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hello everybody my name is teacher Rich

also known as Professor

rich and we're here today to talk about

Mysteries of the world also known as

World Mysteries welcome to this stream

today on Oxford online English

this is one of our final

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streams so welcome to everybody today

how are you all doing hello there

raldo how are you doing raldo hello

there to

yoges how are you doing Alicia Khan

how's it going with you are you all

right where are you from I love Sunshine

says hello mate hello there uh Cameron

says hello I'm from aaban and I'm new

here welcome Cameron Welcome to our

final four streams

today hello dear English hello Maria

hello Manuel Julia nisin San and

tunan so I will be streaming on my

channel after this and we'll be doing a

bit of a follow-up to the lesson today

so do check that out do check that out

we'll be streaming after

this but today we're going to talk about

world Mysteries so what do I mean when I

say World Mysteries let me show you some

pictures there so have a look at those

pictures and tell me now in the

chat what do those pictures mean to you

what do you think I'm talking

about what are these pictures what do

they mean what is the history

here what do you

think let me know your thoughts

there let me know your thoughts in the

chat let's see what you think about

this Bermuda the Bermuda Triangle what

is the Bermuda Triangle and why is that

significant what is significant about

the bemuda

triangle what is significant about the

bemuda

triangle

YouTube drives me crazy sometimes I'm

trying to format a message here and the

bloody thing it won't do it no no he

doesn't want to do

it

Mia fine fine YouTube I'll do it myself

there we go

done so Manuel says so in this triangle

it's like a black hole ships aircrafts

and people

suddenly

disappear that's

interesting Julia says it's known for

its mysterious place of missing

airplanes and RL says it's an area of

the Atlantic Ocean where a lot of ships

have

disappeared not have been disappeared

there raml we want to use the

present the uh sorry the active there

so they have disappeared not have been

disappeared so nobody knows why this

happens in particular but for some

reason we get many many many ships and

planes

that disappear in this part of the

world and there are a number of

explanations that we're going to talk

about but first let's have a look at

another mystery so what is this and

what's the

mystery what is it where is it why is it

a mystery and what are some of the

theories to explain it so we can talk

about both of these Stonehenge and the

Bermuda TR

triangle where is it why is it a mystery

and what are some of the explanations

for

it let just adjust my camera a little

bit hello there mub maxud how are you

doing Neel says airplanes and ships

vanish there that's right how are you

doing Nal where are you you

from there's a big ghost hidden under

the beuda triangle says yogish that is

one of the

explanations it's

perhaps excuse

me it's perhaps one of the explanations

that I'm not entirely sympathetic with

but it is one of the

explanations so I'm going to read some

information about these

Mysteries I want you to listen and type

in the chat the information you hear

type the answers to the questions in the

chat I'm going to read some information

about these Mysteries and I want you to

type the answers to the questions that

you hear in the chat are you

ready

the Bermuda Triangle is a strange area

in the Atlantic Ocean it's between

Florida and Puerto

Rico this place is known for many

unexplained

happenings lots of ships and airplanes

have gone missing here in unusual ways

people have been interested in the

Bermuda Triangle for a long time

some think there are strange natural

things happening like weird magnetic

fields others have more unusual ideas

like

aliens or even hidden cities Under the

Sea one famous story is about Flight

19 this was a group of five US Navy

planes that

disappeared in

1945 the pilots got lost and their

planes ran out of

fuel even though many people looked for

them they were never

found a plane that went to find them

also

disappeared now scientists think there

could be nor reasons for these

Mysteries they say

storms strong sea currents or mistakes

in

navigation could explain why ships and

planes go missing in the Bermuda

Triangle all right let's see what we

have in the chat

there

so the idea there folks was to type the

answers to those questions while

listening am I waiting for you to just

push the enter key here so I can get

those answers in while you're doing that

I will end our Poll for the

day so do you have a coffee or tea 68%

say yes 31% say no with 75

votes Manuel we'll talk about that

later so anoat yes it's in the Atlantic

Ocean between Puerto Rico and

Florida

sonini says that aliens are the normal

reason and the extraordinary reasons are

storms and human mistakes are you sure

there did you hear

the popular scientific

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explanations

Sergio says hello everyone I'm from

Colombia hi Sergio how are you doing do

you know about the Bermuda

Triangle low

gravity let me say

again scientists think there could be

normal reasons for these Mysteries they

say storms strong sea currents or

mistakes in

navigation could explain why ships and

planes go missing in the Bermuda

Triangle did you get that muid hi

teacher Rich am I late yes but don't

worry it's

okay I will be saying this a lot but we

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there hello h how are you

doing so let's talk then about

Stone listen for the information and

type the answers in the chat listen for

the information and type the answers in

the

chat here we

go Stonehenge is a circle of big stones

in Wilshire England it's very old and

famous these stones have been there for

more than 5,000 years but why it was

built and how it was done are still not

known the stones at Stonehenge are

really big some are as heavy as 25 tons

it's a mystery how people long ago moved

and stud up these stones without modern

machines there are many ideas about

Stonehenge some people think it was a

place for sun worship and others think

it was a place to bury important people

some believe the stones are placed for

astronomy they line up with the sunset

in Winter and the sunrise in

summer Stonehenge is still very

important today many people visit it

especially when the Sun rises or sets in

line with the stones during the longest

and shortest days of the

year

all right let's see what we have in the

chat hint says in England really big how

can it be built without

machines and it aligns up with the

sunset or sunrise in summer and

winter is Stonehenge still a mystery yes

yoga Stonehenge is still a

mystery because the stones are very

heavy 25 tons and the Stone comes from

hundreds of miles away chud man

Namaste

Namaste welcome smash that like

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well Prof Rich teaching we'll be

streaming in 25 minutes who could handle

those stones the big question is how did

they move stones that were 25

tons over 100 miles

Manuel what is your

explanation you can find the text in the

notes for today if you want to look at

that this cannot be

explained by current scientific theories

do you agree or

disagree what do you think about

that this cannot be explained by current

scientific theories do you agree or

disagree what do you think about

that so samani says they

agree Stonehenge weighed 500 tons well

in total Julia but each stone is 20 25

tons hello Mei how are you

doing Sonia

agrees Manuel

disagrees how was it

built how was it built Manuel you have

the onus of

proof

how did they build Stonehenge let me try

this Q&A answer viewer questions live no

way I'll do that in a

minute tesi says I don't entirely agree

and mati says hello I

agree so one explanation is that they

used canals with boats and they dig the

canal and move it on the the boat as

they

go that's one

explanation Adnan says hello sir hello

Adnan how are you doing today we're

talking about

Stonehenge and the bemuda

triangle aliens might be the answer one

of the explanations that a lot of people

like is

that basically

in the past we had more technology than

we think so these societies actually had

Machinery however somehow that

technology was

lost that's one of the possibility so

let's imagine 3,000 years ago there was

some sort of

technology that we don't have now not

necessarily the same technology maybe

they didn't have electricity

they didn't have computers but maybe

they had a water pump machine or some

sort of tools we don't know about people

really like this explanation another

possibility is that there was some

Advanced civilization on Earth with a

lot of technology that didn't share it

with others but they did help other

civilizations to do things like build

Stonehenge this would be the Atlantis

the city of Atlantis

Theory Cameron says there are many

things that scientists don't know about

they cannot provide accurate information

for example about the Egyptian pyramids

and the abuda triangle they just Express

an opinion yes that's correct Cameron

science is just an opinion that's backed

up by the scientific

method science on the whole does t tend

to have a higher degree of Truth than

random opinion this is the Aristotelian

tradition of Science and

logic but I think it's important that we

maintain that science can indeed be

questioned it could be like the pyramid

says Sonia I like the way you phrase

that thank you Sonia that relates to the

lesson that we'll be doing today on Prof

Rich so make sure you check that

out we'll be talking about pass models

for

deduction if you want to amput your

grammar and get a 9.0 in ielt guaranteed

not guaranteed then check that out after

this and I'm going to have a coffee to

wake myself up

Aristotle invented the lever 2,500 years

ago with lever it's easy to move huge

Stones do you think so Manuel why has

nobody done it is there a video on

YouTube showing somebody do that I'd

like to see that okay moving on I have

some questions for you are there any

famous Mysteries or legends from your

country so we talked about Stonehenge

from England I'd like you to tell me in

the chat are there any famous Mysteries

or legends from your country I think

Manuel was talking about

Larona Manuel is telling a joke about

his age he says I was living in England

in the year

2525 so I could see how they were

building the monument very good

Manuel the science in earlier

civilizations was more advanced than it

is today I like that

Theory science requires empirical

evidence which makes it

believable empirical evidence is good

isn't

it but what about rational evidence do

you think teshi do you think rational

evidence is stronger than empirical

evidence for example if I use

rationality to determine that I exist

which would be I think the

I exist therefore I exist as a thing

which thinks this is

rationality can we say that is more

true than the

statement all cats have a tail how do I

know all cats have a tail because I have

empirical evidence I have seen one cat

two cat three cats 100 cats and so I

declare all cats have a tail

which statement is more true all cats

have a tale

or I think therefore I

exist this is empiricism and

rationalism and they are not the only

ways of getting truth are they there's

another way of getting

truth you know folks we got four streams

left on Oxford online

English we will be ending the three

classes on Oxford online English so let

me take this moment to go a bit off

script let's talk about the Third Way of

finding

truth so way number one

empiricism You

observe and from your observations you

find rules to shape the world

number

two you use

rationality to determine what

rules are true in the world and then you

check those rules against your

experience and then the Third

Way

we

examine our subjective

experience not in a rational way but in

an experential

way in an

attempt to

experience ultimate

truth

is is anyone freaking

out so I want to know are there any

famous Mysteries or legends from your

country and there's some other questions

there for you to discuss in the chat

we'll talk together about these and I'll

give them numbers to make it a little

bit easier to follow what everybody's

talking about please

do write the number for the question

which you are talking about write the

number for the question which you are

talking about so we all know which

question you're talking

about Jalena says greetings from

Lithuania thank you for your perfect

lectures that's a very nice thing to say

Jalena feel free to make any other

comments in the chat

we're moving on to question time in a

minute so if you have any questions

about English or life in general then go

right

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ahead cabet Deo says matild in

mosambique Africa kabeel

Deo is that head of what's

v KET

fell

ooh it's a natural rock that looks a bit

like a

head

nice yeah that looks

great wait in mosm Beque

Africa for me it's coming up with

Portugal

oh there's another kabet

Deo it seems like the Kaba Deo I guess

it's head of rock or something is uh

something that happens in several places

that's really cool though I like the one

in Africa that comes out the

ground that's great wow that's a natural

mystery not a man-made

mystery thank you very much there for

the shout out anat do appreciate

it I need a coffee folks my energy is

super super chill at the moment you know

why it's really

cold it's really cold in England we're

below zero it's

freezing I'm desperately trying to stay

warm and

failing I've never visited Morocco

actually I wanted to when I lived in

Spain I never quite got

there all right folks so this is the

countdown to the end live streams are

ending on Oxford online

English here are the dates for the final

streams next week I'll be doing winter

poetry I know how you all love poetry so

there you go we're doing that get on it

poetry is great then 23rd the Christian

in Christmas we're going to talk about

Christianity and

Christmas every time someone does an

English lesson on Christmas they do

International Christmas or Pagan

Christmas or

whatever and I'm going to book the trend

and we're going to talk about

Christianity and Christmas so the

Christian Christmas the birth c a

celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ

let's go for it on the

23rd and then on the 30th is my final

stream on Oxford online English goodbye

but not farewell so

please be there for that that will be

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then type that in the class I'm just

going to try this I've never done this

before

uh ask any questions you have about

learning

English let's try

this Q&A mode I'm not sure that I like

this we're now we're now in Q&A

mode let's see how this works if it

works I'll use this in

future

Merry Christmas Manuel said Manuel's

neighbors but they don't say anything

the rest of the year Well Manuel I mean

the positive side of that is they say

something at least in

Christmas

because

because at least they say it then I mean

in England people Burly even say Merry

Christmas so if people say Merry

Christmas at Christmas well it's better

than nothing let's take our wins where

we can uh sammani how can I join your

lesson go to the link saman I posted it

in the chat posted it like three times

now I don't want to overdo it it's there

in the chat

youtube.com/ Professor Rich I'm learning

English but I cannot continue and be

disciplin that is a good

question

so

let's talk about that that's my first

question of the day I cannot be

listening I cannot be

disciplined how do we deal with

this so number

one you need some discipline but

consider that the most

important step is

always the first

one so

examples examples of this in practice

are starting to learn something new

starting to attend

classes starting a study session for the

day starting a new book in English

Etc so really your discipline only only

needs to apply for the first

one your discipline only needs to apply

for the first

one because after that you just keep

going right you just keep going now

advice number two with

this do the things you

love okay

read the books you

love but in

English watch the TV series you love but

in

English do your favorite

hobbies in an

international setting with English as

the lingua

franka which means the language you use

to

communicate and this is a way of

subverting the need for discipline all

right all right let's move on to our

next question because we do have a few

questions it seems that this Q&A thing

is

working pavi will you ever retire from

YouTube or will you ever end your

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lessons um

yes but probably not for a long

time so I do intend to continue on my

channel youtube.com/ Professor reach for

a long time to

come thank you for the question pavi

moving on next question can I say like

the questions answered oh I can select

questions select

question how can I improve my English

vocabulary so I have many videos about

this on my channel um the first thing to

do is understand the

difference between passive and active

vocabulary and understand

how to learn each so passive vocabulary

are the words and phrases which you

understand active vocabulary are the

words and phrases which you use in

writing or

speaking to learn passive

vocabulary you don't need to do anything

you just

need input that you understand so if you

understand what I'm saying right now you

are improving your passive vocabulary

just by listening

in active vocabulary is different in

order to improve active vocabulary you

must

engage so you must get a vocabulary

notebook but the key with your

vocabulary notebook is take a note of

the phrases you wish to

use it's not about what you understand

it's about what you want to

use take note of the things that you you

want to

use so whether you understand it or not

is not important well it is important

but it's not the critical issue with

vocabulary note taking the critical

issue is what do you want to

use write it down make a personalized

example and then say it out loud with

natural pronunciation

example this is the best way to this is

the best way to learn English this is

the best way to learn English this is

the best way to learn English here's a

good Prof Rich shows us the best way to

learn English there's a personalized

example and then say it out loud with

natural pronunciation Prof Rich shows us

the best way to learn English the best

way to the best way to the best way to

the best way to the best way to the best

way to the best way to learn English

what's the best way to learn English

what's the best way to learn English

what's the best way to become a chef

what's the best way to

travel what's the best way to travel

Japan what's the best way to get in

shape what's the best way for a 78y old

old to begin learning a new

language okay there you

go next could you please clarify the

difference between it's raining and it

has been raining

really it is raining

now it was

raining

recently and may

or may not wait has been raining has

been being no wait has been raining it

has rained it's rained it's rained it's

been raining it's been raining it's been

raining it's been raining it's been

raining not be finished yeah may or may

not be finished

yeah we don't need to say

recently it's been raining it was

raining in the past and may or may not

be finished from the context of talking

about the weather I understand that you

mean recently so I hope that helps

next Cameron says I'm learning English I

can speak but my listening is not good

what's your advice for improving

this

uh my advice is go to youtube.com/

Professor Rich And subscribe immediately

that's youtube.com/

profor uh subscribe and that'll help you

with your listening

okay uh but uh more seriously what you

should do

is listen to stuff you like listening

to listen to audio books of stories you

enjoy

listen to radio on on on podcasts listen

to podcasts listen to podcasts on

Spotify for topics which you

like improve your listening by

listening as weird as that sounds just

make sure that the input is

comprehensible it must be comprehensible

input that means you must understand the

input if you understand it and you enjoy

it that's it just do it do it do it

again again again that's all you

need uh pavy says please keep teaching

us we'll do is it necessary to learn

phrasal verbs to improve communication

skills o that's a good one is it

necessary to learn phrasal verbs to

improve communication skills uh

no however it is

useful and can be

fun but it is not necessary you do not

need phrasal verbs you do not need

phrasal

verbs

but they're okay sometimes right pick up

get

up I need I'm going to get up at 5

o'clock tomorrow

can

you can you pick up my kids from

school some phrasal verbs are fun and

phrasal verbs can be very useful for

learning connected speech learning

natural speech can be quite

fun hello Max Amed how are

you uh sirani you should post in the Q&A

section but since you have what's the

difference what is teacher rich like

what does teacher Rich look

like interesting spoke about this

recently

um yeah so it's very simple actually

with this one so maybe we should add a

third one in which is what does teacher

rich like

and we can even add how is teacher Rich

let's add that as well so we can have

all of the

fun all of the fun all right so number

one what is teacher rich like that is

asking about

personality

and

maybe appearance so personality and

appearance personality and appearance

what is teacher rich like personality

and appearance what does teacher Rich

look like that is only

appearance we're not talking about

personality when we say what does

teacher Rich look like just appearance

what does teacher rich like here we're

talking about

likes what food does he

like what animals does he like what

hobbies does he like and how is teacher

Rich we're talking about is he good or

bad or even how does he feel is another

possibility so there's are four

different possibilities there what is

teacher rich like personality and

appearance what does teacher Rich look

like is appearance what does teacher

rich like is likes and how is teacher

rich is he good or

bad I hope that

helps

uh are podcasts more useful than videos

for listening

comprehension

no they're

not they are both

basically there's there's there's no

difference really R the more important

is the topic is it comprehensible are

you interested what's the speaker like

that's more important but the difference

in media is

unimportant one thing I will say is that

videos add more

context so with

videos you have more context you have

visual

context in order to help you to

understand so that makes videos

easier makes it

easier all right everybody thank you

very much for joining me today there are

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
mystery /ˈmɪs.təri/ B2	noun - something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain
Bermuda /bərˈmjuː.də/ C1	noun - an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, famous for the Bermuda Triangle
triangle /ˈtraɪ.æŋ.gəl/ B1	noun - a polygon with three edges and three vertices
Stonehenge /stoʊnˈhɛn(d)ʒ/ C1	noun - a prehistoric monument in England consisting of a ring of massive standing stones
stream /striːm/ B2	noun - a continuous flow of video or audio data over the internet verb - to transmit or receive data as a continuous flow
teacher /ˈtiː.tʃɚ/ A2	noun - a person who teaches, especially in a school
English /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ A1	noun - the language spoken in the United Kingdom, the United States and many other countries
explain /ɪkˈspleɪn/ B1	verb - to make something clear or easy to understand by describing it in detail
disappear /ˌdɪs.əˈpɪr/ B2	verb - to cease to be visible; to vanish
missing /ˈmɪs.ɪŋ/ B1	adjective - not present or not found; absent
theory /ˈθɪə.ri/ B2	noun - a systematic set of ideas intended to explain something
evidence /ˈev.ɪ.dəns/ B2	noun - information or signs that show something is true or that a belief is justified
empirical /ɪˈmper.ɪ.kəl/ C1	adjective - based on observation or experience rather than theory
rational /ˈræʃ.ə.nəl/ C1	adjective - based on reason or logic; sensible
truth /truːθ/ B2	noun - the quality or state of being true; reality
question /ˈkwes.tʃən/ B1	noun - a sentence or phrase used to find out information
ancient /ˈeɪn.ʃənt/ B2	adjective - belonging to the very distant past; very old
civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ B2	noun - a complex society with a high level of cultural and technological development