ALL the Grammar you need for ADVANCED English in ONLY ONE HOUR! + 👉Free Lesson PDF

Today I have a one hour English Grammar master class for you to help you progress from beginner

to advance.

By the end of this lesson.

Welcome back to JForrest English.

Of course, I'm Jennifer.

Now let's get started.

1st in this master class, let's find out what your English level is.

Are you more of AC1 pure beginner, B2 Upper intermediate, or C2 the most advanced?

Because once you know your level, you understand what areas you need to improve to progress

and improve your fluency.

So let's test your English level right now.

Question one, she to the store yesterday.

Now I'll only give you 3 seconds to answer, so if you need more time, hit pause and when

you're ready to see the answer, hit play.

She went to the store yesterday.

Yesterday is a keyword for the past simple and went is the past simple of the verb to

go.

Question two, We students, we are students.

For this you need to know the verb conjugations for the verb to be in the present simple I

am, you are ** *** it is and we and they are question 3.

Which word means the opposite of happy?

Sad.

You knew that one, right?

Question 4.

Which sentence is correct?

He doesn't like coffee here.

You need to know the sentence structure for negative sentences.

In the present simple, the sentence structure is subject and then you need do or does as

your auxiliary verb not and the base verb.

The subjects I, you, we and they use do not as a contraction.

It's don't and the subjects ** *** it uses does not and the contraction is doesn't.

So did you pass the A1 level?

Share your score in the comments and let's continue with a two.

She usually the bus to work takes usually is a keyword for the present simple and with

the subject ** *** it.

You need to add an S or ES to your base verb to form the present simple.

Question two what is the past simple of the verb to eat?

88.

So notice that to eat is an irregular verb.

Question three, That book is mine.

That book is mine.

Mine is the possessive to show ownership for the subject I I possess that book.

That book is mine.

Question 4.

This movie is then that one more interesting.

There are two structures for forming comparatives.

For A1 syllable word you have the word plus, ER, smart, smarter.

But for longer words, three syllable words, you have more and the word more interesting.

Did you pass the A2 level?

Share your score and let's continue on with the B1 level question one.

Which sentence is in the present perfect verb tense?

I have gone to the market for the present perfect.

We need the subject have or has in the past participle.

Our verb here is to go and the conjugations are go, went in the past simple and gone in

the participle.

Question two, What does the expression break the ice mean?

It means to start a conversation in a social setting.

Remember that expressions, idioms, phrasal verbs.

They don't have literal meaning, so you have to memorize what they mean.

For example, let's play a game to break the ice.

Question three, she has a for learning languages.

She has a talent for learning languages.

This option is correct because it's the only definition that makes sense and also the sentence

structure.

You have a talent for something, so that sentence structure is correct with talent.

Question four.

Peter, that movie three times so far has seen so far means it's an unfinished time reference

and we use the present perfect as seen with unfinished time references.

So did you pass the B1 level?

Share your score and let's continue on to B2.

Question one, The cake by Mary was baked.

This is the passive voice, and was baked is the past tense of to be baked.

Question 2.

Which word is a synonym for confidential?

Secret.

You could say that document is confidential, which means it's secret.

It's not public, it's not open and revealing.

That means you share more information than expected, but since it's confidential secret,

we don't know if the document is revealing.

Question three I can't put with his behavior anymore.

Put up with this is a phrasal verb.

To put up with something or someone is when you tolerate.

So accept negative behavior and this is the only option that fits the context and the

sentence structure.

Question 4 If it tomorrow we won't go to the beach reigns.

This is the conditional you need if plus present simple and your next clause is in the future

simple.

So did you make it to be to share your score?

And let's move on to the advanced levels C One question one, identify the correct reported

speech, she said.

I will come later.

She said that she would come later for reported speech, indirect speech.

Will becomes would question two.

We have the budget will pay for your training.

Therefore, therefore is a transition word.

It's used to show 'cause we have the budget and a fact.

The effect is we'll pay for your training.

Question three.

What does the idiom to hit the nail on the head mean?

This means to describe something perfectly, and if you watched my lesson last week on

idioms, you would know this because I taught it.

For example, you hit the nail on the head with your analysis.

Your analysis described the situation perfectly.

Question 4.

You'll regret the conference.

Missing Regret is a gerund verb, so you need the verb plus your gerund regret missing verb

plus ING.

So did you pass the C1 level?

Share your score, and let's continue to the most advanced C2 level Question one.

Her speech had a profound on the audience effect.

Effect is a verb, effect is a noun.

You could use the verb, but you would have to change the sentence to her speech affected

the audience.

Question 2 Which course would you recommend to me?

Don't forget that too, because you recommend something the course to someone.

Now you can also simply recommend something.

Which course would you recommend?

Which course would you recommend?

To me, both of those are correct question three.

If I you, I would do the same if I were you, I were you because this is the present conditional

which is used for hypotheticals and we use were for all subjects in the conditional.

And finally question for Jane.

Tom can come to the party.

Neither Jane nor Tom can come to the party and this means they aren't coming to the party.

So we use neither nor for negative.

You could say either Jane or Tom can come to the party.

This means one person is coming to the party.

You could also say both Jane and Tom are coming to the party and this means that two people

are coming to the party.

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Now let's continue with our lesson.

Amazing job with that test.

And remember, it doesn't matter what your current level is.

The only thing that matters is you're taking steps to improve your fluency, and you're

doing that right now, so you should feel very proud.

Now I'm going to keep pushing you because I do want you to feel like you've really improved

your English grammar by the end of this lesson.

So I'm going to push you, and we're going to review more advanced grammar together.

And we're going to do this by completing another test, because tests are one of the best ways

to really remember the information and to decide if you truly understand it.

So let's continue on with a more advanced test, and this one is specific on verb tenses.

Let's start the test now.

So here's how this lesson will work.

I'll show you a question, and there'll be a blank, and you have to decide which option,

which verb tense, best completes the sentence.

Now, I'll only show the question for a few seconds, so hit pause, take as much time as

you need, and when you're ready, hit play and I'll share the correct answer and I'll

explain why that answer is correct.

My flight at 9:00 AM tomorrow, and the answer is my flight leaves at 9:00 AM tomorrow.

Now both B&C are future verbs, and we need a future verb because we have the keyword

tomorrow.

So I know we're in the future, but we use the present simple in the future on one specific

occasion, and that's with timetable events, with scheduled events.

So transportation runs on a schedule.

You get a ticket and it tells you the time.

We can consider that a scheduled event.

If you're going to a party, a wedding, a meeting in the future, and there's a scheduled event,

you can simply say my meeting starts at 2:00 next Tuesday.

Question two she two books so far this year and the answer is she has written two books

so far this year.

Your keyword here is this year.

This year is still in progress.

If it were complete, I'd say last year.

She's written two books so far this year.

So which verb tense am I using?

The present perfect has written.

We use the present perfect for actions that started in the past but are still in progress.

So the books she has written, those are complete.

Those two books are sitting on her shelf, but it's possible for her to write more books

because the year is still in progress.

The present perfect #3 Your eyes are red and puffy, and the answer is Have you been crying?

Have you been crying?

The verb tense here is the present perfect continuance.

We need a continuous verb in this context because the focus is on the action.

The focus is not on the result.

The focus is on the action of crying.

I want to emphasize the action.

Crying.

Have you cried the present perfect?

That sounds awkward because there's no focus on the action.

Question 4.

If I you, I'd quit, and the answer is if I were you.

If I were you now, having I and were side by side may sound unnatural to you, because

the past form of the verb to be with the subject I was of course right.

I was tired.

I was angry.

You were tired.

You were angry.

She was tired.

They were tired.

But this isn't in the past.

Simple.

This is in the subjunctive and the conjugation for the subjunctive verb is were for all subjects.

I, you, ** *** it, we.

There they were.

Now, why does this question need the subjunctive?

Because it's hypothetical.

I'm not you.

That's a hypothetical situation.

If I were you.

But I'm not you.

I'm me.

Right?

If I were younger.

If I were older.

If I were taller.

If I were shorter.

Those are all hypothetical situations #5 Dave at the bank since 2009, and the answer is

Dave has been working at the bank since 2009.

Now we're using the present perfect continuous because the action started in the past and

continues until now.

When did Dave start working at the bank?

Dave started working at the bank in 2009.

Where does Dave work now?

Today at the bank, Right.

So action that started in the past and continues until now.

Question 6, Carmen has a hair appointment tomorrow.

Carmen her hair cut tomorrow.

And the answer is Carmen is getting her hair cut tomorrow.

Now the first sentence is just to provide context.

So you know there's a scheduled event.

And that's important because we use the present continuous, not the future.

Simple.

We use the present continuous when we're talking about a scheduled event in the future.

Let's say I have a plane ticket to go to Australia in five years.

Even though it's five years, a long time away, it's still a scheduled event.

So I would say I'm going present continuous.

I'm going to Australia in five years because it's a scheduled event.

Question seven, Samuel to Paris at least five times.

And the answer is Samuel has gone to Paris at least five Times Now.

There's no indication of time in this example.

There's no past reference last year, last month, and there's no future reference either.

So I know we're just talking about in general and we use the present perfect has gone.

We use the present perfect to talk about life experience, the things we have done or haven't

done in our life.

And the reason is because our life.

Is unfinished.

Our life is in progress.

It started in the past and it continues until now.

So while we're alive and still living, we use the present perfect to talk about our

life experience.

Question eight, I think Sarah, a promotion next year and the answer is I think Sarah

will get a promotion next year.

So my keyword here is next year.

So I know I'm in the future.

And notice the other keyword, I think I think we use the future simple to make predictions

about the future.

I think Sarah, I don't know this 100%.

It's a prediction.

I think Sarah will get a promotion next year #9 the client.

By the time I checked my messages, the client had called by the time I checked my messages.

This is the past perfect.

The past perfect is used to talk about a past action, a completed past action that takes

place before another past action.

So on our timeline, we have two past events.

The client called.

I checked my messages.

Now we use the past perfect for the first past action which is the older action and

we use the past simple for the second past action which is the newer action on our timeline.

The client had called by the time I checked my messages.

And finally question 10.

I can't believe they their baby by the time we get there.

And the answer is I can't believe they will have had their baby by the time we get there.

Which vertence is this?

The future perfect.

We don't use the future perfect too often, but it's still an important verb tense.

We use the future perfect to talk about a completed action in the future.

So let's say right now it's summer 2022 and the baby is due in the fall 2022.

So right now in summer, it's an future action, right?

But let's say I'm traveling to visit this couple in the winter of 2022.

So I'm going to take my timeline from now and I'm going to change the timeline to winter

2022.

And by winter 2022, the baby will have been born.

So that action, although it's a future action now, when I changed the timeline to winter

2022, the action will actually be in the past.

So how'd you do with that test?

You can share your score in the comments.

And again, the purpose is to understand which areas you need to improve, so you can do that

going forward.

Now let's move on and review some very common grammar mistakes that I hear all students

make.

Beginner students, intermediate, advanced.

I hear all students make these mistakes, but they make the students sound less fluent,

more of a beginner level.

So let's fix these mistakes right now.

This sentence has one mistake in it.

Feel free to hit pause, review the sentence, and try to identify the mistake.

Now, these are real sentences by real students of mine in the finely fluent Academy.

I review example sentences from my students every single day, and these are the mistakes

that they commonly make, that we're correcting in this lesson.

So do you know what this mistake is?

The mistake is with track record.

Now we have one of one of the best track record, so one of suggests that there's more than

one.

So the noun needs to be plural.

The correct sentence is.

This machine has one of the best track records in its.

Group.

Our next sentence.

Your assignment was late.

Please explain why you failed to do What's the mistake?

The mistake is leaving out the object you need to say.

Please explain why you failed to do it and it represents the assignment which was already

said.

Now, even though it's obvious you're talking about the assignment, you need an object here

grammatically.

Our next sentence, being a great communicator in all situations, set you up for success.

What's the mistake here?

It's set you up.

This is the wrong verb conjugation, because we have this gerund expression being a great

communicator in all situations.

Now students will often look at that in all situations, and they think that's what you

need to conjugate the verb with.

But it's not.

It's the gerund expression which is being a great communicator in all situations.

And all of this is the subject it.

If you had to choose a subject for it, it would be the subject it or this.

This sets you up for success.

So you need to add an S to that verb because it's conjugated with it as the subject, and

it's the present simple.

Now, if you had a noun, you would say this situation sets you up for success.

That's the singular noun.

Or you could say all situations.

Now this is plural.

It's they all situations set you up for success.

So with the noun, you conjugate it with singular or plural.

But when the sentence starts with a gerund verb, being is.

Conjugated as it.

How about this sentence?

I want to run something to you.

Do you know what the mistake is?

Well, technically this is grammatically correct, but it's the literal meaning.

I want to run something.

Maybe this iPad.

I want to run something to you now, my student.

When they use this, they were trying to use the expression to run something by or past

someone, which is when you share an idea with someone in order to get feedback on that idea.

So the mistake here is using the wrong preposition which can entirely change the meaning because

now it's not the expression.

I want to share an idea to get feedback.

Now it's I want to literally run something to you, which is not what my student wanted

to communicate.

How about this sentence?

Lately I'm worried about my English test.

What's the mistake?

The mistake is using the wrong verb tense with lately or recently, and I hear this mistake

a lot.

Lately or recently means the action started in the past and it continues until now and

it might continue into the future.

So what verb tense do we need?

The present perfect continuous?

Lately I've been worrying about my English test, and you could also say recently I've

been worrying about my English test.

Now remember that these are real mistakes that my real students in the finely fluent

Academy have made.

If you're that student who made this mistake, don't worry, because that's the whole purpose

of taking lessons.

I love it when my students make mistakes because it means I get to share something with them,

I get to teach them something and they get to improve.

So if you are also making these mistakes, don't worry.

The important thing is that you're correcting them right now.

And of course, if you want my personalized support, you can simply join the Finally Fluent

Academy.

You can check out the link in the description to learn more.

Our next sentence we need to stop problem in its tracks.

What's the mistake?

The student forgot the article.

This is definitely the most common mistake I hear even with my advanced students is leaving

out articles or not using articles correctly overall.

So here problem is a singular countable noun.

So it needs an article.

We need to stop the problem in its tracks.

Now you could also say we need to stop this problem in its tracks.

You could even say we need to stop our.

Problem in its tracks.

But you need some article before a singular countable noun, unless it's one of the many

nouns that are exceptions and don't take articles, which is why students struggle with articles

so much, and which is why I help my students in the Finely Fluent Academy and provide the

support because the use of articles is so specific in English.

Let's look at this sentence.

Whenever a student joins the Finally Fluent Academy, they always introduce themselves.

And one of the questions is what do you do for a living?

And a lot of students will reply back and say I'm accountant, I'm accountant.

What's the problem here?

Again, it's articles.

You need an article before a job title, so you would need to say I'm an accountant.

You need an because accountant starts with a vowel sound, so you need an instead of.

Awe.

I'm an accountant.

He's a developer, but if you were talking about a group, you could say they're developers.

They are developers.

So notice in this case there's no article because the noun is plural and you don't need

an article with plural nouns, they're developers.

So please, when you tell people what you do for a living, make sure you include the article.

Otherwise it will sound like your English is very beginner.

Let's review this sentence.

He has been jumping up and down for two hours, was the mistake.

This student wanted to use the present perfect continuous but they didn't form it properly.

So it's the incorrect structure.

The correct structure is subject have or has conjugated with the subject which this student

did and then been and then the verb in ING.

So the student only made one mistake, but just one mistake with the structure of a sentence

will make the entire sentence incorrect.

The student used the verb in ING being when it should have been been.

So the correct sentence is He has been jumping up and down for two hours.

How about this one?

You need to practice more your English lessons.

What's the mistake?

The mistake here is incorrect word order, because you don't practice more something,

you practice something more.

So the correct sentence is you need to practice your English lessons more.

You practice something, your English lessons more.

Now if the something is obvious, you're talking about English lessons.

You don't need to specify that.

You could simply say you need to practice more, so you can also use practice more without

including the something.

This is the final mistake and it's the one that I hear the absolute most, even more than

articles.

This sentence is the project doesn't go well.

What's the mistake?

So what verb tense is being used here?

This sentence uses the present simple, but the present simple is for routine actions,

and in this case it's not a routine action, it's an action that's taking place right now.

So the mistake is using the present simple when the present continuous should have been

used.

And this is by far the most common mistake that I hear.

Advanced students make the present simple.

The correct sentence is the project isn't going well.

Isn't going.

Is going, but in the negative.

So we have our present continuous is going is not going.

The project isn't going well because we're talking about right now.

Right now, the project isn't going well.

You could absolutely use the present simple, but you would have to make the context appropriate,

so it would need to be more of a routine action.

Think of it.

As more of an in general.

So you could say our projects don't go well.

So it's not necessarily the project right now, It's in general.

In general, our projects don't go well.

So just remember right now, present continuous in general, present simple.

So were you making a lot of these mistakes?

Don't worry if you were because as I said, these are real mistakes that my real students

make and don't feel bad if you make them as well.

The whole purpose of being here is to make mistakes, learn, improve and grow.

But let's find out if you truly know how to correct these mistakes.

I am going to quiz you right now.

Here are all the questions we just reviewed.

Hit pause, and I want you to correct them.

Correct all the mistakes, and when you're ready to see the answers, hit play.

So, were you able to correct all of those mistakes?

Let's find out.

Here are the correct answers.

Hit pause, review them, and when you're ready to continue, hit play.

Amazing job and think of how much grammar you have already learned in this master class.

Now let's do something different.

Let's work on your listening skills.

You're going to improve your listening skills.

You're going to improve your vocabulary, but you're also going to improve your grammar

by understanding how to use your new vocabulary in correct sentences.

So let's start the listening test right now.

Here are your instructions for the entire lesson.

1st, I'm going to say a sentence three times, and you need to write down exactly what you

hear word for word in the comments.

Next, I'm going to explain exactly what I said, and I'll explain the pronunciation changes

that take place in fast English, and I'll explain the expressions that I used as well.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Looks like we're back to square 1.

Looks like we're back to square 1.

Looks like we're back to square one, I said.

Looks like we're back to square one.

Did you get that one?

Let's talk about the pronunciation changes.

Notice the contraction were were This is we are as a contraction were.

Now notice how unstressed my pronunciation is.

It sounds like were not.

We're were.

This is how native speakers say it at a natural pace.

We're back.

We're back.

We're back.

We're back to, This sounds like to in real English to we're back to we're back to square

one.

We're back to square one.

Now what does this mean, to be back to square one?

Well, square one on a board game is the beginning of a board game.

So when you're back to square one, it means you're back to the beginning and you're back

to the beginning, the start, because you tried something and it didn't work, so you had a

failed attempt and you have to try again.

Looks like we're back to square one.

It looks like we have to start again from the beginning because our first attempt failed

our next listening exercise.

I'll say it three times.

I don't know if we can trust her.

She's pretty wishy washy.

I don't know if we can trust her.

She's pretty wishy washy.

I don't know if we can trust her.

She's pretty wishy washy, I said.

I don't know if we can trust her.

She's pretty wishy washy.

First, let's talk about don't know at a natural pace.

This sounds like don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know, don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know if.

We can notice here we can trust when can is the auxiliary verb, so it's not the main verb.

We reduce this to kin, kin, and it's very unstressed sound.

I don't know if we can, if we can trust, if we can trust and notice you hear trust more

because it's the main verb, and can, which sounds like kin, is very short.

Kin can trust, can trust.

I don't know if we can trust her.

Now here, we can get rid of that H sound and it just sounds like, uh, trust her.

But then you combine it to the word before.

Trust her, trust her, trust her.

I don't know if we can trust her.

She's This is a contraction for she is she's pretty wishy washy.

What does wishy washy mean to be wishy washy?

This is when you have no clear or consistent ideas or decisions.

We generally use this as an adjective to describe someone who changes their mind, changes the

decision that they make frequently.

So that's why you don't know if you can trust her because she says she's going to come to

your party or help you move, but because she's wishy washy, tomorrow she might change her

mind and say, oh, actually I'm not coming to the party or I'm not going to help you

move.

But then maybe the next day she changes her mind again and she does come to your party.

She's wishy washy.

I don't know if I can trust her.

She's pretty wishy washy.

Our next listening exercise, I'll say it three times.

You got to give him props.

He's a real trooper.

You got to give him props.

He's a real trooper.

You got to give him props.

He's a real trooper, I said.

You got to give him props.

He's a real trooper you got to got to sounds like gotta you gotta you gotta give him.

Same thing we saw with her.

Get rid of the age and it will sound like him but you can combine it to the word before

Give him, give him, give him.

You gotta give him props.

He's this is a contraction.

He is.

He's a real trooper.

Now what does this mean to give someone prompts.

This is when you give someone respect, credit, or recognition.

So let's say a Co worker of yours gets a really big client.

Well if you want to give your Co worker credit or recognition, you could say, oh, we got

to give him props and then you can celebrate his big achievement.

Let's talk about he's a real trooper.

When you describe someone as a trooper, to be a trooper, this is someone who perseveres

through hardship or difficulty.

So they persevere.

They keep going, they don't give up, they don't quit, they persevere.

And This is why you've got to give them props.

Because he didn't quit, even though it was difficult.

Because he's a real trooper.

Our next listening exercise, I'll say it three times.

Our successes and failures were writ large.

Our successes and failures were writ large.

Our successes and failures were writ large.

I said.

Our successes and failures were writ large.

Notice hour.

I did not pronounce this as hour.

I said RRA very reduced sound R our successes, our successes, our successes and failures

here.

And when and comes between 2 nouns or even 2 verbs, we reduce it to are successes and

successes and failures.

Coffee and tea.

Successes and failures are successes and failures were writ.

Did you spell this starting with AR or with AW?

The West is silent, just like in the word right?

The West is silent, but in spelling it's there.

In pronunciation, it isn't writ.

Large.

What does writ large mean?

This is an adjective that simply means to be very obvious.

So our successes and failures were very obvious.

Why is that?

Perhaps we work for a public company, and when we fail, the general public knows we

failed.

But also, when we succeed, the general public knows we succeeded.

Because our successes and failures are writ large.

They're very obvious.

Are you ready for your last listening exercise?

I'll say it three times.

With a few tweaks, it'll be good to go.

With a few twinks, it'll be good to go.

With a few tweaks, it'll be good to go.

I said with a few tweaks, it'll be good to go.

Did you hear that contraction?

It'll it will sounds like it'll it'll it's a very soft sound.

It's easy to miss that.

Will it'll it'll it'll be, it'll be.

But without it, the sentence wouldn't be grammatically correct.

If I said it be that isn't correct, it will be.

It'll be it'll, it'll, it'll be good to go.

Just like we saw before, 2 is a reduced sound, an unstressed sound.

To good to go.

To To go.

To go.

Good to go.

Good to go.

What does this mean?

With a few tweaks.

Tweaks are changes.

Small changes.

So let's say you're writing a report and your boss or Co worker wants you to remove this

section and add this information.

That would be a tweak, A tweak.

You need to make a small change, a tweak with a few tweaks, with a few changes.

It'll be good to go.

When something is good to go, good to go, it means it's ready.

And we use this in two contexts, Ready to leave or ready to start doing something.

So let's say you and your friend are going to the movies.

Your friend could text you and say good to go.

Are you ready to leave?

And in this case it could be Are you ready to leave your house to meet me at the movies?

Good to go, good to go.

We use this a lot as native speakers.

In this context it'll it'll be good to go.

Something can also be good to go in the context of it's ready to start doing something.

For example, the new website will be good to go on Monday, which means the new website

will be ready, ready to start doing something, ready to start receiving visitors, ready to

be available to the public.

The new website will be good to go on Monday.

Now, the new website as a subject is it so if you already know you're talking about the

website, you can say it'll, it'll be good to go.

Now let's do an imitation exercise so you can practice these natural pronunciation changes

and practice these new expressions.

I'll say each sentence again three times in a row, and I want you to imitate my pronunciation.

Try to say just like me, Get all those pronunciation changes.

And I want you to say this out loud so you can do this as many times as you'd like to

practice.

Looks like we're back to square 1.

Looks like we're back to square 1.

Looks like we're back to square one.

I don't know if we can trust her.

She's pretty wishy washy.

I don't know if we can trust her.

She's pretty wishy washy.

I don't know if we can trust her.

She's pretty wishy washy.

You got to give him prompts.

He's a real trooper.

You got to give him prompts.

He's a real trooper.

You got to give him prompts.

He's a real trooper.

Our successes and failures were writ large.

Our successes and failures were writ large.

Our successes and failures were writ large.

With a few twinks, it'll be good to go.

With a few twinks, it'll be good to go.

With a few twinks, it'll be good to go.

Amazing job improving your grammar and your listening skills, vocabulary and pronunciation.

So let's keep doing that.

Let's do another fun exercise.

This time we'll read a news article together, and you'll improve all areas of your English,

including your grammar.

So let's read the article together right now.

1st, I'll read the headline This beloved beverage has gone viral, but you might want to think

twice before drinking it.

Did you notice how I pronounced Beloved, Beloved.

There are three syllables Beloved.

This.

Is important because generally when you have a voiced sound, the Ed is pronounced as a

soft D and there's only one syllable at the end.

So that means it would normally be beloved, beloved.

And some native speakers do pronounce it as beloved, the two syllables.

But it is common more common to say beloved with the three syllables.

Now let's talk about has gone viral, so the expression is to go viral.

Here it's conjugated in the the present perfect, but the verb is go, and that's what you would

conjugate.

When something goes viral, it means it becomes extremely popular on social media and usually

happens in a short period of time.

So fingers crossed that this.

Video that you're watching right now goes viral.

To help that you can like the video, so hit the like button because that does help videos

go viral, OK?

This.

Beloved beverage has gone viral, so this beverage is now extremely popular on social media.

But you might want to think twice before drinking it.

Let's talk about this, because we have.

Might want and then the infinitive to think.

You might want to think.

This is a great.

Structure when you want to suggest something, but do it in a less severe way.

Because notice this example.

You must bring an umbrella.

That sounds like a strong suggestion.

If someone said that to me, I would 100% bring an umbrella.

But if someone said you might want to bring an umbrella, maybe I will, maybe I won't.

So the article headline is not being very severe in its recommendation.

And when you think twice about something, it's literally you should think about it,

and then you should think about it again.

This is a common expression we use in English.

So maybe your friend tells you, I want to quit my job.

I hate my boss.

You can reply back and say you might want to think twice before quitting, so you're

encouraging your friend.

In this case, you're doing it in a gentle way because we use.

You might want to think twice so you're encouraging your friend to think again.

Consider it again to make sure you're making the right decision.

Now don't worry about taking all of these notes, because I summarize everything in a

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Now let's continue and find out what this beloved beverage.

Is.

The beverage which is just adding lemon juice to water.

OK, so that's the beverage.

It's lemon water has gone viral.

We already know what this means in recent years due to.

Its.

Supposed health benefits, including boosting hydration.

Now here boosting is used to, say, increasing, increasing hydration.

Hydration is the amount of water you have, so I wrote that here for you.

But the technical, definite definition of hydration is your body's ability to absorb

water.

So you have the water in your body, but then being able to use that water as energy, that

would be hydration, boosting hydration, adding vitamin C, and being an alternative to sugar

filled options like soda or fruit juice.

So these are the different health benefits, which is why this beverage, lemon water has

gone viral.

Now let's talk about supposed it's supposed health benefits.

This is a.

Very important word.

Because when I read this, I know that, OK, this is what people say that lemon water can

do, but it hasn't been proven then you can use supposed it's supposed health benefits.

So it let's me know that there's some doubt around these health benefits we very commonly

use.

Supposedly the adverb form.

For example, she supposedly stole the money.

Now if I got rid of supposedly she stole the money.

This sounds like a fact, but if I add she supposedly someone said it but it hasn't been

confirmed.

So this is just.

Using the adjective form She's a thief.

That sounds like a fact.

She's a supposed thief, so that isn't a fact.

It's just what some people have said.

Now notice this pronunciation.

Supposedly there's four syllables, but here is just supposed supposed.

So notice that pronunciation different?

Let's continue on.

So notice that pronunciation difference.

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Now let's continue with our.

Lesson The trendy drink is all the rage.

Some students ask me what trendy means because this is in a lot of different articles.

Trendy simply means popular right now, so I'll write that for you.

Popular right now and all the rage.

Well, this is.

An expression.

So the expression is to be all the rage.

So you describe something as all the rage.

This expression also means to be popular right now, but remember you describe something as

it.

So we could say short.

Videos like the ones you watch on YouTube shorts.

I do those as well.

Short videos are.

Because we need our verb to be conjugated, short videos are all the rage right now.

They're very popular right now, but this could change in a week or a month, so it's very

temporary as well.

But according to some doctors and dentists, it could be wreaking havoc in your mouth.

When something wreaks havoc, it means it causes a lot of problems, and it sounds very strong,

so causes severe problems.

Now notice the pronunciation of.

Wreak.

Reek.

There's no W, it's silence, so it starts on AR, and then the vowel is.

E.

Wreak, Wreak.

Wreaking havoc because it's conjugated in the present.

Continuous because it's happening right now.

And remember, this simply means causing severe problems.

I'm not going to lie, I see a lot of effects on patients.

Enamel.

OK, so notice how we said doctors and dentists.

So right now, who do you think is talking?

Well, a dentist, because enamel is on your teeth.

It's what?

Protects your teeth.

I guess I'm not a dentist, so Google tells me that enamel is the hard, white shiny substance

that forms the covering of a tooth.

So it just.

Covers your teeth.

That's enamel, but it's important.

It protects your teeth.

I know my dentist always talks about enamel whenever I visit the dentist.

Now notice here I read this as.

I'm not going to lie, but that is not how native speakers say this.

This is an expression.

We use it a lot.

And the expression is I'm not going to lie, I'm not going to lie.

So when you pronounce this, if you want to sound like a native speaker, don't say I'm

not going to lie.

Say I'm not going to lie.

I'm not going to lie.

You need to take better care of your teeth.

I'm not going to lie.

You need to improve your English.

So we use this.

As an expression, before we share advice or a recommendation that we think the other person

should follow, I'll read this again and I'll read it like a native speaker.

I'm not gonna lie, I see a lot of effects on patients enamel the covering on their teeth

from drinking lemon water, one dentist said.

So this is one of the reasons why we need to think twice or we might want to think twice

before drinking lemon water.

When I see this, remember this.

Is the dentist talking When I see this, I asked them what happened.

Do you have acid reflux?

What's changed?

And they can't figure it out.

So they being the patient, The patient?

This is a conversation between the dentist and the patient.

So the patient can't figure it out.

They don't know why their teeth are in a worse condition compared to their last visit.

And then I ask, so and then the dentist asks, do you drink lemon water in the morning when

they confirm, so they say yes, I do.

That's confirming.

When they confirm, I ask, do you brush your teeth right after two when they confirm.

So again, when they say yes, I do, yes.

I brush my teeth right after I wrote that down for you.

So you can see the short form.

Yes, I do.

And the long form, which is the full sentence, Yes, I drink lemon water because when you

do the long form, you don't need to include do so.

You don't need to say yes I do drink lemon water is just yes I drink lemon water or yes

I do.

When they confirm, I now understand the problem with their teeth.

The doctor explained that brushing your teeth after drinking lemon water is basically brushing

acid into your teeth.

I highlighted this adverb based basically because there's another.

Very common one that will help you sound more fluent, which is essentially lemon water is

essentially brushing acid into your teeth.

Now both of these mean just like.

So when you do this, when you brush your teeth after drinking lemon water, it's just like

brushing acid into your teeth.

So it's the most.

Important characteristic you can use.

Basically you can use.

Essentially it's a little more advanced.

And then you can use just like which is a more casual way.

But a native speaker would absolutely use this and it sounds very fluent instead.

So here we have instead to transition from what the person is doing and then they want

to suggest an alternative.

So instead of brushing your teeth after drinking lemon water.

So if you wanted to include that information, notice that sentence structure instead of

and then a gerund.

But because it's obvious they just said it, you can just use instead.

Instead.

She suggested we brush our teeth before we drink it, it being the lemon water.

Or wait 20 to 30 minutes after alternatively.

So this is.

Another adverb, you can use instead of instead.

So this is again another alternative, but because we already use instead, you don't

want to use it again, Although essentially you could.

Alternatively, we can rinse our mouse with water to wash away any acid and then brush

finally.

So this is.

1/3 Alternative, but notice the different prep the different adverbs use because you

don't want to use the same ones again and again.

So now you have three new adverbs that you can use when you're suggesting another possibility,

and I think it's obvious.

But finally, you can only use this before the final possibility.

I think that's obvious, but I'll just say it finally.

You can drink the lemon water with a straw to avoid teeth contact.

She noted that this technique can be useful when drinking coffee too.

I highlighted teeth contacts because this is the noun form.

To.

Avoid something which is teeth contact because of the enamel, right?

But if you want to use a verb, you could just remember you need a gerund verb to avoid contacting

your teeth.

So it means the same thing is just a different sentence structure.

She noted that this technique can be useful when drinking coffee too.

I've heard that that coffee is very acidic and can be harmful to your teeth, and I've

heard it also stains your teeth so causes your teeth to not be very white.

So you can try this alternative.

You can drink your coffee with a straw and that's the end of the article.

So what I'll do now is.

I'll read the article.

From start to finish, and this time you can focus on my pronunciation.

This.

Beloved beverage has gone viral, but you might want to think twice before drinking it.

The beverage, which is just adding lemon juice to water, has gone viral in recent years due

to its supposed health benefits, including boosting hydration, adding vitamin C and being

an alternative to sugar filled options like soda or fruit juice.

The trendy drink is all the rage, but according to some doctors and dentists.

It could be.

Wreaking havoc in your mouth.

I'm not going to lie, I see a lot of effects on patients Enamel from drinking lemon water,

one dentist said.

When I see this, I asked them what happened.

Do you have acid reflux?

What's changed And they can't figure it out?

And then I ask, do you drink lemon water in the morning?

When they confirm?

I ask, Do you brush your teeth right after two When they confirm, I now understand the

problem with their teeth.

The doctor explained that brushing your teeth after drinking lemon water is basically brushing

acid into your teeth.

Instead, she suggested we brush our teeth before we drink it or wait 20 to 30 minutes

after.

Alternatively, we can rinse our mouths with water to wash away any acid and then brush.

Finally, you can drink the lemon water with a straw to avoid teeth contact.

She noted that this technique can be useful when drinking coffee, too.

You are doing such an amazing job.

Think of everything you've learned so far.

Now we're coming to the end of the master class.

So let's relax.

Let's do something more relaxing.

I am going to share 6 websites that will help you improve your fluency.

These websites are 100% free to use and these are websites that I've personally used and

that I recommend to my students.

O Let's review the first website right now.

Now all of these websites that I'm going to share are ones that I've personally used myself

and I recommend to my students because I know they get amazing results.

And the first website is called Meet up meetup.com.

This is the website that you need to find native speakers because so many students want

to know how they can find native English speakers.

Well, we're everywhere.

We're everywhere in the world, and it's really easy to find us if you have the right resource

like meet up.

So here we are on the website Meet up now.

You should know in English the phrasal verb to meet up is when.

You meet people socially so that's where the name of the website comes from.

Because the purpose of this website is to find other people who share your common interest

or activity.

Now you need to enter your specific neighbourhood and this website might not exist in your country.

So sorry if it doesn't but don't worry, the other resources likely will.

So for the neighbourhood I'm just going to pick a random example.

I use a specific area of Chicago cause Chicago's a very big city.

So put in the specific area, most likely your zip code or postal code, and then it will

show you all the events.

Now the events will be totally random.

Here's a single mixer meet up.

So if you're single and you want to meet other single people, this is the meet up for you

if you live in Chicago.

But there'll be things like data monetization, mystery, thriller, virtual book club that

could be an interesting one.

Book clubs are great if you want to read books with other native speakers.

But of course you're here for learning English.

So what you can do is you can use the search filter and then you can search your specific

interest.

So for the interest I put English language and then you can see all of these language

exchanges.

Now notice there are two language exchange.

So people want who want to exchange Spanish for English or French for English.

Now this is just one option to find a specific language exchange and then you can click into

this and then find out when they meet where they meet.

But remember my example?

Of a book club.

You can just find something you're interested in.

If you're interested in books, well then join a book club and you'll interact with other

native English speakers and talk about your specific interest, which is books.

So you can search for books, you can search for gardening, you can search for rafting

or karate or biking or whatever your specific interest is, and then you'll find other people

who want to do that as well.

And you'll be doing it in English, So Meet Up is a great resource.

Our next website is Reddit.

You probably know this website, right?

But did you know that there is a subreddit for language exchanges?

So Reddit Language Exchanges is our next website and like meet up, this website will also help

you find native speakers.

Again, we're everywhere.

You just need the resources to connect with us.

Here I am on Reddit now.

Reddit is a general website where people discuss things based on serpent certain topics.

So you have to search Reddit to find the topic that you're interested in.

So the one that you might be interested in is language exchange.

So you can see here I'm in the sub Reddit for language exchange.

And then if you look here you'll notice that people, real people are posting that they

want a language exchange.

So this person here is an English speaker and they want to learn Russian.

So if you speak Russian, well then you can partner with this person and then you can

just reply back to this post.

You'll have to create an account, but it's free.

And then you can just reply back.

Now this is an ad, just ignore it.

And then this person is offering Mandarin, seeking English.

Well you're seeking English, you want English?

OK, that's what seek means.

So you can create your own post and say offering and then your native language and then seeking

English.

Now notice this person said fluent or native.

So they're saying, I will do an exchange with a native speaker or a non-native speaker as

long as they're fluent.

So you have that option as well.

So I encourage you to look through here.

Now, don't just reply to people's posts.

I want you to create your own post as well.

And then people are going to reply to you and say, oh, let's exchange, and then you

can set a date and time and start your language exchange.

You'll practice your English with native speakers or fluent speakers.

You'll make new friends.

You'll have a lot of fun in the process, so you can use Reddit absolutely free.

Our next website is Youglish Youglish, which is a combination of YouTube and English into

Youglish.

This is an amazing resource to help you improve your listening skills and pronunciation and

vocabulary and grammar at the same time.

Here we are on Youglish.

I.

Love sharing this source with my students?

Now you can search for a specific word, let's say a word that is difficult for you to pronounce.

So let's take the word hypothesis because this is one I recently taught to my students.

So you simply enter your word and then you look below and look.

There are 2886 clips, so portions of a YouTube video where that speaker uses the word hypothesis.

Now it has the transcript as well.

So I put this on mute so you won't hear it.

But let's go to the next clip so we can go see the next clip here.

So our next one, here's our word hypothesis.

So you'll hear this person.

Now you can try another one and you'll hear this person.

So of course these people have completely different accents styles of speech, so it's

excellent for improving your listening skills and hearing many different styles of speech.

And you can choose your accent preferences at the top.

I just put all but let's say you live in Australia, so you really want to get comfortable with

the Australian accent.

Well then you can specify Australia for the accent.

Now you can also enter an entire phrase so you can hear how all the sounds are combined

together.

So there are 346 different people saying the expression hit the nail on the head, which

is also one I recently taught, so.

You.

Learned it from me, but that was my pronunciation, so now you can hear 346 other speakers pronounce

this.

Get comfortable with different accents, different styles of speech and improve your listening

skills.

You will love using Youglish.

Our next website is called Busy Teacher.

This is a website that I personally use when I used to teach in classrooms many many years

ago and I was very busy.

But just because the website is for teachers, it doesn't mean that you as a student can't

use it.

So let's talk about busy teacher here.

I.

I am on busy teacher.

So these are.

Prepared lessons that teachers like me can use with our students.

But you can download and use these lessons to teach yourself these concepts.

So here's a lesson on prepositional phrases.

So you can come in here, but you can just look at the top ones.

Or you can search for something specific.

Maybe you want to find a Lesson plan on articles, so here you'll see the different lesson plans.

But what I love most about this is that with all the lesson plans, there are different

exercises for you to do, so it doesn't just teach you the.

Rules for articles.

It gives you the.

Practice because practice is so incredibly important.

Now this is.

An exact lesson that I've used with my students.

It's a game who Wants to be a millionaire, but it's specific on articles.

So you play this really fun game, but all the questions test you on articles.

And it's just a PowerPoint presentation.

You can download it absolutely for free.

So here's a quick view of what it looks like.

So there are four options and you have to decide which one should begin with the and

then as you answer each question, you get to go higher and higher.

So the purpose is to get to $1 million.

Every student I've played this game with has absolutely loved it.

But the point is, you're practicing articles and learning at the same time, so you will

absolutely love using Busy Teacher.

Our next website is BBC Learning English.

This one you might know because I find a lot of students use BBC as a news source.

But did you know there is a section of BBC specific for helping you learn English?

Well, let's review that.

Here we are on BBC learning English now, as you can see at the top.

I know it's probably quite small for you, I'll make it bigger.

As you can see at the top they have complete courses, they have grammar lessons, easy,

medium, hard.

They have pronunciation vocabulary.

You can even learn English with the news, which is something that I do with my students

as well.

Obviously BBC is a news website so it makes sense they use their own articles and I use

a lot of BBC articles to help my students as well.

And they even have more categories, Business, English for example.

You can test your level.

There is so much you can do on BBC Learning English.

So absolutely explore this website all the.

Lessons are very high quality and finally open text library.

This is great for more academic or professional purposes because this is a resource that shares

textbooks and and books and manuals all for free.

But the authors have given permission to share these resources, so it's a completely safe

site to use.

Here we are on Open Textbook Library, so remember this one is more academic, is more professional.

But if there's a specific area, a field that you're really interested in, let's say marketing,

you can find textbooks, guides, user manuals on that specific topic.

So here's one on E Marketing, The essential guide to Online Marketing SO or Introducing

Marketing Legal aspects Principles of Marketing So if you want to expand your vocabulary on

the topic of marketing and you want to make sure that the information you're learning

is accurate, correct, professional, this is a great resource And everything is completely

free.

It's open, which means the authors have given permission for you to download this.

So you can download it as a PDF or you can even have it as an e-book.

You can read it online.

So remember this is a full textbook.

Most likely you're not going to read the textbook from start to finish.

But again, if you to expand your vocabulary, improve your reading skills, and you're focused

on more of a technical or professional interest, then this is the place for you.

So you can search any area that you're interested in, or you can just browse the subjects.

They have different categories to see what they might have.

Let's say you're studying to be an accountant.

Well then hear principals A managerial accounting.

If that is in your field, well then you can have the entire textbook.

Or you can look at certain sections as well, So it's a great technical or professional

resource.

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You completed the master class.

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