 Hello students, I am Robin Shaw. Welcome to today's live stream Let me know you can hear me and see me. I'll just check the Chat chat room See who's here? Layless as I am here. How you doing? I'm fine for Rita. Hello Sleepwalker. Hello reading reading Cabinu. Hello Michelle. Hello. Good day Just a few people today, and I'm not gonna go looking for other people Let's keep it a small crowd tonight. If you have any questions or you want to talk about something. Let me know Okay, thank you for Rita and Leila. What's that icon? Sleepwalker? That's a little cat Yeah, I'm wearing a hoodie What's the temperature now here in Korea? Let's take a look weather Korea Minus four degrees Rita, by the way, you look cute Robin. I'm not sure why I look cute Maybe I should put it up for today's live stream Manage Why Jin why just son that are hello welcome What are we gonna talk about today get those questions in let me get get me working Working working working Moscow weather Minus five. It's colder in Moscow Saudi Arabia There is 22. That's nice. What other countries are represented here? Indonesia Indonesia's so big Mary are a hello Leila asks a question and do native speakers use the saying out with the old in with the new commonly? Well, yeah, you know, these are expressions We don't use those every day, but we can use those. So yeah, it's common Mutas Hassan. Hello In Japan was snow this week. What about Korea? No snow in Seoul Sleepwalker minus five isn't cold for Russia Well, Russia is a big kind of the biggest country. So I'm sure there's so many different temperatures in Russia Let's see, where's the warmest part of Russia Russia is just so big you probably have Four seasons at the same time Sochi seems pretty warm That's 12 degrees in Sochi Russian guy. Oh, that's probably a chatbot, right? Vom NGO Let's get rid of that chatbot rain. Happy new year Leila that is useful to me as a non-native speaker to use that expression Yeah, you can use that expression. I use it maybe once every 10 years You can use it maybe once a year. It's not that calm. It's common like everyone knows it, but We don't go around every day Using that expression Pamadi. Hello Kim Yeon-jung. Hello And sleepwalker Robin. Did you watch any lives on that Russian channel? No, I did not watch that channel yet. I will in the future right now. I'm very busy making videos. I Was making videos all day today from about 8 a.m. Until 4 p.m. I made videos today and yesterday Made videos for shy English and I also made some IELTS videos Yeah, I see you Pomadi And Leila has a question. Let's go into her question here Let's go to the board here He remembered nothing like it save. No, this is something wrong. Oh Okay, he remembered nothing like it save one afternoon I understand the problem One afternoon a year ago when he met an old man in the park and they talked to I Don't know I don't know Does save mean what? Save means in this case. What is your opinion? So let's just let's shorten this to just this sentence We'll take out this extra And you're here remember nothing like it save one afternoon a year ago So I don't know what save means in in this in this case. What is your opinion? Well, it's not really my opinion. It is a fact what save means and in this case Save means accept. Yes. Here is a new way to use save Except it's it's not so common to use save as accept checking dictionary Okay, really fine. It should be Anyway, it's summer you can find save as accept Leila's do you feel more comfortable when you sit at your room to do live streams in your studio? I only do live streams from my room. This is my room and my studio I've only done live streams from the same place For years. They're all from this place the same place Yeah, I'm doing well Kavinu Leila, how many teachers do you work with? How many teachers do you work with to film those videos lots of teachers today? Lots and lots of teachers Let's see if I have a Preview there's one teacher Mike is teaching on the board here. So I made some videos with Mike another teacher All kinds of new teachers Here is the for IELTS. We're testing people on IELTS speaking. So we made some some videos for that Here is one teacher Nadia, there's me with my hoodie So I made some videos with Nadia Well Yeah, and other teachers Can't really I don't know where I put all the teachers All the videos, but I'm making I'm making the videos. Oh, here's IELTS teacher Tom, it's a new teacher of mine Tom So we'll see those videos in the future VJ Saloni, alright Rain is stopped or rain has stopped. Alright, so we're making a sentence here the rain Has stopped it has stopped raining So you can use that I'm use has Please could you tell me what are the synonyms of but I searched on Google? But I don't know what if I found is correct or not. Let's take a look at Google Synonym synonym, but but yet Nevertheless, I don't know if you can see that Even so, however still not withstanding in spite of that For all that all the same just the same. All right, so depending on the sentence. Yeah, these can all be Synonyms of but There's so many different things it really depends on the sentence, but just type in synonym, but and First one yet click and you get examples sentences So it's right there on Google There's so many you need the specific sentence Palavi. Hello sleepwalker. All right This book is full of various terms. This book is filled With various terms. Can we use interchangeably full and filled with? Mm-hmm. That's the same to me. This book is full of various terms. This book is filled with various terms Yeah, it seems He is he if I made a new sentence. He is full of Anger Not abger Anger is filled with anger This would be better in this case So I'm not gonna say interchangeably because it does sound awkward in other other cases So the answer is no, I would say now 100% Interchangeably, I think we might use number one more often, but yeah, some cases they just mean the same thing Layla Do very often. No do you cannot use do with it very often Do native speakers Do native speakers Often use past passive voice during chatting Sure, we're gonna use passive voice. You always want to try to use the active voice, but certainly We use the passive voice to during chatting If I say My wallet Was stolen. There's a passive voice Layla, then we'll have many new and great teachers on your channel in the future Yeah, we'll have a lot of new teachers. Are they great? That's for the audience to decide Okay, I'm just checking something here To prepare dinner. I need many hours because I am sluggish That's not did I use sluggish correctly is your question you you know that that that does make sense But I I think most native speakers are just gonna use the word slow. So I See you're trying to use the word sluggish But do we use it this way not really we just say slow You can't say sluggish, but I think a better word would just be slow Sluggish is not that common to describe Actions you can use sluggish, but slow is 99% of the time right Marine She acts funny something though. She's not please correct. Oh, I don't know if I can correct this. I'll give it a try She acts funny Though she's not that's how I'd correct that she acts funny though, although Short Although though. She's not funny VJ Saloni Which one is correct? He is arrived or he has arrived. Well, he has arrived He means I'm thank you Then could I start a sentence with a synonym of but I don't know can you so let's go back to your Synonyms of but and Let's click on the first one and did they start? So yet he's usually at the end of the sentence nevertheless we can begin a sentence So you'd have to check The usage of nevertheless Nonetheless, you got to check that even so however certainly we can begin sentences with however Like here right here people tend to put on weight in middle age. However Gaining weight is not inevitable. So there's one synonym. You can start with a Synonym of but then you can start a sentence with however row hit Tinkoo Let's see a little circuit you tell me the difference between our first sentence here I will talk to you tomorrow in our second sentence. I would talk See Google wants us to fix this And let's let's fix it here right I Will talk to you tomorrow. I Would talk to you tomorrow does not mean the same thing. This is more we're getting into conditional sentences So actually this is not a full sentence. I would talk to you tomorrow if I Had more time So this is when we would use I would So I would that would be my plan But if we need an if statement here if I had more time So I will talk to you more of that is a future plan. I will do it But this this is guaranteed. This is maybe It depends on on something else a condition if I had more time So what's the difference? This is the sentence to express future tense, and this is a if statement I Might do it or I there's a possibility of doing something if something else If we did another example, I will Cook tomorrow Future plan if I spelled tomorrow correctly, I would cook tomorrow if I had App art, what do we cook if we if I had salt So I would cook tomorrow if I had salt So you you can't say I would cook tomorrow. It had there has to be an if I would cook tomorrow If I had salt I don't have salt so I don't cook but if I had salt I would cook tomorrow So those are dead. They're definitely definitely different All right, could I know why do native speakers say? Shots fire a shot that you you heard that wrong. There should be an ass there shots fired And instead of shot Why say shot fired instead of shot fired while shooting this oh shot Okay, if there's one shot or one bullet something like this Because it's it's always past tense when a shot is fired it It is the moment you have a gun and you shoot That's fired. It is automatically past tense. It's already an action that has happened in the past So I Automatically went to was but if you wanted to make that is there there is a Shot fired. It doesn't work. Is there there is a shot fired? No We would express a gun shot as fired past tense. There was a shot fired So how can I use very often to ask such as that kind of question which I asked or which question you asked earlier? Layla you asked many questions. I think this one do very often native speakers use passive do native speakers often or Often use Yeah, you could say very often use do native speakers very often use that's possible If you wanted to say very yeah, that's possible. I just took it out. It's possible to do that To Toth how you doing? I'm doing fine. Could I describe someone has lots of hair on his body with Harry? Yes, yeah, that's correct Robin is a hairy guy. That is correct someone with a lot of hair hairy Mike you can even Describe your animals your pets my dog is hairy my cat is hairy Robin is hairy Right Farida has a question here. Let's take a look Is there any difference between plumpy and chubby? Very similar Very very similar, and I'm just checking quickly if they're really So plumpy if you described okay, so if we describe something he is plumpy He is chubby So both of those kind of mean that someone is a little Fat a little fat not really fat But there's a little like like a baby a baby might have a little extra baby fat He's plumpy. He's chubby and plumpy is more Round fat So they're very similar, but the plumpy is more of a shape fat round plumpy, but chubby Yeah, just a little fat so for example Use So he has chubby cheeks These are your cheeks. So yeah, we usually use chubby For cheeks. That's very often to describe fat cheeks now cheeks are a little round but We just want to emphasize a little bit big cheeks and he has a plumpy face That means a round kind of big face He has plumpy cheeks We probably wouldn't say that We always use chubby with cheeks He has fat cheeks. You could say that but again, we always use chubby with cheeks He has a plumpy face. He has a chubby face. Yeah, it's possible to say chubby face But if you want to suggest more of a round shape you would use plumpy So very very similar. All right So Layla's I have these both sentences the same meanings. No do These sentences Have the same meaning I get confused. I Am confused. Oh, that's different. I feel puzzled. Well, that's that I get hungry. I Am hungry. These are different. So get would suggest kind of sometimes I get confused and I am confused is talking about right now. I am confused right now. I get confused Usually we don't write just this sentence. We need we need more information. I get confused When I drive So we would probably use I get confused and we're gonna add some more information like what kind of situations situations make you confused and This I am confused is right now. I get hungry Again, I would put more information when I don't eat. I am hungry right now Do you intend to grow up your beard currently? All right? Do you intend to grow grow up is for children? So we're just growing my beard. This is my beard. Do you intend to grow your beard? currently So actually you're gonna you're talking about the future grow my beard in the future So we wouldn't use currently. Do you intend to your grow your beard? maybe Continuously would be a better way. Do you intend to grow your beard and do you intend to Yeah, that's a way continuously And what is the answer? No, I could shave it any day. All right sleepwalker that information was exposed That information was disclosed that information was uncovered Classical sleepwalker question. Can we use disclosed and uncovered in the meaning exposed? Well, they they're all synonyms They're not the same exactly so exposed means some sort of scandal So there was some information that was exposed It was shown to the people and the people were surprised. Wow. So it was exposed Disclosed is more formal they the government disclosed the information so they just showed the information Formally, so this is not scandalous. This would be just a formal way to say they showed the information and the information was uncovered so Uncovered means the information was hidden Someone found it. So the information was uncovered probably a journalist when searching and found the information Some secret information. So I would say exposed Is closer to uncovered So that's talking about Information that was secret or someone was trying to hide it and someone exposed that information Or uncovered that information. Those are very similar and disclosed is just Formal way of saying the information is shown Not positive or negative. So your question. Can we use disclosed and uncovered in the meaning exposed? Yeah, so exposed means Disclosed and uncovered That has the meaning So I hope that gets it. So let's just put that in a sentence that information was exposed What kind of information are we talking about? Corruption was exposed that information We wouldn't say the corruption the So I'm bringing in a negative thing corruption corruption by a government very bad, right? So we could say the corruption was exposed the information was shown it shocked everyone everyone saw. Oh bad corruption Disclosed the corruption was disclosed. No Disclosed is not really going to talk about bad things. So I hear the new tax law something boring and The government disclosed showed this new information The corruption was uncovered similar to expose some journalist found This information and exposed the government. Okay, so I hope that helps Layla Did I use taste in the right place as well as being in following in the following set this Your taste about my English is significant for being an English teacher. No, this is very wrong. Sorry, Layla. So, yeah We We're not gonna use taste with English Taste is about a preference So we don't really have a preference for a language or your your your choice so We don't we don't associate this word with English that that's the first problem. So and Your taste about my English so I can't even fix that because this doesn't work is significant for being an English teacher No, so your you can use taste your Opinion About my English is significant for being for being in a okay So we're getting closer if we change taste to opinion taste does not mean opinion Your opinion about my English is significant for being an English teacher That makes more sense, but it's still a little awkward. Let's see if I can fix this your opinion about my English is significant and as you Are an English teacher That might be a little better. So you're trying a very complicated sentence throwing in being and taste. It doesn't really work Sorry, Layla. Nice try. Keep trying If we want to describe who's this from Layla if we want to describe a woman in a positive way To mention she is beautiful because she is chubby. No I think you're confused Layla. Nowhere Nowhere did I say chubby meant beautiful chubby means fat? That not even close to beautiful. So no No It's not connected to beautiful marine She is too dramatic. Okay. I like that. She's too dramatic. She's full of drama. Which one of them is correct? Both of them are correct Both of them can work. So she is too dramatic so you're using an adjective form and She is full of drama. You're using the noun form. So if you want to use a adjective she's too dramatic and If you want to use the noun she's full of drama ferrita So wherever I want whenever I want to describe myself. We got to say I'm chubby not plumpy I haven't seen you ferrita, but Maybe chubby is better better than plumpy sleepwalker What about the word thick and I think they write it thick Thick is a new modern slang. I don't use it. I'm using excuse me So thick is more of slang positive slang. It's not negative. So if you said she is thick I would that's a positive She is a little bit fat or large in a very positive way. I like that style She is thick Again, that's slang. I don't use that. Uh, that's young people maybe Hip-hop slang She's thick I got confused when I couldn't I get confused When I couldn't understand the lessons which robin taught us recently then did I use got confused? Uh, I get confused when No comma I get confused when I can't I get confused when I can't understand the lesson which robin taught us recently. Okay, so I get confused in this situation I got confused a specific time. I got confused You want to be more specific Two minutes ago. I got confused Up here I get confused a certain situation You're talking about just a general lesson not a specific lesson Pallavi has a pronunciation Question Sir, can you please pronounce this word in slow motion? All right. So the word is dig dig Here, let's let's break it up to help you out I'm gonna Break it into three parts because it's three syllables Dig Ne Tee Dig Ne Tee Digna Tee Digna Tee Digna Tee Digna Tee Digna Tee Digna Tee Digna Tee Digna Tee Digna Tee All right Hope that helps digna Tee I digna Tee I don't like the kitchen smell. Okay, I understand that I don't like the Kitchen smell. Okay, which one is correct? They're Both correct Why This smell is a noun and the kitchen's I don't know here I understand but how do I explain this? I don't like the kitchen's smell So I'm going to break this up in colors So we want to separate this the possess of the kitchen's what the kitchen smell does that help? I don't know So I don't like the kitchen's smell Is using the kitchen's what the kitchen smell but in the second one, this is the confusing one the kitchen smell Is creating one noun the kitchen smell as one type of smell I don't like the the kitchen smell So yeah, both are possible The kitchen's smell or I don't like the kitchen smell As a noun I'm trying to think of another example. I don't like the This is a very unique sentence most of the time. You're just going to see the kitchen smell But sometimes yeah, I don't like That kitchen smell So I I don't know how to teach this Uh So yeah, I guess this works more as an adjective here In the noun my brain is not working well today I like the It's a type of grammar and there are other examples. I just can't think of them right now. Sorry, Lea Robin sir, could you mention whether What would be the reason to have use have been In this kind of usage, I have been teaching English Since 2000. He's don't give up Michael. It's a grammar question. So Past perfect can past perfect continuous Present present. Yeah, that's a terrible color All right. So what are their reasons? All right. So under the present perfect continuous not past perfect continuous. I was confused Uh usage one duration from the past until now So the present perfect continuous continuous if we have the ing There's your ing it is continuous Perfect, uh, there's your perfect. I have been teaching English since 2019 so from tonight are It's happening from something from the past until now Uh, that's the grammar point. That's usage one So that makes sense. So I'm not sure your question so Why do we use have been that's just the grammar usage to express it What do you want to say? elaborate All right, let's move on People usually say you're thick and And Sometimes you're chubby. Yeah in a positive way. Yeah, you can use thick and chubby in a positive way Those are two positive ways to say someone is a little a little bit large I don't like the smell of the kitchen yet, but uh We can make sentences like this. I don't like baby smell So treating it. It's it's an adjective here, but it's treating it like one noun So this is a type of a sentence we use in English not so common, but it's possible Someone's gonna say I don't like baby smell. I don't like saliva saliva I don't like cat saliva So something like that we can construct sentences like that treating that as one Noun we'll come back I thought the kitchen smell is wrong and the kitchen smell is right They're both correct It's confusing. Yeah Which one makes sense Could I say instead of which one has a clear meaning? Which one makes sense? Yeah, you can say that This one is better Which one makes sense? That's uh, I like that better So she's asking these two sentences Which one makes sense which one has a clear meaning? Okay, both are okay Both are okay, but this one is smaller. So I like it Both are okay What's the weather like in your hometown? What's the weather? Do you like in your home town? No, we don't need do This is wrong What's the weather? Do you like What's the difference between them? Uh, what's the weather? Do you like in your hometown? This is impossible There is nowhere that you saw. What's the weather? Do you like in your hometown? That doesn't exist. So you have to recheck that sentence Okay, so sleepwalker is going to try sleepwalkers are good students sleepwalkers are going to try making a sentence I left cat purr hmm Purr is a difficult noun because purr is a continuous noise So this doesn't work well because you chose you chose Like you saw I was trying to create a rule and you chose the exact word that doesn't work well in that rule Because purr is continuous It's a continuous noise. So it doesn't work well. I love I love cat hair cat hair is not continuous But purr So if you said I love thunder Sound I love thunder sound. We don't use it like this because thunder is something else a noise. That's kind of continuous So it doesn't work well. So We would We would express those noises Like this. I love the sound Of cats purring Because it's a sound when and when there's sounds we usually express it this way I love the sound of thunder So you chose a word of a noise that is continuous. It doesn't work as well as a single now In your view, what are the pros and cons of taking class for studying English face to face? Well, Leila, I would suggest you never Take a class studying English face to face Uh, I think you are at a level where you can make friends and talk to friends Not a teacher, but friends just practice speaking face to face But if you really really want to speak to a foreigner and you cannot find a foreigner Yeah, then you got to pay but I you know, there's only one con Money takes money lots of money, especially if you're talking to native speakers So I would say don't do that. Don't spend money to talk to a native speaker face to face Try to make more friends Sir you're a professor. Well, yeah, I work at a university. She doesn't like rain sound She doesn't like the the again sound The the the sound of rain is how we express A sound Sound is a continuous thing All right, I'll end there in a minute. So get any last questions in I try comment on surroundings and think about daily tasks Additionally, I try immersion in English environment as much as possible. Can check it. Please check your sentence I try to Comment on my Surroundings and I Think about daily tasks In English I am confused Additionally, I try To immerse myself in English might be better. I try to immerse myself in On English environment as much as possible. So I try to comment On my surroundings and I think about daily tasks in English All right, this is a little confusing because you're you're doing two things commenting and thinking And I'm not sure why you're putting commenting and thinking together In the same sentence. So I try to comment on my surroundings and I think about daily tasks In English is that what you're trying to say you comment comment in English and you think about your tasks in English This one makes sense. Additionally, I try to immerse myself in an English in English Actually, we're gonna say English only environment as much as possible. This is a better way to say English only Uh, and why do I put this because I want to create an adjective? Here's some advanced English I'm creating an adjective for environment. So when we create an adjective Uh, we often use this hyphen here. So that's that's a lesson Yeah, I think I mentioned that before I'm not going to go into too too much detail But this is the best way to express this Frida Frida, what do you think about my English skills Robin? Frida Everyone's great. I don't evaluate English level Everyone is perfect And Leila which one is better say the sound of rain or the rain sound the sound of rain as I Is probably the better way to express that. All right. Thank you very much Palavi I'll just type in my answer All right. Thank you For everyone who watched today. Uh, I'll be back again next week Perhaps I'll have more energy next week. It was a long day. I was filming videos So you can see I was a little tired, but I still did the live stream All right. So thanks again, and I'll see you again next week So take care everyone