Learn English Words & Phrases To Talk About Your Favourite Things!

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Hi Bob the Canadian here.
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Sometimes when you know you're going to have an English conversation, it's a good idea
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to think about the things that you're going to talk about.
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One thing that's really easy to talk about is to ask people about some of their favourite
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things.
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In this video I'll help you learn some English questions and responses to be able to talk
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about your favourite things and to be able to ask people about theirs.
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Hey welcome to this video, if this is your first time here don't forget to click the
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red subscribe button below, and as you watch the video don't be afraid to leave a comment,
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or to give me a thumbs up at some point along the way.
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So.
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You're going to be having a conversation in English and it's a good idea to plan some
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things to talk about in advance.
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One of the easiest things to plan for is to be able to ask people about their favourite
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things, and be ready to answer with your favourite things.
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So let's look at a few of them.
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The first thing you might ask someone is, "What is you favourite colour?" a faster version
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of that question would be, "What's your favourite colour?"
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And in reverse someone may ask you the same question.
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What's your favourite colour?
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So let's look at what my favourite colour is.
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Here's how I would answer if you asked me that question.
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Hey Bob the Canadian, what's your favourite colour?
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My favourite colour is orange.
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But we shouldn't just stop there.
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If you ask someone about their favourite colour, or if someone asks you about it, you should
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be able to also ask, "Why?"
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and answer, "Why?"
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So why is orange my favourite colour?
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Well orange is my favourite colour because when I was really little in school the teacher
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was asking everyone what their favourite colour was.
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And no one was saying orange.
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And I kinda felt bad.
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So I said orange was my favourite colour.
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As you can tell it still is today.
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If you look at my thumbnails and my Youtube channel, it's all in orange.
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It's still one of my favourite colours.
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Another thing when talking about favourites that's very common to ask is, "What's your
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favourite place?"
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What’s your favourite place to go?
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And to answer you would say, “Ah my favourite place to go is…”
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So let’s do this, let’s ask me Bob the Canadian, what is your favourite place to
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go?
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Well my favourite place to go, of all things, is nowhere.
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My favourite place to go is to go home.
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So when I’m somewhere else, my favourite place is to be home.
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Another thing that you can ask people about or someone may ask you about is, “What is
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your favourite food?”
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What’s your favourite food?
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If someone was to ask me this question I would say my favourite food is pizza.
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I have loved pizza for a very, very long time.
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And if someone was to ask, “Why, Bob the Canadian, is pizza your favourite food?”
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or “Why’s pizza your favourite food?”
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I would have to say when I was little kid, again, on Friday nights my mom would make
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homemade pizza.
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And we would get eat homemade pizza and it was very very very tasty.
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So for my whole life I have always loved pizza.
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Another thing that people may ask you about in terms of favourites, or you may ask someone
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else is, “What’s your favourite movie?
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What’s your favourite T.V.
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show?”
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So many of us go see movies, many of us have seen movies that we liked, we have seen movies
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that we didn’t like, but sometimes there’s movies that are our favourites.
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If someone was to ask me, “Hey Bob the Canadian, what’s your favourite movie?”
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I would have to say my favourite movie is any of the Lord of the Rings movies.
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In particular, I like the very first Lord of the Rings movie.
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So if someone was to ask, “Hey Bob the Canadian, what’s your favourite movie?”
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I would say The Lord of the Rings.
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Another thing that people might ask in addition to what’s your favourite movie is, “Who
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is your favourite actor of actress?”
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Who’s your favourite actor Bob the Canadian?
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I would have to say, my favourite actor is Matt Damon.
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Most movies that have Matt Damon in it are movies that I have liked.
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In particular I liked all of the Jason Bourne movies, and I really liked the movie The Martian.
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So Matt Damon is my favourite actor.
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Why is he my favourite actor?
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I think because I like action movies.
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I like movies where there’s a really fast good storyline, and usually Matt Damon is
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in those kinds of movies.
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The last favourite, the last question that people might ask about your favourites is,
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“Who’s your favourite person?”
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And this is a tricky one, because you have to be careful when you’re talking about
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who your favourite person is.
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My favourite person in the world is my wife for obvious reasons.
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I don’t think I need to give any, but people might ask things like, “Who’s your favourite
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student?”
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To which I would not give an answer because I don’t think it’s a good idea to choose
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favourites among students.
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If someone was to ask me, “Which of your children is your favourite?”
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I would probably just say, I would probably just say, “I love them all equally.”
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So that’s a number of questions about favourites, and a number of answers that I’ve given
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about favourites.
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Your job now is to think about if you had to answer those questions, how would you answer
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them?
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Bob the Canadian here.
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Learn English with Bob the Canadian.
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And I’ll see you in the next video.
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