 Hello everyone, I am your teacher Robin Shaw and welcome to today's live stream today is another Question and answer so if you have any questions, I will answer them They can be about English or anything whatever you want to talk about today. Let's get started here. Just adjust the camera There that's a little bit better My hair is turning to get long again Maybe I should grow it out like I did last year. What do you think? All right, let's check the comments See who is here all the good students If you are here and watching now, you are a good student Layla's here Palavi. Hello Doing well sleep Walker. Okay, the regulars are here Miss M Shah M Shah. Hey, how's it going? Hey for Anna. Hey, hey for Anna. Hello. See Ed Falak. How are you doing? I'm okay. See me. Hello All right, we got some students here Layla comes in with the first question How is the weather in Korea these days? Well? Starting to get cold It's about zero degrees Celsius So it's right at the freezing point I Have to wear a winter jacket. So yeah, it's getting cold here. How's the weather in your country? Layla and other people. Is it cold yet? Prashant. Hello Malki. Hello I think I got everyone You know, sometimes I miss names and People get sad. I don't want anybody to be sad. I want to make sure everyone's happy. All right. So if you got a question Bring it ask me the question. It can be about English. It can be about life whatever Layla says no problem. Try to grow your beard. Well, I shaved today But yeah, I can grow a big beard Maybe I'll grow a big beard. I don't know problem with the beard is my passport is like this clean face So if I grow a beard, I can't travel because it doesn't match my passport One time I Had a beard and I was traveling in India. I think I was at the Mumbai Airport. Mumbai Airport is beautiful and They looked at my passport. They looked at me my passport clean face. I Had the beard and then security took me to the back room and they wanted to talk to me because They were worried That something strange was happening. So they talked to me for about 20 minutes. Who are you? What are you doing? Why do you look different than your passport? So I don't want to go through that experience again. All right side Like it's cold in our state. How cold is cold? You can practice typing temperature Hey, friend of me. I ask a silly question. There are no silly questions. There can be silly answers But no silly questions. Do does beard warms you during? Chilly days and we're gonna go to the board because I'm gonna make a lesson out of this. Let's go to the board here and Your question is important. So let's paste it All right, there's no silly questions. Let's get rid of that. Let's fix up your question though Let's make a little bit bigger for you guys on phones Does beard warms you during chilly days now? Problems does we got to say do and If we want to speak general we got a we got to use beards plural on beards for general and Then warm This would be a better question. Do beards warn you during chilly big days or? If you want to be specific to me just me this is general to kind of everyone but for me does your Beard Warm you during chilly days. All right, so this is the two possible ways you can ask this question do beards Kind of like for everyone And does your beard just my experience and I like your use of chilly days. That's good using the word chilly good word to use and the answer to that I would say is Yes and No, I think it helps if it's windy my beard might block the wind But if it's just cold, you know doesn't really help And my arm my arm here doesn't really help I think Maybe a little bit with the wind But I didn't see a noticeable difference keeping me warm It's not that thick All right, let's see Oh here the weather is still cool and some days we have warm weather. Okay. I want winter Laila And let's check out Laila's question here Do you have any plans to travel to somewhere usually we just take out the two do Do you have any plans to travel somewhere in the coming days? I have no plan Laila it's very still very very difficult to travel I Don't like traveling in Korea because I've seen most parts of Korea already But Traveling to another country I can't I'm not even thinking about that yet. That's still very very difficult right now Justina. Hello, Manic. Hello, and Pallavi comes in with a question. Let's put that question up here on the board and take a look sir You're too polite. Just call me Robin. What to do to memorize new words of English And let's change this not as a what question. I think this would be better as a how question how Do I Memorize new words in English and Let's use English as How do I memorize new English words? This is the best question to ask How do I ma'am? How do I memorize new English words? Your question was what to do that? That's possible. What to do, but it's a little bit awkward. How do I memorize new English words? Well, I Never I mean I don't like lists. I don't like it when students Try to memorize lists To me. This is not a good Not a good way And I like reading Because you don't really want to memorize what you want to do is learn or acquire You know, there there are times to memorize lists. I would agree when I studied I studied Chinese before in Japanese and Korean and you know in the beginning You need to learn the basic words. So a list is very useful. But when you start getting higher Don't don't do lists You don't want to memorize what you want to do is a lot of reading the more reading you do the more you will acquire and learn these words So I always recommend reading not lists Okay What's leila asking here? What happens when do you use this expression? And is there any formal uses for this situation? What happens when? Is the expression what happens What happens? Uh I'm trying to think of a situation. It would have been nice if you gave me a situation So what uh, here's a question. What happens when you mix Baking soda and vinegar. So you take baking soda and vinegar you mix them. What happens What occurs? I'm not sure the question leila. I can't really help you unless you give me more Information what happens just just what happens? I don't know the situation So I had six degrees Six degrees. Oh good six degrees is not bad CB What's cb asking If you wake up tomorrow morning and find out that you became a millionaire overnight What is the first thing you would do? Well cb a millionaire is probably not going to change my life very much. Uh, I know that's a lot of money, but You know these days a million dollars doesn't doesn't get you very far You know, you might be able to buy a nice house somewhere, but you still got to save So in my case, I don't know about you If I woke up and there was an extra million dollars in my bank account Uh, it's not going to change my life. I'm still Doing the same things. I'm still teaching. I'm still coming here to talk to you guys Uh, so for me Not much Money doesn't really affect my life too much Leila today the temperature is 25 degrees Uh, okay. I'm going to fix your expression there So 25 you got to put this little this little circle here Comes before the sea But 25 is nice. I wish I wish it was 25 I know in Saudi Arabia where you are 25 degrees is nice Uh, but the summers of 40 45 degrees I don't know if I can survive this All right, who's asked sleepwalker asks This skirt and blouse match Okay These shoes don't fit me. Okay This dress suits you perfectly Please check my sentences. This skirt and mouse blouse match Looks good These shoes don't fit me looks good. This dress suits you perfectly. Look looks good. All all of these, uh sentences Uh, look fine No problem Nirmala, Jennifer. Hello CB What is the most profitable type of business to open in your country? I don't know. I'm not a businessman So I don't know about profitable business. Uh, I don't know I'm not a businessman CB Manic asks serve Will and shall what difference what is the difference and let's put a question mark. Don't forget the question marks for questions Uh I will check your homework I shall check your homework In this case, there's other cases, but I'll just talk about this now Shall is Kind of older English We still use shall In some situations, but this is kind of older English Uh, slowly disappearing not so popular anymore But in this case, I will check your English. I shall check I will check your homework I shall check your homework shall is more polite, but actually we wouldn't use this statement With shall we usually use it in a question form. Shall I check your homework? As more of a polite question shall I so I will you're talking about future what you're going to do and shall used in a question Asking politely if I can do something. So this is usually how We use shall these days Hope that helps. Let's move on They were given a handout on job hunting. I don't know that sentence. Let's see. I'll hand out the exam paper. Okay Uh, I'll hand out the exam paper could hand out and hand out have the same meaning. Well, no You're talking about right here. This is going to be a noun And right here is going to be verb So they don't have the same meaning because there are different parts of speech right there Are they similar? Well depends on the context In this case I'm not sure on job hunting. I'm not sure the expression but a handout is usually given something for free This is a verb. So, uh, yeah, they're not the same Not the same meaning is the answer. These are very different hand out and a handout Uh It's a little bit different CB what does it mean lists? Oh go to the dictionary CB I am not the dictionary Thanks, robin. When we were a pair of new when we wear a pair of new shoes sometimes out our Feet get hurt Let's fix this up. Thanks robin got that When we wear a pair of new shoes sometimes our feet get hurt What should we call that situation when blisters Formed because of it. Do we call it as a sickness? Uh My well my feet Have blisters You might say that Do we call it as a sickness? I I don't know if I feed my feet I don't know We just say I have blisters on my feet I I got blisters. We that's usually how we express that we don't call it a specific Sickness just I got blisters on my feet Um So you you might just say my feet hurt I got blisters blisters On my feet That is the only way I know To express it My my feet hurt. I got blisters on my feet. My feet have blisters something like that It's the best I can do with that one Hi, sir. This is from satec chadre Hi, sir. I want to practice my american accent. How can I do it? Uh, are you in america because if you are not in america you do not need American accent So if you are in america, whatever region you are in america because america has so many different accents. There is not one american accent So wherever you are in america, you should be able to pick up that accent If you're not in america and you want to learn american accent, I don't teach that I don't I don't follow that thinking that you need to learn american accent or british accent English is an international language american accent is never the the standard accent Unless you live there Justina, what is your definition of success? I think you asked that before justina. Uh, I said, uh, My definition of success is you you make a plan To accomplish something So you you plan something you work hard And then you accomplish That plan So if you go through this To me that is success Plan work hard accomplish it. You are successful. So Big or small doesn't matter. That's success Oh, okay, leila gave some extra information All right, so this case uh continuing with the what happened, uh person a says I cut my hand And person b says what happened? So the uh, it's very common to say what happened. So yeah, what happened what occurred What is the reason For your cut hand tell me the story So what happened and then a would continue, uh, I was Cutting onions and cut my hand with the knife All right, I cut my hand. What happened and then What's how what's the reason what occurred for this to happen? What happened? What happens, uh If we use what happens, what can I say? Put your card in Put your card in the machine And then person me then what Happens what Will occur so happened past tense happens. What happens now? What's going to happen? Uh A machine will give you money. I don't know put your Put your card in the machine Then what happens? So what occurs? The machine will give you money Shall is used when you're supposed to do something. Yeah, I shall do it Not necessary. It's just a very polite way to say I'll do something Layla's in here. I speak English great. I draw pictures great. Could I say great instead of well? um You can But that's very awkward. I don't I don't think native speakers Express themselves that way. I speak English great, you know When you have questions like that, you can go to uglish That's great Let's see if anyone said that There we go. Well, that's not that's not the same so no From this native speakers don't express themselves that way. So No, the answer is no So dick I answered your question You got to wait How do you practice your american answer? I Do you live in america? I talked about that. Oh, dwee has an interesting question. I need to ring up all my friends And invite them to my party. What is the meaning of ring up? Ring up would be an idiom of call. I need to call my friends Ring is the telephone ring ring. I need to call CB what was the best decision you made in the last 10 years? I guess starting My youtube channel My youtube channel started 2014 So not quite 10 years, but that allowed me to meet you cb What's the best thing you did cb? Sleepwalker robin. Have you seen some blogger did a squid game for real people? Yes one of them won about half a million dollars Yes, it's not a long video, but it was interesting to see. Yeah. I think that was mr. Beast The youtuber he created the squid game games I heard of the video. Uh, I know of the video. I didn't watch the video. Uh, that's Not really interesting to me, but uh Good fruit. I like mr. Beast. He's a really popular youtuber. I Respect him. I heard a native English speaker say I have one Aunt on my mother's side. So do you think We could do you think could we say that instead of saying I have one aunt from my mother's side? Okay Let's just get rid of this I have one aunt on my mother's side. I have one aunt from my mother's side. I think both of those are fine Both of those are fine If I had to choose probably this this one is better On my mother's side Uh But certainly I think this is common too So again, I would go to euglish Let's just pop that into euglish there So one out of 40 from my mother's side right there. You can see it's being used From my mother's side Let's check on my mother's side. So this had 40 On my mother's side 134. So Uh From euglish I learned I learned both of them are acceptable This one is a little more common, but both are fine Abdul Alamri. Hello Pallavi, how how many accent can a person speak? Well, most people speak with one accent But some people I know some people that can switch between american accent and british accent So palavi, don't worry about accent. You just keep working on pronunciation Afran, let's take a look Let's say for an a half One at a time a small progress is also a success We're experiencing learning process along our whole lifetime Lifetime should be one word Please check my sentence. I am checking your sentence How about one step at a time? One step at a time a small a small progress A small We might express some progress is also a success We're experiencing The learning process along Our whole lifetime Okay, something like that Megdalena Siotang Let's see what you got to say Sir I want to ask what is the way that can be done so that we are able to understand idioms because I think idioms are very difficult to understand well I don't I don't Teach idioms so much. There are some common idioms you need to know, but there's a lot of idioms. You don't need to know I don't think idioms are so important Uh for learning learners of english. Yes, there are some Popular and common idioms, but you will learn them quickly, but there's a lot of idioms every day You know students are asking about idioms And You know when I see or hear that idiom, I'm like, I don't even know that idiom or that idiom is very uncommon So The best way to understand idioms is read Read more I would not study books of idioms. That would be such a waste of time Uh Idioms are very difficult to understand But the more you read the more you will understand idioms Especially if you read comic books Layland is asking what's the specific term do you use to express to pay off the bill for using water as well as electricity? Well, I I need to pay the power The power bill maybe for electricity I need to pay the water bill I need to pay the utility bill Utility might mean power and water together. I'm not sure if that's What you're asking So I paid off the power bill. I paid off the water bill. I paid off the utility bill Layla, which one is correct? Do you like the way I cook rice? do you like The way I cook rice with the the first one this one Maybe there are apps to learn idioms. I wouldn't recommend an app to learn an idiom. I wouldn't You know idioms are as I said in previous videos usually idioms are used by older and older people And uh You can go you know just common idioms, but you can go through life without knowing a lot of idioms. No problem All right, Layla, I'm always I'm always used to Robin helping me when I have any English question Many students are used to Robin helping them at the university. Did I make my sentences properly? Everything is perfect. No problem Pallavi again, how many accents can a person speak? Pallavi most people speak you just have your one accent Don't worry about being having two accents just worry about one Michelle hi, I fell asleep you fell asleep during my live stream or before my live stream Michelle Questions I'm waiting I caught up on the questions very fast. Let's see Now is the best time to ask questions. Let's see if I missed the question Layla asks This will go use thing word all time when speaking or writing or not Uh informal informal writing or speaking you should not You should not use thing in formal writing or speaking If you're writing an essay or doing an interview, don't use thing So Thing, you know, what is thing if someone said go to the store and pick up things You are gonna be huh You know things is a not specific word in formal writing or speaking we should be specific Ooh a friend has something big Women's empowerment Needs so women's empowerment is it needs to be implemented in each government in this world. Yes Most of the discrimination is usually uncounts occurs Because they don't involve They don't involve in the decision. Okay. All right my sentence correct. No, uh, okay Women's empowerment needs to be implemented in each government In each In each let's say every Every government in this world Most of the discrimination Discrimination let's keep that as uncountable Occurs most of the discrimination occurs because They right here. We're gonna use use put do not but we're gonna change that to are not So they women let's just be more specific women are not involved In the decision-making process. Okay, women's Empowerment needs to be implemented in every government in this world Most of the discrimination occurs Even I would take out this most of Most discrimination occurs because women are not involved in the decision-making process. Okay, franta There's some good sentences here Robin, let's do any quiz next time. Hey Sleepwalker, um Sleepwalker, I know Uh The problem is uh, when I made learning English live And I have my other uh channel So when I made uh learning English live, I guess three or four years ago Shaw English online had about 400,000 subscribers But now char English is Uh one million I've gained a million subscribers So what I'm trying to say is sleepwalker, I had a lot of time a few years ago now not so much time This is eating up a lot of my time. So I will try to do that uh sleepwalker, but uh It's getting harder and harder every every week to create content for this channel because my other channel's so big It doesn't mean I make more money. It just means I have more work Ebche, hello Before okay, good to know michel Yeah, I know I wish I could do more for this channel That's hard Uh, so do you have any other? Word instead of thing if you want to talk about something in general. No just be specific Pick up some things. No Pick up be specific some apples and bananas This is best for writing or speaking formally Andre. Hello, Andre. Okay. Layla has an interesting question I feel there is A nuance between but I don't know what He's getting old and he's getting older. What do you think? What's the nuance he's getting old He's getting older Well This yeah, it would be more kind. You know, I don't want to say but I will say You know kind of a negative thing to say he's getting old Now remember older doesn't mean old You know, uh, if I have a son and he's three years old And now he's five years old He's older You know, so it's the older is not necessarily about old. It's just older the age is above But old is about old getting old. So So this is for old people, let's say he's getting old he's 60 years old He's getting older just means maybe maturity So in this case I would in this case, I wouldn't say he's getting old Because this the age is too young, but I could say he's getting older, which means he's becoming more mature So it's not I don't think it's a nuance. I think it's a very direct difference between he's getting old. He's getting older We do we we will have plenty of time. Is it the same meaning as plenty and a lot of yeah Plenty and a lot of are the same We have a lot of time. We have plenty of time Of course, this this word plenty is better for your aisles test It's a better word than a lot of Both of them are okay, but of course this is a little bit better Vocabulary andre don't stuff stuff and things are words we can use in english But I'm talking about formal essay Definitely don't use things or stuff in an essay or an interview. Thank you Nirmala Oh, are you an introvert or an extrovert? Well Let's take a look at what oxford I'm going to the oxford dictionary right now. Let's see extrovert All right. So the oxford dictionary has extrovert A lively and confident person who enjoys being with other people Lively That maybe that means a lot of energy. I don't think I have much energy Confident maybe I'm confident I enjoy being with other people No, not I don't think these days You know because of the pandemic everyone likes to be alone Now am I introvert A quiet person who is more interested in their own thoughts and feelings and in spending time with other people Yeah, probably I'm an introvert But I'm not shy. I I'm quiet, but I'm not shy Nirmala, are you an introvert or an extrovert? Layla has a question Are you passing through the busiest time for you these days or not? Uh Passing through passing through is easy Going driving through a town or something. I might say are you going through the busiest time? So you already say you So you don't need for you again Are you going through the busiest time these days or not? Are you going through The busiest time? How about your busiest? Are you going through your busiest time these days or not? Yes, I'm going through my busiest time Sir, what is the proper use of the prepositions on? At and in now I'm I made a video about that Let's see if I can Find the video preposition. Oh, yeah, I have a prepositions practice Back when I had a beard Samos I'm gonna share that video Check out that video about prepositions. That will help you. I'm not I can't teach that right now Sometimes slangs. I think slang is uncountable can be so confusing. Yes. How to understand some slang During a conversation we are not familiar with. Well, that's not easy. It's confusing Just ask the person, you know Sometimes when I speak to people and they use slang, I don't know. I will ask them Well, what does that mean? There's no problem to ask. Hey, what does that mean? Because I don't understand all slang And sometimes you can guess from the context of the situation I have no secret answer I know some of you are looking for the magical answer. I don't have I don't have magical answers If we say a nuance kid that means a slight difference No, I don't think nuance and slight difference is the same Hey, Verana, I can't differentiate Differentuate between on the farm and in the farm. I'm happy if you could explain more about that. Thanks. All right Well, let me think on the farm Well, there are three pigs On the farm There are three pigs in the farm Now I'm going to say the first one is correct Does that mean the second one is wrong? There are three pigs in the farm Uh I'm going to say this is awkward or not correct. But again, let's go to euglish. I'm using euglish so much Let's see in the farm. Let's see what people Used it for In the how to pronounce in the farm. No Hello This is in the farm yard No Okay, so Sorry for the quiet Usually this is used as an adjective So on the farm this farm if the farm is a noun on the farm So the first sentence is correct on the farm But you're off from the euglish. I saw a farm is usually used as an adjective Which is describing, you know, something after farm so farm buildings. There are Three pigs in the farm buildings Used as an adjective But if you just wanted to express that there's something on the farm Like animals we would use on the farm. Oh, we have lots of introverts A harry robin A harry robin That's an ugly blue a harry robin. Can we say like that? Uh Robin is harry You could there's a better way to express someone is harry robin is harry Nowadays I am extremely busy with joining classes drawing I'm not sure Okay, so I don't read in english a lot, but I think in english all all the time And the course is In english Do you think i'm delinquent? Nope Haha, is it impossible to understand the slang if you do not know the specific meaning? Well, let's do a test Now i'm gonna say your Gum fee Is beautiful Your gum fee is beautiful on your finger. What is a gum fee? So we have information here A gum fee is not a real word. I just made that word up right now as a slang But we have a word nobody has heard you never heard it before comfy. What's that? But we have clues is beautiful on your finger. So maybe What do we put on our finger? Well, the only thing we put on our finger is a ring So I never heard the word gum fee But because of the other words I can my my brain might tell me hey, that's probably a ring Okay So Slang is like that you you some slang is You know if I said your gum fee is beautiful We don't have enough information you have to ask what is a gum fee? But other times we have information we can figure it out That's slang So gum you guys gum fee is not a real word. I just made that up now Do not ever say gum fee again. That is not a word. It was just this is my example Going to ballet next week and what is different? I mean if I say I'm going to ballet, could you explain me the first one is I'm using going to and second one is present Continuous. Okay. I'm going to ballet next week. Is this a trick question. It's the same thing You wrote the same sentence Okay, well, maybe you wanted to say I go to ballet next week because this is the same as this one I go to ballet next week with is the Present Present simple and I'm going to and sometimes we use present simple for future Future action. So both of these mean the same thing. What are you trying to say? I'm going to ballet. I'm going to ballet So present continuous use for future action. I'm confused. Do we can you be more specific? Sleepwalker don't use that word Jonathan hey So we always need to know The whole context to understand the slang Yeah, it's a new word It's the same problem if I hear the new word if I can't figure it out by context I have to ask and every day I ask people all around the world. What does that word mean? I don't understand that word Uh, because I talk to people in English and they use slang and I don't know I asked them. What does that mean? I never heard that before Okay, I think I'm going to finish up the Livestream now. So thank you We'll finish up in a minute. So if you guys are typing your questions get them Get them typed Frida a very high finally. I'm here. Well, we're leaving. We're we're we're finishing up All right a foranna When you're when you're losing your health that means you're losing your wealth health is wealth Everyone usually takes for granted Or takes it for granted. That's how would you express that? Have a balanced lifestyle that is that That is that can guarantee you to have a beautiful life. Okay, I fixed that out. Please check my sentences. Okay, there we go When you're losing your health, that means you're losing your wealth Health is wealth Everyone usually takes it for granted takes it for granted We don't appreciate it enough Have a balanced lifestyle that can guarantee Guarantee you to have a beautiful life. Okay All right, that's it guys Thanks again See you next week Take care and keep studying English