 Hello students welcome to Today's live stream. I hope everything is working. Okay, please. Let me know you can hear me That's always my worry that you cannot hear me Today we're gonna be talking about it in idioms Can't even say that idioms And I see I'm just checking the chat Lolli Lolli was first Kavino's here. Okay. Welcome. Welcome. Harry 300 sleepwalker The usual students are on time Tika Dewey Hello Jonathan I'm trying to scan fast Sound okay. Okay. Thank you. Lolli Lolli Animal range. Let's start. We're wasting time All right, so a little bit of update Yeah, I've been working on the daily English channel And that's hard, you know, because I'm working on For for YouTube channels these days learning English live daily daily English homework and Shaw English and the Iots insiders, so I've been busy But I'm getting through it the daily daily English homework. I Will upload the first video tomorrow. I've been working on that today The thing with daily English homework is I have to I have to upload a video every day Because it's daily English homework every day So I gotta kind of be prepared a little bit in advance to start uploading lots of videos All right, so yeah working on many channels. All right, we're gonna talk about idioms today Why are we talking about idioms? Because Yesterday in the whatsapp group Everyone was talking about idioms, so I just brought in five common idioms today. We'll take a look at them Guess I'll put them on the screen and you guess what they are first some of them are easy Because they're common. I chose only common ones, so you probably already know them Mayfong chi hello Yeah, why did you okay? Why did you decide about idioms today? The chat group seemed interested in idioms You need to take care of your health Robin. Is something wrong with my health? I think I'm okay. I'm so excited for the first video daily English homework. Don't be that excited because I have to make the videos every day So the the quality will be a little bit lower, right? It's not going to be uh, they're not made in the studio. They're just made from home It's great from time to time to bring some different topics. Yes Uh, as I recall Robin doesn't like idioms much Uh, sleep auger you are correct I don't like idioms Uh, I use idioms every day Uh, but I don't like using them No, I don't like uh, what I don't like are lower level basic students Trying to learn idioms Because idioms are are a little bit higher level. There, you know, there's intermediate idioms and there's advanced idioms A lot of basic students like to learn idioms right away And that's I usually don't like teaching idioms to basic students although they want to learn them But today, you know, I can do one idioms video a year This is it Eunice. Hello Tika you're working too hard. I'm worried about you. I care about your health as your students Well, uh, although I worked a lot today, I still went outside and I walked 30 30 000 steps So I had uh, a lot of free time today and in my free time my exercise. Let's see if I can uh Bring up the evidence And then we'll get into the idioms 31 434 steps So I do I don't waste I don't watch tv I don't watch any tv. I don't uh, I don't play games. So either I am Preparing a lesson Recording a lesson Marketing You know, there's so many things to do or if I'm not doing that I'm outside walking and then when I'm walking. I'm usually chatting in the group. So I guess it's always working Tika how embarrassing only 3000 steps Come on tika Get those numbers up. All right. Let's get into the idioms See if I can use this Let's put a bigger maybe Idioms, uh, here's some notes. I'm gonna talk uh before we get into the idioms just so you know With idioms idioms can be difficult because The words don't match the meaning So if you if you see an idiom and it has the word chicken It's probably not talking about chickens. So this is uh, very confusing because You cannot learn an idiom by yourself Without context. So if you just see the idiom, it's impossible to learn But if you see it in context, you can kind of guess what it means So usually idioms need a teacher or a lot of context It's not something you can learn by yourself because the words do not match the meaning This is very casual English idioms you should not be writing idioms in academic papers essays Uh, this is not formal English. This is very casual Uh, they're they're for fun sometimes Uh Keep them out of your writing And they're usually used by older people. I read an article, uh couple years ago I think the beginning of 2020 The article stated that as native speakers get older as people get older They tend to use more and more idioms So You know, I'm getting older and maybe I tend to use more and more idioms and people in their 60s used a lot of idioms so It's a generational thing where young people use slang And older people might use more idioms Uh, do you need to learn idioms? Yes, you need to know because there's a lot of common ones which We'll talk about in a moment Uh, I'm just going to check the chat What kind of things do you do while you walk? I talk to you, Anna Maria in the chat while I walk I I I am the policeman of the chat room. So I'm always working there Hey, Anna. Oh not talking to me Eunice it's raining cats and dogs. Is it an idiomatic expression? Yes, this is Probably one of the top three most common idioms that teachers teach. It's raining cats and dogs. I've taught it many times Of course, this is a good example of number one The words do not match the meaning because in this idiom it's raining cats and dogs It's not talking about cats. It's not talking about dogs It's raining cats and dogs just means it's raining a lot Do native speakers use this idiom? I think every native speaker knows this idiom, but I don't think they use it as often as Teachers teach it, uh I might use this once every 10 years I'm from Myanmar. Nice to meet you. Hey, welcome Once in a blue moon It is mean not that frequently. Yes. Once in a blue moon is also an idiom because again Number one the words do not match the meaning. So it's not talking about a blue moon Uh, but it means not that frequently Okay I you guys are saying a lot of idioms. I I'm glad nobody's used the idioms From this lesson, which I'm going to teach in a moment The curiosity killed the cat Uh, this is here This is a good point now the idiom is With idioms, I I should have put this as note number four Because this is very important With idioms The idioms will have a certain certain words and we cannot change the words So they must Uh Use the words. So what am I talking about? The idiom is curiosity killed the cat Curiosity killed the cat Which means if you're which means if you're very curious, uh, you know, it's kind of warning don't be too curious The leila here added the word the the curiosity killed the cat And she just wants to make this grammatically correct But actually a native speaker would never say The Curiosity killed the cat. We would just say curiosity killed the cat. So this is a problem with idioms You got to learn the words and you cannot change them. You cannot add words It is fixed Robin, can I say my grandma is old as the hills? Well, this is not an idiom because You are comparing your grandmother to the hills. So This is this just uh You're just comparing using uh as as Which i'm gonna Which i'm gonna teach in some videos as as because that's what they love requested. All right, I Is using idioms used to be more polite, uh number two very casual english So you just use it with your friends It's a piece of cake. That's that's that's a common one. I use it's a piece of cake All right, uh, you guys are listening off idioms. Let's get into my idioms, which you might know or might not know idiom number one in a pickle I lost my passport. I mean a pickle so I will tell you what that means in a moment, but I want you to try and guess From the context what this means. Maybe some of you are going to google Checking google very fast. What does this mean in a pickle? Don't cheat. Just tell me what you think it means and Have you heard it before? To burn the candle at both sides. Yes, that is uh Yeah, yes, you're right I guess this is hardest part of learning to memorize it is the same as it is. Yes, that's a critical point Because you can usually you cannot change the tense uh You just not not every idiom, but some idioms you cannot even change the tense of the idiom but this Or like this you cannot change the preposition something like that. All right Can we use idioms exams? No, if you're taking an english test IELTS or TOEFL You don't want to write that you don't want to speak that Oh sleepwalker. I lost my pride. I mean a pickle. Hmm. He is upset You know sleepwalker you have the best icon there the laughing cat Or I don't know what kind of cat it is. Anyway, it's a cat So sleepwalker wins for best icon of the year Best profile picture of the year Unless sleepwalker is actually a cat agitated confused in trouble lolly lolly went to google Never heard it before. All right. Well, it's a common one. Now you heard it. Now, you know, I'm in a pickle So a pickle is you know the food you eat I'm in a pickle. It's not talking about pickle I'm not shy. So I lost my passport That will mean To be in trouble or to be in a difficult situation. So I'm in a pickle So if you're in a difficult situation or in trouble, you could just say I mean a pickle In this case you can use past tense because The in a pickle is Not including the tense. So you could say I was in a pickle last week I will be in a pickle next month something like that. So I'm in a pickle. That's idiom number one Covino I see every question, but I don't answer everything right now because I'm trying to Get through the lesson Covino, I'm not you guys stop sending me other idioms until later All right. Now this goes to unis because this is the one unis is talking about Idiom two not my cup of tea scary movies are Not my cup of tea So this is an idiom It is not talking about tea It's not talking about a cup of tea What does this mean? I'm sure most of you have heard this one. Please let me know if you've never heard this one Scary movies are not my cup of tea. What would this mean? So unis he she it is a cup of tea No We don't express it that way Okay If I want to imagine sleepwalker that cute cat Profile poop up in my head you need to say pop poop and pop are very different words be careful All right. You're just saying yeah Save the idioms you guys want to tell me every idiom, you know, let's talk about it a little bit later So not my cup of tea You guys are very chatty today. Why is everyone so chatty? Yeah I don't prefer it or I don't like it So scary movies. I don't really prefer to watch scary movies or I don't like scary movies It's not my cup of tea. It's not my cup of tea and usually we use this in the negative not my cup of tea So if you said scary movies are my cup of tea That's usually not how we use it. We would use it always in the negative not my cup of tea All right, the next one idiom three Bring home the bacon I stay at home and play video games all day My wife and I stay at home and play video games all day. My wife brings home the bacon So take if take a guess what that means And if you heard it before or didn't hear it before let me know Okay Okay What's this one? I haven't I'll be in a hot soup I haven't heard that one Are you translating from your own? uh language chatty, yeah chatty means Chatting a lot that is correct Put my idioms to that list too, please The list here is already made. I'll talk about Kavino just wait Wait 10 minutes. We can talk about other idioms all right So lolly lolly says to earn money Tika, I don't know about this idiom good So I'm happy if you say I don't know about it because I'm happy. I'm finally teaching something Make good money earn money Yeah, it makes a lot of money So yeah in this idiom Makes the money. So I stay at home and play video games all day. That means I'm not working My wife brings home the bacon brings home the bacon. She brings home the money She has the job. So she is they're earning a living For us. I'm a very lucky man in this situation Brings home the bacon. Of course bacon is the food Some people eat not not everyone in the world eats bacon But it's an idiom. So the words and the meaning don't match We are certainly not talking about bacon. We are talking about the money All right, never heard about bacon idiom. Well, now you now you have I'll give you a test two months later All right, let's move on to idiom four Nutty as a fruit cake Uh, my neighbor sometimes walks outside naked. So naked means no clothing So my neighbor sometimes walks outside No clothing She's as nutty as a fruit cake Yay, I'm happy that I'm going to learn a lot from you tonight. By the way, I like learning about idioms Why you keep saying Sorry for using wrong word. I mean this one pop up. I know what you mean, but poop Was not a good word crazy person is sleepwalkers guess behavior with the crazy way Hey Nutty as a fruit cake and the answer of course crazy so a fruit cake Is food it's a cake with fruit I guess and nutty means it has a lot of nuts But in English if we say you're nuts or anything about nuts That means you're crazy. So she's nuts That means she's crazy Nutty as a fruit cake is another idiom. It means crazy. So my neighbor sometimes walks outside naked She's as nutty as a fruit cake. She's crazy Not smart. No, it would be definitely, uh, crazy crazy crazy crazy All right fit idiom five fit as a fiddle I exercise every day I'm fit as a fiddle Now the fiddle is like a type. I think it's a type of violin Let's check that see if we can share All right, so this is a fiddle looks like a A type of violin. I don't know what's different between a fiddle and a in a violin but anyway The word fiddle is there, but it's an idiom. We're not talking about fiddles. The meaning is different I'm fit as a fiddle This is because ha ha or he he he are coming to you. So a him It's kind of funny way to use a him a him. I I think of that word is Which is not a kind of funny thing I'm losing my mind. Yeah, you're going crazy. That would be an idiom because you're not actually losing your mind All right fit as a fiddle sleepwalker says in a great shape Something that is perfect good physical condition Healthy or slim maybe show some confidence tika I forget the exact Vocabulary that I hear from time to time And it's new for me So of course this one in very good health So not really about the shape of the body Just means good health. I'm fit as a fiddle I'm fit As a fiddle, which would mean I'm in very good health and I will say that today I'm fit as a fiddle. Are you fit as a fiddle? All right, so those were my uh five idioms back In a pickle Not my cup of tea Bring home the bacon Nutty as a fruitcake And fit as a fiddle five common uh Idioms how many of them did you did you hear? Before yeah, how many of them did you hear about before you watch this lesson? Let me know in the chat Also, now is your time kavino if anyone has any other idioms to ask questions about Let me know At least this word catches Robinson to my word. Uh-huh I never heard one of them before two Which one I know one out of five idioms how embarrassing well No, not embarrassing because I I I try I tried to think of idioms that My students might not know But are common You might see it right before your very eye Very eyes. What does it mean? I didn't know very can be before Uh in speaking anything can happen in in Speaking English you might see it before your very eyes. So this just wants this this expression is not an idiom It just it's you're just uh, it's an expression. I mean you might see something In front of you and they just want to emphasize that before before your very eye or before your very eyes probably Uh, they just want to emphasize that something will be in front of your eyes I heard only two of them Anna Maria, I didn't know any of them really Not my cup of tea. That's so common. Not my cup of tea. I thought I uh, I thought everyone would know that one Not my cup of tea. So Anna Maria, which ones do you know? Do I heard some idioms if I can't memorize? I'm all Yeah, yeah, well Do you need to use idioms? Yeah, it would be nice if you use some idioms from time to time, but it's not 100% necessary You're never going to be tested on idioms in aisles or Coful, so if you don't know If you don't let me put it this way You should learn idioms So when you hear them you understand but You don't have to use them, right? You don't have to use them always use them just listen If you hear it, you understand it There's a lot of idioms when I'm watching a movie. I hear these idioms. I understand the idioms But I personally myself. I never use a lot of idioms I see this one kicking Um I don't know Leila. I think it's missing a word or two kicking kicking That's I might be slang. That's kicking. I'm I'm not sure I need more context You know, it's most of them are new ones for me. I'm trying to learn them by heart Well, there you go learn learn by heart Yes Why don't you like idioms though you use it daily? Uh I think every native speaker will use the idioms they like so we hear some idioms And we use You know if if there's a thousand I don't know how many idioms there are but let's say there's a thousand different idioms I might use five Regularly We drink coffee not tea. So yeah, that's that's the thing with the idiom You cannot change the idiom you cannot say Uh, it's not my cup of coffee again idioms You can never change that not my cup of coffee the idiom is always not my cup of tea Time flies. Yes What is your bread and butter? Is that an idiom? Yeah, what is your bread and butter? So that how do you make a living? What is your bread and butter? Again? We're not talking about bread and butter It's asking Uh, you know, what do you do for a living? Don't cry over spilt milk. Now. This is not Uh an idiom What is it? Don't cry over spilt milk is not an idiom Looks like an idiom, but it's not an idiom. Well, what would we call that? So harry 300 comes in Is it a proverb? Well, I don't know you tell me I'm trying to get Sorry for a few moments. There's some bad people. They came into chat sending That's chat All right, uh, is it a proverb? Yes It's a proverb a proverb is a special saying Uh giving some advice. So don't cry over spilt milk would Uh be more in the proverb section. All right Phrases or phrases or clauses That would be in a video none in the live stream That's more grammatical stuff Yeah, you're gonna forget it if you don't use it use it or lose it That regard that that expression is for your health or english Kick in mean start Hmm Hello, Muhammad I brought Okay, I brought this example from the dictionary, but I still don't understand it It takes half an hour for the medicine to kick in. Oh, there we go. Now I have context Kick in yeah, so Something you put in your body like medicine or alcohol or drugs Like illegal drugs. We would use the idiom kick in So which would mean start so Mayfong chi yeah Start now that I understand with context Brand new days. It's just it's just an expression It's just a phrase. It's a brand new day. That's uh Expression Do we don't put don't put some eggs in one basket? Is that idiom? No Okay, so So do we here's a good example. She kind of knows the idiom But she didn't have the exact words and the exact words would be don't put all of your eggs in one basket You cannot change those words Don't put all of your eggs in one basket. So she she tried to summarize it Don't put some eggs in one basket. That's not the Don't put you don't put all of your eggs in one basket is the idiom you cannot change the words You've got to use don't put all of your eggs in one basket I have a big fish to fry again Yeah, you can use that one When the pigs fly yeah, we don't use the we just say when pigs fly When pigs fly we you got to take out the the Spilled and spilt there's two ways to use the past simple for that ed or l LT I don't really remember this idiom. It's like cats slip your tongue. Uh, maybe that's you're asking A light or you're saying the cat usually asks people the cat catch your tongue cat catch your tongue Yeah See if Other cat idioms There's a lot of cat idioms Yeah Something's wrong Curiosity killed the cat Which while we say Did the catch did the cat catch your tongue something like that? I read I don't suppose not Well, if you're talking about something someone said A native speaker can say anything, but yeah, I don't suppose so is the better expression I've been tell us an idiom to express any expression use any idiom No pain no gain that is not an idiom That is more in the proverb Cool as a cucumber again, that is not a an idiom because you're comparing to the cucumber Oh, here's one. Let the cat out of the bag. That would be an idiom Pachu Yadav, that's right. Let the cat out of the bag Which is mean kind of say it's not talking about cat. It's not talking about a bag it's uh Revealing a secret now when you have these ones cool as a cucumber You're comparing something to a cucumber So when you say the word cucumber here, you actually mean cucumber So remember the idioms The words and the meanings don't match but here you actually mean cucumber and you're saying this person is cool Like a cucumber. So the words actually are the meaning smart cookie Blessing in disguise. Okay, we're getting too many right now. I'm going to jump to the homework All right the homework write some sentences Is Using these idioms in the comment section below this video After this video tomorrow Please come back do the homework then don't don't do it now Teacher robin, could you please tell us about an idiomatic phrase of verbs like to pick up Uh, that's sometimes I mean to learn while you're not Excuse me You're opening a box of 100 lessons right there I don't I units I'm not going to talk about that Today because that's going to start confusing. Uh, let's let's just keep it basic today. We forget it to Phrasal verbs everyone's going to be confused. Uh another time units. I promise Is early bird an idiom The early bird catches the worm would be Uh Yeah, it's a type of idiom, but uh, yeah Because you're not talking about an early bird Until the cows come home I guess the idiom should be a complete set. That's not always But You just can't change the words So when you learn the words of the idiom you got to memorize exactly the words I had a funny story this morning. I told my friend that I was doing a laundry and she said good luck to me I was like what why do I need luck for doing laundry laundry? Hey Hey, that would be that h8. Huh? Hey Yeah, that's strange Do you is doing laundry dangerous? idioms Are not aren't my cup of tea. Okay You used it right, but you should do that in comments No idiom is not complete set well idioms can be uh It depends on the idiom idioms are old some of them are 100 years old some of them are 200 years old Some of them are 500 years old from Shakespeare Uh, so the grammar of idioms changes over time Uh Some of them great grammar some of them a little strange The early bird catches the worm All right, I'm gonna finish uh this live stream So thanks a lot for everyone joining today I think a lot of you watched the aisles live stream earlier So you had a lot of aisles or you had a lot of live streaming today I will be I'll be uploading a video tomorrow on the daily english homework and um I'll of course be in the chat rooms to talk with you. Um, I'm gonna leave I guess I'll leave in about three minutes. So if you got any Questions about anything or comments you got three minutes to to wrap it up. All right. Thank you. Mei feng chi. Thank you sleepwalker Anna maria. Yeah memorize these idioms Thanks for the lesson tonight Thank you for the live So sleepwalker, please send me a photo on once app or facebook of you Making the same pose as that cat Oh next week Next week. Uh, I'm thinking about doing a game Next week. I'm I'm gonna test out a game And I'm gonna test out the game with real cash price So next week's live stream You can make money by watching Because you can win the game And I'm very scared Of next week's game because I got to make the game fair. I got to make make I have to give a chance to everyone to win the money But sleepwalker is very clever. So I got to make a game so sleepwalker Doesn't win What's your favorite idiom rovin? Don't put all your eggs in one basket I give that advice lots Lots of time Dewey don't make hard game There's a lot of smart people here dewey Some of them are smarter than me. So I'm gonna spend a that week thinking about it How to organize this game? I want to give a prize A money prize But it you know, it's difficult to set up Robin you are mean to me. Uh, well You're russian so you're very strong You're a strong person. I don't think I can ever hurt your feelings because you're so strong And you're hi teacher robert. Where are you located at the moment doing online teaching right now? I'm in south korea Thanks for joining Real money game yes, but To claim your prize you will need a paypal You don't need paypal Because that's how I can give the money I can only send it by paypal So if you don't have paypal Uh, if you win the game and you don't have paypal Maybe you can donate it To another person who does have paypal. I don't know I got to think about these rules That would be good game Honestly, I'm not clever while playing well Layla, you don't know uh, you don't know the game Again, I have to uh I have to make sure sleep. You know, it's okay is sleepwalkers very quick with the thumbs And very smart. So I I gotta I gotta control sleep. Yeah sleepwalker. You have a chance, but I got to make it fair English hunger hunger games. Yes, you will kill each other for the money Guys create your paypal Yeah, just create a paypal We'll see how it goes. It's not going to be a lot of money. It's it's just a test to see if I can create a fair game Where everyone doesn't get angry And give out a prize money price Sleepwalker, I don't have paypal. Don't worry, but you can win What what would be fair to you if you won the game? I was thinking you could donate it to another person You could donate it to your your favorite member here Or perhaps or perhaps I can help you in some way. Maybe you need some English help Some I can give you a service, you know, what what would you like sleepwalker as a prize? Yeah The game will be called beat sleepwalker It'll be sleepwalker verse Everyone else. So there's two teams one team sleepwalker Second team everyone else that sounds fair They have fast fear. Yeah, some people have really fast fingers Sometimes I'm not even finished the question and they already have the answer Paypal. Well, you never know. We'll see how it goes Donate to me harry 300. Why should we donate to you harry 300? 300 means you have $300 You overpraise me robin. You are dangerous I know you you are dangerous Dangerous player All right, I'll think about that and uh, so next week should be exciting I'm gonna leave now. So everyone have a good evening or a good day wherever you are and take care