 okay hello everyone my name is Robin Shaw welcome to the live stream I did one last week I'm not sure if people thought that was the last one of the year but here I am eat a new live stream and there's a couple people here hello Layla and other people I don't know if you're here if you're visiting please say hi Layla says how's it going with you? Well it's going well everything's fine I'm healthy and happy how are you? Let's see if I can get into the WhatsApp group I have other the main WhatsApp group I'll put a link there to get some people in anyway if you got questions start typing them I'm ready with my whiteboard my digital whiteboard I'm not sure if many people come the day after Christmas Lisa hello Marceline Gellest 509 hello nice to see you I'm just gonna connect to WhatsApp get some WhatsApp people here link my design and my device to PC if you got any questions let me know hey Palavi how are you and sleepwalkers here what are we gonna talk about today in the WhatsApp group there we go and maybe the Facebook group I have a Facebook group I always forget post in these places to advertise the is this live stream is this live stream will be oh that's a awkward sentence I'll fix up the sentence so okay sorry guys I'm just getting getting the word out that we have a live stream because I think a lot of people don't know we have a live stream let's go to the board for Layla's question here let's put it up on the board is this live stream will will be the last one okay your question now you're actually you actually have two questions here or two two ways to ask this so this is your original we'll keep that there is this is wrong I'm sorry to say it's a mistake but that's okay I like mistakes so let's is this live stream the last one all right so in this case I took out I took out will be so is this live stream the last one and will this live stream be the last one okay so you can't ask this question you're kind of combining two different styles of questions and here you are is this live stream the last one will this live stream be the last one no this will not be the last live stream the last live stream I will be here as scheduled every Sunday 13 30 GMT you to you universal time come visit Dr. Nero justina hello whoa whoa whoa whoa hello come on get your questions in I feel like teaching something or talking about something let's get this started what's the what's gonna happen today what are we gonna talk about getting cold here in korea it's about minus 12 degrees today that's cold for me I'm growing my winter beard to keep me warm during the winter every year is getting more white so in about five or ten years I can be Santa Claus the last one of 2021 hey andre what's happening with you andre you know is this the last of 2021 possibly maybe I'll sneak one during the week sometimes I sneak one during the week but possibly this is the last one of 2021 yay you said the volume of my live stream is weak can you turn it up all right let's see if I can turn up the volume hello hello hello hello volume volume maybe I'll talk closer to the mic not sure why the volume is down how's the volume for everyone let me know if the volume is okay or more volume hello hello hello still quiet hmm you know I reset my computer today there I'll move if I move closer maybe you guys can hear that hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello maybe this is a little bit better I'm not sure why that volume hello hello hello hello I should be louder now you guys hear it louder do I know Hindi no I don't know Hindi Pallavi sorry okay let me catch up on the questions going back Sergio Benjamin what's the best way of learning English for someone who doesn't have someone to speak with uh okay let's go to the board with this so Sergio Benjamin what's the best way of learning English for someone who doesn't have someone to speak with so you don't have someone to chat with in English big problem right you want you want to practice English you want to practice English but you got nobody to practice it with I know there's a lot of people with passion they really would love to practice speaking every day but they just don't have a partner and of course you want a native speaker partner uh this is difficult so the only thing I can suggest right now uh before COVID I would recommend some offline groups but you know because of COVID excuse me we can't really go and meet people to speak so it has to be online and you got to download apps for me the best app is WhatsApp I have a WhatsApp group I don't speak there very often these days but you can speak with other people there are different kinds of online clubs if you want to speak with a native speaker you got to make a native speaker friend and the worst way to try and make a native speaker friend is say hey I'm trying to learn English will you practice speaking with me and nobody is interested in speaking with you for hours every day you got to try and make a really a real friend so I suggest you find someone with the same hobby as you so if your hobby is photography join a photography group with native speakers on Facebook or even WhatsApp make some friends it's not easy it's Sergio it's you got to go out there and find these groups they're there they're there but you got to be diligent sleepwalker or how that's all I have to say Sergio how was your day yesterday my day I was uneventful yesterday how was your day I'm a cash hack message retracted Elissa says is uh what does Elissa say I'm putting it on the digital whiteboard is beading I'm not sure you misspelled is being okay being is being standoffish so she has some vocabulary here good vocabulary standoffish and innate personality all right so let's let's catch everyone up here with the word standoffish standoffish and I'm going to go right to the dictionary with these words standoffish you know this is from Oxford standoffish is means not friendly towards other people so if we made an example sentence Robin is often standoffish and then she said innate what was your first question is being standard an innate personality so innate something that's innate you have when you're born so if Robin is standoffish was I born that way that's what she's asking was I born with that personality and Elissa I'm just an English teacher I'm not a scientist I'm not a I don't know about genetics and personality traits and inheriting personality traits from parents I would say no my guess would be no that this is a learned behavior I don't know it's up to your opinion or if you have an article let's see these days I'm just sitting at home without a job and learning some English and the piano so Andre do you have time for a zoom call let me know okay Layla is asking it's raining very a little bit oh you don't want to put very in a little bit together very it means a lot but a little bit is the opposite a little so you don't want to emphasize a little bit with very so it's raining a little bit here is there a specific it's raining a little bit it's it's it depends on what kind of rain we could say it's drizzling and I'll get the dictionary drizzling and drizzling means it is raining lightly so there's a there's a good vocabulary for you it's drizzling and that would mean it's raining lightly a little bit okay so there's a possible good answer or just say it's raining a little bit okay when will winter vacation begin in Korea for me yeah winter vacation already started and me tan good morning happy holidays robin sir why are you so serious today I'm serious every day Pallavi do you celebrate Christmas no I don't celebrate Christmas I don't believe in Santa Claus all right Alyssa has a question what's the difference between possibly probably and plausibly could you share the percent of each probability for this is making me work today okay well I'm gonna change this just to possible it's probable and plausible possible means it's possible you know if someone says it's possible it's hard to put a percent of positive you know all of these possible could be a hundred percent it could be one percent in that range if yeah possible is is is the best out of all these so if you said is it gonna rain today someone asks is it going to rain today and I answer it is possible that doesn't that doesn't mean it's gonna rain it doesn't mean 100 it's just possible so it might it's more of a might if I said it is probable in this case this would say that it's probably going to rain okay so it's possible I don't know maybe maybe not it's probable maybe yes more emphasis on the yes it is plausible it's possible it's possible but not likely okay so probable very likely plausible not likely and the possible is I guess neutral okay so if let's say this if I gave a percent of 50 percent uh here I I really don't want to put a percent so possible let's say possible 50 percent uh probable 80 percent more more plausible I don't know it's 10 percent uh it doesn't really work with percents hope that helps I hope that helps all right we got a lot of questions here I'll speed it up Layla has a question I can no longer keep wearing this shirt it's too tight yeah did I use no longer properly here yes I can no longer so I cannot do it anymore no longer means I cannot do it anymore I cannot do it anymore you use this sentence correctly sleepwalker I came across these two words astute shrewd the translation is quite the same in Russian what is the difference these are dictionary words sleepwalker so you're forcing me to go to the dictionary for you astute that's not astute astute copy paste paste and shrewd shrewd copy all right so I got it up here so astute let's figure this out these are these are good vocabulary words to know and shrewd okay I'm just putting them on our digital whiteboard okay let's take a look figure it out together astute very clever and quick as seeing what to do in a particular situation especially how to get an advantage all right so very clever and quick what do I do you can figure out the problem really quick shrewd clever and understanding and making judgments about a situation okay very very similar so what's the difference I don't know let me just check they might just be synonyms that's a good I'm trying to go quick here what's the difference I'm gonna have to I'm not smart enough for this one because a lot of dictionaries are just showing them as synonyms in English use usage you know there might be certain places we use shrewd there might be certain places that we use astute a lot of dictionaries are just using them the same way uh there's going to be a slight difference between them depending on the situation but I just can't think of all the situations right now where we use astute and shrewd I think we might have astute is more positive thing to say shrewd sometimes a little negative I don't know I don't think it's that simple sorry sleepwalker you got me on this one if anyone can help out between the difference between these words nirmala jennifer hello robin was the difference between to attend and to have attended uh grammar let's take a look so robin was the difference difference between to attend I have to attend a class and to have attended I I would if you I have attended class or I have to do you mean have to because we're not going to do I we can't say I have to uh I to what do you say uh and to have to attend I have I to have to we can't say I to have to I have to attend class I'm not sure nirmala what what you're trying to say I have to attend I I have attended class if you're using this past tense it's past tense so I have to attend class that's uh I never rule right now I have to go to class I have to attend class this would be talking about the past I have attended class I'm not sure exactly what the question and if this helps uh sleepwalker robin yesterday was absolutely usual day here we celebrate Christmas on January 7th so New Year's celebration okay that's interesting January 7th okay moving up oops I'm late hello a frana hello win Leila has some more romantic sentences here the best time for dating your girlfriend is in a cool no we're gonna say on a on a cool moonlit night this is how we use it but we're going to use the preposition on so a moonlit night you always want to describe the night so moonlit is an adjective to describe the night nighttime but we have light from the moon so a moonlit night you're adding cool you don't need to add cool but we're going to use on a moonlit night but if you put on a cool moonlit night that's okay that's fine okay moving along why you're not believing in Santa Claus teacher because I'm 46 years old do you still believe in Santa Claus Judelein Alyssa has very advanced questions is verging on and borderline somewhat the same yeah I'm not going to teach that but yes Alyssa verging on and borderline is the same hello Michelle okay yeah I want to pick on sleep anyone with dictionary words but sleepwalker brought in some that was a difficult question so uh dictionary wouldn't help too much didn't help me Marcellin galast amazing English course this morning I didn't do this since a long time well welcome back thank you Marcellin okay has a question here when you were a kid have you ever licked the beater when your mom makes a cake oh the beater is doesn't that have been the beater that's the right vocabulary when your mom makes a cake oh not an English question uh so just make sure everyone understands this is a beater so when you're making a cake and you got a mix with the machine we use this beater and the question is asked did you ever lick that I think every every kid licks the beater don't they yeah sleepwalker yeah your words I'll have to check that later ferrita hello all right I'm catching up here catching up adam raturi hello let's do an investigation of adam raturi hello I don't think I've seen you before youtube channel that really got some videos there welcome how'd you find me adam ray thank you ray normalla what is the difference between I go there to attend the meeting and I go there to have attended that now we don't uh I'm not sure you were seeing that second sentence what is the difference between all right we have the first sentence here I go there to attend the meeting and you have another one I go I go there to have attended that uh no I no I know I'm not sure where you're seeing this this is not right this is wrong I go there to have attended that where did you see that sentence I go there to have attended that that seems awkward I don't know there might be a certain speech pattern that uses that I can't think of that right now for right now I go there to have attended it I'm not sure normalla where did you see that I heard this expression while watching video don't let the pigeon drive the bus but I don't I don't know what it means do you want me to google it for you google don't let the pigeon drive the bus that seems to be a book what is the meaning of don't let the pigeon drive the bus uh pigeons help us keep promise it's a book that's a book it's the name of a book okay shub shubham kate 007 hello is this correct let's uh fix up your spelling is this correct the 2012 super typhoons disaster still reverberates the locals uh okay the 2012 super typhoons do we we use the term super typhoon okay I would say damage or disaster still rear reverberate that seems awkward she's using a big word here reverberates which means so reverberates means to be repeated several times it is reflected off different surfaces uh no so no no I don't think that's how we use reverberate reverberate is kind of like an echo and here I'll I'll get in a example sentence her voice reverberated around the hall that's usually how we use reverberated is kind of echo it's moot I speak and it's bouncing around the hall uh so the 2012 super typhoons disaster still reverberates uh I guess you could say among the locals among the locals means uh and maybe instead of disaster disaster trauma you know I'm not still reverberate I don't know what I'm not an expert on reverberates but the usual I'm sure there's a way to stick reverberates into this sentence but I'm not sure it's it's not it's taking it's it's taking the word reverberate and applying it to a situation it's not really used but it's possible because English is very flexible and it can have meaning there but I'm not an expert on how to use reverberate in that sort of situation so I failed again someone knows how to re fix that sentence let me know Layla still likes the beater okay and Julian sorry no religious questions this is secular we don't talk about religion here and secular is a is a bull is is uh very important when you're online secular means not connected with spiritual religious matters so my live streams are secular we don't talk about religion here and my whatsapp groups are uh a secular I have time in the following week if you don't mind okay I'll try to contact you Andre uh Palavi difference being okay this question I can answer difference organization organization well spelling if you see this s that's going to be British and if you see the z that's going to be American and it's in other words like practice Americans will put the c and British will put the s there's all kinds of words Americans put the c and British put the s so I can answer that one yes I should feel pain in my flank no no no flank is a military word when you're talking about military strategy so you shouldn't use flank you should just say I feel a pain in my side that's what we say I feel a pain in my side attend and join that's those are synonyms and participate those uh can all be synonyms if you have some sentences for ida those are all synonyms I never get to do anything I never get to do anything that doesn't mean I can't know these are different sentences I never get to do anything is there's no opportunity so I never get to do anything there's nothing there's no opportunity to do it but I can't do anything there is opportunity but I cannot do it all right so I never get to do anything no opportunity I can't do anything at all means I just cannot do that even there's opportunities I can't do it and michelle we must keep the group secular yeah I normally um uh yeah yeah every one of us has our own religious beliefs and uh I respect all religions I don't have anything against religious beliefs but uh it causes fighting right when people talk about religion or politics it causes fighting so we gotta stay away from those topics adam found you through shy english searching for an effective phonics program oh uh we I have an old phonics program very old hi mr robin and I know you are a Canadian may you talking about Canadian cultures such as hockey food well that's a that's a big question uh I think your name is in Chinese I cannot read Chinese uh I know you're a Canadian may you talking about more of Canadian Canadian culture we cultures we'll say culture and may you let's say I can you talk can you talk more about of Canadian culture question mark such as hockey food and so on thank you advice ray okay we got a name ray uh I haven't I haven't lived in Canada since 1999 so it's been a long time since I lived in Canada the last time I visited Canada was 2013 so I I've been away from Canada a long time hockey is king in Canada so that's one of them if you go to if you go to Canada everyone's going to watch hockey and talk about hockey so hockey is very important to Canadian culture certainly if you go to Canada you're going to learn about hockey that's what everyone wants to talk about other things I don't know I haven't been there uh Canada is a multicultural country so you know every country is represented in country Korea Japan Chinese all those people are mixed together that's what makes Canada right it's a multicultural country okay uh Junlin no problem Alyssa I heard that means to have a prolonged effect reverberates uh yeah it can but again I I don't use it that's too advanced for me yeah rever you as I suggest it reverberates among the locals and you're malo okay here we go fenman is supposed to have shuttered once in expiration this is supposed to have well this is supposed to have there's a break there so you're using the expression supposed to plus half so this this is not supposed plus two half so in this sentence he's supposed to have last week I was supposed to have taken my medicine so this supposed to means uh I had to I must have done that I should have done that it was my duty my obligation I was supposed to have taken uh my medicine let's see what else I can say on that you have another example normella sleepwalker coming in with something big number one if I had had that information that I would have written everything correctly if they had found out that a month ago they would have been calmer are those sentences correct conditional sentences if I had if I had had that information then I would have written everything correctly it looks good if they had found out that a month ago they would have been calmer all right looks good but I would probably if I had had a month ago if they had found yeah looks good yeah both look good the box slipped out of my hand and fell to the ground did I use slip out and fall properly well you just slipped out but it something falls to the ground it falls where to the ground sir can you please please tell that how do I concentrate in my studies you want to concentrate on your studies this is not an English question well okay so I like the question anyways Pilavi how can we focus on studying and that's very difficult for me too because the phone and tv or Netflix or something always a lot of distractions things that want to take us away from our studying so for me I'll tell you what I do I usually go to google and I use the stopwatch here so I tell myself for example I want to work four hours focused four hours of work without using my phone without checking something else just four hours of work so I start and when I start the stopwatch I cannot do anything else I force myself to focus to make sure I get four hours of work now if I do take a break and use my phone I stop the stopwatch all right and check my phone and then I go back but you know guaranteed by in that day I'm gonna get four hours of work if I if I'm always doing that okay so that's that's my way for you turn off the phone get that phone away pilavi I'm sure it's the phone is the problem don't turn off your phone put your phone in another room get rid of that phone abchi abchi says hello mr. rubber how to improve my oral expression practice gotta keep practicing speaking speaking keep speaking join a whatsapp group in whatsapp groups usually no one is practicing speaking it's very sad all right lele while reading I felt that I never get to do anything means I can't do anything from the context but I didn't get it well I guess thanks okay you got it Adam I would like to purchase and review your old phonics book we have Adam I do not sell any books how to use infinitive uh Sakthi Kumar I'm not sure what do you mean so I like to eat like this to eat I want to study English I need to buy a coat so all these cases this is our infinitive to eat to study to buy so we have a verb I'm not sure I'm not sure the question so is this what you're asking about Sakthi Normala has a new question we seem to have traded okay we seem to have traded one unknown function yep fortunately okay so past tense using half if we use any verb we seem to have or we wanted to have eaten the food by Don you're just using infinitive to have there past participle I don't know the exact rule let's get the rule two half past past participle is the perfect infinitive that's the name the perfect infinitive it's used to show that an action happened previous to some other action that's the rule this is why it's used so if you want to look for it the perfect infinitive that's the name three types of conditional sentences oh there's zero conditional first there's a many types many types I'm not going through all the conditional sleepwalk I'm not following into that trap that takes a little more preparation I can't I can't stand the undue amount of negative criticisms criticism is uncountable I received am I using undo correctly the undue amount I'm just checking undue amount don't really at the senior level when you are the only but yeah that can work that can work I haven't heard undo amount of negative criticism it's possible I can't stand the undue amount yeah it's possible but how would I express that I might express that with unwarranted or disproportionate unjustified but if you want to use undo amount I think that could work oh they're from a physics book could you please let me know which one is correct I wish I wish you were here to give you I wish you were here to give you a gift I wish you would be here too because the sense I wish you were here to give you a gift that's fine I wish you would be here so so I could give you it so I could give you a gift something like that this one's better I wish you were here to give you a gift I wish you would be here so I could I wish you were I wish you would I wish you would be here I wish you would come here so this is better if you want to be here you wish you were here and if you say I wish you would come I wish you would come here more more action so I could give you a gift Frida what's the difference between I'm scared of loud noises and I'm afraid of loud noises it's a general statement so we're going to put an s at the end of noises all noises all loud noises you're scared of and afraid and scared and afraid are synonyms so they mean the same thing they mean the same thing these two sentences mean the same thing there's synonyms Leila then you suggest us turn off our phones while studying or anything related no I I I suggested to Palavi that because I think Palavi has the problem if you don't have a problem with a phone then don't turn off your phone some people have a problem your reason is plausible does that mean it's not convincing yeah I mean if if if there's a reason it's plausible it's not I you know I'm not going to bet that it's it's going to happen it's probably not it's unlikely it's not convincing it's not convincing what do you think about as you like it novel by William Shakespeare yeah I studied a lot of Shakespeare but for you Leila don't study Shakespeare my advice to everyone watching right now do not study William Shakespeare to learn English this will not help you learn English Shakespeare wrote in the 1600s so 400 over 400 years ago he's writing this English is not modern English native speakers cannot even read William Shakespeare they cannot understand to get rid of my phone it's really hard for me but I'll try you have to turn off the phone Palavi that is a distraction no Robin I mean my previous sentences were third type of conditions okay all right sleepwalker you're practicing third you're practicing conditional sleepwalker why caught up because I caught up I'm going to go back to the astute and shrewd almost the same astute and shrewd I cannot find a difference okay and these sentences astute I think yeah I think astute is more of a positive sentence and we might describe a student or the student is astute we wouldn't I don't think we would just a teacher would say their student is shrewd so astute is more of a positive thing shrewd is not necessarily negative word but certainly that person is more difficult but they're clever they're clever so a clerk a sales clerk is clever right if you go if you go trying to sell something or buy something the sales clerk is clever so they're more shrewd more of a business way but again they're basically both very clever but I'm going to say astute is a little more positive than shrewd it doesn't mean sh shrewd is negative just like that all right let's see what else Palavi I read this book I don't think you first of all it's a play maybe made into a book but if you're reading original Shakespeare Palavi I don't think you read it in English original English do you have a link to the novel they might make if it's for ESL learners great but if it's just a normal book of his play now yeah it's like a lot of answer yeah okay all right we're gonna end I guess that will be the end of today's live stream I think I got an 80% rate of today didn't answer everything uh hey Fran is can we rely can we rely on Grammarly to check our writing not for professional but just for checking my writing on my journal uh yeah Grammarly we're just ms word uh if you have microsoft word that does or or even google you can see google this is google docs I'm using google docs here and this helps you know every question it's telling me you know I click here capitalize and it's telling me okay your sentence is fine so google docs ms word they're going to help you out uh Grammarly too if you want to do professional writing uh those programs have limits but for basic writing yeah any any English even when I type emails in hotmail or gmail it's gonna it's gonna tell you the mistakes it's gonna tell you the mistakes ray was ray say sometimes I read the article so I read articles that I can understand 80% vocabulary 80% see how I'm editing here of the vocabulary however normally I cannot get the point how how can I improve this situation thanks well ray if you're in university and you have to read articles that's not easy right that's not easy articles are not easy even for native speakers articles can be difficult to read uh it takes a lot of practice if if you need to study articles you got to read the articles I understand but if you're just reading articles for fun don't read articles you don't need articles to improve your English so read articles only if you need to for university but not for fun and the only way to improve is just to keep reading articles because if you're in university you're gonna have homework or research you have to read the articles so is there a quick way to learn no just keep reading them uh translate parts if you need to there's lots of good translators just copy paste into a translator if you just cannot get the point uh but it just takes reading is a skill it takes practice well just keep reading articles I I I've I've met a lot of students who've learned English just by reading articles uh and you know in Korea when I go to the doctor's office the doc a lot of doctors speak English because they read a lot of articles thank you for Anna for signing up again all right we all have to go so thanks a lot everyone and I'll see you next week next year we'll see take care