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Hello, everyone.
Welcome to this impromptu Tuesday morning live lesson.
We'll get started in 36 seconds.
I almost said 36 minutes, but we'll get started in 36 seconds and hopefully everything.
Oh, that's weird.
There's like an echo, apparently with uh, apparently with some fun echo.
I'm trying to fix the audio right now.
I'm sure it will be fixed in six five four three, two one.
Let's go with this one.
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I fixed it.
Well hello and welcome to this live Q and A lesson.
By the way, let me know in the chat if the, if the echo comes back.
But yes, this is an impromptu English lesson, when you do an impromptu thing.
It means it wasn't planned.
Yesterday was a holiday here in Canada and I decided I didn't feel like making a lesson to release normally.
I felt like spending time with my family and doing some other work.
So, I thought, you know what?
I will just do a live lesson.
I'll go live on a Tuesday morning for about an hour and I will answer your questions.
If you look over to the chat, let me see here.
Let me Well apparently I can't type.
Let me get the question form on the screen. and then I will pin it.
So let's pin that message.
So if you have a question, there is a link over there on the right hand side.
Might be on a different side on your screen where, if you have a question about the English language, you can ask it during this lesson and I will try my best to answer it.
Hopefully, there are a few questions coming in right now as I speak. might want to have a view out.
Well there's Walter on demand.
Walter is outside.
If you look up at the sky, you can see the clouds are moving nicely.
You can see that our grass has turned green and if you look in the distance, you'll even see that we have some small yellow bushes.
Oh there's Oscar.
Just his tail going by.
So a little view outdoors of the dogs so that you can enjoy what's happening out there as I do this lesson as well.
Uh so again a few pointers.
Please use the chat.
Uh English conversations with each other.
If you have a question for me, please use the form that is pinned in the chat or is in the description of this video below.
If you scroll down you will see that.
So let me just check to see if we have a few questions coming in.
It looks like it. have a few and I will get one up on the screen and we'll get started.
Here we go.
From Natalia.
A few words about the gastrointestinal tract for you to pronounce.
So, fungi. ingestic.
I don't know that word.
So, I'm guessing at the pronunciation.
Abdominal abdominal pain.
Don't I pronounced it wrong the first time.
Abdominal pain.
Pain in the stomach.
Constipation.
That's when you can't go to the bathroom and then nausea which is a feeling of not feeling well.
Let me just make sure think nausea has two pronunciations.
Let's check here.
So it seems like the British pronunciation is nausea and the North American pronunciation is nausea.
So there you go.
A few pronunciation words for you.
So fungi are like I know you'll have to study the gut biome to understand more about all of that.
Let's go to the next question from Oxana.
Hi, which one is correct?
I am in the subway, the metro, the tube, the underground.
It depends where you are and you might say first of all.
I would say I'll be at your house soon.
I'm on the subway now.
I would use on.
I'm on the subway.
Um if I said I'm in the subway it would mean I'm in the station.
And if I said I'm on the subway it would mean I'm in the car.
And that might be different in different parts.
Depending on the city it might be called the metro.
It might be called the subway.
It might be called the underground.
And Um I think underground is very common in the UK.
Uh here in Canada we sometimes even say the train.
Um so whether the train is above ground or below.
Like I go when I go to Toronto I take the train.
So that a few different ones.
By the way we're talking about what's called public transportation.
You buy a ticket.
You probably buy it on your I was gonna say on your phone.
This isn't my phone but it kinda looked like it out of the corner of my eye.
Uh, you'll buy a ticket and then you can take the train or the metro or the subway to where you want to go.
Um oh Walter's leaving.
I do wanna say hi to a few people.
Hafiez is saying Walter is doing yoga.
Yes.
We see Walter doing yoga there.
Um hi to Nita Ricardo Hafiez, Nino M Rama Michael Etienne Tiffin, Kimon and Bartholome and Birgit is here as well, and Etienne
Did I say Etienne?
I did say Etienne.
Scrolling back.
Hi to Judith as well.
I know Judith is here and Vitor is here and Birgit, Jordan, Abdul Latif, Alexander.
So good to see familiar faces and some new faces.
And So, in the chat, what a blue sky.
Yes, it definitely is a beautiful day today.
Um it it's not sunny out where I am.
We must be under a cloud right now as I speak but it's definitely a beautiful day out there.
Uh let me get the next question up on the screen. it is from it's Dean.
Hi Dean.
I feel like I'm not improving in English and this is making me lose passion.
How can I continue?
So it's interesting when you lose passion for something.
It's you have to figure out how to get energy and passion again.
And I always say for learning English if you lose passion I think it's good to go back to music.
But I'm not sure if you're someone who likes English music, like rock and roll or new songs in English, but if you can find the little things you really like about English and then revisit those.
Find a new song, find a new TV show or something like that.
Think when you're not improving at something, then you need to change your approach.
I would highly recommend that you hire a tutor.
That can really help because it sets a nice pace for your learning.
But yeah I feel for you this is very common.
You are this is a normal thing to feel.
After studying something for a long time you can feel that you don't have a lot of passion for it.
The last thing I would say is take a break.
Not a long one, but consider taking a break, because that might just allow you to relax and re-energize, and then, when you come back, you might be ready to learn again.
So, maybe just take a week and don't study English.
Just relax and take a week and enjoy yourself.
From Vitor, an English French pronunciation question.
How do you pronounce the name Antoine?
Um so that's how I would say it Antoine.
Um uh I'm not sure Antoine.
I'm not sure what the French pronunciation would be, but I would say Antoine um, and that's how I would say it.
That would be my pronunciation.
So the next one I'm not going to put on screen because it has a WhatsApp number, but it's from Mohammed and it says I hope you can give me private lessons and I will send you money.
Send me a message on WhatsApp and then the number is there.
So I'm going to skip that one because I don't want to put that number on the screen.
But I don't currently do private lessons.
Um I might explore doing private lessons in the future sometime.
Um but right now it's not something that I'm planning on doing.
So sorry maybe in the future maybe I will teach less and I will teach more online classes.
I will see.
Um in the chat, REO is here saying, hello everyone.
How are you guys doing?
Doing a live stream today is the best decision.
My English is still the intermediate level.
Any tips for improvement especially speaking?
How's your speaking guys?
Yeah, practice your speaking.
Find a way to practice your speaking.
That's the the best way to get better at it is to actually pronounce it.
Uh let's see here. from Ario.
Haha.
Howdy Mr. Bobby.
How are you doing?
Glad you're doing a live stream.
I'm glad I am.
How's Canada now and tips for speaking in English please.
What's your goal of learning French?
Little fix there at the end.
Um yeah it's fun doing a live stream today.
It's fun to share the beautiful view outside.
Um I just think it's amazing how fast the clouds are moving.
It's a good sign for me to oh wait let me just check something.
Think oh no I thought Walter was doing bad things but he's not.
Um Any tips for speaking English you need a speaking partner.
That is always my recommendation.
You need to find someone to regularly speak English with.
Failing that if you can't do that then speak out loud as much as you can.
Um, my goal for learning French, I'm not sure going to keep reading in French and watching TV shows in French and stick with it.
That's my plan.
This is from Dark.
Similar question.
I am learning English for a year.
Okay.
So, for a year but still I am stuck at the intermediate level.
So, I want to reach the advanced level.
How could it be possible?
So again costs money, but hiring someone who specializes in getting you to the next level would be a great idea.
If you can't do that I often recommend that people take a course even just a night course.
Um or do something different than what you're doing now.
Also just make sure that you are doing your reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
Um, Sometimes people do a lot of listening and reading and they forget to have conversations or to do some writing.
Um that can help you as well because it helps you remember different things.
Uh and then focus on grammar and vocabulary a bit as well.
So, um that's what I would say.
Find a way to find someone who can help you get to the next level.
Uh let's see here.
Um Next question from Sally.
Hello teacher Bob.
How many students are in one classroom?
Public education in Canada, and does the student pay for?
Did I miss part of the question.
Um okay.
Um so we have grade school and high school.
Grade school is from age five to age twelve or thirteen.
High school is from age thirteen to age seventeen or eighteen.
And we you go to a public school in Canada you do not have to pay.
Okay?
So if you go to a basically a school run by the government it is free for you to go there.
Your textbooks are free.
You do not have to pay tuition.
Tuition is the name we use for the money you pay for an education.
Um, once you are done grade twelve though, if you go to college or university, you do have to pay in Canada.
So Um how many students are in one classroom?
Anywhere from.
Like a small class might have 10, and that's rare, but normally around 20 25, sometimes 30 students would be in a classroom.
I think 25 is probably my guess would be about the average.
I think that's probably about the average number of students.
Uh from Renee.
Hello, I'm from Austria and I meet every week a young man from New Zealand for language exchange.
That's really cool.
We speak 30 minutes in German, 30 minutes in English.
Language exchanges are cool because they don't cost money.
You teach that person your language.
They teach you English.
So, if you can find one, that would be really really cool.
Um Afiez is chatting with Bridget says I don't celebrate Easter but what about you?
Did you get Easter gifts?
Yeah, it's an interesting holiday um, because it's both a religious holiday and a non-religious holiday.
So some people will go to church on Easter, but there's also things like Easter egg hunts which are not really religious.
By the way, in English, we use the terms religious and secular.
So religious means that it's related to um a church or another faith, and then secular means it is not.
Um yeah let me get another question on the screen.
From Judith.
Hi, Bob.
I am happy you make a live stream today.
I'm glad I'm doing it.
It's fun.
Um how was your holiday?
It was really nice.
I just had a four day long weekend.
So, I didn't work on Friday and I didn't work yesterday.
In English, when you have a long weekend, it means you don't just have Saturday and Sunday off.
You have either the Friday or the Monday or in this case both an extra long weekend.
Um have you ever raised baby chickens?
Bye, have a nice time.
Well, I'll I'll say two things about that.
One, yes, we have raised baby chickens and we might be doing it again.
You'll have to check out Jen's channel.
Um in a few weeks.
I I think we're getting baby chicks.
I let the secret out but there you go.
Yes, I we have raised them before.
From Yuri.
Hello, Bob.
Should I say I have a job or I have a work?
What are the meanings of job and work as now?
So, you would say I have a job.
I today I have to go to work because I have a job.
And it's interesting if you listen to how I use those words it would probably be confusing.
Cuz I might say things like this.
I had an argument at work today.
Um if someone said what do you do for a living?
I would say oh I have a job.
I'm a teacher.
When I go to work I
My job is being a teacher.
Oh we have cats now.
Oh my look at them all.
Oh they're behind me.
Should I make myself invisible?
Yep they ran off the other way.
So I should do a whole lesson on this.
Maybe I'll do this for next Tuesday.
The difference between job and work, because you could say to someone good work, you could say nice job, but it it can get a little confusing cuz you would never say to someone I like your job.
Like, hey, that video was really good.
I like that.
I like your job.
You would say I like your work.
So I don't know if I've done a good job of explaining this Yuri, but I will.
I promise you, I will do a whole lesson on job and work.
Um but anyways, your second question, I have a work is not correct.
No, you would say I have a job or your second statement there.
Um those are a lot of cats.
Yeah and all our cats look the same.
They're all orange tabby cats.
Not sure if they came back.
Let's put that back on the screen.
Um Mode says, hello, everyone.
Hi, Mode.
It's good to see you.
Either I'm too drunk or don't realize it's Friday or Bob decided to do a live lesson on Tuesday.
Yes, Mode.
Um I had other things happening yesterday.
Um spending time with family.
It was a holiday and so I thought, you know what?
Instead of making a video, I'll just do a live lesson this morning for fun.
Plus, I kinda miss the uh April beginning of April live lesson.
So, it's kinda fun to do one.
Um Um good to see you here though Moog.
Um Ricardo says, have you the practice to eat chocolate on Easter holidays?
We sometimes do when our kids were little, we would buy them a chocolate Easter bunny, but uh, we haven't done it recently.
Okay, to the question from Angela.
Hi, could you please tell me the better way to study English every day?
I have four hours.
So if you have four hours a week to study English, gonna answer this both ways.
If you have four hours a week, I would say, spend about 45 minutes each day and spend some time reading writing, listening and speaking, but focus on one of those each day.
So on Monday spend half an hour reading and then 15 minutes doing some writing, listening and speaking.
And then kind of rotate through this.
If you're saying you have four hours a day to practice English, would do all four of those every day, but in addition I would make sure you're speaking.
If you have four hours a day, I would be speaking with someone at least two or three times a week in those time blocks so that you're getting two or three hours of conversation practice.
So, I'm not sure if you have four hours a week or if you have four hours a day to study.
If you have four hours a day like dive in like that that'd be really cool.
I think you could learn you could learn a lot of English in that time.
Um I I would be jealous of someone who has four hours a day.
Um let's see here.
Mohan.
Hi.
I'm from India.
I understand English but I can't speak nearly lots of videos in YouTube but I have no proper plan.
Can you step by step plan and I don't know vocabulary.
You know I should also I should take some notes here shouldn't I?
I should also do a video on how to start learning English.
It would be challenging because I people who are beginning learning English wouldn't understand me, but maybe I would have to keep it very simple.
Um should I start writing these down?
Let's do that.
Let me uh start an email to myself.
So, so work and job and how to start learning English.
A plan think I did do a lesson a while ago, something about if I was learning English for the first time, what I would do.
Um but here's what I would do if you're beginning learning English.
Get a solid vocabulary foundation.
So learn 500 or 1000 or 1500 common English words.
You, you need you.
English we say you have to start somewhere, and I think that somewhere would be making sure you have some vocabulary.
Then I would buy a book written in your own language that explains English grammar and, And then I would also make sure that I'm doing a lot of reading, at the right level.
Maybe kids books or young adult fiction.
Uh find a good TV show to watch.
Use the subtitles.
Watch everything twice.
Once with the subtitles on.
Once with them off.
Um yeah.
And if you need a proper plan, this is where hiring a tutor can be very helpful.
They will structure your learning so that you can learn at a good pace I think.
From Tina, hello Bob.
Are all verbs used in the passive voice?
If not, how should I determine that a certain verb isn't?
Yeah, this is this is hard to answer during a live stream.
That's why you hear me typing.
Yeah, the ball was thrown by the boy.
Yeah, the cat chased the dog or the dog chased the cat.
The artist painted the port.
I it's hard for me to say.
I would need to do some research on this.
All I can say is that you do need to learn um how to speak about things in different ways.
Like uh he went to the concert.
The boy went to the concert.
The concert was enjoyable for the boy.
Sometimes we do flip things around.
So as I sometimes do with grammar um I'm going to kind of pass this one.
Uh says, what is clause in English?
So in English we have sentences which have a subject and a verb, and they start with a capital letter and they end with punctuation.
So if I say the dog chased the cat, that is a complete sentence.
We also have the word phrase and clause.
And these refer to parts of a sentence.
So a phrase doesn't have to have a subject and a verb and end with a period.
A clause is really part of a sentence.
So if you say something like although the weather wasn't very nice comma, he went to the store anyways.
The first part is just a little clause.
Like it's part of building the sentence.
And So if you hear that, like if you hear things like subordinate clause or complex and compound sentences, and they have two clauses, it's talking about like half the sentence, I guess would be a good way to describe it.
Um Judith says to Modags I was holding 23 baby chickens while asking the question from Bob, so you can manage it too.
So chicks are cute eh?
Like baby chicks are very very very cute.
Um Nino says, how can I see the difference between you singular and you plural?
You really can't.
Um in our in English, we haven't decided to have two words for that.
I think possibly long time ago we might have.
I don't know the history of the English language that well.
But if I say to a group of people, you need to stop talking, or if I say to one person, you need to stop talking, it's the same sentence.
So when you're reading we use something called context.
So in the context of the sentence you understand that it's plural.
Um but yeah, that's a tricky one.
We don't like we don't have two and although in French, you do have the uh the as well.
Um yeah, sorry, just reading the chat here.
I like seeing people chat.
Thanks to some of the regs regulars for showing up and populating the chat with some chat.
Chat is good.
Um from James Moon.
Here we go.
When I watch English studying channel, I can understand 100 of the channel, but it's not easy to understand scripts.
Whenever I watch TV dramas or movies.
So, this is for a couple of reasons.
One is when you're watching a YouTube channel like mine or one of the other English teachers on YouTube.
Our intention is to be understood.
Intention is that you learn.
Our intention is that you can hear the words clearly.
So we do speak maybe a little slower.
We do speak a little clearer and we don't usually rush ourselves.
With a TV show or movie the intention is to entertain.
So when I talk, I want to teach you that when an actor speaks, they want to entertain you and so they'll speak faster.
They'll use more complex vocabulary.
Um, the show might be about something that you don't really know much about, like spaceships or police investigations, and so there will be vocabulary you might not understand.
Uh, and then the other reason this happens is because you watch a YouTuber teach English.
You get used to their voice and it becomes easier to understand them.
Um so that is why you see that difference.
A few suggestions, though.
When you watch a TV show, you can use the subtitles, although I do recommend that you only use them as needed.
You can very much become reliant on subtitles.
A good way to work that is to watch a TV show once with the subtitles on and then it's a little boring, but watch it again with the subtitles off.
I also recommend, when watching a TV show, to slow it down 10, or slow it down slightly, because then you'll be able to catch what they're saying.
If you're able to do that and Not everyone is but those would be uh things you can do to help.
Um Henry from Taiwan.
Hi, Henry.
Henry's been around I think for a long time for years.
Hi, Henry.
Good to see you.
Hi, teacher Bob.
Would you please give me examples of the word profusely?
Thanks a lot.
So, profusely means like in abundance.
Um I'm trying to think of an example sentence here.
I might have to look one up.
Um example of profusely.
That might help me uh apologize profusely.
So that means like with intensity.
Um sweating profusely.
That would be like sweating a lot.
Like if I go for a a run.
Uh, thanking someone profusely would be like.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Like saying it a lot.
Those would all be good examples of using uh the word profusely.
Great question by the way.
Um and not just not an obscure word.
This word is used like oh they thanked me profusely.
Um yeah that's a good word.
It's fun to say too.
Isn't it profusely?
Um okay.
From Yehuda.
Hello dear teacher.
I am having English conversations little fix there with people online and even though I'm constantly asking them to correct my mistakes, they don't really do it.
Okay, so if you're talking to random people, they are probably me.
Just tell you the way that I think you should do this.
Number one hopefully you're talking to the same person every time.
Maybe it's a tutor.
Maybe you're doing a language exchange.
So if it's the same person I would say try this.
Tell them that if you're going to talk for 30 minutes, you the first 10 minutes.
You want them to actively correct your mistakes, or for the last 10 minutes.
So maybe speak English freely for 20 minutes and don't correct mistakes and then say now I want this to be less like a conversation and more like instruction.
More like a lesson. because it can be hard in the flow of a conversation to want to correct people.
It it, the conversation isn't as fun.
But if you make it part of the lesson, if you say okay, we're going to talk, we talk for an hour and last 15 minutes you are going to correct me.
Um, you can also ask the person if, if you're paying a tutor, you could say as we talk please write down some of the mistakes I'm making.
So don't stop me, but just write down and make some notes and then, for the last 10 or 15 minutes of the conversation, tell me how I should have been speaking or what I should have been saying.
Um look at those clouds move.
Very nice.
Ricardo says, I've been watching a TV show called Resident Alien.
It's very simple and the principal character speaks slowly.
Sounds perfect to me and I understand 100%.
So this is a TV show where an alien from another planet has come to the earth and is trying to pretend to be human.
But when he talks, he speaks very Um I don't know how you would say it.
Let me try to mimic him cuz I've watched the show.
He says things like, I am very hungry now.
Where would I get some food?
I would like to eat.
So, he speaks in a way where it probably is very, very easy to understand.
Very, very cool.
Okay, let me get another question up here.
Well, this is a tricky one.
From Ibrahim. thank you for you.
Oh, thank you for what you are doing for us.
How can I overcome the laziness?
Since I'm interested in to level up English but there are some issues holding me back.
How can I overcome them?
Laziness is a very difficult thing to overcome.
Um and it's different for different people because you have to figure out how to motivate yourself.
So, I know that to become excited for something or how to have energy.
Um I don't know what that would be for you.
For me it's if I have, if I sleep well, if I exercise and if I eat well, I'm generally energetic and I will naturally want to do things.
I'm going to bed late, not sleeping well, not walking for exercise and eating really bad food, I'm less likely to feel energetic or motivated.
I'm not sure what your life is like.
Maybe you are working too hard.
Maybe you're taking care of a lot of kids.
Maybe there are other things in your life that are making it very challenging to stay motivated.
So, you kinda just have to do a bit of what we call self-examination.
Um the other thing is you usually have more energy in the morning.
So, if you can flip like most people are more energetic when they first get up.
If you could flip to doing more English learning in the morning that might help as well.
Ralph says, what I did in the past was to watch Bob's lessons again but at a higher speed.
That's a good idea too.
Uh I had the videos running besides work and wasn't 100% concentrated.
In my case, it helped for other media.
Yeah.
So if you take your regular English YouTube lessons from me or someone else and listen to them faster, it might make it easier to understand TV shows and all of that as well.
Good suggestion.
From Medi.
What should I do for better speaking?
Oh I gotta make a little switch here.
We are gonna do members only chat.
I don't think we don't have a ton of members here but it's still fun to do members only chat.
If you are a member please ask questions directly in the chat.
Please do that.
Uh while I answer Medi's question.
What should I do for better speaking? me fix this.
I have been studying English for years.
Okay.
So that's my fix there.
I've been studying English for years but I have a problem speaking because I don't remember.
So this is a common problem for people. been studying English.
They know a lot of vocabulary.
They might even be able to write quite well, but when they get into a conversation they forget what to say.
So I'm going to give you two suggestions here.
Number one down all of the most common questions you think someone will ask you in English and memorize an answer for that.
Okay?
So these are the questions like how are you today?
What do you do for a living?
Like what is your job?
Um are you from a big family?
Where are you from?
What's the weather like?
Um so did you watch the game last night?
So what?
Write a list of all those super common questions, and then I'm going to add this to my email as well.
Common questions and good answers.
Um, so kind of be prepared, prepared for a conversation because honestly, the first three or four minutes of a conversation are pretty much the same questions and answers all the time.
Um, and then the second thing I would recommend is you need to practice with someone where there's no stress.
You need to have an English speaking partner who and you need to regularly meet with that partner so that you feel less stressed in an English conversation.
The more you practice with someone you know and like and trust, the easier it will be to speak with strangers.
That's what I would suggest that you do.
Okay, for non-members, you can still stick around.
We'll go back to normal mode in just a bit.
If you are a member, you can ask a question directly in the chat, and I will also answer questions from the queue.
So, go with that.
Hafiez says, how was Babington, Bob?
So, my my kids are getting better and I'm not.
So, yesterday, I went to play Babington with the kids.
Let me just check something.
Does it look like Does it look like the webcam is frozen?
Yes, there's no movement there.
Give me two seconds.
I'm going to reset the webcam.
I don't know if that did it.
I think I have to do this as well.
I think I have to go.
Bear with me.
You're going to see a big picture of me and then we're going to go back to this.
And then I'm going to close it. yes there we go.
That's better.
Okay what was I saying?
How is badminton?
I'm sore today.
Um and yes my kids are getting better and I am not improving.
So it's kind of a weird situation.
Uh so I lost all three games yesterday.
But it was fun.
Um, so Mode says speeding the video up is helpful, but you can only speed it so much before it starts to sound unnatural.
Yeah it's a good point and it's the same with slowing it down.
When you speed a video up to one and a quarter, one and a half, it starts to sound more like like the.
The pitch changes a bit too.
Uh when you slow a video down I find if you get below 85% it starts to sound strange.
Uh at 90% or 10% slower.
It sounds pretty good.
Freddie Wolf.
Hello, Bob.
A bit late.
Good to see you though, Freddie.
Thanks for stopping by.
Uh Michael is here too.
Hello, everyone.
I'm late.
Hafiaz says, frozen webcam.
Yep, we got it fixed now.
The clouds are moving.
From Anna.
Hey, Bob.
I've learned English more than five years already.
I live in Canada three years and I still have a problem with small talk and how to start conversations with people.
Yes, it is tricky.
Um, I think if you've been here for three years, you probably can't.
Normally, when you first arrive, you can take free classes that the government provides to help with your English, but you're probably past that.
So I would say you're at the point now where you need to join some sort of social club.
So you need to join.
Maybe at the library they might have a book club.
People read a book and then once a month they meet to talk about the book.
Um if you are someone who likes bird watching you should join a bird watching club.
Um but you I don't know what your interests are.
Maybe a knitting club.
Um, maybe I'm just trying to think like I think you need to find social activity that allows you once a month to be with other people to, and then the conversation is then planned already, right?
You're going to talk about the book.
You're going to talk about you're going to go see a movie and then talk about the movie.
So look for one of those.
Mode says, hi, mister Bob and all members.
Sorry, I haven't been able to be here lately because Brent put a tariff on me.
Now that he's away in Mexico, I get to join you back.
Yes, everything like the webcam froze earlier because of tariffs.
Remember I jokingly said in Canada we blame everything now on tariffs, like if it rains on a day where you wanted the weather to be nice, it's because of the tariffs.
That's just the way it goes.
Freddie says is back.
Merci.
Oh that's what Mo says to Freddie.
Hafia says Earth Day is today.
Yes.
Today is Earth Day.
Um I think last year at this time I did eclipse live stream.
Was that around this time of year last year?
That was fun.
Um I can't really go outside right now for a live stream.
It's not quite nice enough yet.
It looks nice but it's quite windy and there's no shade.
Uh Hafia says, Brent is sneezing in Mexico right now while eating some tamales.
Haha.
Yeah, I did watch Brent's first members only video uh from Mexico.
It looks looks beautiful there by the way.
Like the water was pure blue.
It was very very cool.
Um okay, let me get a question up here on the screen.
Um here we go.
Happy Earth Day today.
How many kids you ended up with Bob?
I meant the baby goats.
Haha.
So, I don't wanna give away Jen's like Jen has her own YouTube channel.
It's called My Flower Farm.
Um I don't wanna give away all her secrets but there's more than two baby goats.
I think you guys know there's two if you watched her last video.
There's more than two.
Definitely.
Let me just find something for a sec.
Um, here we go.
And I'll put this over here.
Here is Jen's channel.
You're interested in flowers and goats.
Here we go.
That's nice.
Um okay um let me get back to the questions.
And I'm going to leave members only chat on for a couple more minutes and then I will turn it off.
If you do have a question as a member uh please ask it from oh and do ask a question.
Oh we got a dog.
We should go full screen.
So oh he's still stretching.
I think he's the mister stretchy dog.
Forget what I was saying.
Let me go back to this.
Let me go back to this screen and we'll answer this question, and then I'll have a look at modes from Wario.
I think this is how can I use phrasal verbs in conversation because they are very difficult for me.
So here's what you should do with phrasal verbs should learn the common phrasal verbs and understand what they mean.
So when someone talks to you and uses them you understand what they are saying.
You actually don't need to learn phrasal verbs so you can use them.
At least not immediately.
You can speak English without using phrasal verbs and people will understand you.
So job number one is to learn phrasal verbs.
So when you read them or hear them you understand them.
Job number two is once you start to understand some you will naturally start to to use them.
Um and the other thing you can do is you can plan.
You can think okay I learned this phrasal verb.
I'm gonna use this phrasal verb three times in the next English conversation I have.
And But yeah, you gotta understand them but you don't have to necessarily be able to use them.
Um mode.
Here's my question.
Sometimes you use the plural looks and brains like he's got the looks or he has blank for brains.
Even though you're talking about one person's look and brain.
Are there any other words that you use similarity?
That's interesting because Roxette in the song she's got the look.
Doesn't use looks.
They use the singular.
But they aren't native English speakers when they wrote the song.
So I don't know.
Anyways, yeah, we do this a lot of time, right?
Like, wow, he's really he's got the look.
He's got the looks.
It's blank for brains.
I think more likely you would say he has good looks, but that is plural as well, isn't it?
Yep, I have no explanation for that.
Um are there other examples?
Probably.
I'm trying to think of some where we use the plural.
The only other one is thumbs up, right?
Um give me a thumbs up.
There's no reason for thumbs to be plural.
Two thumbs up should be plural.
It should be give me a thumb up but we don't say that in English.
By the way, if you haven't given me a thumbs up yet, uh please do that.
It's it's good for me, good for you.
Freddie Wolf.
Bob, would you mind explaining the rules we have to follow to use which or that properly in a sentence, to express key or in French.
So, first of all, informally, we do, we, we don't do this right.
Um so, I could say the car that I got from my brother or the car which I got from my brother.
Um, but there is a rule to it and I have to find the rule, cuz one is for Um.
Yeah, I'm gonna.
I think I did a bit of a lesson on this.
It's about restrictive and non-restrictive.
Yeah, it's too hard to explain.
Yeah, that clause provides more information and removing it changes the meaning and which doesn't.
Yeah, this is too complex for me to answer right now.
Um introduces non-essential information.
Yeah.
I will tell you though informally we don't follow the rule.
Okay?
The cup which I got from the kitchen.
The cup that I got from the kitchen.
You can say both and and people would not look at you funny.
Um and then mode says the answer to Freddy's question lies in understanding the difference between a restrictive and non-restrictive relative clause.
Yeah.
Little tricky.
I'd have to do a whole lesson on that for sure.
Hey, let me turn off members only chat so other people are happy.
Let me find my button.
Customize, subscribe.
There we go.
I almost clicked the end stream button.
That isn't the one I was looking for.
Um yes, I was literally typing that.
Yes.
So, that's the question which mode gave or that's the answer which mode gave.
That's the question that mode gave.
I can say both which sounds a little funny but I I think people would accept that.
Hafiz says mode is typing profusely on his phone.
And Freddie Wolf says, merci Bob.
If it's too complicated.
Yeah, I'll try to think about, maybe I'll put that in my little email here as well.
Which versus that?
Sometimes the it's the.
The explanation is too complex for me, even as an English speaker, and I have to do research to answer it properly.
Uh okay, let me get another question here.
From Tarek.
Hello, sir.
I lived in Canada for years.
Here, just let me do something for a second here.
Let me get the link up.
Gotta get a few more questions in so we can go another 15 minutes.
Uh, I lived in Canada for years and then, when I came back to my country, I am facing a problem with how to talk English with the same accent I used to talk.
So I'm wondering if you picked up kind of an English or a Canadian accent and now you would like to not
This is a tricky one because I people naturally mimic different accents.
I actually think if I lived in the UK for 20 years, I would start to sound more British than Canadian.
Just a little bit because I sometimes like to mimic British person who I'm talking to.
When you mimic someone you try to sound like them.
Um for some people it's quite challenging to mimic.
So um, I think, as long as you are watching a lot and listening to a lot of the accent you want to use, you'll pick it up again and then mostly be around people.
Although yeah not everyone's accent would would change.
I don't think Um from Jason.
Do you think I can talk to my baby in English if I'm not a native English speaker?
Can it work for her to become bilingual?
Yes.
And then I would supplement that with you know English kids songs.
Read English um kids books to her.
Um if you can find audio books in English, play that as you read the book.
So, she hears the um English from you and from another source.
That's what I would do.
Where do you think Jen is going?
Look at that.
She's going to plant something.
Those are in her left hand.
She has bags of tubers or bulbs and then she has some water with as well.
So, she's heading out somewhere to plant some things.
Um, REO, oh, REO is talking to mode.
Okay, let me get a question back up on the screen.
If I have one, I don't have one.
No more questions.
Okay, we'll go to this camera and I'll just kind of look at the chat.
Let's see.
Um from Day.
Hello everyone.
Could someone tell me what day of the week the topic class is taking place?
Still Friday.
Yes.
So the topic based lessons usually 99% of the time happen on a Friday.
Last week I did it on a Saturday because I was gone Friday.
I had to pick up one of my kids who was done university for the year.
Um, so it will be this coming Friday, and then they are re-released on Sunday mornings as an edited version.
A little shorter version for people to uh to watch.
Um hey folks if you have a question still please do ask it.
Let me put the link up again.
Um and we will uh keep this lesson going as long as there are questions.
Um I will harvest some questions from the chat as well.
Natalia says, the dogs probably aren't too happy about having 300 people watching them.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
300 people.
Yeah, we did peek at.
Oh, we peeked at, we peaked at 305, and then it always goes down when I start members only chat and then it goes back up after members only chat is done.
People like being able to chat I think.
I think that's part of it.
Um let me see here.
From Tingley.
Could listening improve speaking?
So what are a lot of people who teach English who will say if you do a lot of reading and if you do a lot of listening, speaking will eventually come naturally.
Um, I think this is partially true, but I do think you have to intentionally work on your speaking to well.
So here's what I'm saying.
If you listen to English all day, every day, for a year, like you listen to the radio and music and podcasts and you read every night in English.
Um I don't think you will all all of the sudden one day spontaneously start speaking English.
I do think you'll be learning a lot of vocabulary.
Do think you'll be hearing how things are pronounced and that might be absorbed a bit, but in my opinion, nothing works as well as a good English conversation with an English speaking partner.
Um, there's just something.
It's why people go to other countries and and have go to an English immersion program at a school, so that they can be surrounded by reading writing, listening and speaking.
Um it's so they get the whole package.
So, could listening improve speaking?
I think it does but I think you can't spend 90% of your time listening and reading.
I think you do have to intentionally do some speaking.
Um for sure.
Uh Freddie says Oscar follows her without helping her carry any carrying anything.
No, the dogs, the dogs just um what do the dogs do?
They hunt for mice.
That's what they do.
Um and then Mode says she should have gotten a wolf instead.
Is that what you're suggesting to Freddie?
And that's yes, she should have. great sentence by the way mode.
That is an advanced level sentence.
She should have gotten a wolf instead.
Uh something she uh conditional.
Sorry.
Something she should have done in the past that would have helped her.
Uh painting says thank you Bob for your great videos.
You are the best English teacher.
Thank you.
Um okay.
Let me go back to the form.
Elena, what is the point of Earth Day?
How should we celebrate it?
Do you want me to read that in two different tones?
So, here's happy inquisitive.
Hey, what is the point of Earth Day?
How should we celebrate it?
I could say this is sarcastic.
What's the point of Earth Day?
How should we celebrate it?
Um the point of Earth Day is we have a planet.
We all live on it.
We should take care of it.
Um, I think some of the non-controversial ways to celebrate Earth Day would be go for a walk outside in nature.
Uh clean up garbage that you find on the ground.
And plant a tree.
Um enjoy the fresh air.
Um, here's something that I always find interesting is, as humans, we don't take good care of the planet.
Um and so we should find ways not to pollute.
Maybe today you should bike instead of drive to work.
Maybe today you you should use reusable plates and cups instead of throwing things in the garbage.
But anyways, the point is to stop for a moment, for a day, and think about how can we take better care of this planet from poo.
That's not a nice word.
Don't you have classes at school today?
Yes, I have to go in in a few minutes.
So, I have to be at work by 11 AM.
So, I have plenty of time to get there.
I teach the second two-thirds of the day.
So, I don't teach for the first third but I do have to go in uh for that later.
Um let me see here.
Leslie says it's sunny but it looks like that sunlight is not very strong.
This is from the chat.
It we would call this partly cloudy although it is becoming less cloudy when I look.
Um so yeah so you have sun and cloud going by.
Um let's see here.
Freddie Wolf talking to mode.
Here we go.
Okay, let me see if there's one more question and if not, we're going to wrap this up.
Let's wrap it up.
Should we do that?
Thanks for watching.
Um thanks for coming and asking some questions on a Tuesday.
Um, if there are parts of this that you didn't understand, There should be automatic subtitles later today.
Come back and rewatch that portion.
Um if you're like I Bob was answering a question.
I didn't quite understand the answer.
Come and watch it again.
But thank you.
It's great to see all of you.
Unsel is just jumping in the chat.
Today was a busy day at work.
That's why I'm late for the live broadcast.
I'm sure it was a great lesson.
I can't wait to watch the whole thing.
Thanks for the lesson.
Have a great day.
Yeah and don't underestimate the rewatching something that you just watched will help you.
You don't have to rewatch the whole video but again, if there were a couple questions that you were interested in, come back and rewatch it on replay.
Uh I'm going to say bye.
Bye to Ricardo Ralph Burgett mode eggs.
Um are you looking at the table over here mode?
That's still my taxes.
I'm not done doing my taxes.
Uh Judith says bye bye to Judith painting in nature.
Ario uh Unsel, Birgit, bye to everyone.
Have a great day.
I'm gonna leave you with uh this view and I'm gonna take my little face off the corner.
You can enjoy the uh clouds going by for a bit.
Um Freddie says, even this lesson was short for me.
It was still interesting.
Glad you enjoyed.
Hi, Eva.
Good to see you as well.
Uh bye to Hafiez, Cat Diary, Michael, Unsel, Painting, Ricardo, starting to repeat myself now.
Bye to Natalia, AB45, Galactico.
Bye to all of you.
Um, let me take my face off there and I am going to say bye one more time, and then you will just watch some blue sky for a minute or two, and then I will wrap it up.
