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First ever live English class – 27/5/2012


00:00:05I think we’re right hi guys

00:00:08you ready for your first online

00:00:10interactive class you better be yeah is

00:00:14it starting now and you don’t have a

00:00:16choice so first things first welcome and

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00:00:52you want to learn we’re going to teach

00:00:53you to you today yeah okay so and let’s

00:00:57begin um Oh before I forget

00:01:00Tom’s leaving us tomorrow I’m leaving

00:01:03tomorrow morning and I’m going off to

00:01:05Korea so any Korean students he’ll be

00:01:10with you tomorrow night you know

00:01:14tomorrow morning no Tuesday morning okay

00:01:18so if you’re watching this live Tuesday

00:01:19morning if you’re watching this on

00:01:20YouTube later maybe he’s already there

00:01:23I’ll see you there man so if you want to

00:01:26lesson with him you can contact us on

00:01:28our website to arrange a private lesson

00:01:31or on skype whichever you like excellent

00:01:35and so because I am going to create

00:01:38tomorrow morning I have been going out a

00:01:41lot to say goodbye to everyone

00:01:43um last night I got very very drunk so

00:01:48I’m not feeling too good today when was

00:01:51the last time you got drunk Allister

00:01:53drunk drunk like but your face

00:01:59struggling yeah uh no it was last last

00:02:05weekend I went out drinking it was a

00:02:07lovely sunny day in the park I mean a

00:02:09friend we’re drinking and we got very

00:02:12very very very

00:02:13it’s amazing what did you drink I can’t

00:02:17remember so I think I was very very

00:02:19drunk last night I was drinking lots and

00:02:22lots of cider my son see I I don’t I’ve

00:02:27never I’ve never done cider never tried

00:02:29cider

00:02:30never in my life if it doesn’t it

00:02:33doesn’t sound like a tasty drink to me

00:02:35it’s lovely drink cider gets you very

00:02:38drunk and you really bad that’s

00:02:45gross there’s nothing but notice how I

00:02:47said I have never drank cider and I used

00:02:52which tents I’m sure you’re already

00:02:55thinking of it it’s present perfect yes

00:02:57so if you don’t know if you’re not

00:03:00already aware and present perfect is the

00:03:03tents we use me that way is the tents we

00:03:07use to talk about experiences we have no

00:03:12specific time or no specific details in

00:03:16our past so if you don’t use a specific

00:03:19time or specific details you can use

00:03:22present perfect so for example this sky

00:03:26you do the French voice best bulge or I

00:03:31will fall say mum but what’s he saying

00:03:35oh why would he go to Paris though like

00:03:38I just drew him he lives there doesn’t

00:03:41he

00:03:41um okay well let’s imagine I am this

00:03:44time I just didn’t think people think

00:03:49that was the Eiffel Tower so do French

00:03:51with him yeah so it’s me and I can say I

00:04:03have been to Paris if you’re new to

00:04:07present perfect the ground at the forum

00:04:10is we’ve have or has has for he/she/it

00:04:16and the past participle they go together

00:04:18that makes prison perfect and again we

00:04:22use it for not specific times and

00:04:26if we don’t give extra details with that

00:04:30but we’ll go into that a bit more later

00:04:33and the other thing is with prism

00:04:36perfect we use a certain certain few

00:04:39words and to describe certain time

00:04:42references and that’s kind of going back

00:04:46to our conversation about the cider

00:04:48let’s imagine four bears are in a pub

00:04:52the first bear says okay guys after

00:04:59three we’re down the shots good bit of

00:05:01vocabulary down down the shot um I don’t

00:05:07know in any other language so I’m not

00:05:09going to show off any language skills

00:05:11but yes to down your shot you have a

00:05:14shot and very quick it’s finished or

00:05:18just to finish it very very quickly so

00:05:22he says that after three so wait for me

00:05:251 2 3 down your shot a shot is that the

00:05:34small one and the next one the Panda

00:05:38says oh you wanted me to wait sorry I la

00:05:43ba bla drunk it what do you think that

00:05:46he says there if you look is glass if

00:05:52you look at his glass it’s empty there’s

00:05:54no drink in there so what do you think

00:05:56he said I’ve drank it no one’s

00:06:06Samantha I think also there’s a delay on

00:06:08this is it already

00:06:16oh thanks yeah yeah I

00:06:26I’ve already drunk it why did you say

00:06:30already well you’ll notice he said okay

00:06:34wait after three will will down the

00:06:38shots so he wants him to wait he thinks

00:06:42after three they will all drink the shot

00:06:46but for him he wants to say well

00:06:49actually I know you’re expecting later

00:06:52but um I’ve already drunk it it’s

00:06:57happened it’s finished it’s in the past

00:06:59before you expected it so already it’s

00:07:11four before you expect something before

00:07:24before something is expected the next

00:07:28guy

00:07:29what kind of bear is that he’s going to

00:07:32be a choir there but they’re marsupials

00:07:34when I even bears so the next bit is a

00:07:40koala because the koala bear he’s a good

00:07:44friend he didn’t he didn’t drink

00:07:47anything so okay after three whittled

00:07:50down our shots with the koala bear he’s

00:07:54not like the panda bear the panda bears

00:07:55a dick let’s be honest the koala bear no

00:07:59don’t worry I haven’t drunk it what do

00:08:05you think

00:08:08you

00:08:11just write your comments in the box

00:08:13below is it yet yeah I have a really

00:08:20good student here yeah I haven’t drunk

00:08:27it yet so we’ve yet why do we use yet

00:08:33well already

00:08:36remember it’s before something’s

00:08:38expected before an expected time yet

00:08:46what do we think I haven’t drank it yet

00:08:52well we know that um he hasn’t drunk it

00:08:57especially he hasn’t drunk it already

00:08:59but what do we think he’s going to drink

00:09:02it in the future

00:09:03right yeah for that reason it hasn’t

00:09:06happened but it’s going to happen in the

00:09:09future but that reason he is yet yeah so

00:09:34basically yet it hasn’t happened but it

00:09:38is going to happen maybe part of a plan

00:09:40or maybe you want something to happen so

00:09:47the last bear is that when a bear or

00:09:50another marsupial now he’s a

00:09:51bear kind of bear and he’s a bear grylls

00:09:57bellows that’s his name

00:09:59okay so the last bed the last bear he’s

00:10:05saying and I’ve remembered I’m a

00:10:09lightweight another bit of good

00:10:12vocabulary lightweight lightweight is

00:10:17what we call when someone they can’t

00:10:21drink very much

00:10:23and they may be after two after two

00:10:28drinks they’re drunk they’re on the

00:10:30floor they’re sleeping that’s why he

00:10:41looks very very worried yeah so he can’t

00:10:57drink much he’s going to get drunk very

00:11:00very easily

00:11:02yeah so um back to this I remembered he

00:11:08wants to say a very short time in the

00:11:10past what do you think that word would

00:11:12be is it just yeah it’s just what yet to

00:11:22say a very very short time in the past

00:11:24we use just and a lot a lot of people

00:11:29get these kind of confused especially

00:11:31already and just and and yet with

00:11:37another one with this one for example he

00:11:40could say um

00:12:03yeah he could say for example I’m still

00:12:09waiting to drink when we use still means

00:12:13it hasn’t finished yet

00:12:16oh we forgot this one remember we’ve

00:12:22just it’s a short time in the past yeah

00:12:42so you want to say a short time in the

00:12:45past just you want to say it hasn’t

00:12:49happened but it will happen in the

00:12:50future yet and for already remember it’s

00:12:56you want to use this word when someone

00:13:00expects something to happen later but

00:13:02actually it happened it’s finished it

00:13:05already happened so to practice this we

00:13:11have a little bit of a test for you

00:13:21something I’m forgetting yes with these

00:13:25ones we could have a few options um I’m

00:13:31sorry

00:13:35there we are

00:13:37yeah we have a few options with this

00:13:40some people will say and can we use ah

00:13:45I’m a light-weight okay someone can’t

00:13:49read this

00:13:50you can blame Tom he wrote it too small

00:13:58it’s a lightweight print edition

00:14:01lightweight stress on that lightweight

00:14:07see I’m a lightweight I can’t drink very

00:14:10much one or two beers or and I’m

00:14:13finished and sleeping on the floor yeah

00:14:19so how can we use these words well

00:14:22they’re not all the same and for example

00:14:26we’ve yet I cannot use it in a positive

00:14:30sentence we don’t is that yeah with yet

00:14:39in 24 a negative sentence or a question

00:14:50so for example I haven’t drunk it yet

00:14:54our first bear he could say as a

00:14:58question with this he could say have you

00:15:02drunk it yet remember yet would be at

00:15:05the end of a sentence and this is where

00:15:09it’s different with the other ones

00:15:11you’ll notice with just and already and

00:15:15still usually not all the time but

00:15:18usually and it sounds better if they’re

00:15:22just before the main verb so we’ve got

00:15:27it between the auxiliary have and the

00:15:30main verb remember in this case would be

00:15:35remembered because it’s a past

00:15:36participle so yeah yet just with

00:15:43negatives and with questions

00:15:47um just we don’t really use that with

00:15:52positives

00:15:57not to say it’s impossible for a

00:16:00negative for example I haven’t just

00:16:07finished my homework I did it last night

00:16:10in other words not a short time ago a

00:16:13long time ago thank you Tom

00:16:19already how come you use that anyone can

00:16:29give us the answer there’s no things we

00:16:37the disease is fine it’s good I’m with

00:16:41already remember it’s before the main

00:16:44verb here between the auxilary and the

00:16:47main boat also we would only use it did

00:16:51you mainly in positives and questions

00:17:07as my assistant is writing thank you

00:17:14yeah so it could be I’ve already drunk

00:17:17it he could react to this saying have

00:17:21you already drunk it you bastard I’m not

00:17:24my friend anymore

00:17:26so let’s practice these with that with a

00:17:29bit of a test ok what’s your day back

00:17:52Jay can we all see that I think so yeah

00:18:00move you closer there we go now we

00:18:12cannot see so ah yeah so the first one

00:18:18imagine a teacher in a class she’s

00:18:21giving a test now she’s giving her test

00:18:25to the student and she says you have

00:18:30three hours begin so she expects that in

00:18:35three hours

00:18:36this test will be finished three hours

00:18:38is a long time and but then if we

00:18:41imagine that actually

00:18:53for this guy it didn’t take three hours

00:18:56it took five minutes from three o’clock

00:19:01to five plus three it’s just it’s it’s

00:19:07nothing it’s no time at all so since you

00:19:10have three hours begin he wants to say

00:19:12well I’ve finished after five minutes so

00:19:15what do you think her reaction would be

00:19:19I’m going to see if anyone has the

00:19:23answer just type the answer in the box

00:19:37what goes there Emily

00:19:50well done already

00:19:57yeah excellent well done yeah finished

00:20:01already

00:20:02she thinks it’s three hours he finishes

00:20:04five minutes before she expected it so

00:20:10the next one let’s have a look at the

00:20:12next one so imagine you’re with your

00:20:19friends one friends is this you guys

00:20:21should see the Avengers movie and the

00:20:24other guy well he can say two things

00:20:28maybe the first one mmm no I’ve seen it

00:20:34I saw it today now today would be a very

00:20:39very short time in the past right so

00:20:42what would he say in that situation

00:20:44again I’m expecting you to give me the

00:20:50answer Molly either you think so you

00:21:01ready you think just huh huh maybe maybe

00:21:05how about any other situation let’s go

00:21:09by process of elimination and the other

00:21:13one you could say no I seen it I saw it

00:21:17two weeks ago

00:21:20now this is the common mistake people

00:21:23make he thinks you should see you should

00:21:30see The Avengers movie in the future but

00:21:32he wants to say well actually not in the

00:21:35future it’s finished in the past so both

00:21:40could be which one both of them are fine

00:21:45for which word just already what do you

00:21:47think

00:22:07yeah both of them could be already or

00:22:10then both of them could be already but

00:22:14one of them is just one of them can only

00:22:19be just the other one cannot which one

00:22:22is just I’ve seen it I saw it today or

00:22:27no I’ve just seen it I saw it two weeks

00:22:30ago which one sounds good with just the

00:22:49first one yeah

00:22:52well done good excellent this one just

00:22:57this is a common problem I usually hear

00:23:00this problem with students they could

00:23:02say for example and I’ve already been to

00:23:08the park and at the weekend they use it

00:23:14too commonly when we say already it’s

00:23:17really just to say well it’s before the

00:23:22expected time so when we use just very

00:23:27very short time in the past today I’ve

00:23:29just seen it today but two weeks ago

00:23:32that’s not a short enough time so he

00:23:36would say already

00:23:46okay a few people have mentioned they

00:23:48can’t see the video and that’s because

00:23:51you haven’t clicked play why am I

00:23:56telling you this you can’t see me okay

00:24:02at the last one would be this one

00:24:05imagine a guy he’s waiting at the cinema

00:24:08who do you think he’s waiting for of

00:24:11course he’s waiting for a beautiful girl

00:24:14to come meet him have a romantic evening

00:24:17at the cinema some food but this guy

00:24:21he’s not lucky he’s on the phone to his

00:24:26friend crying I’m waiting she hasn’t

00:24:31come what do you think the first the

00:24:36first missing word is still welcome yeah

00:24:53I’m still waiting remember it hasn’t

00:24:55finished also notice that’s present

00:24:59continuous so they don’t have to

00:25:03necessarily be with present perfect this

00:25:08one she hasn’t come what

00:25:24well done Chella gone

00:25:27long time no see yeah she hasn’t come

00:25:34yet

00:25:34absolutely well done and so I’m going to

00:25:38keep looking I’m going to keep looking

00:25:41at the chat window if you want to try

00:25:43some sentences or maybe if you write it

00:25:47on our Facebook I’ll correct you and I’m

00:25:52going to hand you over to Tom who’s

00:25:54going to teach you some more vocabulary

00:25:57let me put the bird Oh Tom’s not strong

00:26:10enough to put the board up himself you

00:26:29see that yeah okay so as Alice

00:26:36dimensioned

00:26:37if you have light weight so I’m a

00:26:40lightweight it means that I cannot drink

00:26:43a lot of alcohol maybe two beers and I

00:26:46might owe drugged so

00:27:01and also to down a drink is to drink an

00:27:07alcoholic drink very very quickly so

00:27:10down it Oh like that

00:27:27and finally what it all the way to drink

00:27:31did I yeah and to do her a do shots are

00:27:36very small glasses and you pour just a

00:27:40little bit and you like that cue down

00:27:45buh-buh-bah spirits are things

00:28:01whiskey things like ROM and vodka

00:28:07horrible things to do so these are

00:28:12different levels of drunkenness we have

00:28:16this guy he has not drunk

00:28:20he has not drunk a lot so he is sober

00:28:31when you are sober it means you haven’t

00:28:34drunk maybe one but you don’t feel drunk

00:28:39next one maybe if you have two drinks

00:28:42three drinks and your head starts to get

00:28:45a bit dizzy

00:28:47you are tipsy so when you’re tipsy

00:28:54you’ve had two beers maybe three beers

00:28:56and you start to feel the effects of

00:28:59alcohol and pronunciation is tipsy so

00:29:05tipsy sober tipsy next one now you’ve

00:29:13had four beers maybe five beers and then

00:29:18you start to feel pissed so you say I’m

00:29:27pissed I feel pissed and then pissed

00:29:32goes on too drunk so not I have drunk

00:29:40you safe I am drunk I feel drunk

00:29:42I’ve had five beers and I feel quite

00:29:46drunk that’s when you start singing

00:29:47songs and you like the liver and up here

00:29:54is when you drink seven maybe more you

00:29:57start losing count of how many drink

00:29:59you’re drunk and you can be hammered

00:30:10and wasted so sober maybe one beer or

00:30:23not lot beers tipsy is when you’ve had

00:30:28two beers or three beers pissed is when

00:30:33you’ve had four beers five beers and you

00:30:36start to feel the effects drunk is when

00:30:41you have six beers seven beers hammered

00:30:46and wasted you can have there are lots

00:30:50and lots of words to say you are very

00:30:52drunk so you can have hammered wasted

00:31:01mullard piss drunk and so I am so

00:31:18drunk I’m I’m hammered I’m wasted

00:31:22I’m pissed drunk that’s my favorite one

00:31:25piss drunk and Mullard so but this one

00:31:30you can’t see can’t see above wasted you

00:31:45have mullet pissed drunk hammered wasted

00:32:06mullet we say mullet

00:32:09what if pass out pass out is just we

00:32:13could say if you pass out you black out

00:32:16just gone so there’s not really that

00:32:19many you can just say pass out or you

00:32:22could say a blackout blackout is when

00:32:25you cannot remember you just get so

00:32:27drunk you can’t remember so sober tipsy

00:32:33pissed drunk hammered wasted Mullard

00:32:42and pissed drunk I think that’s

00:32:47everything

00:32:48Elsa okay so I’m also there’s one point

00:33:06about that with

00:33:11some of you may have noticed that or you

00:33:14might have been thinking wait this

00:33:16doesn’t mean angry well in American

00:33:19English yes and British English we don’t

00:33:23really use that to mean angry yeah in

00:33:39American English it means angry but

00:33:41British English it means drunk and as we

00:33:44all know British English is much better

00:33:48so and we’re going to we’re going to see

00:33:54what you what you would like to learn so

00:33:58if there’s anything that you would like

00:34:00us to teach right now then you can tell

00:34:04us tell us in the what are you

00:34:15right in the box oh why not this

00:34:18is bleep ahh my men were kissing

00:34:24friends say a lot of times yes

00:34:27that’s true

00:34:28yeah active and passive we actually have

00:34:32a we have a video of that coming next

00:34:35week and we have a big Grammer video

00:34:38you’ll see it on our YouTube this lesson

00:34:41to you will be able to find it on

00:34:43YouTube I think within within an hour of

00:34:46us finishing um yet within an hour

00:34:53you’ll be able to find this lesson on

00:34:55YouTube watch again if there was

00:34:57something you missed and and yet if

00:35:00there’s anything that you want to learn

00:35:01type it in the box oh thank you later

00:35:07yes piss me off it’s a really good it’s

00:35:11a really useful expression this has it

00:35:17has a lot of meanings this generally

00:35:19means to pee

00:35:22urinate but like we’ve seen we’ve got

00:35:26two meanings already pissed in the UK

00:35:29means drunk in the USA angry but what do

00:35:33you in Glen Innes you ah now pissed off

00:35:37is very different that one to give you a

00:35:44clue

00:35:58how does he look happy

00:36:00probably not yeah so when we used pissed

00:36:11off it basically means the exact same

00:36:16thing as angry but actually that’s the

00:36:20same both UK and American English the

00:36:26way we can use this is like for example

00:36:31mmm

00:36:45imagine you have a friend oh I can show

00:36:47you on top if you have a friend and you

00:36:51want to say that’s good to say that

00:37:02sentence you’d say imagine that’s Tom

00:37:06that’s me

00:37:08you can say a few ways in present how do

00:37:14you think I can say it

00:37:15for example Ally clear this

00:37:36in prison continuous alley is this thing

00:37:44me off so piss off is a phrasal verb

00:37:59yeah so Ally is pissing me off

00:38:02ally is another word for piss off is to

00:38:05annoy someone Ally is pissing me off if

00:38:08I kept doing that yeah that would that

00:38:10would piss me off

00:38:11fine Oh like ah off this is

00:38:17stronger and I assume you’re writing

00:38:21up up that’s a good one

00:38:26folks up it can you okay so up

00:38:34sorry would be well one meaning could be

00:38:36that one yeah you’re so so drunk but oh

00:38:46my god I’m up but can we not

00:38:49drugs as well so it’s not yeah exactly

00:38:51it could not only drink could be drugs

00:38:55as well yeah oh the other way we use

00:39:06this is if you basically ruin the

00:39:09situation and let’s see for example

00:39:38imagine the guy in a test the guys doing

00:39:42a test any things are no I I wrote the

00:39:45complete wrong thing I and made so many

00:39:49mistakes and if this whole test is ruin

00:39:53it’s completely all wrong you could say

00:39:56I this test up again a phrasal

00:40:16verb we can separate them so up

00:40:20that’s the phrasal lobe we can separate

00:40:23them with the test of course that could

00:40:26be at the end i up this test

00:40:29that’s okay to cure it

00:40:39you

00:40:42No and you we wouldn’t use that in any

00:40:47kind of sexual way and no to up is

00:40:53only basically to make mistakes or to be

00:40:55very drunk or on drugs very crazy yeah

00:41:01so and we’re going to finish there I

00:41:03hope you’ve enjoyed our lesson remember

00:41:06and if any of you are from Korea then

00:41:11he’s going to be there from two days

00:41:15time or if you’re watching us on YouTube

00:41:17he’s already there probably maybe I

00:41:20arrived on the 29th that’s a Tuesday so

00:41:26if you’re in the Korea area and you want

00:41:28Tom as your teacher send us a message

00:41:30and thank you very much for joining our

00:41:33class today

00:41:34I think we’ll do another one again soon

00:41:37well he will okay y-yeah you won’t go to

00:41:43North Korea right

00:41:45maybe thanks a lot guys thank you later

00:41:48bye