ESL job verbs vocabulary and Q&A: Learn English with SimpleEnglish Videos

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Hey, they're here. Oh good. You can open them later. Later? Yeah. Hey, we've got a new set
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design. Yes. We've got things from all over the world. Can you spot what they are and
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where they come from?
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In today's lesson we're going to hangout and answer some of your questions again - particularly
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questions about jobs and job vocabulary. And we have some big news. And we've got some
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boxes to open. Yeah. that's the... that's the exciting thing for Jay. I've been buying
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new toys. Toys usually are for children, but in this case it's the right word. Well, they're
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things I want to play with.
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But let's start with some questions. OK, we had a lot of comments on our video about stress
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timing. I'm so glad that you've been writing in and commenting, everyone. I really appreciate it.
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It's great to get feedback. OK, we had a comment on Facebook from Maria Ferreira.
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Mmm. Right. And Maria said "You're awesome. And... and what about American stress? Is
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it the same in the USA?"
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Ah, so is American stress timed like British English? Yes. And so is Canadian English,
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and so is Australian English. Um, the only English I can think of that might not be so
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stress timed is Indian English.
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Now, we have Alex's comment about our Black Socks video. OK. We released that twice, because
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we released on its own and then it was in the Stress Time video as well. So, Alex wrote
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"Oh god, I was trying to forget the socks music. I was annoying everybody. Right now,
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I remembered it and I can't stop with that. It's so cool." Black socks never get dirty.
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The longer you wear them, the blacker they get. Poor Alex. He said "And, Oh god, it doesn't
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go out of my mind."
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I mean, I think that's something about those jazz chants and it's actually what makes them
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so effective for learning. Because they do stick in your mind. And there's a lot of memorizing
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that goes on when you're learning a language. So something like that makes it easy.
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But we've consulted a doctor, haven't we... Oh we did... about how to solve this problem.
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Yeah Alex, we've tried to solve your problem. What did the doctors say? The doctors say
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that you can get some relief Alex, by watching our videos every day. We prescribe a video
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a day. So make sure you subscribe to our channel.
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Now we have a comment from Lorenc Barjami. And Lorenc says "Hello. Thank you so much
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for your videos. I want to suggest you to do a video..." Oh, hang on. I want to suggest
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you do a video, or I want to suggest that you do a video but no I want to suggest you
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to do. It doesn't work. This is quite a tricky point with 'suggest'. But, we've made a video
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about it. So I'll put a link up here and you can check it out. "I want to suggest you do
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a video when a person is not anymore working..." He means not working any more. Not working
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anymore right. "...when a person is not working anymore because his boss has removed him."
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Ha, ha, ha... that's a good suggestion. Thank you for that Lorenc. Um, now his boss has
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removed him. That could mean transferred, if your boss moves you from one department
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to another or to a different place, then you get transferred. But I don't think that's
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what he means. No, I think he meant fired. Fired, fired. Well I hope you meant fired
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'cause I've got a little video ready for you to watch in which we see someone being fired.
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You wanted to see me? Come in, come in. Sit down Ben. How long have you been working for me?
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Oh, almost 7 years. Do you like your job? Yes, sir.
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That's too bad. You're through with that job Ben. You're through driving a truck. You're fired
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Did you hear the expression "You're through." We often use 'through' like this to mean finished.
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So... and, and you can use it, you know, if you've been working hard, Jay, I could say "Did you
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get everything done?" And you say "Yes, I got through it." I'm finished. Yeah, that's right.
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Now, let's talk about being fired. Yeah, fired. But that's what we say in the
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US. What do you say in the UK? We can say fired too. And we can also say sacked. Do
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you say sacked in the US. No, we really don't. Now what about when someone is laid off? This
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is quite interesting historically, because being laid off used to be a temporary thing.
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So, for example, you might have people who worked in a car manufacturing plant, and their
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work was a bit seasonal. And sometimes, if the demand was low, they would be laid off
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for a few months but then they would be hired again, so taken back again. Was it the same
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in the US? Well, it's more... that term in the US is furloughed. We can be laid off when
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a company downsizes. Yeah. We can get furloughed when our work is temprorarily cut off and
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then brought back, but what doesn't happen to us in the US is we don't get made redundant.
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Ha, ha. That's a very British English term. If somebody is made redundant then they're
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laid off, they're let go. They have to go. Now, it's not because they've done anything
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wrong. That would be being fired or being sacked, usually. But if there just isn't enough
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work for them, they might be made redundant or we could say laid off. And these days,
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it's not just temporary - being laid off is - that's it. No more work for you.
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So, that was really sad about that man being fired in that movie. Ahh, but you haven't
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watched the end of it yet. Let's watch the end of it.
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You're through with that job, Ben. You're through driving a truck. You're fired. But
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just a minute Mr. Westlake... Here's the daily sales report. Don't give it to me. Don't give...
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But Jim, the daily sales report. Give it to our new Sales Manager. New Sales Manager?
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Mmm Hmmm. What are you talking about? Ben's through driving a truck. From now on he's
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going to head up the sales side of this business. Well, what are you gonna do, Jim? Retire?
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Oh, no, no Larry. It's just that I've been leaning pretty heavily towards production
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these past few years. Now, I've got a man to supplement me on sales. But if Ben isn't
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going to be driving a truck anymore then we'll have to... hire a new man to take his place.
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But that means extra salary. Don't you worry about the extra salary. I'll take care of
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that in extra sales. Oh dear, oh dear. I can see right now you're going to be worse than
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Jim Westlake. He means you're going to be better than Jim Westlake. Thank you, Jim.
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But I'll have to go a long way to do that. Go on now, beat it.
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So he wasn't fired, he was promoted. Yeah. Promoted means given a higher level - a new
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job at a higher level. He became Sales Manager. So first he was fired. But then he was hired
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as the sales manager. Exactly. So there was another word there - retired. What's that,
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Jay?
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Well that means to stop working too, but because perhaps you're old - you're past the age of
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working. Uh huh. Um, are you going to retire? You'll never let me retire. That's true. I've
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got too much for him to do.
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I just want to say thank you Lorenc because that was a great suggestion for a - for a
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topic for us to talk about. And please, everyone, keep giving us more topics. Keep them coming.
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Give us ideas for future videos.
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Can we open the boxes now? Oh, I think it's about time. Go on, get the boxes. Ok box time.
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It's a bit like Christmas morning. Um, so should we tell what's in these boxes. Well,
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in this box, I believe, is a new device called a switcher. And the switcher is going to let
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us do live television broadcasts on YouTube.
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And that's our big news. We are planning to go live. We're planning to have English lessons
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once a week which are live where we can communicate more easily with you. We can talk in the chat.
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Excuse me. Ok, so let's have a look. Here it is. Here it is. This is it. This is it.
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This will allow me to take the images from our cameras, from this camera, from that camera,
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and from your camera and from cameras of people all around the world. So we can have people
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joining us. That's right. But is also means we'll be able to switch around and have different
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producton sets. So we hope that you'll come and join us for some live productions very
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soon.
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And I think that's about it. That's terrific. Thank you very, very much for joining us today.
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Thank you, everyone. Bye now. And Jay, what's that? Cables.
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