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1. Hello!: Hi guys, I'm Sarah, and thank you so much for
coming to today's class. Today we're gonna be doing quite a different style than we normally been
doing in the past. Normally I did a lot of videos where you didn't
see me, where it was, a lot of PowerPoints
and slideshows today I really want to do
some practical practice. So I'm gonna be taking ten sentences that
my private class, my private students
for my other classes have said through a conversation
that are incorrect, and I'm going to be correcting
them with you guys. So we're going to be focusing a lot more
on common mistakes. It's something that I feel
is really helpful with my private clients because they get to see where they
really need to focus on. These are mistakes that intermediate students
make super often. We're going from grammar, found prepositions,
sentence structures. So you're going to see the breakdown of these mistakes and get familiar with them. That's the biggest idea. So I would recommend
throughout this class it's only about 2025 minutes to
get your pen and paper, or your iPad or
tablet or whatever. And to take the time
between each sentence to quickly jot down what you
think the answer might be. Or what you think is for sure
incorrect in a sentence. If you're not sure
of the alternative. For each sentence, there are tons of ways
you can correct it. Okay. So obviously we're
not going to spend all day trying to correct
it in every possible way. But I'm gonna give you guys the first thing that
comes to my mind, the most natural way
to say a sentence, because in some
sentences they're not going to be 100% incorrect. Actually in some of the
sentences, they're okay, but they could be said better or they can
be simplified to, we don't want to be too formal. Or two symbols are
too complicated. English, we get a
bit lazy with it. So in reality, we're not
complicated or formal. I mean, depending
on the situation, but in general, no. So let's get started. We have ten sentences. We'll do five, take a break
and then do five more. And I hope you enjoy it.
2. Exercises 1 - 5: Common mistakes in English, intermediate level
less than one. So we're going to have many
of these lessons clip, and I'm super helpful for myself as well when I
was learning Spanish, it really was super
helpful for me to see. Okay, those are my mistakes. That's where I'm struggling. And because just because
someone else struggles with prepositions doesn't mean that everyone's going to a lot too. So I'm gonna be doing
various units on this, on this topic to really help us see these CR,
our own mistakes. So that being said, I hope
you have your pen and paper. We're gonna get started. I'm only going to show you
one sentence at a time. We don't get distracted. So let's go down to
sentence number one. Alright, so I'm
going to read it the way one of my
students had said it. And I want you guys to not worry so much about the
bigger context. Okay. So her sentence
or his sentence, their sentence was for two days, the snow fell down. Now, it might be a bit difficult if you don't
know the whole context. But I want to try and
just get out of the hole, the bigger picture and just
come down to the grammar of the sentence or to
the vocabulary. So I have my phone here. I'm going to put my timer
on for ten seconds. And once ten seconds passes, you're gonna go ahead and give you guys the correct answer. Go ahead and pause the screen
if you need more time. Alright, more or less. Again, if you need more
time, pause the screen. So for two days the
snow fell down, we know that that
is not correct. It doesn't really make sense. Also thinking here that
we are talking about a period of two days, right? So pass symbol is something that happened at one particular
moment in the past. Here fell down, is possible. Okay. But because we're talking
about a period of time, we're not talking about
a concrete moment, so we're not going
to use past simple. We're actually going to use
past continuous because it's something that was
happening over time. One other thing, one other
thing to note here though, is that we don't say the snow it is no fell down for the
snow was falling down. It's not the correct
verb to go with. With this context. It makes sense if
you think about it, the snow is literally
falling from the sky. But we don't say yes or not. Lastly, the last two days, it was falling out in the
snow is falling down. Now we're going to simplify it. Let's just make
it a bit simpler. For the past. For two days we're
not going to say for today is we're gonna say
for the past two days because it just
sounds weird to say for two days you're gonna
be even more specific. So for the past two days. And if we're simplifying, it, does snow sorry. It was snowing. It was snowing, right? The snow is falling down. We just don't say that, right? It was snowing. So nodes here to make,
to make note of two, notice first time
periods, right? Are we talking a concrete time or are we talking
in progress? Right? So in this example we
went from past simple to pass continuous. Okay? And then also contexts, right? Again, these things like
figuring out that we don't say snow is falling down is something you're
going to learn with time. But that's why I mentioned it. Let's move on to number two. My back in painting. My back in painting. I'm going to put
your timer on now let's go ahead and have a think. Alright. My back and painting. Well, first of all, for example, if you're talking
about your head, your back, your throat, right? We need the verb be we
can't say my head in pain. No. You would say my
head is in pain. Okay. In painting as well, we would never use the gerund. My head isn't painting. Now. You can say My back is
painting me, right? But if we don't want to
reflect back on ourselves, we're going to say my
back is in pain, weight. My back is in pain. So it's really important to
make sure that we're always using the verb be when we're
talking about a state. Here, the verb be
is missing, okay? Sometimes I'm gonna go into
big detail about things and other times I'm not because. Just like everything in life, we really want to try
and simplify things. We don't want to get too deep into detail because
that's where we really start to get a bit frustrated
or start to get a little bit like we're losing
our attention. So here the verb be, Let's just like
my name is Sarah, not my name, Sarah, right? We do need to really emphasize the belonging of words to
other words with the verb be. Moving on to number three. We were preparing for
discounted New Year's selling. Longer one. Take your time, 1015 seconds. Alright. How do we fill it with this one? We were preparing for
discounted New Year's selling. Obviously at the beginning
of oratory in New Year's, there's always really good
prices in the stores. So we know the context. This sentence is not saying that they have a shop and they
are going to make money. Now they're talking about going to the shop
as the customer. Okay, so let's just
make sure that we understand the reference
in this sentence. We were preparing for
discount New Year's selling. Here I would change
it to we were preparing for a discounted
new year's sales. I'm going to write
this one down first, discounted new year's sales. But I have to be honest. It's still not the
nicest sentence. I would never say
something like that. Grammatically it's correct, but it's not a natural sentence. I would say. We were looking forward to we were really
excited about something. We were looking forward
to new year sales, to the new hair cells. Okay, like I said
throughout this, these ten sentences, we are going to be looking at
various options, okay? There are many other options we could say for this sentence, but this is one that I
would personally say. As for notes here, I would say not remember, selling is a verb, sales is a noun. So we're really looking
here at nouns versus verbs. Common mistake, we always can, we can, we can confuse them. Moving on to number four, I think he is suffering
as an immigrant. Ten seconds. Alright, let's see this one, actually quite a small mistakes. So let's see if
we have any idea. I think he is suffering
as immigrants. Very small mistake I see is
suffering as an immigrant. Right? So when we're
looking at articles, just remember if the noun
starts with a vowel, AEIOU, the article has to
have an n at the end, right? So we can have a immigrants as a and I have two
vowels together. Again, I think he is
suffering as an immigrant. Kind of a weird sentence. Like I get it. I understand what
they're trying to say, but I think it's still
been a strange sentence. I would maybe say,
I think he's having a hard time a hard
time adjusting to this new to the
new country, right? Yeah, I think it's a bit
of a nicer way to say, I feel like just saying the
suffering as an immigrant. I mean, also totally valid. I would just say something a
hard time adjusting. Right. Depending on the
context as well. Someone doesn't know that
he's recently immigrated, then maybe you do
need to say it. So notes here, r or n. Depends on the first letter
of the following now, okay? Alright, we're gonna do one more and then we're going to
take a little break. So number five, he's
not satisfied anything. Let's do ten seconds. Okay. Let's he's not
satisfied anything. Here. It's more of a topic
of missing a word. We need a preposition. We need a preposition between
satisfied and anything. The sentence is
actually correct, except it's putting one word, he's not satisfied
with anything. Okay, So the preposition,
preposition or width, satisfied where I'm not
satisfied with work, I'm not satisfied
with the weather. Some prepositions always
follow specific verbs. They're called
dependent prepositions. And satisfied with is
one. They go together. Alright, let's
take a quick break and we're going to come
back for the next five.
3. Excerises 6 - 10: We had a little rest and you're ready to
do the last five. Let's start with number six. He is a little bit
child for his age. Alright, I'm going
to put the timer on. Foreign. Make any comments, go ahead and have a moment
to think about it. Alright, let's see. He is a little bit
child for his age. So thinking about
nouns and thinking about adjectives because we
are referring to his age, were trying to think about
what we're trying to say. And here they're
trying to describe the boy or the girl
or boy, sorry, heat.
Sarah, Certified Yoga and English Teacher
