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hello what's going on

here

um one moment let me just move some

things around seems like my

setup isn't

quite right I think that should

be

fine um okay I think we are ready to go

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we this circle

filter is uh so strange I'm still trying

to get used to it anyway I'm rambling

hello everybody Welcome to Oxford online

English it is freezing

here hello

everyone first of all I would like to

congratulate and welcome to New Oxford

online English members we have uh H Yan

Yang welcome and atina

so welcome to Oxford online

English thank you for being here hello

Mina hello Muhammad hello

emelo hello Julia alelo well done for

being here on time nice to see you

too uh ramelia Rel

like people who you are related to not

relative clauses I'm sorry if you are

hoping for a grammar lesson today we are

focusing on vocabulary and

speaking with

some looking at some grammatical

structures with adjectives and adverbs

but definitely not relative

clauses hello Mina hello Casa thank you

for joining me today how are you

both Hello Lucy from neria

welcome hello Adelina welcome back good

to see your name in chat again

hello

anyy

hello Juju hello Ali hello Lind Shaw

sorry if I am not pronouncing your names

correctly it's a problem of mine I know

um Muhammad hello SEMA hello Ana I'm

seeing a lot of new uh names in chat

today so thank you for joining me parsa

hello Jasmine hello fario

hello hello everybody so let me know

where you're

from let me know how you're doing

today and um yeah let's just get to know

each other a

little

um I'm not going to

there we go I think everything should be

on the screen now yes so welcome

everybody happy Tuesday what's the

weather like where you are I'm cold it's

not that cold here in

Madrid but I feel

freezing

so who have we got so let me know where

you are

from where you're from what you're doing

here what you've been up to

today and what is the weather like where

you

are what is your name teacher Max maed

that is a very good question my name is

Carrie you should be able to see my name

in the middle of the

screen okay my name is

Carrie so Annie is from Indonesia

welcome do it alone is from the

Philippines what time is it in the Phil

the Philippines right

now cash Carrie are you a religious

person

cash

that's

quite a deep question for the beginning

of the

stream I am

agnostic I hope that answers your

question Casher how are you cash by the

way

I hope that you are well ramelia I don't

necessarily want a grammar lesson just

go with the flow fantastic romelia how

are you what have you been doing today

Ria and what's the weather like where

you are I suppose it's much colder than

here Muhammad is a health

professional so what kind of health

professional are you

Muhammad do it alone says that it is 810

in the Philippines wow so you've had the

whole day let us know what you've been

doing do it alone have you been at the

gym somebody wants me to say their name

but I don't know how to pronounce it can

I call you

patil would that be

okay Muhammad is from from Afghanistan

welcome cash oh sorry it's because I was

watching my pastor and then I saw our

live stream notification no don't

apologize it's okay you can ask me I

just don't want people to be

um

judgmental of me and my answer

Vana

Vana

vanaga you are not reading my name thank

you only me is that your name only me

hello Christin you know my friend's name

is Ken so it's very difficult for me to

say Christen because I always say

Kirsten hello Ashley Shen welcome to the

class Kiren

Kristen Kristen is from China nice to

meet you too Kristen is this your first

time

here romelia nearest and dearest family

and close friends

yes I have not included either of those

words or the expression so thank you

Amilia for

sharing okay we're not getting into

religion now I'm sorry right then so

let's um start with a quote it's been a

very long time now the rule is don't

cheat I just want you to try and guess

who said this quote

family is not an important thing it's

everything family is not an important

thing it's everything who said this any

ideas

Mina I can absolutely give you a hint as

it seems like nobody

knows so this is from a famous American

actor who starred in Back to the

Future and I suppose family means the

world to this person

because uh when they were young they

were

um they were diagnosed with quite a a

hard

disability

no not Mother

Teresa a famous American

actor who starred in Back to the Future

I'm

sure I haven't watched it in years yeah

of course he

did let me just

check oh he's Canadian he's not

American he's a

Canadian

and an

American retired actor he had to retire

because of his diagnosis

yes Mula and Miriam well done Michael J

fox is correct Michael J fox said that

family is not an important thing it is

everything so here we have some

questions questions related to uh family

and I would like you to share your

answers in the chat box as always I will

read out your answers and there are some

key vocabulary Expressions within these

questions so if you're not sure what

they mean please let me know and I can

write a definition in the chat box for

you so question number one how much do

you have in common with your

family

hello riadul thank you for joining

me you've just arrived at the right time

we are now answering questions

about

family how much do you have in common

with with your family and like I said if

you're not sure about the Expressions

used please let me know and I can give

you a little definition to

help okay good so people are already

asking me what does it mean to have in

common have something in common so have

something in common means to be

similar to a

person in regards to

beliefs

values

morals

behaviors characteristics

Etc okay so how similar are you

to other people in your family when

thinking about those different

things not how you look no that's

another

expression we can use take after to talk

about both characteristics and

appearance but when we talk about have

in common we're talking about likes

dislikes

morals values behaviors

Etc I don't have anything in common with

my family

Nan Manolo only your

surname yes

Familia bear a resemblance to

someone for example I have I don't have

a lot of things in common with my

family because I feel like I have lived

a different life experience in

comparison to them

however I would say that

um I have the same beliefs as my father

so we have

like

similar ways we view the world in a

similar way and therefore we

have uh things to to talk

about okay I'm going to pin my

comment so not thinking about appearance

but thinking about

characteristics okay ashisha normally we

are on the same page but some sometimes

I have my own thoughts and opinions

absolutely Mula I'm actually not that

different from my family so there is a

lot that we have in common okay make

sure you're not changing this this is an

expression okay to have something in

common with other people so don't change

it it's a fixed expression so you have

to use the verb to have

okay

okay

Julia so not

necessarily talking about your

appearance again

okay but your personality your similar

personality with your mother that would

be to have something in common with

her okay

great

so let's move on to question number

two do your relatives live close by or

far

away so this will give me a better

understanding of where you live and

maybe what your relationship is like

with your family because of how far or

how close you

live so do your relatives live close by

or far

away okay Nan Theda far away do you live

in the same country Nan or do you live

in a different

country when close

by Marina close

by cash far I'm in Asia and my relatives

are in Africa so how often do you go

home to visit them

Kasa and do

you plan on staying in Asia for a long

period of

time okay mahad far away far away if

okay so in a different city n okay and

are you able to travel to them by train

or do you have to take a

plane Okay Sophia your family live close

by Mina close

by Miriam close

by

Miriam you see them once or twice a week

maybe Mina do you live with your parents

is that what

you what you mean caser I think next

year I will go to visit

them I hope

so Julia my extended family are a big

one and some stayed close to our home

and some are far away from us and what

about your

close your immediate family

Julia we live close by and we gather for

Chinese New Year excellent Ashley which

is coming

up in a few months Mina yes I live with

my parents okay perfect great so

question number three if you do live if

you don't live with your parents okay

how do you keep in touch with

them or if you do live with your parents

how do you keep in touch with other

members of your family and again if

you're not sure of the meaning of keep

in

touch let me know and I will give you a

definition

okay Siri

Jana or Siri Jan yeah what's the

difference between keeping stouch and to

keep in touch and stay in touch they

have the same meaning we're just using

two different verbs to keep and to stay

so they

both uh

Express the action

of uh having

contact

with your

family

okay

so that would

be the same

definition

um I think

that

my

chat the chat messages that coming

through

ah coming through from the beginning I'm

confused people are still talking about

Michael J fox and I don't know how to

change that okay I'll do it in another

time I can't do it right

now

okay

so a lot of you are saying by video chat

video call Great by

WhatsApp yes I think WhatsApp has been a

life saver a um

uh one of the best things that has ever

been

created for people who live far away

from home the fact that we can message

our loved ones with ease it's so

convenient it's free we can video call

we can send voice

notes we didn't have that when I moved

away from home back in

20 2007 so

okay keep in

touch it

means

to have

contact with family members or

friends

okay there we

go okay great next

question who do you take after in your

family so now we are talking about

appearance okay so to take after

somebody again is to be

similar

in

appearance or

character so who do you take after in

your

family K I think that's quite common

with

um mothers and sons and and then

daughters and

fathers mothers and sons fathers and

daughters I would say I look a lot more

like my father and my father's side of

the family than I do my mother's

side I definitely have my

mom's now I definitely have more of my

mom's

personality

but I definitely look like my dad's side

of the

family so no it's not weird don't worry

you're not the only

one Mula mostly my father from my

appearance and character maula

exactly renit takes after his

grandfather Julia I take after my father

with most facial

appearances

and the body

structure of your late

mother

K but when it comes to character you

have more of your dad's personality I

definitely take after my

mom

Slava fantastic okay next question

because we I don't know what's happening

but the time is flying by again another

expression here have you followed in

your family's Footsteps in any

way so again if you're not one 100% sure

what follow in someone's footsteps means

please let me

know

okay so footsteps

so to

follow in someone's

footsteps means that

you it's an expression and it means that

you uh

to

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follow

to go

or to take the

same

path in life as someone so to make the

same

decisions in

terms of

Lifestyle

Career

Education

Etc

okay so this is the meaning of to follow

in your family's footsteps like for

example I didn't Follow My Father's

Footsteps because he spent his career

working as an

engineer however I am an English

teacher yes it could be your family

business Ashley Shen but it could also

be like Sim

similar uh

attributes in terms of like education if

you went to the same College if you went

to the same

University

okay so yes I did follow my family's

footsteps but now I'm working on getting

more exposure experience in life

beautiful sentence Kasa well done Mula

actually I haven't followed in anybody's

footsteps because I'm more into science

but my relatives and cousins

go with

sinal my native language and arts

wow

perfect honest yes sure I followed in my

mother's footsteps having become a

teacher

fantastic I followed my grandfather's

grandmother's

footsteps yes absolutely Sophia I agree

with that and the last

question so would you ever consider

doing the same job as your parents or a

relative why or why not so I think I

definitely would have

liked working as an engineer I wanted to

be an architect when I was younger I

think it's school well I wanted to be

many things but one of the things I

wanted to

try

was

um

architecture but you have to be good

with numbers and I am absolutely

not s Johan I would look great as an

engineer do you think with my hard

yellow

heart and my

paperwork pretending to be

professional yeah I could do

that would you ever consider doing the

same job why or why

not thank you St

John and thank you for joining us

half an hour late but never mind we can

forgive you for that when I was a

teenager I dreamt of becoming a soldier

like my

cousins but over the years I changed my

decision my father and I are completely

different occupations but we both need

lots of techniques and knowledge in our

work go

pretending yes Engineers are very

professional and very intelligent

people however I think I could probably

walk onto a construction site and

pretend to be an

engineer when I was younger my dream was

to be a pilot however I'm working as a

healthc care worker

well

ramelia I'm a scientist a biochemist in

the medical field no one in my family

has this area of

expertise I'm sorry I had to give my

sister a ride to school it's beyond cold

this morning I bet it is say

John okay so we need to move on because

the class is almost over we're going to

do a quick adjective review so if you

remember from last week's class we did

some word formation exercises changing

words into different forms into their

noun form their adjective form plural

singular negative positive Etc so

because we are discussing relatives

today it's always a good idea to be able

to describe relatives using appropriate

adjectives so let's be honest right if

we have brothers and

sisters it's quite common that sometimes

we don't always see I to ey another

expression for

you and we could feel a certain way

about our

siblings maybe positive or maybe maybe

positively or maybe negatively so I

would like you to share in chat some

positive and negative adjectives that

you could use to describe people's

personalities

let me

know I need a

tissue does anybody have a

tissue I feel

like I'm getting a bit of a cold and now

my nose is running

not

literally and I

can't find a tissue oh no and people are

going to be shouting at me in the

comments stop

sniffing okay let me just put these

words in and then when you're doing the

exercise I can go and find a tissue okay

so let's start

with

Frugal

optim

mtic pessimistic oh my

gosh

great uh

outspoken okay is that an o or a

c

outspoken

friendly

kind selfmotivated

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okay what else have we got

industrious

supportive

we can download the lesson materials at

the end of the class Diamond

okay you are very welcome

aggressive

disrespectful

um uh Nar REM

minded

reliable

egotistic

dishonest oh my gosh I need to catch up

this is not

easy

uh

courageous

um

Brave

pigheaded oh my gosh I hope

nobody um describes their family member

as

pigheaded

sociable oh my God

sociable I can't change it

oh why can't I spell sociable I can't

see what I'm doing there we go it's so

small sensitive is kind of in the middle

so I'm going to leave

that selfish absolutely very good well

done

uh

thoughtful that's a nice one hope our

family members are thoughtful

introverted and extroverted I'm going to

maybe leave them because they're not

necessarily positive or negative like I

think nowadays it's completely

acceptable to be introverted and also

extroverted and I think they both have

positive and negative

connotations

uh we weird I like that

one

weird

self-confident

and

horrendous

he is just an horrendous person right

perfect ladies and gentlemen look at

that look at all of

these adjectives positive and negative

that you can use now

to

describe a family

member amazing so like you should

know you can

download the lesson materials after the

class so that you can use this list

whenever you need

to okay for describing different

personalities describing positive

attributes and then also of course

negative attributes because no one is

perfect we all have something to improve

so amazing you look at all those

adjectives honestly

so much vocabulary for you to uh review

over the next um

month so using adverbs and adjectives

here we have a text a description of

someone's grandfather what I would like

you to do is using the adverbs at the

top of the page I would like you to

complete this

text so we have easily friendly hard

hard hardly lonely and

wrong so complete the gaps one to six

with the correct adverb and then I am

going

to check your

answers and I am going to get a

tissue

okay so I think that you have had enough

time to at least read through the text

and think about your answers so now I am

going to show you the text with the

correct answers in each

Gap and then we have some questions that

we are going to answer so I hardly know

my grandfather because he lives so far

away but I think he's actually quite a

hard person to get to know anyway people

tend to think that he isn't friendly but

the truth is that he's quite shy and

doesn't know and doesn't get to know new

people easily he always thinks he's done

something wrong to upset or hurt people

but the real problem is that he's just

uncomfortable in social situations I

used to worry that he was lonely because

he spends so much time alone but

actually he enjoys it he's the kindest

and most generous person in the world

and he do anything for me for anything

for

anyone okay so number one hardly number

two hard number three friendly number

four easily number five wrong and number

six

lonely so with these Words which of them

are adjectives and which of them are

adverbs

okay which words are object

adjectives and which ones are

adverbs

that

it's so windy what do you mean is it

because I'm breathing being hard into

the microphone I'm

sorry I'm just trying to breathe

sorry

everybody apparently not say

Johan why am I taking such heavy breaths

wow I'm being attacked by my chat I

really appreciate that thank

you

well I can't see your face say John so

no I didn't realize that you were being

sarcastic now we know how our breath

sounds oh you're all concerned I don't

think that you're concerned I think that

you're taking the mick out of me have

rot are you okay Carrie no Mina I'm not

I'm being

harassed I'm just

joking right okay so which of these are

adjectives and which are

adverbs

so uh oh I didn't tell you the

answers

okay

so

friendly

lonely are the

adjectives

hardly it's okay don't worry yish don't

worry

if you do something wrong that's an

adverb because you're describing the

action that you did not do

correctly

okay lonely is an adjective to be

lonely uh to be a friendly person is an

adjective hardly is an adverb

hard in this context is an

adjective easily you do something easily

is an

adverb you do something wrong is an

adverb so which words can be used as

both an adjective and an adverb

depending on what you are using them

for

yes

Ria okay exactly so depending on how you

use

hard can

be both an adjective or an adverb

depending on how you use it within a

sentence

okay so which of these are

irregular which ones can you not use the

standard rules for adjectives and

adverbs

okay so hard

and

wrong so

wrong can also be used as both an

adjective and an adverb so they both

follow the same rules and they are both

irregular we would not say

wrongly

and we would not say

hardly because hardly has a different

meaning so wrongly does not

exist okay we use it both as an

adjective and as an adverb depending on

how we're using it so they don't follow

the usual rules of

adverbs okay you just need to decide

what is the use of the word

to define whether it is an adverb or an

adjective okay so now I'm going to test

your understanding of adverbs and

adjectives choose the correct

adverb to complete these sentences about

relatives

so at home we were brought up in an

environment where we were allowed to oh

no my first

mistake speak freely without anyone

criticizing

Us number two you don't necessarily need

to pay for advice on relationships from

a professional you can get

that from

friends it's not easy sometimes but I do

try to get on with my brothers and

sisters I found it difficult to spend

time with my extended

family it seems everyone is busy with

their own

lives I feel very lucky that my parents

live

very whenever I need anything they are

always there for

me I didn't give you the

answer

and now I'm paranoid about my

breathing can you hear me

now but can you hear my

breathing if Manuel comes into my next

stream I'm going to tell him that you

all bullied

me

I don't know where Manuel is he

missing okay so we're going to go

through and check your answers because

we don't have any time at home we were

brought up in an environment where we

were allowed to speak freely without

anyone criticizing us you don't

necessarily need to pay for advice on

relationships from a professional you

can get that free from friends it's not

easy sometimes but I do try hard to get

on with my brothers and sisters I found

it difficult to spend time with extended

family lately it seems everyone is busy

with their own lives I feel very lucky

that my parents live very close whenever

I need anything they are always there

for me so now I would like you to look

at those sentences and decide which

sentences are true for you and why and I

would also like you to pay attention to

other people's answers and then you can

you know ask them follow-up questions

we're all friends you can reply to each

other um you can ask them for additional

help or additional information I'm sorry

I meant additional

information so which sentences are true

for

you or which do you agree

with so for example sentence number one

is true for

me because from what I can remember my

parents were very

open to allowing us to have our own

opinions

about different things and we were

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never told that we were wrong or

right we were just allowed to express

ourselves do friends really give good

advice on relationships CA I suppose it

depends on your

friends but just remember that advice is

an uncountable noun

so you don't change it into a plural

form because it's uncountable like

information

Okay the third sentence is true for a

lot of people it's not easy sometimes

but I do try hard to get on with my

brothers and

sisters no cash don't worry we are all

human we make

mistakes

okay I'm gonna have to ask you

to quickly do this

exercise because I'm hungry I need to

eat

lunch okay Nicholas number four I found

it difficult to spent time with my

extended family lately it seems everyone

is busy with their own lives wow

Nicholas so how do

you keep in touch with your extended

family

Nicholas even if you don't spend time

with them do you still

communicate via text

or social media

apps

okay well let's move on to the next

exercise then preparation for speaking

imagine that you have this task talk

about a relative that you respect you

should say who the relative is what they

do why you respect them and say if you

have always respected them so so here I

have some useful phrases that you could

use to complete this task look up to

admire appreciative upbringing dependent

close-knit get on well with and cherish

so the last exercise for

today is going to be this matching

exercise where you have to match the

vocabulary Expressions to their

definitions A2 H and then if you would

like

you can share your answers to the

question in the chat box after the

Stream So a feeling or showing

gratitude B someone who relies on

another person C to protect and or care

for someone lovingly D regard with

respect and

approval e to have a good relationship

with

someone F how a child is treated and

educated G g a group of people usually a

family who are very close and supportive

and H to admire and respect a role a

role

model

hello

salad welcome to the chat welcome to the

stream thank you for joining me today

Ashley Shen and Sophia number one H to

look up to is to admire and respect a

role

model 2 a ren it to admire is to feel or

show gratitude the feeling or showing of

gratitude okay so we know that number

one is one h

Ashley Shen 3D appreciative

appreciative is to regard with respect

and

approval

the sound isn't good enough for the

listening what

listening

okay I'm going to give you one more

minute

Okay so I am going to show you the

answers number one was H to admire and

respect a role model number two was D

admire is to regard with respect and

approval number three was appreciative a

feeling or showing gratitude number four

F upbringing is how a child is treated

and educated number five b dependent is

someone who relies on another person

number six close knit was g a group of

people usually a family who are very

close and supportive number seven get on

well with e to have a good relationship

with someone and then number eight

cherish was C to protect and or care for

someone

lovingly so if you would like to do this

task please feel free to write a comment

under the video once I have finished the

Stream and I can go through and check

your comments and make any necessary

um

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Whatchamacallit um I always really

appreciate your support and it makes the

stream go by uh much better when you

know obviously people are participating

and writing their answers in chat so

thank you very much to my regular

viewers and also any uh viewers who have

just um joined us for the first time

it's always a pleasure to see new people

pop in um and I will not be here next

week because it's not my turn so on the

28th of uh November there won't be a

stream so I will be back uh here on the

5th of December okay so on the 5th of

December I will be here with our next uh

Oxford online English stream so thank

you so much for joining me today I hope

that you all have a fantastic day I hope

that you um do everything that you wish

to do to achieve I hope that you have a

fantastic week I hope to see you here

next time and yeah I would just wish

everybody the best week okay thank you

very much everybody see you next

time