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Basic sentences and descriptions

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Lesson 1

Live stream welcome

sure [Music] [Applause] [Music] hi welcome to our second live stream how's it going good just waiting on okay yeah we're live okay hi guys hi welcome so we're gonna give a littl...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 2

How to review the lesson

youtube channel and after we finish this live stream it will also be on our youtube channel if you want to review what we talked about or listen for a second time that's right u...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 3

English greetings review

last time we talked about a lot of stuff if you guys remember so we thought we should review it before we move on so does anyone remember the greetings in english so one of the...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 4

A childhood word game

were kids yeah it was longer than just jinx but yeah um so it was just kind of fun and if you said the same word at the same time as someone else sometimes you would also say yo...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 5

Numbers 15 to 30

15 16 17 18 19 20. good and then the numbers um so when you're saying 20 to 30 you say 21 22 23 etc so you just put 20 plus the single digit afterwards so 21 for example um and...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 6

Th pronunciation in numbers

tongues out a little bit when we're talk when we do any th in the 20th 30th so it helps a lot with your pronunciation if you do that yeah and of course people still understand i...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 7

Afraid and scared

be good or bad yeah yeah so like when you're afraid maybe you're afraid that something bad is or will happen for example um if you're afraid of dogs maybe it's because you think...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 8

Laughing and emotions

cool um all right so emotionally wait do you guys know what i'm doing if i okay that sounded kind of evil i can't do it you do it to do an evil after no regular one mine just so...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 9

Hair colors

there's black hair brown hair blonde hair red hair and then white or gray hair yeah okay so what color is my hair hmm [Music] it's kind of two colors but at the bottom part yeah...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 10

Hair length

medium hair so or here i would say like medium length hair yeah yeah medium length is what i would say mid length medium length um and then he has short hair you know compared t...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 11

Beards and stubble

yeah yeah or maybe you can use other descriptions to um people in the comments who's then good yes we have um stubble oh stubble yeah do i have stubble no i have a little more t...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 12

Skinny and thin

they would rather be called thin but a lot of people don't care if someone says that they are skinny yeah skinny can have like a sort of negative feel to it um whereas um thin i...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 13

Baby, child, and kid

that's my guess and do you think she's a baby no she's not a baby what is she um she because she looks 12 i could say a kid um it's funny because child sounds younger than a kid...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 14

Old and elderly

and she's old or nicely put elderly so elderly is a little bit more formal um and something else you'll notice in english too so when something is perceived to maybe be bad you...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 15

Worksheet and app practice

link below you can find there's a seven day free trial we have so we're going to show you this worksheet which is just part of the app but there are a lot of other kinds of prac...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 16

Tall, average height, and short

so let's start with what we have tall average height or short hmm height yes exactly you guys are doing so well yeah some hints in there but yeah so we just went over this and h...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 17

Thirsty and drink water

just poured some water from the pitcher into my glass i'm thirsty and now i'm going to drink some water just a little extra practice thank you random english lesson for you yeah...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 18

Describing medium hair

no it looks a little too long to be short yeah it's medium short yeah i would say he has medium length hair yeah but it's a little maybe it depends on your opinion too yeah okay...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 19

Multiple choice practice

sentence okay but let's move on from there and let's go to some multiple choice awesome so these are questions from you know again you would watch the lesson normally first and...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 20

Blonde and age words

what's blonde blonde's a color the color of hair and lastly which is not a common way to describe someone's age is it tall young or old if i ask brian how old is that person wou...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 21

Describing a baby

baby is cute baby yeah maybe you could say child's too but yeah it looks like a baby but she has blue what what are those are those ears nose aren't ears is that a nose does she...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 22

Halloween chat

around the corner what's the date for halloween should i answer that are you asking that the last video oh the creepy neighbor that's right yeah that's just my acting skills yea...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 23

Summer and winter days

so so yeah when the win you know in the summer time the days are really sunny and really long but in the winter time the days are very short and very dark yeah i don't like the...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 24

What time is it

the world we're so happy you're joining us from all these different countries what time is it where you guys are at yeah what time is it there what time is it in sri lanka iran...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 25

I am and I have

with all of the subjects so we're going to start with um i so i with the verb be you say i am for example i am 30 years old i am tall i no that's the verb have i have brown hair...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 26

Simple present overview

um we're gonna continue on with um the simple present did you want to do the negatives for these first or is it okay if we go on to i think we go on okay um okay we're gonna loo...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 27

Can for ability

but she can so she in general she speaks german if she wants to she can speak german there that's ability so this is general action and i am american is a description good and t...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 28

She watches and washes

becomes watches so she watches tv every night and then so it's words that end in a ch sound or that end in a sh sound so we have watch but we also have wash so washes wash good...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 29

Simple present negatives

want to say no no i don't strive to work now let's look at a couple of special things happening here so if we're just talking in general and you want to say a regular sentence y...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 30

They go shopping

and then for a positive answer you could say go for it yes they go shopping yes they go shopping can you guys guess what the negative form would be so no bay what don't go shopp...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 31

Doesn't dance

if it's no g like we did up here doesn't dance doesn't dance and again doesn't is a contraction for what two words we've seen this before does and not does not right so no she d...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 32

More app practice

new person joining lalit hello thanks for joining where are you joining from thanks for your comments all right good and as we've mentioned before too we looked at the app a lit...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 33

Lesson six in the app

wrong one hold on okay now let's do it so this is lesson six simple present that's what we just learned and you can see here that the first thing you can do is watch a video tha...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 34

She takes public transit

during the week period okay takes transit she public okay hmm is this a question no no it's a period so she then verb takes with an s public transit period what's public transit...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 35

She works at a hospital

a hospital or e-hospital i guess they probably have uh e-hospitals this day these days for sure telemedicine she works at a hospital a hospital good all right so um okay moving...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 36

Rides her bike to work

good yeah she takes public transit just c with the c kate rides her bike to work rides her bike to work it sounds right sounds right but there's a problem it doesn't look right...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 37

Do you sometimes ride

good yeah and the comma there is optional yeah ah okay lee said sometimes do you ride bike to work if you're asking a question you could say do you sometimes ride your bike to w...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 38

He walks to school

he walks to school okay and so we passed we passed congrats thanks everybody good job captain t says he flies is not wrong to me well grammatically you are right he flies to sch...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 39

Berlin time and 14 o'clock

[Music] um cest so that's berlin time for us i put it and what we call military time which is 14 o'clock um in case it's confusing with the 2 p.m and the we should teach that on...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 40

Halloween impressions

what are your impressions of halloween yeah [Music] also you guys if you want a little practice with what you've learned today you can write in the comments below some practice...

Language: enDuration: 3 min

Lesson 41

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