Speak ADVANCED English in 60 MINUTES | American English Lesson (LESSON PDF + QUIZ)

Welcome back to JForrest English. I'm  Jennifer and this is your one hour weekly  

English lesson. This lesson will help you  improve all areas of your English or English.  

Speaking Reading Writing vocabulary, grammar  and pronunciation. Let's get started. First,  

let's focus on your English speaking skills.  I'm going to explain 10 bad speaking habits  

that I commonly see students,  make now I'll share how you can of

avoid these habits so you can look very  professional and confident when speaking  

in English. Now, before we start the lesson, I  want to ask for your feedback on this style of  

lesson. So what I'm doing is I'm taking  individual lessons that I posted and I'm  

combining them into one weekly lesson. So  you have all the individual lessons in one  

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this lesson, share your thoughts in the comments  below. Now let's improve your speaking skills.  

The first bad habit is using one word answers,  let's say you were at a conference and your  

boss asks, you how was the conference  and you reply back? Can you say good?

Great awesome. What do you notice about these  answers? They're all one-word answers. Now,  

it might seem a little comical that that's  all you would say. But I hear this from  

students all the time, I'll ask them about  their vacation, and they were on a two-week  

vacation in another part of the world, and  all they say was good. Great. Okay, not bad.

Very short answers, this doesn't sound very  professional and you definitely don't sound  

advanced in English. The an easy way to solve  this problem is to answer in a complete sentence,  

repeat the question. The conference was good,  now still, this isn't enough information,  

you can then expand on that and you can  provide the reason why or you can provide one

Sample from the conference or the trip.  The conference was good because I met  

a lot of new people in my field  and I have a lot of new contacts.  

This sounds so much more professional and advanced  compared to good. Our next bad. Habit is using  

weak words. Let's say your boss. Asks, you if you  can have the report finished by the end of the

And you reply back and say I think  so I'll try these are all weak words  

because they imply that you might  not finish the job or finish the  

request. So instead of saying I think I can  change that to something more confident,  

something stronger. I know, I can finish  the report by the end of the day I promise

Promise, I'll finish the report by the end of the  day, you can count on me to finish the report by  

the end of the day. The next bad habit is  using very basic words. Basic words like  

good. Okay, fine. All of these are very  beginner words and they don't sound very  

professional and they don't make you look very  confident either. So if you simply change,

Change that to something more advanced  instead of saying the conference was  

good. You see the conference was very  beneficial and then you can move on and  

provide more information. Like we talked  about in the first bad habit because often  

the one word answers that you want  to avoid are also very basic words.  

Now let's move on with our next point one  bad habit you definitely want to avoid is

Speaking too quickly. So imagine  right now I'm telling you about  

the rules of something and I'm speaking very fast.  

Do you think you'll be able to understand very  well if that's how I spoke what a lot of students  

actually think they speak too slowly but in my  experience, that's not true, they actually speak  

too fast and when you speak too, fast is difficult  to understand to follow your story. So, just

Take a breath, put some pauses into your  words as well and that will help you  

slow your pace. Now let's talk about word,  fillers word, fillers are those words like  

well you know like these words that don't have any  meaning but people add them to their speech when  

they're trying to think about what to say next.  So imagine you're in a meeting and your boss.

I asked you to tell everybody about how the  project is going and you reply back and say well  

the projects going on pretty good.  

Well you know we just need to obviously  that doesn't seem very professional and  

you certainly won't feel very confident when  you have all those thumbs. Let's talk about  

eye contact. This can be a very difficult  one especially because culturally people.

Different rules for eye contact in North  American culture. It's considered polite  

and professional to make eye contact with  the person you're talking to but you don't  

maintain eye contact. 100% of the time. You can  absolutely Look Away. Look down look up. But you  

want to maintain eye contact at least 50% of  the time. Next, let's talk about intonation.

Ian intonation is the natural raising  and falling of your voice. Our voices,  

do this naturally. Now, if I'm away up  high and then I come down low and then  

I go way back up high and then I come  down low. That's not very professional  

and it won't make you look very confident  but you also don't want to talk on one  

specific note and maintain that know, right  now, I probably sound more boring to you.

No, because I don't have intonation in my voice.  That's the impact of not having that natural  

rising and falling. And I hear this from students  all the time. So you could do some vocal exercises  

and try to go up higher and then comb down lower  and just try to vary your intonation, which is the  

rising and falling of your voice. When you speak  to sound more professional and to appear more

Didn't our next bad habit is on  enthusiasm and a lack of enthusiasm.  

What do I mean by this? Well let's say you  went to this conference and you want to tell  

your boss and your colleagues that the conference  was very beneficial and you learned a lot and you  

made a lot of useful contacts. But if you deliver  this, if you communicate this without enthusiasm

Yasm, they're not going to understand the message.  The conference was great. I'm met a lot of people,  

it was very beneficial, it was really interesting,  

a lack of enthusiasm. Your intonation  goes down, your volume goes down,  

just think of it as being very tired, or bored  or not interested. So, think about the enthusiasm

Chasm that you have in your voice. Now,  part of showing your enthusiasm and part  

of being confident is also your body language.  Notice how I said, when you lack enthusiasm,  

it's like you're tired. When you're tired,  you have a hard time keeping your body up,  

but it doesn't look very professional  and I probably don't look very confident  

right now. And same people often they  speak, they cover up their body which

Makes them appear very small, that doesn't seem  very confident either. When you're confident just  

bring your shoulders back and take up about as  much space as your shoulders. Go think of that  

as your box, your Communications box and that's  where you want to be. You want to make sure you  

stay upright in this box when you're communicating  because that will make you seem very confident.

Tent. And then also that will help with your  intonation and your enthusiasm. Because when your  

body is all crunched down, it actually impacts the  intonation of your voice. And when you're upright  

more, you can get more enthusiasm more intonation  from your voice as well. So remember, shoulders  

back and pay attention to your body language.  Now finally, let's talk about hand gesture.

So hand gestures is just simply using  your hands when you communicate. Now,  

there are some things you don't want to  do like completely not having any hand  

gestures. So if I did the entire video  like this, maybe you could watch it for  

30 seconds but imagine watching it for  10 minutes where you don't see my hands  

at all. Now if my hands are like this,  most likely my body is going to start to

To Sag as well. And I'm not going to have good  body language but when I bring my hands into  

it I'm more likely to keep my shoulders back.  Remember I said you want to have a communication  

box because you also don't want your hands  wailing and frailing about and just being all  

over the place as well. You want to keep your hand  gestures within this Communications box. So just

Keep them. Very slight, very natural. You don't  want to go too far away. Just close to the body,  

but just keep them going and that will again help  you with your body language. It will make you  

look a lot more confident and you'll appear  more professional. Because all professional  

speakers use their hands when they're speaking.  And if you avoid these 10 bad speaking habits, I

I know you're going to look instantly more  professional, and you're going to feel more  

confident as well. So, which bad habit? Do you  think you need to improve the most? Share that in  

the comments below? Now let's move on and focus on  your English reading and at the same time you'll  

improve your grammar, your vocabulary  and your pronunciation. So we're going to  

read a news article that talks about  the release of Disney's The Little

Mermaid. Let's get started.  Let me read the headline.  

The Little Mermaid makes box office  Splash with 95.5 million opening. First,  

let's talk about this makes a splash makes a  splash here. It says box office Splash to describe  

what type of Splash it made. But this is a fun  idiom that you can add to your speech and the

M is to make a splash to make a splash and  this means to attract a lot of attention.  

So you might say, Sarah really made a splash at  the conference so maybe she gave a presentation  

and it was really engaging and interesting and  informative. And a lot of people were talking  

to her about it. So she attracted a  lot of attention. She made a splash

She made a splash now, do you know why they  chose to use this specific idiom in the headline?

Well, because it's also a joke  because Splash has to do with water,  

the literal definition of  Splash and the Little Mermaid,

of

course, takes place  

in water because right now, imagine I'm in water  and I'm doing this, I'm splashing to Splash. So,  

if you're right here and I'm doing this with  water, you would see Jennifer's stop splashing.

In me, why are you splashing me? So that's  the literal definition. But remember idioms,  

they don't follow the literal definition. They  just chose to use this idiom because of the  

water connection. So to Splash to Splash, this  is to move water. I guess. Boo to move water.

In the direction of someone or something.  So to move water kids. Love splashing in  

water but hey adults, love it, too, is pretty  fun. Let's continue on The Little Mermaid,  

Minx box office, Splash when ninety  five point five million dollar opening,  

okay? The little mermaid made moviegoers want to  be under the sea. All Memorial Day weekend. This

Is not an idiom to be under the sea,  they're using this as a little joke,  

because one of the main songs from the  movie, is called Under the Sea. Remember,  

they sing a lot in Disney movies and this is one  of the songs Under the Sea, if you remember it?  

Okay, let's take a look at this though.  Moviegoer made moviegoers. This is a noun.

I'll moviegoer and can you imagine who? This  would represent a moviegoer. I'm a moviegoer.

What does that mean? A moviegoer is someone who  

goes to the movies a moviegoer? Because  remember, it's a noun. So, you need

the

article here we have plural. So there's  no article because moviegoers a moviegoer,

Someone who goes to the movies  

in North America. When we say go to the  movies, it means I went to the movie theater.

Movie theater in North America,  we commonly called the cinema a  

movie theater. So we just shorten it to movies.

I

went to the movies last weekend. It  means I went to the movie theater to  

watch a movie. So a moviegoer  is not someone who watches a

movie

at home. They have to go to  the movie theater, the cinema

Are you a movie goer? I am not a moviegoer. I

haven't gone to the movies. The movie theater  for five years, maybe but of course, I watch  

movies at home. I'm just not a moviegoer.  What about you, share that in the comments?

Disney's live-action remake of it's 1989.  Animated classic easily, out swam the competition.  

All right, this is another water  joke. This is also not an expression.

We use it in the literal context  of to outswim. Someone means I  

swam faster than the person. So,  when you add out in front of an

Action verb. It means to do better  than. So if I say I outran someone  

it means I ran faster than another person  who was running usually in the sense of a  

competition. I'm racing against someone and I  outran them, I ran faster than them. So this  

is not an idiom it's in a very specific  context of sports and competition, but it

Again, they used it because of the water  reference, but it means to perform better  

than. So easily performed better  than is how you can think of it,  

easily performed better than the competition.  Now here remake, if I add re in front of my verb,  

it means to do that verb again. So, to  remake, it means to make it again and

This makes sense.

Because the Little Mermaid was  originally a cartoon originally in 1989,  

but they just remade it. And this, the  live action originally, it was a cartoon,  

an animated cartoon, but now, of  course, real people Ariel and Ursula,  

they're real people. Obviously, flounder,  the fish is not. The fish is still

It, so that's the live-action remake.  So with the verb remake, you might say,  

I had to remake the cake. So maybe you  were making a cake but at the same time  

you were watching one of my videos  on YouTube and you forgot about your  

cake and it burns in the oven. So you had  to remake it, I had to remake the cake.

So, you can use this in many different contexts.

All right, bringing in ninety five point  five million dollars. So notice Point,  

that's how I would vocalize this 95.5 million  and then I vocalize the money sign as dollars,  

and it is plural, there's more than one  dollar. One dollar singular 1 million dollars

There's there's a plural on the  dollars but there is no plural on  

the million. I hear a lot of students say  to Millions. No, it's two million dollars  

that plural goes on the dollars. Bringing  in ninety five point five million dollars  

on 4320 screens in North America.  According to Studio estimates Sunday,

So let's take a look at this according to  

and after you need a someone or something. So  this a something could be according to the report,  

this would be a something according to the report  According to Jim, who wrote the report. So this  

would be, of course, a someone. So according to  don't forget this preposition to according to

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starring Halle Bailey as the mermaid Ariel and  Melissa McCarthy as her see, which Nemesis Ursula.

Kayla's pause here. Nemesis listen  to my pronunciation. Nemesis Nemesis  

a nemesis is your rival or your opponent. So  someone or sometimes, even a something that  

you need to defeat something, you need  to defeat this happens a lot in movies.

And books and TV. So think of any superhero. Let's  take Batman. And who does Batman need to defeat?  

He needs to defeat Joker. Right? The Joker,  Don is Batman's Nemesis. It's his rival,  

his opponent. But you may have an  opponent in a race or a competition.

And in that case, the word nemesis  is too strong. When I hear Nemesis,  

I think there's going to be a battle, there's  going to be violence involved. And that's why  

I think more of movies and TV and superheroes. I  don't really think of just being in a race or a  

competition where you have an opponent.  So think of it in that sense as well,  

there's probably some sort of  violence or extreme conflict.

Nemesis her see which Nemesis Ursula will reach,  one hundred Seventeen point five million dollars.  

Don't forget that as sand dollars.  By the time, the holiday is over.  

Okay. This was a very long sentence but let's  take the short form of the sentence. We have  

the film and then this is additional information  about the film. The film will reach this amount.

By the time, the holiday is over. So this  is a nice Advanced sentence structure,  

you can practice, you have the future simple.

And then you have by the  time. Okay, so let's try that,  

let's try by the time. The week is over, what  will happen? So it will rain by the time the  

week is over. So, by the time the week is over  that's the last day of the week and sometimes

Between now and the end of the week, it will  rain. So here future simple. It Will Rain by  

the time and then and then you can have any time.  It doesn't necessarily have to be over. It could  

be by the time I go on vacation. So I will buy a  new bathing suit. By the time, I go on vacation.

Ation.

By the time I go on vacation. So this is a  nice sense of structure. You can try your  

own sentence in the comments, it ranks as the  fifth biggest Memorial Day Weekend, Opening Ever.  

So rank is talking about the score, right? So if  you're in first place that's your rank. Second  

place. Third place 4th Place so this is fifth it  ranks as its overall performance. Now I've saved

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website. So the link is in the description  as well. Let's continue it displaces fast.

X in the top spot. So they're talking about  it, the movie, The Little Mermaid because of  

its overall rank, its performance, its core  it displaces. So first we had fast X but now  

the little mermaid is going to displace it. So  it's going to take its Spot, It displaces Fast  

X in the top spot, the tenth installment in  the Fast and Furious franchise starting Vin

Oil has lagged behind more recent  releases in the series. So when you  

leg behind, it means you're not  performing as well as you could,  

so you're performing slower than expected  or not as good as expected. So to perform

Less than expected.

But we also use this in a physical distance.  So remember before we talked about running  

or swimming, and you can outswim  or outrun the competition, well,  

I might be running. And then I realize that  my competitor not my Nemesis because I'm not  

going to violently fight them. My competitor  is lagging behind. I know they can run faster.

Other than they're currently running.  Why is my competitor lagging behind?  

Why are they running slower than  the they can run? And maybe a,  

even in transportation of train could be legging  behind? It's not moving as quickly as it can  

move. So there could be some mechanical  issue and that's why his legging behind

But in this case, they're talking about  the performance not physical movement.  

So the film The Tenth film in Fast and Furious.  Are you watching that series? I am not. I'll  

stick to my Disney movies has legs behind more  recent releases in the series bringing in 23  

million dollars. Domestically for a two-week,  total of 108 million dollars for Universal

Pictures notice here too, weak. There's no  as on it, right? Because this is being used  

as an adjective and adjectives, don't have a  plural form. So it's the difference between

I went on a vacation.

Now, let's say I want to add an adjective.  I could say, I went on a two-week vacation,  

this is an adjective but if I want to  just talk about the time reference for  

my vacation the length of time, then I do add  the S, I went on a vacation for two weeks,  

this is plural. This is an adjective so it is not  plural. This is a Time reference so it's plural.

The performance of The Little Mermaid represents,  something of a bounce-back for Disney's,  

animated to live-action remake. So remember,  they remade The Little Mermaid first? It was  

animated and now is live action. So, they went  from animated to live action. Notice here,  

bounce, back bounce, back when you bounce back,  is another way of saying recover. So this because

It's a noun, it would be  recovery. It's a recovery. So  

we'll learn later on that. They say that the  live-action remakes they were doing poorly but  

now they've bounced back. So they're recovering  in terms of their performance is going from,  

not very good to better. We use this in a  medical context as well. So let's say your

Sick, you're not feeling well, but the  doctor wants to tell you. It's not serious,  

you'll recover, the doctor could say, don't

Don't worry.

Don't worry, it's just a cold. You'll bounce back.

Bounce back quickly, you'll  recover quickly. In this case,  

it's being used as a verb but here they're using  it as a noun, all bounce back. So in this case,  

it's recovery because that's the noun form, and  the verb form is recover, you'll recover quickly

So they're talking about The Little Mermaid film  because of its performance it's considered a  

bounce-back for their remakes and makes it  likely. They'll keep coming in definitely  

poor reception and the pandemic had some  recent reboots. In this case reboot is  

just another word for remake, but  remake is the more common one. We

Use reboot more in the sense  of starting again. So to start,

An electronic.

Device again. So that's not how  they're using it in this context,  

they're using it to replace the word remake,  to just talk about making it again. But that  

isn't how it's normally used. When you reboot  a device, I will power down my computer or my  

phone usually because it's it has some sort  of bug or an issue. And then they'll say

So just try rebooting it, so turn  it off and turn it back on again.

So recent reboot. Same as remake  either performing poorly or skipping,  

theatrical release for Disney plus, including  Dumbo Milan, and Pinocchio, so Dumbo,  

Milan and Pinocchio. These are three other Disney  movies that they remade into live-action films,  

but they didn't do very well, and they  didn't even go to the theaters. They  

only release them on Disney plus their  streaming service. They didn't release.

Some in the theaters probably because they  didn't think they were going to perform  

very well. So when you skip something it  means you you miss it you miss it so you  

don't go to it or you don't do it so to  miss it or missing theatrical release.

You hear this a lot with events. So you might say,  

I think I'm going to skip the party tonight,  which means I'm going to miss it. I'm not going  

to go where I'm not going to do it or someone  might say, you can't skip the meeting today.  

The CEO will be there, which means you can't not  do it. You have to do it. You can't skip the meet

eating today.

Let's continue the opening puts it in the top  tier of Disney's remakes. So top-tier is one  

of the highest ranks highest positions  top tier with a similar performance to  

2019 Aladdin though. It was well short of  2017 s Beauty and the Beast which open to  

more than 170 million dollars and twenty  19's. The Lion King which brought in more

Then 190 million dollars in its first  weekend. Have you seen any of these  

remakes? I've seen all three. I love Disney  movies. I'm very excited to watch The Little  

Mermaid. Although I'm not a moviegoer,  so I'll watch it at home. What about you?

Oh, and that's the end of the article,  

okay, so now, what I'll do is I'll go to the  beginning of the article and I'll read it from  

start to finish. And this time, you can focus on  my pronunciation. Let's do that now, The Little  

Mermaid minks box office Splash with ninety five  point, five million dollar opening. The little  

mermaid made moviegoers want to be under the sea  on Memorial Day Weekend. Disney's live action.

Action remake of it's 1989.  Animated classic easily,  

out swam the competition. Bringing in  ninety five point five million dollars  

on 4320 screens in North America,  according to Studio estimate Sunday,  

and Disney estimates. The film starring Halle  Bailey as the mermaid Ariel and Melissa McCarthy  

as her see, which Nemesis Ursula will reach. One  hundred Seventeen point five million dollars.

By the time the holiday is over it ranks. As the  fifth biggest Memorial Day Weekend, Opening Ever  

it displaces fast X in the top spot. The tenth  installment in the Fast and Furious franchise.  

Starring Vin Diesel has lagged behind more recent  releases in the series bringing in 23 million  

dollars domestically for a two-week, total of  108 million dollars for Universal Pictures.

The performance of The Little Mermaid represents  something of a bounce-back for Disney's animated  

to live action remakes and makes it likely  they will keep coming in. Definitely  

poor reception. And the pandemic had some  recent reboots either performing poorly,  

or is skipping theatrical releases for Disney  plus, including Dumbo Milan, and Pinocchio,  

the opening puts it in the top  tier of Disney's remakes with a

Our performance to 2019 s Aladdin  though, it was well short of 2017,  

s Beauty and the Beast which opened to more than  170 million dollars and twenty 19's The Lion King  

which brought in more than 190 million dollars  in its first weekend. Now let's focus on phrasal  

verbs because native speakers use phrasal  verbs all the time and in this lesson we're

Going to focus on phrasal verbs with  get and you're going to learn the top,  

40 phrasal verbs with get and at the end  of this section, there's a quiz. Let's go  

to get ahead. This means to progress, so to  make progress towards something and we most  

commonly use this in a career setting or academic  setting. For example, if you want to get ahead

You need fluent English. Would you agree with  that? Put that in the comments if you want to  

get ahead, you need fluent English. Now, notice  how I didn't specify get ahead in. What if you  

want to get ahead at work in your career, so,  don't forget that. But you can also just say,  

if you want to get ahead to get along with most  students know this one. Do you know this one? When

You get along with someone. It means you have  a good relationship with that person. I really  

get along with my boss but we commonly use  this in the - I don't get along with my boss  

so you can use it in both the positive or  the negative. So which describes you I get  

along with my boss. I don't get along  with my boss to get away. This means

To escape. So you can use this into  context, the criminal got away. So  

that means he escaped. The robber got away,  he stole my car and he got away he escaped.  

But we also use this more in the sense  of to escape from your daily life. The  

difficulties of your daily life. I really  need to get away. Work has been so busy.

II. Don't get along with my boss, I need to get  away another common phrasal verb with get away,  

is to get away with something and that something  is negative. For example, she got away with the  

crime, this means she wasn't punished for the  crime. So she did something wrong but she got

We with it, she got away with stealing the car.  Notice that verb ing with stealing the car to get  

off lightly? This is when you are punished for  something but you're punished less severely than  

you anticipated. So maybe you forgot to submit a  report at work but you got off lightly your boss.

Didn't fire you but they did remove you  from the account so you were punished,  

but you were punished less severely than  you expect it. We also use this more in a  

criminal context. She stole the car, but  she got off lightly. So maybe she didn't  

go to prison. She only had to do community  service to get back. This is used to say

That you return to your original starting  point. So, let's say you're at home,  

but then you go to the store and then  you return back home. So now you can say,  

I got back at 7:00. What time did you get  back? Now, you can specify the place. What  

time did you get back home? Back to the  office. Oh, I got back around seven week.

Commonly use this with your vacations. What time  did you get back from your trip to Italy? Oh,  

I got back on Tuesday, you returned home  from Italy. There's also the phrasal verb  

to get back to someone. You might say,  oh I really need to get back to John  

when you get back to someone, it means you respond  to that person. So if I say I need to get back to

John, it means that John contacted me  

but I have not replied. So maybe he asked me a  question and I have not answered his question. I  

need to get back to John or you John might say.  When are you going to get back to me? When are  

you going to respond to my question when you get  back into something? It means you continue doing.

Something that you stopped for a period of time.  So let's say you decided to learn how to play  

guitar or piano, and you play a guitar every  week, for months, and months, and months. And  

then you stop playing guitar, you get very busy  at work but then work is no longer busy. So you  

say oh I need to get back into guitar. I need  to get back into my guitar lessons so maybe you

Use this with your language lessons. I need  to get back into my English language class to  

get back at someone. This is used for Revenge.  So if you didn't get back to John which means  

you didn't reply to John and you didn't answer  his question, maybe John will try to get back  

at you. He'll try to get revenge on you  so maybe he'll tell everyone that you're

You're not very helpful and that's how we gets  back at you to get behind someone or something,  

this is when you support someone or  something. So let's say your company  

has a new policy on their dress code  and you like the policy. You can say,  

I can really get behind that policy, you  support that policy to get by. This is when you

Just enough resources to  survive, we most commonly use  

this with Financial Resources. So you might  say with inflation, I can barely get by,  

so it means you can pay your bills,  pay your mortgage, buy groceries,  

but just enough at the end of the month, you  have one or two dollars left in your account.

I'm getting by to get into trouble. I'm sure you  do this all the time when you get into trouble, it  

just means you enter that situation where you're  doing something you're not supposed to be doing  

which is the trouble. So kids get into trouble all  the time. That's why you don't leave your kids at  

home without an adult to supervise them because  they're going to get into trouble. They're going.

Right on all the walls with crayon or eat, all the  cookies in the fridge, they're going to get into  

trouble to get on. This is when you board, which  means to enter certain vessels, certain methods  

of transportation. So, you can get on a plane, a  train, a boat, or a bus. I got on the plane, you

You entered the plane. You boarded the plane  to get on is also used as an expression to say  

that someone is old or has become very old.  So you might say my grandma is getting on,  

which means my grandma is now quite old.  She's become very old my grandma's getting on,  

so she has difficulty getting on a  plane. Now, what's the opposite of on

I'm on the plane I got on the plane so  now I need to get off the plane. And  

remember you only get off certain  methods of transportation Planes,  

Trains, boats, and buses. This is my stop.  I need to get off the bus. Get off the train  

for vehicles, cars Vans or  trucks. You get in and get out of

Of. I got in my car, I got out of my  car, so don't confuse those two. We  

also use get in when you enter a room  in a building or enter a house or a  

location. So this is very common at work.  A co-worker could ask you o. What time did  

you get in? They met. What time did you  enter the office? So you can also use it.

It to mean. What time did you start your work  day because when you enter the office building  

technically, you started work. So what time  did you get in? Is another way of saying,  

what time did you start work? Now in this case,  

although the opposite of in is out we have  an expression to get off which means to end  

work for the day. So someone could ask  you o. What time do you get off today?

What time do you usually get off? What time are  you getting off, tomorrow. This means what time  

do you finish work? Do you end work? Just  for the day to get out is also used as an  

expression of disbelief. So let's say your  friend tells you, I won the lottery, get out.  

Get out. Get out of here,  get out of town so you can.

Dad, get out of here or less commonly but still  comment, get out of town. It's just a show that  

I can't believe it. What get out. Get out. So  if your friend says something very shocking or  

surprising, I'm moving to Antarctica. Get out.  Get out of town. Why, why are you doing that?  

When you get out of something  or get out of doing something,  

it means you avoid doing something unpleasant.

Pleasant. So, I could say I need to get out of  cleaning the garage because that's unpleasant,  

and I don't want to do it to get together.  This is when people organize socially,  

they join each other socially. So I might ask  what time are we getting together tonight? So  

what time are we going to meet each other?  Join each other and have dinner. Have a

A coffee. Go for a walk, do something social.  Now, if you specify the noun, you need with,  

what time are you getting together with your  friends tonight? You probably know this one  

to get up. What time do you get up? This is  when you leave your bed in the morning, first  

thing in the morning. So what time do you wake  up? This is when you open your eyes. But then,

Get up is when you actually leave your bed so  I wake up at 6 a.m. but I don't get up until  

6:30 but how about this one, get up to. What did  you get up to last night? This is a common way  

of simply asking what someone did. Oh, what  did you get up to last night? Oh, not much.  

I watched a movie. We also use this one though  to imply that someone is doing something wrong.

My kids are always getting up to no good. This  is the same thing as getting into trouble,  

but in a general context. So, what did  you get up to last night? It's what did  

you do last night to get across?  This is to communicate your idea  

successfully. So as a non-native  speaker, you might say I have a  

hard time getting my ideas across. I have  a hard time communicating successfully and

If you have a hard time,  getting your ideas across,  

someone might ask you. What are you  getting at? What are you getting at?  

This is another way of saying. What are you  trying to communicate? What do you mean? So,  

if you're trying to explain something, but the  other person doesn't understand, they can say,  

what are you getting at now? To get at can also  mean to successfully reach something or fine.

Something or obtain something. So let's say I have  a shelf and I have a hat on a very high shelf. I  

might say, I can't get at my hat, I can't reach my  hat so you get rid of this is when you throw away.  

So permanently remove unwanted items. So remember  I said I wanted to get out of cleaning my garage.

Judge because there's so many things,  I need to get rid of. There are so many  

unwanted things in my garage that I want to  permanently remove. So maybe once a year,  

you can go through your entire house and get  rid of things. Get rid of unwanted things to  

get wound up about something is when you get  really angry about something. So let's say,

Your father doesn't like politics in general  so every time he sees something in the news  

about politicians he gets wound up. He gets  really angry, but you might say to your dad,  

get over it, get over it, to get over something  is when you tell someone, they shouldn't have

Wrong feelings towards something else and those  strong feelings are usually negative feelings.  

So if your dad gets really wound up about  politics, you can say, oh, just get over it,  

it's not a big deal. You can, of course, get  over someone. Do you know this one? When you  

get over someone, it means you. No longer have  romantic feelings for that person. So after

My divorce. It took me years to  get over my husband. It took me  

years to stop having romantic  feelings towards my husband.  

Now, someone could say, get over it, stop being  upset about the situation that you're no longer  

with your husband, but that might be a little  insensitive. You can also get over an illness.

- which means you recover from an illness. It  took me weeks to get over my cold. It took me  

weeks to recover from my cold to get around. This  is how you travel within an area. So if you're a  

tourist you might Google. What's the best way  to get around New York City and of course it's

Aunt by car. You don't want to get around  by car because the traffic is terrible. So  

walking is the best way to get around  or taking the subway is the best way  

to get around New York City. When you get  around to something or to doing something,  

it means you finally do something after not  doing it for a long period of time. So, let's

Say I was trying to get out of cleaning the garage  because I didn't really want to get rid of all  

that unwanted stuff but I finally got around to  cleaning the garage. So I finally clean the garage  

after a long time of not cleaning the garage  to get it together, is when you take control.

Your life or your emotions. So let's say your  friend is really upset because she broke up with  

her husband and she has not gotten over him and  you want to tell your friend to just get over it  

but instead you tell your friend, get it together,  get it together. You need to take control.

Of your emotions because your friend is crying  all the time or she's really upset. She's really  

moody angry, not pleasant to be around and you  tell your friend, you need to get it together  

which is a little bit of tough love but  sometimes it's necessary. There are many  

phrasal verbs with debt through that have  different meanings when you get through.

Thing, it means you in der or deal with a  difficult situation, it was really difficult  

for me to get through my father's death. So  my father died. Obviously that's a difficult  

situation. Hopefully you don't say get over it  because that would be very insensitive but I had a  

hard time getting through my father's death so you  can use this in a personal situation. You can use

Is it in a work situation as well? I don't get  along with my boss so I have a hard time getting  

through our meetings. I have a hard time dealing  with our meetings because I don't get along with  

my boss when you get through something.  It can also mean that you successfully  

finish something that was very difficult  or time-consuming. I finally got through.

The report. So you finished it but  it took you a really long time. It  

was difficult when you get through to  someone, it means that you successfully  

contact them after numerous attempts of  trying to contact them. So, let's say,  

I needed to get back to John, I needed to  respond to John, but every time I called John

I got his voicemail I could say I'm having a  hard time getting through to John so I can't  

get back to John because I can't get through to  him, but we also use to get through to someone  

when you're able to communicate something  to someone in a way that they understand it.  

So I told my friend that she shouldn't quit  her job and I explained all the reasons why

And I finally got through to her. So I finally  made her understand why she shouldn't quit her  

job. Your head is probably spinning right now  with all of these phrasal verbs with get. But  

all you need is some practice practice,  practice and repetition. So let's do that  

right now with a quiz. So you have a chance to  review and practice. These get phrasal verbs.

So how did you do with that quiz? Don't  worry if it was difficult again, you just  

need to practice so review this video again  multiple times try that quiz again, but share  

your score in the comments so you can come back  and see how much you've improved and share, your  

favorite phrasal verb with, get in the comments  as well. Finally, I have another reading lesson  

for you because my students love these lessons  and they're so amazing because they focus on.

All areas of your English at once. Your  vocabulary, grammar reading pronunciation and  

this time we're talking about a legal case that's  happening in Australia. That's rocking the entire  

country. Don't worry, you'll learn exactly what  that means in the lesson. So, let's go first, I'll  

read the headline Ben roberts-smith, how decorated  soldiers, defamation case has rocked Australia. So

This man is Ben roberts-smith. Notice this, his  

name ends in an S Roberts but the second part  of his last name starts in an S. So in this  

case you only pronounce 1s Robert Smith.  Robert Smith if it were just Roberts you  

would pronounce the s or just Smith, of course  s, but together, roberts-smith Ben roberts-smith,

This mountain is Ben roberts-smith.  Notice these metals on his suit jacket,  

this is what it means by decorated soldier.  If you say that a soldier is decorated,  

it means that they have been  awarded medals for various reasons,  

so that's what decorated means. It's  really used in a military context now.

Now, what is a defamation case? We're  talking about a legal case, defamation  

is the action of damaging someone's reputation  and that's done by either writing or saying,  

bad things about that person, but the  important thing is that those things  

are not true. So apparently, the media said bad  things about Ben roberts-smith and they ruined

His reputation. So he suing them. So someone  said bad things about Ben roberts-smith that  

damaged his reputation but those things are  not true. So he is suing them. I'm suing you  

for defamation. So if you said Jennifer is  the worst teacher in the entire world and  

that ruined my reputation. I could sue  you for defamation. So don't say that.

Hopefully, you don't think that now how  this defamation case has rocked Australia?  

What does it mean to Rock Australia?  When something rocks, someone or a group,  

such as the population of Australia, it means it  shocks them. So, this defamation case has shocked  

Australia, let's continue on and find out.

Why this case has rocked Australia for  months on end Australia's, most decorated,  

living Soldier. So remember I said, decorated  represents these Metals so he has the most  

metals of any living Soldier. So, he sat stoic  lie in a Sydney courtroom, let's stop here  

because there are a few things I want to review.  Let's take a look at this for months, on end for

Months. Now, we could just say four months and  it would be completely correct when you add on  

and it simply stresses the continuation. So to  emphasize or to stress. Continuation emphasize  

continuation. So, let's say,  

I've been having issues with my computer.  I could say, my computer has been freezing.

For months on end, when I add on end. It just  lets, you know, it didn't just happen once or  

twice, it's been happening continuously. So you  can add that four months, four days, four weeks,  

four hours, whatever, time reference you  would like. And notice because we have  

four and then our time reference, this  is a keyword for the present perfect or

The present, perfect, continuous  for months, on end Australia's,  

most decorated, living Soldier, sat  stoically. This is a great adverb,  

and it means without showing your feelings,  especially when something bad happens to you.  

So let's say that someone delivers, some terrible  news to me and as they delivered the nose, I just

Okay.

Thank you for sharing. I  understand that would be a  

stoic reaction. I reacted stoic  lie, but if I went know what, why,  

why why? And I reacted very emotionally. That's  the opposite of stoic lie. So he sat stoically  

in a Sydney courtroom as dozens of witnesses  accused him of war crimes. Bullying peers.

And assaulting his mistress, okay, so  different people dozens of. So, of course,  

one dozen is 12 12. I hope you know that one  doesn't equals 12, it's a very common measurement  

because things like eggs, come in, a dozen,  a dozen eggs, 12 eggs, a dozen buns, 12 buns.

So it's a common quantity, a dozen. So  this is dozens of, so it would be 24 or  

36 just more than 12. So, a lot of people,  a lot of people accused him. This decorated  

soldier of these terrible things, war crimes,  bullying, peers, and assaulting his mistress

But Ben roberts-smith was not the one on trial,  so he was not officially accused of these crimes  

because remember, in the headline, he this man  was actually suing someone else for defamation  

but instead now people are accusing him of all  of these crimes. Hmm. And that probably explains

Lane's why this case has rocked Australia?  Now, you can download the lesson PDF that  

summarizes. All the notes from this lesson.  Just look in the description below or in the  

comment section for the link to download it. Let's  continue. The 44 year old had brought the case,  

so notice the past perfect. He had  brought the case before he was.

Accused of war crimes. So remember,  the past perfect is used for a past  

action before another past action, past  action, before another past action.

So

I'll write out that full sentence,  he had, he had brought the case,  

when you bring a case to the criminal  justice system, it just means you start or

It's a legal process. He had brought  the case. The defamation case,  

before he was accused of war crimes. So  remember we have the past, perfect past,  

perfect. And then, this is the older action. And  then we have the past simple for the newer action,  

but they are both past actions.  The 44 year old had brought the

Case suing three Australian newspapers, over a  series of articles in 2018, which he says defamed  

him. So, this is the verb form, remember  before we had defamation, which is a noun,  

but here to defame someone that's the verb  form. So the verb form is to defame, someone to  

defame. So the media to

Named him you defamed me when you said I was the  world's worst teacher so I'm suing you don't worry  

I won't do that. He argues they ruined his life  by painting him as a callous man so you can paint  

someone as something and that's just another way  of saying to describe someone as she described me.

As the world's best teacher. Oh why thank you  so much. She painted me as the world's best  

teacher. So when you paint someone as you  don't just say Jennifer's the world's best  

teacher. You usually give examples, you tell  a story just like when you paint a picture,  

you don't just put one blob. You put a  lot of detail on that picture. So you

I details informations examples.  A story to describe someone,  

so the media painted him as a callous  man, what is this adjectives callous?  

He's very callous. When someone is callous.  It means they are unkind cruel and they don't  

have any sympathy or feelings for others. So  it's a negative adjectives. So let's say, aye,

Share some very bad news with you. I told  you guys a family member died and you said,  

let's get some pizza. I might say, well, that was  very callous. That was very unkind. You didn't  

even offer any sympathy to this. You just wanted  pizza. So, that was very callous. He's so callous.  

So the media painted him as  a callous man who had broken.

In the moral and legal rules of War, notice  our past perfect. Again, a past action,  

before another pass action. So maybe this is the  older past action. So, the newer past action could  

have been, he had broken, the legal rules of War  before he met Queen Elizabeth because up here,

Here, they have him with Queen Elizabeth.  So this is a past action, it's already in  

the past, but we're talking about a past  action before this, this past action.  

So he had all right, that again  for you. So you can practice,  

he had broken, the moral rules of War before he  met Queen Elizabeth. So remember this is the only

Those are action. And this is the newer action.  But they are both past actions disgracing,  

his country in the process. Let's take a look at  disgrace. This is a verb, and this is when you  

make people stopped respecting, you or your family  team, your company by doing something very bad.

Or wrong. So remember before this case, he was a  beloved decorated soldier in Australia but then it  

came to light that he had done all these terrible  things. So now he has embarrassed his country,  

he's disgraced his country disgracing, his country  in the process. Now let's continue. But the media.

Lids say they reported the truth and  have set out to prove it. Let's take  

a look at this to set out to do  something in this case to prove  

it. What's the it? Remember that  it is that this decorated soldier  

did commit all these things that they said. So  there is no defamation because it's true. That's

what they want to set out to prove and this  simply means that they're going to start  

trying to do that specific thing. So in this  case, they're going to start trying to prove  

that he committed those crimes.  So you might say, I've set out,  

I've set out to improve my English speaking  skills. Does this describe you? Are you going to

Start trying to improve your English  speaking skills. If this describes,  

you put it in the comments, I've set out to  improve my English speaking skills and notice  

to set out this is in the present. Perfect, let's  continue on. It is the first time in history, any  

court has been tasked with assessing allegations  of war crimes by Australian forces, an allegation.

It is a claim that someone has done something  wrong without evidence, okay, without evidence. So  

at this point is just a claim a claim that someone  has done something wrong, like, the war hero,  

the soldier who committed war crimes. But  at this point is just an allegation without

without evidence or proof.

So, the media wants to explain that. There is  evidence, there is proof. So it's not in fact,  

an allegation, it's the truth. So again,  it's not defamation and notice this  

sentence structure to be tasked with  something, and then not something is  

either a noun or a verb and ing. So let  me give you an example. I've been tasked

With helping my students  improve their speaking skills.  

So, of course, a task is something that you  need to do, but if I've been tasked with it,  

it sounds like someone else is giving me the task.  So, maybe it's just my students who constantly  

say Jennifer, can you help me improve my speaking  spill skills? So, I can say, I've been tasked with

And notice the verb with ing, let's continue  

lasting 110 days and costing up to an estimated 25  million Australian dollars. Now in this context,  

that a strat stands for Australian simply because  this article is for a worldwide audience, and when  

you see the dollar sign you assume, it's American  dollars. So they put the a to represent Australia.

Trillion dollars. Of course, if  this is a newspaper in Australia,  

they wouldn't put that because for  them that is the currency. This is  

just for an international audience. So  we understand its Australian dollars,  

the trial has heard extraordinary and  at times bizarre evidence about every  

facet of mr. Robert Smith's life bizarre is an  adjective. That means very strange, and unusual.

So at times, strange and unusual evidence. Hmm,  now, I'm curious. What is this bizarre evidence?

You could use this because is an  adjective. You could say, her behavior  

was very bizarre. It was very strange  and unusual bizarre. Her behavior was  

very bizarre or the movie was very  bizarre. You could use that as well.

The movie was very bizarre. It was  strange. It was unusual. It was bizarre.  

Every facet of facet is a way to say every  part of every element of every piece of. I'll  

write that out for you. So every part element  aspect piece, these are all synonyms. That

You can use piece of. So of course he  has different parts of his life. He has  

his his family life. His friends,  his Hobbies, his Sports, his work,  

his community. Those are the facets of his  life that aspects the pieces of his life.  

So this evidence is about every facet  of. So not just his work or his family.

Lee also how he acts in the community or the  Hobbies. He enjoys every facet of his life,  

it sparked a media frenzy. So this verb to spark  it, simply means that it created the media frenzy  

was created because of this trial. So it created.  So the frenzy wouldn't have existed without this.

It created Created. Now, what is Frenzy?

Frenzied simply means uncontrolled or really  excited uncontrolled excited. So if you say  

there was a media frenzy When Brad Pitt arrived,  so Brad Pitt arrived and there are tons and tons  

of different people. Taking pictures asking  questions. Nobody is controlled. Nobody is  

respecting, Brad Pitt's, personal space.  Oh, Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt. They're putting

Microphone a camera in his face and everyone  is very excited. That would be a frenzy  

captured national attention,  and has made mr. Robert Smith,  

the public face of accusations of Australian war  crimes in Afghanistan. After sifting, through,  

when you sift through something, it means you  go through something or review. Something in a

A lot of detail. So if I have all these  different pages in a notebook and I read  

each and every page, very, very carefully.  I sifted through the notebook. So let  

me write that for you. So, to review  information, very carefully to review  

information carefully and you're doing not so  you can determine what's useful or what's not

Useful, after sifting, through volumes  of evidence this week, a judge is due  

to hand down a decision. When you hand down a  decision, it simply means that you make your  

decision public. But it's used with authorities  because the judge once the judge decides that  

is legally binding decision. Yes, he can appeal  the decision but until he appeals the decision.

Asian that decision is legally binding. So  if your boss hands down a decision because  

your boss has authority to make decisions. If  you don't like the decision, unfortunately,  

there probably isn't a lot, you can do.  So, we use hand down a decision when it's  

someone in a position of authority who makes a  decision. So, when the judge is due to hand down,

Decision. So, I'll just write that note for you  

to make a decision. So the judge is  due to make a decision, and I'll just,  

no only used when the decision is made by someone  with authority. So, when that person shares,  

the decision that decision is final, but remember,  every decision can be appealed or there are

Our official processes that you can follow.  If you don't agree with a decision, even if  

it is made by someone with authority,  even if that decision is handed down,

the judge is due to hand down a  decision in the historic case. So soon,  

we will find out this week. We will  find out what that decision is.  

Now, that's the end of the story. So what  I'll do now is, I'll go to the top and I'll  

read the article from start to finish. And  this time, you can focus on my pronunciation,  

Ben roberts-smith, how decorated soldiers,  defamation case has rocked Australia

For months, on end Australia's, most decorated,  living soldiers, sat stoic, lie in a Sydney  

courtroom as dozens of witnesses accused him of  war crimes, bullying peers, and assaulting his  

mistress, but Ben roberts-smith was not the one  on trial. The 44 year old had brought the case,  

suing three Australian newspapers over  his series of articles in 2018, which he

He says defamed him. He argues they ruined  his life by painting him as a callous man  

who had broken the moral and legal rules of  War disgracing. His country in the process  

but the media Outlets say they reported  the truth and have set out to prove it.  

It is the first time in history, any  court has been tasked with assessing  

allegations of war crimes  by Australian forces last

Sting 110 days and costing up to an estimated  25 million Australian dollars. The trial has  

heard extraordinary and add X bizarre evidence  about every facet of mr. Robert Smith's life,  

it sparked. A media frenzy captured  national attention, and has made mr.  

Robert Smith. The public face of accusations  of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan after

Sifting through

volumes

of evidence this week, a judge is due to  hand down a decision in the historic case,  

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