sunscreen to prevent to help prevent the skin cancer in a sentence I ran out of sunscreen I need to buy more in this sentence mom I don't need sunscreen bikini the next word is bikini bikini we talked about um swimsuit a little bit before but bikini is usually a swimsuit for women and It's two pieces, there's a bottom half and a top half and often the top half of the bikini or sometimes the bottom half you have to tie a knot or you have to secure something, I guess if you don't tie it carefully, you can create a problem like it might fall off then bikini is a popular style of swimsuit for women are you going to wear your bikini to the beach tomorrow? in this sentence my bikini fell apart in front of everyone it was so embarrassing five sentence patterns you can use as an

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beginner come on the first expression you can use as a beginner is personally i think or i would just use i think that personally makes sound a little more polite.

I think you can use this to present an opinion for example, Personally, I think pizza is amazing, Personally, I think dinosaurs would have been delicious, Personally, I think cars should be made to enjoy with friends, okay, I'm going to edit that personally, I think you shouldn't worry about that, yeah that's probably it. a much more useful sentence than dinosaurs would be delicious the next expression is what does blah blah blah mean, so where is the word you don't know, for example, what does pasta mean, what does stegosaurus mean, so a word like stegosaurus is really strange word you probably don't know stegosaurus is a type of dinosaur we're on a very I don't know jurassic dinosaur we're on a jurassic adventure right now so this is a pattern you use when you don't know, uh, when you don't know the meaning of the word and you'd like someone to explain it to you, so if you say what stegosaurus means, then someone might say oh, it's a dinosaur, it's like he's a short guy.

He has a lot of spikes on his back and he has a long tail and he fights with the Tyrannosaurus Rex if you saw the Disney fantasy movie, okay, in this sentence, what does complication mean? means problem, okay, the next pattern you can use is: can you tell me more about blah blah blah? So, on a topic you'd like to learn more about, you can say: Can you tell me more about last week's soccer game? Can you tell me more about the plan for next week's party? something you would like to know more about can you say can you tell me more about this? okay, so in one sentence, can you tell me more about your sandwich options? that's a useful sentence, that's a useful sentence, okay, in this sentence, not here I don't have that at home.

Can you tell me more about it? This is using the reverse pattern. Well, the next expression is: "If it were up to me, if it were up to me, I had to teach this in a class a couple of weeks ago, actually yes." it was up to me means if I could make the decision if this was my if this was my decision uh blah blah blah so if I could make the decision this is what I would do but one point here is the nuance: no It is my decision, this is not my decision, but if it were my decision, I would do blah, blah, blah, so for example, if it was up to me, every day would be Saturday, but that's not right, so, that It'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 was up to me I would take my boss to dinner oh my things got scandalous the next pattern is I feel that blah blah, you can use I feel that when you present a suggestion or something you would like to do especially for food, drinks or activities, for example, I fancy a coffee, I fancy Italian food, I fancy an action movie, is there any activity or something you would like to do at the end of this pattern I feel like doing bowling this afternoon something has to go here some kind 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 really feel Great, I feel like a million dollars, for example, if you feel really bad, I feel like garbage.

It's a nice expression that somehow came out of my head. Anyway, you can use this in two ways, but you must complete it with a noun phrase at the end. from the sentence 10 things to do in the summer in the united states so let's go travel abroad to travel abroad to travel abroad abroad means outside your country, so it means traveling somewhere other than the states united in my case, please don't forget this expression, many of my students will say that this summer I am going to Europe, you need to use two before the place, however, you don't need to use two before there, so the Students will sometimes say, I want to go there. you can't do that you have to use two before the specific name of a place there is no specific place so you don't need to use two keep that in mind to relax on the beach to relax on the beach ah that sounds fantastic right now relax on the beach you go to the beach and just relax there you lie in the sun you go for a swim maybe you drink a beer you get a tan if you want to do that of course some people you don't put on sunscreen whatever you like to do on the beach just do that and enjoy in one sentence I would rather relax on the beach than have a really active vacation to learn English with

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I guess you can visit the website for more content there too. take advantage of my time and learn English at englishglass101.com have a barbecue oh yes, next one is one of my favorite things to do in the summer, wherever I am, having a barbecue or having a barbecue is fine too. But barbecue is generally like writing, I love to have 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 party all night, party all night, what? No? It doesn't have to be summer or America to party all night, I'm just saying that anyway, partying all night means doing something you presumably enjoy with your friends or not, I guess I've been partying like all night the night at home I tweeted that pajamas are the best and then I tweeted a picture of myself really excited about a cookie and I was really embarrassed the next day so I deleted it in the morning since I won't have school in the morning I'll be partying all night in a different prayer.

I don't like partying all night I get tired I always hit a wall like at three in the morning like I'm saying yay and then at three in the morning I'm like I'm running to sleep to get a tan to get a tan a tan in some cultures this is a good thing in some cultures it is not a good thing it means sitting in the sun or lying in the sun and letting the sun change the color of your skin be careful there are two expressions in English there one is to tan and the other is to get sunburned , so in our culture anyway, tanning means your skin turns a darker brown color, but when it turns red it's bad, that means you've burned your skin, all right. burn a lot so we would have two separate words to describe that in one sentence you will find me by the pool tanning to go hiking the next expression is hiking so walking means walking or trekking usually in a mountain or in an environment natural then, in a sentence I used to go hiking with my family every summer, that is more or less true in this sentence, I am going to hike the Pacific Crest Trail to work part time, the next expression is work part time to work.

A part-time job is very common if you are a student, especially when you have your summer vacation, it is an opportunity for you to earn a little money by working a part-time job in a sentence that unfortunately she cannot. go because she has to work her part time job when I was a teenager she had a part time job at a golf course yes because she was on the golf team at school very convenient and lovely experiences a plus for everyone have fun with friends Having fun with friends is also something that you don't need to do only in the summer, but you can do it at any time.

We're having fun now, aren't we? So having fun with friends is simply enjoying time with your friends. It's great. uh in a sentence I love to have fun with my friends whenever I can he has fun with his friends but he doesn't do much else to attend summer school the next is to attend summer school to attend summer school he usually has a bad image Anyway, I feel with you in the US because it seems like maybe you missed something in normal school, but for some people maybe there is a special course they want to attend or they like a special internship program or just something extra special that they would like to study. in a sentence I hated going to summer school when I was a child since I failed the class I will have to go to summer school 20 I must know familiar words so come on mother mother is the person who gave birth to you mother can you say mom mother mom mom mommy uh my mother has an incredible kitchen, it's true father father father is the person who didn't give birth to you but who helped you happen, so we say father dad dad pata pop my father is a very sensible person who also real sistersister is a sister, so my brother could say that I have an older sister, whatever, yeah, a sister or someone.

You can use this for friends that you feel very close to, like she is my sister. That's okay too, brother brother. sometimes we use brother for this uh I would say I have a younger brother as a sister, you can use brother for any man who you feel is similar to a brother, someone you feel very close to, so he is like a brother to me or you're like my brother grandma grandma when you put grand plus something else it means the next generation or the previous generation so you have your mother and your father in this case grandma means your mother or your father's mother uh it can be any of them so grandmother my grandmother was born a long time ago grandfather grandfather so 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 your mother or your brother father someone directly related to one of your parents who is a man is your uncle uh my uncle is very good at carpentry also true aunt aunt can you also listen aunt they are both right you can say aunt or aunt an aunt or an aunt is your mother or your father's sister my aunts gave me a collection of stamps when I was a little child, that's also true cousin cousin a cousin is your aunt or uncle's children, they can be anywhere, so usually these people are from the same generation as you, not always, but cousins ​​usually are.

They are about the same age at least in my family, it's a lot of fun to see all my cousins ​​at family barbecues nephew nephew a nephew is the male child of a brother, so if you have a brother or sister and they have children, any male child is your nephew. nephews I don't have nephews niece niece niece so your brother or your sister's daughters any daughter they have you can say she is my niece or I have two nieces how many nieces do you have or do I have many nieces wife wife so this is a female couple you are with married she is my wife or how is your wife wife is only used when you are married to that person husband husband is a man to whom someone is married so how is your husband?

This is my husband again husband is only used when you are married to that person father father father usually usually used for a mother or a father like I am a father he is my father she is my father often used in the plural they are my parents these are my parents my parents are at 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 didn't raise you but someone else, like an aunt or an uncle, or maybe a different person. a figure in your community raised you, you can say that she is like a mother to me or that she had a parental role in my life child child child is a small human being a small human being like a child does not necessarily have to be from your family like If you are in the park and you see children running, you can say ah, look at that child, you can use singular child, but be careful, child changes plural to children, so not children, but children, one child, two children . please be careful this has an irregular plural form maybe one day I will have a son son son is a child male descendant male my uncle has many children that is not true daughter daughter a daughter is a girl I wonder if I will ever have a daughter brother-in-law brother-in-law then we use in-law to refer to our married couples family members, not my brother, but my partner's brother-in-law, used after the position of any family member or the title of a family member to prove that they originally belong to my partner's family, but are now also part of my extended family.

I'm going out for drinks with my brother-in-law tomorrow night father-in-law father-in-law so we have father-in-law here, meaning my partner's father so my father-in-law is very kind mother-in-law mother-in-law- mother-in-law means my partner's mother in a sentence my mother-in-law and I get along very well hello everyone my name is Alicia today I'm going to talk 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 some grammar points that students make mistakes with when you should use will or will not when you should use going to or not going to so I'm going to talk about some of these points some basic points that I hope can help you decide when to use will and when to use going to so let's get off to a good start, the first point I want to talk about is whether or not to go to uh in the positive form and the negative form I'm not going to go to uh for today I want to talk about two occasions in which we will use these grammatical points, so the first time, the first situation The one where you use go to or not go to is for plans decided before the conversation. so if you make a decision about your future plans or if someone else makes the decision before the conversation about your future plans, you should use go or no go, it's something that is likely to happen with high certainty, so this It's a plan.

That has a high level of certainty, meaning there is a good chance this plan will come to fruition. You decided before the conversation, which means you've probably had some time to plan your future to do some planning, so use go to for something you decide before the conversation, so on a timeline It could look like this: we have past now and future here, so your plan is for the future, yes, but you decided the plan at some point before the conversation, so if this point is now, this is your conversation you made the plan you made the decision before the conversation in this case use I'm going to I'm going to at the beginning of this video I said I'm going to talk about the future tense simple will and I'm going to decided before this video I started with my plans.

I decided what I was going to talk to you about before the video started, so I used to present that plan. So please keep this in mind, okay, but let's talk about Will now, so we use Will and Will. for decisions made at the time of speaking, note that will is the positive form, here it is not the negative form, so a decision made at the time of speaking, this is a way to use will or not , you can use this, for example, in restaurants, you can use it to talk about plans you make quickly after knowing a friend's information.

Keep in mind what will and what won't. tends to have less certainty. He made the plan the moment he spoke. Go to is used for plans made before the conversation, but Will is used for a plan made on the spur of the moment or a very quick plan he just made, so that's the picture he takes. just use will or use will't in those cases, if you made the decision before the conversation you will most likely need to use go to, so go back to our timeline here if going to is used for a decision you made in the past. about your future plans is used for a decision you make in the conversation during the conversation the plan can be at 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 In fact, first I will, if you have made a decision at the time of speaking and therefore must use will to communicate that decision, you can improve or you can communicate that there is a high probability of it happening with the word probably, so here I will do it.

I'll show you this in an example sentence in a moment, but you can use probably will and won't. I probably won't remember that order, although I probably will or I probably won't, point number two. What I want to mention about these two grammar points is to make your pronunciation a little more natural. Try shortening both expressions. English for will and will not when you use you will use the contracted form with your subject, for example, I will become island, you will become yule, they will become veil, using the contracted form sounds much more natural in everyday conversation, It is correct to say you will, but it sounds very rigid and unnatural, so please use the contracted form to sound a little more natural. you can use the contracted form with probably for, probably, they'll probably spin, probably all of these are pretty good, okay, so let's go. practice using them well first example sentence maybe something is going on a hike tomorrow so how do we know if it is a will or going to sentence?

We have a clue here maybe maybe then it means there's a low level of certainty maybe a low probability that this is going to happen, so let's say maybe tomorrow I'm going on a hike. This is probably the best answer I'm going to maybe do as long as you can communicate the idea. Yes, it sounds like you decided on your plan before the conversation, but you're using maybe. so it doesn't quite match, use hallway instead maybe go on a hike tomorrow okay, let's look at the next sentence. I'm, there's a big clue here, a grammatical clue.

I'm something, going to France next year, so next year, this. go to france next year this is a pretty important decision most people probably wouldn't make this decision at the time of speaking so we should use go to I'm going to go to france next year this is the correct use of go a in this case a decision made before the time to speak and there is a high level of certainty here okay, let's see the next one, I decided here is a clue in the past tense decided if you saw a different video, wow, I decided that I'm something so to go out dinner I'm too tired okay so past tense this shows us a big clue past tense decided this implies that the decision was made before the conversation so I'm something go out to dinner I'm too tired here's another clue so go out to dinner and too tired this should probably be I'm not going out to dinner I'm too tired so this person has decided I'm not going out to dinner we should use go to the negative not go to because the The speaker made the decision before the conversation started and there is a high level of certainty, there is a high probability of this happening, so we should use going to in this sentence, okay, so I included the following sentence because I think it's really good. to remember every 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 something, have a glass of wine, please, in this case, maybe it's in a restaurant or a bar but in this case you just made the decision looking at the menu looking at a catalog looking at something you made a decision at that time and you are ordering that item that you are ordering for that service we will use "I will have a glass of wine please" so in this example sentence I used a glass of wine to show my request to order a glass of wine, but If you want to use this pattern to make a request in a service situation simply replace a wine glass with the item or service you would like, for example I will have a beer, I will have a steak, I will have a hamburger, these are all things that You can order at a restaurant. or in a bar, if you are shopping you can say I will take the blue one for example, so place your order using the same pattern but replacing the wine glass section that I used in my example sentence, okay, next one um, this. one is maybe a little challenging, uh, it's that you're late so you have to take a taxi to your next meeting, so maybe it's an assistant or someone who supports someone else with their agenda, okay, so in the next sentence we are.

When looking at a situation where there has been a sudden or rapid change in a schedule, someone is late and a new decision is made at the time of speaking or a new decision is made to reflect the new situation, so let's take a look. You're late, so you'll have to take a taxi. You could say, "You're late, so you have to take a taxi," but maybe this is a future plan, something that will happen in an hour, maybe this is it. something the speaker is planning for later that day, so you'll do it, that's a good way to use it, you're late, so you'll have to take a taxi to the next meeting, okay, the last one of the I want to talk probably is used that I mentioned here, so you probably remember that we can use probably to improve or we can use probably to communicate a higher level of certainty with the decision we made at the time of speaking, so you won't go to the party here, so I probably something something will turn out right then any is a great clue here remember we use any to show agreement but negative is okay so in today's last example sentence we will look at a situation where the listener has heard new information that uses the expression you are not going to the party, so they are confirming new information that they just heard, after that they are going to make a decision on what their plans are for the party, so let's take a look, we know it can probably be used with will and won't and we know since then that the speaker just made this decision and we know it's negative with either one, so we should use will't, you're not going to the party, so I probably won't go either. so the speaker uses uh won't listen to show a decisiontaken at the time of speaking but the speaker also uses probably won't to show that there is a high probability that this is going to happen there is a high probability that this is the future plan probably won't be right, so there is a lot of information communicated there with little words like then and any and probably too, so keep this in mind when trying to decide when to use it and you won't.

It's not going to be okay, so that's my summary of some useful grammar points, how to talk about your future tense plans, so I'm going to end the lesson now. I hope you enjoyed this lesson. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to write to us. leave it in a comment or if you want to try some practice sentences, feel free to leave them in the comments section too if you haven't already, make sure to like this video and subscribe to our channel too if you want. find more things like this more lessons more information like this you can visit englishclass101.com thank you very much for watching this episode and see you soon bye hello everyone my name is alicia today we are going to talk about simple things past tense we are going to talk about how to make statements simple past tense in English, so let's start right, first let's talk about when we should use the simple past tense.

Today's simple past tense statements are for actions that started and ended in the past, so these are things that started or started and ended in the past. Both must be true to use the simple past tense. The second point for today is that these are actions that happened at a specific moment in time, so at a specific moment in time. it may be yesterday it may be an hour ago it may be last year it may be when you were a child all of these are a specific moment in time but the key is that we know when the action occurred so a specific moment in time is a point two for this grammar point third uh we can use the 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 want, but one point about this make sure include a frequency indicator if you want to talk about an action that was repeated in the past, frequency indicator, for example, I just mentioned some every week, every month, every year, so frequency means how often an indicator shows with how often you did it, so you can use repeated actions in the past tense. to show, let's look at something that you did a lot in the past, for example, to give you an idea, uh, the past is down here, now is this point here and the future is up here, when we use the simple past tense, it's an action that began and ended. in the past, somewhere before now, that is at a specific 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 happen.

Third, we can use them to repeat them. action, then maybe these actions are repeated, but we know when the repetition occurred, we know when we repeat these actions, so it's okay to use the simple past tense to describe them. Okay, now we know when we should use the simple past tense, we know why we should use it. simple past tense, but how do we make statements in simple past tense? So when you want to use the simple past tense to explain an action that happened in the past, you need to conjugate your verb, you need to change your verb, that means when you are using a regular verb, you make verb plus ed, so verb plus e d is the basic form for simple past verbs, eh, but keep in mind that this is only for regular verbs, not all verbs are regular verbs.

So for example, some more common ones are speak, which becomes spoken , begin, which is started and enjoy, which becomes enjoyed. Be careful though, you will notice that the past tense form of the verbs has a few different pronunciations, so for example begin is initiated and has an id. sound is not an ed sound but an id sound. You might hear a word like walk too which has a sort of t sound walk becomes walk started starts and sounds id and then there is also a sound like inspired a very soft d sound so there are three past tense verb sounds to listen for : an id sound started with a soft d sound like breathed and then a harder t sound like walk, so pay attention to that when you try to make these past tense verb conjugations okay, but some verbs are irregular verbs the verbs irregulars do not have a simple rule to understand past tense conjugation how to change them into past tense there is 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 to the tense past tense, for example, some common ones are eat, which becomes eight, speak, speak, and do, if you see a verb somewhere that looks a little strange or you're not sure what it is.

The present tense form would be: you can consult a dictionary and try to remember it from there. Now that we've talked about regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense, let's try using them to make some sentences. I prepared some example sentences so let's take a look well 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 it's an irregular verb so I can't use the ed rule for regular verbs the correct conjugation is bring b-r-o-u g-h-t he brought a towel and sunglasses to the beach, this is the correct conjugation here, so bring is an irregular verb, okay, let's move on to the next sentence, they were something to the gym every day last week, so here I show you a repeated action. here I am using it 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 am using these two points in addition to a past simple, the basic structure of past simple here, so the verb we want to use here is go, but go is an irregular verb, so we can't use prompt, for example, go changes to gone in the past tense, so it was the correct answer for this sentence here, okay, let's try the next one. something to tell my boss about my schedule so the verb I want to use here is forget forget is a very useful word that I think I remember but again forget is not a regular verb forget is an irregular verb so we can't use the ed form forget in past tense forgets, okay, so I forgot to tell my boss about my schedule, this is the right sentence here, okay, let's go to something a little different, uh, here's a negative sentence, I don't think they have done something, a reservation at the restaurant.

Well, here I am using a phrase. I want to use the phrase make a reservation to make a reservation. So the verb here is do. This was one of my example verbs for the irregular form, so do becomes done. I don't think they did. a reservation at the restaurant is the correct verb form to use here, okay, next sentence we have something, some junk food almost every day last month, so here again I have uh every day, but I almost have here, so almost every day, not every day, but close to every day and then last month last month is my specific time in this case, so here we have junk food, which means that the verb that we want to use It's probably eat and we learn that eat is an irregular verb for which there is no rule.

Putting this together, we know that eating becomes eight, we ate junk food almost every day last month. Great, okay, the next sentence has two spaces for the verbs, that's actually okay, so the next sentence that I prepared I included because a lot of my students ask how. to report information when you want to report information share something you heard from a friend an action in the past tense you need to conjugate the verb of reporting for example say it is said or hear it is heard you need to conjugate this verb and you need to conjugate the information you heard, so there are two conjugations of past tense that should happen when you report information, let's take a look, so here we have she something something she something something a great moment at the party so here she blah, blah, blah, a great moment at the party like this We use the expression have a good time have a good time again have is an irregular verb, so we conjugate it as had had a great time at the party, okay, but then report your speech so that someone has given you information in the past tense give se converts I gave you information so the verb to give information a neutral way of passing information is say so conjugate say in the past tense is an irregular verb so we use sed say becomes said so she said she had a great time at the party, okay please be careful with your pronunciation with the word said many people I have heard use said say it is not correct so use sed it sounds like s-e-d the pronunciation but it is said s-a-i-d is the spelling say becomes in saying she said she had a great time at the party, okay, last one, okay, so today's last example sentence 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 a sentence simply by connecting your past tense verbs. together so let's take a look okay yesterday something something late something something shocking and something something to my mother okay so the verbs I want to use for this sentence are sleep go and talk sleep go and talk all of these are irregular verbs there are no regular verbs verbs in this sentence so sleep in past tense becomes slept go in past tense becomes was and talk in past tense becomes spoken so here in one sentence I have explained three things about my day yesterday uh yesterday I slept late I went shopping and I talked to my mother so you can explain a lot of things to her in the past tense and some connecting words, in this case I just used and to connect the last two things in this sentence, so keep this in mind when sharing information. about your past events, so today we talked about the simple past tense and we talked about how to conjugate regular and irregular verbs.

It may seem a little difficult to understand which verbs are regular and which are irregular, but with a little practice it will become easier, so I hope you enjoyed this video. If you have any questions or comments, be sure to leave us a comment and let us know. Also be sure to like this video and subscribe to our channel if you haven't already. Thank you so much. To see it, visit us for more information at englishclass101.com and see you soon. Bye, I want to speak real English from your first lesson. Sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com.

Why don't Jurassic Park fans come out? Hello everyone, my name is Alicia and today we are going to talk about 15 questions you should know. These are 15 questions that you don't necessarily need to know how to ask. You may already know some of the questions, but you probably know them. I also heard these questions, so we'll practice some different answers for these questions as well, so let's get started. Do you like American food? The first question is, do you like American food? You will probably be asked this question. Do you like American food? You can say yes or no or you can give a specific example.

Someone says: do you like American food? Yes, I love Philly cheesesteaks. I would recommend saying yes or a little or or you can just say: I don't know what you recommend eating. Have you been to the United States? The next question is: Have you been to the United States? Have you been to the United States? Then someone asks you: Have you been to the United States? maybe not, I haven't done it yet, but I want to do it when you want to ask someone this question, you can say: Have you been to Japan? Have you been to Egypt?

Have you been to China? Whatever. You can use your own country when asking this question. As? are you how are you when someone asks how are you don't say I'm fine thank you and please don't say that please say something more natural like well great I'm fine how are you something like that is much better than what I'm going to go for, thank you and know a little more Genuine in your answer too when you ask this question. Maybe a point will help you sound a little more natural when you ask someone else. I don't like.

Try to say how you are. are you instead of how you are or and make sure your intonation is correct? Some people asked me, uh, how are you? A little bit too, yes, with this question or like, how are you, but how are you?, it should be the intonation. With this, how are you? how are you? It's a little more natural. How long have you been studying English? how long have you been studying English? how long have you been studying English? great question to know the answer to your answer should be that I have been studying English for blah blah blah years or blah blah blah months or blah blah weeks, but if that is too much for you, you can use the time.

How long have you been studying English? Six years.sentence I want to go there is perfectly fine so this is a mistake that non-native speakers seem to make from time to time um maybe that's fine uh and then another one that I've heard a lot recently is this phrase uh in case of and then a country, for example in the case of china in the case of egypt or whatever where someone is trying to explain like the political situation or a policy in that country uh in the case of um but actually it is not necessary to use kasib only in china in europe in japan whatever It is not necessary to use kasiv, this pattern is used in an emergency situation or is used uh to talk about alternative plans which often have to do with the weather, for example, in case of rain, the event will be will be canceled or in case of a tornado, please go to the nearest evacuation center.

I don't know something like that, so it's used as an emergency situation, it's not used to talk about policies in the countries where it's only used and the place where it's much better, much more natural, so those are a I've noticed some things that non-native speakers have difficulty with sometimes, so maybe these will be helpful to you too, so thank you very much for looking if you have a bad habit that you've noticed when speaking English. or if you have noticed a bad habit and someone else speaks English or writes or whatever, leave it in a comment and let's compare.

It might be interesting to see if there are other things that people tend to have problems with. Thank you so much. Thank you very much for watching this episode and we will see you soon. Hello everyone. My name is Alicia and today we are going to talk about 10 of the most difficult words to pronounce according to you, so we collect information from you on Facebook. Thank you. Thank you very much for sending us your ideas and these were the 10 most difficult words for you to pronounce, so let's start absolutely absolutely absolutely can be difficult to pronounce absolutely means 100 absolutely is a phrase okay are you going to that music event next week ? absolutely yes 100 definitely absolutely loot like a loot l-u-t-e big frost dirt apparently means dirty I've never heard or used this word before, but maybe it's hard to pronounce big dirt my apartment door got dirty during the storm last week breakfast The next word is breakfast, breakfast is difficult to pronounce, but that is the meaning of breakfast.

You're breaking the fast, so a fast is a period of time without eating and breaking simply means, in this case, breaking something it doesn't refer to. crush one thing but, um, stop something to break the overnight fast, in other words, you're fasting overnight, you're not eating, so you wake up in the morning, you break the fast, but we don't say breakfast, we say. breakfast in a sentence this morning for breakfast I had a bowl of cereal with grapes and I also had a coffee buddy buddy yeah buddy a lot of my students struggle with this they say buddy or they say call you or something like that because the spelling of this word is really very strange there's that g-u-e at the end or more commonly I feel like it's just a coworker, a colleague sounds a little more formal to me than a coworker, someone you work with or someone you have a business relationship with in some sense could be a person from another company could be someone from your own company anyone you do business with is your colleague can be your colleague in a sentence I'm going to a networking event with my colleagues next week miscellaneous that miscellaneous miscellaneous is just the spelling i I think maybe it's confusing this word miscellaneous miscellaneous just means other things or just other uncategorized things.

I keep a lot of miscellaneous items in a drawer in my house maybe not, they don't really fit into a category like they aren't kitchen stuff. It's not clothes, it's just a kind of mixture of various things, negotiation, the next word is negotiation, negotiation, yes, there are two t's in this, but neither of them are difficult, they are both very soft, it sounds sh because they go in a row of the i and another vowel that she a negotiation negotiation refers to a compromise between two people you are trying to make a decision and you negotiate in this case it is a substantive form of negotiation the business negotiations continued for more than a month with this important agreement kingdom I see why this is difficult, it's that part of Rome, a small kingdom, it's a strange word, isn't it?

Used to talk like it's a fantasy world, it's kind of a nuance of this phrase, the kingdom, uh, in a sentence, let us go. to the kingdom where the elves live and eat their bread, unfortunately the next word is unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately only means very bad. You can use this to start with bad news, for example, like unfortunately I can't come to work today because I'm sick or unfortunately I broke my arm at the basketball game last week. or unfortunately my haircut is bad vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary only refers to the words in one language my vocabulary in my second language is very very low I need a larger vocabulary to be able to express myself more clearly world world ah I see Why is this a difficult world?

It's hard to pronounce that. I think it's difficult together. Also, it's also a very short word at first, but you have to say so many strange things at the same time. Your tongue spins like this. one sentence, I've traveled all over the world and the best food is in my stomach, that's the end of it, so those were 10 hard words to pronounce. Try them slowly at first and try to work on saying them in a more natural way. speed if you want, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us on Facebook and make sure to subscribe to our channel so you don't miss out on this fun information, so thanks again for watching today and we'll see. again next time bye hello everyone my name is alicia and today we are going to talk about 10 phrases that you always want to hear so let's start, you win, the first phrase is, you win, you win, if you hear the phrase, you win.

It means you have won something, you will probably get something for free, that is a very happy thing, right, you want to get free things, congratulations, you won a car, yes, here are the keys to your new car, great, thank you, I brought you something special. It's exciting to hear because it means that this special little detail is like oh I thought just of a view so I brought you this, I brought you something special, really thank you, I miss you, I miss you, I miss you, it's cute, you can wear this with your friends. family members your partner whoever I miss you shows that you want to meet the other person you probably haven't seen them as much as you would like so you can say I miss you I miss you call your husband or wife or boyfriend girlfriend whoever is on the phone like this Maybe you haven't seen him in a long time you can say I miss you I miss you too take a break I will clean today take a break I will clean today this means someone else is going to clean your house for you or clean something for you I would love to hear this phrase right now because my apartment is a mess because I'm only there to sleep so maybe you've had a long day at work or a long day doing something and you come home and someone else has offered to do this for you so take a rest.

I'll do the cleaning today and you can respond. Thank you so much. I'll relax. The budget is. unlimited the next phrase you always want to hear is the budget is unlimited the budget is unlimited this could be at work this could be a budget a personal budget maybe but it just means there is no limit to the budget you can spend as much money as you want woohoo, very exciting, so let's see in a business context, maybe you have this new client who will give you a lot of money to build a new house or something, maybe you are building houses, that's your project, your boss gives you the budget . because this project is unlimited, let's really go crazy, there will be a bonus at the end of the month, yes, this is a phrase that you will probably be very excited to hear, it means that you will receive extra money from your work at the end of the month woohoo extra money very exciting such maybe you hear this from your boss or your manager or maybe your coworker at work or maybe you see it in an email there will be a bonus at the end of the month really I'm going to use mine to buy a new car, really, I'm going to use mine to go on a date, really, I'm going to use mine to get a new fish, you did a great job, you did a great job, you did a great job. something you'll probably hear about well, I don't know, you could hear this from almost anyone every time you've done a good job someone will congratulate you or tell you their opinion with this phrase you did a great job you finished a project at work and your boss says you did a great job thank you very much it was a lot of fun or thank you just say thank you you look great today you look great today the other person thinks your physical appearance is nice today doesn't think about today's part, you know, just accept the compliment, say like oh really, thank you so much, you look great today, oh, thank you so much, I got a new haircut, thank you so much, I got enough sleep, yeah, you were right, you were right.

This means that something you said in the past was right and everyone likes to be right. I think I saw that movie you recommended. You were right. It was really good. Oh good. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Don't be like me. Do you know or did I know I was right don't do that just say oh well I'm glad you're an excellent cook you're an excellent cook this is a good compliment especially for someone who likes to cook if you say you're an excellent cook it means you enjoyed their food , so let's look at a dinner party, for example, you're an excellent cook, this food is delicious, oh, thank you very much, I'm so glad you enjoyed it and that's the end of it, so those are things you want to hear, so Keep in mind that it is good for you to hear these things, but other people also want to hear them, so compliment other people, tell them they are amazing, if they are amazing, tell them they have good skills in whatever. is that they like to do people like to be congratulated, people want to like them, so write them a message or say something nice.

Yes, leave us a comment. We have a great team of people who do all these amazing things, so tell them how much you love it. I love you, thank you very much for joining us in this week's lesson. See you next time. Be sure to subscribe if you haven't already so you don't miss out on anything fun. Thank you very much again for watching. See you soon bye I guess I don't really need to do that I'm sorry amplified all the time Japanese Hello everyone my name is Alicia and today I'm here in the studio with Michael Hello and today We're going to talk about things that all American kids know , so let's get into it.

These are going to be things that we think maybe now I imagine most or all American kids know about or have done to some degree, so let's compare. Why don't you start us? Ah, this is good. I think everyone knows it. Everyone should know it. This is the magic word. Usually when you want someone to say please, you're trying to teach little kids. how to be polite, teach them proper manners and then you say what's the magic word and they say please, so for example, hey mom, can I have a cookie? what is the magic word?

Can I have a cookie, please? and then you give them the cookie, yeah, yeah. It's better than saying saying please I feel like saying what's the magic word is I don't know it's a more fun way to tell children to be polite you know saying please and thank you it's a bit hypocritical to be like saying please yes , well, that's not very polite mom, yes, yes, that's true, nice, nice, okay, well, uh, okay, I'll go to the first one I chose, okay, you'll see in a second, maybe what I chose, um, let's start with, let's see, oh.

I'll start with this one, I think kids probably all over the world know this one or some variation. I don't know what it's called in many different languages, but the hideout. Hide and seek is a very very basic game, I mean the game is more or less explained here hide and seek, so a group of children hide and then one person usually looks for all the other children, so this was one of those games that you would play with a group of friends or even just you know, like with one of your brothers, uh, if you don't have a lot of people, um, but the basic concept of the game is that one or more people hide and then, some Seconds later, you go look for those people, um, I guess. that you played this game I assume all the kids played this game for

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and hours playing this game so I mean there are different variations of the game but usually you have a home base and that's where the person starts and usually accounts that you like what 30 100 yes, something like that, yes, yes, then you close your eyes, the person who is and accept one, two, three and then when you finish, you say ready or not, here I come and you try to find it um and then if you hide and get to the base of operations and touch it, you're free, you made it, you win, yeah, um, or I don't know, multiple people can win, it's really like a game for little kids, yeah, like me .

I don't think I played it after I was nine, yeah, I think maybe around high school was probably the last time I played it,this case, I'm just talking about people, but man, so the first year there's something called the Freshman 15, which you may have heard of the Freshman 15 um, I don't know if you know this Freshman 15, the 15 and the Freshman. 15 refers to 15 pounds or pounds in terms of body weight, so it's kind of a joke that you might hear if you go to a university in the US or maybe in another country as well, you have this, um, the students freshmen move out of their parents house and go to school where they start eating cafeteria food any time they want, they can get their own snacks, they are essentially on their own and the joke is that freshmen earn 15 pounds their first year of college, do you know about freshmen who weigh 15?

I know very well, I won the 20th freshman year or something, so my problem is that, in part, I think the typical thing is that it's because of the freedom that your parents have a set menu, you know, like extracurricular activities. I actually lost weight my first time in college, um, but after that I changed things up a little bit and then I thought it was like a monster celebration. I was actually looking at pictures like the ones from last week or something. It was a big difference, actually, yeah, I had a little fun just watching old English in a three-minute video, you'll get it, you'll get the idea, yeah, okay, yeah, so freshman 15.

That's one common, so okay, what's next? I mean, this relates to freshman 15, it's partying, partying, partying all the time, partying in Wayne, partying in Garth, so I mean you're free, so maybe in high school a lot of people drink and party, but you have to keep going. It's a secret from your parents, you have to do that thing where you call and say I'm staying at Alicia's house and Alicia's parents think she's staying at my house and we both go to a party where the parents aren't there. In the city you have to be very secretive, but in college there is always someone who wants to party and there is always that bad influence who just doesn't care that they want to leave school, so there is always a party, if you look for it , it's there, so with that um, you know, that's where you can get the freshman. 15 is to drink a lot of calories, this leads perfectly to a slight variation.

I wrote themed parties for one of my cards because this goes beyond freshman year, which is why it's called sophomore year of college. Sophomores are called sophomores, juniors are called juniors, and seniors are called seniors, so in your sophomore year of college, junior, and senior, normally I would say you move from the dorm to a house or apartment and it's there, uh, in the freedom beyond the college campus, um, that you can have theme parties, so I bet you have some stories, we had some theme parties, my friends and I, what kind of things We did, of course, Halloween parties, we did those we had.

One time at a black light party we replaced all the lights in the house with black lights and everyone wore a white t-shirt and brought a highlighter and then if we drew things or wrote things on people's t-shirts, that was fun, yeah . that was really fun uh we made a camouflage camera everyone had to wear camouflage at the party that was something we did there's one very, very key thing that appears in beer pong which is this red solo cup so that's the solo mark mug, that's right, if you've seen a movie set in an American country or if you've seen a movie set in a US university, you'll have seen the characters at the party holding this red one. plastic cup uh and it's the brand it's just and I don't know how it came to be that this was just the university cup but it's just that it's at all the parties it's cheap and I didn't know that until recently um, but there are There are lines at that red solo like maybe the homograph here, I don't know, but there are lines on that red solo glass where the bottom line on the glass is the amount of a drink like a shot, a straw of alcohol, the next line is a pour wine after that is a beer, I think I like that the lines actually have a meaning to them apparently I don't know if that's true, I read it recently because I was looking for them, yeah my lines couldn't find them.

I couldn't find them, but yeah, that cup is the college cup, the college cup of the college experience, okay, experiment is my next one because actually my favorite place to go club-wise is the gay clubs. I love gay clubs and the first one. The time I went to a gay club was in college and the whole atmosphere is very accepting, so I think it's probably because in the LGBT community there is discrimination and therefore they are a generally very tolerant, very relaxed demographic. , so I was able to go there and just have fun, you can wear whatever you want, you can talk and dance with anyone, very fun and I think in college, this is a phrase that my friends always said and I don't know if it's an idiom or something like that. or maybe just my friends, but college is about experiences and you always hear that and when someone you know isn't sure they don't want to do something, you say, come on, college is about experiences, let's walk that mountain and experience . in many different ways, did you have something like this?

Honestly, I was trying to think of something, some big change, which I did. I started drinking in college, yes, but I didn't really do anything. Honestly, I've never been like that. a super crazy, crazy person, I'll try new things like I'll try like new food or like I don't know, I like going to interesting events or festivals or that kind of thing is fine, but as far as you know, making a drastic change in my appearance or something so I really didn't uh sororities and fraternities sororities and fraternities a sorority um is a group of girls that live together in a house and do things that I wasn't a member of a sorority so I don't I don't really know the details.

I'm sure someone probably knows more than me. Fraternities, on the other hand, are groups of men who live together, so called, they are college-age women and college-age men who live together and do things together. um the image of a sorority or fraternity is that they're kind of um at least my image is that they're richKind of privileged kids, which isn't even necessarily true, but I think this is the image that comes across in a lot of movies about college experiences. in the United States or in the United States. Okay, very nice, very nice, it's interesting to compare our different experiences any final thoughts on college in the US that's all yeah if you have a chance try it or just know that studying in any country outside your own It's an interesting experience, so like Michael said before, you know experimenting can be an interesting way. to broaden your horizons, whatever that means to you, okay, that's all for today about the university experience in the USA, thank you very much for watching and see you soon, bye, hello everyone, welcome Back to topics in English, my name is Alicia. and today I am here again with michael hello and today we are going to talk about the questions that we have been asked so let's start what is the first question you would like to discuss today michael, I would like to discuss what is the main difference between British and American English, so I would like to clarify this.

Canadians and Americans sound pretty much the same, it's hard for us to tell the difference, even even native English speakers, there are a couple of telltale signs you know they are. I'll say a few things, but it's generally regional, so I guess North Americans and then they like British English and, again, there's a lot of different accents and dialects. You know, it all depends, but for me the easiest way is for Americans to enunciate every word. We talk very loudly. and we opened our mouths wide, hello, how are you? Where are you from? teacher water, we enunciate each sound, so for me, a clear indication is that that is that ending, it's true, it's difficult, uh, I listen to the vowel sounds and I try to guess based on that.

So your question is about British English and American English. There is also Australian English. There is Scottish English. There is Irish English. There are so many different English speaking dialects and honestly, sometimes it's hard for us to understand that we're both from relatively the same part of the United States, so. we have the same style of speaking, our accents are the same, um, but going through all the different dialects to try to approximate it, trying to say them wrong would probably be a waste of time, but you're on the Internet, look. Okay, I guess we'll move on to the next one, let's see my questions, let's see.

I'm going to start with a grammar question that I get a lot. A grammar question I come across. Students ask me this question in the present tense. versus the progressive tense uh what's the difference when should I use the present tense versus the progressive tense? So by this I mean verbs, the present tense is used for facts, things that are always true, things that are part of your regular schedule, the progressive tense has a few different meanings some different uses but one of the meanings or one of uses is to express something that is temporary that is not part of your regular schedule or another use to describe a tendency to use a very common mistake um, as an example, if I ask the question where do you work?

Many times, the response I receive from my students is that I am working in the United States. um, depending on the situation, that sentence could be correct, but if you are talking about the place where you work, every day you go to that job, it could be the location of your office, it could be the country or city where you work, if it is part of your regular schedule you want to explain a fact that is true about your In this life you must use the present tense, not the progressive tense, so the correct version of that sentence should be I work in the United States, that's part of my regular schedule.

However, if you are only in the United States for a week, for example, you can use the progressive tense, but. It's more natural to say, for example, this week I'm working in the United States. That's a much more natural sentence to use. How do I pronounce the th sound? So you know, depending on who I'm teaching English to, they're going to have trouble with different pronunciation sounds, but for me I think one that's common in a lot of different cultures is the sound th and um, I think this goes back to the different ways of speaking and how we Americans enunciate each word and press the way we speak to the tip of our mouth, that's the tenth sound, so most people are able to make the tenth sound, but they're a little shy and it doesn't look natural, it's almost like they could bite the tip of their mouth.

It cuts your tongue when you say the sound correctly and then another thing to keep in mind is that it can have a hard or soft sound, loud or dull, so it's hard or loud, you hum and then you think it's soft or dull. you don't hum you don't vibrate you just say think but still the tongue touches your teeth think that um this is another grammar point that I get questions about from time to time is the present perfect versus the past simple tense um the question is when do I use them so present perfect uh let's see an example of present perfect would be I have been in Paris uh simple past tense would be uh I went to Paris what is the difference that we use the present perfect? tense to talk about a life experience or something that happened in the past but still affects the present, so in this case, in my Paris example sentence, it is something that happened in the past, but when exactly is not important , we just want to say that I have had the life experience of going to Paris in the past simple, however, it is used to refer to a specific time in the past.

For example, I went to Paris last summer. It's important to know that I went last summer if that's when you went. Paris is not important, use the present perfect tense, so this is really useful to talk about your travel experiences, to talk about your study experiences, foods that you have eaten and that you haven't eaten, so go on, try to have Keep in mind when you should use these two. are very commonly used together, such as, you can use the present perfect tense to introduce a question: have you ever been to Paris? and the follow-up response, oh yes, I've been to Paris, using the present perfect tense again, but then it's common.

The pattern is to follow that answer with a past simple question, when did you go? so you can see how it changes from the present perfect tense to the simple past tense, so that it is a broader life experience and a simpler life experience, so that they are used together, but they are just Careful, try to be aware of: Am I talking about a general life experience or a very specific life experience? This is an experience that many of my students struggle with. This is more cultural. Why do Americans wear shoes inside the house, in bed, etc.?

This depends and this is starting to change. I take my shoes off in most houses, but I guess it's more for comfort,while I feel like I'm on the east side of the world. It's more of a question of cleanliness and whether you do it. Still wearing your shoes is pretty taboo, whereas in the United States I feel like most people, from my experience, anecdotal evidence just personal experience in most places you take your shoes off, but if they have a party, they let people wear shoes inside the house, they don't care. and a lot of my friends watch American movies and see someone, a main character, wearing their shoes in bed, on the couch, something like that.

In my experience, it's not a big deal, but you wouldn't normally do that for For me, the general rule, like the one or the unspoken rule, is that you can put your shoes on top but you don't let your shoes touch the couch, you hang on tight so you can do it if you want to lie down on the couch. without taking off your shoes you let your feet dangle because yes, of course they're going to get dirty, but yeah, it's just not emphasized as much in our culture. I don't know. The last question I have is: can I ask a question? the answer is yes the answer is yes and probably in 95 of the cases the answer to the question can I ask a question? is if.

Okay, why did I choose this question? My students sometimes raise their hands in my lesson and say, can I ask? a question like one, this is your English class, yes, please ask questions, but two, also, this is a discussion I've been having with some people recently about the mindset that I think is really important when speaking English. We have experience teaching in Asia. where maybe there is a different approach to conversations. I don't know if this is the same cultural approach to conversations that people in other countries have, but don't wait for permission to speak, don't wait to get into a conversation, just do it. um, don't wait for someone to say oh, would you like to talk now? because that will never happen, so don't be shy, stick out your tongue and say things and don't worry if it sounds rude or too polite or whatever. um yeah, I couldn't agree more, yeah, yeah, it's just a change of mindset if when you start speaking that second language like you said, if you change your mind a little bit, you just make a little change in your mindset, maybe I'll see, ah, that's what it takes, just let go of your native language a little and see what happens.

Great, those are some of the questions we've been asked about teaching English about culture, if you have any other questions by the way, please. Make sure to leave it in a comment or if there's something you've always wondered about or if there's something you've found recently that confused you, leave it in a comment and maybe we'll talk about it. In the future, thank you very much for watching this English Topics episode, make sure to subscribe to our channel if you haven't already and we'll see you next time, bye.