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Hello everyone welcome to today's live stream I am your teacher Robin Shaw and I am teaching here from South Korea and I'm here to help you with your English questions so if you have any English questions start putting them down and while you guys are putting your English questions I'm just gonna quickly check the chat and I see the chat wow it's very busy okay Leila hello Dwi Palavi is here all the great students sleepwalkers here they're talking back and forth good everyone's friends Ravin pad V hello I'm trying to read all you guys justine is here you wrote a lot tinesh hello and lots of talking between you it's probably the most talking between the students I've seen okay guys have you seen any any or do you have any questions thank you Leila for telling me you can hear and see me that's always important okay so Leila has this live event here I'll put that on the board display capture let's put this up here this this live event will begin in 30 minutes this live event will begin 30 minutes later that's the same same thing that's the same thing and Mubasher Ali hello sir I'm from Bangladesh I have been to Bangladesh I wanted to make some American or Canadian friends but they didn't reply to me on Facebook how can we make native American or Canadian friends it sounds like someone's at my door I hope how can we make just a moment sorry someone was at my door very strange because it's 10 30 at night during my live stream I'm getting someone at my door all right let's see hello sir I'm from Bangladesh I wanted to make some American or Canadian friends but they didn't reply to me to me on Facebook how can we make native or Canadian friends I hope you'll say thank you well I really hate this sort of person please be my friend so I can learn English very often I meet this kind of person please be my friend so I can learn English and someone's at my door again don't don't be this kind of person so please be my friend so I can learn English so if you want to make friends you have to you know you have to offer something don't just ask give me English you have to offer something so I don't know what kind of groups you're joining on Facebook but you have to if you want to make friends you have to be sincere about making friends making a friendship and it's hard to make friends on Facebook you know no it's online nobody nobody you know people at Facebook are there to get information not really to make friends so I'm about sure I it's hard I know it's hard I don't think Facebook maybe WhatsApp is a better place than Facebook so I would recommend WhatsApp or Telegram then Facebook see Leila he was up in arms about the results of the election what does when you're up here oh well I'm not a dictionary Leila so we go well I'll check Oxford first up in arms if it's there and what does it say right down here right in the Oxford dictionary and I'll just copy paste it's right there copy and paste from the dictionary be up in arms about or over something informal to be very angry about something and ready to protest strongly about it so you know to find that in the dictionary guys you know I use Oxford I just type up in arms hit enter and it goes right to the expression down here so before you ask me please try to check the dictionary so there you go be very angry about something and ready to protest I can hear birds sounds that's my doorbell Robin we have this form I would like for example I would like to see it I would it be natural to say I would want to see it and if yes does it is it mean absolutely the same okay let's put these comments here for these sentences I would like to see it I would want to see it yeah this is there they don't mean the same they're very similar yeah they're very similar I'd like to see it I would want to see it when we would use these very different very different so a might see I have a new cat and then B says I would like to see it okay now for I would want to see it I have a new cat okay they're not gonna say I'd want to see it they would say I'd like to see it I would want to see it and we need more information I would want to see it in person or something like that so if you want to use I would want to see it usually there's more information required for that yeah this is telling me they want to say like let's see what you you you Glish says because I can't think of all examples in the world alright so I typed in I would want to see it in you Glish and yes it got 54 hits and you could see it I would want to see it there's some more information after I would want to see it increase some something like that so it's similar but we use these expressions in a different way if you say I want to see it you need more information that's the best I could do in two minutes sorry all right what else collocations yes Magdalena you can ask about Caucasians what's your question do you have a phobia Robin I have no phobia Robin does it change the meaning of the sentence if you's gerund or infinitive in the following example I tried to open the door I tried opening the door that's in this case they mean the same I tried so we have our our infinitive form to open and we have our gerund here opening gerunds always have the ing so he's asking is there a difference sometimes there's a big difference but in this case no there's no difference I tried to open the door I tried opening the door that would mean the same thing whom are you going to go with who are you going to go with which one is correct well this is a question between who whom and who and if you want the technical rules I don't know all the technical rules of whom or whom but you know I would I would probably ask the question with whom are you going to go with who are you going to go with which one is correct grammatically probably this one is correct but in usage native speakers are probably going to use this one for usage we don't usually use whom anymore it's more who that you know doesn't make it right but you know if native speakers are using a preferred way then it is right and most native speakers speakers are just going to use who if you're writing a test you might want to use whom sleepwalker I got to this party I got on this party I turned out on this are those sent okay we got let's fix up there make sure we got a capital I for the beginning are those sentences correct and mean the same I got to this party well this is missing some information I would say they're all wrong they're all wrong I got to this party at maybe you want to give some time expression I got on this party no this is wrong we can't use this one I turned out on this party no so maybe you could say I got to this party at 8 p.m. got meaning came or arrived but yeah the other two don't make sense of Kumar hello and love Kumar has a basic question here what is the difference between how are you and how do you do so both very common English greetings how are you how do you do what's the difference they mean the same thing basically a hello a greeting hello how are you your answer would be I'm fine and how do you do you know you could also answer with I'm fine how do you do good I may be good you could say I'm fine what's the difference I think the how do you do I might be how do you do is more for the first meeting I might say something hi I am Robin how do you do for the first meeting when I first meet someone and they respect and someone says hi I love Kumar nice to meet you so this how do you do is probably for the first meeting now the second third meeting I would just say hey love Kumar how are you I probably would never say how do you do to you again I would always say how are you so how do you do mainly for the first meeting because I didn't find up in arms in the dictionary directly I thought it was an idiom it is an idiom idioms are in the dictionary Samuel hi Dinesh hi oh Bashar how can we improve our listening skill which channel should we follow CNN no ABC no don't listen to news for listening I would never recommend listening to CNN or BBC news this is not really gonna help your listening in a practical way I would suggest just finding a YouTube channel you'd like not an English teaching channel just a normal YouTube channel where they speak English and watch that channel to improve your listening if you are interested in CNN if you are interested in news okay listen to news but if you're interested in news listen to news if you're not interested in news that's a terrible way to improve your listening I do not recommend that try to listen listen to thing or not things listen to material you'll say content see see Layla I didn't want to write things listening to content you would like to listen to is best so the key word here is like you have to like it don't if you don't like CNN or BBC do not listen to it it's not gonna help you if you like the topic that will make you listen more and care more love Kumar which modal auxiliary should be used while making polite requests for modals most of them are used for polite requests and love Kumar I'm sorry I'm not gonna go into all the modals that'll take more than two minutes that'll take 10 minutes to teach that but most modals are used for polite request pull avi you are like a bull in a china shop so let's take your let's take your comment there your question I know what it means but I mean if you put that well if you put that in Google there you quickly get this and I'm just gonna copy it my job is copy from Google behaving recklessly and clumsily in a place or situation where one is like to cause damage or injury let's keep your original phrase there so this is common in England how common well you should you might hear about this of course pull avi heard this somewhere you are like a bull in a china shop this is not a nice thing to say to someone because according to Google you're behaving recklessly and clumsily so the the china shop is not talking about China the country or a Chinese shop it's China usually means very nice dishes let's get the definition of China okay China is a white clay anyway China is usually expressed China is expensive dishes made I don't know the details of why these dishes are called China and how they are made but when we in someone buys good China that means they bought very expensive dishes so a china shop is a place where there's expensive materials dishes and pots and vases so if you put a bowl in a china shop that bowl is going to destroy everything so you never want to put a bowl in a china shop that bowl is so big it would break all these expensive dishes so when you said when you say to someone you are like a bowl in a china shop that usually means they're very reckless or clumsy it's not a good thing to say and you're like a bowl in a china shop that's very dangerous too so the key words here behaving recklessly clumsily and cause damage or injury so I would add the word dangerous someone is here let's just say reckless clumsy and dangerous I've just known the exact difference between is I used to is a verb and I'm used to is an adjective what are you talking about verb adjective there I'm used to jogging or I used to jog oh for you don't want to put it you don't want to put a gerund here you want to just use I used to jog you don't want to put it with used to it's going to be the infinitive form to something I used to there is no you cannot put to jogging that's impossible this this combination is impossible to jogging we never have infinitive with ing that we that's impossible in English okay Samuel Dean hello all right yeah I understand lay that let's hello Robin can asinine and ludicrous be used interchangeably nope maybe these are big words for me his videos are ludicrous asinine I'll put that up on the board here I don't know Alyssa but I put everything on a whiteboard digital whiteboard so I put your sentence here and she's asking about these keywords here asinine these are big words and we'll fix the spelling it's not a bad word asinine ludicrous and she's asking if they could be used interchangeably I mean do they mean exactly the same thing and the a my instinct I don't know because I don't use these words that much they're not that common but you should know them but I'll check very close Alyssa I don't know if they can be used interchangeably I'm gonna say not you know some I can't think of every case but the safe answer is yes sometimes and sometimes no I can't think of every case they do very similar meaning sorry not teaching much today hey la that means native speakers don't use whom any longer while speaking yeah a lot of native speakers don't use whom anymore delina I'm analyzing an article and there are a few things that confuse me regarding co-location are the following words a co-location negative light competent citizen positive ways broader audience well colic you let's let's make sure we we I did a video on co-locations but let's get everyone all right co-location a combination of words in a language that happens very often and more frequently than what happened by chance so co-location usually two words or more that often go together so the following words co-location do they often go together now negative light I'm not sure no I'm gonna say no for negative light I don't know what negative light means actually it's negative light a kid it can be depending on the context you know any two words I guess possible to be co-location but yeah negative light could be a co-location a competent citizen I don't think that's a co-location I'll say definitely no like every every adjective doesn't make it a co-location positive ways this is possible again it depends on how you're saying these sentences yeah this is possible so I would say one three and four possible co-locations depending on the sentences or expressions you're using competent citizen I can't really think of any expression using competent citizen so I would need to know exactly what are the sentences you're saying but they could be low aside all right do you think there is any problem if I put a goal for me to reach for example I want to be upper advanced in English although my you're already upper you're already advanced you could be upper advanced Leila I would not put a goal like that I really dislike students who self evaluate their English so this is every day I got I you know when you when you are sick and you go to the doctor the doctor gives a diagnosis the doctor would will tell you what's wrong with you or what's right with you you know yeah as a person you know I can self diagnose myself I have a cold I have a flu but when it gets more serious you shouldn't self diagnose yourself same with English every day students self evaluate they tell me their level I'm the native speaker I'm the teacher you don't tell me your level I will tell you your level so you know Leila I really don't like that when students say I'm beginner or I'm intermediate no no don't tell me I will decide I will tell you what you are so Leila you got to get away from this self evaluation of your of your English you cannot evaluate yourself I evaluate you and you're definitely advanced if you don't like that your words cannot change my evaluation when I came there or when I come there what is correct I think both will be used both are correct depends on your time when I came there last night so past tense I saw you I saw him let's say when I come there tomorrow I will see him all right so it's just a tense problem my will is to live in the USA my willingness is to live the USA my wanting is to live in the USA if I want to do something strongly but I get which one should I I would just go with the first one my will or desire my goal is to live in the USA we good question was a difference when we use will and going to incentives these are the future tense so I will wish this should be going to be verb going to anyway I will I will I will meet you tomorrow so the future and I be verb I am going going to meet you tomorrow like that so both of them future tense now what is the difference well technically grammatically there is a difference so they but they both they're they're both expressing the future tense but there is a difference and then will is how can I say this kind of I decided right now and I'm going to I decided earlier today so will is more kind of sudden suddenly I decided right now and I'm going to is more of a plan I decided earlier today now there's other there's other differences you would have to check but a lot of native speakers don't care of the differences they just use will or going to meaning the same so what I teach students I usually tell them don't worry about the technical differences between these just be comfortable using both of these because nobody nobody's gonna you can never be good you can never be wrong using will or going to no one's gonna notice or care about any technical difference so from my point of view they're the same just expressing the future tense this is from a less I put it up on the board is it impolite to respond likewise when someone says nice to meet you or I love you is it impolite I think it depends how you say it I would not say likewise so just to make sure everyone knows if I said it's nice to meet you the usual response reply it's nice to meet you too but she's asking if someone said likewise likewise is an expression that means I have the same feeling so it's nice to meet you likewise means I have the same feeling it's nice to meet you now she's asking is that rude just to say one word I would say it's in this case if it's it's not rude but it might be lazy English likewise is not a rude word alright so how you use it you could use it in a good way a neutral way or a negative way depends on the context and how you say it but I'm gonna say it's not a bad word it's not now it's nice it's nice to meet you likewise now if you said I love you and then the person responds likewise that could be impolite because if someone says I love you you should say I love you back right likewise also seems a little lazy so in this case it might be a little in impolite and I think that's I met that's not a root English rule it's more of opinion your opinion Alyssa how would you feel if you said I love you to someone and they said likewise you would maybe feel disappointed maybe you want to hear you don't want to hear likewise you want to hear I love you too I love you too that's what I wrote there so if someone wrote likewise you might consider it rude hey Michelle okay we got a sentence from Layla this guy no no longer what he used to be this guy is no longer what he used to be so I hate him is my sentence correct yes if you put it is I hope all your life is filled with the happiness no no we don't need take out the I hope all your life will just I hope your life is filled with happiness would probably be you don't put a period there oh you don't put a question mark there that was your question I hope your life is filled with happiness that would be a better way to say that I don't want to lose you for your no no being is used in wrong I don't want to lose you for no this I don't understand your being no sorry I can't help you with this Layla I don't understand it so it is not the proper way you have to try that sentence again hello Carlos from Columbia Pallavi how to write an article you what kind of article like a newspaper article an academic article what kind of article that's very advanced Pallavi are you planning to write an English article I can't really help because this is not really an English question because do you know how to write an article in your own language same rules would apply in English so Pallavi are you planning to write an article tell me for what reason and then I'll help you what's this is from Mubash Ali what's the difference between it and this it is a pen this is a pen no when we when do we when do we when will we will we I would say do we when do we use it when do we use this please say when do we use it when do we use this please say please teach me Mubash Ali alright so it is a pen you are just saying you're just saying what something is the pen could be in your hand it could be far away it it might not even be in the room you're just saying what something is it is a pen now when you're using this or that the pen is near the pen is close and I'm identifying it so I want to so when I'm using this I'm actually pointing or looking at this is a pen I could also say it is a pen but this that is more about location right here this I'm pointing is a pen so the focus is looking and seeing and if it's far away that that is a pen so this that for location of where you are so that's a basic question Mubash so it's it's hard to explain let's see if there's a simpler way to explain it is a pen so again it is a pen is just identifying the pen pen can be here it could be anywhere it could be wherever location is not important I can say it is a pen but this that is more a location and you're pointing at the object this is a pen that is a pen something like that I didn't really prepare for this question so you know I feel sad sometimes because my answers are terrible they're not they're not the best answers so my boss sure I'm sorry if I cannot explain for you to understand I have to move on Pilavi asked what is precise writing well precise writing if I wrote a sentence precise means exact exact so when you see precise writing actually we want to use more exact words so if I had sentences here I looked out the square glass I saw the man who I felt a lot of passion for and adored to be more precise we got to use the exact words now this is simple square glass precisely exactly we just should say window I looked out the window don't say square glass I saw the man who I felt a lot of passion for and adored I would change all this to loved alright so precise writing is trying to get the perfect words and getting your your whatever you're writing very clear okay using the exact proper words which is good if you're writing an essay or something okay I'm gonna move on to my hush wood is would you like same as do you want do you want coffee well of course the wood you like is polite it's a nice would you like coffee is a polite way to ask do you want a coffee is not rude it's just this this one is more polite would you like a coffee do you want a coffee just normal Hola Serba hello I'm doing fine Bezla 100 hello there's a little more to say about it there is a little bit to say about it what is the difference okay what is the difference between the there's a little more to say about it so I talked about a topic but maybe I talked about that topic 99% so there's still a little more 1% more to say about that topic there's a little bit to say about that topic let's let's let's talk about a topic what's a topic I should have done this a long time ago I can't think of a topic my I'm starting to how long I'll be here I've been teaching 45 minutes alright so you have a topic there's a little more to say about it means I'm not finished I have more to say about the topic there's a little bit to say about it means there's not much information about that topic I want maybe I want to talk about it but there's not there's a little bit of to say about it there's not much information about that topic there's a little more to say about it means I said a lot of information but I still have to say a little bit more this case there's a little bit to say means there's not much information about that topic. Bezla 100. Hello sir, how can we improve our writing skill? Kindly give me some suggestions. Well let's improve your writing skill right now. Hello comma sir. Period. Right there. How? New sentence. Capital letter. How can we improve our writing skill? Question mark. New sentence. Kindly give me some suggestions regarding it. Period. Alright. I already improved your writing skill. You have a question. Make sure you have a question mark. If you have sentences make sure you end in a period. There you go. That's how you improve your writing skill. Read and write every day. You have to read and write every day. Keep a journal. Make comments on Facebook or my YouTube. What you're doing now is writing. Read and write every day. Reading is important because you know how other people are writing and write every day. You could also if you could also watch YouTube videos that are teaching writing to Bezla. So it's up to you to don't wait for the teacher to hold your hand. You can do all this yourself. You have the power to improve your writing right now. Okay. Dwee. See what Dwee says. Pain makes you stronger. Tears make you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser. Can you explain to me why at there makes plus s without s? The s here. Pain. This pain is uncountable now. I can't hide. What's going on? Can't hide. Pain is uncountable now. And if we had to substitute subjective pronoun it's gonna be it. So pain makes you stronger. I could say it makes you stronger. And when we have he, she or it verbs have an s. Tears is plural. So tears is they. Many tears is a they. So they make you stronger. So you, we, they, they, there's no s. Heartbreak is one a singular thing. Heartbreak and that's going to be it. So again, it makes you wiser. Okay. So it makes you stronger. So pain uncountable. They make you braver. Tears plural. One tear, two tears, we can count tears. So they make you braver. And heartbreak is one thing. We have only one heart and our heart breaks at one time. So it, this situation makes you wiser. So that's why we have s. No s s. Okay, gotta move on. The problem with current word being, I don't know how to use it correctly. For example, being a good person, I like you. No, that may make a good video, Leila, but I can't teach being right now. I wouldn't worry about it. You have to start here. So for the present continuous, this is the most present simple grammar. So present simple, he is nice. So he's nice. Now, in the past and the future. And present continuous uses, you know, we have to have ing. So our verb is is and I want to talk to the present continuous has talked about right now. Now, of course, we cannot change this into ing. We cannot say he is ising nice for our present continuous. We use this form he is being nice. So that's going to talk about right now. Now, if I said is I'm trying to think of other examples, I can't think. But anyway, right now, we don't want to say is ising. So for the B verbs, we usually go to being. That's a quick way, the basic way of using being, you are not being nice. So this ing, present continuous, let's talk about right now. Here, if I said you are, you're not looking at him. So look, looking, that's easy. But B verbs here are are ing, doesn't work very well. So that's all I can say. Oh, Lester, we call you my phone, nobody calls my phone. Okay, I'm going to end in a few minutes. I'm starting to lose my thinking. Let's ask, do these mean the same? This is the reason why you went missing. This is the reason as to why you went missing. Yep, that means the same. So, if your question, Robin, can we call you? That might be the question you want to ask. And my answer is no, please don't call me. Send a message. Vet, Sislav, hello. Oh, this is a different being Leila. Being in a noisy place and traffic jam makes me too pissed off. I'm confused because why can't I say although the subject is plural, why I can't say make being in a noisy place and traffic jam. Okay, you're using being a little different here for the sentence as a few prompts being in a noisy place. You can't say and you can say or a traffic jam makes me. We usually don't just say pissed off. This is fine. Being in a noisy place or a traffic jam makes me pissed off used being correctly there, but that's a little bit different. Vents, Sislav, why are in front of a coffee? Usually we use ah or on before nouns. We use article, ah or on, why is that, can't type, or the before nouns. So I see cat. So if you have a noun, you're usually using an article before the noun. What's the difference between put and keep? I put my phone on the table. I keep my phone on the table. Which one should I use? Please teach me please say some sentences with put and keep. Okay, let's take a look. What's the difference between I put my phone on the table? I keep my phone on the table. So I put my phone on the table that is talking about one action. So let's say five minutes ago, one action. I put my phone on the table. I put my phone on the desk. I put my phone on the chair, something like that. It was one action that happened in the past occurred or happened in the past. And I'm telling you, now I keep my phone on the table. This is a usual habit. So I might say every night I keep my phone on the table. So keep is used more in this case. You want to use talk about a usual habit, usually. But if you said the sentence, every night I put my phone on the table that is also possible, a usual habit. So if you're not talking about a usual habit, a routine, you're just talking about one action. You want to use put, I put my phone on the table. But if you want to use keep, you, I don't want to say you must, but you should, you're talking about a usual habit every night I keep my phone on the table. But you could also use put every night I put my phone on the table. Junlin, hello, welcome. Obashir, we say I like potatoes. I like tomatoes. Why we say plural here? It's more of a generalization. You wouldn't say schools. When you like something and you want to generalize, you, it means you like, you like potatoes, you like all potatoes. You like eating potatoes in the past. You like eating potatoes in the future. You like eating potatoes, all kind of potatoes. I like to read books, we would use plural. So again, generalizing, I like books, I don't just like one book, I like all kinds of books. I like, I like to visit cafes. Why am I misspelling it? I like to watch movies. So all of these, you're talking, you're making a generalization, something you'd like to do. And yes, we should put the S there to show, you don't like one book, you like all kinds of books, you don't like, you don't like to visit one cafe, you like to visit many cafes and you don't like one movie, you like many movies. Okay. School is a little different. If you said I like schools, okay, that means you like school buildings. But usually, I like school means I like my one school. Okay, so I like school, I like work. These are good, we're not, we're not going to plural these, these are just one thing my school, my one workplace, something like that. So usually they're plural, but in case some cases where there's just kind of one, we don't put an S I like school, I like work, I like, you know, my teacher. So if I said I like teachers, you're talking about all teachers in the world, maybe or not all teachers, but you like teachers, not just one teacher, many teachers, but if you're focusing on just your teacher, your teacher Robin, you say I like my teacher, please do live streaming daily for I don't have the energy to do a daily my basher. All right. All right, thank you everyone for watching. I didn't do a very good job today. I guess I was tired. Hopefully I'll be better next week. Thanks for your questions. And thanks Layla and Dewey and everyone else who participated, Pallavi, Alessa, and I'll see you in the future. Sleepwalker Robin, I'm listening to the lesson more today and try to answer these questions by myself and ahead before you did. You probably answered them better than me today. I hope to watch your live stream sleepwalker, maybe I can improve my English. All right guys, I'll see you in the future. Take care.