Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another lesson with us here at EnglishPod.
My name is Marco. And I'm Erica. And today we're going back to school.
That's right. We're talking about my least favorite subject.
That would be math. That's right. Okay, so we're gonna be talking about math now I know that many of you of course know math, right?
But do you know the operations in English?
Many people find it hard to find the right words to talk about math in English. right so that's what we're going to be looking at today and we'll also look at some names that you can call people who are really really really smart So let's listen to our dialogue for the first time and then we'll come back and look at those math words.
All right, children, let's review. Tommy, pay attention.
Sorry, Miss Cadillac. Okay, Crystal, now tell me.
What's 4 plus 11? Um, 15. Ms. Kavlik always asks Crystal.
She's such a teacher's pet. Okay, and what about 56 minus 60?
Um, negative 4. Very good. 12 times 12? Very good.
Sucker. 144. Zero divided by one? Zero.
How did you know that? Okay, smarty pants.
The square root of two. Bet you're not going to get that one, do it all.
Um, um, 1.4142135. All right. So that's one smart little girl, huh?
Yeah, pretty smart. Actually, smarter than me.
All right. Let's take a look at some of those words that the teacher used to ask her about certain operations in Language Takeaway.
Language takeaway. Okay, so like we said, you guys know how to do math and you know the words in your language, but maybe in English it's a little bit harder to find the right words.
So let's look at those now. Okay, so let's look at the first question that she asked.
What's 4 plus 11? Plus 11. Okay. Plus. Plus.
All right. So 4 plus 11, Erica, is? Let me take a look at here.
Fifteen. Fifteen. Okay, so we are adding, right?
Yes. So that's how you would say. Let's go with an easy one.
Two plus two. Four. Four, right? Or five plus five.
10. 10. Okay. You're really testing my skills.
So that's how you would add numbers. Now what about taking away numbers?
Okay, so taking away or subtracting. Alright, let's test you again.
In the dialogue, she said 56 minus 60. 56 minus 60 equals negative 4.
Okay, minus, so that's negative, right? Minus.
And of course, if you have 56 apples and you take away 60, you are left with Negative four.
Well, actually, you're left with zero apples.
Yeah, exactly. Now, that answer is also interesting.
Negative four. Negative four. That means...
Minus four, right? Four less than zero. Four less than zero.
Very good. Negative four. Okay, so now for our next operation.
Twelve times twelve. 12 times 12. 12 times 12.
No, Marco, don't ask me the answer. All right, 12 times 12 equals 144.
Now, that's multiplying. Right, or multiplication.
Multiplication. Okay, so this times part, it's very easy to remember because...
For example, four times four. You can just say four, the number four, and you add it, right?
Four times. Four times. Four plus four plus four plus four.
Right. So times. Times. Now the opposite of times.
All right. The opposite of multiplication is division.
Division. Okay, so in our dialogue, the teacher said zero divided by one.
Zero divided by one. Zero divided by one.
Any number divided by zero is zero. All right, so let's give another example.
15 divided by 3. All right, so 15 divided by 3 equals?
5. 5, exactly. So divided by. Divided by.
Very good. So after division, the teacher was very impressed and now she asked a very hard mathematical operation, especially for a girl this age.
The square root of two. The square root of.
Square root. So let's give some examples to show what is the square root.
OK. So if I ask you the square root of 9.
3. Three, right? What about the square root of four? to to okay hey so now one more the square root have 16 for for me okay so you notice the pattern and I'm sure everyone knows this in their own language how you would get a square root.
Exactly. So this language is pretty simple.
You all know it in your own language. But let's hear it again in English one more time with the dialogue.
All right, children, let's review. Tommy, pay attention.
Sorry, Ms. Cadillac. Okay, Crystal, now tell me.
What's four plus eleven? Fifteen. Miss Cadillac always asks Crystal.
She's such a teacher's pet. Okay, and what about 56 minus 60?
Um, negative 4. Very good. 12 times 12?
Very good. Suck up. 144. Zero divided by one?
Zero. How did you know that? Okay, Smarty Pants, the square root of two.
Bet you're not going to get that one, do it all.
1.4142135. Okay, so we understand the mathematical operations that we saw here.
Very easy. But now there was another little kid in there who was very I think envious or jealous.
Yeah, Tommy. Tommy, right? So he called her a couple of different names.
Well, let's look at those now in Fluency Builder.
Okay, so the first one that he called Crystal, the little girl, he called her a teacher's pet.
Teacher's pet. Teacher's pet. A teacher's pet.
So, Erica, what exactly is a teacher's pet?
It is the favorite student the teacher has in that class.
All right, so it's always the student that's helping the teacher.
Yeah, the smartest student. Yeah, the teacher's pet.
Yeah, and it has a negative meaning in English.
Yeah, I wouldn't say that it's a good thing to be the teacher's pet.
Like the teacher thinks it's good. But all of the friends and the classmates, they think it's bad.
Yeah, exactly. Teacher's pet. And similar to teacher's pet is a suck up.
Suck up. Suck up. Again, suck up. What is a suck up?
A suck up is a person who tries really, really hard to make the teacher... like him okay now we can also use it outside of the classroom right yeah At work maybe.
Okay, there is always at work, there is always one person who is the suck up, right?
Now, again, this has a negative meaning in English.
Yeah, I guess in the workplace, the rest of your colleagues don't really like that person who's considered to be the suck-up, who's always trying to to please the boss.
Exactly. All right. All right. So the teacher calls Crystal a smarty pants.
Smarty pants. Smarty Pants. Okay. So this is also a little name calling, right?
So what is a Smarty Pants? Somebody who is too smart.
Too smart. Who tries too hard to be smart.
Now, this is only for little kids, right?
I wouldn't call you a smarty pants. No, it's definitely for children.
Adults don't say this. Unless maybe you are joking or having fun with someone.
Yeah. But if you say it, you are suggesting that you're being like a child. right yeah okay smarty pants and our last one and this is also a very good phrase and a way to describe someone Know-it-all.
Know-it-all. Know-it-all. A know-it-all.
Sometimes you say Mr. Know-it-all, right?
Yeah, that's right. Okay, so what is a know-it-all?
Somebody who tries to show everyone that they know it all.
They know everything. Yeah, they're so smart.
They have the answers to everything. But they really, really try and show everyone that they know everything.
These people can be sometimes a little bit irritating, right?
Yeah, very, very annoying. Knowing. All right, so it's not a good thing to be a know-it-all all the time.
Yeah, actually, all of these phrases are not good things to be...
Okay, so let's listen to our dialogue one more time, and then we're going to come back, and Eric is going to tell us how much she hates math.
All right, children, let's review. Tommy, pay attention.
Sorry, Miss Cadillac. Okay, Crystal, now tell me.
What's four plus eleven? Fifteen. Miss Cadillac always asks Crystal.
She's such a teacher's pet. Okay. And what about 56 minus 60?
Negative 4. Very good. 12 times 12? Very good.
Sucker. 144. Zero divided by one? Zero.
How did you know that? Okay, smarty pants.
The square root of two. Bet you're not going to get that one, do it all.
Um, um, 1.4142135. All right, so Erica, you were telling me that you hated math, or you still do.
Well... Yes, that's true. I really do hate math.
And even doing a simple, you know, like 16 plus 32 is too hard for me.
So you were never really that type of person that's good with numbers.
No, I'm terrible with numbers. I can't even remember my own phone number.
Really? That's true. Like I really, if someone asks me for my phone number, I have to look on my phone in the address book to find it.
Well, yeah, sometimes numbers can be difficult.
I kind of liked math when I was younger.
It just made sense. well I guess there's a reason why I'm an English teacher not a math teacher and I was actually not very good at language But here you are.
Exactly. Well, I mean, in Spanish, I like grammar.
I'm not very good at that, all those rules.
Yeah, but you're pretty good at English.
So that's all right with me. That's all right.
What about you guys? Tell us what your favorite subject or your least favorite subject in school was. what about you do you have any favorite subject or did you have a favorite subject um history history yeah yeah okay i liked chemistry Oh, God.
Chemistry involves numbers. Well, a little bit, but it was interesting as well.
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