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Hi everybody. My name is Alisha in this lesson

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I'm going to talk about 25 must-know intermediate phrases. Let's get started

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These are some intermediate level phrases that you can use in everyday life

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You can use them when you travel at work in your studies. So I hope that they're helpful for you

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therefore asking and answering questions

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so after you learn these phrases check out the link in the description where you can make an account at English class 101 comm and

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Practice your English even more. Alright, let's get started. How is it going?

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How is it going? You'll notice with how is it going that there's an apostrophe at the end of this?

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It's not how is it going or how is it going? If you say how is it going? It sounds too stiff

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It doesn't sound so friendly. So we say how is it going? How's it going? How's it going means? How are you?

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Like, how are you doing or how is your life going?

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So it's like a friendly kind of rougher more casual way to say. How are you? How's it going? How's it going?

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How's it going with you?

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fine

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See, that's the correct response. Has it done fine. Has it gone good has going not bad. How is it going?

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How is it going? Okay, let's go on to the next expression. What have you been up to?

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What have you been up to? What have you been up to? What have you been up to?

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What have you been up to is a more advanced version of like what are you doing?

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So what have you been up to means? What did you do since the last time?

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I saw you what have you been up to? So what have you been up to? It's like ah, I've been blah blah blah

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We're going to talk about this in the next expression. So what have you been up to or what?

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Have you been doing is another popular variation? What have you been up to? How have you been?

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How have you been? How have you been more?

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Naturally, how have you been?

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Sounds like how have you been in?

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Everyday speech so how have gets reduced to how of how of how have you been? How have you been?

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How have you been since the last time I saw you is what this means how have you been?

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So that you sound also gets shorter how have you been is kind of what it sounds like if I slow it down a lot

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How have you been? How you been? You might also hear too?

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So this means since the last time I saw you what has your condition been like good bad

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busy in most cases the answer is just good you

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Fine fine. Anyway moving along. I've been blah blah blah

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I've been this is their reduced form of I have been something something

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This is a good response to questions. Like how have you been or what? Have you been up to numbers?

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2 & 3 in this episode. So if someone says what have you been up to you can say I've been busy or I've been

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Working I've been studying. I've been planting a garden in front of my house

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I've been looking for a new car. I've been making videos on the Internet

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So I've been blah blah blah

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So eyes is short for I have been so this is a present perfect tense expression

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I've been something something you can use the progressive form. You can use an adjective here

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You can use whatever suits your situation so

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Yeah. Hmm. What have you been up to? I've been

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Sleeping a lot. How about something something? How about dinner? How about drinks?

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How about we do this later? How about something? This is a very

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Simple and easy way to make a suggestion to someone. How about blah blah blah

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So in fast speech how about sounds like how about how about how about we how about you?

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How about I how about so the a sound kind of disappears? How about we see a movie later?

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How about we go to the beach this weekend? How about we take a trip to

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Guam how about we bake cookies? How about we go on to the next expression? Okay. Sorry

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I can't sorry. I can't so sorry. I cannot this is a way to

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Refuse an invitation so to say no I can do that thing and I feel bad about it. Sorry

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I can't sorry. I can't

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So like sorry I can't you can add

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Like the thing you are refusing if you like you could say, sorry

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I can't go to the beach with you this weekend or sorry. I can't meet you for dinner tonight. I have to work late

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Sorry, I can't help you make your treehouse. I broke my leg. That was very specific

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sorry, I can't cook dinner tonight because I don't know how to cook when you want to refuse and

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You maybe don't want to give specific reasons. You can say sorry. I can't I use this recently

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Sorry, I can't go sure sounds good. Sure. Sounds good. So sure sounds good. You can put those two together

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Sure means yes, sounds good means like your idea

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Seems to be a good thing. Like I'm hearing your idea. It sounds like a nice idea. So this is a good way to

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Accept an invitation sure, sounds good or sounds nice. Sounds great. Sounds awesome. Sounds cool sounds

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fantastic

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You can change your adjective there if you like sure sounds rad

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Do you want to something something? Do you want to something something?

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Do you want to plus an activity? Like do you want to get dinner?

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Do you want to go for drinks? Do you wanna ride bikes? Do you wanna make videos for the Internet?

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Do you want to study English with me do you wanna I don't know

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Do you want to get a Charizard tattoo already has one?

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Do you want to is a friendly and easy way to make an invitation?

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For some kind of activity when we say this expression. We kind of put the sounds together

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so not do you want to but do you wanna do you wanna do you wanna

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Do you wanna so it's you can imagine it's like Dee

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' why a

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waa and and aadya wanna do you wanna not do you want to but do you wanna do you wanna

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Go to the next one. I do. What do you call this? What do you call this? So when you don't know the

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Vocabulary word for something or you just forget it. You can use this expression. What do you call this?

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So again that do you becomes reduced. Do you becomes dia? What do you call this?

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So to call something is like to name something. What is the name you use for this thing?

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So what do you call this? Like? What do you call?

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This what do you call that? What do you call these? What do you call this?

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So you can use that when you don't know the word for something when you find something new as well. How do I get to?

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Location. How do I get to so how do I get to for example the station? How do I get to this hotel?

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Means what is the path I should take to arrive at that destination?

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How do I get to the beach room here?

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How do I get to my house from here or how do I get to the bar from here?

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How do I get to work from here? So how do I get to is a much more natural way to ask for directions?

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to some place so don't use how do I go or how do I

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Travel I guess but how do I get to a location?

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and don't forget your to also remember we use that preposition to

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Before the specific place name so a problem that I hear a lot is how do I go to there?

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So we don't use to before there because there is not a specific place

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How do I get to the station a station is a specific place or a hotel is a specific place?

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There is not a specific place so we cannot use to with there. So, how do I get there?

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It's fine. No to how do you get to the next one by scrolling down on the iPad?

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alright

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Let's go to the next one have a nice evening have a nice evening have a nice evening is a way to say

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Goodbye at the end of the day learners use. Goodnight

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At the end of the day like with coworkers or maybe leaving a restaurant like goodnight

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We use goodnight when we're like saying goodbye to our kids or like when we're actually in bed

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Like with a spouse or like your partner, or maybe you say it to your children or something like that?

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Goodnight, just before you go to sleep when you want to say goodbye at the end of the day

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Use have a nice evening. Have a good evening

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That's a much more like natural and polite way to say goodbye at the end of the day. Have a nice evening

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Have a good one. Have a good one. Have a good one. Have a good one means. Have a good day

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So one here, it means day. Have a good day, or have a good time or like have a good experience

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Until I see you again. Have a good one, or have a nice one

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I think have a good one is probably the most common have a good one so friendly

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Kind of polite ish. I suppose you can use this with your coworkers with your friends with your family members

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But it does help there's a little bit of distance there. I think have a good one. Okay onward

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Can I have item, please? Can I have item please? Can I have something please?

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So when you're shopping you can use this to request something from the person working at the store

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So can I have that shirt please? Or can I have for example?

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200 grams of beef please or can I have that pack of cigarettes, please?

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So you can use any item in this pattern

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Can I have that thing, please?

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You can use singular you can use plural you can use a number here if you want

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But can I have and to make this more natural not can I have that thing, please?

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But can I have can I have can I have is kind of more natural? Can I have sounds like can I have

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Can I have?

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this iPad

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Yes, oh I got an iPad today number of the noun please

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This is used again when shopping and maybe specifically when you're buying things in

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quantity, so that means for example, like when you're shopping for food

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You maybe need to buy like fresh meat or a fresh fish

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for example and you want a certain quantity a certain amount of something you can use number of

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The noun please so I used the example before like 200 grams of the beef

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Please so you're buying things in bulk when you're buying in bulk

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It means you're buying a lot of stuff at one time. You can use an expression like this

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Of course, even if you're not buying in bulk, you can use this like two of the blue ones

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Please you can use that as well

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So this is just a simple pattern to use when shopping number of that noun

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Please how do I plus your verb phrase? So we talked about the expression?

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How do I get to a place this is how do I?

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Something so not yet. But how do I and then use a verb here?

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so one thing I hear learners do when they don't know how to do something is they use an expression like

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please teach me this thing or

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I don't know this

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So to make a request

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For someone to show you something you can use this pattern

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How do I use this computer or how do I turn on this car? How do I sell my kidney on the Internet?

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How do I learn English that's what a lot of people say just do it. It's the answer

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So, how do I plus your verb? So that's a much better way than please teach me use

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How do I learn English? How do I study grammar? How do I read books?

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so use just the simple present tense form of the verb in this what again another point to your

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Pronunciation point how do I becomes how do I how do I how do I do this? How do I do that?

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How late are you open? How late are you open?

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This is very useful when you're visiting

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Restaurants or bars or like retail shops as well the most natural way to ask what time a store or other?

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Establishment finishes is how late are you open? How late are you open?

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So if you ask this question, you will get the closing time as the answer

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Like, how late are you open? 8, how late are you open 10?

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How late are you open midnight or how late are you open or open? 24 hours. The internet is open forever

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We have no closing time here in English class 101 we're accessible

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Always, how late are you open? So how late are you so that ru is reduced. How late are you open?

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Are you sounds like how late are you open? We do not say how late are you closed?

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We don't say that you could say when do you close? That's also okay. When do you close?

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But how late are you open? Do you have any plans for?

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Point in time. Do you have any plans for?

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Point in time. Do you have any plans for this weekend? Do you have any plans for tomorrow?

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Do you have any plans for tomorrow night? Do you have any plans for dinner?

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so choose a point in time or kind of like I did with dinner you can use meals here to

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Choose a point in time to ask about another person schedule

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Don't forget for in this example. Do you have any plans for?

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Point in time. Do you have any plans for Sunday afternoon? Do you have any plans for Monday?

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So this is a quick way to ask about a schedule very nice and it's kind of polite as well

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Okay on to the next one my body part hurts my body part hurts

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This is an important and natural expression to use when you are not feeling well

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So instead of like I have a pain in my arm or something or I have a pain somewhere

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I hear many learners use that pattern instead use my plus your body part hurts

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For example, my arm hurts my head hurts my finger hurts. My stomach hurts my back hurts my face hurts

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Because I got punched in it this morning

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It's not true. Have you ever punched yourself in the face myself? Yeah, I did it once and I'm never gonna forget

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Yeah, I was trying to pull like the blankets up. It was like 6:00 in the morning. I was cold

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It was winter

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I tried to pull the blankets up and my blanket was kind of like

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shiny and slick and I was like half awake and I was like

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Damn, so my body part hurts my body part hurts

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That's the quickest way to explain that you do not feel well in some way my body part hurts

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Don't forget that s my body part hurts my eyeball hurts

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My ear hurts my throat hurts, how much is this? How much is this?

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This is a cost related expression when you are shopping. How much is this?

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How much is that?

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You probably don't need to use this so much because in most cases the price is clearly written in stores

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but every once in a while you do need to ask or you need to like talk to someone about a price in a

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Conversation. So how much is this or how much is that? You can change that?

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Of course, you can use the plural here. How much are these how much are those in present tense?

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And you can also ask about past tense information. How much was that?

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For example, how much was your car or how much was this apartment or how much were those donuts?

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It's a very important question. How much did your sandwich cost you could ask that as well?

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How much does something cost is another expression you can use but yeah, how much did your sandwich cost?

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It looks good

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Or how much for a dozen burgers to be sent to my office tomorrow at one o'clock?

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What did you say? What did you say?

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native speakers use this all the time you can use this to please its

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Importance probably more important for you to use this expression and don't feel bad about it

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What did you say naturally? What did you say? What did you say?

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What did you say is a question about the thing the other person in the conversation?

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Just said like you couldn't catch it or you think you misheard something

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Or maybe you didn't understand something. They said what did you say?

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It's a little more polite than just what so what did you say?

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Yeah, anytime you need to confirm something that someone else said you can use

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What did you say try to use a nice intonation with this also? What did you say? What does that mean?

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What does that mean and native speakers use this too? Like we don't understand everything like sometimes everybody needs an explanation

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So what does that mean is a great way to ask for it. What does that mean in fast?

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Speech is what does that mean? What does that mean?

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So the th in that becomes like an S or a Z sound, what does that mean?

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So it connects to that sound it does what does that mean? What does that mean? So what does that mean?

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it's like you don't understand something that's written or maybe you don't understand the implications implications means like the

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Like the background information of a situation. So what does that mean or you don't understand something someone else said?

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But they're gone

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So you can't say what did you say?

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You asked someone else. What does that mean? What that person just said? What does that mean?

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So what does that mean is another really important expression for learners, especially I don't feel so good

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I don't feel so good

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So if you don't want to specifically say like my stomach hurts or my arm hurts or my head hurts

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You can say I don't feel so good

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So this tends to be used more for like stomach problems. So I don't feel so good. I ate a huge lunch

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I don't feel so good. Or maybe you ate something bad. I don't feel so good. We often use

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I don't feel so good when we actually feel very bad very suddenly like in the examples

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I mentioned when we eat something and our body is not happy with it. And we suddenly feel sick. We might use the expression

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I don't feel so good. I need to go home

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So you can use this to talk about like a sudden and unpleasant feeling in your body. I don't feel so good

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I need to go to location

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I need to go to location I need to go to location is useful for

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About Aaron's. So Aaron's is like small tasks. You need to do throughout the day

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We also use this expression when we need to visit the restroom urgently so you can say I need to go to the restroom

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That's great. That's a very natural and polite way to talk about visiting the restroom

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Otherwise when you're talking about your daily tasks, you can say I need to go to the bank

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I need to go to the store. I need to go to the carwash

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I need to go to the pet sitter and pick up. My neighbor's poodle. What becomes very specific

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so you can talk about your

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Responsibilities with need - yes, you can substitute have - here I have to go to the bank

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I have to go to the store. Keep in mind also when you want to use the negative form

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I don't have to or I don't need to you can but make sure you use it with something. You don't have a

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responsibility to do I hear lots of learners use expressions like I don't have to

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Go to the bar today, for example, like if going to a bar is part of your regular

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responsibilities like you work at a bar or like

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Part of your business is at a bar fine

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But if it's just something you occasionally do it sounds really unnatural to use. I don't have to go to the bar today

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so we use this in the negative form for things we can naturally and reasonably be expected to have

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Responsibility to do so keep that in mind when you use the negative form. Ok onward

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I have to I have to so my previous one was I need to go to a place if you want to just talk in

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general about

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Responsibilities you can use I have to I have to get up early in the morning

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I have to study for my tests. I have to think of a new hairstyle for my cat

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Yesterday I had to past tense

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I had to buy new clothes because my director was making fun of me for wearing shirts and they were falling apart on

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Camera because that's how much I love shopping. Yeah, so past tense

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I had to buy new clothes yesterday, or I had to go out in the rain yesterday

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So again, I had some responsibility to do that. So past tense had to when are we leaving?

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when are we leaving I included this here because it's a

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Common question surprisingly like when are we leaving not?

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When do we go? That's one that I hear sometime like when do we go or

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When we go or something like that, don't use those. Oh

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Sorry, mr. IPad. Um, the question is when are we leaving? So we use this when we're at an event?

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We're at a party where maybe at work whatever you're going somewhere else with another person or with a group

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When are we leaving? When are we leaving this place? In other words so natural pronunciation?

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When are we leaving? When are we leaving becomes? When are we leaving?

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Okay. So those are 25 must know intermediate phrases

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I hope that those are helpful for you many of the phrases that I introduced here are in present tense

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But remember you can use them in past tense and in future tense - so don't stick only to present tense

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Make sure to go outside of present tense and think about the different ways that you can use these expressions

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To talk about the past and the future

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