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Hi everybody and welcome back to our weekly live stream.

My name is Alicia

and this week we're going to talk about explaining your habits.

We're going to talk about good habits, bad habits and desired habits,

the habits you want.

Today we are going to practice adverbs of frequency.

For example, always, sometimes, never, occasionally.

We're going to use those to talk about our everyday life habits.

So this is a very important thing to be able to do.

We're going to talk about some common mistakes learners make with these grammar patterns

and we're going to practice

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Okay, so let's get into today's topic then.

Today we're going to talk about your habits, explaining your habits.

So let's begin with the first part,

our very basic review of today's basic grammar pattern.

I hope you send me lots of comments in the chat.

Let me say hello quickly to everybody on Facebook.

Hello Gallo, Ola, hello Mohammed, hello Johan, welcome.

And on YouTube, hello Mauricio from Colombia, Erickson from Philippines, Kyle, Stalin, Sushma, Rocky,

hi.

You start watching my videos in India

and 2 years ago moved to the UK.

That's so cool.

I hope it's doing well for you.

I hope everything is going well.

Omar, what's up?

Jair, hi.

Pravin, what's up?

Raviga, you are always spamming the chat.

You are going to get in trouble again if you spam the chat again.

Watch out for that person.

Control desk, they've been problematic the last few weeks.

Okay, let's get into our positive statements.

Let's begin with our basic pattern for today.

Subject plus adverb of frequency plus verb.

So today we're going to use this basic pattern to you to make a

lot of different sentences,

but we need to make sure in today's, of course,

lesson and other lessons as well, our verb matches our subject.

This is the most common mistake I see with these grammar patterns

that the verb and the subject often do not match

because there's this word in the middle.

So first, let's review our adverbs of frequency, okay?

We have a kind of scale here.

I like to use a scale to help us understand these different words.

The scale starts at 0% up to 50%

and 100% where this scale means how often you do something,

right?

We use adverbs of frequency to answer the question how often you do something,

okay?

So, at the bottom, down here, 0% we have never.

I never do something, 0% of the time.

Moving up, we have rarely, rarely.

This is a good pronunciation point.

Rarely, and in more polite or old-fashioned situations, seldom.

I seldom do something, okay?

Moving up to about 50% we have sometimes and occasionally.

Sometimes and occasionally, occasionally sounds a little more polite than sometimes.

And moving up again, we have often at around 60, 65,

usually at maybe 70, 80%, and then always at 100%, okay?

So, today let's practice putting these in a sentence like this to describe your

habits,

okay?

So, let's look at the example sentences.

We'll break them down, and then I'll come to the chat to check yours,

okay?

Let's begin.

So, let's start with the first one.

I always brush my teeth in the morning.

I always brush my teeth in the morning.

Here's our subject, I.

Then, here is my adverb of frequency, always, followed by my verb.

I always brush, okay?

These are the three parts of our habit sentence.

In this case, I have some extra information to give detail.

I always brush my teeth is the main sentence, is the main idea,

and then we have in the morning for some extra detail about the habit,

right?

I always brush my teeth in the morning

and I always brush my teeth at night.

We could say that if we wanted to.

Okay?

So, we are expressing here

that 100% of the time I brush my teeth in the morning.

Okay?

Simple idea.

So, you can send your daily life habits in the chat to give some

examples for everybody.

You wrote the same one, Pew.

Okay, you've copied the sentence, good start.

Now, try to use that same sentence to give something about your life.

Yeah?

To explain something.

Okay, let's look at the next one.

The next one is she sometimes eats meat.

She sometimes eats meat.

Let's break down this sentence.

She is our subject, right?

Subject is here.

Adverb of frequency, sometimes.

Sometimes here in the middle, 50 50%ish.

Okay?

Then our verb is eats.

What does she eat?

Meat at the end.

Okay?

So, in this sentence,

please note we have eats because this verb must match the subject.

She sometimes eats.

The subject and the verb match.

So, yes, there is this word in the middle between the subject

and the verb,

but we must match the subject and the verb.

Okay?

Not she sometimes eat.

That's not correct.

This verb must match the subject.

Okay?

So, be careful of this in today's lesson.

Some examples are coming in.

Fantastic.

Okay.

Patrick wrote, "I occasionally drink no sugar black coffee before work to keep awake."

All right.

Couple points, great job with the grammar.

I occasionally drink, we have the word sugarless, sugarless, which means no sugar.

So, we have one word for that.

I occasionally drink sugarless black coffee before work to stay awake.

We use stay awake in that sentence.

Okay?

Uh Rocky wrote, "I always brush my teeth uh both in the morning, afternoon,

and night."

Okay, you can just say, "I always brush my teeth in the morning, afternoon,

and night."

We use both for two of something.

Okay?

Uh S Control Desk says sugar-free is something else we can say.

Facebook, I don't see any examples yet,

so I'm going to read your YouTube classmates.

Your YouTube classmates have a huge page in the chat right now,

so I'm going to choose a few, and then we're going to continue.

Great job, YouTube.

Oh my gosh.

Mina uh Mina wrote, "I often study English,

but this month I occasionally did it."

Okay, I often study English,

but this month we might use a negative for the second one to show

some contrast,

so we'll practice that in a minute.

Nice start, Mina.

Uh Pihu I sometimes drink milk.

I hope you don't I hope you never eat milk.

That means the milk is not good.

Okay?

Drink drink.

We use drink for liquids.

Uh Sishram wrote, "I always sleep late at night."

Good, or I always go to sleep late at night, maybe.

Uh okay, great.

Some examples are coming on Facebook.

He usually does sports.

For sports, we use the verb play.

He usually plays sports.

Like he usually plays sports on the weekends.

Good one.

Uh Iris wrote, "She always takes the bus in the morning."

Nice one, Iris.

Okay, back to YouTube.

Uh Nevian wrote, "I always wake up at 5:00 a.m.

I sometimes get up at 9:00 a.m."

Nice one.

Let me see.

Oh my gosh, so many.

Stalin wrote, "I usually make my breakfast at 7:00 p.m."

Breakfast is a morning food. 7:00 p.m. is the evening.

Which one do you want?

Do you want dinner, or do you want 7:00 a.m.?

So you need to match those two.

You're very close.

Grammar is correct.

Okay, let's move on to the next examples then.

Great job, everybody.

I'll come back to the chat in just a moment.

Let's look at some more.

They often go to the movies.

They often go to the movies.

Subject is they.

Two or more people, right?

Our adverb of frequency is often.

About here, right?

Often.

Our verb is go.

And where do they go?

To the movies.

They often go to the movies.

So, they and go our subject and our verb match, right?

They often go to the movies.

The next one.

A never sentence.

We never drink alcohol.

We never drink alcohol.

So, our subject is we.

Okay?

Our adverb of frequency is never. 0% of the time.

Then, the verb is drink.

We and drink match as subject and verb.

We never drink alcohol. 0% of the time, okay?

Last one and then I'll come back to the chat.

He occasionally travels.

He occasionally travels.

Subject is he.

Our adverb of frequency is occasionally.

And our verb is travels.

Z.

It must match.

This S is so important.

Don't forget this S.

We need it.

He travels.

The subject and the verb match, okay?

So, this is our basic sentence for today's lesson.

We are going to use this pattern and build on it in part two.

We're going to add some more in part two.

Okay?

Let me check the chat again.

Um I'm looking for some examples.

Erickson wrote, "I sometimes go to the gym."

Nice.

All right.

Uh Jamie wrote, "I always study English with your teachings."

We usually say, "I always study English with your lessons."

So, teachings sounds like We usually say teachings for like an ancient,

like an old, old, like book, right?

Something from like the ancient world many hundreds or thousands of years ago.

Like a very wise person like a master of religion or spirituality.

Like an ancient wise person an ancient very smart person.

That's something we use the word teachings for or maybe a religious leader.

Yeah.

For me for a teacher say lessons.

Okay.

I enjoy your lessons.

Yeah.

Always say lessons in this situation.

But grammar was great.

Thanks Janie.

Okay.

Um let's see some others that I have not read yet.

Uh Mosin on YouTu on Facebook wrote have you YouTube channel?

Yes, there is a YouTube channel.

There's a very big YouTube channel where a lot of people are watching right

now.

English Class 101 on YouTube and on Facebook.

Okay.

Kashaf wrote I occasionally eat sweets.

I never eat refined sugar.

Nice one.

Uh Sushma wrote I rarely use public transport.

Very nice.

Nice examples everybody.

Great job.

Okay.

Let's take a quick break

and then we'll continue to part two where we add some points to this

grammar to help you express your habits.

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Okay.

Uh nope, nothing.

Control desk, I do not.

Okay, let's go to negative statements.

Okay, this is very important.

It sounds bad, but this is a very important kind of pattern to use,

okay?

So, we are going to practice negative statements with the same base pattern

that we used in part one.

However, we are going to make one change.

First, let's look at the basic pattern.

Subject plus adverb of frequency, so this is the same as part one.

Same words, exactly the same.

We are going to add don't

or doesn't to the sentence to match the subject,

right?

So again, we must match this part, don't or doesn't, to the subject.

In this pattern, the verb will not change, okay?

This part, don't or doesn't, must change to match the subject.

Also, I have this note here.

Some adverbs take different positions in this one, okay?

You might think, what does that mean?

What?

So, these two parts might change.

We're going to look at this in a moment.

So, let's begin and go through the examples

so I can show you the guidelines.

All right, first one.

She sometimes doesn't eat meat.

She sometimes doesn't eat meat.

So, she is the subject, okay?

Same as part one.

Here's our adverb of frequency, sometimes, okay?

Same as part one, again.

Here, she sometimes doesn't.

All right, our negative point, and finally, our verb, eat.

No change to the verb here.

Now, in this sentence, we have doesn't, which matches Oh my gosh,

which matches the verb she, okay?

She and doesn't.

This is the negative form of eat, right?

She does not eat, yeah?

We cannot use don't, okay?

So, she sometimes doesn't eat meat.

Notice, with the verb or with the adverb sometimes, the negative comes after,

all right?

So, this is important to pay attention to, to practice a lot.

Let's look at the next one, then.

Cuz this one is a different, okay?

I don't always brush my teeth in the morning.

I don't always brush my teeth in the morning, okay?

Subject is I.

Notice now, don't is before the adverb of frequency.

I don't is our negative, always, and then the verb is after.

You might think, "Ah, is that okay?

Why not I always don't?"

This is just just one of those strange rules of English.

I don't always.

I don't always, but sometimes don't or sometimes doesn't.

So, when you use always, make sure the negative, don't or doesn't,

comes before the adverb, okay?

This is one difficult, but tricky, but learnable point.

This just takes some practice, okay?

So, if you want to practice this in the chat,

you can practice your own I don't always verb in the comments, okay?

That's a good way to practice today.

Start by making a sentence, okay?

Um Ericsson wrote, "Can we use rarely and seldom in both ways?"

Do you mean in positive and negative?

As in like I don't rarely Uh maybe that's your question,

like using it with the negative?

Like I rarely don't or I seldom don't.

Yeah, you could say like I seldom don't do something.

Like So, that's a strange way to say I usually do something.

So, that's something that's it's it's odd, yes, but grammatically correct.

So, for example, um I'm trying to think of an example.

If I want to say like I usually exercise in the morning,

you could say I rarely don't exercise in the morning.

It's strange, but it's okay.

You can say it that way.

I hope I answered your question.

Okay.

Others.

Uh Emmanuel wrote, "He doesn't drink tea at night.

He drinks beer after midnight."

So, after 12:00 at night, he drinks beer.

Is that what you want to say?

That's That's correct.

He drinks beer after midnight.

Uh Lactaid, can we use it the other way?

Can you give me an example?

What can we use what in what way?

I need just a little more information there.

Mina wrote, "I usually uh don't go to bed before midnight.

I usually go to bed after midnight."

There you go.

Nice nice contrast there.

Hey, yeah, you mentioned you used a positive

and something I suggested

as a negative before.

Great job.

Um Rocky wrote, "I don't always watch Little Bear

as I was going to this summer."

What is Little Bear?

Is that a TV show?

Okay.

All right.

All right.

I don't always watch Little Bear.

What does the last part mean?

As I was going to.

I don't always watch Little Bear as I was going to.

So, as I was going to means like uh as planned.

I'm not sure what you want to say there.

Uh Nivian wrote, "People occasionally don't like to hear the truth.

I don't always agree with the way people think."

Nice sentences and deep thoughts.

We love that.

Okay, great.

Um others.

Uh Renee wrote, "Alicia often does not speak Spanish."

I would say I almost always do not speak Spanish.

I rarely speak Spanish.

Okay?

That's just That's cuz I don't speak Spanish, all right?

I speak un poquito, eh?

All right, let's continue Let's continue to the next example.

Uh Facebook Oh, sorry, Facebook.

There are a few.

Wendy wrote, "I don't always listen to heavy music or heavy metal music."

I don't always.

So, that means sometimes, occasionally, you do.

Okay?

Uh Fernando wrote, "I don't always watch TV at night."

And David, "I don't always buy my Range Rover."

So, buy is a one-time action.

Buy a car.

Unless maybe you have 100 Range Rovers.

Probably no.

Right?

So, I don't always You need to describe a habit.

Is buying Range Rovers a habit?

Probably not, right?

So, maybe you want to say something different.

Okay, let's continue.

They don't often go to the movies.

They don't often go to the movies.

So, subject is they.

Here is our don't, right?

They and don't must match.

Yeah?

Often is our adverb of frequency, and our verb is go.

They don't often go to the movies, all right?

So, this means sometimes they do.

Or Oh, I can give you an extra phrase I did not put up

here.

Let's use this one because I like it,

and it's very useful and very common.

The phrase you can put in your notes,

or I will share this

as a QR code at the end of the lesson.

The phrase is every once in a while.

Every once in a while.

Every once in a while is maybe like here on the scale.

It means it's not every week.

It's not every month.

Just when I have the feeling, right?

So, I go to the movies every once in a while.

This is a good one to use.

Every once in a while.

Many native speakers think it's and.

It is not every once and a while.

It is every once in a while.

It's a good addition to today's lesson.

Uh, oh Lartey, thank you for clarifying.

Can we put the negative form after the adverb?

So, this depends on the adverb.

For the adverb always, it needs to go in front.

For the adverb sometimes, it goes after.

So, it depends a little bit.

We It sounds very strange.

For example, if I put I always don't brush my teeth in the morning.

I guess, but maybe I have a better example

because that one's kind of gross.

I always don't do something.

I guess we could say that, but we usually say never.

Like, I never do something.

So, I it it does sound a little bit weird.

This I don't always sounds like it's occasional.

It's something we occasionally do.

Okay, I hope I answered that question.

Erickson, thank you for clarifying.

Can we use rarely and seldom interchangeably?

For the meaning, yes.

For the meaning, yes.

Seldom tends to sound a little old-fashioned though.

Personally, I can't remember the last time I used seldom.

I personally do I seldom use seldom.

I use rarely if I need to.

So, this one is I recommend rarely for everyday speech.

Seldom sounds a little bit older, but they mean the same thing.

Uh, some other examples are coming in.

On Facebook, Marie or Marie, I don't always go to the market.

Nice one.

Okay.

Um, Sharafat, he don't always Ah, watch out.

So, he don't or doesn't, right?

He doesn't always disturb me.

Or he doesn't Maybe you want to say he doesn't always interrupt me.

So, to disturb someone when talking means like to quickly go into the conversation,

to quickly change the conversation.

You want the verb interrupt.

He doesn't always interrupt me, but he usually interrupts me.

That's unfortunate.

Good sentence, good idea though.

Okay, uh let's continue uh to the next one.

I see people are sending some examples.

I will come back to the chat in just a moment.

He occasionally doesn't attend meetings.

He occasionally doesn't attend meetings.

Subject is he.

Here we have occasionally.

Notice doesn't comes after this adverb, yeah?

He occasionally doesn't.

So, uh doesn't needs to come after our adverb.

Our verb is attend.

He occasionally doesn't attend meetings.

And lastly, we often don't communicate every day with my coworker, right?

We often don't communicate every day.

We don't need to.

So, again, subject, our adverb of frequency here is don't after the adverb.

And our verb is communicate, yeah?

So, please note again, when we use always,

we tend to put the negative in front of the adverb, okay?

Uh also, you'll notice we don't have never here, right?

Like I never don't do something.

We can't put them together, right?

So, don't worry about never in this pattern.

Notice it's not in any of the examples, right?

So, we want to use probably these up here, yeah?

Okay.

So, let's uh oh my gosh,

time is running out and I just have a very, very quick uh example.

Oh my gosh, I just realized I made a small typo there.

I must fix it.

Uh that looks very funny.

So, in the final part of today's lesson,

we're going to talk about desired habits,

things we want to be able to do,

and we're going to practice linking verbs together, okay?

So, we're going to talk about beginning a new pattern for yourself.

All right?

So, the final point, desired habits, our final pattern, our last pattern for today,

is I want to start verbing.

I want to start verbing.

Okay?

So, you can think about this and prepare your example sentences.

I will come review your examples really quickly.

Someone on YouTube says the link doesn't open.

Which link?

They can take a look at maybe the on a different browser or something.

Controlled S just checked it and it looks okay.

So, maybe try again.

Um okay, Wendy, I hope I mentioned the answer to your question maybe two

times.

Again, with always, it goes in front.

Yeah?

I don't always, right?

If you say I always don't it's we can understand, but it sounds strange.

We usually use never there.

The others, they go after.

Okay?

Uh some other words.

I hope Yeah, I hope that I answered that question.

How to know.

So, for today the guide is put the negative in front of always.

Yeah?

For the others we practiced today, the don't or doesn't can come after.

Yeah?

So, I hope that's a good guide for today.

Okay.

Oh my gosh, let's finish then with today's last point cuz time's running out.

Let's go back.

I want to start verbing.

Okay?

Where our verb, oh, I changed to black.

Sorry, everybody.

The verb at the end of this pattern is in the ing form.

And we have start here for beginning a new habit,

or we can use stop for a bad habit.

Okay?

So, today I put positive habits on the board,

but you can put some examples of negative habits in the chat, too.

I will share a negative habit as well.

Okay?

So, let's take a look at our examples.

First one, I want to start exercising.

I want to start exercising.

So, I want to, in this case, start.

So, a new habit, begin a new habit, exercising, right?

This means I do not exercise now, but I want to begin.

Okay?

I want to start exercising.

Native speakers will reduce this part to I wanna.

I wanna start exercising.

Okay?

Very common one.

All right.

Let's look at the next one.

I want to start learning how to cook.

I want to start learning how to cook,

or just I want to start cooking is also okay.

So, let's break this down.

Again, I want to start for a new habit, then the ing verb.

I want to start learning something.

I wanted to use this one

because you can change this to anything you want to learn.

I want to start learning how to blah blah blah, right?

I want to start learning how to swim.

I want to start learning how to fly a plane, right?

So, we can use lots of different things in this pattern.

You can put your next study goal in here.

Uh um David on Facebook wrote, I want to start learning Arabic.

Nice one.

Okay.

Um YouTube, um there's an example sentence I cannot read,

but let's go to the others.

The Black Eagle wrote, I want to start jogging at the park.

Nice one.

Patrick, I don't want to smoke cigars again,

like I used to when I was younger.

Okay, so I don't want to.

Yeah.

Let's talk about this pattern I mentioned before.

Stop, right?

We can use stop for a habit we have now we want to quit.

Okay?

So, actually, let me read the last one,

and then I'll add a negative pattern at the end.

We we have a little time.

So, the last one is I want to start making music again.

I want to start again right here shows us we want to begin the

habit plus the ing form.

And then here I included again.

I want to start making music again.

Using again tells us you did this habit, you had this habit before,

and then you stopped.

But you want to start one more time.

So, I want to start making music again

or I want to start exercising again.

That sounds like you started the habit, stopped the habit,

and now you want to start again.

Okay?

Now, let's look at that last pattern I talked about with stop.

For example, I want to stop.

There are many bad habits we can put in here.

I think I saw somebody put I want to stop smoking, right?

Maybe for me, hmm,

I want to stop uh I want to stop eating junk food.

I love eating junk food sometimes.

I want to stop eating junk food.

Okay?

So, in this sentence I have stop instead of start

and I have eating

as my ing verb.

So, this sentence, this pattern means I have the habit now

and I want to stop the habit.

Okay?

So, we can use the same pattern

but with different verbs here to show

that we want to start

or stop something.

Okay?

Let me check the chat one more time

and then we'll be done for today.

Um Fernanda wrote, "I want to start a new business."

Okay, that's a desire but it's not a new habit, right?

A little different.

Like I want to start planning for a new business maybe it's a little

closer,

but we want to use this pattern for our personal regular life habits, yeah?

Iris wrote, "I want to start eating healthy food."

Great one, Iris.

Good habit.

Um back on YouTube, oh my gosh.

Um Ericsson wrote, "I want to start playing Roblox."

Okay, good.

Uh Sushma wrote, "I want to stop shopping frequently."

Good.

Mina wrote, "I want to stop going to bed at midnight."

Good.

Um Latif, is it the same way?

Uh if we know when we will start.

Um good question.

Yeah, I guess so.

I think if we if if you know you are going to start,

like for example, if you made a gym membership, you can say,

"I wanted to start exercising, so I made a gym membership."

You might use the past tense for that.

Like, "I wanted to start learning how to cook,

so I I found a cooking class."

So, maybe you would use past tense and then explain your plan.

Maybe that helps answer your question.

Okay?

Uh Katia wrote, "I want to start reading books."

Nice.

"And I want to stop being impunctual."

Okay, okay.

Again, all right.

"I want to stop being" I would say "I want to stop being late

for things."

Yeah, "I want to stop being late."

Or just "I want to start being punctual" again.

Yeah, I would For me,

I would say it in a positive way to sound uh nice

and kind of optimistic.

All right.

Oh my gosh, there are so many today.

Great.

On Facebook, uh Mohsin Al Hasan wrote, "I want to start."

Don't forget this verb.

"I want to start writing again in the morning.

I want to start writing again in the morning."

Uh Israel, "I desire to start traveling for

or two or to the south uh to South Africa" the country South Africa.

So, I want to start traveling to.

For travel destinations, we use to.

I hope that answers your question.

Oh my gosh.

Uh Rocky, good question.

Is it okay to use have to

as in I have to stop drinking soda?

Yes, great addition.

I love that.

I'll add that here.

I have to.

So, this is not a desire, but this is like, oh,

it's very important for my life, right?

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I want to begin today with a warm-up question for everybody watching live

or watching later.

Just to begin today's lesson, I want you to finish this sentence.

Finish the sentence to share your opinion about AI technologies.

Very simple sentence, so you can choose how high-level

or low-level you want to make it.

Let's finish this.

I think AI is blah blah blah, okay?

So, what is your opinion about AI and AI technologies?

Let's look at three different grammar patterns we can use to finish this sentence.

You can choose one from here,

or you can write your own in the comments.

So, first, let's look at some adjective patterns we can use to finish this.

I think AI is really cool.

I think AI is really cool.

Or, I think AI is scary.

Or, I think AI is hard to understand or difficult to understand is okay,

too.

I think AI is very powerful.

I think AI is interesting.

Or, I think AI is dangerous, right?

So, there are many different opinions about this topic,

but what do you think about AI?

Maybe you think many of these.

I think AI is very powerful, very interesting, but also dangerous.

For example, we can put them together in this way.

So, maybe you want to use an adjective.

You can use an ing verb

if you want to make a guess about the future,

or if you want to talk about something happening now.

So, let's look at these three examples.

We can say, I think AI is going to take everyone's jobs.

I think AI is going to take everyone's jobs.

I know many people are worried about this, right?

Or I think AI is making life easier.

Making life easier.

Note that we have the comparative form, easier, here, right?

Easier.

This means easier than before AI life.

Okay?

So I think AI is making life easier.

Or we can use another prediction.

Notice to make a prediction, to make a guess, we use going to, right?

I think AI is going to help us work more efficiently.

I think AI is going to help us work more efficiently.

Notice here, also, we have more in this expression.

AI is going to help us work more efficiently.

This means more efficiently than before.

So you may see lots of comparisons in sentences expressing opinions about AI.

Okay?

I see some people are writing their answers in the chat.

I'll take a moment.

Ericsson wrote, I think AI is our new source of knowledge.

Interesting.

Okay, I think I disagree.

I think AI takes existing knowledge,

but maybe we'll see different developments in the future.

Okay, great.

Um Stalin, I maybe I think that maybe I think AI is my teacher.

Okay.

So I think AI is maybe like a teacher

or AI is a new kind of teacher.

Yes, I know many people use it to learn things.

Okay.

Minoru, I think AI is too powerful for me to use it effectively.

Interesting.

Okay, that's interesting perspective.

Ericsson has another one.

I think AI is dope.

Okay, cool.

All right, I like that.

Uh Montse wrote, I think AI is the best in the world uh

because it help it helps me uh think maybe think about different things in

my life and make correct decisions.

Interesting.

Okay.

So, I think AI is good

because it helps me maybe think differently

and make the correct decisions.

Okay, that's interesting.

Yeah, I I know

that it's it's an interesting tool to think it from a different viewpoint,

right?

To help you think from like a different a different perspective.

Yeah.

Okay.

Nevian wrote I think AI is a good tool to learn about anything.

Okay, good.

Uh a good tool singular, yeah?

Patrick wrote I think AI is very scary

because it can substitute uh substitute for us in almost every place in our

society,

but it helps us a lot if we learn how to use it.

Yes, that's a lot of interesting opinions together.

Facebook, I don't see examples yet.

Facebook, you can do it.

Send some examples.

What do you think about AI?

Your warm-up question for today.

Your YouTube classmates are doing amazing.

Uh let's see.

Victor wrote I think AI is an excellent tool to get fast information,

but not to have strategies.

Uh but not to make a strategy.

Okay, that's interesting.

So, like a search tool maybe.

We can get information fast,

but uh it's difficult to use to make a to make a plan perhaps

or make a strategy.

Great.

Raffica wrote I think AI is beautiful artificial intelligence.

Okay, great.

Uh Omar wrote I think maybe AI is helping us to learn English.

Yes, I know many people are using now AI tools to support their learning.

I think it's very difficult to learn a language 100% with AI tools,

but I think this is another tool we can use to support our learning.

Great.

Okay.

Nice examples so far everybody.

Facebook, I don't see them yet.

I see hello.

Hello our Facebook.

Let's go to the last few.

I want to introduce a few patterns.

I'll start Maybe we can move the screen control.

That's Thank you so much.

The noun patterns are the last one.

So, I think AI is a helpful tool.

Some of you wrote this in the comments already.

I think AI is a helpful tool.

Or I think AI is a dangerous idea.

All right, I know many of people think this also

or they think it's like the science fiction movies where the robots take over.

Maybe, we don't know.

Or I think AI is a weird concept.

A weird concept.

It's just a strange idea.

Many people think this also.

So, we can use many different grammar points to share our opinion about AI

and AI technologies.

And of course, we can combine them.

Many of you combined them.

That was great.

Really fantastic.

See, we can see even in the chat

that people have many different ideas

and lots of different feelings about AI.

It's interesting, but it's scary.

It's a useful tool.

We're going to talk about this more today.

Okay.

Oh, good.

Some examples.

One example I see on Facebook.

Gelal wrote, "I think AI is a helpful tool."

So, AI is a helpful tool.

Don't forget your article.

AI is a helpful tool to develop the researcher's thinking and investigations.

Okay, I To say it naturally,

I think AI is a helpful tool for researchers to help develop their thoughts

and their ideas.

Yes, maybe.

Is how I might say that naturally.

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Let's continue to key vocabulary.

This part was difficult because there are many key vocabulary words now.

So, I chose some

that we see a lot in the news

and that we use a lot

when we use AI tools.

Okay?

So, let's break them down because some are a little confusing, I think.

The first one is a verb, okay?

The verb is to prompt, to prompt.

We see this verb a lot in more formal situations.

For example, in like a business presentation.

So, for example, when you see like the head of ChatGPT, Sam Altman,

or maybe Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook,

when they give a presentation about AI or their company's AI technologies,

they often will use like this kind of verb to talk about using the

tool.

So, to prompt means to write instructions the AI program uses to create something.

So, this one is we

If you have used an AI tool

and you write you type something into the text box there,

say, "Please make this."

Or, "Please find that."

You can use the verb to prompt.

That's the verb we use here.

But, this sounds a little formal, okay?

So, I'm going to explain in the next verb a better verb to use.

But, you will hear this in news articles and speeches.

So, here's an example sentence.

I prompted the tool to make an image.

I prompted the tool to make an image.

Here, we have prompt in past tense.

This takes the uh past tense form.

Just add e d to the end.

So, I prompted the tool to make something for me.

Okay?

So, you'll see this.

However, I recommend in everyday speech, in everyday communication,

please use the verb to ask, to ask, like to make a request, right?

We use ask.

This is the conversational version of prompt.

It means the same thing.

When you write the instructions to ChatGPT

or to whatever tool you prefer to use,

Deep Seek, I don't know.

When you write the instructions in the AI program,

you can use the verb to ask.

So, for example here, I asked the tool.

I asked the tool to make an image, okay?

So, please use the verb ask in everyday speech.

You should know this one, prompt, as well.

And there's another reason we need to know the word prompt

because we use this one more

as a noun.

And prompt can be used

as a noun and is used a lot to talk about uh this process.

So, as a noun,

a prompt is a set of instructions

that tells the the AI what to create.

So, a prompt is the instructions, right?

The prompt means when you write something in the ChatGPT box, right?

That text is your prompt.

That text is a prompt, okay?

That's your instructions.

That's your request.

We call that a prompt, okay?

I hope that's okay.

So, let's look at this in a sentence.

I wrote a prompt

that takes data from Google

and organizes it in a spreadsheet,

okay?

I wrote a prompt here

that takes data from Google

and organizes it in a spreadsheet.

So, we use the verb I wrote because we type it, right?

I wrote a prompt, singular, right?

I wrote a prompt.

So, this means I wrote a set of instructions, okay?

That's what a prompt means here that takes data.

So, this part, I wrote a prompt

that and then here we describe the action.

We describe the instructions.

What did I tell it to do?

Okay?

Notice we use this verb pattern.

The prompt takes So, we're using present tense, present tense.

It's a present tense sentence because it's it's like a regular action, yeah?

So, we do not use uh ing verb forms here.

So, when you want to describe your prompts

that you use for your AI uh tools you can follow the same pattern.

I wrote a prompt

that plus this use the present tense forms of verbs

or the present tense endings of verbs,

okay?

I'll come check the chat really quickly.

And some more examples are coming.

Great.

Hi, Paloma.

Paloma wrote, "I think AI is dangerous.

We have to use it carefully and responsibly."

Great.

Great.

Nice use of we have to there also.

Uh Rodis wrote, "I think AI is going to replace human beings."

Many people Yes, many people have this concern.

Uh to make your sentence perfect,

I think AI is going to replace human beings.

No article.

We don't need the there.

Okay, Natalie wrote, "I think AI is user-friendly to a certain extent."

So, for Think of certain extent is like a set phrase,

to a certain extent, then it's perfect.

Uh Ericsson wrote, "I think AI is not 100% good.

Sometimes it gives us wrong information."

Yes.

Oh, you brought up one of the key words I ran out of space

for.

So, I will include it here.

This is a very important word we see a lot

but I didn't have space,

so I'll just write it quickly on the board.

Uh what uh Ericsson on YouTube wrote describes the word, I'll put it here,

hallucination.

Hallucination.

This is a word we use hallucination.

H A L L U C uh I N A T I O N.

Hallucination.

So, we used to use this word

when we were feeling sick

or when maybe we had a mental health problem,

when we imagined something that's not there.

Okay?

Usually in before AI, we used this word to mean we think of something,

but it's not there.

Like, for example, when you think, "Do I hear some music?

Oh, no, it's nothing."

That's a hallucination, right?

We think we hear something or we think, "Oh, I saw something there.

Oh, no, it's nothing."

So, for serious situations, we call that a hallucination.

However, today, when the AI tools give us wrong information, very confidently, usually,

this is called a hallucination.

Hallucination.

The AI thinks it's correct.

It presents the information to us, but it is wrong a lot, right?

This is called a hallucination.

Okay?

Key vocabulary word.

Okay.

Let's continue.

Other points.

Hello, Facebook.

I don't see many examples on Facebook.

Facebook, you have a good warm-up.

If you're joining on Facebook, you could finish the warm-up.

I will come back and read.

Okay.

Let's continue.

Uh to the the last kind of group here,

I want to include these keywords

because these get used a lot uh in the news.

The next one is L L M.

L L M means large language model.

Large language model.

So, you might see this in news articles about development of AI tools.

The large language model refers to lots

and lots of language data

that is collected by these companies in order to make the AI tools speak

naturally to you,

right?

So, when you use a tool like Chat GPT,

when you when you type to it, when you prompt Chat GPT for something,

it comes back with language that seems very natural,

like you're talking to a real person, right?

The background is this large language model.

So, there's training information.

It pulled it got lots of information from all around the web.

We use the phrase LLM

or large language model to talk about how it learned to talk naturally,

okay?

And then the last two points for here,

I want to talk about these two expressions that we have a lot lately,

which are text-to-image and text-to-video.

Text-to-image and text-to-video.

This means you input text, so this part right here is the input text.

Two means it becomes something.

So, in this case,

text-to-image means I write text and I receive an image, yeah?

So, in this case, like I talked about here,

I write a text prompt like mm to Chat GPT,

uh make me an image of a pizza

that has uh garlic

and shrimp toppings,

I don't know.

So, that gives me a picture of a pizza, right?

With garlic and shrimp toppings.

This is a text-to-image.

We describe this technology as text-to-image.

And text-to-video, I could say,

make me a short video of a person making a uh making a pizza.

That is a text-to-video prompt, okay?

So, we use these two to talk about the type of uh media we

want to get,

okay?

All right, I'm coming back to the chat very quickly.

Uh I don't see other ones in there.

I don't see other examples.

So, good.

Let's continue on.

Oh my gosh, time goes so fast.

Let's go to part three then.

Oh, part three.

This one is a very important thing to talk about, I think.

I think it's very important to think about the background of AI.

Of course, we use it and it's a very interesting tool,

but it's also very important to think about the development.

So, development means how did we make the AI tool?

How did the company, uh, like you know, like Deep Seek, ChatGPT, Grok, uh,

the Google tools, Gemini, how did those get made, right?

We think about this a lot.

And ethics, this is another keyword.

The ethics means the moral ideas.

So, is it right

or is it wrong to make these kinds of tools in the way

that we make them?

So, ethics is the discussion, is thinking about it.

Is this right or is this wrong to do, okay?

So, let's look at some vocabulary for the development

and the ethics of these tools.

First is the word model.

So, this doesn't mean like a fashion model in a magazine, unfortunately.

We can think of this kind of like we think about the model of

a car or the model of,

say, a smartphone, yeah?

So, it's the version of an AI tool.

The model of an AI tool is the version.

So, every time the AI tool gets new features or upgrades,

it's a new model.

Here's an example sentence, two actually.

The latest ChatGPT model can respond more naturally, right?

Simple sentence.

Here is model.

Yeah?

The latest ChatGPT model, if it's easy for you,

you can replace model with version, right?

The The latest ChatGPT version can respond more naturally.

But, model is used uh, a lot in these news articles.

And here's one, Google's new VEO or VO model makes incredibly realistic videos.

Maybe you've seen this one.

It's very interesting to see.

Here we have model again, right?

The new VEO or VO model.

Okay?

Good.

Uh some I saw some messages come in.

Uh Ericsson, I see you.

I have I want to make sure that lots of people get a chance.

I'll come back to you.

Um The Black Eagle wrote,

"I write a lot of information in the prompt box

so that ChatGPT gives me better answers."

Yes, it seems you if you are very specific with your prompts,

you will get more specific results and you can refine them.

So, it seems learning how to prompt ChatGPT

and how to prompt these tools is a skill

that we are many people are developing.

Okay?

Um Victor wrote, "I asked AI to text to image about Machu Picchu

and then I got a realistic picture."

Good good example, very close.

You can just say I asked AI to make or to generate,

like we did here.

I asked the tool to make an image.

That's okay.

So, when I introduced uh text to image and text to video,

we typically just say, like, "This is a text to image tool."

Or "This is a text to video feature."

So, when you talk about your prompts,

usually you don't need to explain this type of prompt.

So, you can just use a pattern like this, yeah?

I What was it?

I prompted or I asked AI uh to make an image of Machu Picchu

and I got a realistic picture.

So, you can just use make to make something.

Okay.

Let's go to What I put What I leave off on?

Copyrighted material.

Copyrighted material.

All right, this is a big issue.

Okay.

Copyrighted material means text or images or video, other media that belongs to someone.

So, if you are, for example, a photographer and you take a picture,

that picture is your picture, right?

You own that picture.

If you put it on your website, that is your picture, right?

So, you are the person, the owner of the copyright.

So, the copyright means that you have the ownership of that thing, okay?

This is an important factor, an important point for AI, okay?

Let's go to the next one.

We're going to combine this all in our final example sentence today.

The next key phrase is content scraping.

Content scraping.

Content scraping means using robots to search the internet and collect content, okay?

So, maybe some of you know the verb to scrape.

To scrape means to use it usually to use a tool to try to

get very,

very small pieces off of something.

For example, using like wood or metal to remove paint from a surface.

We try to scrape

or we use our fingernails to take off small pieces of something.

This is what the verb scrape does,

how we can use the verb scrape to do this action,

to get small pieces of something

or to dig deep

and get small pieces of something.

Content scraping on the internet uses robots to collect that information.

So, we can take lots

and lots and lots of information from websites

and collect it,

okay?

Content scraping.

The verb here is to scrape.

Then, the next one is stolen material or stolen source material.

This is a big topic regarding the ethics of AI tool development, yeah?

So, stolen source material means information used with no permission,

without permission to train AI, okay?

This is a big topic of discussion

that these large companies do content scraping to collect information from YouTube,

from Facebook, from websites, from books, from artists and photographers.

They use the robots to collect this information,

and they use stolen material to train the AI services.

Okay?

So, here's our example sentence that uses all of these.

A lot of AI training is done using stolen material scraped from all over

the web.

Okay?

A lot of AI training is done using stolen material scraped from all over

the web.

That's really hard to see.

Sorry.

Let me fix that.

Scraped from all over the web.

So, that means that a lot of the training processes use Oh, sorry.

That's still hard to see.

So, a lot of these training processes use material

that was taken from someone without permission.

Okay?

That was scraped from something on the web.

Okay?

So, a lot of people, especially creative people, are really unhappy about that.

They were not paid or they were not credited.

So, this is a very big topic in AI, too.

Of course, it's exciting to think about the tools and how we use them,

but the other side of this is how we develop the tools, right?

Okay, I'll come to the chat.

Oh my gosh, I'm out of time already.

Let's see what other people have written.

Destalin wrote, "I think AI is a great tool

that helps create and maximize our daily work."

Okay.

So, maybe similar to it helps us work more efficiently.

Yeah?

Um others Omar wrote,

"I give it the topic and words related to the topic,

then I ask it to explain them and correct my sentences,

and I ask why you corrected them that way."

Ah, so is that for like how you use it for language learning?

That's really interesting.

Yeah.

Like, I think it's a really interesting tool to use to uh to work

on your language skills.

I know some people also use the uh speech function.

They will talk to AI tools to work on their pronunciation a little bit,

too.

There are many, yeah, different ways that people are using these tools.

Monica wrote, "I think AI is

so powerful that we must we must be wise

and and use it carefully."

That's how I would say it.

We must be wise and use it carefully.

I like that one.

Um all right, I don't see any comments on the Facebook page today.

Very very slow.

Lots of people saying hello on Facebook.

Well, your YouTube classmates Facebook got you this week.

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All right, I'm out of time again.

Oh my gosh, the time goes so quickly.

But I hope that today you got a good understanding of some key vocabulary

words we use to talk about AI.

Of course, there are many more,

but these are the ones we use a lot in everyday life

and we see in the news a lot,

too.

So I hope that you can talk more naturally about AI going forward.

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Okay, so that is it for this week,

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Next week the lesson that I planned I yes.

So last week if you joined, we talked about explaining your habits,

your good habits, your bad habits, and your desired habits.

But next week we are going to talk about just how to explain those

habits in terms of

when you do them.

What are the regular like your regular actions?

What is the grammar we use to talk about our regular actions?

So we're going to talk a lot about present tense.

Probably we'll use present tense a lot and maybe some present perfect tense.

So if you joined two weeks ago,

this lesson is like the follow-up for that.

You'll practice the grammar, you'll practice the vocabulary we use,

but we'll use it in a slightly different way to talk about your regular

actions.

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So, I'll say goodbye for this week.

Thank you everybody for your excellent opinions.

I loved reading the variety of opinions about this topic.

It's true.

Everybody has very different feelings about this.

So, it's really important that we can talk about it, I think.

I'll say goodbye.

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Bye.

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 explaining your habits and asking about others,

other people's habits.

Today, we are going to review adverbs of frequency, which we practiced in,

let's see, a live stream 2 weeks ago,

and we are going to practice asking some questions with these same adverbs of

frequency.

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and ask about other people's regular schedules.

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