シャドーイング練習: Speak With Me: English Speaking Practice - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Do you want to improve your English speaking skills, but you have no one to practice speaking with?
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Well, today's lesson is for you.
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You're going to have the chance to practice speaking with me out loud.
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So make sure that you get your speaking muscles ready and let's go.
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If you're new here, hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
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And I've been teaching real life English here on my YouTube
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channel for over the past 10 years to now more than 7 million of you.
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Thank you so much for learning English with me.
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In today's lesson, I have created a free PDF worksheet.
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This worksheet is very useful, very long, and I want to give it to you completely for free.
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It includes every single phrase you are about to learn today, plus three bonus speaking practices.
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It is very important to learn English and use it right away before it has left your brain.
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So these speaking practices will help you be able to take action and speak right away.
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So all you All you need to do to get today's free epic PDF worksheet is click the link in the description, enter your name and email address,
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and voila, I will send you the PDF worksheet plus the three bonus speaking practices right to your email inbox.
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It is my gift to you.
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All right, let's get started.
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The first topic that we're going to practice speaking about together is friendship and relationships.
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I'm going to teach you some vocabulary, then you will see a practice conversation, and then you will have the chance to practice speaking with me.
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So make sure you pay attention so that you can practice speaking.
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Let's go.
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So we're going to learn first some phrases to talk about those really close, really special best friends in our lives.
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And then you're going to learn some vocabulary to talk about friends who are friends, but they're not the closest friends.
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Let's start with those close friends though.
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My go-to person.
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You are my go-to person whenever I need relationship advice.
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This is the person who you trust the most to get advice from.
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My go-to person.
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You can also be a go-to person for things beside advice.
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You are my go-to person whenever I want to eat something delicious because you're always cooking something great.
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To bond over something.
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My best friend and I bonded over our love of reading.
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Here we are talking about connecting and deepening your relationship because you have some kind of common interest.
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You might say, we bonded over music.
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Well, if you have the same taste in music, you might say, we bonded over music.
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We go way back.
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My best friend and I were in high school together.
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We go way back.
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If you've known someone for a long time, this is the perfect phrase to use.
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You have experienced a lot of life together.
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We go way back.
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We've been friends since the diaper days.
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Quirks.
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I like this phrase.
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Quirks.
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He is my friend, even though he knows all of my quirks.
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Quirks are those strange little things that maybe annoy some people, but other people who truly love you can still be your friend.
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So maybe if you really don't like vegetables, one of your quirks might be, I don't like to eat anything green.
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It's one of my quirks, but I hope you can still be my friend.
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It's not true for me though.
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I love most things that are green.
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To hit it off.
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This is the phrase I used at the very beginning of this lesson.
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We hit it off immediately because we bonded over our love of music.
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When you have an instant connection with someone, you hit it off.
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To look out for someone.
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In elementary school, I used to look out for my friends.
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When they forgot their lunch at home, I would share mine.
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This is what friends do, right?
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We try to care for someone or protect them.
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We are trying to help them, especially when they need it.
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So when I had each of my children, my neighbors looked out for me and they were constantly bringing us dinner and trying to help us.
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This is what good friends do.
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To be a listening ear.
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You need all parts of this phrase in order for it to be grammatically correct.
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You might say something like this, my sister is a listening ear for me.
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Whenever I'm going through a difficult time or just want to talk something through to understand what I should do,
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she is a good listening ear.
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She doesn't respond immediately.
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She doesn't try to be judgmental.
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She is just simply listening to me.
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And that's what good friends do, right?
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All right.
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We have two final phrases to talk about those really good friends.
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This is the next one, to go out of your way.
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I always go out of my way to make sure that my friends feel cared for when they're having a hard time.
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This is something that good friends do.
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We go out of our way.
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We do something that's a little bit more than is necessary.
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So when one of my friends is feeling sick, I don't just text her and say, hey, I hope you're feeling better.
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I'll make a meal and go bring it to her house.
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This is something that is extra above what is necessary for being just a friend.
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I want to do something to make her feel cared and loved.
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So I will go out of my way to help my friends.
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It's what good friends do.
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And our final phrase for good friends is a very fun one, to be attached at the hip.
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Your hip bone is right on your side.
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If you are attached at the hip, you are always together.
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This is a phrase that I like to use for my kids.
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For better or for worse, my kids are always attached at the hip.
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They're always playing together, sometimes fighting together, but they are attached at the hip.
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They can't do anything without each other.
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They have to be together.
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They want to be together most of the time.
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They are attached at the hip.
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All right, now let's go on to some phrases that you can use for people who are friends.
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It's important to have these acquaintances in your life, but they're not the best of friends.
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How could you use to describe these people?
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You might use this phrase, see each other around.
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We see each other around work, but we don't really hang out after work.
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Okay.
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So maybe when you're at work, you would say that person is a close person to you at work, but they're not a close friend.
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We see each other around work, but that's about it.
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To lose touch.
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We're not talking about a physical touch.
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We're talking about that connection and communication.
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So you might say after college, we just lost touch because we moved to different cities.
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This happens.
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You can't stay best friends long distance with everyone, so you might easily lose touch with most people.
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To drift apart.
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This is talking about this slow process of becoming less good friends.
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Nothing in particular happened to hurt our friendship.
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We just drifted apart.
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I would say this is especially true for childhood friends.
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For me, the best friends that I had in childhood were so special.
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We were attached at the hip as kids.
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And then as we got older, we just drifted apart.
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Our adult selves were not as close as our childhood selves were.
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We just drifted apart.
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Do you have a work buddy or a gym buddy?
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This phrase buddy is already very casual, but when we add another word to the front,
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we are specifying this person is my casual friend in a specific situation.
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Yeah, he's just my work buddy.
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We hang out during our lunch breaks, but that's it.
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We've never gone out after work or done anything outside of the workplace.
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He's my work buddy.
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We could say the same for gym buddy.
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If you happen to go to the gym every Friday at the same time as someone else, maybe eventually you start to wave.
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You might introduce yourself.
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You're not a close friend, but you could say, oh yeah, she's my gym buddy.
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I see her every Friday.
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And our final phrase to talk about friends that are not the closest friends is one that I actually already used.
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Did you pick it up?
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It is the word acquaintance.
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Practice this pronunciation with me.
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Acquaintance.
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Acquaintance.
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This is someone who you're kind of friends with, but you don't really rely on them.
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You haven't really bonded with them deeply.
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So you might say, yeah, I have a bunch of acquaintances, but they're not really close friends.
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I only have a couple close friends and a lot of acquaintances, pretty common.
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Okay.
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Now that you have a great vocabulary foundation to talk about friendship, it's time to take it up a level.
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You're going to see a sample conversation between my husband, Dan, and I.
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We're going to use a bunch of the vocabulary that you just heard.
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I want you to pay attention because after this, it's going to be your turn to speak with me using all of these phrases.
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Are you ready?
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Let's watch.
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Hey, Dan.
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Hey, Vanessa.
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Guess what?
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I ran into an old friend at the grocery store the other day.
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We go way back, but we just lost touch over time.
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That's so cool.
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Did you two hit it off when you started talking?
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We actually did.
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It was like no time had passed.
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That's so nice.
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Yeah.
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Well, what about you?
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You've been friends with Brad for a long time, right?
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Yeah.
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Actually, we were work buddies for about two years, and then one day we hung out and we really bonded over heavy metal music.
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I love that for you.
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You never know when your quirks are going to make you a good friend.
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That's so true.
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Okay, now that you've seen this sample conversation, it's our turn to speak together.
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I'm going to ask you a question and then I will pause.
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During that pause, I want you to speak out loud.
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Try to use the vocabulary that you've learned today.
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If you need to pause this video and have a little more time to think about it, totally fine.
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And you're welcome to review this section as many times as you need to.
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Are you ready?
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Let's do it.
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Tell me about a time that you hit it off with someone instantly.
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Oh, that's so interesting.
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Did you bond over anything in particular?
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Oh, that's so great.
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I'm glad you have a good friend.
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But sometimes friendships don't always stay close.
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Have you ever had a friend that you drifted apart from?
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Yeah, I think that's happened to everyone.
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Well thank you for telling me about your friendships.
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I'll talk to you later.
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Great work practicing speaking about friendships and relationships.
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The next topic is a commonly talked about conversation topic that you need to practice, and that is technology.
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We talk about phones, the internet, all of the updates to technology all the time in conversation.
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It is a hot topic in the news.
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I want you to be able to talk about technology as well,
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including talking about your opinions about various new technologies that are coming out.
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Is it better or worse than the past?
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Well, with this lesson, you'll be able to express yourself.
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Let's go.
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Before you can actually have a conversation about technology in English, you need to know some vocabulary, right?
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So we're going to start with some common positive phrases that we use to talk about technology.
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Can you guess what the next part's going to be?
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Yeah, some negative expressions to talk about some of the negative impact of technology.
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But let's start with the positive.
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To pick up the phone or to pick up your phone.
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I love that I can just pick up the phone and call my sister, even though she lives far away.
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This is positive, right? In moderation.
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Using social media is fine in moderation, but too much can be distracting.
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I love this phrase in moderation because it works for so many things in life.
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You can treat yourself and eat some chocolate every day.
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But if you ate piles of chocolate every day, it's no good, right?
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So if you eat chocolate in moderation, it's no problem.
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Same with social media.
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Just use it in moderation, not too much.
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I can't imagine life without.
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I can't imagine life without a map app on my phone.
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Before this existed, I got lost all the time.
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I can't imagine life without using Google Maps or Apple Maps all the time.
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You might also hear this referred to as GPS.
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This is a global positioning system.
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This is more the official term, but a lot of people use this.
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I use GPS all the time.
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I can't imagine my life without a GPS on my phone.
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A game changer.
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Video calling has been a game changer for my family, especially when I lived abroad.
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You know what this feels like.
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You feel isolated and alone.
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Oftentimes, it is really hard to move to another country or another city, even far away from your family.
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So video calling can be a game changer.
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This can change everything.
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It's not that your life is a game, but we use this to talk about something that makes a big impact.
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Wow.
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Video calling is a game changer for helping my time abroad be a more positive experience.
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At my fingertips.
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With a smartphone, a lot of information is at my fingertips.
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This means that it is readily accessible.
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For a smartphone, it is literally at your fingertips, but we can use this not exactly as literally as this.
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You could use it about food and say, in a modern world, we have all the food that we need at our fingertips.
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And the fact that there are people in the world who do not have enough food is tragic.
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There is plenty of food to go around, so why don't some people have it at their fingertips and some people do?
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This is really sad, but for a lot of people, we have a lot available at our fingertips.
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To stay on top of things.
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We're not talking about a physical spot on top of things.
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Instead, take a look at this.
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I use my phone's calendars to help me stay on top of things at work.
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I have a lot going on and looking at everything on a digital calendar really helps me to stay organized,
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not be late for things, to know what's going on.
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Or instead of using all those phrases, we can compile them into this one.
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The calendars helped me to stay on top of things at work.
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Great.
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It opened up a whole new world.
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I love this phrase, especially when we think about learning English.
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Take a look at this.
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Virtual learning opened up a whole new world for me.
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Instead of going to physical classes in your city or an hour away,
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instead you just open up YouTube and here's Vanessa teaching you English right from the comfort of your own home.
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So we could say virtual learning opened up a whole new world for me.
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To Google something.
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This is interesting because we're using a brand name as a verb.
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I say this all the time.
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When I don't know something, I Google it.
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If you don't know something, try Googling it.
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We could say, try looking it up, but for some reason we have just swapped that to say, Google, you should Google it.
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All right, now let's talk about some negative expressions that we can use to talk about technology.
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Back in the day, back in the day, there was no social media, so people connected more in real life.
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This is a positive thing, right?
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We should connect more in real life, not in social media.
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Back in the day refers to a general time that feels far in the past Before there was social media, before there was the internet,
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we just had to open the door and go talk to our friends and neighbors.
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When I was your age, when I was your age, the only computers in the school were in the computer lab room.
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This is true for me.
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When I was in high school from 2002, 2001, two, three, four, five,
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around then, there were no computers in each of the classrooms.
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Instead, the only computers were in a computer lab.
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And I'm sure many of you went to school when there were no computers.
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So this is something that we often use to talk about the difference in our childhoods.
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When I was your age, when you're talking to someone younger who knows nothing about what it was like before technology, when I was your age,
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there were no computers in my school.
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Kids these days, when I was your age, kids played outside all the time,
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but kids these days just stay inside playing video games.
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We always use this expression when we are talking about something negative that kids do nowadays.
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Kids these days, there's a lot of judgment in that voice.
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Kids these days just stay inside playing video games.
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They have no idea what it's like to just go outside and play, be bored, have fun in that way, create your own fun.
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Kids these days.
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Addicted or addicted to something.
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I feel like I'm addicted to my phone.
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Or he realized he was addicted and needed a break from social media.
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This is the same as a drug addiction, an alcohol addiction.
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It is very strong, very serious.
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And it's something that hasn't been studied very much because it's relatively new.
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It has been studied a bit.
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We are starting to to become wiser about our phones and realize it's easy to become addicted to our phones.
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Sooner or later, everyone will have to use AI sooner or later.
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This phrase sooner or later has kind of a reluctance feeling about it.
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Like I don't want to have to use AI, but I have no choice.
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And I think that's the way the world's going.
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Sooner or later, we're going to have to use AI, so maybe I should start learning about it.
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Sooner or later, everyone will have to.
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What do you think?
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There's a time and place.
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There's a time and place to use your phone and the dinner table with your family is not that time.
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This might be a phrase that a parent says to a child.
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If the child or the teenager, whoever it is, is looking at their phone at the dinner table, You can say, well, there's a time and place to use your phone, but it's not here.
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You're acknowledging this is a useful device, but not here.
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There's a time and place.
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Maybe it's while you're studying, while you're contacting your friends, doing other things, but not here at the dinner table.
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I wouldn't be surprised if...
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I wouldn't be surprised if the next generation is a lot different than previous generations due to their tech use.
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A lot of people who are in their 20s
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and below grew up with a level of technology that the rest of us never had when we were kids.
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So I wouldn't be surprised if they are remarkably different than the rest of us due to technology.
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Information overload.
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Social media can cause you to have information overload because there is something new going on all the time.
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This is a problem, right?
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If you need to give yourself a break from information overload, close your phone, close your computer, go step outside.
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And our final negative expression about tech is I catch myself.
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I catch myself looking at my phone more than I should.
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Sometimes I tell myself, it's just to see what time it is.
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It's just to see if my sister messaged me back, but I catch myself, oh, I shouldn't pick up my phone so much, but it's hard, right?
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I catch myself looking at my phone more than I should.
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All right.
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Now that you have heard all of those positive and negative expressions about technology,
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we're going to take a look at a sample conversation between my husband and I.
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We're going to use a lot of these phrases.
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Listen carefully because after this, you are going to have a chance to speak with me about technology.
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You can use these phrases yourself.
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So listen carefully to our sample conversation.
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Let's watch.
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Hey, Dan.
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Hey, Vanessa.
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Thanks for texting me back right away about meeting up.
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Don't you just love how easy communication is with technology?
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Definitely.
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Back in the day, we'd have to wait hours to hear back from someone.
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I know.
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Kids these days will never have that experience.
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Yeah.
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Everything's online now.
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We have news, messages, and work right at our fingertips.
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I know.
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But don't you find it hard sometimes to use your phone in moderation?
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Definitely.
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I'm learning the importance of turning off my phone at certain times of the day.
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There's a time and place for everything.
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I agree.
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I'm trying to learn that too.
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All right, drum roll.
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Now it is your turn to speak out loud with me.
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What I'm going to do is we're going to pretend
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that we are having a chit chat at a cafe and we are talking about technology.
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I'm going to casually ask you a question.
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I will pause.
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I will listen to you.
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My magical teacher ears will hear you no matter where you are around the world.
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So you better participate, speak out loud, use your best English.
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And I want you to speak out loud in the pause as if we're having a conversation.
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If you need some more time, feel free to pause the video.
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You're welcome to go back and repeat this section as many times as you want.
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And of course, you're welcome to take a look at the worksheet as well, where you can write down your answers and then you can go back and practice having the conversation again.
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Okay.
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Are you ready?
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Let's do it.
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Oh, oh, hey there.
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Just looking at my phone again.
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Back in the day, was technology different for you than it is now?
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Oh yeah, I'm sure.
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Well, I know technology has changed a lot, but I want to know, how has technology been a game changer in your life?
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Oh, that's so interesting.
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Well, sooner or later, technology is going to change again.
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What do you think the future of technology will be like?
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Oh, that's really interesting.
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I wouldn't be surprised if that comes true.
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Well, thanks so much for sharing with me your thoughts.
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I'll talk to you another time.
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Bye.
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Great work talking about technology with me and telling me exactly how you feel about technology.
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The next and final topic that we're going to practice speaking about today is a fun one.
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It is travel.
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If you have ever been somewhere that you thought was amazing, you need to be able to talk about it.
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In fact, if you have ever been somewhere and had a terrible time, you need to be able to describe it as well.
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So in this lesson, we're going to practice some vocabulary to talk about positive travel experiences and negative travel experiences,
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and then you'll have the chance to practice speaking with me.
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Let's go.
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The first important travel phrases are for talking about when things go well.
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After my trip to Portugal, everyone asked me, Vanessa, how was your trip?
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How was Portugal?
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How did it go?
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And many things went well.
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So how can you describe when things go well on your trip?
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Let's see.
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It was amazing.
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It was breathtaking.
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It was exciting.
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So when my friends asked me about my trip to Portugal,
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I said, it was amazing to be walking on such historic streets and enjoying such a breathtaking view of the sea.
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It was really amazing.
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If you have ever been to Lisbon, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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And when my friends asked me, Vanessa, what did you do in Lisbon?
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I could say, well, for the first few days, Dan and I just walked around the city and soaked in the atmosphere.
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This means we didn't have a packed day of activities.
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We just enjoyed breathing in the fresh air, seeing what kind of atmosphere there was in the city, taking a look at good views,
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sitting at cafes and people watching.
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This type of relaxing trip is exactly what I love.
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Or you could say, we decided to get off the beaten path and visit a small medieval village.
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This is what we did.
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And this phrase, to get off the beaten path, means that you're going somewhere that not everybody visits.
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It's kind of an unusual destination.
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Maybe it's a small unknown village that really is breathtaking.
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And why don't more people go there?
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I don't know.
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But you found a special place off the beaten path.
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Before my trip, I heard that some people in the Lisbon airport were on strike.
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And a lot of people recommended to travel light and only pack a carry on.
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So this is what I did.
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It's not easy for me to pack light or travel light, but I didn't want to have to wait in the airport for long lines
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while I waited for my baggage to be sent in from the airplane.
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What about you?
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Is it natural for you to travel light or do you usually pack everything in your house.
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Oftentimes going on a trip means that you're going to need to prepare in advance.
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And for me, I have three kids
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and I have some wonderful in-laws who were able to watch them for an entire week
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while Dan and I went to Portugal.
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But I prepared a lot of information for my in-laws before I left.
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I prepared a four page document with all of the phone numbers,
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the routines, the information, all of the things that they might need while we were gone.
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It was a lot of work, but it was worth it because Dan and I had a wonderful trip together.
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So we use this phrase, it was worth it when we do something difficult, but the end result is important.
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It is something that is absolutely worth the pain that you went through.
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Now, it wasn't much pain to write out those documents, but it did take some organization.
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So I would say it was absolutely worth it to put in all
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that effort so that we could have a special trip together.
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Now we can use this phrase in the negative sense.
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When we were in Lisbon, we wanted to visit a famous cathedral, but when we got there,
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the line was so long that we decided not to go in because when we saw that long line,
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we realized it was not worth it to wait.
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Instead, we enjoyed walking along the river and just soaking in the atmosphere.
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Oh, what a great expression.
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So here, it was not worth it for us to wait in that line for hours and hours.
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Instead, we did other things that we enjoyed instead.
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So you can use this phrase in the positive sense, it was worth it or it was not worth it.
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The next two phrases are when you've had busy travel days, maybe you've booked some tours,
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some museum visits, and your body is just ready to take it easy.
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You want to just sit in a cafe and people watch.
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You want to just sit on the beach and enjoy the waves crashing in.
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You want to take it easy.
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This is something that I enjoy every few days.
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If I'm on a busy trip, I want to have a day where I just take it easy.
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Or we could say, I want to have a day where I just go with the flow.
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I don't have any tours booked.
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There's nothing specific that I need to do.
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I have no restaurant reservations.
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I just want to go with the flow.
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And sometimes on those days, you see the most amazing things.
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For example, on my trip to Portugal, Dan and I decided to go a different way back to our hotel.
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And as we were wandering in the streets, just going with the flow, taking it easy, we heard some music.
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And right there, there was the ruins of an old Roman theater
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and two musicians were playing in the theater and lots of people started to gather and watch them.
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It was amazing.
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So sometimes when you go with the flow, you see the best things.
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If you visit a popular destination for the first time, you might want to do some more touristy things, right?
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So Dan and I decided to book a sailboat tour in the river.
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This is absolutely a touristy thing to do, but it lived up to the hype.
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It was beautiful.
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It was fun.
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We drank wine while we were on the river and we got to see Lisbon from the water, which is a very historical way to be able to see
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the city as they had a very big maritime history and past.
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So this was something that absolutely lived up to the hype.
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This is a similar phrase to, it was worth it.
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This was something that I'm very glad we did, even though it was touristy, it lived up to hype.
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We have two more positive phrases to talk about before we get to some negative expressions to talk about
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when things didn't go well on your trip.
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The next positive phrase is to be blown away.
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In Lisbon, there are beautiful tiles that cover the outside of so many buildings.
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I was blown away that there were tiles on just normal buildings too.
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It wasn't just the most important buildings in the city, there were beautiful historical tiles on so many buildings all over the city.
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I loved the vibrancy and the color.
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It was such a unique thing to see.
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Now, this trip to Lisbon wasn't just a pleasure trip.
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It was also a work trip.
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I met some wonderful people who also teach languages here on YouTube.
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Some of those you might have seen last week in my
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video where I asked all of these teachers to give you a speaking tip.
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How can you improve your speaking skills?
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If you would like to hear all of their wonderful tips, you can check out that video here.
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So because I was getting together with these other wonderful language teachers, we made some unforgettable memories together.
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I learned a lot about business.
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I learned a lot about being a teacher, but also I got to connect with these wonderful people and spending long days together late into the night,
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just talking about our lives and our work and our passion.
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This really made it so that we had some unforgettable memories together.
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All right.
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What can you say when something bad happens on your trip?
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How can you talk about what happened?
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I want to give you some phrases for that.
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If you want to be very polite about it, you might say it didn't go as planned.
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You're not saying, it was terrible.
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Instead, you're saying it didn't go as planned.
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So for example, Dan and I had reservations to see a special type of traditional Portuguese music called Fado.
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And we had reservations to go to a Fado restaurant on our first night in Portugal.
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But when we arrived in Portugal, we were so tired and the reservations were for 7.30 that night.
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We knew there was no way we would be awake at 7.30 at night and be able to enjoy this special experience.
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So we decided to reschedule those reservations and book it for another night.
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It just didn't go as planned.
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It wasn't a big deal.
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We decided to do it another night.
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But what if something is truly terrible?
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You might say, It was a nightmare.
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One time when my family was about to travel to Costa Rica, I realized that I had bought us tickets to San Jose,
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California instead of San Jose, Costa Rica, and our flight was about to leave in 12 hours.
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This was a nightmare.
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Absolutely, it was a nightmare.
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Thankfully, the lovely person on the phone helped us to find other tickets.
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She was very kind to me, but there were a few hours there that were truly a nightmare.
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Another polite phrase for negative situations is to run into problems.
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There were several people on my trip who ran into problems at the airport.
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Thankfully for us, our airport experience was very smooth.
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Maybe we arrived at just the right time, but it's very possible to run into problems at the airport.
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This might mean a long line.
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This might mean that your baggage had to be checked several times.
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It's just a simple problem.
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What should you say if you feel disappointed?
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You might say something like I said, there was one seafood restaurant we went to that was a bit of a letdown.
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Here I'm using two important phrases.
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The first is a letdown, which means a disappointment, but the other is this qualifier, a bit.
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It was a bit of a letdown.
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I don't want to be extremely negative and say, oh, it was such a letdown.
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It was terrible.
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It was a nightmare.
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No, the food was still okay, but it didn't live up to the hype as we just learned.
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So I might say, yeah, the restaurant was okay, but it was a bit of a letdown.
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I thought it would be amazing and it was just okay.
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Have you ever traveled and paid too much for something because you were a naive tourist?
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You got ripped off.
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All over Portugal and especially in Lisbon on the coast, there are these flashy sardine stores
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because fresh seafood is a big thing near the coast and a lot of tourists want to buy sardines to take home.
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But should you go to those flashy sardine stores?
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Absolutely not.
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You are going to get ripped off.
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Or we could say those stores are a rip off.
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Instead, Dan and I decided just to go to a regular grocery store and buy some regular brands of sardines that said,
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made in Portugal, and we brought those home to try.
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I hope that we didn't get ripped off.
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All right.
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We have just learned 15 phrases to talk about your trip, but the next thing is the most important part.
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You are going to watch a sample conversation between Dan and I using these phrases and then it will be your turn.
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You are going to speak with me out loud and use these phrases yourself.
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So pay attention during this sample conversation because it's going to be your turn soon.
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Let's watch.
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Hey, Dan, you're back from Portugal.
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How was your trip?
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Oh, it was amazing.
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The colors and views of Lisbon completely blew me away.
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Oh, that sounds incredible.
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Did everything go smoothly?
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Not exactly.
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My flight got delayed, so the first day didn't go as planned, and I got ripped off by a taxi driver.
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Oh no, that's rough.
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But you still found time to soak in the atmosphere?
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Definitely.
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I got off the beaten path and explored a medieval town.
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It was totally worth it.
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That sounds great.
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Well, thanks for telling me about your trip.
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No prob.
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Okay, are you ready?
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This is the most important part of today's lesson.
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So if you need to pause this video, if you need to review this part again and again, go for it.
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It's one of the benefits of learning English online.
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So I'm going to ask you some questions.
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We're going to have a little chit chat together, and I will pause.
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I want you to speak out loud during the pause.
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I have magical teacher ears, and I can hear you.
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Wherever you are around the world, I will hear you.
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So make sure you speak out loud.
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Listen to your own voice because I'll be listening to it too.
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Are you ready?
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Let's do it.
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Hi, I heard you took a trip recently.
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Where did you go?
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Nice.
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Did everything go as planned or did you run into problems?
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Oh, I see.
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Well tell me, what was the best part of your trip?
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Was there anything that just blew you away?
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Oh, that sounds wonderful.
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Did you have any chance to get off the beaten path and just soak in the atmosphere?
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That's awesome.
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It sounds like you really made some unforgettable memories on your trip.
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Thanks so much for sharing it with me.
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Well, congratulations.
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You just practiced speaking about three common conversation topics.
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I hope you were able to use your speaking muscles and practice speaking.
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The next step is to continue using what you have learned so that you do not forget it.
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All you need to do is download the free PDF worksheet and three bonus speaking practices.
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You can click on the link in the description, enter your name and email address, and I will send you this bonus practice,
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the worksheet and the speaking practices so that you can grow your skills, build up yourself, get the confidence you need so that
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when you go out into the real world and you're talking about your friendships, you're talking about technology and how you feel and maybe good,
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maybe bad, or talking about your awesome travels, you will feel so confident that you'll be able to have those conversations with no problem.
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You need to take it to the next step and continue practicing.
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So I hope that this lesson was useful for you.
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Keep up the excellent work with English
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and I'll 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, if you want more, I recommend watching this epic video next.
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It is a two hour speaking lesson.
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Turn it on while you're doing the dishes.
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Turn it on while you are walking your dog and immerse yourself in real life vocabulary and practice speaking with me.
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Use what you've learned so that you never forget it.
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I'll see you in that lesson.
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Bye.
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このレッスンについて
「Speak With Me: English Speaking Practice」を使って、シャドーイングで英語を練習しましょう。
毎日15〜30分の練習で、IELTSスピーキングへの自信と実践的な英会話力が身につきます。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。