Full video

0:00

hi everyone i'm ali you can find today's

0:02

lesson in my ultimate english ebook with

0:04

over 60 lesson units this will make your

0:07

english amazing you can get it at the

0:10

link in the description

0:11

so today i'm going to teach you some

0:13

very useful business english vocabulary

0:16

that you can start using right now

0:18

so let's imagine you are working on a

0:21

big project for some very important

0:23

clients from the amazing company of

0:26

suntory

0:27

the makers of this delicious drink not a

0:29

sponsor of this video but my dms are

0:31

open

0:33

oh it's good

0:34

your big presentation for the most

0:36

amazing clients is coming up soon

0:38

our first phrasal verb

0:42

to come up it has a few different

0:45

meanings but in this context it means an

0:49

event or a special date is happening

0:53

soon like hey your birthday's coming up

0:56

soon right yeah next week and the

0:58

deadline for this presentation is coming

1:01

up very soon

1:02

the deadline is tomorrow the deadline is

1:05

when a piece of work or maybe an

1:07

application form must be finished and

1:10

submitted does

1:12

deadline translate to your language like

1:15

do you say it exactly translated or do

1:18

you have a different word

1:20

and you could also say the presentation

1:23

is due tomorrow to be jew

1:26

it means it's expected at this time this

1:29

date

1:30

your boss expects your presentation

1:32

tomorrow it's due tomorrow

1:35

pronunciation yes you could pronounce

1:38

this like do you it's due tomorrow but

1:41

that sounds very very posh and kinda

1:44

weird not many people pronounce it like

1:47

that

1:48

usually people say oh this presentation

1:52

is due tomorrow ju so do you have any

1:56

work that's due soon any deadlines

1:58

coming up

1:59

anyway if you're like me you've been

2:01

putting this off for weeks

2:04

oh to put something off means

2:07

yeah i have to do this work but er i'll

2:11

do it later you're putting it off

2:14

usually i put things off to the last

2:17

minute like the day before it's due so

2:20

you need more time to work on this

2:23

presentation so you go to your boss and

2:25

ask

2:26

hey mr

2:28

boss

2:29

can we push back the presentation a

2:31

couple of hours

2:33

to push something back

2:35

it means to postpone an event

2:39

make it later in this case give yourself

2:42

more time

2:44

but your boss

2:45

isn't happy

2:47

in fact you face some pushback for this

2:49

idea

2:50

if you put the word push back together

2:53

to one word this is a noun and it means

2:57

a negative reaction to something

3:00

to face pushback get pushback receive

3:03

pushback

3:04

for an idea or a plan for example this

3:07

expression is quite formal and businessy

3:10

so

3:11

maybe don't use this with friends it

3:14

might sound weird have you ever

3:16

suggested something in a work

3:18

environment and faced pushback for it

3:20

let me know in the comments

3:22

push it back

3:24

no no no that is out of the question we

3:26

can't delay this anymore

3:28

our beautiful and brilliant clients at

3:31

suntory are actually arriving early so

3:34

we need to bring it forward

3:36

if push something back means make it

3:40

later

3:41

then bring it forward means

3:44

exactly

3:45

make it earlier also when something is

3:49

out of the question it just means no

3:52

it's impossible that's not gonna happen

3:55

so don't ask

3:58

huh

3:58

if that means it's impossible

4:01

could we use this in a fun way to say

4:06

hmm yes that's possible

4:08

yes we can like this

4:11

hey can we go to disneyland for my

4:13

birthday hmm

4:15

it's not out of the question

4:20

now you are under pressure

4:22

you have no plan you don't know what to

4:24

do what can you do

4:26

i know

4:30

you're very creative you'll just wing it

4:33

to wing it means to improvise in the

4:36

moment

4:37

so you walk to the office

4:40

this amazing

4:45

hello

4:48

oh no

4:49

your presentation was terrible they are

4:52

not impressed your ideas fell flat they

4:55

fell on deaf ears

4:57

the expression to fall flat means you

5:00

gave an idea or a suggestion

5:03

and no one liked it

5:05

but the expression to fall on deaf ears

5:09

means they were not listening to or

5:11

willing to consider your ideas or

5:14

suggestions

5:16

they fell on deaf ears

5:21

i'm sorry but

5:23

our delicious drinks company deserves

5:25

more than this you really let us down

5:27

to let someone down means to disappoint

5:31

them so you disappointed the important

5:34

clients

5:35

this isn't good

5:38

your boss is furious

5:40

very very angry and he says

5:44

hey

5:45

you really dropped the ball in there to

5:47

drop the ball it means you had a

5:50

responsibility but you completely failed

5:53

at it we lost the most important clients

5:55

in the world because of you and now our

5:58

company is going to go under

6:00

when a company goes under they go

6:03

bankrupt no more money they fail they

6:06

close

6:07

yes individual people can go bankrupt no

6:10

more money but we only use to go under

6:14

for businesses

6:15

not people

6:18

[Music]

6:20

no more job

6:21

you already know what this means

6:24

they both mean the same thing but this

6:27

we have to let you go it's a more nice

6:30

formal way to say you no more job

6:33

this one however you're fired it's more

6:36

direct more aggressive

6:38

and yeah less polite way to say that

6:42

but you know what this is the sad ending

6:44

i don't like that let's do the happy

6:47

ending yeah i like that

6:53

i know i know thank you for listening to

6:55

my presentation and your drink is

6:57

delicious cheers the clients loved your

7:01

presentation in fact

7:05

you blew us away this is exactly what

7:08

suntory needs amazing to blow someone

7:12

away usually it means to impress them so

7:15

much

7:16

that they have no words i'm

7:19

amazing i'm blown away

7:21

the passive voice but literally this

7:24

means to surprise someone in an extreme

7:28

way so yes

7:31

it could be negative in some contexts

7:34

like i thought terminator 3 was the best

7:37

movie ever

7:38

i am blown away at how stupid you are

7:41

but usually it means you're very

7:44

surprised in a good way

7:47

your boss is so happy

7:49

wow you nailed it to nail something it

7:52

means you did something that was very

7:55

difficult but you did it successfully

7:58

we also use it in things like this when

8:01

someone does a skateboard trick

8:05

wow he nailed it

8:07

and actually this is more casual than

8:10

formal it's not rude

8:12

but

8:13

your boss might say this

8:15

if the situation is that you did

8:18

something difficult

8:19

in a very successful way

8:22

then it works

8:23

in fact you're so good that i'm blown

8:26

away that was so good you're getting a

8:28

raise

8:29

well done

8:30

you're getting a raise now there's a lot

8:33

of confusion about the two verbs raise

8:36

and rise

8:38

first this is a regular verb raise

8:42

raised raised and it's transitive which

8:46

means it needs an object

8:48

for example if i raise the dead i make

8:51

zombies

8:53

look how cute

8:55

and we also use this as a noun your boss

8:58

gives you

8:59

a

9:00

raise

9:01

as a verb your boss raises

9:04

your salary

9:06

but rise that's an irregular verb rise

9:10

rose risen

9:12

that is intransitive which means no

9:15

object for example you want to make

9:17

bread

9:18

you put the dough in the oven and it

9:22

rises by itself you don't do anything it

9:26

does it by itself so i could also say my

9:30

salary is going to rise to

9:34

1 million pounds a month

9:37

you can keep all of this business

9:39

english vocabulary in your head for

9:41

longer by using my ultimate english

9:43

ebook this will make your english

9:46

amazing you can get it at the link in

9:48

the description let me know what you

9:50

want to learn in a future lesson and

9:52

i'll see you in the next class bye