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00:00:00the past days um because i have some i doing my regular tasks like my paying bills going to the
00:00:12supermarket for my regular groceries um and i went the past week with a friend for breakfast
00:00:21usually i went to the church uh thursday and sunday because i am part of the group of the
00:00:31liturgy i don't know if it's correct to say liturgy group uh what is that can you describe me yes um
00:00:41like during the mass is a group of persons who regularly we
00:00:46recall um it's like maybe a group of people who we do different tasks tasks during the mass for
00:00:56example um read the the some of the lectures the for the bible before the priest is to read the the
00:01:09the the main one the evangelic or we collect the money for the people who is over there in some
00:01:18part of the church we help in this kind of taxes a task okay excellent brilliant how have you been doing
00:01:29that um about uh three or four years for about for about three or four years more less yes and i really
00:01:43enjoy it and we need we do some things um for like it's a small chapel and need to is need to do many
00:01:54things um for continue building the the the chapel um sometimes we do extractivities out like uh um
00:02:11selling the collectings from the neighborhoods for later on sale and and have money to continue building
00:02:21in the the chapel okay excellent brilliant well that sounds really good so did you have the chance to
00:02:30practice your english in in those days yes i try i am i have been trying to write a paragraph about the
00:02:41daily activities and then do it slowly and looking what is my mistake to try to correct and try to
00:02:49uh looking about why i write it in that way and um reading loud what i brought um to listen myself
00:03:06my pronunciation listen to myself listen listen to myself and when somewhere i don't know how to
00:03:14um say i go to the google and put the word and listen how they pronounce when there are words that i
00:03:24don't know how to pronounce and there are words words to say to say is to express something you know for
00:03:33example i say that this is not a good idea it's when you express your opinion about something in particular
00:03:44but um when you refer to um to describe you know to make a description here's like uh well to to
00:03:55explain it to define or uh yeah to tell right okay to talk then i i listen in the google and repeat it
00:04:10until i think it's correct to uh google what uh what aspects of google did you watch a video or did you
00:04:22not read a book or what uh what are you referring in terms of google in the google hitting my phone i put uh
00:04:31uh um in in the google search i put i write a word and i wrote a word because you're you're describing
00:04:42something who i did in the past i guess so when i talk about when i talk about aspects that
00:04:51occurred yesterday last night two days ago the past week i have to use simple best right so if i visited my
00:05:04family two days ago i have to use it's a must to use i visited i went i had the chance to visit
00:05:16so it's really important that you can identify what tense you're using in your description because
00:05:24you cannot pretend that the way that you describe an idea in a specific tense
00:05:31uh that the way that you explain it it is supposed to be understood especially
00:05:39by someone who doesn't speak spanish that's not possible okay i mean when you elaborate ideas you
00:05:46have to be clear on the syntax and the tense in this case i understand spanish so that's not a problem
00:05:56but you cannot expect the same from a native because the native is not going to understand yes the native
00:06:03needs a clear explanation with the correct tense that you are trying to use for example if i'm using a
00:06:13progressive action if i'm using a progressive action i use present continuous for example right now in this
00:06:22moment i'm reading an english book for my students yesterday i had the chance to read some passages for my
00:06:34students we wrapped a couple of them together so we had a good class we had read other passages two weeks ago
00:06:47that's past perfect when you want to describe situations in the past that occurred way back in time
00:06:56for example two weeks ago a month ago two months ago or even a year or two years or five years ago when
00:07:07you want to describe situations that occurred way back in the time you know way back in time you use
00:07:15past perfect i hadn't seen a horror movie for the past few years so that describes or that states that
00:07:27it's been a long time since the last time that you had a chance to watch a horror movie
00:07:32but if you watched a horror movie the past week you are going to use simple past
00:07:39the last the last the last week i saw a drama movie so it's really important that
00:07:50you uh that you practice in your descriptions when you change from tense
00:07:57when you talk about a past you have to use simple past when you have to when you want to talk about
00:08:04past events that are cured way back in time you use past perfect when you want to describe something in
00:08:11future you want to use will when you want to describe about plans you are going to use going to
00:08:19future with going to i am going to sign into a new english course i'm going to buy
00:08:26a new television i'm going to decorate my kitchen with a different decoration when you talk about
00:08:34possibilities or real possibilities you have to use would when you want to describe an hypothesis
00:08:43you have to use the model verbs for example may or might when you want to describe real possibilities
00:08:49you have to use could so all of those tenses have to be practiced you know have to be practiced because
00:08:59it's important because when you talk you want to be understood yes when you have a teacher when you are
00:09:05in an english class it's not a problem because i understand i can try to i can try to identify or i can
00:09:13try to guess what you are trying to say and i can accommodate i can arrange i can organize
00:09:23or reformulate the idea that you're trying to express and that's okay because i'm an english teacher
00:09:30and that's my job you know it's my job to make corrections and my job to correct people's english but
00:09:37when you when you have a conversation with someone who is not a teacher
00:09:42that person is not going to have the attention to correct your mistakes and that person is not going
00:09:50to answer with a correction that you expect so you cannot expect to be corrected in a conversation you
00:09:57have to elaborate your idea the way that it's supposed to be elaborated in order to be understood
00:10:05that's that's very important and yes that's why it is important that uh we have more uh classmates
00:10:13in class you know so that you can practice with other people and you can listen to other people
00:10:18because the teacher is always going to correct you the teacher is going to always give you the answer
00:10:23and that's okay but you cannot rely completely on the teacher you have to elaborate the idea on your
00:10:32own you know yes you have to uh make a pause you have to uh identify the uh blank spaces or the mistakes
00:10:45that you have not only in the not only in in the way that you elaborate the idea but also in the
00:10:52pronunciation you know remember that the pronunciation needs less accent you know the english is softer
00:11:00softer i mean it's not as strong as spanish so you have to soften the intonation you have to soften the
00:11:09pronunciation it may seem something very slight it may seem something very uh that may not be so
00:11:16important but at the end of the day it is you know it is very important if you especially if your plan
00:11:24is to have uh like a good uh grade in your certification or if your idea is to uh like to achieve
00:11:33a higher english level or if your plans are to go abroad to meet other people or to or to teach english
00:11:44someday you know so it's important to have an appropriate pronunciation there's nothing wrong with
00:11:51speaking with speaking with an accent but people who speak with an accent it's because they didn't have
00:11:57the chance to take english lessons they learned english through the experience they learn english through
00:12:06conversational active learning and that's very common that's very common uh to experience in people
00:12:14that actually go to the united states without taking previous english lessons or they just
00:12:21took some lessons in a basic way you know so they don't really focus or they don't really need
00:12:28to have like uh an appropriate pronunciation but it is necessary it is necessary because it is not well
00:12:38seen when you don't have uh like an appropriate pronunciation you know i mean if you have an accent
00:12:46if you have an accent it may cause some troubles with some words with some words with some words that are
00:12:53not intended to be pronounced in a strong way for example when you pronounce the word let's let's say for
00:13:01example uh uh trailer you know or today and you say today and that's not okay you know i mean i understand most
00:13:12people would understand the accent but the idea is to have an appropriate intonation and a good pronunciation
00:13:20and so that's that's important that's why we practice the uh the dialects so a good pronunciation is going
00:13:29is going to always give you advantages over other people that do not prioritize pronunciation or intonation
00:13:35because pronunciation is the key to uh feel a lot more confident with the way in which you speak
00:13:47most of the times we make mistakes or we tend to mix english with spanish because of the pronunciation
00:13:54as we are pronouncing english the same way that we do with spanish our brain gets confused and it's very
00:14:03common and normal for us that we end up saying spanish words in the middle of our dialogue
00:14:11so that's a problem and we want to avoid that so uh in order to pronounce better you have to imitate
00:14:19you have to simulate the pronunciation from the movies that you watch from the music that you listen to
00:14:27or from someone that you like uh how he or she pronounces it could be either an actor or a singer
00:14:38or i don't know a celebrity of some sort but you have to simulate that pronunciation of that person you
00:14:48know and um i mean there has to be someone i mean everyone has a role model you know like an actor or a
00:14:58singer that you actually like you know and uh you can take that example of uh pronunciation as your role
00:15:07model as your guidance so that you can you can start uh pronouncing the words correctly and simulating
00:15:17the pronunciation of that person right as i told you before politicians are a great source of
00:15:24pronunciation politics is not always fun politics sometimes is really boring but it's not important
00:15:32that you that you get into politics you just have to check the professional pronunciation
00:15:40for any politician that you could actually find because they have really good pronunciation
00:15:46it could be either a president or a senator or i don't know you know a democrat or whatsoever someone from
00:15:54the political aspect so that is going to help you uh greatly with your with your english okay so whenever
00:16:02you you pronounce uh you have to try like to um like to simulate you know the pronunciation sometimes it's not
00:16:13easy because uh it implies to modify completely the way in which you speak in the way in which you are used to spell
00:16:22the words you know which is a very common problem that occurs because we are accustomed to pronouncing the
00:16:29words the same way all the time but uh the important aspect is to um take an example
00:16:38to which we can adapt our pronunciation and eventually eventually your brain will start getting used to
00:16:46pronounce that way to express yourself in that way so that's a really huge advantage
00:16:53but it will take you some time but you have to do it if you commit yourself to do it daily
00:16:59you will see results in a short time right so i would like to know if uh if you have uh like uh someone
00:17:12that uh that you like how he or she speaks english for example an actor yes i don't know bruce wheeles or
00:17:22someone like that do you have one yes um i really like uh kino ribs is that for me is a really good actor and person
00:17:36i really admire i admire him that's good well that's uh that's what that's uh the first step you know i
00:17:44mean you can start seeing videos from him and you can uh try to uh simulate how he speaks and how he
00:17:52pronounces and how he links the expressions you know and how he changes from one tense to another
00:18:00for example i can uh a very good exercise is to describe what you did last week and what you
00:18:08what you plan to do today and what you are doing right now and what you will do tomorrow for example
00:18:14yesterday i could say yesterday i had a chance to see a couple of friends so we had a chance to watch a
00:18:20movie at the movie theater today i have some english lessons right now i'm trying to read some books in
00:18:30order to prepare my lessons and tomorrow i will have more time to go to play basketball do you see so you
00:18:37have to be able to change from best to present to future you know and eventually to the conditionals the
00:18:47conditionals are also important because the conditionals help you to create uh other
00:18:52possibilities it could be a real conditional based on a possible and feasible situation that could actually
00:19:00occur that could actually take place or an hypothesis and in order to make an hypothesis you shall use the
00:19:08second conditional if i wear an astronaut i would work in the nasa so that's an hypothesis because
00:19:17obviously i am not an astronaut i'm an english teacher but if i wear there's a second conditional
00:19:24and you use a third conditional to express regrets things that you cannot change from the past anymore
00:19:32for example if you say if i had if i had studied medicine i would have become a doctor you know so
00:19:42those are uh unreal events things that are not real anymore because the things that you um that you
00:19:51might have done in the past are not real yes or possibilities you know unreal possibilities but they um
00:20:01they they didn't get uh the chance to become real because you didn't some some of those actions you know
00:20:10you didn't complete those actions or you didn't make a decision in that time but that's uh all those
00:20:17aspects are very important to identify so we are going to work on some exercises to to improve that right
00:20:24okay okay so that's good so in this case uh like um well yeah ken reeves is a great actor i mean he's got a
00:20:36a great pronunciation so what aspects can you identify from his uh pronunciation for example
00:20:45um he speaks slowly and it is something who i understand better because usually the any nati
00:21:01people from the united states from mexico uh from whatever when you speak your own language you
00:21:10tend to tend to speak fast and and put the words together and sometimes uh for me i face another language
00:21:20i don't understand is i don't understand um but for uh when i see some of his movies uh i understand
00:21:34almost everything who he says well that's good you know that's good because that means that uh that you're
00:21:45able to uh like to interpret the context of what he's saying right right now the important thing is like
00:21:56to uh well in this case to simulate uh to try to uh check the details in which he emphasizes his expressions or
00:22:12how he elaborates the ideas but a good way to reinforce this is through reading reading it's a key to
00:22:21improve the english because reading gives you more ways to create ideas and you can you can see directly
00:22:31how ideas are formulated how ideas are created and and that's really helpful because whenever you have
00:22:39this you can see that that you have more possibilities to express yourself in in different ways
00:22:47so that's the point excellent thank you what do we have here um and a good way to practice is like for
00:22:56example you're watching a video and uh the um the phrases that uh this actor or or any other person in the video
00:23:08says you can try to repeat trying to do the same intonation and the same pronunciation that the person is uh
00:23:18pronouncing in the video that's really important as close as you get to the pronunciation the better
00:23:24but it has to sound almost the same and in order to achieve that you can record yourself you can record
00:23:33yourself using a cell phone or a microphone so that you can compare the pronunciation uh that you that
00:23:42you recorded to the one that shows up in the movie that's a really good practice okay thank you it's a good
00:23:49idea so right here we have like uh well one of these uh dialogues you know english and you getting
00:23:58getting getting acquainted right so do you remember what's the meaning of uh getting a queen getting
00:24:04acquainted um get it is to obtain something acquainting uh i don't know what is the name
00:24:17well getting acquainted is for example when you have uh the opportunity to meet someone right
00:24:22right right the opportunity to meet someone either uh personally or professionally or uh whenever you
00:24:31see uh someone that that you haven't seen in a long time you know so getting getting acquainted with
00:24:38someone um a person who a person who uh you may want to to get to know a little a little bit better
00:24:50so that's uh that's the point so for example uh what uh what is the most common way in which
00:25:00you get acquainted to someone in the in your life all over this what is what we just said um
00:25:08um maybe will be like calling by phone or sending a message through the whatsapp who is really common now
00:25:24um or going to some place for example the church
00:25:30or the same thing when they are uh some event who i like it for example
00:25:42uh when uh can be for buying something and you see the people who like the same thing like you
00:25:52um excellent very good so in this case uh whenever you get to know someone what are like the most common
00:26:01expressions that uh that you use in in that conversation uh how are you doing uh i didn't see you for a while
00:26:12um i'm talking about uh if i know where the person asking uh maybe how is uh his or her family
00:26:25um how is doing in in her in her business or in general questions about the the how he how he or she is doing
00:26:42okay excellent bring it so and what does a person need in order to become uh for example one of your friends
00:26:53you know for example if you get the chance to know someone a classmate or a colleague from work
00:26:59or a colleague from work what does that person need in order to become a friend of yours
00:27:07and the most uh important thing who for me is um when i notice the person is honest in the way who she is
00:27:20whatever whatever is her life you know can be a student can be
00:27:27be working or whatever he's doing he's like but you know i think i can notice if the person is uh
00:27:37honest it's one of the main things for me okay excellent very good so that's that's the point so
00:27:45in this case we have different options like uh out of these options for uh in business and travel
00:27:53uh school or um people who are close to you which is the most common scenario in which you get to know
00:28:02people for example my neighbors i i have a really good uh friends they are neighbors and friends uh who live
00:28:14they are very close to near to my home and um when they talk to me about what they are the activities
00:28:25like uh if they were planning to travel and sometimes they ask us for i ask us also talking about my husband
00:28:34and me for some help like uh taking care of their their pets or taking care of the keeping a wash
00:28:44i don't know if it's correct to say like that keeping watch on her house
00:28:49and uh is and it's always in both ways you feel confident to us the same when you will do some
00:28:57activity and you need help in any kind
00:29:00and you need help in any kind of work and you need help in any kind of work and you need help in
00:29:04your life and you need help in any kind of work and you need help in any kind of work
00:29:09so what about business uh is it common for you to meet people at work or while you're doing business
00:29:18or in one of these uh one of these aspects um i am retired i i am a doctor and i am retired retired
00:29:29are you retired yes i'm retired family doctor um but i just keep contact with my college
00:29:39um i am living in merida but i am from san luis potosi and um i keep contact with them by phone
00:29:50by message and sometimes when they are some activity who will be online and they know why
00:29:57i i am interested interested in that topic they let interested me into that topic they let me know
00:30:08and i can do that activity at the same time they do
00:30:12and that's good and what about what about travel is it common to you to meet new people while
00:30:24traveling to other to other places or to other countries um yes uh for example um when i go
00:30:36go to my my state to san luis potosi um i used to see my friends who i know for many years but when i see
00:30:55them usually they have a new people in their life because they live over there and i live here in merida
00:31:04and i met new people through them or through my family too okay thanks i'm bringing so do you usually
00:31:15involve uh let's say like your family in the in your your and your relationships in your new friendships
00:31:26um in some of them yes
00:31:29um san luis potosi when i was living over there was a small city now grow up a lot
00:31:42most we know many people and sometimes you don't have a close contact but you know when
00:31:50you know about them and my usually my friends my close friends knew my family
00:32:06and i knew their families this was kind of a close relationship
00:32:12okay excellent again so that's the point that's uh another aspect that we're discussing here that we
00:32:22have uh while studying or to get to know people who do not speak my language did you ever know
00:32:30any person either a foreigner or a national person who didn't speak your language considering that
00:32:39in mexico there are some many other languages that people speak not only spanish right so it's
00:32:46it's a very common situation as well to find people that that do not actually
00:32:53speak the same language as we do so did you ever get to know anyone who didn't speak your language
00:33:00language yes for example here in merida there's um it's still uh 60 percent of the people is uh
00:33:13mayan mayan people indian people
00:33:16and um some of them
00:33:19um struggled with the spanish and they still speaking mayan who and i met some of them here for
00:33:32example if you go to the hospitals and you you can see the signs like uh for the uh for example for the
00:33:42laboratory in spanish but the same sign is writing in mayan because the population is is a big part of the city
00:33:54because yes i met some of them who doesn't speak spanish or speak only a little bit
00:34:02okay people who didn't speak spanish and
00:34:06how did you feel uh in this experience and what did you do in order to communicate with them
00:34:14um i tried to
00:34:18um
00:34:20speak slowly and try to
00:34:25to listen
00:34:27or asking them
00:34:29to point me according for example with the workers when
00:34:35uh you try to work uh to talk with a worker who doesn't is
00:34:42the masons for example they who build houses who
00:34:48don't speaks well spanish because through
00:34:53signs so looking with their hands or trying to
00:34:57point something and say a few words who i think they can understand
00:35:05um
00:35:07okay it's it's difficult but uh like i try to be empathic and
00:35:15find a way to communicate okay excellent very good well it's it's always important right to find
00:35:24like a common way in which uh we can communicate uh not all the people
00:35:31know how to to use english in order to
00:35:34like to communicate in a common language considering that
00:35:38english would be like the universal language in those in those aspects but
00:35:43uh in some other times like um um gestures or some other indications could actually help
00:35:52anyone that could uh that could actually want to communicate with other people
00:35:58so when did you ever travel to some other country in which you experienced this uh situation that
00:36:07you weren't able at all or at least that you weren't able
00:36:13um in the most part to communicate with other people
00:36:17um yes many years ago i traveled to france and um
00:36:31when i was in high school i took some french classes but i never practiced and then i forget
00:36:41that when i traveled to france i really have a hard time to communicate with the people i i traveling
00:36:53with a friend from mexico and she speak uh better french and i didn't speak french she speak some french
00:37:07not really good but she can communicate uh better and was the way who
00:37:15we that's the way who helped me that uh that time to understand or to try to buy it or try to do some things
00:37:28but it's a frustrating feeling to when you can communicate with somebody
00:37:37okay so you had uh in this case the help from uh one of your friends right in that case well that's
00:37:44that's a really good aid in in those aspects when when uh you don't have like uh the tools to
00:37:51communicate properly or that you aren't completely experienced in those in those aspects okay excellent
00:38:00great so what did you learn from this uh from this experience in particular um the importance of
00:38:09communication really uh a language can be a barrier for communication and uh
00:38:20um um it is i think is the most important thing to learn but i think that um is who made you
00:38:34uh to try whatever you want to do you need to try to do the
00:38:44the the things who you need to for improve your communication if i for example if i will travel
00:38:54talking about the english and i will travel and i want uh to like i just say most of the countries
00:39:02speak english is a world language if i wanted to communicate and to enjoy better whatever i do i need
00:39:12to know the language so and what about uh any other person that perhaps didn't know or didn't have
00:39:26like enough knowledge of uh english and that you had the chance to help this person to understand or to
00:39:35get to communicate better did you ever have that chance for that experience yes with some of my neighbors
00:39:43sometimes they need uh to translate something and they asked me and i but i do my best okay
00:39:56in the way it was like the situation was he uh looking for a place or was there like a conversation
00:40:03with a native speaker or what was like the context in that aspect
00:40:23mm-hmm
00:40:25that's uh those experiences are really good because uh those are uh real life experiences you know
00:40:53i mean those those type of situations cannot be uh completely uh experiencing um
00:41:02like in a school or in a in a controlled uh process you know but rather we have to experience that
00:41:10situation in in a real life in order to see what you do and and how you feel you know that's really
00:41:18necessary and sometimes it's underestimated but uh but it's really um it's really important for anyone who
00:41:27could actually be learning uh a new language and that could actually want to to improve in the in
00:41:35different aspects excellent break it yeah so that we have in this case um
00:41:44we have the suspect let me see we have these when we capture right there okay so in this case for
00:41:53example we have english and you why are you learning english please complete the child did you know that's
00:42:02good so in this case so in this case we have like uh like a dialogue here so first of all how many people
00:42:10can you see on this picture in the first one there are three two women two women and one man and the second
00:42:21one is uh two men and one woman and in the third picture is uh two men and two women
00:42:35okay so did you ever see a similar situation that you that that it could resemble to the one that is
00:42:45shown in this picture a similar situation that you had in your in your personal life
00:42:53like i into them is some kind of situation like introduce another person in uh in the first picture
00:43:00it seems like uh yeah i don't know if they are a couple the man the the woman and men and they are
00:43:10introducing another woman yes i think it's in the daily lives you can see some things like that when you
00:43:19need to introduce to a a friend who maybe your couple didn't know or didn't met what is correct didn't
00:43:28didn't meet meet didn't meet okay excellent bring it so that's the point so that's good so we have
00:43:39the situation with uh four people here so what are the expressions or what could be the content
00:43:48of this uh conversation that could actually be shown up on this conversation what could it
00:43:56possibly be what could it possibly be about what do you think um the in the second picture the the
00:44:04lady who was introduced to the man uh is explaining something and is another man coming with them
00:44:16then coming to them and uh it looks like a friendly situation they they introduced the
00:44:26to the first man the new guy and over there you see the four four people uh uh shaking
00:44:42oh so the two men shaking had hands and smiling and the two other ladies smiling too and to see
00:44:49some kind of friendly situation for i don't know it will be a business or some kind of a random
00:45:01okay well he certainly looks like uh like a businessman right in these uh place looks like uh
00:45:11like a studio or a place where they they could actually be talking about arts or uh architecture
00:45:20perhaps well there are different possibilities uh possibilities in this case so whenever it comes
00:45:28to your personal experience are you usually the person who introduces your friends to somebody else or
00:45:35you're usually the one who is being introduced to other people by somebody else
00:45:44can be bought but more and for some reason most of the times i introduce the people to or not to
00:45:52whatever i am with me but can be in both sides excellent very good right so that's the point so i've heard
00:45:59that in this case for example uh well doctors and nurses and everyone who is related to
00:46:08to the medical area are really uh uh common to experience um meeting a lot of new people you know in their lives
00:46:18and they have the chance to travel to different places to go to different conferences
00:46:24so in this case how common is it for you to use your english in this context
00:46:36now here in merida is less common than before but there are a group of first uh um
00:46:44uh people from canada here who they taking care of uh street uh animals and um i'm i meet that people for
00:47:02another friend um and they don't speak uh well spanish and i try to be the translator
00:47:14from them to uh native people here when they try to help some uh animal because they they have a that
00:47:24group who for example capture a uh street dog and then they sterilize and try to help the dog like
00:47:36maybe some somebody adopt or something and it's a really nice group of persons who i meet and i see them
00:47:46and i they speak most of the of the time english and from people um people who are not here who doesn't
00:47:56speak english i try to be the mediator or the translator
00:48:04okay excellent very good well that's that's fantastic that's that's really good well in this
00:48:10case we're gonna make like a short activity right here before we continue analyzing this situation and
00:48:16that's gonna be the describe describe an awkward an awkward situation that you had while meeting someone
00:48:30and how did you get out of that situation how did you feel and what was the context you know how did you feel
00:48:42and what was the context so you have to describe this aspect in a written format so describe an awkward situation
00:48:54do you know what's the meaning of awkward yes it's something who is a really difficult and can be
00:49:01embarrassed it can be embarrassing yes it can be embarrassing it can be something uh rather not
00:49:09pleasant something rather uncomfortable that you may go through and yet you would say you know what
00:49:15i'm not really into this and i would like to go uh somewhere else i would like to be somewhere else you
00:49:22know yes so that's uh yeah so that's the idea so if you could please uh share that um that aspect it would
00:49:33be uh it would be uh it would be fantastic right so you can make it like in in in a paragraph or something
00:49:40where you can organize and describe your uh idea properly right okay
00:49:49okay teacher and i sent to the whatsapp yes please if you have any uh issues with uh creating an idea in
00:49:57particular or something uh in particular or something uh let me know so i can help you out to create the uh
00:50:03the context right okay i will copy the question okay yes don't worry let me i can send it to you to your
00:50:11my whatsapp anyways yes okay thank you there we go
00:50:15so we're gonna do it right here and uh and there we go right there we go thank you teacher yes very well
00:50:29okay okay so that's uh ready lord is that you finish yes teacher okay excellent very good so we have
00:50:44like the description one day i was saying in my office and your patients um i was saying yeah or you
00:50:54could say i was in my office and your patient okay and his wife came in and started yelling at me because
00:51:01she uh thought about that stuff and you have to write uh a thought you know let me oh yes yes thought let me
00:51:12show you the the text right here
00:51:29this screen with another tv
00:51:31in this case we're gonna change uh that that word is it's good but it's a tough you know that's tough
00:51:44it's tough is for example when something is difficult hard you know or severe right but in this case you
00:51:54wanted to say she wanted to say she thought which is the best form of the word think right it's very
00:52:00similar but it's a very common confusion okay she thought i was uh uh flirting with him okay so that's
00:52:09that's i i try to stay calm and call the secretary of the phone for help i asked them to leave the office
00:52:17for a while i felt nervous but i recovered myself and continued to see my patients okay well that's a very
00:52:24important situation so what would be like uh the best strategy to overcome an awkward situation lord as
00:52:32well what would you say um please first to to it depends on the situation if the situation is uh
00:52:47dangerous to be in us to be sure you are safe
00:52:53but if it is something like this can like i can be uh i don't know how to say to increase or to be
00:53:02worse uh to to ask for help who was the first thought like uh you could say like uh to escalate the
00:53:12situation the situation exactly and if to become worse yes and um ask for help like these are no
00:53:23by yourself and uh the first first thing is to for me is to try to stay calm because if i act like them
00:53:37they think can be really bad and uh and and you can think well because if you stay calm at least you're
00:53:46thinking what is what you can do for help yourself okay well that's that's a good strategy you know well
00:53:54in this case uh sometimes it's uh really difficult when you are in danger or when you are like in
00:54:02trouble but uh yeah i mean the most important aspect is to to stay calm and well to to go on you know i
00:54:10mean especially these days you know there are several situations where where people try like to
00:54:17to to take advantage of the situation to uh yes make your uh uh your life uh in a bad moment you know
00:54:28or or make your or make you go through a bad moment you know that's that's very common you know yes
00:54:35that's that's i think that that uh that everyone has experienced a similar situation at some point
00:54:42right yes so it has a point excellent very good thank you yeah so right here we have uh yes well so we can
00:54:52see here uh the context where we can see that there are four people uh who are susan kara sam and ted
00:55:01who are trying to uh who are trying to uh who are trying to interact a little bit so in this case for
00:55:07example we have the first expression that says i'll bet this is your dad so in this case i'll bet it means
00:55:16when you are trying to like um to adventure yourself like to try to guess you know so in this case it would be
00:55:27uh mostly appropriate to use would that would be what you would expect here but it is use will i'll bet
00:55:38this is your dad because she is rather sure about the situation i mean she's saying that
00:55:45she is rather sure like she is really uh confident that this is the correct information so i'll bet this
00:55:55is your dad you know so whenever you you can actually use this expression in various contexts
00:56:01if you want to for example you can say i'll bet this is your brother i'll bet this is your sister
00:56:07i'll bet we are in the same class i don't know different ideas right so it's a very useful
00:56:14expression okay so to bet to bet to bet is like to um like uh to give something uh or to put something
00:56:26in uh like in jeopardy you know jeopardy is for example when you are going to a casino and uh you
00:56:34know you that in the in that context yeah you set some money like to see if you can double it if you
00:56:43can get the double of that money that you bet but uh but yeah well that's that's a context so i'll bet
00:56:50this is your dad so yes it is that i'd like you to meet my friend susan grant whenever you want to
00:56:58make invitations or whenever you want to be very formal you have to use which right the model verb
00:57:04which wood is very useful as well to describe future you know not many people use it that way
00:57:12no sorry to describe past sorry what is also used to describe past not many people use it that way
00:57:19but it's another possibility for example you can say for possibilities possibilities you can describe
00:57:29i would i would invite more people to my birthday party i would invite more people to my birthday party but
00:57:39i wouldn't i wouldn't afford it or i couldn't afford it you know well it depends on what you want to say but
00:57:47but in this case you are describing a possibility that at least on this aspect it may not be possible
00:57:55because uh you wouldn't have enough money to afford more guests you know in your party
00:58:01so i would invite more people to my birthday party but i wouldn't afford it you know i or i wouldn't be
00:58:09able to afford it if you want to state clearly that this is a negative possibility you can add
00:58:17the other function but i wouldn't be able to afford it or you can simply say i i may not afford it if you are not completely
00:58:30completely sure or you can please you can simply say i couldn't i couldn't afford it you know remember that could
00:58:38would can be used not only for future but also for the past in this case we are using the modality
00:58:47for the future right i couldn't afford it because we're talking about in about an hypothesis in future
00:58:56terms okay so that's one the other option that you have with would is to use it with model perfects or
00:59:05in the past with past habits for example if there is an action or an activity that you used to know
00:59:14how to do it but you rarely do it now you may want to use would for example i would let's say i would
00:59:24practice tennis tennis with my sister when i lived in florida when i lived in florida so we can infer from
00:59:36this context that the situation occurred way back in time you know it's not recent that's not today
00:59:46it's way back in the past so i would practice tennis with my sister when i lived in florida that's why he is
00:59:55describing that i lived in florida i'm not there anymore but i used to live there so i when i when i
01:00:04live there i would practice tennis with my sister when i live there so in this case you have the option i would
01:00:13or the the easiest one which is i used to you know either way that you want to choose it's correct i
01:00:23would or i used to certainly i used to it's way more common than i would right yes so i would when people
01:00:34uh when people decide to use i would to describe something in the past it's because they're trying to
01:00:42be a little bit more uh fluent in their expression and they want to sound less formal you know they
01:00:49want to sound less serious because i used to is a standard is a standard for whenever you want to
01:00:56express a past habit but past habits can also be described with which for example let's make a couple
01:01:06more here you can say i would enjoy i would enjoy the summer with my grandparents in my childhood
01:01:19i would enjoy the summer with my grandparents in my childhood so in my childhood i used to
01:01:25enjoy these you know not anymore because i'm i have grown up or i'm an adult or i'm a teenager
01:01:34i'm older but in this case i would enjoy the summer with my grandparents in my childhood it means that
01:01:41it's this is a past habit that you used to have okay for example uh you can make it plural way my sister
01:01:51and i would eat lots of cookies lots of cookies when we were when we were eight years old
01:02:01so that's a past habit that's a past situation so uh in this as the same explanation as we did before
01:02:11we have the option to use i used to or i would so both options are correct right
01:02:19so that's the point so that gives you that gives you a great advantage for example you can describe
01:02:26you can describe two past habits you can um you can describe one using would and the other one using
01:02:39used to for example you can say uh my parents my parents and i used to to go to the aquatic
01:02:52park in summer my parents and i used to go to the aquatic park in summer and i would and i would swim in the pool
01:03:02and i would swim in the pool for the entire day you know for the whole day or the whole day directly
01:03:10you know different possibilities you that you have in the same expression so my parents and i used to go
01:03:17to the aquatic park in summer so that's like the uh the first context and the first past habits that i
01:03:26want to mention my parents and i used to go to the aquatic park in summer and i would swim in the pool
01:03:33for the entire day as you can see i'm describing i'm describing two past habits the first one i used to go to
01:03:42the aquatic park with my parents and the second one i would swim i would swim in the pool for the entire day
01:03:52in both cases
01:03:56both cases are expressing a past habit right both cases are expressing a best habit so it's up to you
01:04:07to decide which one you want to choose or uh or which one you feel uh more familiar with right
01:04:19but in this case
01:04:22the most common one certainly is to use used to would it's a little bit more common when people want to
01:04:30speak a little bit more fluent you know but it depends it depends on the context it depends on the
01:04:37uh severity that you want to add or that you want to give to that expression that you're saying
01:04:44and uh well yeah that's basically how it works do you have any questions
01:04:48no thank you all who are looking is like in the one who you put my parents and i used to go to the
01:04:55aquatic park in summer and i was swimming like this you don't repeat i used to and i used to go swimming
01:05:02now yeah yeah that's that's the point so i would and i used to but you have to be you have to be careful
01:05:11because there is another option there is another option that is um for example which is the uh to be
01:05:23to be to be used to you know to be used to that's completely different to i used to so this is even
01:05:31though they look similar it's different to be used to is to express something to which you are accustomed
01:05:40to and that is a repeated every day you know or or in a in a good amount of time you know in a good
01:05:51length of time for example you can say and of course it's followed by a gerund because the to
01:05:59is the object of the of the prepositional phrase that we are using to be used to right so it's uh
01:06:08it's uh it comes all together yes it's a conjunction in in short terms for example to be used to
01:06:17you can say i am used to i'm used to getting a haircut every weekend for example i'm used to getting a
01:06:31haircut every weekend so i'm used to to be used to means that this is something that you do it regularly
01:06:41in this case the context is this is something that you do regularly you know or that you often do
01:06:51so you have to be careful with that you know you have to be careful with that just remember
01:06:56to be plus used to is used to describe common regular repeated activities during the day especially
01:07:06those that are very familiar to you okay for example when i say i am used to speaking in english every
01:07:17day that's something normal for me that's something usual because i teach english so i have to use it
01:07:24every single day right yes so to be used to i'm used to getting a haircut every weekend i am used to
01:07:33i am used to running more than five miles every day my sister is used to is used to ing remember my sister is
01:07:47used to going to sleep early at night okay and the other one without the bird to be when you simply say
01:07:58i used to you used to you used to he used to that's useful in order to express something in the past for
01:08:06example i used to study english but i don't do it anymore i used to um i used to do exercise
01:08:17but i don't have time anymore right i used to visit my my relatives i used to visit my relatives but then
01:08:27i moved to another city so i used to visit them when i lived close to them but now i can't now i can
01:08:37because i am in a different place right so that's good right thank you yes so that's a point so it's uh
01:08:47it's a very subtle difference you know but it's uh simple to to notice just remember that
01:08:56when you have the bird to be it's because you are going to describe something that you are used to
01:09:03that you are used to right now and that you don't want to change
01:09:09whereas the other one i used to is to describe past habits i used to i used to eat
01:09:18many candies i used to eat many candies or too much candy we can say too much too much candy and kind of all
01:09:33now i used to eat too much candy so this is uh something that i used to do but that i don't do it anymore
01:09:41right so for example let's say uh caroline caroline used to drive her car car caroline used to drive her
01:09:56car she doesn't do it anymore right perhaps her parents help her to drive her car i don't know but
01:10:04that's an example okay for example if we say david used to uh paint with used to paint using oils
01:10:18so this is a habit that he used to do in the past right david used to paint using oils okay
01:10:30when this is normal when this is normal for david when this is extremely normal for david
01:10:37you may want to say you want to simply say for example you can say david is used
01:10:45david is used to is used to painting using oils so do you see the difference yes david is used to painting
01:10:59using oils in this case we have the gerunds we have the oh my god let me move it right here
01:11:09so in this case we have the gerund
01:11:15we have the gerund because the gerund is the object of the preposition is
01:11:20it goes after used to you know so the whole phrase the whole phrase it is as if you were using a
01:11:29preposition yes yes thank you it is very it is very useful yes that's the point so we're gonna practice
01:11:41uh the pronunciation right here a little bit so uh lotus can you read the whole paragraph please yes
01:11:51susan i will bet this is your dad cara yes it is that i would like to you to meet my friend susan grant
01:12:02sam it's a pleasure to meet you susan samuel pike susan great to meet you too but please every calls me by my nickname susie
01:12:16uh-huh yes continue and just call me okay it's sam and just call me sam so what do you do susie
01:12:29susan i am a photographer oh i'm sorry there is my husband ted over here
01:12:35ted sorry i'm late susan ted this is cara's dad ted oh how nice to meet you mr pike sam likewise but
01:12:48please call me sam thanks very good so we're gonna we're gonna try to uh check the pronunciation here it says
01:12:59i'll bet this is your dad's yes it is that i'd like you to meet my friend susan grant
01:13:08it's a pleasure to meet you susan samuel pike
01:13:12great to meet you too great to meet you too but please everyone calls me by my nickname susie
01:13:22and just call me sam so what do you do susie i'm a photographer oh i'm sorry there's my husband
01:13:34ted over here ted over here sorry i'm late ted this is cara z oh how nice to meet you mr pike likewise but
01:13:46please call me sam so we can see that we have to uh soften the the letters a little bit in order to have
01:13:57a correct uh pronunciation of the phrase so we're going to practice one more time uh lower this
01:14:03please please uh begin okay i'll bet this is your dad yes it is that i'd like to you meet my friend
01:14:15susan grant it's a pleasure to meet you susan samuel pike great to meet you too but please everyone's call
01:14:25me by my nickname susie and just call me sam so what do you do susie
01:14:32i am a photographer oh i'm sorry there is my husband dead
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