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StopmakingthesemistakesinEnglish.
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Summary
Lucy identifies and fixes five common English mistakes: verb agreement with "it depends," confusing fun vs. funny, asking "are you fine," missing the preposition "to" with listen, and mixing up lose, miss, and waste.
Third-person singular verb agreement with 'it' — Use the base verb + 's' when the subject is he, she, or it. "It depend of the weather" should be "It depends on the weather" — the verb depends needs the -s ending.
Prepositions after certain verbs — Different verbs take different prepositions; you cannot always swap them. "Listen your teacher" is incorrect; the correct form is "listen to your teacher." Similarly, "It depends of" is wrong; it should be "It depends on."
Fun as noun vs. adjective — Fun can function as both an uncountable noun ("We had great fun together") and an informal adjective ("It was so fun"), but the noun use is far more standard in English. The adjective funny means "causing laughter," not "enjoyable."
About this video
This lesson teaches B1 learners to recognize and correct five mistakes Lucy's students make repeatedly. The video opens with "It depend of the weather," then progresses through fun versus funny (where learners confuse the noun and adjective), the awkward phrasing "Are you fine?" (more natural as "How are you?"), the missing preposition in "listen your teacher" (should be "listen to"), and finally the verb trio lose/miss/waste, where learners often say "I lost my flight" instead of "I missed my flight." Lucy uses clear before-and-after examples throughout—for instance, showing that "My holiday was really fun" works, but that fun is more common as a noun phrase like "We had great fun together."
The video is excellent for shadowing because Lucy speaks at a moderate, teacher-friendly pace with clear pronunciation and natural stress patterns. She breaks sentences into chunks, repeats key phrases like "It depends on," and even includes a voice-over segment showing verbs side-by-side for comparison. Her British English accent is crisp and her intonation is genuinely conversational.
Learners at B1 level will benefit from recognizing these high-frequency errors they probably make themselves. They'll gain confidence with phrasal collocations (have fun, listen to, miss a flight) and understand subtle semantic differences (waste time = your control; lose time = out of your control). The quiz at the end allows immediate retrieval practice, and the lesson's focus on natural chunks rather than isolated grammar rules makes the content stick.
Idioms & expressions
Have fun — Enjoy yourself; a common fixed phrase meaning to do something pleasurable and entertaining. "We had great fun together at the fair."
I hope you're well — A polite greeting in formal writing (especially emails), expressing hope that someone is in good health or spirits. Better than "I hope you're fine."
How are you doing? — Casual, friendly greeting asking how someone is feeling or how they are managing. More natural than the grammatically correct but awkward "Are you fine?"
Make someone laugh — Cause a person to find something amusing. "Steven's so funny. He's always making us laugh."
Drop a word — Omit or leave out a word in casual speech (used here as a grammatical term). "In informal English, it's common to drop on before wh words."
Out of your control — A situation you cannot influence or manage. Used to distinguish lose time (circumstances beyond you) from waste time (your choice).
