the BEST way to improve English speaking skills | 4.5 Hours of Super Sentences speaking practice

if you are looking to improve your English speaking skills and confidence then look no further this is the video for you hey guys Connor here if you are a fan of my super sentences speaking practice videos then I have a very special video for you here today I have taken super sentences episodes 1 through 12 plus a brand new episode episode 13 and smooshed them all combine them all in one Mega video Simply follow along as the sentences get more and more challenging speaking out loud with me or pausing the video and repeating back what

I say this is a fantastic way to train your brain yeah to get it comfortable with speaking at length speaking long sentences I guarantee you guys have never spoken sentences this long in all of your years of learning English smash like on this video leave me a comment letting me know what you think of my teaching style and let's level up our English speaking skills together level one yeah we're starting with a very basic simple sentence you can say it with me or you can pause the video and repeat after me ready a man opens

a bank account again a man opens a bank account okay I think we all probably know what this means right we have a guy a man a male okay an adult man he opens a bank account yeah he goes to a bank he opens an account I guess he wants to start using this Bank let's see what happens next level two once again you can say this with me or pause the video and repeat heat out loud a man opens a bank account to save money again a man opens a bank account to save money

ah okay now we know now we know why he is opening the bank account right he's opening the bank account to save money in order to save money in order to have some Savings in order to save up some money these all mean the same thing let's say level two one more time ready a man opens a bank account to save money level three here we go getting a little bit more difficult now repeat after me or say it with me here we go a man opens a bank account to save money for his future

ah okay now we know why he is saving money he is is saving money for his future he wants to make sure that his future self him in the future has enough money yeah he has an option right he could spend all of his money today and tomorrow have none or he can spend less today and tomorrow have more let's say this one more time say it with me or pause and repeat out loud a man opens a bank account to save money for his future level four getting even trickier now a man opens a

bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest ah okay one more time a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest okay we have an and here telling us that he's not just Sav money for his future yeah he has two reasons why he's opening this account the first one is he's saving money for his future the second reason is he's planning to invest what does that mean that means he wants to grow his money right maybe he wants to invest in the stock market

maybe he wants to invest in a certain company okay he's looking for a smart way a long-term way to grow his money right much like growing a plant in the garden he wants to take the money he has and grow it bigger by investing let's say this one more time level four a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest okay great job level five getting even more complex say it with me or pause and repeat a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and

plans to invest in the stock market one more time a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market okay remember in level four we were sort of contemplating we were sort of thinking about wondering about where he's going to invest his money how he's going to invest his money right what is going to be his Avenue right what is going to be his Avenue for investing his money well now we know in the stock market now we know specifically how he's going to invest his

money okay we have our how so let's say this one more time before we move on a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market level six we're getting really serious now guys okay let's take a look at this a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth wow it's getting to be quite the mouthful quite the mouthful what does that mean that means it's a little bit difficult to say

especially in one breath right let's try one more time a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth okay great what does this mean grow your wealth wealth is just money right it's the money you have he wants to grow his wealth he wants to increase okay increase his wealth by investing in the stock market so sounds like this guy is taking his future very seriously let's say this one more time in one breath ready a man opens a bank account

to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth wow that was pretty quick are you guys keeping up with me if you find my speed to be a little bit fast you can pause the video Try saying it yourself at your own speed okay let's level up again level seven say it with me or repeat after me ready a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability wow I

had to take a breath in the middle of that because now this single sentence is getting to be such a big super sentence that I can't say the whole thing in one breath let's try it again are you ready a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability okay let's take a look at the blue part what are we adding to this sentence okay so we know that he's investing we know where he's investing in the stock

market we know why he's investing to grow his wealth but now we know a second why there's the first why to grow his wealth here's the second why he wants to Achieve Financial stability that's a pretty complicated expression right Achieve Financial stability stability okay achieve if you achieve something then you get something done okay for example here on my YouTube account I have achieved the accomplishment of gaining 25,000 subscribers that's something I've achieved something I have tried to do and successfully done okay to get something done maybe we could say successfully okay so what is

he trying to do he wants to get financial stability Financial just means about money stability means that something is stable it's stable okay it's um not going to tip over right if a chair is stable you know you sit in it the chair is not going to fall over if you take a glass and put it on a table the glass doesn't wobble it doesn't fall over the glass is stable well your finances can be stable as well your financial situation in other words he doesn't want to have to worry about money like okay this

month where is my money coming from will I have enough money what will I do if I don't have enough money that kind of situation we could call Financial instability we could add an i in to make it instability meaning that your situation is not stable it's kind of a precarious situation oo there's a big word precarious if you guys can use this word I'm sure native speakers would be very impressed precarious just means kind of um kind of a risky situation kind of an uncertain situation kind of a danger situation the situation is a

little bit precarious just means uh my financial situation is a bit precarious that means it's not very stable okay let's say it one more time and then move on a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability level eight there are 10 levels total if you guys are still with me give yourself a pat on the back you're doing great you are building up that spoken English confidence little by little we're stretching these sentences longer and longer

we're making it more and more complex you know your spoken ability is a lot like a muscle if you're training your biceps you go to the gym right you have certain exercises that really train that muscle well that's what we're doing today okay say it with me ready a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability while also setting aside funds for emergencies okay wow this is getting really complicated right we've just learned something new that he's

doing something else that he's doing okay he's setting aside funds for emergencies funds just another way to say money that's used for something this is my travel fund my money that I'm saving to be spent on travel right this is my school supplies fund this is the money that I'm saving to be spent on school supplies well he's setting aside funds for emergency setting aside just as another way of saying saving he's taking this money he's putting it over here so that he won't spend it he's going to save it he's going to keep it

for a certain reason that reason is emergencies M yeah you know maybe there's a storm and lightning strikes his roof he has to get the roof on his house repaired maybe he's driving and he hits a nail and he gets a flat tire the tire on his car deflates deflates the air goes out of it all right maybe he's you know walking to work and he trips and he breaks his ankle something bad happens and he needs money now what we're talking about is a financial emergency a money emergency right so all of the stuff

he's doing is in preparation for these things for a financial emergency he's prepping here's a good word prepping just means getting ready getting ready he's getting ready for financial emergencies okay let's say this one more time I'm going to go a little bit quick a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability while also setting aside funds for emergencies okay guys level nine we're getting close to the end here we go a man opens a bank account

to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability while also setting aside funds for emergencies and major life events major life events what could that be a major life event major just means big a big life event you know could be a wedding something good something happy like a wedding okay could be something bad like a funeral something where you know there's there's a big event a big milestone in your life okay mil Stone basically just means something big that happens in the

Journey of your life right and he might have to set aside some money for that so there's two reasons why he's setting aside funds setting aside money the first reason is emergencies the second reason major life events okay are you ready to say this again a little bit faster this time a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock stock market to grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability while also setting aside funds for emergencies and major life events wow guys we have grown this sentence

by a lot okay remember how small this sentence was when we started out I'm willing to bet that you have never spoken a sentence this long am I correct if I'm correct down in the comment section you can can let me know yes uh teacher Connor you are correct this is the longest sentence I've ever spoken or you can say you know teacher Connor actually no I have spoken sentences this long before let's say this one more time really quick and then we'll move on to the final level let's go ready a man opens a

bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability while also setting aside funds for emergencies and major life events wo okay Level 10 the final level if you guys are still with me you're doing fantastic let's keep going come on push you probably feel a bit of discomfort right you probably feel a little bit uncomfortable but think about it without discomfort there is no improvement no advancement another way of saying that is no pain no gain something you hear a lot

from people who work out who go to the gym right that's exactly what we're doing the unfortunate reality of learning a language is that if you are not willing to experience some discomfort then you're not going to make any progress so okay first with level 10 we're going to take it slow okay so say it with me or repeat after me ready a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability while also setting aside funds for emergencies

and major life events such as buying a house getting married and starting a family now we know specifically what the major life events are remember in level nine we weren't certain what they were we weren't sure what he was talking about we had to speculate speculate we had to guess okay we had to place conjecture is another fancy way of saying that right we had to take a guess we had to take a shot in the dark that means take a guess when you're not really sure okay so yeah we said oh maybe a wedding

maybe a funeral now we are getting some specific examples of what is being discussed okay so uh such as buying a house that's a major life event getting married that's a major life event starting a family that's a major life event okay now all three of these Milestones life Milestones all three of these major life events these cost a lot of money these are expensive things so it makes sense that this guy wants to open an account and save money and plan for his future and invest his money in the stock market and grow his

wealth and get some Financial stability achieve some Financial stability while at the same time also setting aside funds for emergencies okay uh you know yeah even if you start a family you still need uh an emergency fund right what if your child needs an operation you know knock on wood knock on wood that's something we really don't want to happen so knock on wood right but uh he's really covering his bases covering his bases that means he's thinking about every possible problem every possible scenario right he doesn't want there to be some expensive surprise that

drains all of his funds drains right or sucks away all of his money okay let's say this one more time at more of a medium speed now once again you can say it with me or pause the video and say it by yourself a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability while also setting aside funds for emergencies and major life events such as buying a house getting married and starting a family now I'm really willing

to bet that this is the longest sentence you guys have ever spoken if you have ever spoken a sentence longer than this one I will be really surprised okay let's say it one more time quickly are you ready I'm going to say it at the speed that a native speaker would probably say it at a man opens a bank account to save money for his future and plans to invest in the stock market to grow his wealth and Achieve Financial stability while also setting aside funds for emergencies and major life events such as buying a

house getting married and starting a family wow okay yeah guys you did it that was level 10 level one starting off basic simple and easy I want you guys to follow along as I talk slowly at first getting gradually quicker gradually faster or once again you can pause the video and repeat it back out loud let's take a look a woman heads to a big job interview okay one more time a little quicker a woman heads to a big job and interview a woman heads that means she goes she is going to a job interview

yeah she's going to apply for a job she's going to apply for a job a new position okay but not just any job interview a big job interview in this context big is another way of saying important like this could be a big opportunity for her this could be a big chance to level up in her career let's say it one more time quickly like a native speaker would this time ready a woman heads to a big job interview level two now starting off slow a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle

of downtown Denver H okay one more time a little quicker a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver M okay now we know the location of the job interview it's in a city called Denver in the United States and the interview isn't just in Denver it's in downtown Denver in the Heart of the City in the middle of the busiest most bustling area of the city but it's not just in downtown Denver it's in the middle of downtown Denver so right in the middle of the middle of the city

wow it sounds like whatever company she's interviewing for probably has a really nice office space right okay so let's say this one more time quickly like a native speaker would a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver level three getting a little more serious here let's start off slow a woman heads to a big job interview you in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous okay one more time a little more quickly a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a

bit nervous M okay now we have an Insight now we have an idea about how she's feeling about her emotions okay and we see that she's feeling nervous we could also say anxious or maybe a little worried or maybe a little bit uncertain okay yeah on the inside she feels like this she's a little stressed out maybe about this interview I wonder why maybe because the interview is in the heart of downtown in a big fancy office it feels a little intimidating a little scary or maybe she's not feeling too confident in her interviewing skills

I wonder why she's feeling nervous anyway let's read it one more time quickly ready a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous moving on to level four a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time once more quicker a woman heads to a big job in interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time all right we can see here that she's got a

real mixed bag of emotions what's a mixed bag of emotions that means she's feeling lots of different things yeah her feelings her emotions her thoughts are not so simple right now in fact they're pretty complicated there are a lot of conflicting emotions right feelings that don't really agree with each other like yeah she's a bit nervous a bit just means a touch a tad a little bit right she's a little nervous a little worried a little anxious but at the same time she's also feeling excited right she's like oo this could be a great opportunity

maybe she's going to have a chance to get a fancy new job title like a manager position or maybe a chance to make a lot of money in this new job but whatever the reason she's also feeling excited all right let's read this one more time quickly a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time we've reached level five which means we are halfway there so I'd like you guys to take your hand give yourself a pat on the back to

congrat congratulate yourself for taking your English studies seriously yeah you guys are making a big investment in your future as an English speaker and you know what like I mentioned earlier this is a lot like training a muscle at the gym we are training that spoken English muscle by increasing the difficulty of these sentences little by little okay let's take a look at level five slowly at first a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited about the great opportunity at the same time okay

one more time a little quicker a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited about the great opportunity at the same time I can barely say that in one breath it's getting to be pretty long pretty Advanced so what are we adding to the sentence this time well now we know why she's a bit nervous and a bit excited she's got this great opportunity a great opportunity maybe a lot of money like a high salary like the job will pay her a lot of money

right or maybe she's excited to work downtown in the Heart of the City yeah or maybe maybe she's really looking forward to moving up to leveling up in her career with a new title okay so yeah the opportunity is great so because the opportunity is so great she's excited about the possibilities but also a bit nervous because she doesn't want to flub the interview she doesn't want to botch the interview she doesn't want to mess up the interview she doesn't want to fail or not pass one more time quickly now a woman heads to a

big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited about the great opportunity at the same time level six I'm not sure I can still do this in a single breath but let's try slowly now a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream gig faster now ready a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at

the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream gig okay so what are we adding this time she's excited about the great opportunity the great opportunity the great chance to to do what well to land her dream gig ah okay so this is what she has a chance to do this is what she's going to be given an opportunity to do to land or to get her dream gig a gig is another way of saying a job now gig this word is very informal maybe if you're talking to your buddy drinking a beer

you know you'd say hey how's the new gig how's the new gig treating you that just means are you enjoying the new job right but if you are in an interview you probably don't want to use this word CU it sounds a little too casual too informal right you can't go to an interview and say I'm really excited for the chance to get this gig it just sounds a little bit sloppy a little bit crude okay so anyway this is her dream gig okay this is like the job of her dreams we don't know exactly

why we don't know exactly what the job is all we know is that it's her dream gig so I'll draw her face when she thinks about it right she is just so over the moon over the moon she is so ecstatic that means really excited really happy about the chance to get this job to secure this position let's read it one more time quickly now a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream

gig level seven let's go a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream gig hoping she doesn't trip over her words okay now we know what she's so worried about right well not so worried cuz remember she's just a bit nervous just a little nervous but now we know specifically why okay let's read this one more time a little quicker a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver

feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream gig hoping she doesn't trip over her words okay so taking a look at the blue here like I said now we know specifically why she's a little bit nervous maybe sometimes when she's put on the spot when she's put on the spot she trips over her words she has trouble speaking what's put on the spot like that means if you're in a situ ation where there's a lot of pressure the spotlight is on you there are high expectations

for you to perform for you to speak for you to do something right so you know if you are in the middle of an interview yeah you are put on the spot and the interviewer is asking you lots of questions and expecting good answers okay so she's hoping that she doesn't trip over her words in other words when she's talking she doesn't want to make any mistakes when she's talking she doesn't want to stutter she doesn't want to misspeak okay one more time quickly now a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle

of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream gig hoping she doesn't trip over her words level eight guys things are getting serious and guess what we are almost to the twist ending the funny twist ending something crazy is going to happen at the end of this super sentence if you want to know what it is you better stick around and finish the video to find out let's go slow it first a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown

Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream gig hoping she doesn't trip over her words or spill coffee on her new outfit okay so now we know there's two things she's worried about right she doesn't want to number one misspeak or make a mistake when she's talking number two she doesn't want to do something embarrassing like spill coffee on her new outfit wow she is taking this interview really really seriously she even bought a new outfit just for this interview I'm guessing yeah so she

is really serious about this interview she doesn't want anything to go wrong she doesn't want to make any mistakes let's read this again let's skip right to the quick level okay like a native speaker would are you ready a woman heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream gig hoping she doesn't trip over her words or spill coffee on her new outfit oh man yeah this is really giving me a workout and I'm a

native speaker if you guys are keeping up with this then you're doing an awesome job let's see what happens next level 9 let's go slow it first a woman with toilet paper stuck to her butt oh no heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream gig hoping she doesn't trip over her words or spill coffee on her new outfit oh no guys this is not looking good for the woman in this story this poor

woman unbeknownst to her unbeknownst to her uh she has toilet paper stuck to her butt maybe she used the bathroom before heading into the interview and she didn't realize it but a string of toilet paper became stuck to the back of her pants to her butt to her rear end oh my God that is so embarrassing I would say that's beyond embarrassing I would say that's humiliating I would say that she is going to be mortified mortified when she realizes what has happened oh no what a disaster what a terrible terrible awkward situation let's read

this one more time quickly now a woman with toilet paper stuck to her butt heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream gig hoping she doesn't trip over her words or spill coffee on her new outfit guys I think tripping over her words spilling coffee on her new outfit these things are the least of her worries these things are the least of her worries what does that mean that means there's something else that she

should be worried about more than those things right the toilet paper on her butt is what she should be concerned with not tripping over her words not spilling coffee on her new outfit let's see what happens in the final level of this super sentence a woman with toilet paper stuck to her butt heads to a big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time about the great opportunity to land her dream gig hoping she doesn't trip over her words or spill coffee on her new outfit

but sadly doesn't get the offer oh no sadly she doesn't get the offer oh my gosh she doesn't get the offer for the job she doesn't pass the interview and I think we know why guys I think we know why she didn't pass I bet it was the toilet paper stuck to her butt you know even if she did misspeak once or twice during the interview even if she did trip over her words even if she did do something really embarrassing like spill a little coffee I think that pales in comparison that pales in comparison

to having toilet paper stuck to your butt you know there's really not much that's more embarrassing than that so this poor lady she got a new outfit she traveled all the way she headed into downtown Denver the heart of downtown Denver and in the end she didn't get the gig she didn't land the role she didn't land the job she didn't get the position she didn't pass the interview let's read this one last time quickly as if you were a native speaker let's go a woman with toilet paper stuck to her butt heads to a

big job interview in the middle of downtown Denver feeling a bit nervous but excited at the same time about the great opportunity to land and her dream gig hoping she doesn't trip over her words or spill coffee on her new outfit but sadly doesn't get the offer starting off slow starting off simple we have level one now remember I'm going to read the sentence and you can say it with me or pause the video and repeat it back let's take a look a woman shares exciting news okay we have a woman she's going to be

the focal point of this sentence she's going to be the main character in this story that we're taking a look at today and this woman she I guess has some news okay something has happened something significant something important something big has occurred has taken place has happened in her life and it's not just news it's exciting in news yeah it makes her excited it's must be some kind of positive news right so she wants to share this exciting news let's say this again at a medium speed this time ready a woman shares exciting news and

okay one more time let's say it quickly like a native speaker would ready a woman shares exciting news moving on to level two our simple little sentence is starting to get a little bit more complex a little bit more challenging yeah guys bit by bit we are going to push ourselves to speak longer and longer sentences let's take a look at this one slowly at first a happy woman shares exciting news okay still pretty simple we know that we're talking about a woman okay a grown woman we know that she has news to share we

know that the news that she wants to share is exciting okay and now we know how she's feeling we know that she's really happy let's say this sentence again at a medium speed this time a happy woman shares exciting news One Last Time quickly now a happy woman shares exciting news we've stretched the sentence a little bit longer let's read it again slowly at first a happy woman woman shares exciting news with her family ah okay so now we know that we're talking about a woman who has news to share and the news that she

has to share is very exciting and we know how she's feeling she's feeling really happy right but now we know who she is sharing the news with who she is sharing the news with she is sharing the news with with her family yeah could be siblings like brothers and sisters could be her parents like her mom and her dad could be any number of different family members right but this must be pretty big news pretty significant news pretty important news if she's feeling happy and it's exciting and she's going to share it with her family

all right let's read this sentence again at a medium speed ready a happy woman shares exciting news with her family and one more time quickly a happy woman shares exciting news with her family moving on to level four okay this sentence is picking up speed picking up speed yeah we're starting to really get going here okay it's starting to get a little bit challenging let's take a look slowly at first a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement now we know what the exciting news is okay now we know why

she's so happy now we know why she is sharing this with her family right because she was recently engaged yeah we know what the news is about what the news is regarding okay it's about her recent engagement what's an engagement it's when you decide to get married he proposed he proposed to her with a ring and he said you know what I'm serious about you I'm serious about our relationship I want to take this relationship to the next level so he decided to propose now they are engaged to be married this has happened recently right

it happened recently maybe it was yesterday maybe it was last week it was a recent occurrence okay let's read it again at a medium speed a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement and one more time at a native speaker speed a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement now guys this sentence is starting to get really Advanced but we're only halfway there there are 10 levels to my super sentences and we're only at level five so keep going don't give up let's really push ourselves

okay we need to train our spoken English muscles and you just can't do that by only speaking short choppy sentences we have to invest time invest energy in longer Advanced and complex sentences so let's take a look at level five slowly at first a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear oh this is so lovely this is so great right now we can see exactly how happy this woman is this really paints a vivid picture what's Vivid Vivid means we can see it in our

mind so clearly right this woman is smiling from ear to ear here's the woman right here are her ears and she is smiling from ear to ear that's just kind of a a uh spoken English a colloquial way of saying that she is so happy there's a big fat smile on her face spreading from ear to ear okay she is so happy about this exciting news let's read this again at a medium speed ready a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear and once more

at a native speaker quick speed a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear let's jump right into level six ready a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear and showing off her stunning ring whoa okay we've added another chunk here this woman is sharing her exciting news she's telling her family all about her recent engagement she's so happy she's smiling from ear to ear and at the same time she is showing off her stunning

ring what does it mean to show something off that means you are really proud of something and you want to kind of flex a little bit you want to flex a little bit you want to show off a little bit you want to brag a little bit she's saying hey look at this really great thing that happened to me aren't you a little bit jealous yeah she's showing off okay and the ring that her fiance he used to be her boyfriend now he's her fiance the ring that he has given her is not just a

ring not just some ordinary plain boring ring no it's a stunning ring what is stunning that means it is beautiful it is gorgeous when people look at it they are stunned by its beauty stunned is kind of another way of saying shocked or really surprised right dumbfounded might be another synonym so if a ring is stunning then it is so beautiful that you are left speechless okay guys let's skip the medium speed and go right to native speaker speed for the rest of these levels let's really push ourselves here we go a happy woman shares

exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear and showing off her stunning ring we are flying along we are already at level seven you guys are doing awesome let's check out the new addition the new chunk that we've added to this everwing super sentence here we go slowly a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from earto ear and showing off her stunning ring as everyone congratulates her okay there is a lot going on here now we've got a happy woman how

happy is she extremely happy so happy in fact that she is smiling from ear to ear she's sharing this exciting news with her family what's the news about it's about her recent engagement and at the same time she's showing off her stunning ring yeah her gorgeous beautiful breathtak taking stunning ring and also at the same time everyone is congratulating her yeah all of the family members gathered around they are all so happy for her they are really excited about this news and about her future right and so they are congratulating her if you congratulate someone

then you say hey this is awesome I'm so happy for you this is huge this is big news I'm pumped right I'm pumped I'm stoked those are just two different ways of saying excited right you are excited for someone you are pumped for someone you are stoked for someone you're so excited for them and you're excited about this big news so you go and congratulate her let's read the whole thing one more time quickly now a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear and showing

off her stunning ring as everyone congratulates her level eight all right guys we are really getting into the Nitty Gritty the Nitty Gritty the meat and potatoes of this lesson yeah like the most substantial part part the part of this lesson that is going to help your English the most so really push yourself okay I want you to really make an effort and you can Shadow me say it with me or pause and repeat let's read level eight slowly at first here we go a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent

engagement while smiling from ear to ear and showing off her stunning ring as everyone congratulates her uhoh until her sister announces she just got a promotion that's a little bit awkward right I think the story has kind of taken a turn it's taking a turn right something has happened this woman's sister has made an announcement she has let everybody know something well what has she let them know her sister has let everyone know that she just got a promotion okay she just got this is something that has also happened recently okay the woman was engaged

recently but her sister got a promotion recently as well yeah maybe it happened yesterday or last week or even this morning okay but yeah her sister is saying hey guys hey guys I have something to say too I got a promotion what's a promotion you you move up at work you move up yeah maybe you get a new job title maybe you get some more important responsibilities at work maybe you get a higher salary at work as well it's a good thing right a promotion is a really good thing so okay let's read this sentence

again quickly now and then we'll see what is going to happen after her sister makes a big announcement as well is there going to be some kind of Confrontation some kind of conflict between the two of them some kind of issue some kind of problem let's read level eight quickly and then we'll find out ready a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear and showing off her stunning ring as everyone congratulates her until her sister announces she just got a promotion okay wow that was

a real mouthful okay and I forgot to mention there's one word here that's really a key word until until is really the dividing moment in the scene that we're looking at in uh the mood of this scene right things at first were really really happy everyone was excited everyone was happy you know she's smiling from ear to ear and then we have a hard line that's what's going on until this moment when her sister makes the announcement all right let's level up level nine let's Jump Right In with a slow read ready a happy woman

shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear and showing off her stunning ring as everyone congratulates her until her sister announces she just got a promotion taking the spotlight away yeah guys until her sister did this the mood was happy the mood was light the mood was exciting right everybody was congratulating this happy woman who was smiling then this moment happened there's a dividing line before this moment happened and after this moment happened right her sister makes this announcement about her promotion and when she does that she

takes the spotlight away yeah this is a useful expression in English if you have the spotlight then that means all eyes are on you all eyes are on you you have the floor you have everyone's attention everyone is paying attention to you everyone's noticing you right but then her sister took the spotlight away and she took it for herself kind of selfishly right now the spotlight is split yeah it's still a little bit on the woman but now part of the spotlight is on her sister as well I think her sister was maybe a little

bit jealous of all the attention this woman was getting and you know she was kind of showing off her stunning ring and getting all of this congratulations from all of her family members and I think that bothered her sister a little bit her sister got jealous and decided to take the spotlight away okay let's read this sentence again quickly and then move on to the final level of today's super sentence ready a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear and showing off her stunning ring

as everyone congratulates her until her sister announces she just got a promotion taking the spotlight away now if you haven't liked this video yet if you haven't left me a comment if you're not subscribed now is a great moment to do one or all of those things it really helps me out so much and thanks to you guys you know my channel has been growing like crazy and I'm getting closer and closer to being being able to do this fulltime for you guys okay with all of that being said let's take a look at level

10 slowly a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear and showing off her stunning ring as everyone congratulates her until her sister announces she just got a promotion taking the spotlight away and stealing her Thunder like usual oh man this situation has become kind of a bummer what's a bummer if you say oh man what a bummer or if you say that's a real bummer it means this is kind of a sad situation it bums you out it makes you feel kind of down kind

of disappointed right because things were going so well and this was such a beautiful scene until her sister decided to take the spotlight away and another way of saying that another way of expressing this idea of taking someone's Spotlight away is stealing Thunder her sister stole her Thunder even worse are these two final words like usual now why is that so bad these two final words like usual what makes these two words so awful well the implication what that tells me as the listener is that this happens all the time like usual this is something

her sister does a lot it must be a bad habit that her sister has I guess there's kind of a sibling rivalry what's a sibling rivalry it's when a brother and sister or a brother and a brother or a sister and a sister two siblings compete with each other compete with each other they butt heads they try to see who's best they try to see who's better they try to see who is superior right and obviously that's a bummer because they're siblings and they should support each other and love each other but here we are

in this messy scenario this messy situation okay guys let's say it again this is the last time we will read this super sentence so really push yourself are you ready a happy woman shares exciting news with her family about her recent engagement while smiling from ear to ear and showing off her stunning ring as everyone congratulates her until her sister announces she just got a promotion taking the spotlight away and stealing her Thunder like usual o wow I want you guys to take a hand give yourselves a pat on the back you're doing an awesome

job you really have trained that spoken English muscle today now in level one of our super sentence we just have a short simple basic sentence let's read it together slowly at first a man buys a lottery ticket okay one more time a little faster a man buys a lottery ticket so what are we talking about here our main character in this sentence is a man a guy okay and what's he doing he's buying something he's purchasing something right he's spending money on something well what's he spending money on a lottery ticket you guys know the

lottery right you can play the Lottery and basically gamble your money for a chance to strike it rich yeah strike it rich what does that mean that means basically get rich make a bunch of money now your chances of winning the lottery are of course very slim very slim they're very small chances the odds are not in your favor but if you can win then you can make some lifechanging money okay let's read this one more time at a quick native speaker speed ready a man buys a lottery ticket we've leveled up guys to level

two of this super sentence let's take a look at what has been added to the sentence ready reading slowly at first a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket one more time a little faster a hopeful man bu a lottery ticket ah okay now we know the mentality the mental state of this man who is the main character of our super sentence right in other words we know what he's thinking we know how he's feeling and the way he's feeling is hopeful yeah he's hoping for something good to happen he's wishing that something good will happen

and I think we know based on the context of this sentence in other words looking at the rest of the sentence what he's hopeful for he's hoping that he will win this Lottery okay so he's feeling hopeful he buys a ticket let's read this one more time at a native speed and then level up again ready a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket level three of our super sentence getting a little bit more complex now let's just Dive Right In at a slow speed ready a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store

One More Time medium speed a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store okay now we know the location of where he bought this ticket right we know who we're talking about we know how he's feeling we know what he is doing now we know where this is happening he bought a lottery ticket where at his local store we could also say his local shop right they mean the same thing local just means near him near the place where he lives okay let's read this one more time quick native speed and then we'll

keep leveling up guys ready a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store we are sailing right along let's jump into level four at a slow speed a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim M this is a really useful really spoken English expression that you guys should know if you don't know it already on a whim that's what we've added here in level four on a whim just means that he didn't put a lot of thought into this decision he didn't think about it for days and

days and days leading up to the decision it was on a whim a decision made in a split second maybe he was walking by this local store and he had some extra money to spend and so he bought the lottery ticket on a whim so let's read it one more time native speed and then keep going ready a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim level five guys we are halfway there we are halfway done with this super sentence we are slowly stretching it longer and longer training that spoken

English muscle getting a good workout in this is a good opportunity if you haven't clicked like on this video it would help me so much leave me a comment share with a friend make sure you're subscribed these are your ways of supporting me as your YouTube English teacher all right let's take a look slow it first a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim not expecting much okay so we can see that this guy our main character this man yes he's hopeful yes of course he's hoping something really good

will happen to him yes his hopes are high he has High Hopes but at the same time he's not expecting much yeah he's hopeful but at the same time he is realistic maybe he is keeping in mind the actual chances of winning and making a mental note that the chances of winning are very slim they are very low right so even though he's hopeful he's being realistic not expecting too much not assuming he will win he's not making assumptions right he's not assuming oh yes of course I'm going to win he's not expecting much okay

let's read it one more time native speed ready a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim not expecting much in level six you can see that we are adding a big blue chunk to our super sentence stretching it even longer this is starting to become quite the mouthful right quite difficult to say let's give it a try at our slow speed a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim not expecting much but thinking it could be fun okay this is great yeah you know

he's hopeful of course he has his hopes that he could win but he's not expecting much at the same time he's kind of doing it just for the thrill the thrill right he thinks it's an exciting thing to do it's a fun thing to do maybe the experience of just buying a lottery ticket in itself is enough for him maybe he feels like he'll get his money's worth even if he doesn't win because it's a fun thing to do it's a fun activity just to try and win right so he's thinking it could be fun

yeah it might be fun it might be a good time to buy a lottery ticket and test my luck or you could also say try your luck he's going to try his luck he's going to test his luck at a quick speed now ready a hopeful man buys a lot loty ticket at his local store on a whim not expecting much but thinking it could be fun level seven things are getting really hairy now things are getting really hairy what does that mean like there's hair coming off of the page sprouting out of the page

no no no hairy just means things are starting to get difficult and messy and complicated let's read level seven at a slow low speed together a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim not expecting much but thinking it could be fun to dream about winning here we're seeing why he's thinking it could be fun yeah he thinks it could be fun now we know why he thinks it could be fun he wants to dream about winning yeah he's going to fantasize he's going to allow himself this fantasy of winning

he's going to daydream about all the amazing things he could do with his winnings with his winnings with the money that he wins right for example maybe he could buy a big fancy house maybe he could buy a luxury car maybe he could take a trip to the destination of his dreams and have like a dream vacation right so for now you know he's realistic he's not expecting much he's not assuming he will win but he's hopeful and he's having fun just dreaming about the possibility of winning okay at a quick native speed one more

time then we'll level up ready a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim not expec exp in much but thinking it could be fun to dream about winning let's tackle level eight starting with our slow speed a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim not expecting much but thinking it could be fun to dream about winning and to his surprise he matches all the numbers oh my goodness oh my gosh this is crazy to his surprised here's a picture of his face right he

is so surprised he is shocked and I would say very pleasantly surprised this is not a bad surprise this is not an unwelcome surprise this is an amazing surprise a very positive thing why he matches all the numbers guys you know what it means if you match all the numbers when you play the lottery right his numbers match the winning numbers the numbers on his personal ticket that he bought that he purchased at his local store on a whim without expecting much you know those numbers match the winning numbers that means he has won the

lottery oh my gosh that is crazy let's read this super sentence one more time time quick native speaker speed then we'll level up a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim not expecting much but thinking it could be fun to dream about winning and to his surprise he matches all the numbers level 9 we are almost done here guys your brains are probably getting tired push through keep going try to finish all 10 levels okay here we go slow speed a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local

store on a whim not expecting much but thinking it could be fun to dream about winning and to his surprise he matches all the numbers realizing he has hit the jackpot yeah he has hit the jackpot what does it mean if you hit the jackpot that's a really fun idiom or expression in English that means you hit it big you hit it big you won and you won big time whatever you're doing you had a massive success one more time quick speed and then we'll level up to the final level of this super sentence level

10 ready a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim not EXP exp in much but thinking it could be fun to dream about winning and to his surprise he matches all the numbers realizing he has hit the jackpot final level here guys level 10 really push yourselves to speak out loud with me or pause the video and repeat after me ready a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim not expecting much but thinking it could be fun to drink dream about winning and to

his surprise he matches all the numbers realizing he has hit the jackpot and his life is about to change forever I love this ending to our super sentence we have a very hopeful ending a very uplifting uplifting it lifts us up it's very positive this ending yeah we are looking into the future of this man's life and he is realizing slowly that his life is going to change forever things are not going to be the same this money that he's going to win after hitting the jackpot this money is going to change his life and

it's going to change it forever okay let's read it again one last time at a quick native speed and then we will have a bonus speak seing practice segment to finish this video are you ready let's go a hopeful man buys a lottery ticket at his local store on a whim not expecting much but thinking it could be fun to dream about winning and to his surprise he matches all the numbers realizing he has hit the jackpot and his life is about to change forever if you are still with me then you have undoubtedly without

a doubt given your spoken English skills a nice hard workout and I want you to give yourself a pat on the back to congratulate yourself yeah so guys in this super sentence it was based around the idiom hit the jackpot which once again just means to have a big success or win often unexpectedly right so you did not expect to win you didn't see it coming you didn't anticipate it you didn't know it would happen but it happened and to your pleasant surprise this is a really great change a really big success okay so to

finish today's video I have a bonus speaking challenge we're going to take a look at this question and then try to spend one minute responding to it so here's the question what would you do personally in your life if you hit the jackpot and won $10 million in the lottery now I'm going to go first and give you a demonstration of what I'd like you to try and do with this minute I want you guys to really push yourselves to speak for the full minute and really fill up that window of time I'll go first

yeah what would I do if I hit the jackpot well if I won 10 Mill million dollar in the lottery man there are so many things I would do I think first of all I would buy a big house for me and my wife and our dog that's because we have been living in a small apartment for a long long time and we often Daydream we fantasize about what it would be like to have a big house with multiple bedrooms and bath bathrooms and a big backyard for our dog to run around and and enjoy

herself right so that's the first thing that comes to mind that's the first thing that I think of when I imagine this fantasy of hitting the jackpot and winning $10 million in the lottery so guys that's my one minute response now it's your turn push yourself go for it e as always I want to give a big thanks to my channel members and patreon members yeah the people who have clicked join here on YouTube or they've gone to patreon.com English with Connor and become a channel member they get PDFs for all of my lessons they

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to or not I would suggest that if you made it this far in the video you made it all the way through the video I would suggest that this would be a very good investment of your money it's only five bucks a month $5 and you will get lots and lots of preds level one of our super sentence we have a short basic simple sentence now remember you can say it with me or pause the video and repeat back after me ready let's say it slowly the first time a man decided to paint his house

again but a little faster this time a man decided to paint his house okay yeah let's talk about this right we've got a man he's going to be the main character of this super sentence and this man is making a decision he decided to do do something he is choosing to do something what is he making a decision to do he decided to paint his house he's got a house and you know maybe the paint job the paint job on this house is looking a bit old a bit outdated outdated okay yeah it's looking like

it needs a touchup a touchup what's a touchup that means you make it look fresh again you make it look new again okay so because it looks outdated because it appears like it needs a touchup he decides to paint his house let's say it together one more time quickly now a man decided to paint his house once more a man decided to paint his house okay we've leveled up guys to level two and as you can see some blue words have appeared we have stretched our super sentence just a little bit we've made it just

a tad more challenging just a touch more difficult okay let's read it together slowly at first a tired but determined man decided to paint his house again a little bit faster a tired but determined man decided to paint his house okay so now we know the mental state of this guy this man our main character right we know what he's thinking we know how he's feeling he's tired you know he's tired he's not feeling like he has a lot of energy he's not feeling that you know quick not feeling that energetic but at the same

time he's determined now we talk about this word a lot on my channel here determined means you are you really want to do something you have a mission you have a goal you have an aim and you're trying to make it happen you really want to make it happen you're not going to give up so easily okay so seems like he's determined to do what he's determined to paint his house okay he is determined to make this happen he's not going to give up he's got a goal he's got a mission let's read it one

more time together quickly now a tired but determined man decided to paint his house all right guys we've leveled up again level three let's read it together once more slowly at first a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend H again a little bit faster now a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend okay so now we know that he is going to do this job Solo solo that means all by himself all alone he is not going to have any assistance

in other words he's not going to have any help he's not going to rely on anybody to help him out to give give him a hand give him a hand he's not going to have any Helping Hands with this project okay we also found out the time frame for this project right over the weekend yeah this guy is tired see here and now I think we know why he's so tired this guy probably worked all week long Monday through Friday he went to his job to make money now it's the weekend and he has a

project for his weekend he has a solo project a project that he's going to tackle all alone tackle what does that mean a project he's going to take on a project he's going to attempt he's going to try and do okay let's say this one more time together quickly now ready a tired but determined man decided to pay paint his house by himself over the weekend level four let's take a look slowly at first a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning GH that

sounds terrible to me that is something I have zero interest in I believe in this idea of work hard play hard work hard play hard what does that mean that means when it's time to work you give it all you got it means when it's time to work you give it 100% but then when it's time to relax when it's time to play you play hard as well you play 100% And you work 100% so this guy he's taken on this solo house painting project over the weekend and he's starting early on Saturday morning ghh

I kind of wonder how early because everyone's idea of early is different right my idea of early is 9:00 a.m. to me that's early because I like to sleep in but to this guy maybe 5:00 a.m. is early because he has to wake up and go to work Monday through Friday right let's say this again a little bit faster now ready a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning level five guys we are halfway there are you starting to feel the burn feel the

burn what does that mean when you go to the gym and you lift weights you work out you lift at the gym you exercise your muscles if you're doing it properly if you're working hard you will feel the burn your muscles will feel sore right and if you're doing this correctly maybe you will feel the burn as well guys this is not easy to do this is a workout but no pain no gain if you don't work hard to improve your English it won't get any better so you know it might be a little uncomfortable

but I'm proud of all of my students if you are still with me you are still working hard at this super sentence you're doing fantastic great job keep it up let's take a look at level five slowly at first a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint okay yeah maybe this is not ideal what's ideal an ideal situation is a favorable situation A preferable situation a situation that you can look at and say

okay yeah that sounds good okay yeah this seems good this situation is not ideal why is it not ideal he only has a paintbrush brush one paintbrush I'm guessing otherwise it would have said some paint brushes right some paint brushes but it didn't say some paint brushes it just said a paintbrush and some old cans of paint yeah maybe these old cans of paint have been sitting in his garage for a long time just collecting dust collecting dust what does that mean if some something has been you know stored for a long time in storage

or set aside set aside for a long time for a long period of time we can say it's collecting dust it's just sitting there getting Dusty right so yeah these old cans of paint maybe they're Halfway Gone maybe they're kind of old maybe the color has changed a bit so once again the situation is not not looking ideal it's not looking good right let's read it again quickly now a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old

cans of paint again push yourself a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint are you guys feeling the burn I'm definitely feeling the burn come on let's level up slowly now a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint but realized halfway through he should have hired help M now it's really hitting

him now it's really hitting him now it's really hitting him now he's really realizing you know the truth of this situation he's realizing oh man I bit off a lot more than I could chew I took on a project that was way too big way too involved involved involved it's way too involved yeah it's too difficult too challenging there's too many moving parts to this project right that just means it's tough to keep up with it's you know a lot to deal with and now he's thinking man he's halfway through this project he's halfway done

but maybe it's taken a lot longer than he thought it would maybe it's eating up a lot more time than he anticip ipated than he thought that it would right and now he's realizing oh man oh jez oh boy I should have hired help I should have gotten some people to help me out with this maybe that would have been worth the money right he could have spent some money to find a couple of helpers to assist him or maybe he could have called a friend and asked for help so now this realiz is Dawning

on him Dawning on him here's his face right here's his face he's like oh man this is a bit much this is a bit much maybe he's even a little bit worried yeah he's sweating a little bit oh geez oh man okay let's read this again quickly feel the burn push yourself a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint but realized halfway through he should have hired help one more time push a tired

but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint but realized halfway through he should have hired help let's rally let's rally what does that mean that means let's get this party started let's keep this project going let's drum up some energy let's drum up some energy and push onwards okay ready slowly now a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush

and some old cans of paint but really realized halfway through he should have hired help as he was now covered in paint from head to toe oh my goodness this is getting really ridiculous right this is getting to be really absurd absurd just means crazy what a crazy wacky ridiculous situation this guy really should have hired help because now I feel like he doesn't know what he's doing doing he's covered in paint from head to toe how did he make such a big mess how did he manage to mess this up so badly from his

head all the way down to his toes he is covered in paint in other words he's gotten paint all over him man you really have to try hard to mess up that badly right this guy this guy is like totally helpless let's read it again let's rally come on quickly now a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint but realized halfway through he should have hired help as he was now covered in paint

from head to toe again come on guys push a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint but realized halfway through he should have hired help as he was now covered in paint from head to toe oh man I am really feeling the burn I am really feeling the burn how about you if you are getting a good workout in let me know with a message in the comments you can type I feel the

burn level eight guys this this is no weeny Hut JR this is no weeny Hut Jr in other words this is not for beginners things are getting tough getting Advanced getting really challenging this is a big mouthful even for me and I'm a native speaker so if you're still with me if you're still rallying if you're still pushing yourself I applaud you I applaud you hats off to you you're doing awesome let's read this one slowly a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning

with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint but realized halfway through he should have hired help as he was now covered in paint from head to toe and had barely made any progress what does it mean if we say barely made any progress another way to say that might be hardly okay he's hardly made any progress at all we could also say he's barely made any progress at all so basically this is telling us that he's trying to push forward he's trying to you know tackle this project he's trying to get this

done you know he's halfway through but he's barely made any progress this is really interesting right because when I first saw this halfway through earlier in the super sentence I assumed that meant he was halfway through the painting process but now with this added context I think it means he's halfway through the time that he has to complete the project maybe he's halfway through the weekend and he still barely made any progress right so context matters okay let's read it again quickly now ready a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself

over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some oldold cans of paint but realized halfway through we should have hired help as he was now covered in paint from head to toe and had barely made any progress we're in the final stretch guys the final stretch the last part of this video okay so let's really push ourselves slowly now a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint but

realized halfway through he should have hired help as he was now covered in paint from head to toe and had barely made any progress wondering how on Earth he'd finish by Sunday this poor guy I we can see that now he's wondering how on Earth how on Earth am I going to get this done by Sunday because remember come Monday come Monday in other words when Monday comes around when it's Monday he's going to have to go back to work and he's not going to have any more time to pour into this project to give

this project to devote to to this project right in other words he will have no more time for this project so now he's really second guessing this whole thing he's really wondering he's really thinking to himself oh man how on Earth am I going to do this how in the world am I going to get this done let's read it again quickly now a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint but realized

halfway through he should have hired help as he was now covered in paint from head to toe and had barely made any progress wondering how on Earth he'd finish by Sunday my dear dear students if you have made it this far in the video you are a rock star you're doing really great and you are taking your English Learning Journey seriously so I commend you I commend you I applaud you you're doing awesome this is the final boss the final boss of this super sentence what's the final boss it's kind of a video game term

right like if you're playing a Mario game the final boss is Bowser okay our final boss is level 10 this is a big fat super sentence do you remember how small it was when we began this video now we've stretched it all the way to this monstrous size this colossal size this huge size right if this is the longest sentence you have ever spoken in your life I want you to let me know that down in the comments you can leave me a comment saying new record new record because my guess is that for a

lot of you you've never even spoken a sentence this long so this is New Territory new territory this is something new for you guys and that's great we do not learn anything by remaining in our comfort zone by staying in our little bubble right we have to break out of the comfort zone we have to leave our little bubble and try new things so you guys are doing awesome let's read it slowly at first a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing

but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint but realized halfway through he should have hired help as he was now covered in paint from head to toe and had barely made any progress wondering how on Earth he'd finish by Sunday and finally decided to throw in the towel and call a professional it looks like we have a happy ending to this ridiculous situation to the situation that seemed to spiral out of control it seemed to really get out of hand that means it reached a place that was beyond control it became untenable it became

unworkable it became something that was really just you know beyond this guy's ability to deal with okay so finally in the end he threw in the towel that is today's idiom you guys know that I try to teach a new idiom with every new video this is a really useful one a really spoken English idiom that people actually use it just means you give up right you're trying to do something you give up you throw in the towel so what does he do when he throws in the towel he calls a professional maybe he picks

up the phone and he calls a house painting service and he says hey guys I'm in over my head I'm really in over my head here another idiom what does that mean think of it as like being underwater right I'm in over my head I'm drowning here right I need help so he calls the professionals and you know that's the end of our story here so it's a happy ending one can only assume I assume that the professionals come and they finish the job and they make it look amazing let's say it one more time

are you ready quick speed really feel feel the burn guys push yourselves a tired but determined man decided to paint his house by himself over the weekend starting early on Saturday morning with nothing but a paintbrush and some old cans of paint but realized halfway through he should have hired help as he was now covered in paint from head to toe and had barely made any progress wondering how on Earth he'd be finished by Sunday and finally decided to throw in the towel and call a professional take your hand and give yourself a pat on

the back because you deserve it you've made it all the way through this monstrosity of a super sentence but guess what the video isn't over yet let's have a cool down activity so just to reiterate just to reiterate just to explain it again to let you guys know one more time the idiom in this video was throwing in the towel what does that mean it means admit defeat when something is too difficult but actually you know there are a lot of ways to express this idea in English yes you can just say give up that's

fine you can also say wave a white flag like you are surrendering right like you are uh in a battle or in a war and you are giving up you are surrendering to the enemy forces okay you could also say call it a day call it a day call it a day you give up H you quit I'm going to call it a day now this one's a little more casual right like maybe you're just at work and you're working really hard and you decide it's time to go home you're not really giving up on

your work you're just saying that's enough for today so you can say call it a day here's a really intense one fold Under Pressure there's so much pressure there's so much stress that you fold right so this one is kind of involuntary involuntary what does that mean that means you didn't make the decision to give up you didn't choose to throw in the towel you were forced to give up it was involuntary you didn't do it voluntarily right it was involuntary one more packet in pack it in this one I would say is the most

similar to throw in the towel you decide to pack it in you decide to pack it in so guys what we're going to do now is we're going to have a on minute speaking challenge I have a question for you here have you ever thrown in the towel on a hobby or project and what I'd like you to do is push yourself to speak for a full minute talk for a full minute I'm going to set a timer and give you a demonstration of what I'd like you to try and do first so first watch

me I'll show you how I'd like you to try and respond to this question all right guys so here's my personal connection here's my uh connection to my life uh when I think about throw in the towel when I think about this question I think about a fitness goal that I had last year I started watching these videos on YouTube about this exercise called a muscle up a muscle up a muscle up is when you grab a hold of a pull-up bar and you first do a pull-up right you first do a pull-up then you

push up and over the bar and you push up and kind of do like a dip right so this is a really challenging physical exercise but I was watching these videos uh on YouTube and I saw these people who could do it really well right and they made it look really easy so I decided I wanted to try and try and do it I went out every day and practiced pull-ups but in the end I threw in the towel it was too hard I gave up that was my example I pushed myself to talk for

the full minute I didn't stop talking and that's what I want you guys to do too don't worry about making mistakes just keep going we need to train ourselves to get comfortable talking at length talking for long periods of time so here's your minute go for it e what better place to kick things off than level one right so we've got a short sentence here let's take a look and read it together slow speed the first time let's go a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore one more time a little bit faster now

a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore okay interesting we've been introduced to our two main characters here we have a guy and we have a girl and they are both at a bookstore right they are browsing they are perusing they are looking around for something good to read maybe flipping through a book here and there well the guy sees the girl and guess what she's not just any girl she's a cute girl so maybe this guy is interested in her maybe he wants to try and flirt with her maybe he wants to try

and get her phone number I'm not sure what's going to happen next but let's read this level one sentence one last time together quickly now and then we'll move on a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore we've leveled up for the first time and you can see that I have added some blue text to the super sentence yeah we have stretched it longer okay so let's try saying the new sentence together slowly at first a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her M okay

one more time medium speed a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her okay so in level one I made a prediction right guy sees a cute girl he thinks she's cute so my prediction was he was going to go and try to flirt with her tried to get her phone number tried to do something to get her attention right and here we can see in level two he's starting to think more about it he is working up the nerve to talk to her yeah he's psyching

himself up he's drumming up the courage working up the courage all of these are different ways of saying that he's trying to find the confidence to go over there and talk to her yeah to start a conversation with her start a dialogue with her we could also say chitchat with her that's a bit more casual right just have a chat with her so let's say level two again at a quick speed ready a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her again a guy sees a cute

girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her man I remember when I first started dating how difficult it was to work up the nerve to talk to girls I was very nervous very shy it was not easy to work up the nerve or find the confidence to go and start talking to them what about you guys when you first started dating did you find it difficult to work up the nerve to talk to people you can let me know in the comments section moving right along to level three let's just

dive right into it with a slow read ready a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over ooh One More Time medium speed a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over okay so we can see that this guy is pretty nervous about this interaction he's getting ready to go and talk to her and he's worked up the nerve he's started to walk over and as he's

walking over at the same time that he's walking over his heart is racing bu bum bum bum bu bum bu bu bu bu beating faster and faster in his chest maybe the closer he gets the faster it beats and it feels like it's going to beat right out of his chest that's an expression we sometimes say if you're really really excited or nervous or worked up I felt like my heart was going to beat right out of my chest okay again with a quick read here we go a guy sees a cute girl at the

bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over last time a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over Dude I am on the edge of my seat with today's super sentence I can't wait to see what's going to happen next what do you guys think is he going to hit it off is he going to hit it off with this girl in other words are they going to get along well and like each

other immediately or maybe she's going to be a bit standoffish standoffish maybe she's going to be a bit like who are you I don't know you why are you talking to me I don't know let's find out okay level four slow read here we go a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her her heart racing as he walks over trying to think of something clever okay let's say it again medium speed a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to

talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think of something clever oh man I feel like this is not looking too good for the guy in the story yeah it's not looking good for him why do I say that because he still hasn't thought of anything to say you know he worked up the nerve he's walking over he had all this time to think of something to say but guess what he still hasn't thought of anything he is still trying to think of something clever clever just means something smart something creative maybe

something that will make her interested in him something that will make her laugh something that will make her smile and maybe he's trying to think of something clever to say maybe he's trying to think of something clever to do maybe he's trying to think of something to say or do but he's drawing a blank oh no he's drawing a blank that means his mind is blank he's struggling to think of anything it's like somebody has erased all of his thoughts right so he's kind of in trouble let's read this one last time at a quick

speed ready a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think of something clever level five guys it is getting pretty difficult so if you're starting to struggle don't worry don't worry keep going keep working that spoken English muscle okay no pain no gain that's what I always say let's take a look slowly at first a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying

to think of something clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather oh no this guy what does he end up doing in other words in the end after all of that waiting what does he do he makes a lame comment about the weather so boring right he was trying to think of something uh to get her attention to make her smile to make her laugh to uh uh uh Peak her interest right to Peak her interest but the only thing he can think of is a lame comment about the weather what

is lame lame is like the opposite of cool right so not cool really kind of uh embarrassing right let's read it again quickly now a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think of something clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather level six slow read here we go a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think

of something clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather which sounds way more Awkward than he hoped but she smiles anyway okay so we've got a glimmer of hope a glimmer of hope there's still a small chance that this guy can win the heart of this girl even though he made a lame comment about the weather which sounded really awkward it didn't come out right it didn't sound the way he was hoping that it would sound guess what happens she smiles anyway maybe she can see how nervous he is and maybe

she thinks that's endearing in other words maybe she thinks that's cute and sweet you know and likable maybe she's even a little bit flattered that he's so nervous flattered right she sees how nervous he is and she realizes wow he must really like me if I make him so nervous so maybe that's a little bit flattering okay let's read it one more time quick speed then we'll level up again a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think

of something clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather which sounds way more Awkward than he hoped but she smiles anyway level seven this is no Weenie Hut Jr anymore this is getting really tough even for a native speaker this is a real mouthful now and I would like to take a quick moment to remind you guys if you still haven't liked the video please take one second to do that leave me a comment make sure you're subscribed maybe even check out channel membership if you want PDFs and extra videos okay

slow speed now a guy sees a cute girl at the the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart rcing as he walks over trying to think of something clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather which sounds way more Awkward than he hoped but she smiles anyway and teases him for it it sounds like this girl is playing along it sounds like she has a good attitude about this whole situ situation she's teasing him playfully right she's poking fun at him yeah she's not making fun of him

in a mean-hearted or uh mean-spirited way right no she's doing it in a fun way in a friendly way in a playful way she's saying H you're kind of nervous aren't you I can see that you're a little nervous she's poking fun at him just a little bit I really want to see what happens next so let's say it one more time then level up again quickly now a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think of something

clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather which sounds way more Awkward than he hoped but she smiles anyway and teases him for it level eight guys we're getting so close I believe in you you can do this okay push yourself slow read here we go a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think of something clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather which sounds way more Awkward than he

hoped but she smiles anyway and teases him for it asking what kind of books he's into it looks like there's still hope for our guy main character here because the girl is kind of taking control of this conversation and steering it into a new Direction it's almost as if this conversation is a ship or a boat right and the guy was sailing the boat at first and he was steering right into an iceberg with all of his awkward lame weather talk but then the girl took hold of the wheel right at the Helm of the

ship and now she's sailing it away from the ice ber out of the path of danger and into smooth sailing into clear waters right it looks like there's still hope because she's taking this conversation in a New Direction asking what kind of books he's into what does that mean into into just means interested in I could say what kind of video games are you into that means what kind of video games are you interested in so hopefully they will have a shared interest in a genre right maybe they both like romance books maybe they both

like mystery novels something like that hopefully fingers crossed they will have something in common okay let's say this sentence one more time quickly now a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think of something clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather which sounds way more Awkward than he hoped but she smiles anyway and teases him for it asking what kind of books he's into we're in the final stretch guys get your second wind

find your second wind that means you had energy you used your energy now you're tired but you can find a second wind and get your energy back for the final stretch for the last two levels okay slow read of level 9ine a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think of something clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather which sounds way more Awkward than he hoped but she smiles anyway and teases him for

it asking what kind of books he's into giving him the perfect chance to flirt back yeah this girl is really giving him the perfect chance the perfect opportunity a perfect window of opportunity right to try again you know maybe they can forget about all of the lame awkward weather talk maybe they can put that behind them put it behind them and move on if he can prove that he can try again and maybe more successfully this time right one more time quickly a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve

to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think of something clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather which sounds way more Awkward than he hoped but she smiles anyway and teases him for it asking what kind of books he's into giving him the perfect chance to flirt back guys we've made it to the final boss of this super sentences video I'll tell you what because you've worked so hard getting all the way here to level 10 we will only read level 10 one time at a medium

speed ready here we go a guy sees a cute girl at the bookstore and works up the nerve to talk to her heart racing as he walks over trying to think of something clever but he ends up making a lame comment about the weather which sounds way more Awkward than he hoped but she smiles anyway and teases him for it asking what kind of books he's into giving him the perfect chance to flirt back and by the time they exchange numbers he's on Cloud9 we have a happy ending to this roller coaster this complete roller

coaster of a super sentence right from the very beginning we were uncertain about what was going to happen are they going to hit it off or is he going to crash and burn right but in the end we see that they exchange numbers he gets her phone number she gets his phone number right and by the time they do that he is on cloud n now I'm sure a lot of you guys already know this expression but it's a really useful one a really fun one just means that you are over the moon there's another

idiom do you guys know how much I love idioms over over the moon on Cloud9 just means you are so so happy in fact it's more than happiness I would say that it's when someone feels ecstatic ecstatic is like extreme happiness happiness to the point of bliss you are blissed out you are just like man today can't get any better things are perfect no workout is complete without a cool cool down activity so that's what we're going to do now guys like I just explained the idiom on Cloud9 describes feeling extremely happy or euphoric yeah

extreme happiness right so in this case the guy's Awkward start leads to a fun flirty exchange and by the end he's feeling on top of the world there's another great idiom over the moon on Cloud9 on top of the world they all mean the same thing they mean that this guy is feeling great he's feeling perfect he's feeling so so happy so here's my question for you and what we're going to do is push ourselves to reply to this question yeah just speak out loud quickly or slowly it's up to you uh for a full

minute and here's the question have you ever felt like you were on Cloud9 now I'm going to go first and give you a demonstration of how I would like you to try and push yourself to talk for this full minute here's my minute to be honest I've been over the moon all week I've been on cloud n all week I've felt on top of the world all week long why because my channel here on YouTube just hit a 100,000 subscribers and not just 100,000 I think by the time this video comes out maybe we'll be

at 107,000 the channel is growing so quickly and it is always been my dream to successfully make content and make videos that people actually watch and as an English teacher make videos that actually help people so it's so amazing to you know get to a point in my journey where that's starting to happen you know next stop I would love to hit a million subscribers but I'm going to take it slow this week I'm just on cloud n so guys that's my personal connection that's how this expression relates to me and my life what about

you push yourself for that full minute go ahead e level one of today's super sentence you can say with me or pause the video and repeat after me slowly at first a man makes an Impulse buy online one more time a little bit faster now a man makes an Impulse by online Okay so we've got a main character for today's super sentence right we know that today's sentence is going to be about this man what is this man doing he's buying something right where is he buying it he's buying it online on the internet right

and how is he buying it interesting how is he buying it he's buying it impulsively impulsively what does it mean to buy something impulsively if you do something impulsively then that means you don't think about it before you do it you just do it you go with your gut and you do something this guy was on the internet he was shopping around he was looking at this he was looking at that then he saw something that he liked he didn't think about it right he hadn't been planning to buy it for weeks and weeks and

weeks saving up money to do so no he saw it he wanted it he bought it so we call that an Impulse buy let's practice saying level one at a quick speed together and then we'll move on ready a man makes an Impulse buy online again a man makes an Impulse buy online a third time a man makes an Impulse by online level two of our super sentence you can see that I've added some blue text some blue words yeah we've taken this small little sentence and we've begun to stretch it longer and longer that's

what we're going to do with each level so let's begin level two with a slow read once again you can say it with me as I say it or you can pause the video and you can repeat after okay let's take a look a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed one more time medium speed a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed all right so what are we learning about the situation here in level two well he's getting ready for bed but he's not quite ready yet

because what is he doing here's a really interesting really native expression Doom scrolling Doom scrolling actually I would guess that a lot of native speakers don't even know this word don't even know how to use it it's kind of an internet slang term Doom scrolling Doom scrolling I'm sure we've all done this if you doom scroll then you take your phone and you go on a social media app like Instagram right and you scroll scroll scroll scroll you just keep going and going and going and you feel like you can't stop right let's practice saying

level two at a quick speed are you ready a man makes an Impulse buy online while Doom scrolling before bed one more time a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed awesome we've leveled up again our super sentence is getting more and more complex more challenging more difficult okay let's lead level three together at a slow speed let's take a look a man makes an Impulse buy online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart One More Time medium speed a man makes an Impulse buy online while Doom

scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart okay so now we can see what this guy bought right he I guess was in the market for in the market for a blender a blender yeah you guys know blender right you can use it in your kitchen uh it's an appliance an electronic appliance that we use to blend things up right maybe you want to make a fruit smoothie you put a bunch of different fruits and powders and maybe milk and Ice into a blender you turn it on I guess this guy was in the

market for a blender in in the market for in other words maybe he's been needing a blender but then again maybe he hasn't been needing a blender because remember this is an Impulse buy so actually come to think of it maybe he isn't even in the market for a blender in other words maybe this is something he really doesn't even need maybe it's something really unnecessary if you are in the market for something then you are planning to buy it because you need it right for example I'm in the market for new boots for this

fall right I need new fall boots I don't have any so I'm in the market for fall boots who knows if this guy was really in the market for a blender or not but we do know that he bought it online impulsively which tells me it was probably unnecessary right let's say it one more time at a quick speed and then we'll level up again ready a man makes an Impulse buy online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart level four getting more and more difficult more and more challenging guys we

are working out that spoken English muscle in the same way you would work out your biceps or your back or your other muscle groups at the gym right we are working out our spoken English muscles so let's read level four slowly at first a man makes an Impulse buy online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews uhoh that's not a great idea huh let's read it again medium speed a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking

the reviews I think we all know that when you are online shopping it's a great idea to check the reviews what are people saying about the product how are they reviewing the product are they leaving good reviews or are they leaving bad reviews are they giving fstar reviews or are they giving one star reviews right although I'll be honest these days it's kind of hard to be sure right because a lot of products on the internet have fake reviews so even if something has a bunch of festar review views maybe the person selling the product

the seller of the product simply paid for those reviews right maybe they're fake maybe they're Bots Bots like robots online right but anyway this guy he did not check the reviews of this blender and maybe that decision will come back to haunt him come back to haunt him in other words maybe it's a decision that he will end up regretting later on later down the road okay let's say it one more time quickly now a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews

one more time a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews level five if you guys are still with me you are killing it you are killing it you're doing a really good job and we are already halfway there so push yourself keep going you will be glad you did because your English speaking skills are going to get better and better let's do a slow read a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart

without checking the reviews thinking he found a steal One More Time medium speed a man makes an Impulse buy online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steel what does it mean if you say something is a steel oh uh that winter coat is such a steel oh those headphones are such a steel oh that computer wow what a deal that computer is such a steal if something is such a steel then that means you are getting a great deal by buying it it's

such a good deal that it almost feels like you're stealing it right like you are getting away with something getting away with st something feels like you're getting away with something almost like you are committing a crime or doing something you shouldn't be doing something you're not supposed to be doing right because how can something be such a good deal let's say it one more time quickly now a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steel level six

push yourself slowly at first a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steel and waits two weeks for delivery okay once more medium speed a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steel and waits 2 weeks for delivery okay so anticipation anticipation is building anticipation is building he is eagerly awaiting the arrival of this blender this impulse buy right he made

an Impulse by he's excited about it he didn't even check the reviews he just saw it and he knew he wanted it so he purchased it now he's waiting two weeks for it to be delivered for it to arrive at his house and yeah he's filled with anticipation he's eager he can't wait to get his hands on that blender maybe he's planning to use it in his cooking routine at home maybe he wants to make more smoothies and live a more healthy lifestyle right but he's waiting waiting waiting for this blender to show up one

more time quickly before we level up a man makes an Impulse buy online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steal and waits 2 weeks for delivery all right guys we're at level seven now and this is no weeny Hut Jr anymore this is getting really challenging really difficult right so let's cut out the slow speed we're going to jump right to medium speed a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the

reviews thinking he found a steel and waits 2 weeks for delivery imagining all the fancy smoothies he'll make ah okay so he is planning on making smoothies and not just any kind of ordinary smoothie fancy smoothies right so he's really gonna shell out shell out for these smoothies huh shell out what does that mean if you shell out for something that means you spend a lot of money to make it good you spend a lot of money for a high level of quality right like uh you know let's say I'm redesigning my living room and

I want to turn it into a man cave what's a man cave a man cave is a kind of a stereotypical idea of what a guy would do when designing a room to make it the most enjoyable thing for guys right like maybe there's football decorations maybe he's got a really big TV maybe he's got like a gaming console set up he's got beer he's got foosball you know he's got a poker table etc etc that's a man cave kind of a room that men would really enjoy right so let's say that I want to

redesign my living room and turn it into a man cave okay I'm not just going to buy a deck of cards and you know a cheap gaming console I'm going to Shell out I'm going to Shell out and I'm going to buy the best of everything to make that man cave extra impressive one more time quick spe let's go a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steel and waits 2 weeks for delivery imagining all the fancy smoothies

he'll make level eight we're almost there guys push push push keep going no pain no gain let's do a medium speed read of level eight a man makes an Impulse buy online while Doom scrolling before bed and adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steal and waits 2 weeks for delivery imagining all the fancy smoothies he'll make but when it arrives it doesn't even turn on what a disaster what a nightmare he spent money to buy this blender he bought it impulsively he was thinking that it could turn

his life around and you know help him achieve a healthier LIF style right a more healthy way of living but after waiting two long weeks for this blender to arrive when it does arrive it doesn't even turn on the thing is super low quality and it's Dead on Arrival Dead on Arrival the thing is broken and he hasn't even gotten a chance to use it once I feel kind of bad for this guy our main character right maybe he had already gotten all of the smoothie ingredients purchased and set up in his kitchen he was

ready to go he was ready to make these fancy smoothies and get healthy get fit all he was missing was the blender that was the key missing piece of the puzzle right but when it arrived the darn thing didn't even work one more time level eight quick read here we go a man makes an Impulse byy on line while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steel and waits 2 weeks for delivery imagining all the fancy smoothies he'll make but when it arrives it doesn't

even turn on we are getting really close my friends medium speed read o that rhymes medium speed read medium speed read of level 9 here we go a man makes an Impulse by online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steel and waits 2 weeks for delivery imagining all the fancy smoothies he'll make but when it arrives it doesn't even turn on and he realizes there's no return policy what no this fancy smoothie uh situation is getting worse and worse right he didn't check

the reviews he bought it impulsively and now just like I mentioned earlier that decision has come back to haunt him it's back to haunt him right because there's no return policy in other words there's no way for him to send it back and get his money back so he is stuck he is stuck with this broken blender one more time quickly a man makes an Impulse buy online while Dooms scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steel and waits 2 weeks for delivery imagining all the

fancy smoothies he'll make but when it arrives it doesn't even turn on and he realizes there's no return policy now guys we've reached level 10 the final boss of today's speaking lesson but before we jump into it I just quickly want to ask a favor of the audience please click like on this video it supports me so much as your YouTube English teacher make sure you're subscribed leave me a comment letting me know who you are and why you're learning English or why you like this video or dislike this video I'm open to your thoughts

and opinions but guys your likes and subs and comments they make it possible for me to do what I do without you guys there would be no English is easy so thank you for all of your support and let take a look at level 10 with a mediump speeed read a man makes an Impulse buy online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steel and waits two weeks for delivery imagining all the fancy smoothies he'll make but when it arrives it doesn't even turn

on and he realizes there's no return policy so it ends up as an expensive door stop we have a pretty funny ending to this crazy roller coaster of a super sentence right what does he end up doing with this broken blender in other words in the end how does he make use of make use of this broken blender well it ends up as an expensive door stop yeah we use a door stop to prop open a door prop open you know if you don't want a door to close you can put something heavy in front

of it right to prevent it from closing to stop it from closing right so that's what he ends up using this blender for he puts it in front of his door and uses it as a very expensive door stop all right so you know it's not an ideal situation it's not ideal it's not the best case scenario for this purchase by any means right by any stretch of the imagination this is not a best case scenario in fact it's basically a worst case scenario but this guy he's choosing to look on the bright side he's

choosing to see the silver lining in this situation in other words he's going to make the most make the best of a bad situation and he's still going to use this broken blender in fact it seems like he found a pretty creative way to use it right so at least there's that at least it's not a complete waste of time and money and maybe our friend has learned a lesson about late night Doom scrolling impulse buying right okay guys final time reading this sentence quick speed let's go push one last time a man makes an

Impulse byy online while Doom scrolling before bed adding a blender to his cart without checking the reviews thinking he found a steel and waits 2 weeks for delivery imagining all the fancy smoothies he'll make but when it arrives it doesn't even turn on and he realizes there's no return policy so it ends up as an expensive door stop if you made it all the way through this crazy super sentence take your hand give yourself a pat on the back because you deserve it my friend now no great workout is complete without a cooldown activity so

that's what we're going to do now just bring things down with a chill relaxed kind of exit activity for this video so we talked about impulse buys right it's a a purchase that you make without putting too much thought into it here's my question for you here's my question that we're going to think about and respond to have you ever made an Impulse by while scrolling online how did it pan out in other words how did things go was it a good decision this impulse by or was it a bad decision I want you guys

to push yourselves to speak for a full minute you don't have to speak quickly or impressively or anything like that you don't have to use big words just push yourself to keep going for a full minute I'm going to go first to give you an idea of what I'd like you to try and do so here's my minute responding to this question you know actually for me this is a pretty relatable topic it's a pretty funny topic too because I make impulse purchases online all the time uh and these purchases usually have something to do

with Fitness with working out because I always go through these phases these periods of time where I get really excited about working out right getting back in shape and I will go online I'll see something that's supposed to make Fitness working out easier and I get excited and I buy it and then it's delivered and I realize oh this thing is low quality or this thing is not very good or maybe I use it for one or two days and then I get bored of it one time I bought like a shake weight that was

supposed to build muscle in your chest and the thing was so bad it just didn't work at all and that was a poor decision for sure all right that was my response my personal connection to this theme this idea of impulse buys what about you uh do you make impulse buys do you doom scroll late at night let me know push yourself for one minute and respond to this question go ahead e okay as promised we are starting off simple basic easy no worries here level one let's read it together slowly a man looks for

his glasses one more time a little faster a man looks for his glasses Okay so we've got a main character here the super sentence today is about this guy this man and what is he doing he's looking for something we could also say he he's looking around for something we could also say that he is searching searching for something what is he looking for what is he searching for what is he trying to find his glasses this poor guy is looking for his glasses and that is not an easy thing to do because of course

without your glasses you can't see anything you need to wear your glasses to find your glasses right so this is a little bit of a paradox paradox a paradox is like something that is true and not true at the same time it's a little bit philosophical let's say this sentence again at a quick speed at a fast speed and then we'll level up to level two and make things more challenging ready a man looks for his glasses again a man looks for his glasses one more time a man looks for his glasses okay guys we've

leveled up to level two you can see that some blue text has been added to the sentence making it just a little bit more difficult that's what we're going to do in each and every one of these levels until the sentence that we are speaking is very very long and complex and challenging so let's take a look at level two let's say it together slowly at first a man looks for his glasses in the living room room one more time medium speed a man looks for his glasses in the living room okay so now we

know the location of his search we know where he's looking where he's searching he's looking around in his living room you guys know what a living room is right it's the room where you do most of the living there's your couch and your TV and your chairs in the living room it's the space in your house where the family can get together and get comfortable maybe watch a movie together let's say this again quickly and then level up once again ready a man looks for his glasses in the living room again a man looks for

his glasses in the living room once more a man looks for his glasses in the living room level three we're moving right along let's jump right into it with a slow read a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere once more medium speed a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere okay this guy is not having a lot of luck finding his glasses he's looking looking looking but he can't seem he can't seem to find them anywhere yeah

he can't seem to find them that's a very spoken English expression just meaning that you know he's trying he's making an attempt he's making an effort but it's not working he can't seem to do it he can't seem to find them we can use this expression when you are struggling to do something maybe I buy a new cabinet at Ikea right some new furniture and I bring it home and I take out the instructions and I get to work building the cabinet putting together the cabinet but it's not going well my wife comes home she

sees that I'm making a big mess that I'm not making a lot of progress she says what's going on here I say I can't seem to figure this out I can't seem to get this right I can't seem to do it once more quick speed and remember you can say with me or pause and repeat after me ready a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't see to find them anywhere if you guys are still with me you are killing it you are killing it what does that mean you are crushing

it you are slaying it just means you're doing an awesome awesome job keep going okay here's a slow read of level four a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case one more time medium speak feed a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case so the main character of our story today he's moving on from the living room he has searched the living room

from top to bottom from top to bottom he's turned the place inside out he's turned it inside out he's looked he has searched he has gone through the living room from top to bottom and he can't find those darn glasses anywhere so he's going to carry on his search somewhere else he's going to take his search to a different room of the house he's headed to the kitchen so he's checking the kitchen just in case just in case that means he's being safe yeah just to be safe he's going to check in some place where

he doesn't think he will find the glasses but who knows maybe there's a small chance that the glasses are in the kitchen so he's going to take a look just in case all right let's say this again quick speed here we go a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case level five we're halfway there guys don't give up we are halfway through through this workout keep pushing let's do a slow read a man looks for his glasses in the

living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there okay one more time medium speed let's go a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there so this guy is leaving no stone unturned no stone will be left unturned this is a really colloquial a really spoken English expression that means he

is looking everywhere imagine that there are lots of rocks lots of stones and you're looking for something right so you're going to turn over each one of these rocks in your search while you go about your search you are going to overturn each of these Stones so that's where the expression comes from it just means that you are looking everywhere you can possibly look and that's what he's doing here he's opening every drawer in the kitchen even though he knows they wouldn't be there yeah there's really not a chance of finding them there but he's

so desperate to find his glasses but he's so desperate to find his glasses that he will leave no stone unturned one more time quickly now ready a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there level six things are getting messy things are getting hairy things are getting tricky challenging difficult all of these mean the same thing they all mean that this is starting to get hard even for me okay

but no worries let's take a slow read of level six together a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there and then decides to retrace his steps ooh love this expression retrace your steps what does that mean another way of thinking about this expression retrace your steps is to work backwards right you're trying to find something yeah we use this saying this expression when something is lost and we're trying

to find it you're looking looking looking can't find it anywhere so what do you you do work backwards think retrace your steps where were you last when you used it last or when you last saw it right really great expression let's skip the medium read and go straight to the fast read because I know you guys can do it let's go ready a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be

there and then decides to retrace his steps level seven baby this is no joke this is some serious stuff all right but I know you guys can do it slow read let's go a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there and then decides to retrace his steps back to the bedroom to see if he left them by the bed love this right so where is he retracing his steps

he's retracing his steps back to the bedroom okay maybe that's where he got dressed today maybe that's where he started his day you know maybe he's getting ready to go out getting ready to go to work getting ready to go do this or go do that and so he he thinks back to okay where was I when I first started getting ready I was in the bedroom so why don't I retrace my steps work backwards all the way to the bedroom he's going to check and see if he left them by the bed by the

side of the bed maybe on a nightstand a nightstand right which is where you put a glass of water where you put a book where you put your phone next to your bed once more quickly now let's do it a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there and then decides to retrace his steps back to the bedroom to see if he left them by the bed here we are

at level eight and if you haven't done so yet if you haven't done this already please take one quick second to click like make sure you're subscribed maybe leave me a little comment of support share with a friend these are your ways of supporting me as your YouTube English teacher jumping into level eight with a slow read here we go a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there and

and then decides to retrace his steps back to the bedroom to see if he left them by the bed growing more frustrated as he searches this guy is not doing great he is really frustrated meaning that there is something that is bothering him he wants to do something he wants to get something done but he can't do it if there's something you want to do and you can't quite do it and that's making you upset we can say that you are frustrated but yeah we could also say that he's feeling upset he's feeling irritated irritated

just meaning a little bit annoyed would be another word we could use here annoyed irritated upset frustrated we could also say here's a really spoken expression that he's in a funk he's in a funk just means you're in a bad mood somebody might ask him later to day hey what's wrong are you okay maybe he says yeah you know I'm just kind of in a funk I'm kind of in a funk because I couldn't find my stupid glasses this morning one more time quick speed don't give up now guys come on keep pushing ready a

man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there there and then decides to retrace his steps back to the bedroom to see if he left them by the bed growing more frustrated as he searches level 9 slow read you know what to do let's dive right into it a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in

case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there and then decides to retrace his steps back to the bedroom to see if he left them by the bed growing more frustrated as he searches only to suddenly realize he's been wearing them the whole time come on bro are you serious are you joking they've been on your face this whole time I really love today's episode you guys know that I love a Twist I love an unexpected twist in a story story and that's what we've got here our main character he's been wearing

the glasses the whole time no wonder he's been able to see so clearly as he searches right let's fly through the quick read of level 9 and move on to level 10 because I'll be honest I want to know what happens next let's go a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there and then decides to retrace his steps back to the bedroom to see if he left them by

the bed growing more frustrated as he searches only to suddenly realize he's been wearing them the whole time I love it all right let's keep going guys we've made it to level 10 the final boss of this video Let's tackle level 10 starting with a slow read the last one come on guys push a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there and then decides to retrace his steps back

to the bedroom to see if he left them by the bed growing more frustrated as he searches only to suddenly realize he's been wearing them the whole time and lets out an ex exasperated sigh what a scatterbrain this poor guy he's so irritated annoyed upset unhappy he's in such a funk right now he lets out an exasperated sigh you guys probably know what a sigh is right like this that's a sigh but what's an exasperated sigh this is a really terrific word to know you guys can impress your friends with this one right an exasperated

sigh means you are so exhausted you just can't take it anymore you're so tired so you sigh like this you are dead tired you are beat you are done you are wiped out he thinks to himself ah I'm such a scatter brain what's a scatter brain if you are a scatter brain then that means means you're kind of an unorganized person right maybe you are forgetful you leave things places you forget to do things you get names and dates mixed up or switched around if you have some of these habits then you might be a

scatterbrain what's the opposite of a scatterbrain uh I would say the opposite of being a scatterbrain is being really on top of things on top of things if you are on top of things or we can also say on the ball if you are on the ball on top of things that means that everything is organized everything is under control um everything is sorted and dealt with you're very meticulous you're very detail oriented and you don't make many mistakes you're very careful right all right guys this is it your last chance to speak let's read

level 10 at a quick speed and then we will do a speak aloud cool down to end today's video ready a man looks for his glasses in the living room but can't seem to find them anywhere so he checks the kitchen just in case opening every drawer even though he knows they wouldn't be there and then decides to retrace his steps back to the bedroom to see if he left them by the bed growing more frustrated as he searches only to suddenly realize he's been wearing them the the whole time and lets out an exasperated

sigh what a scatterbrain if you are still watching take your hand give yourself a pat on the back to congratulate yourself because you deserve it my friend as a teacher I am super proud of all my students who make it to level 10 in these videos because I know it's not easy terrific so now let's move along to the speak aloud cool down yeah with every workout it's important to end things with sort of a downtempo cool down exercise and that's what we're going to do here here's a question for us to respond to would

you describe yourself as a scatter brain meaning you are usually pretty disorganized and tend to lose or forget things or are you on top of things are you on the ball what we're going to do guys is take 30 seconds and push ourselves to fill up the full 30 seconds with a response to this question I will go first to give you a demonstration here I go oh my gosh I find this story today's story to be unfortunately really relatable because I'm definitely a scatter brain I'm constantly misplacing things around the house losing things mixing

things up and fortunately for me my wife is the exact opposite and she really balances me out without her I think the house and my life would be in disarray that was my response now it's your turn take the full 30 seconds really push yourself go for it here we are at level one okay we've got a short basic sentence let's do a slow read of this sentence and remember you can Shadow me or pause and repeat all right let's go Anna gives up social media for a month One More Time medium speed a little

bit faster Anna gives up social media for a month okay great so we have our main character for today's lesson her name is Anna she's a girl and what is she doing she's giving up social media media you guys know social media right could be a website like YouTube could be an app like Instagram it is a platform where people connect with each other and yeah engage or interact socially okay so Anna has made a decision to give up social media in other words she's going to quit social media right but she's not going to

quit forever no she's only quitting for a month so we can also say that she's taking a break yeah she's just taking a break from social media just for a little while she'll be back later right but for right now she is stepping away she's stepping away we could also say taking a step back or taking a step away from social media right there's lots of ways to express this idea we could also say she's taking a breather here's a really spoken English expression for you guys yeah if you take a breather from something then

that means you are giving yourself a rest you are taking a break from it right imagine that you go to the gym every day for a month yeah at the end of the month you are feeling exhausted and you tell your friend you know what I'm going to take a break from the gym I'm going to step away for a little while take a step back for a little while I'm going to take a breather just for a bit maybe it means that you won't go to the gym for one week or something like that

right let's read it a couple more times at a quick speed and then we're going to level up ready and gives up social media for a month again Anna gives up social media for a month one more time Anna gives up social media for a month fantastic here we are at level two and as you can see some blue text has been added to our super sentence yeah we've stretched it even bigger we've made it longer and that's what's going to happen every time we level up that way we can push ourselves out of our

comfort zones and stop speaking short little baby sentences all the time right okay let's begin with a slow read Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling One More Time medium speed Anna gives up social media for a month which Mak makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling okay so after after Anna makes this decision this choice to step away from social media for one month she realizes something she has a realization what does she realize she realizes that she

used to spend a lot of time scrolling scrolling rrolling on her phone right if you are scrolling scrolling scrolling and you feel like you can't stop we can also call this Doom scrolling something that I've talked about several times here on my channel Doom scrolling is when you scroll scroll scroll for hours you feel like you can't stop right so anyway after Anna decides to quit social media for one month she's left with all of these gaps all of these empty spaces in her day right and she realizes in other words it Dawn on her

she has this moment of realization where she realizes oh my God I used to spend so much time scrolling on my phone let's read it once more quick speed and then we'll level up Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend Doom scrolling here we are at level three and as you can see we have added even more blue text to our super sentence making it even more challenging let's start with a slow read Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her

realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time once more medium speed Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time okay wonderful so now that Anna has decided to take a break from social media she's got lots of free time what is free free time free time is a period of time where nothing is planned nothing is scheduled you don't have any obligations obligations for example I told my friend I

would go shopping with her today I made a promise to her that would be an obligation something you made a promise to go and do right as an adult we have lots and lots lots of obligations lots of responsibilities it's kind of fun to think about what if you had an entire week of time without any obligations what would you do how would you spend that week would you travel would you just sit around and watch TV would you doom scroll on your phone how about you guys leave me a comment down in the comment

section letting me know how you would spend a week without any obligations okay let's read this one more time then we're going to level up again at a quick speed now Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time here we are at level four let's just jump right in with a slow read ready Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more

free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years once more medium speed Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years now we are seeing how Anna is choosing to spend this free time what is she deciding to do with the free time she now has right what does she start to do she starts reading books what kind of books books that she hasn't touched in

years yeah if you haven't touched something in years then it has been sitting idle it has been collecting dust I love this expression collecting dust for example imagine that you buy some weights online and you have this plan to use them to exercise right well maybe you use them once twice and then you set them down down in the corner of your house and you don't touch them for years well slowly they are going to collect dust right if you take your finger and you sort of trace the top of the weights you will find

a layer of dust that has built up on top of them as a result of what as a result of having been left idle yeah you haven't touched them in a long time so they've just been sitting there right so in this situation Anna is returning to books that she hasn't touched in years maybe she's forgotten about some of these books maybe she's forgotten how much she used to enjoy them but now she has an opportunity now she has a chance to ReDiscover or discover again right ReDiscover her love her passion her interest in these

books one more time quick speed then we'll level up Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years here we are at level five halfway through and if you've made it even this far as your YouTube English teacher I'm very proud of of you so take your hand give yourself a pat on the back you're doing great this is also a wonderful opportunity to quickly click that like button

it really supports me so much if you guys could click the like button leave me a comment make sure you are subscribed these are your ways to support me as your YouTube English teacher now that we're halfway through I think we can get rid of the slow read let's Jump Right In to the medium read here we go Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it

surprisingly relaxing as we can see with the blue text we've added we learn about Anna's reaction to rediscovering reading right we know that she has started reading these old books that she hasn't touched in years they've been sitting around collecting dust sitting around idly not being used right but she goes back and she's reading them and she finds it to be surprisingly relaxing what is surprisingly relaxing it just means she hadn't expected she had not expected it to be this relaxing it's really nice it's nicer than she had thought right it's really relaxing so she

is rekindling her love for reading what is Kindle if you Kindle a fire then you are tending to a fire making sure it does not burn out you are keeping it going so if you go back and you rekindle your love for reading then that just means you are making sure the fire that is your love for reading does not die does not burn out all right quick read here we go Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more

free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing Full Speed Ahead level six let's Jump Right In with a medium paced read here we go Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing and her stress levels start to drop okay so this is the next thing that happens after Anna makes the decision to quit social media right

number one the first thing that happens is she starts reading books that she hasn't touched in years number two is she starts to get really relaxed she's finding all of this to be really relaxing number three the third thing that happens is her stress levels start to drop M her stress levels yeah the degree to which she feels stressed out maybe there's a lot going on in your life and you feel overwhelmed like everything is really difficult and your stress levels are high in other words you just feel stressed out all the time right maybe

your stress levels are very low and you almost never feel stressed out well it sounds like Anna was pretty stressed out before she made the decision to take a break from social media and she didn't even realize it yeah sometimes that happens in life right we're really stressed out we're really overwhelmed and we don't even realize it so her stress levels they start to drop drop just means go down let's read it one more time quick speed don't give up now keep going here we go Anna gives up social media for a month which makes

her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing and her stress levels start to drop level seven here we go medium speed Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing and her stress levels start to drop plus she notices she's sleeping better without

the constant notifications as you can see we've added quite a lot not this level right this is a lot of blue text so let's dissect this let's analyze it let's take a close look at it okay plus so we're talking about an additional benefit in other words another good thing that happens after she makes the decision to quit social media or at least take a break away from social media right so plus she notices something what what does she notice she notices that she's sleeping better why is she sleeping better because she is now without

the constant notifications H what is a notification we could also say a popup message a popup message on your phone pinging somebody's trying to contact you somebody liked your picture on Instagram somebody left a comment someone's giving you a phone call these are all notifications right and it sounds like in Anna's case her notifications were really constant constant in other words they were going on constantly they were happening all the time every minute she was getting a notification and she was constantly dealing with these notifications but maybe she never realized the extent to which she

was dealing with them in other words maybe she never fully understood how bad the situation was that she was constantly doing this constantly distracted by these notifications right especially at nighttime and you know when you're trying to go to sleeping ding the constant notifications could be a really big deterrent deterrent to good sleep in other words the constant notifications could definitely stand in the way of good sleep or stop you from getting good sleep right so now that these notifications are gone of course she's sleeping better this is a terrific benefit to take a step

away from your phone taking a break from social media again quick read here we go Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing and her stress levels start to drop plus she notices she's sleeping better with out the constant notifications this is starting to be a real mouthful this is starting to get really difficult even I'm getting a little tired but guys push don't

give up you are going to be so glad that you did this down the road when your English speaking skills are way more developed level eight medium speed read here we go Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing and her stress levels start to drop plus she notices she's sleeping better without the constant notifications and she realizes she's turning over a new Leaf

by focusing on real life interactions you guys know that I love idioms I love expressions and turning over a new Leaf is the idiom that I decided to include in today's video what does it mean to turn over a new Leaf it basically means that you are starting a new chapter in your life yeah you are moving on to a new and better way of living or lifestyle so yeah Anna realizes that hey she's really turned a page that's another way we could say this she's really turned a page in the book of her life

right and she's feeling better about her lifestyle she's feeling healthier she's enjoying her life more now she realizes she's turning over a new Leaf by focusing on real life interactions so she's not focusing on or paying attention to social media so much anymore now she is paying attention to here's someone paying attention to something noticing something ooh noticing something she's focusing on real life interactions what is an interaction that is how you engage with someone or something for example I interact with you guys with my subscribers in the comment section you guys leave me comments

giving me feedback on my videos and I respond to your comments as best I can that's my way of engaging with you of interacting with you one more time quick read here we go Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing and her stress levels start to drop plus she notices she's sleeping better without the constant notifications and she realizes she's turning over a

new Leaf by focusing on real life interactions level 9 this is getting really serious really tough really tricky really hairy yeah this is getting really challenging but don't give up guys let's just do it let's bite the bullet and just do it with a medium speed read here we go Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing and her stress levels start to drop

plus she notices she's sleeping better without the constant notifications and she realizes she's turning over a new Leaf by focusing on real life interactions so she starts spending more time with her friends taking a look at the blue text here we can see specifically how she is focusing on her real life interactions right how is she doing that she's spending more time with her friends now you know maybe she would contact her friends in the past when she was using social media more maybe they were connected maybe they were even talking every day but it

felt a little bit Hollow it felt like it was lacking substance in other other words it didn't feel that meaningful right when you talk to someone online when you interact with one of your friends online it just doesn't feel as real as meaningful as when you do it in person right face to face person to person out in the real world okay so that's what she's doing now again quick read here we go Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she

has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing and her stress levels start to drop plus she notices she's sleeping better without the constant notifications and she realizes she's turning over a new Leaf by focusing on real life interactions so she starts spending more time with her friends okay guys level 10 we've made it to the final boss of this video yeah we've made it to the big bad guy right this is the toughest level of course and you know what I'd be willing to bet that

for a lot of you this might be the longest sentence that you've ever spoken in your entire life right if I'm correct and this is the longest sentence you've ever spoken in your life leave me a comment down in the comment section saying new record new record and if that's the case if that's true then congratulations that is a huge accomplishment on your English speaking Journey okay let's do a slow read here we go don't give up now guys we're so close to Victory Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize

how much time she used to spend scrolling and suddenly she has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing and her stress levels start to drop plus she notices she's sleeping better without the constant notifications and she realizes she's turning over a new Leaf by focusing on real life interactions so she starts spending more time with her friends who comment on how much more present and engaged she seems what does it mean to be present if you are present then that basically means you are living in

the present you are not distracted by remembering things that happened in the past or imagining things that could happen in the future right you're not thinking about the past you are not thinking about the future your brain and your attention is right here in the present moment so her friends are commenting on this and in other words they are mentioning it to her they are bringing it up yeah they are bringing it up they are making a point to talk about it with her right they're saying hey Anna I'm noticing something about you it seems

like you've really changed you are so much more present now than you used to be you are so much more engaged in other words you are not dist distracted you are focused than you used to be right you're doing a really good job this seems like a healthy change for you all right guys if you are ready to defeat this final boss then let's say this super sentence one last time at a quick speed are you ready Anna gives up social media for a month which makes her realize how much time she used to spend

scrolling and suddenly she has has more free time so she starts reading books she hasn't touched in years finding it surprisingly relaxing and her stress levels start to drop plus she notices she's sleeping better without the constant notifications and she realizes she's turning over a new Leaf by focusing on real life interactions so she starts spending more time with her friends who comment on how much more present and engaged she seems if you made it all the way through this video it's very important that you take a second to congratulate yourself as your YouTube English

teacher I'm so proud of my students who take my videos seriously and really apply themselves really make an effort to go all the way through and finish the lesson so take your hand one more time give yourself a pat on the back because you deserve deserve it my friend but don't go anywhere yet because with any good workout a coold down is really important so that's what we're going to do now no more Super sentence but we are going to have a speaking cool down Okay so let's return to the idiom the saying the expression

that we talked about today turn over a new Leaf what does it mean it means to make a fresh start or begin to behave in a better way yeah you are improving your life or your lifestyle right in the story today we saw that by giving up social media Anna feels like she's turning over a new leaf and focusing more on the present moment okay so here is a discussion question for us to respond to together as our cool down is there something in your life holding you back how could you turn over a new

leaf and live a better life yeah what is something you could do to just like Anna turn over a new leaf and start to live a better life is there something holding you back a bad habit something negative in your life that you could let go of that you could get rid of and move on to a better lifestyle what I want you guys to do is push yourself to speak for the full 30 seconds I'm going to give you and just respond to this question it doesn't have to be perfect the point is to

try and fill up that full 30 seconds I'm going to go first and give you a demonstration or an example of what I would like you to try and do when it's your turn here I go you know recently at as a matter of fact I actually do feel like I've turned over a new Leaf that's because I haven't had any coffee in the last two weeks now normally I'm someone who really really loves coffee really enjoys a morning cup of coffee sometimes an afternoon cup of coffee but it was interfering with my sleep and

my mood so I gave it up and I really feel like I've turned over a new Leaf I feel much better now that was my response now it's your turn take that full 30 seconds push all the way through and respond to this question as our cool down go ahead okay guys here we are at level one we are going to begin with a slow read of this easy sentence remember you can Shadow me or pause the video and repeat out loud a slow read here we go a man watches a hilarious video okay one

more time a little faster at a medium speed a man watches a hilarious video okay so we have our main character for today's episode we have a man and what's he doing he's watching something what's he watching he's watching a video what kind of video a hilarious video what's hilarious it means extremely funny yeah not just a little bit funny extremely funny let's practice saying this a couple of times at a quick speed and then we will level up to level two and make things more challenging here we go a man watches a hilarious video

again a man watches a hilarious video One More Time a man watches a hilarious video we've leveled up to level two and as you can see some blue text has been added to our super sentence making it more challenging let's start level two with a slow read here we go a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok one more time a little faster at a medium speed a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok all right so now we know what hilarious video the man is

is watching yeah we know specifically what he's looking at the video is of his boss yeah his boss from work dancing on Tik Tok so he's using Tik Tok on his phone maybe he was swiping videos when he came across something really funny a video of his boss who he knows personally doing a tick tock dance I have a feeling today's episode is going to be a good one I want to know what happens next in the story so let's read it one more time at a quick speed here we go a man watches a

hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok here we are at level three we're moving right along guys and as you can see once again we've added some blue text to our super sentence stretching it even longer let's start with a slow read of level three a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold back his laughter okay one more time at a medium speed a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold back his laughter what does it

mean if you try to hold back your laughter it means you are trying to contain your laughter but it's pretty difficult you are really fighting the urge to laugh you are fighting the urge to laugh right it means you are trying really hard not to laugh and if you're not careful you might accidentally burst out laughing burst out laughing of course if you were in this guy's situation you would feel the same way just imagine if you were on Tik Tok and suddenly you stumbled upon a video of your boss doing an embarrassing dance obvious

ly that would be hilarious and you might burst out laughing too let's read it one more time quick speed then we'll level up again ready a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold back his laughter level four slow read here we go a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tock and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes One More Time medium speed a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold

back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes so he didn't exactly burst out laughing right he didn't laugh super loudly but he was also unable to contain his laughter and a chuckle escaped I love this word in this context text escaped yeah a chuckle got free a chuckle is like a small laugh kind of like that's kind of a chuckle right so this is a loud chuckle and hopefully he doesn't catch the attention of his boss let's read it one more time quick speed and then we will keep going guys ready a man watches a

hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tick Tock and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escap capes at level 5 we are halfway through today's lesson and if you're still with me you're doing a fantastic job this is also a fantastic opportunity to click like on this video if you haven't done it yet by subscribing commenting liking watching my videos till the end you are giving me your support as your YouTube English teacher and it really means the world to me thank you guys for all of your support slow read here

we go a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes drawing the attention of his colleagues nearby okay so this situation is starting to escalate tensions are starting to rise people are starting to notice he has drawn the attention of his colleagues nearby right so he has made them notice what he's doing in other words made who notice his colleagues the people who he works with and these are colleagues nearby so maybe they are one desk down two desks down

they are situated near him in the office space let's read it again quickly and then move on because I want to see what happens next a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tick Tock and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes drawing the attention of his colleagues nearby here we are level six let's just jump in with a slow read a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tock and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes drawing the attention of

his colleagues nearby who crowd around to watch the video so now a small crowd has gathered a small crowd has formed around this man our main character who is watching this embarrassing and hilarious video of everyone's boss dancing and looking silly on Tik Tok everyone is joining in and drawing a lot of attention to the man and the video time for a quick read here we go a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tock and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes drawing the attention of his

colleagues nearby who crowd around to watch the video level seven slow read let's jump in a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes drawing the attention of his colleagues nearby who crowd around to watch the video creating a bit of a commotion all right so sure enough tensions are escalating this situation is at risk of getting out of hand getting out of hand that means getting out of control or we could also say spiraling out of control so yeah

they've created a bit of a commotion a bit of a scene we could also say they are making a scene basically they are attracting they are drawing in a lot of attention and I have a feeling this is not going to end well quick read and then we'll move on a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes drawing the attention of his colleagues nearby who crowd around to watch the video creating a bit of a commotion level eight guys

this is getting really challenging I know but remember no pain no gain if you are a fan of my videos then you know how much I love this expression we cannot make progress with our English unless we are willing to make ourselves uncomfortable because we can only grow when we step out of our comfort Z zone so I know that it's hard work but trust me it's going to pay off slow read level eight here we go a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold back his

laughter but a loud chuckle escapes drawing the attention of his colleagues nearby who crowd around to watch the video creating a bit of a commotion just as the boss walks by with a bemused expression I knew the situation was going to get out of hand was going to spiral out of control and sure enough sure enough the boss walks by the boss has noticed all the commotion he has noticed that the man is making a scene making a scene so he walks by with what kind of look on his his face what kind of expression

a bemused expression what does that mean bemused means a little confused and a little amused you can think of it as a combination of befuddled which means confused and amused which means you are slightly entertained by something you think it's fun or funny so the boss is curious about what's going on and initially at first he has a pretty good attitude ude about the situation he doesn't storm in with a big scowl on his face with a nasty look on his face no he's bemused he's slightly confused slightly amused right quick read then we'll level

up to level 9 we're getting close to the end guys here we go a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tick Tock and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle is escapes drawing the attention of his colleagues nearby who crowd around to watch the video creating a bit of a commotion just as the boss walks by with a bemused expression level 9 slow read let's do it a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud

chuckle escapes drawing the attention of his colleagues nearby who crowd around to watch the video and join in the laughter creating a bit of a commotion just as the boss walks by with a bemused expression and remarks glad everyone's so productive today so the boss he walks by with a bemused expression and he remarks or says to this group of people glad everyone's so productive today now do you guys see how this word productive is italicized italicized that means we need to emphasize the word or be a little bit louder when we say it so

here's how I would read this glad everyone's so productive today the boss here is being a little bit sarcastic yeah he's using sarcasm in other words he means the opposite of what he says are they really being productive are they really working hard and getting lots of stuff done lots of stuff accomplished no they're slacking off crowding around this man watching videos on Tik Tok so from the boss's perspective this is kind of a friendly is way of saying hey guys I know you're having fun but maybe it's time to get back to work let's

read it one more time at a quick speed and then level up to level 10 our final level for today's super sentence here we go a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes drawing the attention of his colleagues nearby who crowd around to watch the video and join in the laughter creating a bit of a commotion just as the the boss walks by with a bemused expression and remarks glad everyone's so productive today I want you guys to pay

attention to how quickly I say this portion of the sentence creating a bit of a a bit of a a bit of a this is one of the reasons why spoken English is so tough because if you try to say each one of these words individually you might stumble over yourself or say it incorrect sometimes native speakers are lazy when we speak and words tend to run together blur together so we wouldn't say creating a bit of a commotion that would sound too robotic we would say creating a bit of a commotion a bit of

a commotion I wouldn't say with a bemused expression I would say with a bemused expression with a with a with a you can combine these two words with a bemused expression level 10 baby we made it now guys I know this is going to be tough it's going to be challenging but come on push we are so close to finishing this lesson slow read here we go a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tock and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes drawing the attention of his

colleagues nearby who crowd around to watch the video and join in the laughter creating a bit of a commotion just as the boss walks by with a bemused expression and remarks glad everyone's so productive today before catching a glimpse of the phone and going white as a ghost oh no guys I told you I had a bad feeling about the ending of today's story and sure enough the boss catches a glimpse of the phone that everyone is looking at that everyone has crowded around and unfortunately it seems like he gets a clear view of the

phone he takes a direct look at the phone because shortly after he goes white as a ghost his face Lo loses all of its color he looks horrified obviously he has realized that everyone unfortunately has discovered his Tick Tock dancing video that would be pretty embarrassing I got to say in fact I might even use a word stronger than embarrassing if this was me in the boss's place in the boss's position in the boss's shoes I would be mortified that's a great word to know mortified mortified it means so embarrassed that you want to die

okay guys one more quick read of today's super sentence and then we will have a cool down exercise are you ready a man watches a hilarious video of his boss dancing on Tik Tok and tries to hold back his laughter but a loud chuckle escapes drawing the attention of his colleagues nearby who crowd around to watch the video and join in the laughter creating a bit of a commotion just as the boss walks by with a bemused expression and remarks glad everyone's so productive today before catching a glimpse of the phone and going white as

a ghost if you made it all the way through this super sentence take your hand and give yourself a pat on the back to congrat congratulate yourself and as your YouTube English teacher I'm very very proud of you great job everybody in the super sentence we saw this expression white as a ghost this describes someone who looks extremely pale yeah the color of their skin you know is drained of blood it's totally empty of blood often due to fear or shock or illness so basically they look really unhealthy and why they look unhealthy depends on

the context you could look white as a ghost because you are shocked or really surprised or because you're scared or even because you're very sick when she saw the car speeding toward her she turned white as a ghost and froze in place after hearing the news about the surprise test he looked white as a ghost and started frantically checking his notes so in both of these examples the person is a afraid right and so they look white as a ghost due to fear or we could also say they look white as a ghost out of

fear every good workout needs a cool down exercise and speaking English is the same way so I have a question I would like you guys to try and respond to try and talk out loud and discuss with me should employees be allowed to use their phones at work okay so I'm going to take 30 seconds and give you guys a demonstration of how I would respond to this question then it will be your turn really try to speak for the full time given okay keep pushing through that 30 seconds don't stop talking in my opinion

yes employees should be allowed to use their phones at work you know even though they might occasionally get distracted and wait a little time or Doom scroll on their phone for a bit I still think this beats the alternative or the other option what's the other option you forbid people from using their phones and they get resentful they get angry at the boss I don't think that's good for anybody certainly not workplace morale okay that was my response now it's your turn take that 30 seconds go for it click like on this video to support

me as your YouTube English teacher leave me a comment letting me know how difficult you thought this video was from 1 to 10 and let's jump right into level one with a slow read here we go Tom forgets someone's name now what I want you guys to pay attention to throughout today's lesson is the way these two words blend together listen to this Tom forgets someone's name do you see how forgets ends in an S and someone's begins with an S the result of this is that the two words Blend or mix together Tom forgets

someone's name Tom forgets someone's name something else I'd like to point out is the pronunciation of this word here in American English we often say forget forget forget and it sounds like f r not f o r let's say this basic level one sentence a few more times to get comfortable and then we will level up to level two and make things more challenging ready Tom forgets someone's name again Tom forgets someone's name again Tom forgets someone's name awesome we've leveled up and as you can see a few blue words have been added to our

super sentence yeah throughout this video we are going to stretch this this sentence longer and longer let's begin level two with a slow read here we go Tom forgets someone's name at a party again a little faster Tom forgets someone's name at a party Okay so we've got this guy Tom he's going to be the MC the main character of today's story and it looks like Tom is at a party okay and something bad has happened he has forgotten someone's name ooh maybe we can say that Tom is not good with names not good with

names yeah I know that personally I can relate to this I can relate to this in other words I sympathize with Tom because you know I've also been in this situation like Tom I also am not very good with names it's tough for me to remember people's names are you guys good at remembering names you can let me know in the comments section I have a feeling today's super sentence is going to be an awkward one let's say this again at a quick speed and then we will level up Tom forgets someone's name at a

party again Tom forgets someone's name at a party again Tom forgets someone's name at a party look how these two words go together so quickly at at a at a ATA Tom forgets someone's name at a party at a party at a party yeah you know in English sometimes we're a little bit lazy when we speak we don't like to speak like a robot Tom forgets someone's name at a party we don't really talk like that our words blur they mix they blend together at a party at a party at a party level three now

it's getting a little bit more difficult let's Jump Right In with a slow read ready Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it okay medium speed Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so obviously this guy Tom is feeling a little bit embarrassed about forgetting this person's name right so what is he doing is he going out of his way to try and figure out what this name is no he's just avoiding saying the name yeah if you avoid doing something then you try not

to do it yeah you steer clear of it you steer clear of it maybe I'm trying to drink less alcohol for example so I avoid bars I avoid clubs I can also say I steer clear of bars I steer clear of clubs that means I try not to go anywhere near them quick speed and then we will level up again ready Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it again Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it listen to how I pronounce this word here I

don't really pronounce the d do I it sounds a little bit more like an I'll say this one more time Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it and tries to avoid saying it and tries to avoid saying it it sounds more like an just another example of how sometimes native speakers pronounce words a little bit lazily level four slow read let's jump in Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling them buddy this is so funny because I've personally been in

this situation before you don't know someone's name so you call them pal or buddy or dude right basically avoiding saying their name calling them anything else he can think of medium speed ready Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling them buddy and one more time quick speed Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to a avoids saying it so he keeps calling them buddy now one thing I will say is that if this was a native speaker saying the sentence at least in American

English they probably would pronounce them like um um so he keeps calling them buddy so he keeps calling him buddy and this word we would really pronounce like e listen to this so he keeps calling him buddy so we keeps calling him buddy yeah he we would ounc like e and we would blend it with this word here soe soe soe keeps calling them buddy pause the video and try that a couple of times out loud so we keeps calling him buddy level five slow read let's go Tom forgets someone's name at a party and

tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward yeah things are getting awkward the problem is becoming obvious maybe Tom you know he says buddy pal friend he's really avoiding saying this person's name and it's becoming very clear that he doesn't remember and the fact that he doesn't remember is awkward awkward great word awkward is a feeling right you feel like this it kind of makes you cringe if you cringe then you recoil at something embarrassing or awkward maybe you think about something stupid you did when

you were 12 or 13 and you cringe you go oh why did I say that why did I do that what was I thinking by the way what's the most cringe thing you guys have ever done maybe we can share some cringe stories down in the comment section one more time quick speed let's go Tom for gets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward level six we are flying along slow read here we go Tom forgets someone's name at

a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward until the other person asks do you even remember my name name O cringe cringe cringe Tom you've been found out you've been discovered the cats out of the bag the cats out of the bag Tom that means your secret has been revealed I really wonder how Tom is going to respond to this cringy awkward encounter or social interaction we could also say yeah uh an interaction between two people socially right so let's say this quickly

one more time and then level up so we can see what happens next Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward until the other person asks do you even remember my name level seven slow read Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward until the other person asks do you even remember my name to which Tom stammers blurting out Chris oh

this is not looking good for Tom is it he's stammering that means he's tripping over his words and he blurts out Chris M what does it mean if you blurt something out that means you say it without really thinking much about it yeah you don't put a lot of thought into what you're going to say beforehand beforehand before you open your mouth to speak you just open your mouth and blurt something out just say something thoughtlessly one more time quick speed and then let's see what happens next Tom forgets someone's name at a party and

tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward until the other person asks do you even remember my name to which Tom stammers blurting out Chris now that we're here at level eight let's change our slow read to a medium read yeah let's turn up the heat just a little bit let's dial up the intensity just a little bit let's crank up the difficulty Just a Touch just a tad just a hair all of these mean the same thing they all mean let's make it a little

bit harder ready Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward until the other person asks do you even remember my name to which Tom stammers blurting out Chris and the other person laughs and says close but no cigar It's Pat once again guys pay attention to how I'm pronouncing these two ANS I'm not putting that much effort or energy into these words I'm just saying n n taking off the D right just saying n and the other person

laughs and says and the other person laughs and says we've got a great expression here close but no cigar if you guys could use this correctly it would be very impressive what does it mean it means you were close but um no that's incorrect you almost had it but no and to be honest with you in this case I think Pat is just being nice because is Chris really that close to Pat no these names are really different right so I think Pat is going easy on Tom he's not giving him a hard time not

giving him a hard time he's helping him save facei helping him save face in other words you know trying to deescalate the situation or make it less intense make it less awkward make it less uncomfortable for everyone one more time quick speed then we level up Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward until the other person asks do you even remember my name to which Tom stammers blurting out Chris and the other person laughs and says close

but no cigar It's Pat level nine guys we're getting so close to the end of today's video keep pushing keep pushing watch all the way through we're almost done and if you haven't clicked like on this video or left me a comment yet now is a great opportunity to do so medium speed read let's go Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward until the other person asks do you even remember my name to which Tom stammers blurting

out Chris and the other person laughs and says close but no cigar It's Pat before sheepishly adding wait what's your name again ooh here's the big twist in today's video in today's story I love this so much Pat doesn't remember Tom's name either so because he's also a bit embarrassed he adds sheepishly yeah he says this sheepishly what is sheepish if you do or say something sheepishly that means you're a little embarrassed it's a little awkward maybe you are even a little bit ashamed I remember when I was a little kid I would go to

my friend's house for dinner and his mom was a great cook and she would make really delicious food and I would eat one plate of food two plates of food three plates of food and then I would go and ask her sheepishly can I have four plates of food I would ask in a sheepish way or we could say I would ask sheepishly one's an adjective one's an adverb this story is so funny to me these situations where both people are at fault okay let's read it one more time quick speed are you ready Tom

forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward until the other person asks do you even remember my name to which Tom stammers blurting out Chris and the other person laughs and says close but no cigar it's p before sheepishly adding wait uh what's your name again here we are at level 10 the final boss the final boss of today's video guys this is going to be challenging but push I know you can do it and make sure you stick

around after level 10 because we are going to do a language breakdown and a speaking cooldown exercise as well okay medium speed read here we go Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling him buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward until the other person asks do you even remember my name to which Tom stammers blurting out Chris and the other person laughs and says close but no cigar It's Pat before sheepishly adding wait what's your name again both laughed nervously and decide to just stick

with Buddy here we have a funny ending to a really funny story they both laugh it off laugh it off what does that mean to laugh something off well if you make a mistake but you just want to move on you don't want to focus on the mistake then you laugh it off you decide to just make light of the situation make light of it and just forget about it just move on so they both laugh nervously they laugh it off and what do they decide to do just stick with Buddy they say hey hey

hey you know what let's just forget about it you call me buddy I'll call you buddy problem solved all right quick speed the last time we are going to read today's sentence let's do it Tom forgets someone's name at a party and tries to avoid saying it so he keeps calling a buddy even as the conversation gets more Awkward until the other person asks do you even remember my name to which Tom stammers blurting out and Chris and the other person laughs and says close but no cigar It's Pat before sheepishly adding wait what's your

name again both laugh nervously and decide to just stick with Buddy awesome job my friends if you made it through that entire super sentence take your hand give yourself a pat on the back because you are doing fantastic next we have a language breakdown yeah we're going to take a closer look very quick at a couple of the more difficult Expressions we saw in that story starting with close but no cigar once again this means almost correct or successful but not quite yeah doesn't quite hit the mark isn't quite accurate it comes from old carnival

games where cigars were given as prizes oh that's kind of interesting I didn't know that here are two example sentences one he almost guessed the number of jelly beans and the jar close but no cigar yeah you know there's a Jar full of candy all of these jelly beans and someone is guessing how many yeah how many Jelly Beans the number of jelly beans in the jar maybe they guess you know 350 but there's actually 360 so close but no cigar the team nearly won the match but missed the final goal close but no cigar

yes so they almost won the game or the match we can also say but they missed the final goal so they were close to winning but close but no cigar remember blurt out blurt out it means to say something suddenly without thinking often in an awkward or emotional moment so she blurted out the answer in class before the teacher finished the question yeah I think we all had a person like this in our class when we were in school growing up yeah the teachers's pet in English we call this kind of student the teachers pet

it means they want to be the teacher's favorite student and so they are desperate to answer all of the teachers questions and impress them I was so nervous I blurted out my secret without meaning to what does it mean to stick with something it means to continue doing or using something even if it's not perfect or you are unsure about it so for example I decided to stick with my current job even though it's not ideal it's not the perfect situation or the ideal situation but this guy is going to stick with his job his

current job that means the job he has right now right he's going to stick with it gonna stick with it that means yeah it's not his favorite job in the world but he's going to keep going with it let's stick with this restaurant it has great reviews yeah maybe one person wants to leave the other person wants to stay and they say let's stick with this restaurant let's not go somewhere else after all after all it has great reviews in other words people have a lot of positive things to say about it and now for

my personal favorite part of these videos some speaking practice cool down down yeah you know Guys these super sentence videos are a lot like a hit workout a high intensity training workout for your English and like every good workout we need a cool down so I have a question for you are you good with names yeah do you have a good memory for people's names what do you do if you've forgotten someone's name at a party do you have a special technique or trick what I want you to do is try and speak for one

full minute I'm going to go first and give you a demonstration of what I'd like you to try and do so first listen to me and my response then it will be your turn Okay so yeah in my personal case in my personal situation you know I could relate a lot to today's story because I'm terrible with names it's really bad it's really awkward it's really embarrassing for example my current job on the weekend that I do right now I've been there for 2 years two years and there are still several people who I work

with on a daily basis but I don't know their name why don't I know their names because uh I never asked they never introduced themselves to me and I never asked them and now it's too late I feel like it's too late to ask it's pretty embarrassing and if I were to ask them now I just feel like that would be really cringe they'd be like you didn't know my name for 2 years all right that was my embarrassing response to this question now it's your turn take the full minute push yourself to keep going

talk for that full minute go ahead e okay my friends as as always like this video to support me in my work as your YouTube English teacher you can leave me a comment saying more like this to give me even more support or you can become a channel member to give me the most support of all like I said at the beginning of this video we smashed right through the 150,000 subscriber Mark and as long as you guys keep supporting my content I will keep making content for you level one slow read are you ready

Anna decides to improve her English once again medium speed Anna decides to improve her English Okay so we've got a main character Anna okay a girl what's she deciding to do she is making a decision making a choice to do what to improve her English yeah she wants to work on her English she wants to step up her English learning game let's say it at a quick speed and then level up our game to level two ready Anna decides to improve her English again Anna decides to improve her English again Anna decides to improve her

English level two slow read ready Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day medium speed Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day so now we see how Anna is practicing yeah she's practicing every day she has started to do this every day sounds like she's taking her English learning Journey pretty seriously again quick speed then we will level up ready Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day again Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day last time Anna decides to improve her

English and starts practicing every day let your words flow as you speak at the quick speed try to find the rhythm of the language level three slow read Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles again medium speed Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles okay now we're seeing what she is doing every day she is reading short articles that sounds like a pretty good way to improve your English right if you can find a resource a resource that offers short

articles that are written at your English level then that's great you can practice your English and yeah if they are non-fiction articles you can learn as you go right you can learn about the real world two birds one stone quick speed Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every Day by reading short articles again Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles level four slow read Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases

aloud medium speed let's go Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud awesome so we see more of how she is practicing her English every day right she's not just reading online articles that's not all that she's doing she's doing more than that she's watching online videos she is repeating phrases is aloud or we could say out loud yeah she's actually opening her mouth and speaking out loud repeating aloud what she is hearing this is called shadowing and it is a

fantastic technique a fantastic tool to improve your listening and speaking skills Quick speed here we go Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short art articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud awesome job guys we are halfway done already let's jump right into level five with a slow read Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem Tricky Tricky this word just means difficult or challenging yeah if if there is

a piece of language an expression a phrase a a vocabulary word that you are struggling to grasp that you are struggling to learn we can say that It's Tricky yeah it's it's giving you some trouble it's a bit Troublesome we could also say It's Tricky skip the medium speed quick speed here we go Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky level six slow read Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by

reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky like idioms and phrasal verbs by the way if you guys are struggling with idioms or you just want to learn some fun English Expressions make sure you check out my 50 English idioms video quick speed here we go Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky like idioms and PHR verbs level seven let's kick it up to a medium speed read

here we go Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky like idioms and phrasal verbs which she tries to use in conversations with her friends this is awesome Anna is incorpor ating what she is learning into real life conversations with her friends this is obviously one of the best ways to learn English take what you're learning and make it your own quick speed here we go Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day

by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky like idioms and phrasal verbs which she tries to use in conversations with her friends level eight medium speed let's jump in Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky like idioms and phrasal verbs which she tries to use in conversations with her friends to feel more confident awesome yeah she's doing this and she is building confidence she is becoming more

and more sure of herself sure of herself confident in herself obviously if you see something in a textbook and you've never actually used it in a conversation it's going to be a bit nerve-wracking when you finally do try and use it right so what's the solution for this anxiety you got to put yourself out there and just do it just use it use it use it use it use what you learn as much as you can get comfortable with it right quick speed let's go Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day

by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky like idioms and phrasal verbs which she tries to use in conversations with her friends to feel more confident almost done guys push at a medium speed let's read level n Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky like idioms and phrasal verbs which she tries to use in conversations with her friends to feel more confident and natural so not only

is she feeling more confident yeah she is gaining Confidence from doing this or by doing this right it also is making her feel more natural when she speaks English more comfortable more confident more natural these are all benefits of incorporating what you learn into real life conversations quick speed let's go Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky like idioms and phrasal verbs which she tries to use in conversations with her friends to feel more confident

and natural amazing and here we are guys at level 10 the final boss of this super sentence let's Dive Right In with a mediump speed read let's go Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky like idioms and phrasal verbs which she tries to use in conversations with her friends to feel more confident and natural reminding herself that small steps lead to big success is this the longest sentence you guys have ever spoken or what this

one is a real doozy a real doozy that means it's pretty difficult Anna gives herself a really important reminder here small steps lead to big success a journey of a thousand miles is made up of single steps right so this is important when you are learning English to not let yourself get too overwhelmed with it all right keep your goals and your actions focused small bite-sized in English we sometimes call this actionable goals actionable goals goals that you can actually you know take action and complete if you set a big goal and then you are

not able to complete this big goal that feels terrible right and it's discouraging and it will feel like a setback but if you set a smaller goal and then you actually accomplish it that is a big boost to your confidence one more time quick speed let's go Anna decides to improve her English and starts practicing every day by reading short articles watching online videos and repeating new phrases aloud especially ones that seem tricky like idioms and phrasal verbs what she tries to use in conversations with her friends to feel more confident and natural reminding herself

that small steps lead to big success if you made it this far as your YouTube English teacher I am super super proud of you take your hand give yourself a pat on the back you are doing amazing and you know what if you are in the middle of a study session you should keep going why not I'm going to put another one of my videos up on the screen go click on it I'll meet you there we'll keep going together