Pratica di Shadowing: THINK and SPEAK in English: Your Weekend Plans - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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What do you do this weekend?
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If I asked you this question, would you know how to respond?
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Or would your heart start to beat fast?
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Your palms get a little sweaty?
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Well, never fear.
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Today, I'm going to help you learn how to
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think and speak in English so that you can respond to this question What'd you do last weekend?
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With no fear, no hesitation, and lots of confidence.
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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa .com.
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For over the past 10 years to over 7 million of you here on YouTube,
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It is my gift to you.
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So let's get started by talking about your weekend plans.
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I'm going to tell you a little story about what happened to me last weekend.
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Hint, it was very busy.
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I'm going to include a lot of phrases that you can also use to describe your weekend plans.
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And this is going to help you build on your vocabulary
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and your speaking skills so that it sticks in your head and you can think and speak in English.
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Are you ready?
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Listen carefully to what happened to me last weekend, and then we'll vocabulary.
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I'm not one to have busy weekends.
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In fact, I don't like to overload my schedule with many activities.
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I try to keep it simple by going for hikes with my family or just having some friends over to our house.
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Take a look at this first phrase.
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I'm not one to...
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This means it doesn't usually happen.
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I'm not one to have busy weekends.
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Or we could say, "I'm not one to complain,
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but the service in this restaurant is horrible." So this is not something natural for you, but it's happening anyway.
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This second word overload feels really heavy, right?
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That's the idea here is there is too much going on.
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I don't like to overload my weekends or my schedule, but sometimes it happens.
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You might say, "I overloaded my work schedule this week
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and I don't know how I'm going to possibly do it all." The opposite of overload is this, to keep it simple.
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Keep it simple.
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There is a famous phrase in English, kiss, keep it simple, stupid.
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Not the nicest phrase, but you could use this to say, "Oh, I really just need to keep it simple this weekend.
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I've had such a busy week." Or you might say to your teacher, Vanessa, "Vanessa, please keep it simple.
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There's too much in English that I need to learn.
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Don't speak in long, complicated sentences with too much difficult vocabulary.
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Please just keep it simple." All right, let's go to the next part of my story.
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But some weekends become more hectic than others.
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Last Sunday was one of those days.
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This word hectic means busy and chaotic.
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Some weekends are more hectic than others.
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I prefer to have weekends that are not hectic, but sometimes that happens.
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Let me know in the comments, was your weekend hectic last weekend?
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This phrase, one of those days, hides a hidden meaning.
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If I say, "Ugh, yesterday was one of those days."
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The phrase itself doesn't clue you in to the kind of day it was.
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Was it a good day or a bad day?
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But I bet You're smart enough.
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You can tell actually how my day was by my tone of voice.
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Yesterday was one of those days.
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Do you think it was a good day?
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Absolutely not.
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So if you use one of those days, you are implying that it was not the kind of day that you wanted to have.
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You might say, "Yes, yesterday was just one of those days.
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I was late to work.
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I lost my keys.
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Then I forgot my lunch at home.
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Oh, one of those days." Okay, let's move on.
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With the change in weather, it's about that time to start thinking about what to plant in the garden.
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That's what inspired me to plan a get together at my house last week for a seed exchange Ideally,
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everyone brings some seeds to share so we can all plant new things in our gardens.
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This phrase, it's about that time to, plus a verb can be used in so many situations.
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So let's imagine that for you, your friend is having a baby
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and you cannot wait to go baby clothes shopping with her
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and her baby's going to be due in maybe two, three months.
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Well, you might say, "It's about time to go baby clothes shopping.
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Do you want to do it this weekend?" "It's about that time to..." Great phrase.
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This phrase, a get together, is a great example of a time when a verb can be used as a noun in a slightly different context.
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So here I said, I had a small get together.
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We could say, do you want to get together?
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That's a verb.
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Do you want to get together at my house?
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But I used it as a noun and I said, I planned a get together at my house a get together,
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and it simply means that we are getting together.
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Simple, right?
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Let's move on.
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I sent out text reminders, prepped food and drinks, tidied up the house.
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I also reminded my kids to be on their best behavior.
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I wanted to highlight this first phrasal verb here.
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I sent out text reminders, to send out.
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We could say, I sent text reminders.
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Totally fine.
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Absolutely acceptable.
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But sometimes in daily conversational English, we will choose to use the phrasal verb because it sounds more conversational.
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I sent Out text reminders.
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So here it has the exact same meaning, but it just sounds a little more natural.
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This word, I prepped food and drinks to prep something is shortened for prepare.
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I need to prep some food and drinks before people come over.
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Do you ever prep food and drinks before people come over to your house?
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Probably so.
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You could say I prepared, but it's a little more conversational to say prep.
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And then we have this lovely phrasal verb to tidy up.
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This is something essential to do.
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I think it is within our nature that when guests come to our house, we can't stop ourselves.
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We have to tidy up.
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If people come to your house and You don't tidy up.
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Well, maybe you are not human.
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It is within our human nature to want to tidy up when guests come over.
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It simply means you put away all of the mess.
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Maybe you shove it in a closet or another room, or maybe you actually clean it up and you make sure that your house looks nice and tidy.
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And this final phrase here, "I told my kids to be on their best behavior," is a full fixed phrase that we use all together.
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It's often used for children because children often misbehave, but we can also use this for adults as well.
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Let's imagine that you are going on a first date with someone.
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You've never talked with them before in real life.
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You're going on a first date with them and they're kind of rude.
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- Thank you.
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Well, you probably won't want to go on a second date with them because On your first date, you should be on your best behavior.
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If you're rude on the first date, Well, it's only going to go downhill after that, right?
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So you should be on your best behavior on your first date
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and kids should also be on their best behavior when you have guests over.
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That's the ideal, right?
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Okay, let's move on.
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My two oldest children have their own garden beds, so they were pretty hyped about sharing some seeds with the neighbors.
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I want to introduce a very specific vocabulary phrase, a garden bed.
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I have several videos on this channel where I have shown you my garden, walked through the garden.
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You've even met one of rectangular area where you plant vegetables.
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Sometimes you plant flowers in a garden bed as well, but it is a contained area.
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This is helpful, especially if you have weeds that want to come in, you can make sure that the soil in the garden bed is really nicely kept.
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And what about this phrase?
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To be hyped.
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My kids were hyped about the garden club meeting.
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So we could say they were excited.
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It is simply a synonym for excited.
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They were hyped about the meeting.
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And we could say, I'm hyped for every trip that I go on.
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I'm really excited to travel and I get hyped before a trip.
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Maybe you get hyped when you realize there's going to be a new is coming.
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I'm so excited.
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You are hyped for the new lesson.
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Great.
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Let's move on.
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Eight of my neighbors showed up.
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Several people brought over packets of seeds to share
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and some brought seeds that they had saved directly from their plants last summer.
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It was such a good opportunity to bond with my neighbors.
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This phrasal verb, to show up, means to arrive.
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Yes, this is the direct meaning, but it also has a slight nuance to it.
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It means are going to show up, but you don't need to say, I don't know.
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It means there's an element surprise or unknown.
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So you might ask how many people showed up to the meeting.
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Well, if you were expecting 50 people, you might say, "Well, actually only 20 people showed up.
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I was kind of surprised." So here it is implying
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that you don't exactly know how many people are actually going to be coming.
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How many people showed up?
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Well, at my gathering, there were eight people.
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This phrase to bond with someone is a very kind phrase.
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Here I talked about bonding with my neighbors.
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We are growing our friendship bonds.
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You can also bond, for example, with your children.
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You might say something like, "I try to bond with my kids by listening to the type of music that they enjoy." Well, as your kids get older,
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it might be more difficult to connect with them, so listening to music together could be a way to bond in a deeper way.
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All right, let's continue.
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A few hours later, everyone headed home and I had a moment to catch my breath before the next event.
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Yes, there was a next event.
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This lovely phrase is one that I use all the time, but I don't see English learners using that often and I want to make sure you can use it.
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To head home means simply to go home, but we use this verb to head to talk about simply starting the journey.
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So you could say, well, I think I need to head home.
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It's getting late.
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This is commonly used all the time, you could say, I need to go home.
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Totally acceptable.
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But when you use this phrase to head home, you are elevating your English.
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I love it.
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What about this phrase, to catch my breath?
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No, I'm not actually catching my breath.
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It's more figurative than that.
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I said I had a little bit of time to catch my breath before the next event.
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It wasn't that I couldn't breathe.
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This means I just have a few minutes to try to recover, gather my thoughts, relax a little bit.
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I could finally catch my breath before the next thing.
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So if you've had a busy day at work, you might say, When I got in the car after work, I had a few minutes to catch my breath before I went home.
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Ah.
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Okay, let's go on.
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I made an early dinner, kissed my kids goodnight, and headed out to my friend's book club meeting at a fun rooftop bar.
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I wanted to show you this phrase to kiss my kids goodnight
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because it can also be used in a couple other ways as well.
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When I was saying goodnight to my kids, what did I do?
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gave them a kiss and said goodnight.
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But I reduced all of these ideas to just, I kissed my kids goodnight.
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You might say this about your partner, I kissed him goodnight, Or you might say this at the end of a date,
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"I kissed him goodbye." Okay.
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There are some famous songs as well that are rather ironic, I would say.
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They're trying to use this in a clever way.
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When they say, "I kissed him goodbye." That means goodbye, good riddance, I don't want to see you anymore.
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I kissed him goodbye.
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So if you look up Some songs about kissed him goodbye.
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They're quite funny.
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I think a lot of these are kind of country songs, but you'll get the sense of this phrase.
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We can just kiss someone goodnight, kiss someone goodbye, or we can kiss them goodbye.
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Do you recognize this word, to head?
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Here we're using it as a phrasal verb, to head out.
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Earlier you heard to head home, and now we're talking about leaving.
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And we're using that same verb again, this time as a phrasal verb with the word out.
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I'm heading out, or you could say, for example, I'm heading out to the store.
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Do you need me to get you anything?
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I'm heading out to my book club meeting.
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I'm going out, but we're leveling it up and saying heading out.
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Let's go on.
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We spent the evening discussing the characters and how the book turned out.
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I want to stop after just this phrase and explain this phrasal verb, to turn out.
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We're talking about the ending of the book, what happened in the end, but there's a slight nuance here.
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We're talking about how the book turned out.
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There's a bit of surprise here.
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We don't know what's going to happen at the end of the story.
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day.
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So you don't know how it's going to turn out.
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And in the book, we talked about how the book turned out.
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We talked about the ending, the unknown ending.
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That's how we're using to turn out here.
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You can use this in a business situation as well.
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Maybe you're having a big meeting where you're trying to get some new clients and you think that the meeting went well, but you're not quite sure.
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You might say to your friends later, I think the meeting went well, but I don't really know how it's going to turn out.
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I'll find out next week.
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Okay, there's a lot of unknowns here.
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You don't know the conclusion yet, but you're hoping it will be good.
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Okay, let's move on.
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To be honest, I wasn't a big fan of the book we were discussing.
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Turns out my friends didn't like it either, but it's always nice having some me time, especially when it involves a rooftop bar.
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You probably recognize this phrase, "Turns out." We just talked about it.
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Here I'm using it as a little bit of a transition.
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Turns out my friends didn't like the book either.
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So we're talking about that surprising or unknown conclusion.
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I'm telling you what happened at the end. So here.
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I didn't enjoy the book and I found out.
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It turns out my friends didn't like it either.
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We're using the same phrasal verb, but in a way to show the conclusion.
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I love this.
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So let's imagine that you're walking along the streets of your hometown
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and there is a foreign traveler walking along looking lost and you think, "Oh, I should probably help them." But can I speak in English?
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Can I really help them in English?
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I don't know if I can do it.
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Then you approach them, ask if they need help, and you actually help them.
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Well, you might tell me, Vanessa, it turns out I can actually use English.
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I did it.
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Here you are telling me the conclusion.
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It turns out I actually can do it.
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Good for you.
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This next expression, me time, is a fun one and it's simply what it looks like.
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It's time spent for only you.
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Something that you enjoy doing, you are not giving to others, you are not working, you are doing something that you love.
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And going to book club with my friends in a rooftop bar, this is absolutely something that is me time.
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It's something that I enjoy.
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So tell me in the comments, what do you like to do for your me time?
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Okay, let's move on to the two sections of my story where you're going to learn five final phrases.
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"By the time I got home, it was already 10 :00 PM.
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I was socially exhausted and just crashed." This phrase, by the time, is an interesting one because it's talking about a timeline.
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When something happens, another event is also happening.
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"By the time I got home, I was exhausted." So here,
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two things by the time I got home, I'm feeling quite tired.
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This phrase, socially exhausted, is a great one to use when maybe you haven't done a lot of physical activity,
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but if you have talked to so many people for so long, all day, you had garden club, seed exchange with eight neighbors, then you had a rooftop bar,
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book club with your friends, you have been talking and socializing so much,
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it can be really social stimulation will be even more exhausting for you.
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So you could say, I was just socially exhausted after talking with clients all day.
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It's probably true.
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This next word to crash is not talking about a car crash.
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Instead, it's talking about your body.
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At the end of the day, what are you going to do if you are exhausted?
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You're going to flop down on the couch or in your bed and crash.
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It just means that your body is so exhausted that you're just going to lay there.
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You're not going to do anything necessarily productive.
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You're just going to lie there and crash.
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So, if someone says, "Hey, what are your plans for this weekend?" You could use this phrase if you have had a really busy, exhausting week.
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"Oh, I had such a busy week.
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This weekend I'm just going to crash." Maybe you'll just watch Netflix all weekend.
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Okay.
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Let's go to the final part of this story and the final phrases.
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In my ideal world, I wouldn't be cramming two events into the same day, but I pushed myself because I knew I would have a good time and I did.
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In my ideal world is a great phrase for talking about this dream of a way that you wish the world was.
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So let's think about this for your English goals.
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In your ideal world, what do you wish you could do with English?
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So you might say, "In my ideal world, I would be able to communicate easily with clients.
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In my ideal world, I wish that I could travel to the US and just easily talk with people.
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Okay, here you're talking about the dream.
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This dream, in my opinion, is not unrealistic.
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It is achievable.
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You're here on the right path trying to make this happen, but we can use this phrase to talk about a goal.
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In my ideal world, this is what would happen.
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"I'm going to be a goal." And our final phrase is a great phrasal verb that unfortunately happens to many of us, to cram into.
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When you were studying in school, did you study a week ahead of time for an exam,
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or were you someone who tried to cram all of your studying into the last few days,
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maybe the last few hours before the exam?
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Well, unfortunately, human nature is such that we often the last few days before we have to do something.
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So we can use this to talk about our daily lives.
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I try not to cram everything into the last few minutes, but I sometimes do.
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And even though I crammed those two big events into one day, I still had a good time.
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Sometimes you can just push yourself and make it happen.
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Well, great work practicing thinking and speaking in English today.
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The next step is to download today's free PDF worksheet.
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This is a 13 page worksheet that includes everything you learned today, plus a bonus quiz.
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Test yourself and see if you can really remember all these phrases, plus a bonus speaking practice.
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I want to help you speak.
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Today you listened, you learned new vocabulary, and it will become your chance to speak and practice this, when you download this worksheet,
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you will be able to download the bonus speaking practice so
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that you can use it anywhere you go and level up your English skills.
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How can you get this worksheet?
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Just click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address, and voila, just like that, it will land in your email inbox.
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It is my gift to you.
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Well, thank you so much for learning English with me.
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I want to ask you a question.
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Let me know in the comments what did you do last weekend?
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Try to use some of the phrases that you learned in today's lesson
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and I will see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel.
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Bye.
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But wait, do you want more?
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I recommend watching this video next, where you will continue to learn to think and speak in English while talking about technology.
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This is a very relevant topic and you need to be able to speak about this in daily life.
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I'll see you there.
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Informazioni su questa lezione
In questa lezione, ci concentreremo su come pensare e parlare in inglese riguardo ai tuoi piani per il weekend. Imparerai a rispondere con sicurezza a domande comuni e ad acquisire frasi utili che potrai usare nelle tue conversazioni quotidiane. Attraverso un racconto personale e vocabolario specifico, aumenterai le tue abilità di espressione, migliorando così la tua pratica di conversazione in inglese.
Lessico e frasi chiave
- I'm not one to... - Significa che qualcosa non è usuale per te.
- Overload - Avere troppo da fare o da gestire.
- Keep it simple - Mantieni le cose semplici; può essere usato per suggerire di non complicarsi la vita.
- To have a busy weekend - Avere un weekend pieno di attività.
- Hikes - Escursioni o passeggiate nella natura.
- Friends over - Avere amici a casa tua.
Consigli per la pratica
Uno dei metodi più efficaci per migliorare la tua pronuncia è il shadow speech. Questo approccio implica ascoltare una registrazione audio e ripetere in tempo reale, mimando la tonalità e la velocità del parlante. Per questo video, cerca di seguire il ritmo e il tono di Vanessa. Quando racconta la sua esperienza, ascolta attentamente e cerca di ripetere subito dopo di lei, usando l'shadowing in inglese. Questo ti aiuterà a migliorare la pronuncia inglese e a far sì che il vocabolario si fissi nella tua mente.
Pratica anche in modo graduale. Inizia con frasi più brevi e aumenta la complessità man mano che ti senti più a tuo agio. Non dimenticare di utilizzare il materiale di pratica scaricabile fornito: ti darà ulteriore opportunità di shadowspeaks e di esercitarti in situazioni di vita reale.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.