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hi everybody my name is alicia and i'm

joined again in the studio by

michael hello and today we're going to

be talking about english conversation

strategies so let's get right into it

let's start with michael what is your

first strategy for keeping an english

conversation going

this is very important don't say

i'm fine thank you and you you hear this

all the time from second language

english learners or non-native speakers

you learn this it's one of the first

things you learn

in an english class it's easy it's good

it's basic it's foundation

okay that's fine but as soon as you can

switch it up

because to me when i meet a foreigner

and they come up and if they say

hey how are you say oh i'm fine you know

i'm good whatever

how about you and they say i'm fine

thank you and you and it's just

it's almost robotic because i've said it

so many times and when i hear that

i think ah their english isn't that good

and inside i'm just gonna be really

polite and say

hello and talk slowly and try to get out

of there as quick as i can

so really impress the foreigner in my

opinion i think the best way to do it is

say something

you know use a big word or just like a

slang word something like that

when i hear that i go wow man i want to

know what this person thinks i want to

get their point of view and i'm really

excited and then

i've had great conversations because of

that um yeah

that's a really really good one and

actually i think on this youtube channel

actually

from a couple years ago there's a video

all about

better answers to the question how are

you then

i'm fine thank you and you or if someone

says hey how are you i'm good you

are fine you never i'm fine thank you

and you

never but try to actually use you know a

phrase that a native speaker would use

and then that's a clue to the native

speaker that oh maybe this person is

ready for a conversation beyond you know

basic

english so that's a really good point i

like that i didn't think of things

not to do i only thought of things to do

though okay

cool um let's see let's go to my first

one

um oh so um this strategy in general is

just ask the other person a question

i think and i'm guilty of this too when

i'm learning another language

i tend to only get input like somebody

else is always

asking me the questions and then i

forget myself to ask the other person a

question

so one question that i like to ask or

you know a variation

any kind of wh question is good like a

who question what

where something like this if you've been

paying attention you can use any way to

transition

in your conversation this was in a

previous video you can ask something

like anyway up to anything fun this

weekend this is a pretty

casual conversational question that you

can ask just about anybody

whether you've just met them or whether

you've known them for a while but just

just

get in the habit of asking other people

the question don't wait for someone else

to ask you the question

um so that that's one strategy that i

try to use to keep things going

yeah me too i agree and i'm gonna say

same zs because actually two of my

questions were exactly what you said

agree 100 this is kind of cheating these

should be

one but so always ask questions so you

know again you forget it's really easy

i'm

really guilty of this english

non-english whatever i'm i'm guilty of

this

um and the other thing is ask deep

open-ended questions so if you ask a yes

or no question so again like

alicia was saying it just dead ends you

can't just say you know

do you like cheese yes or no right so

you want to say what do you think about

cheese what is your favorite kind and

kind of open it up to something else

and let it let it just kind of snowball

right right yeah i think i think that

that's that's really a key like i have

another variation on it which i guess

i'll just continue on to because it kind

of relates to what you're talking about

like he's saying always ask questions

always ask deep open-ended questions so

like you may you just said don't ask a

yes or no question because

yes or no ends with the yes or the no so

one of the things that i'll do is um use

a pattern similar to this

like hey did you see or hey did you hear

about blah blah blah

so you can use this little blah blah

blah as your

you can ask about the news you can ask

about something funny you saw on the

internet you can ask about

um you know some something that you

heard from another friend of yours

whatever

uh it's just a way to check in with the

other person and say oh did you also

experience this thing that i experienced

let's talk about that so that might be

another question that you can use with

people

i like that one i really like that one

because you got to stay within people's

comfort zone

so maybe you ask and maybe they don't

want to right so a good thing is did you

hear about it that's up to them maybe

they don't want to talk about it they

can say oh yeah i heard about that

and you can kind of feel the the

atmosphere and

and realizing maybe i shouldn't talk

about this change the subject or

they get passionate and they start

talking about it and there you go and

just let it go

um yeah absolutely one thing again i'm

guilty of is is you do got to keep

keep returning it right don't let it

don't just say oh yeah and what i think

about that

bring it back ask them what about you

that's that's a common thing i forget

about

yeah yeah yeah okay um good i have one

more this one um use when you see

fit don't i guess just

okay i'll just introduce it compliment

the other person or compliment the other

person

this can be a nice strategy just to show

that you're enjoying the other person's

company

um it can be as simple as oh i like your

shirt today or oh that's a nice dress

you're wearing today or oh did you get a

new haircut that looks good on you

something like that so this is a nice

a nice way to make the other person

maybe want to spend more time with you

i think yeah i agree 100 um two things

one i think it's a good conversation

starter sometimes um

if you've got to be careful with a

stranger it can be creepy it can be

a little uncomfortable what you're

complimenting right but if it's

something like if they have a t-shirt

and it's a band that you both like

that's a great conversation starter and

you feel wow we're connected you know

number two the second thing i was

thinking about is that

keep it honest i love i love a sincere

compliment it really means a lot more

and and it really does butter them up

kind of

get them open to to having more

conversations deeper

that kind of thing um but one of the

things people do which which i don't

like is

let's say they say hey nice shirt and

then the person out of habit will say oh

you too i like your shirt too just my

opinion i don't think this feels

really natural doesn't really feel

sincere so i would i would

save it make a mental note and go hmm i

need to return the favor i need to give

them a compliment but

wait until you notice something you

really do like and say hey actually

i love blah blah yeah i think that's a

great point like

when you you can sense whether someone

is being sincere or not

what is your next strategy for

continuing an english conversation

well don't be afraid to open up

i like this one i think this is good a

lot of people will be kind of shy

they won't open up too much again within

within your comfort zone

but i like this one because people

return the favor

because if you're just having small talk

and you say you know the weather's nice

today blah blah

you can only go so far so don't be

afraid to say something personal

again trust your judgment don't be a

creeper don't go

we don't want to hear certain things

about your life don't don't be a creep

don't be a creep don't be weird don't be

strange and like what you're saying

about

opening up open up is just a phrase that

means to share something about yourself

um so it can be as simple as what you

did last weekend or what you're going to

do this weekend or

a project that you have coming up it

doesn't mean that you have to

spill all of your life's secrets to the

other person but just showing that

you're willing to share something more

personal about yourself can help

ingratiate yourself or can help you know

make the other person help the other

person understand you a little bit

better

that's a good tip i like that tip that's

hard to do though it's hard it's a

little bit scary i think to share parts

of yourself but it's good it's a good

way to meet people and make friends

all right i think that's all is that all

that you have yeah that's all i got

okay all right well those are some

interesting uh

strategies to keep an english

conversation going so give them a try if

you're ever at a loss for words and

don't know what to say you can try one

of these strategies

and hopefully it will help you out um

please let us know if you have any other

strategies or anything else that you

would like to use or you try to use

when you are having trouble keeping a

conversation going leave us a comment

and let us know what it is

top 10 language learning strategies

let's begin

befriending or dating someone who speaks

english

watching movies or listening to music in

english

read english newspapers or magazines

record your voice and compare your

pronunciation with

native english speakers download

dialogue tracks and listen to english

conversations

repeat the phrases that you hear out

loud again

and again review all the lessons on

englishclass101.com to master them

completely read lines slowly at first

then re-read and increase your speed

set small and measurable learning goals

with your personal deadlines

try harder lessons to challenge yourself

and improve faster

and ways to stop translating in your

head

let's get started identify objects

around

you in english the first way to stop

translating in your head is to identify

the objects around you

in your target language so if you're

studying english that means

you look at the objects around the room

look at the things

in your life don't think of them in your

native language first think of them in

your target language first

so if i look around the room i see a

computer i shouldn't think

my native language word i should think

my target language word so

start with the items and the situations

in your everyday life

if i say computer in english maybe i

should say computa

in japanese i should say not i don't

know

water in english i should say omizu in

japanese so

start associating the words in your

target language with your everyday life

now so if you're studying english that

means start

getting familiar with the things in your

everyday life

in english repeat phrases you hear

native speakers use

tip number two is to repeat the phrases

that you hear

native speakers use so if you're

watching this channel for example

or you're watching a tv show or a movie

listen for the way that native speakers

make those phrases

if you hear a phrase you have never

heard before or you hear an interesting

combination of words

try to repeat them yourself don't just

listen

try to say them yourself if you're in a

public space and it's difficult for you

to do that

fine practice in a place where you feel

more comfortable maybe if you have some

private space to practice

just repeat them get your mouth used to

saying the words

the way that the speakers the native

speakers do

so if you never actually say words if

you're only taking

in if you're only listening and you're

not actually producing the language it's

it's kind of hard to to practice and to

to really hone your pronunciation to

improve your pronunciation

so when you listen to native speakers

try to repeat

after them so for example if you're

studying english

you can try to repeat after this video

you can repeat after the things

i'm saying because maybe i'm using an

expression or i'm using

a certain series of vocabulary words

together

the way a native speaker would and it's

maybe a good idea to try to practice the

ways that native speakers put their

words together so try to repeat

after native speakers especially when

you're looking at media

and you can do this when you're reading

books too you can try to read out

read out loud interesting lines of books

that you find or something that maybe is

difficult for you

very nice practice tip make a situation

where you can't escape into your native

language

make a situation where you can't escape

into your native language

essentially means immerse yourself of

course

going to that country or going to a

place where you

can speak only that language is very

difficult for some of you

totally understand but if in your life

you can create a situation in your

library in your room

in your house somewhere for just an hour

or i don't know maybe a day i don't know

what your schedule is like but

if you can create a situation or create

an environment where you have

no choice but to use that language

and you cannot escape meaning you cannot

go back to using your native language as

a crutch you can't use the native

language at all

it forces you to use the language that

you're studying

so of course if you are lucky enough to

live in the country or to

live in a place where people speak the

language you're studying

great but you have to go out and

interact with people you have to put

yourself in a place

where you have no choice but to speak

it's very hard and it's very scary and

it's very embarrassing at first

but if you take time to find places and

to make environments that are

comfortable for you

where you feel comfortable making

mistakes and asking questions it's very

valuable for your learning process this

is actually something that i did totally

i totally did this

my japanese wasn't very good for a long

time

but then i started making friends who

could not speak

english actually i just did this through

finding hobbies there was a hobby that i

had

i joined a group i joined actually a

school to where i could learn how to do

that hobby

and everything was taught only in

japanese

and the people in my class only spoke

japanese mostly

and then maybe we would go off for

drinks and food late at night or on the

weekends and everybody spoke only

japanese

and if i couldn't communicate even

simply in japanese i had no hope of

keeping that friendship together

so it forced me to study it forced me to

think about the words they were using

and to try to learn those words those

patterns

as well as how to produce them naturally

myself so i was learning the vocabulary

words

the people around me were using and

learning how to apply them

on my own that was only possible because

i had no escape

in those situations so try to do that

even if you can do it yourself in your

house it's super helpful i think

watch tv and movies in your target

language without subtitles

tip number four is to watch tv and

movies in your target language

without subtitles without subtitles so

i think that watching uh with subtitles

can be very beneficial

um so if i'm watching something or if

you want to watch something with

subtitles on

great but i sometimes find that i can in

my case i

i think too much about reading the

subtitles and i forget to listen

so maybe if you've seen a movie in your

target language a few times

with the subtitles on try turning the

subtitles

off and think about the like character's

body language the words they're using

um you can always look that up later

look up the you know the words you don't

know in a dictionary

but try to do it where you're focusing

completely

on the way that people are using their

words try

not to use the subtitles so kind of play

around with it a little bit if there's a

word that's difficult for you to hear

you can actually turn on the subtitles

in like the

in the native language of the movie as

well

that's something that i've done like if

uh like if i wanted to study japanese

it's very useful when the actual words

spoken

in japanese appear on the screen

sometimes it's easier for me to catch

a word if i see it visually and i hear

it at the same time

so another way to kind of um explore

how you can use tv and movies is to

actually turn on the closed captions

like the

the the words on the screen in the

native language of the movie

so uh so this is sort of two points in

one so one

watch movies without subtitles meaning

subtitles in your native language and

hint two is to watch movies

um with closed captioning on but the

closed captioning is in your target

language not in your native language so

you can try those two things with tv

and with movies don't bring a dictionary

to your lesson

tip number five is don't bring a

dictionary to your lesson

okay so give me a second here so i

understand the dictionaries

especially electronic dictionaries we

have them on our phones now are very

very convenient

um of course it's important to use them

and it's a they're a great resource to

have

however one thing that really bothers me

and that i think is detrimental it's not

helpful for students is when

students are in a lesson and they're

practicing conversation

and they reach a point in the

conversation where they don't know the

word they want to use they know it in

their native language

and they don't know how to say it in

their target language

they pull out their dictionary they say

to this the person

listening to them their practice partner

in their lesson where they have a

limited period of time

just a moment and then they look it up

on their phone it takes

a few seconds the flow of the

conversation stops

and then they say a word and it's like

whoa

no that's not you don't have that

ability you don't have

the ability to do that in a conversation

with a native speaker

most people like if you go to a bank and

try to open a bank account are you

really going to pull out your dictionary

and

sit there and try to communicate you

know just a moment just a moment

as you look up each word you don't know

no or if you do that's not a real

conversation

so instead try using a different

strategy

by that i mean if you find a word you

don't know in conversation

explain the word to your conversation

partner

maybe they know the word if you're

speaking with a native speaker this is a

chance for them to

teach you a word i find that when people

take the time

to teach me a word i remember the word

much

better than just looking it up on my

dictionary so

try to resist maybe you can bring a

dictionary to your lesson but don't use

it or try

not to use it in your conversation

practice

it's just it destroys the flow of a

conversation

so instead practice the skill of

describing the vocabulary word you want

to use

and learn how to ask the meaning of a

word or learn how to

ask for a vocabulary word from your

partner so

you can use an expression like ah what's

the word that means blah blah blah

or um you know it's this thing that does

this and this and this so

this is an opportunity for you to

describe characteristics of something or

find a different way you can use your

body language you can use

whatever you have a lot of tools but try

not to use a dictionary in a

conversation because it's not realistic

train responses to common questions

number six is a quick one i think number

six hint number six i have is just to

train

responses to common questions train

responses to common questions

so for example a very common question in

english is hey how are you

you should know how to answer this

question just have a default response

hey how are you

i'm good if it takes you

a long time to answer the question hey

how are you

you need to practice i think that's a

pretty good

a pretty good indicator so for example

sometimes i ask

students a question like that they they

haven't quite

gotten the idea of how to respond just

yet they

they're not so quick at responding i say

uh hey how

are you and they say yes and then they

think and they go i'm

uh i'm good and it's like

that's a very common question so think

about

just a default response that you can

spit out that you can quickly say

if it's how was your weekend or hey

what's up or

what do you want to do for dinner

tonight think about like

just a handful meaning just a few

responses to those questions and train

them

quickly just how are you i'm good how

are you i'm okay

how are you not bad there's three so

it's just training responses to those

questions there's no reason to be

surprised by a question like how are you

like that's a very common question so

for those common questions

train responses to that we've got a

bunch of videos

especially beginner level videos for

some example responses you can do

so don't get stuck with these little

questions just train a few responses

practice a few responses till they feel

natural to you it'll save you time

and it'll help the person asking the

question too to move forward in the

conversation

yay study with materials that don't

provide a translation

the next tip is to study with materials

that don't

provide a translation so by this i mean

if you're using worksheets and or some

kind of textbook

or whatever and it has your target

language the language you're studying

and it has your native language next to

it while this can be useful

i feel that if you can studying your

materials

only in your target language and then

simplified explanations for

more detailed points also in your target

language

can be a little bit better so i don't

want to say like you should only study

things

in your target language and nothing from

your native language because of course

like it can be helpful sometimes to look

up a word or to understand a grammar

point in your native language

but where possible if you can find

something that provides

simplified explanations in your target

language it can be really really helpful

because again you're thinking you're

learning to think on like a simpler on a

more basic

level about the language you're studying

in the language that you're studying so

this can be really really good so

finding some materials to use

where there's no translation maybe you

can practice

of course with with books and with

written materials

but also with like video materials as

well so

there are a variety of different ways

that you can

find materials in your target language

like in video and tv so some things to

think about there are the

level of vocabulary words people are

using in the media content you're

watching

who the media content is intended for

children young adults adults

the speed at which the speaker is

talking so like i have the ability to

change the level of difficulty

of videos based on the rate of speech

the vocabulary words that i use and

how many like idioms and things i use so

i could make a video very difficult we

could make a very like a very difficult

video series

by leveling up our vocabulary use or by

speaking very quickly

or as you might see in like our english

and three minutes series

we can also use very simple vocabulary

and speak at a low rate of speech so

maybe right now this is a very

intermediate level video

so please think about that so not just

for

written materials but also for your

audio and visual materials think about

um who your audience is the level of the

material and so on

it can be really fun uh and it can be

helpful to think about

your your target language in your target

language all right we're almost done

study phrases in addition to single

vocabulary

the next tip is study phrases in

addition to single vocabulary word so

yes of course vocabulary is important

but

i find it personally very very useful

to look at how a vocabulary word is

used in a phrase because sometimes

using it in a phrase helps you

understand the nuance of that vocabulary

word really really well

so if i like a word like crazy for

example in english

depending on the situation where the

word crazy is used it could mean

something

different it could mean like a person

who's mentally

confused or mixed up it could also mean

something really good it could mean

something really bad

so if we look only at the word crazy

it's quite difficult to understand

really the meaning of the word

but if you look at the way the word is

used in a phrase

you can get a lot more information so

take a look at the way people use words

in

phrases not just a single vocabulary

words you can learn a lot more that way

i think do your daily activities in

english where possible

the next tip is to do your daily

activities in your target language

so if you're studying english that means

try to do some daily activities

in english if possible so this can be

very very boring stuff but just think

about it

when you're doing the activity so like

right now i'm

filming a video for englishclass101.com

or

i'm going to work i'm cooking breakfast

i'm doing the laundry

what do i have to do tomorrow so try

thinking about your everyday

life in english if you're studying

english try thinking about your

everyday activities the people that you

meet what are you doing so this is a way

to help you practice your verbs so if

you don't know if you're

i don't know you're doing something at

work and you're like oh my gosh how do i

explain

the what's the verb for you know a

picture

like i want to blah blah a picture

what's the word you can check a

dictionary at that point and go ah it's

draw i

i need to use the verb draw for draw a

picture

so you can find these little gaps in

your everyday life these little gaps in

your knowledge

if you think about your everyday

activities in your target language if

you don't think about it in your target

language

you might not realize you have

vocabulary gaps or phrase gaps here and

there so this is a really good and kind

of funny

actually way to study use a learner's

dictionary for new words

the last tip is to use a learner's

dictionary for new words so in english

there are learners dictionaries

available in english so

my favorite my personal favorite is

merriam-webster merriam-webster

is a fantastic dictionary resource

they're so interesting and they have

tons of like historical information i

really do

just sit and like read things on the

dictionary page

lately it's true but um

of course there's a definition there's a

meaning for words there are example

sentences for words

but merriam-webster also has what's

called a

learner's dictionary if you find a word

that you don't recognize you can check

it

in a dictionary in a learner's

dictionary and it gives you

a simplified a simple explanation in

simple english

of that word so instead of checking it

in your native language you can check it

in your target language so again

this helps you to understand the word um

that you are

that you're focused on but you

understand it from

the language you're studying not from

your native language so using a

learner's dictionary can be really

really useful

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10 ways to report speech let's

go say the first word

is say say as a verb say

is a very neutral word you can use to

report

someone's speech to explain something

someone said in the past so for example

he said the barbecue was cancelled

just a simple neutral report

tell the next verb is tell

tell is used when one person is giving

information to another to tell someone

something they did not know before

don't say tell me your phone number

that's weird but like

can you tell me where the station is can

you tell me where to buy a

hamburger can you tell me where to

pick up my new car like so giving

someone

information they don't know or or on the

other hand explaining something

one way to another person so don't tell

me what i can't do

is a very good lost reference if you've

ever watched lost

so tell another example sentence my boss

told me i was doing a good job

speak uh the next one is

speak speak so we use speak

when we're talking about uh language

ability like i speak

english i speak japanese we can use

speak in the past

tense to report something but it usually

sounds a little more formal so like i

spoke to my boss

about or i spoke to my parents about

or i spoke to my boyfriend or girlfriend

about blah blah blah

that using speak instead of talked

makes it sound a little bit more formal

so you can use speak

but it's going to sound polite in a

sentence my colleagues spoke with me

about an upcoming project

was like okay the next one

the next two actually are very very

casual expressions

so when you're speaking with friends and

you're kind of talking about a quick

maybe somewhat emotional conversation

you will hear

native speakers especially americans

perhaps

this is unique somewhat to americans use

the phrase

was like i was like he was like

she was like this is a very casual way

to report

speech and you'll hear it often very

very quickly together

so someone will say i was like what and

then she was like

no and then i was like yeah that's the

kind of pattern you'll hear it in

very very quick ways to report speech

but the subject changes i was like he

was like she was like we were like

this is a way to share what happens

quickly instead of i said he said she

said

which might sound a little too formal we

can use i was like

he was like to do that instead so this

is a really fun one and if you can use

this

naturally i think that it'll really help

you sound more natural too

so in a sentence and then he was like i

love that movie

was all the next one is also a similar

to was like

we have the expression was all so it was

all don't worry about all all does not

have the meaning

of the whole of something or a complete

something

instead was all this set phrase is used

to report

speech usually this one is used when

there's some kind of emotional

uh emotional aspect to your conversation

or it's a little dramatic

or maybe a little exciting we use it the

same way as

was like in that very very quick style

of speaking

and then he was like and i was all and

then she was like and i was all

we use those together but i was all has

a little more emphasis

i feel i tend to use it when my when i

want to

express a stronger emotion and i was all

no way

or and i was all what so you can use it

for those very like surprised emotions

or maybe

angry emotions was like and was all

are both used in very casual situations

so in a sentence and i was all oh my god

me too

talk the next word is talk

so talk similar to uh say

is a fairly neutral verb when reporting

speech

you'll use it in a situation where

someone

is giving new information to you

but maybe it's a two-way conversation so

for example

we talked about blah blah blah

for a topic or my boss talked

to me about blah blah blah so maybe

new information is being exchanged but

the conversation is

two way there are multiple participants

with tell

it's like the nuance is sort of one

person is reporting information giving

information

with talked it's there's an exchange

happening there

so keep in mind when you use the word

talk

you will say either i i talked to or i

talked with someone and then you'll

usually

have a topic so i talked to my friend

about blah blah blah i talked to my

friend about my new apartment i talked

to my boss about a raise i talked to my

boss

no i talked to my dog about what dogs do

okay so if there's some kind of there's

some kind of exchange happening there

you'll need to use to or with when

you're referring to the person

or entity you're talking to and you'll

use about

to refer to the subject so you can use

this one

when you're when you want to discuss

exchanges of information so

in a sentence she talked to me about my

family

mention let's go to the next one the

next one is

mention mention is used when like

something

is just there's just one small point in

a conversation like

just a little side note or maybe it's

not the focus of a conversation but just

something

someone says quickly or there's just a

little thing that you hear

oh you mentioned something about blah

blah blah or

you mentioned that a new project like

it's it's maybe not the focus of the

conversation but something that

you heard a little bit about that's

that's when we use the verb

mention we can also use it in a

statement like please

uh mention any skills you have on a

resume so it's

the nuance is sort of like a like just a

little bit of information

is when we use mention so in a sentence

our manager mentioned upcoming changes

at the company

to go on and on okay the next expression

is to go

on and on so to go on and on means just

to talk for a

very long time so maybe you have a

co-worker or a friend or a family member

that just talks and does not stop

talking

we say to go on and on that's the

expression we use so in a sentence

the speaker at the seminar was going on

and on

about the topic if you really want to

emphasize it you can say what's going on

and on and on and on and on and that

really emphasizes that the person

continues to speak

so if you know somebody um who does that

a lot you can use this expression to

talk about them

according to uh the next expression here

is according to

according to is used uh actually in the

news or

like to officially report something so

according to sources or according to the

police

according to the government official

according to my

teacher according to my mother these are

like direct

reports of information and they're

direct reports of information

from a specific source so according to

the newspaper

my f neighborhood has 50 000

amazing ramen shops that's not true

but if i want to instead of just saying

my neighborhood has 50

000 amazing ramen shops i'm giving a

source for that so according to my

newspaper

this is this is where i got the

information so this is important to use

in news in newspapers and any kind of

official documentation

you will see and hear according to in

these cases

ah in a sentence according to a witness

at the scene the suspect

escaped report great so um the next one

is report

so reports similar to according to

we use report in more official

situations so

to officially share information like to

report to the police to report to

your teacher to report to your boss

sometimes it means to submit

documentation like to to give someone a

written report

sometimes it's to share information

officially just

just with your voice to report news or

to report an update

so when you want to give and give

official information

we'll use the verb report so in a

sentence

sources in the area report that the

accident was not

serious thank goodness all right

top 10 must know phrases for the

restaurant

let's get started a table for three

please

a table for three please you tell them

the number of people that you are total

so that the host can bring you to an

appropriate table

a table for two please a table

for five please could i please see a

menu

could i please see a menu usually menus

are given to you as soon as you sit down

at your table

but if that's not the case and you need

to ask this is a polite way to do it

could i please see a menu i'd like to

try this dish

i'd like to try this dish when looking

at a menu

hopefully you'll find something you want

to eat i'd like to try this dish

could you leave out the onions could you

leave out the onions

if there is an ingredient in the dish

that you're ordering that you don't want

you can always ask the waiter if it

could be prepared without that

ingredient

so for example i might say could i get

the burger but with no cheese

could you pass the salt could you pass

the salt

when you're at a restaurant especially

if you're at a big table with a lot of

people

you might not always be able to reach

things so

you would ask could you pass me the salt

could you pass me the ketchup could you

pass me another napkin

waiter waiter a waiter is someone who

takes your order

and brings you food in america and in

many other western countries

it's more polite to call a waiter to

your table by simply saying

excuse me or if you see another waiter

walking by but it's not your waiter

you can always say excuse me if you see

our waiter could you please let them

know to come to our table

can we get separate checks can we get

separate checks

this is actually something that's very

common especially in america

if you might go out with a group of

friends or even if you're on a date

sometimes you might want to get separate

checks pay for your

own things that way you can all pay

separately

just for what you yourself ordered and

you won't have to worry about owing each

other money

or calculating off a big huge bill

are there any specials today are there

any specials today

a special at a restaurant is a dish that

isn't usually

on the menu it's something that's

special but it's a special

that the chef is offering that day or

that

week or that month so sometimes if you

don't see what the specials are you'd

ask your waiter

excuse me are there any specials today

could we have the bill please

could we have the bill please this is

how you request

that the check or the bill comes to your

table

can we get the check please could we get

the bill please

you're asking this to your waiter who

will then bring you the check

and you can pay 10 words that you can

use at a bar

let's go to buy a round the first

expression is to buy

a round to buy a round means

uh to buy a round of drinks essentially

a round of drinks means one drink for

everyone in your group

one drink for everyone in your party by

the way

the word party is used to mean group at

a bar or restaurant

the number of people in your party is

the number of people in your group

so to buy a round means to buy a drink

for

everybody in a sentence our boss began

the party by buying everyone around

in a different sentence you're buying

the next round

on the rocks the next expression is on

the rocks

on the rocks is a way to order a drink

when you say

on the rocks it means your drink on

ice only so rocks are the ice in your

glass

so you can imagine the ice the pieces of

ice in your glass the ice cubes or an

ice ball these are like

rocks so saying i'd like a whiskey

for example on the rocks means just

whiskey

served over ice that's what on the rocks

mean so in a sentence

i'd like a gin on the rocks straight up

the next expression is straight up so a

straight

up drink is different from an on the

rocks drink a straight up drink is

chilled with ice but it's strained

so there's no ice in the drink but it is

it has been chilled with ice

so a straight up drink there's nothing

else in the glass but it is a chilled

drink

in a sentence uh i'd like a martini

straight up

some people use the word straight or

straight up but they mean

neat which is the next word we're going

to talk about so

keep in mind straight or straight up

means chilled

that's one of the key points here so

yeah a martini straight up

is a chilled martini neat so the next

expression is

neat to order a drink neat means the

drink is not

chilled and there is no ice it's just

it's just the

the alcohol it's just the liquor there's

nothing special about it

a neat drink is only the drink

that's it nothing happens to it so in a

sentence i'd like a whiskey

neat pint half pint

the next expression is really two

expressions these are words you use when

you order

beer they are pint and half pint

depending on the country that you live

in pint can be

a different size they vary by

a few milliliters depending on the

country where you live in

a half pint then is roughly half of the

pint

size so a half pint and a pint are two

ways two

sizes we use to order beer in a sentence

can i have a half pint of this stout

chaser the next expression is chaser

so a chaser is something you use to

follow

an alcoholic drink chasers are often

used after

shots so shots are small drinks that are

usually kind of strong in alcohol

content

and they have a very strong taste so

some people like to

have something after that and they call

it a chaser so the image

is that the the second drink is chasing

the first drink into your body you can

think of it that way the chaser is a

non-alcoholic drink so it could be water

it could be soda it could be something

like that juice

maybe so chaser in a sentence shots of

tequila are often followed with chasers

to be tipsy the next word is to be tipsy

to be tipsy is a way to describe your

feeling when you're drinking

so if you can imagine when you're uh

when you're standing

straight up uh when you're standing as

regular you're very like confident and

tall and you don't move

very much but if you feel tipsy this

comes from the verb to

tip like this so something tips to one

side or another

think of your body in this way so we use

the word

tipsy the adjective tipsy um to describe

this feeling maybe

you're not so steady on your feet you

could tip over

ah at any time that's called being tipsy

from alcohol okay so in a sentence uh

let's see i'm a little tipsy i need some

water

to be drunk the next expression is to be

drunk so we talked about the word tipsy

so tipsy is a little bit like a little

unsteady but

drunk is just a mess you're just you're

just a disaster maybe you're being noisy

you're being loud it's difficult to

control your body or your friend's body

whatever so drunk is usually

seen as a negative thing um so yeah so

drunk uh

expresses yeah it's it's just not pretty

sometimes so in a sentence your friend

is drunk let's take him home

to call it a night the next expression

is to call it

a night to call it a night means to

decide to

finish at the bar to go home uh you're

ready to be done

so uh here i'm going to call it i'm

going to say

this is tonight tonight is finished

so in a sentence it's been a long

evening

i'm gonna call it a night i mean i'm

going to go home

i'm done it's a casual expression

hangover

and then one more that you can use maybe

the day after you visit a bar

is hangover so a hangover is a noun

hangover is the word we use to describe

the feelings

after drinking too much so maybe you

feel sick to your stomach you have a

headache

your body is sore there are a number of

different feelings

you might have when you feel hung over

to be hungover is another way to say it

but when you have a hangover

it usually doesn't feel very good in a

sentence

i have a hangover today i'm not going

drinking tonight

about the top 25 english phrases so

let's get started

the first phrase is hello hello of

course is used as a greeting you can

greet your friends you can greet your

co-workers your family with this phrase

just by saying hello hey hi what's up

hello

sup yo pretty much any time of day you

can use hello

hello the next phrase is good morning

good morning is used as a greeting in

the morning you can kind of feel when

morning ends for you good morning is

nice and polite

or even just morning with your close

friends or close co-workers

the next phrase is good night good night

is fine we don't use this

to greet other people we use it when

we're saying goodbye to other people

at night family members particularly

mothers and fathers to say good night to

their children before they put them to

bed

you can say it to your friend in a text

message or in an email if you've been

talking for a while good night

so the next word to talk about is

goodbye use it when you say goodbye to

your friends when you leave your friends

goodbye

bye of course take care have a nice day

peace out that's another way to say

goodbye okay the next phrase is

i'm plus your name of course this is a

way to introduce yourself you can use

i'm in my case alicia i'm alicia to

introduce yourself in any situation

new friend i'm alicia okay the next

phrase is what's your name what's your

name is used to ask someone else what

their name

is so what is your name sounds a bit

tried to use what's your name

if you forget someone's name you can say

sorry what's your name

or sorry what's your name again next

phrase is nice to meet you nice to meet

you

anytime you meet someone new nice to

meet you is fine

good to meet you is a little more casual

great to meet you sounds very excited

pleasure to meet you sounds like uh

maybe a formal situation or a business

context

okay the next phrase is how are you how

are you

is it's just a friendly way to check in

with the other person you can use it

with friends your family

your co-workers maybe even your boss to

a certain degree

uh how are you how you doing the next

phrase is i'm fine thanks and you

uh if you saw english in three minutes

we talked a lot about this phrase uh

instead of i'm fine thank you and you

say i'm good thanks how are you just

shorten it make it a little bit more

natural

how are you good how are you great how

are you

not so good how are you okay and so on

so when someone says how are you

offer i usually say i'm good this week i

blah blah give some information about

what you've been up to maybe a hobby

something that you did recently an event

something interesting you saw whatever

people want to make that connection with

you and it's a good chance for you to

continue speaking

the next word is please please is a

polite phrase used when you want

something from someone else

you can use this as a response when

someone offers you something like in a

restaurant for example would you like

more water would you like

something to drink oh please the next

phrase is thank you thank you is used to

express your appreciation you can use

thank you with

everybody the next phrase is you're

welcome you're welcome when someone says

thank you you can say you're welcome no

biggie i use no biggie as in no biggie

is short for no big problem

next word is yes yes of course yes

means is any positive expression

someone asks you a question and the

answer is a positive answer you say

yes yep uh-huh

no next i'm guessing i know it yep the

next word is

no no is a negative response to

something when you have to give a

negative answer

so as you can probably guess um the long

form of no is

negative i like to use nope it's very

very casual

not gonna happen my parents would use

that with me to soften that a little bit

if you want to show a negative

response to something like let's go for

dinner tonight what do you want to do

like do you want to go out

uh not really no i don't think so

to soften it the next word is okay okay

this word comes from copy editors okay

when they had to check a manuscript um

they had to label the manuscript

all clear ac but because they were copy

editors and they have a very very sick

sense of humor

they thought they would mark it okay for

all clear to make a joke

because o and k do not start all and

clear

but it caught on among everybody in the

world

anyway okay is used to agree with

somebody else

well it can be used actually to express

a positive or kind of a slight negative

i feel

transitioning in your conversation you

can say okay now we're going to talk

about

blah blah blah okay the next phrase is

excuse me excuse me it's used to get

someone's attention

in english when you don't know the other

person for example in a store

a supermarket maybe a stranger on the

street you need to ask directions you

can use

excuse me you can use excuse me in the

supermarket excuse me can you tell me

where the hot sauce is

if you've done something rude in public

you can use excuse me

i personally do not do rude things in

public ever i'm sorry is the next word

we're gonna talk about i'm sorry is used

to apologize when you have made a

mistake or someone you know has made a

mistake and you're connected to it or

you just feel bad you can use

i'm sorry you made a mistake at work i'm

sorry

you forgot to feed your cat i'm sorry

sorry about that you bump someone next

to you oh sorry what time is it is the

next phrase when you need to check what

time it is

what time is it when you ask someone

else what time it is maybe you say this

to yourself too

check your watch check your phone check

a clock pretty straightforward phrase

there aren't really any

short versions so that's an easy one

where is the plus a location so you can

use this

for a building or a store we don't we're

not going to use this where

is the for a place a city name or a

state name or a country name

to do that you would need to remove the

but where is the bank where is the post

office you can use this to ask

directions to ask for help

in your house or at work where is the

copy machine

where is the file i need where is the

blah blah blah

where is the bathroom is perhaps a very

important question to know

the next one is may i use the restroom

may i use the restroom as a polite

uh and soft expression that you can use

if you need to use the toilet you need

to use the washroom

when you're at someone's house for the

very first time when you're in a place

that you're that is new to you you can

ask may i use the restroom

more casually can i go to the bathroom

to be very polite you can say may i go

to the bathroom

the next phrase is i would like to order

something

you can use this at a restaurant

probably or in any situation where you

need to

place an order i'd like a pizza i'd like

a beer can i get the check please this

will be used at a restaurant when you've

finished your meal and it's time to go

can i get the check please

in a very very casual situation you can

just say check please

that's fine the next phrase is see you

soon see you soon is used with friends

and family members perhaps

uh when you expect to see them again

soon after saying goodbye to them this

is used at the end of the conversation

you're going separate directions

see you soon see ya is also good or just

see you

to make it a little more formal you can

say i'll see you again soon make a full

sentence out of it that way

the next phrases see you later see you

later it's very similar to see you soon

but the point is

with see you later is that you're

probably going to meet that person again

later on in the same day the last phrase

is really really is a very useful word

because you can use it to show you're

interested in a conversation with upward

intonation

really really tell me more or to show

that you're not so interested in the

conversation with downward intonation

really so there are many other words

that you can use similar to

really in this way like seriously or oh

oh and so on so it's a really good

practice for your intonation but ways to

say

hi this should be fun let's get started

first is yo

this one is a little bit casual in case

you couldn't tell

used for close friends maybe family

members if you have kind of a silly

relationship with them

just quick short easy to do in a

sentence

yo how's it going howdy howdy uh

traditionally associated with cowboy

culture i suppose you should play a

banjo maybe or you've just gotten off a

horse i don't know i use howdy from time

to time howdy

howdy howdy

that's my banjo yeah in a sentence you

might say

howdy folks welcome to the

barbecue place

next is hey hey is good friendly phrase

you can usually use hey with a wave and

smile look happy

if you don't people might think that

you're down in the dumps people might

think you're not in a very good mood

in a sentence hey uh i heard you got

engaged last week congratulations

something like that it's usually kind of

a cheery

happy expression all right next is

what's up

uh what's up is the long form of sup

this does not literally mean

what is above you right now if you want

to be funny you can say the ceiling or

the sky

but that joke gets old really fast and

chances are the person you're talking to

has already heard it before

it just means what are you up to what is

going on with you in a sentence

what's up did you have a good weekend

typical response to what's up is not

much find out some more responses in

english in three minutes

we did an episode on this nothing much

how about you that's pretty good

pretty good pretty good pretty good

[Laughter]

i don't know what i'm doing the next one

is long time no see you can use this

when you haven't seen the other person

for a long time

you're at a party or an event or

whatever anytime it's been a long break

you can decide how long long is not the

day before or the week before maybe a

few weeks or a month whatever is unusual

for you and this other person

when you see them you can say hey long

time no see how have you been

ten words for talking about beauty and

skin care so

let's begin all right the first word is

makeup

makeup is all makeup everything we're

going to talk about almost

everything we're going to talk about

later is makeup

makeup is usually used by women but

maybe men use makeup

too makeup is usually put on the face to

change the appearance of the face in

some way

so in a sentence i use makeup almost

every day

or i wear makeup almost every day use

and wear are both

okay the next word is eye shadow so

eyeshadow is makeup which goes

on top of the eye so the eyelid this

part is called your eyelid

eyeshadow goes here on top of the eyelid

so

in a sentence what kind of eye shadow do

you use

the next word is eye liner eyeliner so

eyeliner is used to draw a line to draw

lines

near the eyes that means it's safe to

use

near eyes it depends on the person and

their style but maybe they use eyeliner

to make

lines in different ways on their on

their face on

near their near their eyes in a sentence

eyeliner is really difficult to put on

okay the next word is lipstick lipstick

uh there's also

lip gloss too uh lipstick is kind of the

traditional just

like a a single color you apply it just

on your lips and it gives

i don't know not sometimes shiny

sometimes a very

neutral i don't know depends on the

lipstick lip gloss

gives lips like this very glossy almost

like liquidy appearance so lipstick and

lip gloss

have different effects in a sentence you

have a lot of lipstick

the next expression is foundation

foundation

is the makeup product it is applied to

the skin

usually of the face so it's used to make

the face

seem like all one color foundation

maybe people apply it with i don't know

like a spongy thing

or with their hands or a brush there's

like a

i forgot what it's called isn't like a

sponge i don't know something

is it a beauty blender is that a thing i

think so i

i don't know i don't know i'm the wrong

person i don't know is it

it's a beauty blender a thing i'm not

very good at the beauty stuff either i

don't know

anyway foundation is intended to make

your skin color appear

even foundation so it's called

foundation because it's like the base

the foundation

for the rest of your makeup so the

foundation is the

kind of the basis so once your skin

color is all

correct and the same then the other

parts we can fix the other parts that's

my theory anyway

in a sentence there are a few different

types of foundation

all right the next expression is blush

blush is usually applied on your cheeks

and it's like a

pink or red color it gives the

appearance of

blushing so when we feel embarrassed or

maybe we feel excited

our cheeks might turn red so blush is

makeup which

creates that effect of blushing this is

usually a pink or red color to simulate

to make it look like you're blushing

even if you're not really in a sentence

do you wear blush the next expression is

bronzer

bronzer so we talked about blush which

is supposed to give your

skin the appearance of being pink or

blushing

bronzer gives skin the appearance of

being

more bronze or more tan so you can apply

this maybe in summer and it makes your

skin look a little more

tan which you might like other people

also may use bronzer to create

shadows because it makes the skin a

little bit darker

in the places where it's applied so

there are a few different ways to use

bronzer in a sentence bronzer is nice in

summer

the next word is face wash face wash so

this is a special soap

that's for your face specifically for

the face

maybe your face is very sensitive or you

have some

trouble spots or i don't know there's a

specific wash you

use for your face only in a sentence

a good face wash is important for clear

skin

oh the next word oh the dreaded i have a

couple words here that are maybe

problems all of us deal with the first

kind of problem

word on this list is acne acne is an

uncountable noun

acne refers to usually this is this

a problem happens for like teenagers or

people around that age but adults can

also

have acne acne is like imperfections in

the skin

sometimes they're itchy or they're

painful red bumps on your skin or maybe

they're not

painful but they're just blotches or a

number of different ways that acne

can can be an issue which we'll talk

about in the next word too but acne is

an uncountable noun

is just about that problem skin problem

in general acne bad acne in a sentence i

had

acne when i was a teenager so the next

word for today there are two words here

there's pimple and

zit these are both words we use to refer

to the

individual parts of acne acne we can say

i have

bad acne or maybe my acne is improving

today

but acne is maybe the whole condition of

your face

like everything your face is situation

each part

each one of those little uh problem

spots we

we call that a pimple or a zit the

difference

pimple sounds a little bit smaller

usually zit

sounds a bit bigger and maybe maybe more

painful

so but either way pimples and zits are

both

words we can use to describe acne so in

a sentence

i hate getting pimples 10 words you can

use to talk about

hygiene or cleanliness so let's begin

to wash your hands the first expression

is to wash your

hands to wash your hands is with soap

and water

uh in the restroom somewhere so wash

your hands before

cooking or wash your hands after using

the toilet

for example in a sentence wash your

hands after using the bathroom

to shower the next expression is to

shower

to shower or to shower or maybe you

prefer to take a bath

so to shower is usually standing up

though you can do it sitting down

depending on the country you live in i

suppose to shower is that

yeah the water just hits you

continuously

to take a bath is you sit in the bathtub

you sit down and you are surrounded by

water

that is a bath surrounded by one

sitting down surrounded by water in your

home on purpose

is a bath if it's not on purpose

you should probably call a plumber

because that is not a bath that is an

emergency

[Laughter]

all right uh in a sentence i shower

every day or i love taking a bath every

once in a while

to brush your teeth the next expression

is to brush

your teeth to brush your teeth so with a

toothbrush

usually in the morning maybe at night as

well you brush your teeth you clean your

teeth

uh in a sentence make sure to brush your

teeth

in the morning to style your hair

uh the next expression is to style your

hair

to style your hair means to to arrange

or to fix

your hair the way you like it so today i

styled my hair like this

you styled your hair like that eyes

tomorrow maybe i'll style my hair

in a ponytail i probably won't

maybe you can put your you can style

your hair in a mohawk

or in a fauxhawk or in a bouffant

bouffant that's that focus oh yeah it's

focusing yeah

that's a bouffant all right so to style

your hair

uh in a sentence it takes a long time to

style my hair that's true

my hair is naturally explosive and so i

have to straighten it before like

everything and then as soon as humidity

gets it

it goes it makes that sound too

to shave the next expression is to

shave to shave is to remove hair like

if you're a man here usually uh to

remove the hair

here with a razor with another like a a

blade of some kind or maybe you remove

body hair or hair on your legs whatever

uh you we use the verb to shave

to shave with a razor in a sentence

shaving is a pain or sure meaning

shaving is troublesome

soap or cleanser the next word is soap

or cleanser so soap is just used to

clean your skin or yeah to clean your

face maybe

to clean your hands we do not use soap

for the stuff you use to clean your

teeth

soap is used for like body cleaner or

maybe

um what you use to wash your clothes

so soap or a body cleanser in a sentence

i like nice smelling soaps and cleansers

that is true

who does not deodorant

the next word is deodorant deodorant so

deodorant is

the product you might put on your body

to

prevent unpleasant smells so usually

it goes in this region so this is called

the armpit

this region so arm and then pit so like

yeah kind of this cave-ish area in your

arm

we call the armpit but it's common to

apply deodorant here you might put it

in other areas on your body but the goal

is

to prevent bad smells or

um to in some cases just stop sweating

completely

uh so this is deodorant well deodorant

actually

if i'm gonna be strict here deodorant is

used to

stop unpleasant smells antiperspirant

is used to prevent sweating so

perspirant

comes from perspire so to perspire means

to sweat anti means not or stop so an

anti perspirant is a product to make you

stop

sweating so deodorant is the smell one

antiperspirant is the sweat one

sometimes you can buy a deodorant and

antiperspirant

together great in a sentence

wearing deodorant is important

especially in summer

mouthwash the next word is mouthwash

mouthwash

i hope is easy to understand it's wash

it's

something to clean the inside of your

mouth so

uh you can use this like

in the morning maybe after you brush

your teeth or after lunch maybe to keep

your breath

uh smelling fresh but it usually is in

like a blue or a green or maybe an

orange

color and kind of has a minty or citrusy

taste

but you put it in your mouth and kind of

swish like

i don't know i can't swish nothing you

swish it around in your mouth

and then spit it out and that's

mouthwash so you've washed your mouth

with this product in a sentence i like

minty mouthwash

toothpaste the next word is toothpaste

so toothpaste we do not say like tooth

soap or tooth cleaner or whatever

we use tooth paste for uh the

product to clean our teeth the product

we use to brush our teeth is called

tooth paste uh so in a sentence

i need to buy more toothpaste shampoo

and conditioner

the next expression is shampoo and

conditioner so

shampoo and conditioner are commonly

used together

in the shower or in the bath maybe

shampoo usually comes first we shampoo

shampoo is soap for your hair really and

then conditioner

is a treatment for your hair conditioner

is used to make your hair feel softer or

more

moisturized so often times they're used

for shampoo

and then conditioner together as a set

so in a sentence i like trying new

shampoos and conditioners

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gossip let's go oh my god

so the first phrase is

oh my god so so oh my god

so is a introductory phrase you can use

to

start your topic with like a surprise

factor so you say oh my god

and then so is your transition phrase so

for example oh my god so i have to tell

you about

this movie i saw or oh my god so i saw

my neighbor

in the shopping mall this morning or oh

my god so

did you see my new dog it's kind of a

weird one

usually it's about a person not about a

dog but who knows

you won't believe what happened to me

the other day

the next expression is you won't believe

what happened to me the other day

you won't believe what happened to me

the other day

meaning something happened to you

and you think it's going to be a

surprise

to the person listening to you you won't

believe what happened to me the other

day

so it's a very fast phrase because

it sounds like you want to share very

quickly like you won't believe what

happened to me

you can drop the other day if you want

or you said you can say you won't

believe what happened to me this morning

you won't believe what happened to me

last night you won't believe what

happened to me this weekend you won't

believe what happened to me over my

winter vacation so that you won't

believe what happened to me gets very

very quick

and short so examples uh you won't

believe what happened to me the other

day

i ran into my ex-boss or you won't

believe what happened to me the other

day

i tripped and fell down a flight of

stairs or

uh you won't believe what happened to me

the other day i got

a new parrot

sure i don't know maybe one of you can

use that

guess what the next phrase is very short

the next phrase is like an exclamation

so an excited statement and a question

guess what guess what so

guess what is inviting the listener to

guess what happened to you

guess what the full question would be

guess what happened or guess what

happened to me

but we only say guess what so guess what

and sometimes the listener guesses

and sometimes the listener just says

what usually the listener just says

what uh ask so meaning you should

continue the story

so if you say guess what i quit my job

or

guess what i saw my best friend

with a new guy i haven't seen before

another example uh guess what i got a

new car

something like that so some kind of

shocking like

um difficult to guess situation

i haven't told you about this yet the

next expression

is i haven't told you about this yet i

haven't

told you about this yet so have not

becomes

haven't i haven't told you about this

yet so maybe you've told you have told

other people but this specific person

maybe you have not told that person your

news or some information

yet but this yet implies

you are planning to or you want to tell

them this so

uh it's it's kind of creates a little

suspense i haven't told you about this

yet

so we could use this like i haven't told

you about this yet i'm going to france

next summer or i haven't told you about

this yet but i broke up with my

boyfriend last night

or i haven't told you about this yet but

i'm throwing a big party for my

co-worker this weekend can you come

other examples i haven't told you about

this yet i saw my boss

out for dinner with someone who's not

his wife oh my god that's not true

that's not true or i haven't told you

about this yet

i heard that the company is gonna

go bankrupt also not true

okay so those are some pretty juicy

juicy gossip that's an expression we use

we say

juicy gossip is something that's like

really really

interesting gossip or really interesting

story about people we say

juicy gossip for that have you heard

about

the next expression is have you heard

about blah blah blah

have you heard about can be followed

with a noun phrase have you heard about

a a person you can use a person or have

you heard about

a situation you can use both uh you can

use a

an object too so have you heard about

the new iphone or have you heard about

the new

office policies um you can use that

for pretty much anything you want to

inform your listener about

so have you heard about is usually said

very quickly

have you heard about so the you becomes

shortened

to yeah have you heard about have you

heard about blah blah blah so

have you heard about the new secretary

have you heard about our new boss

or have you heard about my co-worker

quitting his job

have you heard about the neighbors above

us

they're moving so you can use people

here

for gossip expressions or you can use

objects um

in this expression just to introduce

something new very useful phrase

have you heard about my mom

sorry mom i don't know why you came into

that one okay

so the other day the next expression

is kind of like the beginning to a story

so

maybe this can be for gossip maybe it

can just be

like a story something interesting or

maybe boring

that happened to you the expression is

so the other day

so the other day so the other day

the other day here means not today some

other day

which day it doesn't really matter it's

not really important but we say

the other day someday in the past this

expression is used for

so we can say so the other day i was

sitting at my desk in the office when my

manager came and asked if he could speak

to me

or so the other day i was shopping and i

ran into my ex-boyfriend

or so the other day i was renting a car

and the former president

of the united states came into the car

rental shop

what all right so the other day just

some day

in the past so i was talking with

and the next one you can use

um maybe for gossip sometimes but also

you can use for making plans

it's so i was talking with someone

and blah blah so i was talking with

someone means you were having a

conversation

uh at another time with a person

and you want to kind of report

information or share

something from that conversation with

the person

listening now so i might say

so i was talking with risa and i think

that we should plan a party for this

weekend what do you think

so i was talking with my

team about this and i think that we

should make some changes

so that's a very kind of everyday work

situation

use of this phrase um but you can also

use it for gossip like

so i was talking to my best friend and i

think i'm gonna move

or i was talking to my parents and i

think

it's best if we break up oh so it can be

for plans it can be for gossip it can be

for just

any conversation plus a report

what's up with the next expression is

kind of a little like mysterious

then the expression is what's up with

blah blah blah

usually what's up with person for gossip

meaning there's like the nuance here is

there's some

problem or it seems like something's

wrong with this person they're unhappy

they're sad they're angry uh

some kind of negative emotion we use

this so it's like

what's up with stevens i haven't heard

from him lately what's up with your

brother he seems really upset or what's

up with your

neighbor why is he so noisy or what's up

with your

boss he's so strict so it sounds like

there's some problem we usually use this

intonation what's up with

what's up with to introduce somebody who

has a problem we don't say

what's up it's not that it's not that

sort of hello

expression it's a it's an expression for

a problem

you can also use a noun phrase that is

not a person here like

what's up with this new office policy or

what's up with this new rule at work or

what's up with this new item on the menu

at this restaurant it's super weird

so what's up with blah blah blah has

sort of a negative nuance you can use it

for people

to talk about strange behavior what's up

with

you have you heard from

lately the next expression is have you

heard from blah blah blah

lately have you heard from person lately

have you heard from stevens lately

i haven't seen him have you heard from

your mom lately have you heard from your

dad lately have you heard from your

brother lately

have you heard from your landlord lately

i don't know why you hear from your

landlord but

have you heard from someone lately there

is sort of an ex

like a little bit of an expectation that

you

are in contact with the person involved

in this sentence like you have some

relationship maybe it's a family

relationship romantic relationship

professional relationship

there's some relationship with this

person and

lately it's like have you heard from

them recently

lately in the last few days in the last

few weeks

so you can use this if for example you

are

looking for someone or you're worried

about someone you can use this here

you can also use it just just to check

in about some other person

without asking that person directly so

like if

i want to ask about i'm using risa in my

example risa is our japanese channel

host

um if i want to ask about how risa is

but i don't want to ask risa i know

maybe she's busy or

i don't know for some reason i it's

difficult to talk to her

i can ask like my co-worker i can say

hey have you heard from risa lately

it seems she's really busy or have you

heard from so and so lately it seems

they're busy

so if i want to ask about another person

but i don't want to bother this person

or that something makes it difficult

i can use have you heard from blah blah

blah recently or

lately to ask about them very useful

phrase

i have to tell you about next expression

um the next expression is i have to tell

you about

blah blah i have to tell you so have to

becomes hafta i have to tell you about

it has a nice

sound i have to tell you about blah blah

or i have to tell you about

something so i have to tell you about my

weekend i have to tell you about stevens

i have to tell you about my mom i have

to tell you about my boyfriend i should

tell you about my girlfriend

whatever it is some person used at the

end of this sentence

creates a nuance like there's exciting

news about that person

or i have to tell you about this thing

that happened you can use a situation at

the end of the sentence too

but you're using i have to at the

beginning of this sentence

so that sounds like it's really

important like i feel

it's so important it's my responsibility

to tell you because

this is so exciting of course you can

use this in more boring situations as

well like i have to tell you about the

new office policy

you can use it in that way with a very

flat intonation

but for gossip purposes use i have to

tell you about blah blah blah

that sounds really good so what do you

have to tell somebody about

i have to tell you about this new idea i

have for a business or

i have to tell you about what happened

to me last night okay

so there are these really exciting ways

that we can introduce

things that happened or that we can talk

about people or whatever

okay ten words for talking about space

planet the first word is planet planet

so planets are those

really really big things that we have in

our solar system now there are

officially eight because pluto is no

longer considered a planet

in my example sentence pluto used to be

considered

a planet star the next word

is star star so stars are those very

very bright objects that you can see

in the sky sometimes at night that's the

closest star to us

is the sun the sun is a star and we can

see a lot of other stars if we look up

into the night sky

sometimes in a sentence it's hard to see

stars from big cities

solar system the next expression is

solar system

solar system so solar system in our case

here on

planet earth refers to the system of

planets and objects

which are near our star so our solar

system now there are eight planets in

our solar system

used to be nine planets sorry again in

pluto eight planets in our solar system

and then um we can talk about other

objects which maybe

enter our solar system like like

comets for example or a meteor or

some other events might happen in space

within our solar

system so our solar system is the area

surrounding our sun and our planets that

we know of

in a sentence mercury is part of our

solar system

comet the next expression is comet a

comet is actually an icy body

that is uh slightly melting and then

releasing gases so that's what produces

that look

a comment okay in a sentence comets are

really cool

meteor oh right so yes the next word is

meteor

meteor or just meteor so essentially

meteors are different from comets

because comets are made of ice

meteors however are made of rock so

these are two different kinds of objects

that can

that move around in space in a sentence

lots of meteors burn up before they pass

through the atmosphere

meteorite the next word is meteorite

meteorite so this is an important

distinction that many

people don't know about actually this

drives me crazy too so a meteor is the

is the space rock it's in space or it's

in the atmosphere

a meteorite however is the rock if

if the meteor makes it if the meteor can

pass through the earth's atmosphere

and fall to the surface of the earth

that rock then

is called a meteorite so in space

in the atmosphere it's a meteor when it

falls to earth it is a meteorite that

becomes a meteorite when it hits the

earth

so fun facts okay that's the difference

between the two

in a sentence have you ever seen a

meteorite supernova

supernova supernova so the explosion of

a star is a huge

event a supernova is the name of it so

the star

explodes and that's what we call it it's

called a supernova a star

explosion in a sentence supernovas must

be incredible things

black hole ah alright the next

expression is

black hole black hole black holes are

the subject of a lot of study

they have intense gravitational pull so

meaning they have

very strong gravity black holes will

pull other objects into them

um it is said that like a time stops in

a black hole or and like if you

get too close to a black hole if you get

too close to the event horizon of a

black hole you yourself will be pulled

into that hole too it's pretty crazy

so like the event horizon is the point

at which um there's no

there's no turning back from like you

can't you can't escape

essentially the gravitational pull of a

black hole once you're within the event

horizon

of that space it's like crazy you're

done for

all this kind of stuff so interesting so

in a sentence

black holes are mysterious galaxy

okay uh alright so the next word is

galaxy galaxy before we talked about the

expression

solar system so solar system is kind of

our

region of space the region we're

familiar with but

the next step up so if you think of the

solar system as kind of your

neighborhood a little bit

you could think of maybe the galaxy as

like your

city or your country maybe it's sort of

the next step out

so a galaxy is made up of lots and lots

of stars maybe other planets

other solar systems many other solar

systems in one

galaxy so i think yeah we belong to the

milky way galaxy

i believe in a sentence our galaxy is

made of lots of different stars and

planets

earth the next expression is earth

earth earth is our planet earth is the

planet we

live on earth is yeah habitable

meaning humans can live here this word i

included it in this vocabulary list

because it is a very good word to

practice your pronunciation it is the

word

earth earth that r and the th sound

can be difficult to pronounce together

er f

earth so this is a great word to use to

practice your pronunciation

earth so in a sentence our planet is

called

earth ten words for talking about sleep

let's go to wake up

the first word is to wake up to wake up

is to open your eyes

probably in your bed or the place where

you are sleeping to wake up

is to uh to become

conscious to become awake every day you

wake up uh presumably hopefully in a

sentence

i woke up three times last night

to get up to get out of bed all right

the next word is to get

up or to get out of bed so that means

to physically move your body from your

bed

out of bed to stand up from your bed to

get

out of your bed we say to get up or to

get out of bed

in a sentence i got up at eight o'clock

this morning

to snooze the next word is to snooze

so we have to snooze an alarm and also

to snooze so to snooze means to take a

short

sleep to have a short sleeping time or

to snooze an alarm is when your alarm

goes off in the morning

you have a button most alarm clocks have

some button

you can press so the alarm will turn on

again in like you know

five or ten minutes or something so to

snooze an alarm

is to like to ask your alarm to wake you

up again

a few minutes later that's uh to snooze

so we have to snooze an alarm

and two snooze meaning like a short

light sleep

in a sentence i always snooze my alarm

at least

once that is usually true

to oversleep the next word is to

over sleep to over sleep means to sleep

too much or to sleep

late actually no it doesn't mean to

sleep late

to sleep late means just to sleep until

a late

time in the day oversleep means sleeping

beyond the time you wanted to get up so

for example

if my alarm is set for eight o'clock

but i wake up at nine o'clock i

overslept

i slept beyond my wake-up time so we can

use oversleep to talk about

times when you sleep too much you sleep

more than your body needs you to so

maybe your body needs

depending on the person like six to nine

hours or so

but if you sleep like 14 hours we can

say that's over

sleeping you're sleeping too much that's

the nuance here

in a sentence i overslept on my first

day of work

nap the next word is nap nap is a

short sleep so a nap is maybe 30 minutes

one hour just a

short sleep a short rest so a lot of

people will take a nap in the afternoon

for example or maybe children actually

take naps

for example in preschool or when they're

very very young

they have an afternoon nap a short sleep

like

yeah just like an hour or so i imagine

in a sentence

i love naps actually i do like naps i

don't like naps because when i take a

nap

it becomes a sleep it's always like i

wake up four hours later and i'm like

okay well i've destroyed my sleep

schedule

dream the next word is dream

dream so dreams are those those visions

those

images you see those maybe experiences

it seems like you have when you are

asleep

in a sentence i always have weird dreams

nightmare so the next word is nightmare

nightmare is a word which means bad

dream or scary dream

negative dream so children

maybe have nightmares a lot they wake up

crying or

they're really upset by nightmares

monsters

terrifying things happening and so on in

a sentence

do you ever have nightmares to go to bed

the next word is to go to bed so before

we talked about to get up or to get out

of bed this is the opposite to

go to bed means to get in your bed uh to

to try to go to sleep to go to bed

in a sentence i usually go to bed fairly

late

to hit the hay to hit the sack the next

expression

is kind of a s i don't know a slang

expression

uh we have to hit the hay and to hit the

sack

these both mean to go to bed um

they both mean to try to fall asleep but

we just use them in more casual

situations the image here of

hit the hay is with your body hitting

hay

like laying down in hay i believe

historically because

hay was used to stuff things that people

slept on

so that's why we have this expression to

hit the hay with your body

same thing for to hit the sack so a sack

full of something

soft to sleep on is where this

expression comes from in a sentence i

think i'm gonna hit the hay

to fall asleep the next expression it is

to fall asleep to fall asleep you're in

bed

and you finally you lose consciousness

you

you stop being aware you are asleep

in that moment we say you fall asleep

in a sentence it takes me a long time to

fall asleep

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top 10 must know prepositions and

conjunctions for english learners

let's get started two two

i threw the ball to my dad

two is sort of directional it it's

saying

that it's going towards something

i wrote a letter to my mother

i went to the mall i went

to the park my mom asked me to go to the

store

to buy some bread to a destination

to a person from

from from is the opposite of two

from implies where it's coming from the

place of

origin so if i'm going to the mall

i'm coming from my house this letter

is from my daughter from

how long does it take you to get from

your house

to your job to and from

they go together with with

with it means together with something

i am at the movies with my friend i went

out to eat

with my friends i go

shopping with my boyfriend with

means you are together with something

i like to have grilled cheese with

tomatoes on it i'm here with my book

at at is a very short word

i always go to bed at 11 o'clock if i'm

lucky i usually go to bed at around

1 in the morning unfortunately i get

very little sleep

at specifies a time or a place

let's go to the movies at two in the

afternoon

um i'm at home right now where are you

we decided to meet at the beach

it's a pinpoint of time or location

in in in

means you are inside of something or

in the middle of something it means

being immersed in something

i am in bed right now the cat

is in the box uh the child is in the

tree

the plane is in the sky i

graduated school in 2019

in on on

i left the book on my desk

on means on top of i like

ketchup on my fries so that means my

french fries are here and i like to put

ketchup on them

the man is on the roof the car

is on the street the motorcycle

is on my nerves but

but i think i remember her name but i'm

not sure

but is a way to add a negative to a

sentence

so for example i really love eating

cake but i don't eat it often because

it's not healthy

i'd love to go to the movies with you

but

i have too much work to do i really like

you

but i don't want to date you and

and and is a very common word you will

hear

all the time it's a way of adding on

a new subject or thing to your sentence

i love candy and pizza

i'm hungry and i'm tired my friend

moved to spain and i moved to canada

i love playing outside and i love

being inside and is a way to add on

a new subject or thing to what you're

talking about

so so i have a toothache

so i went to the dentist so is a way

of adding an example another way to say

because of this i did this

you say something and then you add so

and then what follows is the effect so

there's the cause

so the effect so i was feeling very

hungry

so i had some pizza this video is going

to be pizza themed everyone

apparently i was really tired so i took

a nap

i was in the mood for some adventure so

i got on an airplane

and flew to mexico that sounds nice

or or or is a way of presenting

a choice so for example

you can either have pizza or

you can have candy i don't know if i

should go

to the movies or if i should go to the

mall

which color do you like better red

or green it presents differences

of choice today's video is on

words americans overuse i haven't seen

these words yet but

apparently it's going to be a series of

words that we as americans i'm american

um we overuse we use too often so let's

start

uh oh the first word is definitely

definitely is definitely a word that

americans overuse

we use it to put emphasis at the end of

a phrase to put emphasis at the end of a

sentence

as in oh that party last week was so

great

yeah definitely or to agree with

somebody like that uh

oh god literally oh just in the last few

days i've seen the word literally

so many times on the internet and used

in just such stupid ways

the word literally means

actually or truly something this is

literally the best hamburger i've ever

eaten

so literally meaning truly or actually

would mean that in that person's entire

life that is the best hamburger they've

ever eaten

however it gets misused a lot in

sentences um

like george bush was literally

supporting the war in iraq or something

like that taking a phrase like that

literally would have to mean that you

know the president

former president would be you know

physically supporting

a war with his body onward onward

hilarious hilarious is the next word

i like to use the word hilarious when

something is actually funny

hilarious of course means something that

is really funny super funny

it's a step above funny maybe two steps

three steps i don't know

however people like to use this word in

place of laughter

so uh for example friends are talking

and instead of just

laughing the friend will say that's

hilarious

well if it's so hilarious just laugh oh

this must be the last one

because this is the worst one this word

is like

um i've probably said it several times

already today for the for the purposes

of this video

the word like is used as a filler word

so

it's the same as something such as

um or uh or hmm for example

we use like as a filler word when we're

trying to think of something

you it's not uncommon to hear the word

repeated

like three four five times in a row when

someone is thinking

they'll say oh you know that party that

i went to like

like uh like uh like uh do you know who

was there

it just invades your speech sometimes

when you're trying to think of something

and no other filler words come out but

the word like does

ah this wasn't the last word there is

another one

seriously seriously is used oh it's good

for anytime you receive

bad news um well not from your boss it's

a really casual word

um but if you hear something um like

your friend lost their job

and you can sympathize with them or

maybe empathize with them by saying

seriously oh that's too bad or oh tell

me

like all your problems oh my god i just

use like oh

god oh i hate myself generic trademarks

oh

oh these are all examples of brands that

where the name of the brand has become

synonymous with whatever the brand

product itself is this is going to be

fun jacuzzi

oh really a jacuzzi is a brand i didn't

know that

see okay jacuzzi is a hot tub

essentially it's just it's a it's a type

of hot tub but so many people

have come to know that jacuzzi equals

hot tub that jacuzzi now just means hot

tub even though it's the name of the

brand

uh so you might say hey come over to my

house this weekend we're all gonna have

a no you might say oh i just bought a

new jacuzzi do you want to come in

no that's creepy too i'm thinking about

buying a jacuzzi

do you have any recommendations next

chapstick

you might use chapstick i use chapstick

chapstick is just a brand of lip balm so

whenever your lips feel dry or when they

feel

chapped you put chapstick on your lips

in a sentence you might say i carry my

chapstick with me everywhere

i love it kleenex kleenex is another

great example of a brand that now equals

a product oh

here's kleenex is this actually kleenex

no this is

ascool can you see it no this is

actually this is not kleenex but

we'd probably refer to this as kleenex

yeah tissue these are just they're just

tissues it's not even made by

not even made by kleenex can you pass me

a kleenex

next is post-its oh post-its are very

useful they're just

a small notepad here's another one

there's some notes written on it already

this is a small one also not made by

post-it but it's the same it's the same

sort of thing it's just a piece of paper

that has a sticky back and you can stick

it to things

but post-its now people will ask for a

post-it instead of just a

sticky back note paper i guess i guess

post-it is an easier thing to say

what else would you call it if not a

post-it sticky paper

arm glue note

i'm waiting for you entrepreneurs next

is band-aids this was the first one that

i thought of actually when i saw this

topic

band-aids when you get hurt when you get

a paper cut it's that little piece of

kind of tapey bandage

that you peel stuff off of and then you

stick on whatever you've just hurt

but that thing is just called a bandage

right it's a sticky bandage there are a

lot of sticky things on this list

most of the time i think when you get a

paper cut or something at work or at

school or whatever they'll say oh my

gosh do you need a band-aid there's

words that vary by

region creek i say creek you might hear

the word

crick crick and the word creek means

uh a small river essentially uh there's

a creek in my backyard

for example sure the next word is coyote

i say coyote

how do other people say this word coyote

oh yeah coyote i don't say that a coyote

is kind of a

dog-like animal it's a wild animal about

the size of a dog with a howl at night

we had them in oregon where i'm from uh

i definitely heard them at my house

last night i heard the coyotes out in my

pasture okay the next word is

root r-o-u-t-e root

it's how i say it you might also hear

the word pronounced

route root r-o-u-t-e means the way

through a city or a town or some kind of

path

in other words r-o-o-t which this word

sounds like

is the system that's at the bottom of a

plant that plant uses to get nutrients

you know with

little hairy fibers i'm so good at

explaining plant biology

oh i know a good route to get from

school to the park later let's take that

on our bicycles

that was oddly specific the next word is

apricot

or you might hear apricot as well it's a

fruit

um so you might say hey did you bring

any apricots to the picket

pick it to the bacon apricots no

it's not picket on the other hand is a

word that means protest

uh there's a freebie in there uh for

example you might say hey i really like

those apricots you brought me the other

day they were delicious

okay the next oh the next word is

caramel i say

i think i say caramel oh this is making

me doubt myself

there's caramel and there's caramel they

both refer to

a sugary sweet substance that's often a

type of candy or often inside a type of

candy

it's really really delicious so you

might say

oh my favorite kind of candy is caramel

or my favorite kind of candy is caramel

uh just depends on where you're from

apparently in the east the east coast

they say

caramel on the west coast it seems we

say

caramel that sounds about right to me

you can choose

phrases that aren't cool anymore woohoo

i probably say a whole lot of these

phrases so i'm about to embarrass myself

the first phrase is sweet oh sweet's not

cool anymore

sweet means cool sweet means something

that's good you might say oh man that

skateboard trick you just did was sweet

groovy i still say groovy um groovy

means cool groovy means good

it was used in the 70s when you know

funky groovy music was popular

in a sentence like oh hey those are some

groovy moves on the dance floor

i don't know if we can use that going

steady going steady is kind of an

old-fashioned phrase as well

going steady just means you're dating

someone who is dating someone else like

me and trisha are going steady

it just means you're dating you're a

couple not

oh this is this word is actually what

the entire holiday of april fool's day

is based around

that's a lie particularly i would say

for junior high school students this

phrase is um

very popular they might say something

like hey

steve thinks you're cute not

so in other words it's often used as an

insult duh

oh duh duh

duh is used when someone says something

really stupid or something

really obvious so if you say something

like

uh oh hey it's raining the other person

who can also maybe look out the window

you're both sitting in front of

might say duh because you've just

indicated something very very obvious

you can also use duh

to make fun of yourself when you do or

say something really stupid

as soon as you realize this you can go

ah duh yeah

intermediate latin phrases this is gonna

be fun

bonafide that sounds like an american

thing like

like we we bastardized that word a bit

bonafide then means something that's

genuine or something that's um truly

representative of something else um so

if someone says he's a bona fide

gentleman for example it means he's

truly a gentleman

i don't hear this word very often at

least among the people i spend time with

perhaps

you might hear it especially in an old

movie i think

vice versa vice versa means um basically

it just means to switch positions of

something

so you might say oh i could come to your

house

and then we could go no this is a

terrible example i could go to your

house or vice versa

meaning you come to my house so saying

vice versa it leaves the listener to

fill in the opposite of whatever else

you're saying

yeah that's actually kind of a useful

phrase that's still used quite a lot

i hear a lot in kind of business english

alma mater alma mater i'm a mater

alma mater just refers to the college

that you graduated from

so whatever it is uh whatever your

university is

you could be from you know harvard

university you would say oh harvard is

my alma mater

that's it carpe diem carpe diem

carpedia means seize the day so it's a

kind of a

motivating phrase um you can say it

maybe when you

leave the house for work for example if

you're feeling like you need an extra

bit of motivation you might say ah carpe

diem

to yourself status quo status quo refers

to

the norm or whatever is the regular in

society

for example right now let's see what's

this what's a status quo

i don't know politics that won't

infuriate anybody

so maybe uh in one place the status quo

might be to eat vegan maybe oh it's

you know eating vegan is the status quo

we're going to look at some common

english idioms let's begin

the first word or phrase rather is about

to about to means you're going to start

something you're going to begin doing

something

for example i'm about to start

explaining this idiom to you

hey okay the next word or phrase

idiom the next idiom is by the way

the word here they've used is

incidentally it's a way to transition to

another topic that's related to what

you're talking about

for example this week i'm going to a

party by the way did you hear about the

party happening

next week so they're somewhat related

okay uh the next idiom is in a way in a

way

this is kind of in a way it was a good

thing that the burrito shop was closed

because otherwise i would have eaten way

too much

and you can use this to show that there

are maybe two sides to a situation

maybe some things are negative maybe

some things are positive next

is on the other hand i hear this a lot

on the other hand is a way

of just saying however or to share two

different sides to a story

for example i think my co-worker is

really irritating

on the other hand at parties he's really

funny so you can show two maybe

different sides to a point with this

phrase next is a matter of fact as a

matter of fact as an idiom

this is a long way to just say actually

or really

it's a little bit more formal sounding

so you might use it in a business

meeting for example

everybody at the business meeting might

feel a little bit unsure about the

previous month sales

and you can begin your presentation by

saying something like i know everybody

was a little bit

unsure about last week's or last month

sales performance but as a matter of

fact

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how to curse like an english native

speaker

piss a slang term for urine for example

don't piss your pants you can say this

when

you're really scared or anxious for

example

if you're about to go on stage to make a

speech

or perform someone can say don't piss

your pants

you can do it pissed off

to be really angry when i'm

angry i can say hey i'm really pissed

off at you right now

why did you do that for loser

used to describe an uncool person

in high school my friends and i would

use this a lot

and we would say hey loser how's it

going

idiot you used to insult people by

saying they're not intelligent

of all the mean things that you can say

this is on the lighter side

but people still use it shoot

this is used to show disappointment or

frustration without using a stronger

curse word

shoot i spilled my coffee shut up

you can use this when you want them to

be quiet

or there's something surprising that you

just heard

you can say shut up no way

ticked off to be really angry you can

say this

with pissed off so this is actually an

older term

not many people use this as much anymore

because

most people actually just use pissed off

fool

this is similar to saying someone is

like a clown you can say

you're acting like a fool right now jerk

this is a light insult used to describe

someone who is mean

for example if there's someone bullying

another person

that person is being a jerk wimp

this means someone who isn't strong

there is a movie out right now

called diary of a wimpy kid have you

seen it have you not

i haven't yet 10 ways to say hello

in english good morning

good morning is the first thing you say

to someone when you see them in the

morning

good morning sir would you like a cup of

coffee

good morning could i please get some

orange juice

good morning i'm still tired from the

night before

hello hello is the most common greeting

you'll hear

that and hi hello is a polite

nice way to greet someone when you see

them hello

everyone says it you cannot go wrong

saying hello

hello can be used at any time of the day

no matter whether it's

morning or at night or at 4am

when you see someone you can say hello

and it will still be appropriate long

time no

see long time no see

it's not necessarily grammatically

correct but it's a saying that we have

hey long time no see what it means

is that you haven't seen that person in

a long time

so it literally means long time no

see long time no see is something you

say to someone when you haven't seen

them in a while

hey john long time no see

how are the wife and kids how have you

been

hey how have you been i haven't seen you

in a long time

how have you been is asking someone

how they're doing and how they've been

for the past

however long if you haven't seen them in

a while

you might say hey long time no see

how have you been how have you been

that's past tense it implies that you

haven't seen them in a while and you

want to hear about how they are

and how they've been for all of that

time that you haven't seen them

hey long time no see how have you been

how are you how are you

means how are you doing how are you

feeling

how is everything it's a standard thing

that you might say to

anyone even if you've seen them the day

before

you might see them today and say hey how

are you

how's it going hey how's it going

how's it going is a more informal way

to say how are you so how are you

and how's it going they mean the same

thing

it's asking how you're doing how you are

feeling is everything okay with you

what's up what's up is another way of

saying

hey how's it going but this one is even

more

informal so you might say this to

friends hey what's up

and they'll say nothing just living my

life you know

day in and day out hey what's up

hey what's up good afternoon

good afternoon how are you would you

like some

lunch good afternoon is a polite way to

greet someone

in the afternoon so if you run into your

boss

you might say good afternoon it's very

nice it's polite

not a lot of people say it to their

friends but it's

it's a polite way to greet someone good

evening

good evening is a nice way to greet

someone in the evening time

you can only use this phrase in the

evening

because it's wishing someone a good

evening it's saying hello at a certain

time

of day good evening would you like some

dinner

good evening have you eaten yet all of

my examples involve food it seems

it's nice to meet you it's nice to meet

you

this is something that's very common to

say

the first time that you meet someone you

might shake their hand

and say hi it's nice to meet you my name

is bridget

my name is it's telling that person

that you are happy to be meeting them

it's a pleasure

to meet them hi it's nice to meet you

hi everyone i'm gabriella how are your

english listening skills

in this video you'll have a chance to

test them out with a quiz

first you'll see an image and hear a

question

next comes a short dialogue listen

carefully and see if you can answer

correctly

we'll show you the answer at the end are

you ready

a woman is asking a store clerk

something at a bookstore

which book does the woman want to see

[Music]

excuse me i'd like to take a look at a

book on that shelf

which book would you like the one about

cars

one moment please this one

yep that's right here you go

which book does the woman want to see

a woman is asking a store clerk

something at a bookstore

which book does the woman want to see

excuse me i'd like to take a look at a

book on that shelf

which book would you like the one about

cars

one moment please this one

yep that's right here you go

a man and a woman are looking over a

menu at a restaurant

what's the man going to order

[Music]

what are you going to order the pizza

looks delicious

i think i'll go with that i had pizza

yesterday

so okay then what about the hamburger

sounds good i'll go with that

what's the man going to order

a man and a woman are looking over a

menu at a restaurant

what's the man going to order what are

you going to order

the pizza looks delicious i think i'll

go with that

i had pizza yesterday so

okay then what about the hamburger

sounds good

i'll go with that

a man is calling the doctor's office

what time does he need to be at the

doctor's office by

[Music]

hello how can i help you what time do

you close today

we close at six o'clock but please come

in before 5

30. okay thank you

what time does he need to be at the

doctor's office by

a man is calling the doctor's office

what time does he need to be at the

doctor's office by

hello how can i help you what time do

you close today

we close at six o'clock but please come

in before 5 30.

okay thank you

a boy is reading from his journal

what was the first thing the boy did

today

the weather was great today i went

swimming this afternoon at the pool

and i went to a movie in the evening i

also studied all morning

today wasn't bad

what was the first thing the boy did

today

a boy is reading from his journal

what was the first thing the boy did

today

the weather was great today i went

swimming this afternoon at the pool

and i went to a movie in the evening i

also studied all morning

today wasn't bad

a woman and a man are looking at a

photograph

which photo are they looking at

[Music]

this is a photo of the soccer team your

son is on isn't it

which one is your son this one

oh he's the tallest one yep

he's even taller than the coach

which photo are they looking at

a woman and a man are looking at a

photograph

which photo are they looking at

this is a photo of the soccer team your

son is on isn't it

which one is your son this one

oh he's the tallest one yep

he's even taller than the coach

did you get it right i hope you learned

something from this quiz

let us know if you have any questions

see you next time

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