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Hi everybody and welcome back to our weekly live stream.

My name is Alicia and in this week's live lesson,

we are going to talk about phrasal verbs you can use at the office.

We're going to talk about phrasal verbs that are very common at work,

but many of these are very,

very useful in school situations and in daily life situations.

I know phrasal verbs are a really,

really difficult part of vocabulary to remember

because there's so many kind of small differences.

So, I hope this lesson helps you to remember some really good ones you

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but today there's a lot a lot a lot to cover.

Let's see who's in the chat.

Hello uh Natalie, hi and Nazir and Nas Juan.

Patrick, what's up?

Anderson from Brazil, what's up?

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Okay, let's begin.

We have so much to talk about.

I want to start with part number one for today.

Everyday office activities.

If you haven't, make sure to like the video

so other people can find it.

Yep.

Okay, let's begin with the start of the day.

I imagine this as the start of the day.

In many jobs, the first phrasal verb

or maybe the first phrasal verb is to clock in.

To clock in means to begin your workday, but to register the time.

So maybe that means you have a a machine

that checks the time

when you start work

or maybe you have to use a computer

and log in to work.

So when you start work, when you register work, we call that clocking in.

To clock in.

So you can remember this because to clock in has the opposite.

When you leave work, to clock out.

So when you clock out, you register the time you leave the office.

Okay?

So this one means to register to register your time to register your time.

So your start time and your end time to register.

Sorry that's really difficult to read.

To register your start time and your end time at the office.

Okay.

So for example, we could say clock in when you get to the office.

Clock in when you get to the office.

This is the command form here.

Clock in means register your time when you get to the office.

The opposite is clock out when you leave the office.

Clock out when you leave the office.

So clock in and clock out are the ways we start

and end the workday.

Okay, let's continue to part well number two in this list.

Next is to set up.

To set up.

Notice there's a space here.

Yeah.

To set up.

Two separate words.

To set up means to prepare something, to get something ready for something else.

We can use set up in many different situations.

It's a very open meaning kind of phrasal verb.

So to set up means to prepare something.

So for example, we could say, "Let's set up workstations for the new staff."

Let's set up workstations for the new staff.

Let's set up an area for our new staff members.

Right?

We can also use it for example inside our computer environment like ah let's

set up the new software meaning let's prepare the new software.

Let's get it ready.

You could say let's set up the living room in the new house.

You can use the phrasal verb set up to mean to prepare something

or to get something ready.

Like let's set up for the party.

Also, just note there is a space here.

Set up with no space is a noun.

That is different.

Okay.

Sometimes there's a little bit of overlap.

Okay.

I see everybody saying hello.

Welcome.

Everyone saying hello.

Hello Luis.

Happy vibes.

Anthony.

Emanuel.

What's up?

Emanuel wrote, "Let's set up my room for sleep."

So, do you need to prepare your room in order to sleep?

Do you?

Maybe you do.

I don't know.

Maybe you have to, you know, set up a futon bed or something.

That could be.

But in my case,

I don't really need to set up my room for sleep.

Maybe you're a little different.

Okay.

Natalie has a different phrasal verb.

Did I put that one in here?

No.

Maybe that's over here.

I don't know.

Natalie wrote, "I turn on the computer when I come to the office."

Okay, good.

That's correct.

Alejandra, is this live?

Yes, we've been doing this live stream for like six, seven years, I think.

That's a long time.

Anyway, yes, always live at this time every week.

Facebook.

Hello, Adam.

Welcome.

Okay, let's continue to the next one.

To skip out.

To skip out.

And usually we use this with the preposition on.

To skip out on something means like to pass on an activity,

to not participate in an activity,

but you are expected to participate in the activity.

So, let's look at the example sentence here.

I'm going to skip out on the afternoon meeting today.

I'm gonna skip out on the afternoon meeting today.

Here is the phrasal verb skip out with on.

So we often very often follow this uh follow this pattern where we say

skip out on noun phrase the afternoon meeting today.

Okay.

So this means to not do something

or to not participate in something

but there's some expectation.

So in this case maybe usually you participate in the afternoon meeting

but today you decide I'm too busy.

I'm not going to participate in the meeting.

So, you can say, "I'm going to skip out on the afternoon meeting today."

You might also have heard the phrase uh like to skip work

or to skip school.

That means to choose not to attend, to choose not to go to school.

We can also use this phrasal verb.

You could say, "I'm going to skip the afternoon meeting today."

This skip out on is a little bit more casual,

more casual way to say that.

Okay.

Um, I don't see other examples yet.

Hello everybody who is still joining and saying hello.

Let's continue to the next one.

To head out.

To head out.

To head out means to leave.

To leave a place.

We can use to head out at the office in a very casual way.

When you say, for example, it's late.

I'm going to head out.

It's late.

I'm gonna head out means it's late.

I'm going to leave the office.

You can also use this in casual settings.

You can use this in your personal life.

For example, at a party or an event.

You can say, "Okay, it's time for me to go.

I'm going to head out."

And you leave.

That means the same thing.

You can use this in many different situations,

but this is a very common

and casual way to say you are going to leave the office at the

end of the day.

So, you can use this in many situations.

Okay, Patrick wrote, uh, is it correct?

I'm clock in late today at my job.

So, I'm clock in.

Remember, I know you know your your grammar here, Patrick.

So, I'm is I am, right?

This is a phrasal verb.

So, could we use the grammar I'm immediately followed by verb in the base

form?

We cannot, right?

Say, I clocked in late today at my job.

So to clock in, when you want to make this phrasal verb past tense,

make the this base verb past tense.

I clocked in late at my job today.

Okay.

Okay.

Um, let's continue to the last one.

To call in or to call in sick.

Usually we have this sick at the end.

To call in sick.

Often we say to call in sick for work

or to call in sick for something.

Okay, here's the example.

I have to call in sick today.

So to call means to make a phone call to your office

or you can say I have to write in sick.

I suppose usually we say call in sick like calling your boss

or calling your teammates.

This means you feel sick.

Okay. and you cannot come to work that day, you need to rest.

Or you pretend to be sick as well.

Maybe you want to take a day off and go somewhere.

You think, I'm going to call in sick today.

I'll just say I'm not feeling well.

So to call in sick means to report to your office and say,

I can't come to work today.

I'm sick.

To call in sick.

Okay.

All right.

Um, Mauricio wrote, "When I stand in my office,

is that skip uh skip out on?"

No.

Oh, you mean if you stay in your office but you go something.

So, to skip out on,

maybe I'll put this here means uh to not participate in something.

So, if you are at work, it's okay.

For example, if you are very very busy at your job

that day and there's a regular meeting

and you think,

"No, today's work is really really important.

I'm going to skip out on the meeting."

It's okay if you are in the office, the same office.

The meeting is in room A and your office is room B.

That's okay.

It means you are not participating in the activity.

So to not participate in an activity.

Okay.

So, I hope that answers your question.

I hope that answers your question.

Uh, some other examples.

Mino wrote, "I want to head out on time to take care of my

lovely dogs."

Nice one.

To head out on time.

Nice.

Nice combination there, Mino.

Great work.

Uh, Mark on Facebook wrote, "Okay."

Okay, Mark.

Okay, let's continue.

Oh, we finished part one.

I love that.

Okay, so let's continue to a quick break

and then we'll talk about some meeting related phrasal verbs.

Okay.

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LaMa on Facebook.

To clock out.

Can you explain it?

Yes.

So you can watch the video again because this is being recorded.

To clock out means to register the time you leave work.

To register the time you leave work.

Okay.

Some other examples.

Luis wrote, "I wanted to set up the database server late

so I could skip out on the virtual daily meeting."

Good.

Just one tiny change there, Le on.

So, almost always we say skip out on plus the noun phrase,

then it's perfect.

Nice example.

You put two in that sentence.

Great.

Okay, let's proceed to part two.

Meetings.

So, here are some phrasal verbs that are common in meetings.

First, to write down.

To write down.

This is maybe the most common phrasal verb for a meeting.

It means to write or to take notes about a topic.

Let's look at the example.

He wrote down the details of the agreement.

He wrote down the details of the agreement.

So, we can say just write or to take notes.

Right?

So to write down the image here is not just to write

which sounds like for example writing a book

or writing a poem

or writing an article sounds like at home alone I'm thinking

and writing to write down sounds like I listen to the information in the

meeting or in the discussion

and I put that down on a piece of paper

or in a computer.

It's okay to use this for a computer.

Also, to take notes on a computer, you can say,

"I'm going to write that down."

It's okay.

So, writing with a pen or a computer is okay with this one.

This one sounds like taking notes.

To write down notes or to write down the information in this case,

he wrote down the details of the agreement.

So, to write down is a super common phrasal verb.

You will hear this in school.

Also, you can split this one. uh to write uh something.

So to write something down is also okay to use.

You may hear the command form uh write that down.

Can you write that down please?

Which means that thing I just said.

Can you write that down?

So that means please take a note about that.

Okay.

Uh Juan, good question.

Is it valid in a virtual environment like taking notes from a virtual meeting?

Yes, absolutely.

You can if you join like Zoom meetings

or online meetings uh they'll you know someone will take notes your boss

or your manager might say like someone write

that down like you can absolutely it's okay to use

that in a virtual meeting

as well.

Thanks very much.

Um Manuel wrote I tried to write down in the comments box.

So write so write is different from a bit different from write down.

Yeah.

So to write down sounds like taking notes.

Okay.

You're listening to someone's information

and then putting the information in a document

or writing the information in a document.

So in your example, Emanuel, I tried to write in the comment box,

but my phone went crazy.

I would use write in that situation.

Uh you could say,

I tried to write down some notes

or I tried to write down uh your words in the comment box.

Maybe it sounds like you are listening to information and recording the information.

That's the feeling with to write down.

Okay.

Uh Elizabeth on Facebook is right the most important of the meetings.

So I would say there are many I I can't choose

which is the most important verb in the meetings.

There are many.

So please study lots of verbs.

But this one is very common.

To record the information okay let's go to the next one.

To write up. to write up.

You might think, you might notice to write down means to take notes.

To write up the other direction now to write up,

let's look at the example sentence first and then I'll explain.

Please write up a list of tasks.

Please write up a list of tasks.

In this sentence, we have a list.

So, a list of tasks.

We have a noun phrase after this means to create something by writing. to

create something by writing.

Okay, so this one does not sound like taking notes.

This one it's like taking the words in the air and putting them down.

This to write up is like the opposite.

We have a lot of information.

Please create something with that information.

So to create a written document to create a written document is the feeling

here.

So you might see oops sorry document.

So to write up is something your uh manager

or your coworker might ask you to do.

Hey, can you write up a a procedure for this task

or can you write up the uh the information about this client?

It means please create a written document.

And this sounds like it doesn't have to be amazing, beautiful, perfect.

It's like give us a little information.

Yeah.

It's not like a a formal proposal or a formal document,

but we need some information.

So, please write up a noun phrase, a list of tasks.

Please write up some ideas for the project.

Please write up some information about the client.

It sounds like please give us some information.

Create a document with some information.

Okay, let me see her examples.

Uh, Natalie wrote, "I write up some ideas for the project.

Do you want to use that in past tense?"

That's okay.

So, maybe that's a regular activity.

Oh, you took it away.

Okay.

All right.

Thanks for the the question, Natalie, or the example.

Let's go to the next one.

Super common.

Another super super super common one.

Please write this down today.

To check in.

To check in.

Let's look at the example.

I'd like to check in about the project.

I'd like to check in about the project.

So in this example, I have about here.

You might hear check in about.

You might hear check in with as well.

So you can use check in to mean I'd like to ask for a

status update.

I'd like to ask.

So to ask for a status update or to receive a status update.

When you use about, you follow it with the topic.

I'd like to check in about the project.

This means, please tell me the latest information, the newest information about the project.

We can also use it with with I'd like to check in with you.

In this example, we have with.

When we use with along with check in,

it means we want to have the update with a person.

Notice we use a person.

So check in with you, check in with the manager,

check in with him or her.

So these are the two maybe most common patterns uh to check in to

use with check in.

It means to receive a status update or to get a status update.

So, you might say, "Can I check in with you about the agreement?

I haven't heard from you in a while."

It means, "What's the status?"

That's a nice way to ask about the status.

Okay.

All right.

Abilash wrote, "Check in with me."

Yes.

So, you might receive a email, an email from your boss that says, "Hey,

can you please check in with me today?"

It means I want some status updates from you.

Okay.

All right.

Luis wrote, "My colleague didn't check in to set up the database server,

so I have to write up all the specifications also."

Nice one.

You're putting many in one sentence.

Very nice.

I see you.

I see you.

Okay.

Um, Juan, great point.

Yes, it is different from checkin at the airport and checkin at the hotel.

Great point.

Yes, this check-in means receive a status update.

When you go to the airport

or hotel or maybe a different appointment to check in means to present your

documents or to be to arrive for a reservation,

right?

So, this one is different in a work situation.

It means to get a status update.

This one's a really good one.

Okay.

On Facebook, Gas wrote,

"I will check with ah the supervisor about the next task."

Okay.

So to check with to check with is a little different from checkin with

maybe you want to say check in with

that would be perfect I will check in with the supervisor about the next

task that would be great

and la yeah it's like check on ah check on is a little is

a little similar it's like saying I'm going to confirm

that let me confirm

that let me check on

that.

Yeah, it means I will go and get the information.

So, these are very similar.

Great points, everybody.

I love that.

Okay.

Uh Nevian wrote, "It's similar to check-in uh to have a check-in meeting with

the team."

Yes, exactly.

Great.

You guys are so Oh, great.

Great connections, everybody.

I love it.

But I have only a few minutes left, so let me continue.

Thanks, control desk.

I love to explain.

Uh okay, let's look at the next one. to talk up.

I wanted to include a couple dramatic phrasal verbs here

so you can understand some of the office dynamics,

office politics a little bit.

This one to talk up.

Let's look at the example sentence.

My manager talked you up at the meeting.

My manager talked you up at the meeting.

Here I have split it.

Talked you up.

Notice it's here past tense.

So, we can split this one.

To talk up someone or to talk someone up.

To talk someone up means to talk about someone in a very positive way

to make this person sound great.

For example, if I want to talk about my coworker and I say,

"Oh my gosh, my coworker does such a good job.

They work so hard.

They are so good at what they do.

I think they're, you know, such a great teammate.

I'm I talk them up.

That's right.

Control desk.

My control desk person.

All the control desk staff.

Really, really great team members.

We love them.

Right?

You guys don't see them, but they're great team members.

So, we could say, "I my Alicia talked you up in the live stream."

That means she made you sound really, really good.

Yeah.

So, to talk someone up is usually a very good thing.

Yeah.

To make someone sound great.

Then you can maybe see what this one means.

To talk down.

And we have a couple prepositions to look at here.

To talk down to and to talk down about someone.

Okay.

So, let's take a look at these two kind of different but related meanings.

Don't talk down to someone means don't try to talk to someone like they

are below you.

So for example, maybe you've met a manager

or even a teacher where they talk

and you listen only like it sounds like they're above you,

they're better than you, you are lower.

It doesn't feel good, right?

So we describe that as talking down to someone.

To talk down to someone means to talk to someone in a disrespectful way,

not respectful.

To talk down to someone.

Okay.

So to talk down about someone means the opposite of to talk up someone.

So to talk down about someone means to talk about someone

and say that person is bad.

It's a very negative thing to do.

If you hear someone saying, "Oh, that person on our team, they're lazy.

They can't do anything right.

They always make mistakes."

We could say, "Oh, she talked down about that person in the meeting."

Okay.

So, there are two different ways we can use to talk down.

So, to means the way of speaking.

To talk down about someone means to describe bad characteristics of someone.

So this one's two for one.

Okay, let me quickly check the chat and then oh my gosh,

we have to finish.

Um, Carvansky wrote, "I write down notes."

Ah, so I write down notes maybe as you teach us.

As you teach us would be great.

Or I wrote down notes during your lesson.

So we can make that a little more natural.

You got the idea of write down.

Good job.

Um hello to everyone still joining.

Um Patrick is talk down kind of gossip.

Talk to when you talk down about someone.

Yes, it can be gossip.

It's usually not very productive, not helpful to talk down about somebody.

Maybe you need to explain to someone

that there's a person was very rude

or maybe dangerous.

Um but often it is about gossip.

Okay, let's see.

Facebook Mangali wrote, "Can we say don't talk your employees down?"

Oh, good question.

Don't talk your employees down.

I would say usually we don't split this one.

Like we do split talk up like to talk someone up.

To talk your employees down, I feel we usually do not split this one.

Usually it follows this pattern.

Don't talk down to your employees or don't talk down about your employees.

Okay.

Um others.

Okay.

Let me if I missed your comment, I'm very sorry.

Let's go to the next one.

I tried to get as many as I could.

Let's finish quickly with some computer task vocabulary.

Oh my gosh, I'm so late.

First is to send over.

Please send over the photos.

To send over just means send.

That's all it means.

Send.

It just is a casual way to say send.

Please send over the photos.

Please send over the files.

Please send over the ebook.

Yeah, it means please email it to me or please mail it to me.

Send over is a casual way to say send.

That's easy, right?

We love it.

Very common though.

The next one to look into.

To look into sounds like research, but light research.

Here's the example.

I'm looking into some equipment upgrades.

I'm looking into some equipment upgrades means I'm searching for information about something to

look into.

So if you say I'm researching equipment upgrades,

it sounds like formal kind of high level very intense

but I'm looking into sounds like I'm just checking information.

I'm getting some information.

I'm writing down some information.

Yeah, it's like light research.

Very useful though.

Let's look at this one. two for one a pair to fill in

and to fill out means to write the information in a form.

For example, please fill out the application form.

Please fill out the application form means please write your information in the application

form.

I'll say in I've noticed in American English we

which I speak we tend to use fill out more.

I've noticed in uh British English, maybe Australian also,

I see fill in a lot of the time too.

Please fill in and fill out.

They mean the same thing.

Write your information in it.

Okay, next one.

To plug in.

This one is very important.

To plug in means to connect the power to a machine.

Machine on this side and the wall.

To connect the power means to plug in those two things.

So this is the power cord.

This is the wall to plug in.

Yeah.

So, this one is very important, I know, to making sure your computer,

your printer, your phone, everything is working correctly.

I forgot to plug in my computer.

It happens sometimes, right?

So, to plug in, this one's an important one.

Um, get us, good one.

To fill in can mean to replace or cover for someone.

Yes, we can also use fill in to mean replace someone.

Hi, I'm filling in for my coworker today.

Or, hey everybody, I'm filling in for soand so today.

Yes, to fill in can mean to replace someone else.

Okay.

And let me look at the next one lastly

and then I'll check the chat real quick.

Sorry to go quickly with this last group.

To pull up to pull up.

Let's look at the example.

Can you pull up the latest version of the document?

Can you pull up the latest version of the document?

In a computer situation, this means like in a meeting,

please open the file on your screen so we can look at it together.

Okay, so this one has a lot of information.

Please open the file like we want to look at the file.

Can you pull up the document?

Can you pull up the graphic design?

Can you pull up the proposal?

Means can you please open

that file because we want to look at it together.

So to pull up has a different meaning than say for example cars

when you pull up next to someone at a stoplight.

Very different meaning.

To pull up a document means to open a document on your computer.

Very common one.

Okay, we got through all of it.

Let me check the chat really quickly and then we'll finish.

Oh my gosh.

Um Erase Higera on YouTube wrote,

"Is it correct to say someone pulled me into a meeting?"

Yes.

Use past tense.

Someone pulled uh add ed there.

Someone pulled me into a meeting.

That means I was not in the meeting.

Someone requested me and said please join the meeting and I went.

So you can say pulled me into a meeting.

Um the black eagle.

My coworker forgot to plug in the photocopier.

Great one.

Others.

Um let's see.

I'm trying to see people I have not seen yet.

Um get us pull up aside on Facebook.

I'm not quite sure what you mean.

Maybe pull up a slide.

I'm not sure what you mean by pull up a side.

If you have a different sentence, maybe that would help.

Uh, Emanuel wrote, "I plugged in my phone.

It was on low battery or it had a low battery."

Good.

Okay.

That's all I see right now.

Let's finish there because time is running out.

I will make a QR code

if you want to get the notes from today.

I think it's this button, share by QR code.

I will make it an image.

Oh, there's a blank one there.

We don't need that image.

Now, if I create this up, it's creating.

So, get your phone ready

if you want to take a picture of today's uh stream.

There you go.

All right.

There is today's lesson notes.

If you want to make a copy of them for your records,

you can check it out later.

Oh my gosh, how do I exit this?

There we go.

Okay, great.

So, that's all that I have time for today.

I hope that you found uh some good phrasal verbs you can use right

away.

I know phrasal verbs are difficult, but it's one thing that's best to practice.

I also recommend reading.

Do a lot of reading to make sure you understand natural ways to use

phrasal verbs.

So, that's all for today.

For this week, I'll be back next week.

Oh my gosh.

Next week's lesson topic.

Where did you go?

Next week, I'll be back.

Ah, yes.

Oh, next week is going to be really fun.

I planned a lesson for how to talk about appearance and style.

And we're gonna use some slang.

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Let's begin though because I always talk too long.

So, let's start with today's first topic.

The warm-up for today

when talking about your personal style is answering the question,

what is your style?

How would you explain your style?

I have two sample sentences you can use

and some sample vocabulary words to help you get started.

So this is the first pattern I want to practice.

My style is usually blank.

My style is usually blank.

For example, my style is usually casual.

My style is usually casual.

So in this blank here, we want to use an adjective.

Right here will be an adjective.

I have some examples here in green.

Okay.

My style is usually casual.

So casual.

Today I'm kind of casual, semi-casual, maybe business casual.

So today I want to help you understand,

we can put together adjectives to help us make more detail about our style.

So casual, we might also say business casual to talk about casual with a

little feeling of business.

Or maybe my style is usually very corporate.

My style is usually very corporate. corporate.

Maybe you know the word corporation.

Corporate sounds like a big business.

So, think about people who wear suits,

like a nice suit to the office

or who wear a nice uh a very very nice maybe expensive clothing to

the office that's perfectly made just for their body like a a neck tie

or a nice skirt

and high heels.

So a corporate style is something

that you might see in like TV shows a lot like

when you watch TV shows about banks

and lawyers that kind of thing is corporate style.

Okay.

So we can think about casual

and corporate as like opposite sides of the spectrum.

Yeah.

So you can put in the chat what your style is.

You think I'll give you some more examples

and then we'll go to pattern two.

Down at the bottom here,

I have a few key example words you can use to talk about your

style.

And of course, there are other words, too.

So, we talked about casual, of course, and we talked about corporate as well,

but some other things we can use to talk about our style.

I've got this one, vintage inspired.

Vintage inspired.

Vintage means something that is old, something from before your time.

So if you were born in let's say like I don't know 2000 you

might think of a different time

as me for vintage.

I was born much before 2000.

So you might think of something vintage

as maybe from 1990

which is crazy to me.

But I might think of something vintage as from the 60s or the 70s.

And someone who was born in the 60s

or 70s might think of something much earlier

as vintage.

Okay.

So something that is vintage is something that feels old to us.

Okay.

Then I've included this part here.

Vintage inspired.

Vintage inspired.

This is something you can add to the end of these adjectives to mean

it feels a little like

that or you have some influence from this.

So something that is vintage means just old.

But something vintage inspired means you took some inspiration.

You took some ideas from old things and made them yours.

Yeah.

So inspired is a really popular way to describe something that's a little old

and something that has a little bit of new things in it.

So blah blah blah inspired.

Okay, let's look at the next category or the next uh column.

Next is Gothic.

I put Gothic in here.

So Gothic is usually the idea of Gothic is people dress all in black.

All in black.

Maybe they have a chain.

Maybe they have big metal spikes or something.

And maybe their face makeup is very very white with like black eyes

and black lips.

Maybe that's a very maybe intense kind of Gothic style.

But Gothic, I know there are many different levels to Gothic.

The feeling with a gothic style is it's darker.

Usually lots of dark colors like dark purples, maybe dark blue and black.

And usually the mood is is very dark also of that style.

But I've seen for example makeup styles

that are very like soft

and feminine but dark.

So you might have a gothic style.

Okay.

Next one is street wear.

Street wear.

So I've I want to talk about this one.

We have street wear.

Street wear means the type of clothes.

Yeah.

But you might say uh more street style.

You might describe your style as street style or that you like street wear.

Yeah.

So if you like to wear kind of those cool like underground for example

like skate or uh snowboard

or um kind of like like underground fashion brands

that have like t-shirts

and baggy clothes.

You might describe your style as street style.

Yeah.

So this is kind of a common way to express that just street style.

Or you can say I like street wear.

All right.

Last one here.

Of course there are more is sophisticated.

Sophisticated.

So a sophisticated style sounds like you know and understand fashion trends.

You pay attention to magazines.

You want to understand the different looks

that are popular at

that time and you make sure to choose clothes

that fit your body very nicely.

So men and women can be sophisticated.

Also sophisticated does not mean expensive.

It means you look very nice and put together.

Everything goes together nicely.

Yeah.

Regal and feathered.

I love that.

Nice control desk.

Okay.

So these are a few words you can use to describe your style.

So we'll go back up here.

My style is usually casual like maybe on your days off, right?

So how do we express

that we have different styles for different days of the week?

Yeah, we can say at work

or school my style is blank

but on my days off it's blank.

Okay.

So this can help you to express the two sides maybe of your personal

style.

Yeah.

So at work or school my style is let's say my style is corporate

again.

So at work my style is corporate.

All right.

But on my days off it's let's say vintage inspired, right?

It's vintage inspired.

So, we can use a pattern like this to express different feelings

and different personal styles on different days.

Okay.

Uh, all right.

I'm coming to check the chat.

Hello everybody who's joining.

Stalin just wrote, "I dress with style."

Okay.

That's kind of vague, right?

We don't understand your style.

If you say, "I have good style."

It's like, what does that mean?

We don't know your style, right?

We know you think it looks nice, which is great.

Love the confidence, but how do you explain your style to someone else?

Right.

What key words can you use?

Okay.

Okay.

Um, good.

Some examples are coming in.

Bruno wrote, "At work, my style is usually casual."

Nice.

So, you have a casual office.

That's great.

Patrick wrote, "In my day on my days off, yeah, on my days off,

I usually uh I usually have rock and roll style with t-shirt,

rock band, and jeans during at work.

I score.

Okay, try this pattern, Patrick.

You're very close.

So, you want your prepositions.

On my days off,

I usually uh have a rock

and roll style uh with a rock band t-shirt.

So, put the rock band before the t-shirt.

Yeah, put the adjective, the thing describing the noun first.

And jean.

So, during at work.

So, get rid of during, right?

Just use either at work or during work, right?

And I have a corporate style.

Yeah.

So, if you want to use that kind of uh sentence pattern,

I have a corporate style.

Okay, let's see what else.

Bruno wrote, "Oh, on my days off, it's street wear."

Nice one.

Okay, Carlos wrote, "My style is grungy most of the time."

Okay, grunge.

So, grunge is kind of like a imagine like nirvana, maybe nirvana,

like you know, kind of the late 80s, early 90s rock band style.

That's the image of grunge style.

So, it's not quite street wear.

It's kind of It's more like relaxed

and kind of a little angry maybe is the image of grunge style.

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Okay, let's go to part two.

In part two, we're going to talk I've chosen what?

four, yes, four key verbs

that I think are really important to know for uh appearance

and style and not only uh clothing.

Yeah, we use these to talk about like well everyday situations in your house,

in the office.

Okay, so let's take a look at these four key words

because you might find especially with this last one,

a word that has a meaning totally new to you.

Okay.

So, let's begin.

First one, to look good.

To look good.

This means the appearance is nice.

All right.

This is a very important one to know

because you should know how to give a nice compliment.

So, let's take a look at how we use this.

First, you look so good in that dress.

You look so good in that dress.

All right.

So, you is our subject.

Yeah.

You and look.

Plus here I have so we can remove that if we want to.

You look good in that dress.

You look good in that dress.

Let's take a couple notes here.

Our preposition is in.

You look good in that dress.

We do not use the preposition on for this or at.

Right.

We must use the preposition in for our clothing.

Yeah.

Like you look good in that shirt or you look good in those glasses.

You look good in that suit.

Use in for the clothing someone is wearing

because that person is inside the clothing.

Right?

Maybe that helps you.

Okay.

Second, you look good, right?

So, we have subject and look.

This verb must match the subject.

You look good, right?

You look good.

We can finish there.

Wow, you look good.

Great.

Perfect sentence.

If you don't want to worry about the preposition, you look good.

He looks good.

Okay, you can add this for the clothing

if you want to make it specific.

Okay, so this is fine.

Now, however, let's swap the sentence around.

I'll show you what I mean.

That dress looks so good on you.

That dress looks so good on you.

Same verb, right?

We have look good.

So, our subject is that dress.

It right.

That dress looks looks.

All right.

Don't forget this S.

Don't forget this S.

That dress looks because our subject is it.

Right.

That dress.

It looks right.

You look.

It looks right.

This S is such a common mistake among learners.

Don't be one of them.

You can do it.

You can remember.

Just practice it out loud.

That dress, that shirt looks so good.

That dress looks so good.

He looks so good.

She looks so good.

This s so many learners forget it.

So please practice it starting now.

Start practicing it out loud.

Okay.

So we have so again we can remove so and again we have good.

Now though look at the end on you.

On you.

Okay.

So these two sentences mean the same thing.

Right?

You look so good in

that dress and that dress looks

so good on you.

They're just the opposite.

Right?

However, notice the focus is different.

The subject of the first sentence is you.

That means you are the focus.

Yeah.

In the second sentence, the subject is the dress.

That dress, right?

So, when you want to focus on the person, use the first pattern.

When you want to focus on the clothing, use the second pattern.

Also, notice the preposition change.

Tada.

That dress looks so good on you.

Remember how I said we use in for the person inside the clothes?

Now, because the subject is the dress,

we use the preposition on before you

because now our subject is on top of right the person.

Yeah.

So, that dress looks

so good on you

or that suit looks

so good on you.

Those glasses look so good on you.

Yeah.

So, when you want to focus on the the clothing or the accessory,

use on when you want to focus on the person,

it looks uh you look so good in that.

Okay.

Two small points, yes, but very important ones.

Yeah.

So, try to be accurate.

Let's see what the chat says.

Uh the Black Eagle wrote, "My mom looks so good in that outfit."

Great.

Good one, Bruno.

You look so good in that shoes.

Close.

You look so good in those shoes.

So, in this sentence, I have a singular noun in that dress.

If you want to use a plural like shoes,

make sure you have a plural here, too.

You look so good in those shoes.

You look so good in those glasses.

Yeah.

When you have a plural here at the end,

you need to make sure this part also matches.

Same here.

Those shoes look so good on you.

So, keep in mind singular and plural.

Okay.

Yes, control desk has another point.

Or that pair of shoes,

you could say if you want to keep it singular.

Okay.

What else do we have?

I don't see anything on Facebook.

What's going on, Facebook?

Somebody is just writing a random Are you a bot on Facebook?

Somebody writing weird weird names in the Facebook chat today?

I don't know.

Uh Rafikica wrote, "My style is casual, Alicia."

Great.

Okay, I see you.

Awesome.

Casual.

Let's go to the next one.

That was a long explanation, but very important.

The next key verb here is to suit.

To suit.

All right, this one is super useful.

To suit means to be appropriate.

To be appropriate.

Let's look at the examples and then we'll break it down.

That hair color suits you.

That hair color suits you.

This means that hair color looks nice on you.

or that hair color looks

so good on you.

So what happened here?

That hair color is our subject here.

That hair color suits you.

All right.

So that means the subject is appropriate or is a nice choice for you.

Easy, right?

That hair color suits you.

Oh, that dress suits you.

That suits you.

So we could use it with a suit, right?

Oh, that is That haircut suits you means it is appropriate.

It looks nice on you.

This is another way to give a compliment.

However, we can use this in the negative form.

For example, gothic styles don't suit you.

Gothic styles don't suit you.

So, here we have the subject gothic styles.

Remember we talked about Gothic in part one.

All black usually.

So, gothic styles don't suit you.

That means it does not look nice on you.

Like it does not match your style.

Okay?

So that doesn't so or don't in this case suit you.

Okay?

Gothic styles don't suit you.

Or you could say about yourself, gothic styles don't suit me, right?

Gothic styles don't suit him or her.

So use you, me, uh him, her, right?

To express personal style there.

All right.

Um, let me check your examples.

Marian on Facebook wrote, "Those glasses suit you."

Perfect.

Nice one, Marian.

I hope I said your name correctly.

Uh, oh my gosh, how does time always go so quickly?

Thank you, control desk.

Victor, when you wear black and sandals, you look so good.

Nice example sentence.

Uh, Renee wrote, "The makeup looks so good on you."

Nice example, Renee.

I love that.

Let's continue because I'm already running out of time.

The next one is to match. to match.

Okay, we're going to look at to match

and to go kind of

as a set because these are important to understand.

To match first, to match means to be exactly the same.

Two things usually that are exactly the same.

Okay, so these socks don't match.

These socks don't match.

That means this sock and this sock are different, right?

Usually we want our socks to match.

Yes, two of the same sock.

Maybe you have a different style than me.

Usually we want our socks to match.

These socks don't match means these socks are not exactly the same.

Okay, so don't match.

I have the negative in red here.

Let's compare to a positive.

My shirt matches my pants.

My shirt matches my pants.

My shirt here is my subject.

Matches is my verb.

My pants.

Okay, that means these two are the same.

So when I say the same, I mean they have the same pattern,

the same color, the same look, the same feel.

It's like one set, right?

Pants and shirt are the same set, right?

My shirt matches my pants.

Now match means to be exactly the same.

You may hear and you will hear the verb go also used to talk

about this kind of matching sort of feeling.

So to go, this is probably a new use of the verb go for

many of you.

To go means to appear nicely together.

To appear nicely together.

Let's look at how we use go like this in a sentence.

This does not mean go somewhere.

Okay, this does not mean go somewhere.

Okay, let's look.

Those shoes go perfectly with your suit.

Those shoes go perfectly with your suit.

Here's our subject.

Those shoes.

Yeah.

Go.

In this case, I included perfectly.

That means it's perfect.

Looks so good. 100% perfect. perfectly with is our preposition

and then we have your suit.

Okay, so what are we talking about together?

We have those shoes and your suit, right?

So the shoes and the suit go perfectly.

That means they look nice together.

They look nice together.

Go does not mean the same as match.

Okay, the shoes and the suit are not exactly the same.

However, they look good together.

We use the verb go to talk about this.

Those shoes go perfectly with your suit.

We use this preposition with here.

All right.

So, for example, we could say, uh, your shirt goes perfectly with your pants.

Yeah, your shirt goes perfectly with your pants.

I love it.

Great look.

Okay, let's look at a negative.

That bag doesn't go with this look.

That bag doesn't go with this look.

So, for example, if you have a all blue look,

maybe that's a bad example.

Let's say you have a really colorful look,

but your bag is also like super super colorful and different colors.

Maybe it's really strange.

Yeah.

So that bag subject doesn't go negative with this look.

So here I've used look, right?

Look means your appearance that day.

So today my look is all black right now.

Yeah, not gothic, just all black, right?

It's easy.

It's nice to present it, right?

So we can use go with something to talk about appearing nicely together.

Let me check the checked.

Marian wrote, "Ah, I lost it.

My Sorry, Mary.

I just lost your comment.

It went away.

Judith wrote, "My shoes match my blouse."

Perfect.

Do they really?

That means your shoes and your blouse have the same pattern.

Is that true?

That's amazing.

I've never heard of that.

That your shoes and your blouse are the same pattern.

Is that true?

Maybe you mean my shoes go with my blouse.

Yeah.

This is where we have some confusion.

Use match only if they are exactly the same.

Okay.

Okay.

Let me check your questions.

Veilen wrote, "Does socks don't match mean that the socks are of different colors?"

Yes, it can mean

or maybe you have a black sock

that is short and a black sock

that is long.

Right?

They are not the same.

When you have a sock when when socks match,

the two socks are exactly the same sock, right?

Ex of exactly the same.

That's matching.

Yeah.

Or for like shirt and pants,

it's come it's like one set you buy together.

Okay, that's match.

All right, let's go to the last part because I'm late.

All right, some people are writing sentences about match

that I don't think are correct.

Match means they are exactly the same.

Probably your hat does not match your pants.

Probably right.

It means they are exactly the same.

You probably want to say go.

My hat goes with my pants. means they look nice together.

Okay, this is why I wanted to discuss this point.

Okay, so if you have the same pattern,

exactly the same pattern floral like flower pattern on your shirt,

flower pattern on your pants, flower pattern on your hat, great.

And it's exactly the same flower pattern.

Sorry, I don't have pictures of this, but that's okay to say match.

If they do not have the same pattern, they do not match.

Okay, this is different.

Let's go to the last part because I'm out of time.

Let's talk quickly now about some vocabulary and some key slang words.

So, vocabulary.

I wanted to review some adjectives.

This part's quick and easy and how to say that someone appears this way.

So, we have some key adjectives we use to describe somebody

when they look nice.

We talked about this expression to look good.

We can also use these very basic patterns.

You look so blank.

Or he, she looks, don't forget this s.

She looks blank.

For example, we have cute.

You look so cute.

You look so cute in that dress.

Or you look so cute in that hat.

Right?

You can say hot.

He looks so hot.

Or she looks so hot in that dress.

He looks so hot in those pants.

Right?

We can use this to talk about celebrities

or someone we see across the room

or our partner.

We love good compliments, right?

Elegant also is a great one.

Elegant.

This is a good pronunciation point for many people.

Elegant.

Elegant.

Yeah, elegant.

Don't mispronounce.

Sometimes people struggle with this and it sounds like elegant.

Elegant.

Practice that L sound.

Yeah, elegant.

Of course, we have beautiful and we have handsome as well.

Usually we say beautiful for women and handsome for men.

But we can also talk about uh we can also say like oh like

he looked so beautiful to describe a certain feeling

or maybe sometimes you'll see people uh describe women

as handsome.

Often if they have a more masculine trait about them too.

So we can use them in flexible ways.

That's okay to do.

Okay.

Let's go to the last part because I'm out of time.

Oh my gosh.

Quickly some slang.

Let's talk about some fun slang.

First, I have the word baddie here.

Baddie.

This is a noun.

This one is a noun.

You will see this one used a lot to talk about usually um usually

women.

Usually women, perhaps some men too, but usually women are described as a baddie.

This is usually uh someone who's very hot.

Uh, and often she has like a Instagram

or Tik Tok account where she posts just hot pictures.

Yeah, that's that's a baddie oftentimes honestly if I'm being direct.

So, it's not bad to be a baddie.

This is not bad at all.

But the image sometimes the feeling is

that a baddie just wants to look good on Instagram.

It's kind of the feeling sometimes.

But of course, that's not true for everybody. that you might hear people say,

"Oh, like my friend, uh,

he's dating a baddie

or he's dating an Instagram baddie,"

which sounds like she looks good on Instagram a lot,

but maybe we don't know her real life look.

Okay, so bad is a new kind of slang word we see.

Uh, the next one is sick.

This is old.

This is an old slang word that comes from kind of street wear, uh,

skate communities.

Sick means good.

Sick means cool.

Sick means awesome.

I like it.

That's sick.

Like, where'd you get that hat?

That's sick.

Where'd you get those shoes?

Those are sick.

Something that is sick is good.

It does not mean you caught a cold.

Something that is sick for your appearance is a compliment.

That's a good thing.

All right.

Thanks, control desk, gnarly, dude.

Yeah, getting into old slang now.

All right, let's go to the next one.

I'm dead.

I'm dead.

Okay, this one we're getting into some younger slang here now.

The younger like Gen Z likes to use phrases like I'm dead, right?

which means they are like they really like something a lot like laughing a

lot or you're you think

that something is so good you're like oh my gosh I think that's

so amazing I died is kind of the feeling here right obviously I'm overexplaining

it but check the YouTube comment sections of like your favorite vloggers check your

favorite uh Instagrammer like English speaking Instagrammer's comment section especially the younger ones

and you will probably see I'm dead

which means that they are like they think something is super super good.

Okay, so I'm dead is also now a compliment usually.

Okay, sometimes it can mean I'm dead because this was so bad.

But oftentimes, usually it is used to mean a good thing.

Okay, next one is I can't with.

I can't with this is followed by a noun phrase like I can't with

this lecture or h I can't with this guy.

It means that I am frustrated with this