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Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

Welcome back to our English class channel.

Today we're going to be talking about the difference between by and until.

So let's get started. Okay.

So, first we're going to talk about by.

By marks a deadline for an action to finish.

By marks the point

where an action completes

or is replaced by another action.

So, really think about using by to express a deadline.

Something is going to stop or

you must finish an action

uh at this point in time.

So um we can think about

by as marking some point in the future.

Uh so by marks some point in the future

where an action is going to finish.

An action is going to be completed.

So in an example sentence I have I'll be at the office by 700 p.m.

So in this sentence

the speaker is not at the office but 700 p.m. is the deadline.

This is the point in time

at which the speaker

will be at the office.

The speaker is not at the office now

but by 700 p.m.

by the 700 p.m.

deadline the speaker will be at the office.

This will shows us this is a future tense

expression and by shows us the deadline.

The point at which that expression or the point at which that action

is going to be completed.

So this is how we use by to think about it like a deadline.

Some point in time

at which an action

will be completed or finished. Okay.

So let's continue on to the other grammar point for today which is until.

Um, until also has a more casual form.

We can use till,

uh, t i l

or apostrophe t i l.

You might see both spellings

used uh, for until, till, or till.

Uh, in most cases,

it's good to use until.

In casual speaking and maybe in casual writing, you can use the casual form.

But, uh, until is always polite and is always correct. Okay.

So, when we use until,

let's talk about when to use until.

We use until to talk about a continuing

situation or a continuing

state now in the present

or in the future,

but it's going to change or stop.

So, the key difference, one key difference here perhaps is a continuing

situation, a continuing state.

With by, the nuance is a deadline.

something is going to finish at a deadline.

Here, however, until gives us the nuance of something that's continuing

uh something true now,

for example, uh but that may not be true in the future

until marks the point where that action or that state is going to finish or change. Okay.

So uh we can think of

it rather than as a deadline

as a key point in the future

somewhere where action A

continues until a point

where we use until

and then a second action begins.

Something is going to change

at the until point with by.

However, we don't have the nuance

of an action changing.

We only have the nuance of a deadline.

So, here until is used to show that something different

is going to happen

uh or something uh something will finish

um but there's going to be a change

uh after the the until point.

So, for example, um this sentence

very similar to the by

example sentence is I'll be at the office until 700 p.m.

So, here we have the future tense.

I I will I'll be at the office until 700 p.m.

This sentence shows us the speaker is at the office right now.

However, at 700 p.m.

until shows us that 700 p.m.

is the point at which

the situation or the state is going to change.

So, at 700 p.m.

the speaker is probably

going to leave the office.

Until shows us that right here, the action or the state is going to change.

So, please keep that in mind.

Until shows you a change in something.

by shows more of a deadline

for an action uh that is continuing.

So I hope that we can practice this in a few example sentences now. Okay.

So let's try to choose the correct

uh word to use in these example sentences.

Should we use by or should we use until in these cases?

So the first one I have is

uh he has to find a new job

blah blah blah March.

So in this case

we see a point in time.

Uh we can think about it.

Should we use by or until?

Here if we use

by we see that

uh the deadline the deadline nuance matches here.

He has to find a new job by March.

If we use until he has to find a new job until March.

There's no information in this sentence

that shows us a hint or that gives us a hint

about how the action is going to change.

Until does not make sense for this question.

So, we should use by in this case.

He has to find a new job

by March is the correct answer for this sentence.

In the second sentence,

uh I'm not going to go to bed. Blah blah blah.

I finish this movie.

So in this sentence we have at the end

uh I finish this movie.

So there's some action

uh maybe that's continuing here.

Uh and we have another action.

I'm not going to go to bed.

In this case it's a negative.

So there are two actions here.

This is a pretty good hint

that there's an action that's going to change at some point

instead of the nuance of a deadline.

So, for this sentence,

until is the best answer.

I'm not going to go to bed

until until I finish this movie.

This shows us that at this point,

the point where I finish the movie, I'm going to go to bed.

This marks the change in the continuing

state or the continuing situation.

So, the next sentence

is uh they need to write their reports blah blah blah tomorrow.

So this sentence uh there's no change in the sentence.

We don't have any hints about some kind of different action

that's going to happen.

Instead, we have maybe

what seems to be a deadline,

some requirement here, too.

Um so if we try to use until,

it doesn't make sense.

There's no changing action.

We can't guess about what might happen in the future or a change that might happen.

So by is the best answer here.

They need to write their reports by tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the deadline.

So we can guess that tomorrow is the deadline here.

By shows us that it's the deadline

in this case for this task. All right.

Uh let's take a look at

something a little bit different.

Here we have we can't leave the house. Blah blah blah. Your mother calls.

So again, there are two situations.

There are two actions

uh involved in this sentence.

We have leave the house

and your mother calls

uh makes a phone call.

So because there are two actions

here, we can guess

that there's some change

that's going to happen.

So because we learned

that until marks a change

in actions, we know that until

is the better answer here. Okay.

We can't leave the house until

your mother calls would be the correct sentence here. All right.

Uh so let's look at the next sentence though.

This one is a tricky sentence.

This one is a little bit difficult.

We have I'm not going to be there

something something 8:00 p.m. H.

So here we have 8:00 p.m.

at the end of a sentence which looks like a deadline, right?

We have uh going to be there.

So, should we use by or until for this sentence?

It's difficult because actually

both are okay for this sentence.

I'm not going to be

there by 8:00 p.m.

is correct and I'm not going to be

there until 8:00 p.m. is also correct.

However, the meanings are very different.

Just as we practiced

in these two sentences,

I'll be at the office until

I'll be at the office by 700 p.m.

The same is true here.

I'm not going to be there by 8:00 p.m.

means I'm not going to be there at 8:00 p.m.

It's not possible for me. I can't go.

However, I'm not going to be there until 8:00 p.m.

This sentence means after 8:00 p.m.

or beginning at 8:00 p.m.

and after I'm going to be there.

So, please be careful.

In some cases, both by and until

are correct, but they change the meaning of the sentence.

Okay, let's continue to another example.

So, uh the next example sentence is also a little bit difficult.

Uh it's if my date doesn't arrive something something 700 p.m. I'm leaving. Okay.

So here we have we do have two actions.

Uh doesn't arrive my date doesn't arrive

a negative point and I'm leaving.

So it seems like there are two actions here.

However, we have this 700 p.m.

This marks a deadline, right?

So uh if my date doesn't

arrive, there's some deadline here.

If this is not

uh completed, something is going to happen.

The person is going to leave.

So in this case, 700 p.m.

is showing a deadline.

So we have to use by.

If my date doesn't arrive

until 7 p.m., we could use that,

but it doesn't sound so natural.

So, uh, the nuance again here is of a deadline.

There's something that is going to happen,

uh, at 7 p.m. 7 p.m.

marks the end point in this situation.

So, we use by here.

Okay, let's go to the next pair.

Again, these are very interesting points.

Uh, we have to leave the beach blah blah blah 10:00 a.m.

and we have to stay

at the beach blah blah blah 1000 a.m.

Okay, so these two sentences

I included because I wanted to show the emphasis

of changing actions and continuing actions.

So we can see the

verbs are different here.

In the first sentence we have leave.

So this is a change

uh leaving a location.

In the second sentence, I have stay,

which shows a continuing action.

Stay in one place.

So here, as you can guess, then

we have to leave the beach blah blah blah 10:00 a.m.

some change, some deadline.

So we'll use by

to show our deadline.

In the second sentence, we have to stay at the beach.

Stay shows a continuing action.

And then it's going to finish here.

So we'll use until.

We have to stay at the beach until 10:00 a.m.

This shows us a continuing

action and maybe at 10:00 a.m.

we'll leave the beach. All right.

Uh let's go on to the next sentence.

I'm not going to travel abroad. Blah blah blah. I learn English. Okay.

So here there's no time point.

There's no 10:00 a.m. 8:00 p.m.

uh tomorrow and so on.

So this is a little more complex

maybe we have travel abroad and learn English.

So it seems there's no real

uh deadline here but

we have maybe a change.

Maybe this shows us some kind of change.

Learning English marks a change.

So uh I'm not going to travel

until I learn English.

This shows us that something

uh different is going to happen in the future.

So, we should use until

to mark that change. Okay.

Our last example sentence for today

is we told him to wake up blah blah blah 6 a.m.

So, once more, our last sentence may be a little bit

uh simple, but 6:00 a.m.

shows us an action.

Sort of this deadline.

You can see a lot of these

use a time to mark a deadline for an action.

So here we told him to wake up by 6 a.m.

This is the point

at which something must happen.

So we should use by here. Okay, great.

So those are a few example

sentences that you can have a look at and think about

uh when you're trying to decide

whether to use by or until.

Keep in mind, however, there are some cases where both by or until are correct.

But the meaning is going to change significantly

depending on the one you use.

So, uh, I hope this lesson was useful for you.

If you have any questions or if you want to try to make an

example sentence using by or until,

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Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

Today we're going to be talking about simple past tense.

We're going to talk about how to make simple past tense statements in English.

So let's get started.

Okay, so first let's talk about when we should use the simple past tense.

Simple past tense statements

for today uh are for actions that started

and ended in the past.

So these are things that both started or began

and ended in the past.

Uh both of those must be true to use simple past tense.

The second point for today is these are actions

which happened at a specific point in time.

So a specific point in time can be

uh yesterday, it can be

uh an hour ago,

it can be last year,

it can be when you were a kid.

All of these are a specific point in time.

But the key is that we know

when the action happened.

So specific point in time is point two for this grammar point.

Third, uh we can use simple past tense

for repeated actions in the past.

So things you did

every week or every month or every year, every summer,

every hour if you like.

But one point about

this, make sure to include a frequency

indicator if you want to talk about an action that repeated in the past. Frequency indicator.

Uh for example, I just mentioned a few every week, every month, every year.

So frequency meaning how often

and indicator shows how often you did that.

So you can use repeated actions

with past tense to show

uh let's see something you did a lot in the past for example.

So to give you a visual

uh the past is down here now is this point here and future is up here.

When we use the simple past tense

it's an action that started

and ended in the past somewhere before now. That's one.

It's at a specific point in time.

So this action and this action,

we know when they happened.

It could be this morning.

It could be uh yesterday for example.

But we know when these actions happened.

Third, we can use for repeated action.

So maybe these actions repeat

uh but we know

when the repetition happened.

We know when we repeated these actions.

So it's okay to use simple past tense to describe those. Okay.

So now we know

uh when we should use simple past tense.

We know why we should use simple past tense.

But how do we make simple past tense statements?

So when you want to use the

simple past tense to explain

an action that happened in the past,

you need to conjugate your verb.

You need to change your verb.

So that means when you're using a regular verb,

you do verb plus e d.

So verb plus e ed d

is the basic form

for simple past tense verbs.

Uh but keep in mind this is only for regular verbs.

Not all verbs are regular verbs.

So for example, some common ones are talk

which becomes talked, start,

which becomes started, and enjoy which becomes enjoyed.

Please be careful, however.

You'll notice that the past tense form of verbs

has a few different pronunciations.

So, for example, start becomes started.

It has an iid sound.

It's not an ed

sound, but an id sound.

You might hear a word like walked

also, which has a a sort of t sound about it. Walk becomes walked.

Started becomes started, an id sound.

And then there's also a sound like in breathed,

a very soft d sound.

So, there are three past tense verb sounds to listen for.

An ID sound, started,

a soft d sound like breathed,

and then a more hard t sound like walked.

So, pay attention to that when you're trying to make these past tense verb conjugations. Okay?

But some verbs are irregular verbs.

Irregular verbs do not have a simple rule

for understanding past tense conjugation.

How to change them in past tense.

There's no rule for these.

You simply have to practice.

You have to remember them,

read them, listen to them

until you can remember the correct

conjugation, the correct way to change these verbs into the past tense.

So for example, some common ones are eat which becomes ate.

Uh speak becomes spoke

and make becomes made.

If you see a verb somewhere that uh that seems a little odd or

you're not sure what the

uh present tense form would be, you can check a dictionary and try to

remember it from there.

So uh now we've talked about simple past tense uh irregular and regular verbs.

Let's try to use them to make some sentences.

I prepared a few example sentences.

So, let's take a look. Okay, first sentence.

He something something a towel and sunglasses to the beach.

So, the verb here is bring.

I want to use the verb bring.

Bring, however, is an irregular verb.

So, I can't use the ed

rule for regular verbs.

The correct conjugation is brought.

B R O U G H T.

He brought a towel and sunglasses to the beach.

This is the correct conjugation here.

So bring is an irregular verb.

Okay, let's go to the next sentence.

They something something to the gym every day last week.

So here I'm showing you a repeated action.

Here I'm using every day.

This is a frequency indicator.

How often did I do that action?

And last week shows the specific point in time.

So I'm using both of these two points

in addition uh to a simple past.

the basic simple past structure here.

So the verb that we want to use here is go.

But go is an irregular verb.

So we can't use go.

For example, go changes to went in the past tense.

So went is the correct answer

for this sentence here.

Okay, let's try the next one.

Uh I something something to tell my boss about my schedule.

Uh so the verb I want to use here is forget.

Forget is a very useful

word I think to remember.

But again, forget is not a regular verb.

Forget is an irregular verb.

So we cannot use the ed form.

Forget in the past tense becomes Okay?

So I forgot to tell my boss about my schedule is the correct sentence here. All right.

Let's go to something a little bit different.

Uh here's a negative sentence.

I don't think they something something a reservation at the restaurant.

Okay, so here I'm using a phrase.

I want to use the phrase make a reservation

to make a reservation.

So the verb here is make.

This was one of my example verbs

for the irregular form.

So make becomes made.

I don't think they made

a reservation at the restaurant

is the correct verb form to use here. All right.

Uh the next sentence, we something something junk food almost every day last month.

So here again I have

uh every day but I have almost here.

So almost every day not every day but close to every day.

And then last month.

Last month is my specific

point in time in this case.

So here we have junk food.

That means that the verb we want to use is probably eat.

And we learned that eat

uh is an irregular verb.

There's no rule for conjugating this.

We just know that eat becomes ate.

We ate junk food almost every day last month. Great. Okay.

So, next sentence uh has two

spaces for verbs actually. Okay.

So, the next sentence that I've prepared

I included because a lot of my students ask about

how to report information.

When you want to report

information, uh, share something that you heard from a friend, a past tense action,

you need to conjugate

the reporting verb, for example,

say becomes said or hear becomes heard.

You need to conjugate

this verb and you need to conjugate the information that you heard.

So there are two past tense

conjugations that should happen when you report information.

Let's take a look.

So here we have she something something

she something something a great time at the party.

So here she blah blah blah a great time at the party.

Uh so we use the expression

to have a great time.

To have a great time.

Again have is an irregular

verb so we conjugate it to had.

She had a great time at the party. Okay.

But then to report your speech.

So someone uh gave you information

past tense give becomes gave you information.

Uh so the verb for giving information

a neutral way to pass information is say.

So uh to conjugate

say into the past tense it's an irregular verb.

So we use said. Say becomes said.

So, she said she had a great time at the party. Okay.

Please be careful of your pronunciation

with the word said.

A lot of people I've heard use said.

Said is not correct.

So, please use said.

It sounds like s d the pronunciation.

Uh, but it's said.

S a i d is the spelling. Say becomes said.

She said she had a great time at the party. Okay. So, last one.

Okay, so the last example sentence for today includes spaces for a few different verbs.

I included this because I wanted to show you that you can use a

lot of different information

in one sentence just by connecting your past tense verbs together.

So, let's take a look.

Okay, yesterday I something something

late something something shopping

and something something to my mother. Okay.

So, the verbs I want to use for this sentence are

sleep, go and speak.

Sleep, go, and speak.

These are all uh irregular verbs.

There are no regular verbs in this sentence.

So, sleep in past tense becomes slept.

Go in past tense becomes

went and speak in past tense becomes spoke.

So here in one sentence

I have I have explained

three things about my day yesterday.

Uh yesterday I slept late, I went shopping

and I spoke to my mother.

So you can explain a lot of things

with past tense and a few connecting words.

In this case I've just used and

to connect the last two things in this sentence.

So please keep this in mind when you're sharing information

about your past events.

So today we talked about the simple past tense and we talked about how

to conjugate both regular and irregular verbs.

It might seem a little bit difficult to understand

which verbs are regular and which verbs are irregular,

but with some practice it will become easier.

So I hope that you enjoyed this video.

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Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

Today I'm going to be talking about

the simple future tense.

Today I'm going to talk about will

and won't and going to

and not going to.

So these are a few grammar points that learners make mistakes with.

When should you use will or won't?

when should you use going to or not going to?

So, I'm going to talk about a few of these points, a few basic

points that I hope can help you decide

when to use will and when to use going to. So, let's begin. Okay.

The first point I want to talk about

is going to or not going to.

Uh the positive form and the negative form.

Going to not going to.

uh for today I want to talk about two times when we'll use these uh grammar points.

So the first time

uh the first situation

where you use going to or not going to

is for plans decided before the conversation.

So, if you make a decision

about your future plans

or someone else makes the decision

before the conversation about their plans for the future,

you should use going to or not going to.

Uh, it's something that is probably going to happen. A high certainty.

So, this is a plan that has a high level of certainty,

meaning there's a good chance

this plan is going to happen.

you decided it before the

conversation, meaning you've probably

had some time to plan

uh your future to plan your schedule a little bit.

So, please use going to for something you decide before the conversation.

So, on a timeline,

it might look like this.

We have past uh now and future here.

So, your plan is for the future. Yes.

But you decided on the plan

sometime before the conversation.

So if this point

this is now, this is your conversation.

You made the plan.

You made the decision before the conversation.

In this case, use going to. I'm going to.

At the beginning of this video, I said I'm going to talk about

simple future tense will and going to.

I decided before this video started

uh about my plans.

I decided what I was going to talk to you about before the video started.

So I used going to to introduce that plan.

Uh so please keep this in mind. Okay.

But let's talk about will now.

So we use will and won't

for decisions that are made at the moment of speaking.

Uh so keep in mind will is the positive form,

won't is the negative form here.

So a decision made at the moment of speaking.

This is one way to use will or won't.

Uh you can use this for example at restaurants.

Uh you can use this to talk about

plans you make quickly

after learning information from a friend.

Keep in mind will and won't

uh tends to have a lower certainty.

there's a lower chance

the plan is going to happen

uh because you made the plan at the moment of speaking.

Going to is used for plans

made before the conversation,

but will is used for a plan made uh spur of the moment or

a very quick plan you've just made.

So that's kind of the image is a decision you just made.

Use will or use won't in those cases.

If you made the decision

before the conversation, there's a good chance you should use going to.

So, to go back to our timeline here,

if going to is used for a decision you made in the past

about your future plans,

will is used for a

decision you make in the conversation during the conversation.

The plan can be any time

in the future but the

decision the point at which

you make the decision

is the difference here.

Uh one point about this two points about this actually.

First will if you've made a decision at the moment of speaking

and you therefore should use will to communicate that decision

you can improve or you can communicate

that there's a high chance

It's going to happen

with the word probably.

So here, I'll show you this in an example sentence in a moment, but

you can use probably

with will and won't.

I'll probably, I probably won't.

Remember that order, though.

I'll probably or I probably will, or probably won't.

Uh, point number two I want to mention about both of these grammar points

is to make your pronunciation

a little more natural.

Try shortening both of these expressions.

Going to shortens to gonna.

G O N A. Gonna. I'm going to.

I'm not going to.

This sounds much more natural,

at least in American English.

Uh, for will and for won't.

When you use will, use the contracted

form with your subject.

For example, I will becomes I.

You will becomes you will.

They will becomes they'll.

Using the contracted form sounds a lot more natural in everyday conversation.

It's correct to say you will.

They will, but it sounds really stiff and unnatural.

So, please use the contracted

form to sound a bit more natural.

You can use the contracted

form with probably for will.

I'll probably, they'll probably, we'll probably.

These are all pretty good.

Okay, so let's practice using them.

All right, first example sentence.

Maybe something something go hiking tomorrow.

So how do we know

is this a will sentence or a going to sentence?

We have a hint here. Maybe maybe.

So meaning there's a low level of certainty

perhaps a low chance that this is going to

So, let's say maybe

I'll go hiking tomorrow.

This is probably the best answer.

Maybe I'm going to.

Uh, while you can communicate

the idea, yes, it sounds like you decided your plan before the

conversation, but you're using maybe.

So, it doesn't quite match.

Instead, use I'll maybe I'll go hiking tomorrow.

Okay, let's look at the next sentence.

I'm There's a big hint here, a grammar hint. I'm something something.

Go to France next year.

So, next year, this go to France next year.

This is a pretty big decision.

Most people probably would not make this decision

at the moment of speaking.

So, we should use going to.

I'm going to go to France next year.

This is the correct

uh use of going to in this case.

A decision made before the moment of speaking.

And there's a high level of certainty here. Okay.

Uh let's look at the next one.

I decided, here's a hint. Past tense decided.

If you watched a different video, uh oops.

I decided uh that I'm something something

go out for dinner. I'm too tired.

Okay, so past tense.

This shows us a big hint. Past tense decided.

This implies the decision was made before the conversation.

So I'm something something

go out for dinner. I'm too tired. Here's another hint.

So go out for dinner and too tired.

This should probably be

I'm not going to go out for dinner. I'm too tired.

So, this person has decided

h I'm not going to go out for dinner.

We should use going to the negative

not going to because the speaker made the decision

before the conversation happened

and there's a high level of certainty.

There's a high chance that this is going to happen.

So, we should use going to in this sentence. Okay. Okay.

So, the next sentence I included because I think it's a really good one to remember.

Anytime you visit a bar, a restaurant,

some kind of service situation,

you can use this pattern

specifically to make a request for something.

So, let's take a look here.

My example sentence is,

I something something have a glass of wine, please.

In this case, maybe it's at a restaurant or at a bar.

Um, but in this case,

you've just made the decision looking at the menu,

looking at a catalog, looking at something.

Uh, you made a decision

just then at that moment

and you're asking for that item.

You're asking for that service.

So, we'll use will

I'll have a glass of wine, please.

So in this example sentence, I used glass of wine to show my request

to ask for a glass of wine.

But if you want to use this pattern to make a request in a

service situation, just replace

glass of wine with the item or service that you would like.

So for example, I'll have a beer.

I'll have a steak.

I'll have a hamburger.

These are all things you can order at a restaurant or at a bar.

Uh if you're shopping, you can say, "I'll have the blue one, please."

For example, so just make your request

uh using the same pattern,

but replacing that glass of wine section that I used in my example sentence. Okay, next one.

Uh this one is maybe a little bit challenging.

Uh it's you're running late, so you something something

have to take a taxi

to your next meeting.

So maybe this is an assistant or someone supporting

another person with their schedule. Okay.

So in the next sentence,

uh we're looking at a situation where there's been a sudden or quick change to a schedule.

Someone is running late and there's a new decision

that's made at the moment of speaking or a new decision is made

to reflect the new situation.

So let's take a look.

You're running late, so

you will or you

will have to take a taxi.

You could say, uh, you're running late, so you have to take a taxi.

But maybe this is a future

plan, something that's going to happen in an hour from now.

Maybe this is something

uh the speaker is planning

for later in the day.

So, you will is a nice way to use that.

You're running late, so you'll have to take a taxi

to the next meeting.

Okay, the last one I want to talk about this uses probably,

which I mentioned over here.

So, probably, remember, we can use probably

to sort of improve

or we can use probably to communicate

a higher level of certainty

with the decision we made at the moment of speaking.

So here uh you're not going to the party

then I probably something something go either. Okay.

So either is a big hint here.

Remember we use either

to show agreement but negative. Okay.

So in the last example sentence for today.

Uh we're going to look at a situation

where the listener has heard some new information.

They use the expression

you're not going to go to the party.

So, they're confirming new information

they have just heard.

After that, they're going to make a decision

about what their plans are for the party.

So, let's take a look.

We know that probably

can be used with will and won't.

And we know from

then the speaker just made this decision.

And we know it's a negative with either.

So, we should use won't.

You're not going to go to the party,

then I probably won't go either.

So, the speaker uses

uh won't here to show a decision made at the moment of speaking.

But the speaker also uses

probably won't to show there's a high chance

that this is going to happen.

There's a high chance that this is the future plan. Probably won't. Okay.

So there's a lot of information

communicated there with small words like then and either and probably as well.

So please keep this in mind when you're trying to decide

when to use will,

won't, going to, and not going to. Okay.

So uh so that's

my recap of a few useful grammar points how to talk about your future tense plans.

Uh so I'm going to finish the lesson now.

Uh, I hope that you enjoyed this lesson.

If you have any questions,

please feel free to leave it in a comment.

Or if you want to try out a few practice

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Hi everybody and welcome back to Top Words.

My name is Alicia and today we're going to be talking about 10 compliments that

you always want to hear. Let's go.

I love your cooking.

This is my personal favorite compliment.

Oh my god, I love cooking.

Like I'm always posting like pictures of things that I cooked on Twitter.

I'm just like crazy about food.

Uh, so this would be a compliment that I would love to get.

Like the ultimate compliment for me though would be, "Will you make my birthday cake?"

That would be such a compliment.

Like it's it's a question, but it's it there's so much behind that.

Will you make my birthday cake?

Be like you would give that to me.

So maybe you can use this after a meal for example.

I love your cooking.

And the other person will be

like, next is great job. Great job.

This is a compliment that you can use anytime.

You can use it uh to your with your friend, with your

not with your boss.

Your boss might use it with you,

an employee, a co-orker

or colleague, a pet even, whatever.

It's it's just a a very small scale, a very easy to use compliment

that means you think whatever has just happened is good.

I use great job all the time.

I use great job and I use good job.

Sometimes uh when I make a mistake or something

funny happens and I'm alone at my house and I want to make fun

of myself, I'll be like, "Yeah, great job, Alicia."

Uh but if I'm if I'm trying to be positive about a failure or

laugh at myself a bit, but in general,

it's just a good easy compliment to give someone. Great job.

You have a way with words.

You have a way with words.

This can be speaking.

This can be writing.

It means you think that the other person is a good communicator

or maybe even more so than just a good communicator.

You think that the way they speak or the way that they write is particularly good.

So that could mean funny.

It could mean romantic.

It could mean dramatic.

Something about the way they speak or the way that they write.

You really enjoy that.

You can say you have a way with words.

It's quite a nice compliment.

I think it's kind of like a you know bit smart.

It's a bit of a smart thing.

You have a way with words.

Or you can say, you're good with words.

You're really good with words. Yeah. All right. Next one. You look gorgeous. You look gorgeous.

Very nice compliment to give.

Just be very careful

with the way that you say this.

For an everyday compliment,

I tend not to say

you look nice or you look gorgeous

today or something like that because the underlying

comment there is on the other days that person doesn't look nice.

Like, so if I want to compliment someone's

appearance, I try to pick a specific thing.

I'm like, "Oh, I've never seen you wear that sweater before.

It looks nice on you." Something like that.

Like yesterday, my friend had a new dress on and I was like, "Is

that a new dress?"

And cuz I I thought she looked nice.

I But I didn't I didn't want to make it sound like I don't

think she looks nice every day.

So, I said, "Is that a new dress?"

And she goes, "Yeah."

I said, "I think that color is really really nice on you.

It looks really good."

and she was so happy about that.

So, yes, there there are these compliments like you look nice, you look great,

you look gorgeous, and so on.

But I personally kind of prefer to level them up a little bit and

just say pick a specific thing like did you get a new haircut?

Did you dye your hair or you did you get something did something happen?

like what whatever it is, try to pick up on a specific thing because

then that shows you're paying attention to the other person

and you think that whatever they have chosen to do, whatever like clothing or

whatever haircut, whatever it is, you think that they have good sense there too or good style.

So, it's kind of like a double that's a very subtle double compliment. Yeah.

The next word is you have good taste.

You have good taste.

This can be for

uh food, uh fashion,

style, for decorating sense,

uh music in movies, whatever.

If you think that that person's

uh artistic selection in in whatever capacity,

if you think that that person makes good choices

with uh their uh their appearance or their hobbies or whatever,

you can say you have good taste.

This is a fairly sophisticated compliment.

I think we use you have good taste for something like

it's it sounds a bit more sophisticated.

Maybe if you both

choose the same bottle of wine perhaps like it it has kind of a

more formal adultish sophisticated

feeling about it this compliment.

So yeah, maybe maybe wine is a good example of that. Yeah.

Oh, nice bottle choice.

Like I really like that.

You have good taste.

You can follow this by the way.

You have good taste in blah blah blah.

Uh, you have good taste in movies.

You have good taste in music.

If you want to be specific

about something that you think that person is really good at choosing,

you have good taste in noun. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

Um, next one is you have a great sense of humor.

You have a great sense of humor.

This is the this is the underlying

compliment in the phrase you're so funny.

This is the underlying compliment.

You have a great sense of humor means the other person thinks you're funny.

that you are good at telling jokes or you make them laugh.

This is actually one of my favorite compliments to get.

You have a great sense of humor.

Um yeah, because I think that like you know people like to laugh.

So it's an it's an if someone makes you laugh, you can say this.

You have a great sense of humor or you're very funny.

Yeah, it's a good one.

It's a really good one.

Um, so you can say after a joke, for example,

or after maybe you've

you're you've finished laughing at something the other person has said, you can say,

"Ah, you have a great sense of humor." Good.

Next one is, "Your resume is impressive."

This is a weird compliment to say to your

friends, unless you're like reviewing your friend's resume.

It's a bit weird.

This is something that perhaps

uh someone interviewing another person for a job would say.

The candidate comes in for the interview.

The interviewer says, "Wow, your resume is very impressive.

I'd like to ask you a few questions about it." Yay.

Uh so, this is good to hear in a work situation.

Yeah, you really probably

won't need to use this with your friends.

If you do, it's kind of weird. Oh, wow.

This next one is quite a compliment.

Nobody's ever said this to me.

To be fair, if somebody said this next one to me, I would feel

a little bit of like pressure.

The compliment here is you make me want to be a better person.

This is something that I think you see in movies from time to time. Yeah.

I've had I had one person say like like

uh oh that something you did inspired

me and that was like really like oh that was really exciting.

Like somebody was inspired by something like wow that's great or I want to be like you.

That's a really cool compliment.

But if someone says you want to make me be a better person,

it's like, oh wow, like that means I'm really important to that person,

which is really flattering.

But at the same time, if someone said that,

I would also be like,

if it's like my friend,

I would be like, but I I want you to be you.

Like I think you're a cool person already. Yeah.

It's like, oh, you make me want to be a better person.

Like in that person's viewpoint, you're like somehow above them, and that's uncomfortable. Yeah.

just I would rather say you inspire me.

I think that that or like this thing that you did really inspired me.

Like if somebody said like I saw that picture that you posted on Twitter

of that pizza today, Alicia, and it really inspired me and I made my own pizza.

I'd be like, yay.

Oh, next one is nice.

Actually, I say this to my friends quite a bit.

You are an awesome friend.

This is really, really good to use after your friend has helped you with something.

Maybe you're moving to a new apartment or new house.

Or maybe you've had some trouble and your friend gave you some good advice.

Or your friend just listened to you when you really needed to talk to someone.

After that experience, you can say, "Thanks so much.

You were an awesome friend."

Or maybe your friend did something really, really cool and you just want to

like tell them like, "I think you're really awesome."

Just say, "You are an awesome friend."

They'll be happy to hear that.

Or just you can abbreviate it to you are awesome.

Not just you're an awesome friend.

Just you are awesome.

You are a cool person. You are awesome. You're fantastic.

You are an awesome friend.

You're an awesome friend.

Compliments that I want to hear.

Quite honestly, I I

feel that the any physical appearance

compliment is sort of boring to me.

Honestly, when people I feel you.

I feel you really.

I'm just like, okay, great.

I didn't do anything to be have this body or face or whatever.

It's just it's like, okay, that doesn't mean anything.

Like, what what are we going to do with that?

It's like if you want if you want to compliment somebody, I feel like

you should compliment them on their skills.

Uh something that they have done or something that they have created

or something about their personality

that is valuable to you.

I think that that's a much better compliment.

So for me, I like

this is delicious cuz I love cooking.

So when somebody tells me this is so good, like when they say it

in just that right way and you can tell that it's real, you can

tell that it's true.

I'm just like yes.

When people go, "Oh my god, this is so good."

Like, "I've cooked something really, really well."

They say, "Oh my god, amazing."

Or, "I want to eat your food."

That sort of thing.

When people say that, I'm just like, "Yes."

Like, that makes me so, so happy because it's some like that's one of

my favorite things to do.

It's a skill and it's something that like I've worked hard to try to do well.

So, when someone compliments

me on that, I get really excited. All right.

So, um, those are

compliments you always want to hear.

What compliments do you want to hear? I don't know.

We've talked about we've talked about personality

compliments and we've talked about skill compliments, but if there if you have a

favorite compliment, leave it in the comment box.

We can start a

compliment mayhem among the commenters.

Anyway, positive feelings after this video.

Everybody's cheery, I think.

Uh, thanks very much for watching this episode of Top Words and we will

see you again soon. Bye. Yeah, vamos allaya.

Now we're going to the beach. Hi everybody.

Welcome back to Top Words.

My name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about 20 travel phrases that you should know. So let's go.

Do you have any recommendations?

The first phrase is do you have any recommendations?

This is great to use when you get to a restaurant where you don't

know what the food is.

You don't know anything about the local cuisine

or you're just feeling a little bit adventurous.

You can ask the weight staff, "Do you have any recommendations?

How much is this?

How much is this?"

This is useful when you're out shopping or when you're in a restaurant and

the price is not clearly marked or something is not clear to you.

So, you can ask, "How much is this?"

Usually, when you point to something, I would recommend like pointing to the menu

or pointing to an item.

How much is this? I'd like this.

You can point to something and say, I'd like this.

Uh if you want to say, I'd like uh one.

For example, I don't know, you're getting beer.

I'd like one of these.

If however, you're in a situation where you can't point, you can say, I'd

like 10 of the blah blah blah.

I'd like 10 of the blue t-shirts, please.

Can I try this on?

Is useful when you're shopping for clothes.

So, you find something that you'd like to try,

just ask the staff, "Can I try this on?"

You can just say, "I want to try this on."

If you like, "Do you speak English?"

You might get asked this phrase.

So, you should say, if you're watching this video, you should probably say, "Yes."

Or you can say, "Yes, a little if you're not feeling very confident."

If you're watching this video and you're understanding this part and you say no,

then things that's a little strange.

I have a reservation.

Usually the staff will greet you and you can say, "I have a reservation."

Hello, I have a reservation. It's at 7:00.

The name is Alicia.

Usually we say the name is or it's under meaning the reservation

is under my name or

um it's for name

or uh it's in name. Water, please.

Depending on which country you're from, water may or may not automatically

be brought to your table when you're at a restaurant.

If you would like more water, however, you can say, "Water, please."

To make it a little more polite, I would like wave at the weight

staff and say, "Could I please have some more water?"

"Do you take credit cards?

Do you take credit cards?"

In case you're not sure if the shop that you're in will accept credit

cards or debit cards, you can ask them, "Do you take credit cards?"

So, it doesn't mean, "Do you take," meaning, "Are you going to take my card?"

But this take means, "Do you accept credit cards?"

This isn't what I ordered.

So, if you're at a restaurant, you order steak and you get lobster instead,

you can look at it and go, "Ah,

this isn't what I ordered." Be careful, though. Say this politely.

If you look at the weight staff and you say, "This isn't what I ordered."

They're going to be

like, I don't know, just be a nice customer.

Excuse me, but I don't think this is what I ordered, or this isn't what I ordered.

Can you please check?

Could we have the menu, please?

If for some reason you don't receive a menu when you come to the

table, you can again just wave at

a member of the staff and say, "Could we have the menu, please?

Could you give me a discount?"

Could you give me a discount?

Means uh I would like a cheaper price.

Essentially, it depends on which country you're in.

If haggling or bargaining,

meaning uh talking to the seller to try to reduce the price.

My family didn't bargain. We didn't haggle.

So, I don't haggle.

Depends on you and your culture.

But uh just yeah just be be aware of the culture that you're in

and the place that you're in before you ask this question.

Do you have any vegetarian dishes?

Ah this is useful.

Some people uh have specific

eating requirements or eating needs.

Maybe food allergies for example.

You can replace vegetarian

with the specific dietary

requirement that you have.

Do you have any vegan dishes?

Do you have any gluten-free dishes?

Do you have any low-fat dishes?

Do you have any low carb dishes?

Do you have any fishree dishes?

Do you have any?

Could you take a picture of me, please?

If you are in a location where you would like to take a picture,

but you don't want to do a selfie or you don't have a selfie

stick or whatever, you want someone else to take a picture of you, a

stranger that you don't know,

you can ask them, "Could you take a picture of me, please?"

Or, "Excuse me, would you mind taking a picture of me, please?

I'm allergic to blah blah blah."

If you have a food allergy

or even uh an allergy to a medicine,

this is the phrase you can use to explain that.

I'm allergic to wheat

or I can't eat wheat, for example.

Is the Wi-Fi free?

Meaning, can I use the Wi-Fi free of charge?

Keep in mind, some places have a

a password that you have to ask the staff for.

So, you can say, "Is the Wi-Fi free?"

If they say yes,

you can then follow that up with, "Can I have the password?

I'd like to have a non-smoking seat, please."

So, when you go to a restaurant,

you have an option between smoking and non-smoking sections.

The staff will say smoking or non-smoking.

You can say, "I'd like to have a non-smoking seat, please."

Quite honestly though, the most natural response is just to say non-smoking.

Could I get a map?

Maybe it's a map of the subway system

for the city that you're in.

Or maybe it's a map of the

area around your hotel.

You could say, "Could I have a map?" as well.

Could I have the check?

You're finished at your cafe.

You're finished at the restaurant and it's time to leave.

It's time to pay.

So, you say to the wait staff, "Excuse me, could I have the check?"

Another more common expression

perhaps is, "Excuse me, check please."

You might also hear bill.

Excuse me, can I have the bill?

Where is the bathroom? Very important question.

If you're traveling in America,

we don't really use the word toilet or washroom very much.

We use bathroom or restroom

to talk about um toilet facilities.

Excuse me, can you tell me where the bathroom is?

Uh or excuse me, I'm looking for the bathroom

or I'm looking for the restroom.

Is this the train

for blah blah blah?

Or is this the train that goes to blah blah blah

to confirm with someone

that I'm indeed on the correct train line.

If I say, "Is this the train

bound for San Francisco?"

you can use that to check if you're correct.

So, that's the end.

Those are 20 travel phrases that you can use when you're traveling in an English-speaking country.

Give them a try.

I hope that they go well for you.

Of course, there are many different variations

on these themes, so be sure to experiment a little bit.

Thanks very much for watching this episode of Top Words, and we will see you again soon. Bye.

The things that I do before I travel to a country where I cannot speak the language.

I actually learned numbers. Okay. Fine.

Today, where are we going to go today?

We've been to the Pina.

We've been to the Playa Bib Biblio library. Vamos Biblote.

Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

Welcome back to Top Words.

Today we're going to be talking about 20 must know family words. So, let's go. Mother.

Mother is the person who gave birth to you.

Mother, you can say mom. Mother. Mom. Mama. Mommy.

Uh, my mother has amazing cooking. It's true. Father. Father.

Father is the person

who did not give birth to you, but

who helped make you happen.

Uh, so we say father, dad, daddy, paw, pop.

My father is a very level-headed person. That's also true.

Sister, sister is a female sibling.

So my brother might say, I have an older sister.

Anyone who is Yeah.

a female sibling or someone you can use this for friends

that you feel very very close to, like she's like my sister,

that's fine as well. Brother. Brother.

We sometimes use bro for this.

Uh I would say I have a younger brother.

Uh like sister, you can use brother

for any male that you feel is similar to a brother, someone you feel very close to.

So he's like a brother to me or you're like my brother. Grandmother. Grandmother.

When you put grand

plus something else, uh it means the next generation

or or the the previous generation.

So you have your mother and father.

In this case, grandmother

means your mother or your father's uh mother.

It can be either of them.

So, grandmother, my grandmother

was born a long time ago. Grandfather. Grandfather.

So, just like grandmother,

uh your mother or your father's

father is your grandfather.

My grandfather liked to play tennis. That's true. Uncle. Uncle.

Your uncle is either your mother or your father's brother.

Someone uh directly related to one of your parents who is a man is your uncle.

Uh my uncle is very good with woodworking. Also true. Aunt. Aunt.

You might also hear aunt.

Both of them are correct.

You can say aunt or aunt.

An aunt or an aunt is your mother or your father's female sibling.

One of my aunts

gave me a stamp collection when I was a little kid. That's also true. Cousin. Cousin.

A cousin is your

aunt or uncle's children.

It can be on any side.

So, typically these people are of the same generation as you.

Not always, but cousins are generally about the same age.

At least in my family, they are.

It's really fun to see all my cousins at family barbecues. Nephew. Nephew.

A nephew is a siblings male child.

So if you have a brother or a sister and they have children,

any male children are your nephews. Nephews.

I don't have any nephews. Niece. Niece. Niece.

So your brother or your sister's female children.

Uh any female children they have, you can say she's my niece

or I have two nieces.

How many nieces do you have?

Or I have a lot of nieces. Wife. Wife.

So this is a

female partner that you are married to.

She is my wife

or how is your wife?

Wife is only used

when you are married to that person. Husband.

Husband is a male that someone is married to.

So uh how is your husband?

This is my husband.

Again, husband is only used when you are married to that person. Parent. Parent. Parent.

Uh it's typically used generally

for a mother or a father like I'm a parent.

He is my parent, she is my parent.

It's often used in the plural.

They are my parents.

These are my parents.

My parents are home.

My parents are not at home.

But you can also use parent to describe

someone who raised you.

So maybe your biological

mother or father did not raise you, but someone else like an aunt or

an uncle or perhaps a different figure in your community did raise you.

You can say she's like a parent to me or she had a a

parenting role in my life. Child. Child.

Child is a a small human.

A small human is a child.

It doesn't necessarily have to be of your family.

Like if you're just at the park and you see kids running around, you

can say, "Ah, look at that child."

You can use uh child in the singular, but be careful.

Child changes in the plural form to children.

So, not childs, but children.

Uh, one child, two children. Please be careful.

This has an irregular plural form.

Uh, maybe I'll have a child someday. Son.

Son is a male child. A male offspring.

My uncle has a lot of sons. That's not true. Daughter. Daughter.

A daughter is a female child.

I wonder if I will ever have a daughter. Brother-in-law. Brotherin-law.

So, we use in-law

to mean our married partner's family members.

Uh, not my brother, but my partner's brother.

In-law is used after

any family members position or family members

title uh to show they they belong to my partner's

family originally, but now they're part of my my extended family as well.

Uh, I'm going out for drinks with my brother-in-law tomorrow night. Father-in-law. Father-in-law.

So we have in-law here meaning

uh my partner's father.

So my father-in-law is very kind. Mother-in-law.

Mother-in-law meaning my partner's

mother in a sentence.

My mother-in-law and I get along really well.

And that's the end.

So those are 20

must know family words that you can use to talk about your family, your

partner's family, and the families of the people around you. They're very useful.

So try them out.

Uh, thanks very much for watching this episode of Top Words and we will

see you again soon for more fun stuff.

Thanks very much for watching. Bye.

You're finding out all kinds of things about my today. Whenever I'm ready. All right. Hi everybody.

Welcome back to Top Words.

My name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about 10 words for connecting thoughts.

These are going to be 10 words that you can use

to transition between ideas.

Very useful in both speech and in writing. Let's go.

Also, also also is a word that you can use to add information.

I went to the store this morning.

Also, I went and got coffee. That's true.

However, however, however is used to contrast

or to contrast depending on your pronunciation

to differentiate to show a difference between two pieces of information.

A good pattern would be a however b.

So for example, I

love however it is very high in calories

so I don't eat it often. Also true.

On the other hand,

on the other hand, on the other hand is I feel used more commonly

in speech than it is in writing.

Um, again, it's used to present

like two sides to a story or two sides to some information.

So, for example, I'm thinking about visiting Taiwan

sometime this year, but on the other hand,

I'm also thinking about Thailand still.

So, it might be common to use

still with a word like but or a word like even though.

So, you're saying even though there's some other factor

like um like I'm really really tired this week or even though I have

a lot of homework to do, I still want to go out with my

friends or I still want to

um see a movie this weekend.

So, there's this other there's this thing that's maybe makes

this other action difficult to do or tough to do or whatever.

Um, but even though

there's this, you still

have this over here.

So maybe the two are kind of used as a pair.

I still want to go out later

even though I'm tired.

Then then yes, a very useful word.

We use then when telling stories a lot.

Um, so for example, if I could tell a story about my morning today.

When I got up,

I brushed my teeth

and then I cooked breakfast.

Then I did a little bit of work.

Then I took a shower.

Then I did some cooking. Blah blah blah.

You'll often hear and then as well.

And then I and then we and then you and so on.

So then is is really really useful for sequence.

So a useful word I think.

Besides besides so it's commonly used in a pattern like besides that

meaning other than something else.

I went out with my friends this weekend, but besides that,

I didn't really do much.

So, another way to say that sentence

is, I went out with my friends this weekend, but other than that, other

than that activity, I didn't do very much. Okay?

Meanwhile, meanwhile, or you might hear

the similar expression in the meantime.

It means while you're doing action A,

at the same time,

maybe somewhere else, action B is happening.

This is used while telling stories a lot.

So, for example, I was working at my office all week last week.

Meanwhile, my co-workers across town were

having a party without

So these two things are happening at the same time.

Um but maybe separate from one another. Meanwhile, likewise. Okay. Likewise.

I don't really use this word personally myself at all.

It's often used after an introduction.

Um similar to the pleasure is all mine

in a formal situation.

So maybe somebody says, you know, hey, it was really great to see you last weekend.

Thanks very much for coming to my barbecue.

You can say, "Yeah, likewise.

It was really good to see you in your family."

So likewise means I have the same feeling or I have the same idea.

It's kind of a friendly phrase,

but personally I don't really use that to transition between thoughts.

Um I would just use and

I suppose, but no,

that's how I would use it. instead.

Instead, so so instead it it's used like instead of I want to

a instead of B

can be used to express your plans or what you want to do.

I want to have Chinese food instead of Italian food tonight.

So you're you're presenting to alternatives essentially.

So instead of means in place of or as a substitute for.

So, I should have

drank a lot of water

this morning, but instead

I drank a lot of coffee. That's true.

Uh, I wanted to

um have dinner with my friends this weekend.

Instead, I had dinner at home.

In addition, in addition,

this is a really good word for more formal situations.

I like to use in addition in writing.

I don't really use in addition in speaking

unless I'm trying to be very formal for some reason.

Uh similar to additionally as well.

So you make point A and point B and then when you want to

make one more point that's related to point A and point B, you can

say in addition point C.

So you're like building an argument

and in addition can be used to kind of finish that argument off a little bit.

Our new marketing plan worked really well last month.

we noticed increased sales in product A.

In addition, uh we've gained a lot of new customers. Something like that.

So, just you're you're quickly presenting a series of ideas that are related to one another.

You can use in addition to finish it off. All right.

So, that's the end of 10 words for connecting thoughts.

I hope you get to use a lot of these.

Try to mix it up.

It's good to use a variety of different words.

Thanks very much for watching this episode and we will see you again next

time for more fun stuff. Bye.

Whenever I'm ready, making you learn by having fun. It's a thing. Infotainment. Ice. Hi everybody.

Welcome back to Top Words.

My name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about 10 things to do in the

summer in the United States.

So let's go to travel abroad.

To travel abroad to travel abroad.

Abroad means outside of your country.

So meaning to travel

to a place not the United States in my case.

Please don't forget to in this expression.

So many of my students will say this

uh summer I'm going Europe.

you need to use to before the place.

You do not however need to use to before there.

So like students sometimes will say

uh I want to go to there.

You can't do that.

You have to use to before the specific name of a place.

There is not a specific place.

So you don't need to use to.

Keep that one in mind.

To relax at the beach.

To relax at the beach.

Ah that sounds fantastic right now.

To relax at the beach.

You go to the beach and you just relax there.

You lay in the sun. You go swimming.

Maybe you drink a beer.

You get a tan if you would like to do that.

Of course, some people don't.

You put on sunscreen.

Whatever it is that you like to do at the beach, you just do that and enjoy.

In a sentence, I would rather relax at the beach than have a really active vacation.

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So, I guess if you are very ambitious

this summer, good for you.

You can learn English

by doing what you're doing now.

Uh, or I think you can visit I presume you can visit the website

for more content there, too.

I'm going to put my time to good use and learn English at englishclass101.com.

To have a barbecue. Oh, yeah.

The next one is one of my favorite things ever to do in summer, wherever I am.

It's to have a barbecue

or to have a BBQ

is also okay, but barbecue usually.

BBQ is in like writing.

I love having barbecues

with my friends in the summer.

Every Fourth of July, my family has a big barbecue.

To party all night.

The next expression is to party all night.

To party all night.

You don't It doesn't have to be summer or the United States to party all night. saying.

Anyway, to party all night means to do something

you enjoy, presumably with your friends or not.