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hello everybody Merry Christmas and

welcome

to Oxford online English today we are

talking about winter poetry this is my

third to last live stream with Oxford

online English we are finishing live

streams at Oxford online

English this

month so we got three

left and today we're going to talk about

winter poetry so let's see how that goes

how are you doing how is your English

learning and what vocabulary do you asso

associate with

winter what vocabulary do you associate

with

winter well we must mention

snow

Christmas Santa

Claus

ice

cold the trees are bare the sky is

gray the

leaves are on the ground or

brown I've been for a walk on a Winter's

day so we are doing poetry today folks

get your creativity ready the poems that

we will look at today are quite simple

we will look at two poems today two

poems and they are quite simple so we

should be all

right let me show you some things in our

first poem of the day so look at the

pictures there there's three pictures

what do the pictures

show can you type in the chat what do

the pictures

show what things are featured in our

poem today hello Cho hello ja's kitchen

hello Cindy

Fu how are you doing luchian

hello in

Brazil how's things with you Cho says

Forest Mina says Forest can you tell me

another word for Forest what is another

word what is another word for

Forest another word for

Forest hello I love

sunshine it's good to see you you're a

very positive person aren't

you

jungle well jungle is not really a

forest jungle is a bit different jungle

is kind of a a very wet Forest very

thick wet

Forest ah but yes dreamer well done and

am well done we're talking about the

woods or

Woodland also called the woods sorry if

you can hear my cat there in the

background going nuts

Ginger come here come and say hello

Ginger come on ginger come on

ginger come on come on come on yeah

hello come on come say

hello hello everybody hello Oxford

online English people this is my cat

Ginger say hello

Gingy okay all

righty hey hey gingi how you doing are

you going to get in the way now so we've

got the woods what else do we do Fabia

Devoto says I'm a poet from Lima Peru

really you're a poet that's wonderful

Peru is that uh Spanish

poetry my favorite Spanish poem is of

course L

osura sometimes called lur de Alma which

is a poem by sanan De Lau

so we've got a horse we have the woods

and we've got snow a

horse the woods and snow we're going to

use our imagination

Everybody by the way a special word for

everybody in British English is folks

that's a nice nice colloquial way in

English to say everybody we say folks

can you say that folks it's spelled f o

l k s

folks and often in British English we

use this like the Americans use the word

guy so we say folks when they say guys

hey guys hey guys have you seen friends

the episode of Friends

all right uh we say folks hey folks all

right folks so folks listen listen

folks I want you to

imagine you're

riding on

Horseback you're in the

woods the

snow has

started to

fall

I want you to

imagine you're riding on

Horseback you're in the

woods the

snow has

started to

fall why are you

here what do you want to do next type

your answers in the

chat I want you to imagine your riding

on Horseback you're in the

woods the snow has started to fall why

are you here what do you want to do next

type your answers in the

chat what's the agenda of this video

says

Santos well today we're going to look at

two very famous winter

poems by English poets I believe both

English poets

by the way welcome to

tang

tang welcome to the membership tangin

and welcome to Fabio

Santos welcome to the

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members roofa says I want to find the

princess in the woods are you sure

there's a princess in the woods maybe

there's just a

wolf I want to see the trees covered by

a delicate layer of soft snowflakes

that's a nice bit of poetry Fabia I can

see you are a poet in English as

well and Mar Gan says

hello asmina says I'm here for a horse

ride trying to find shelter or get out

of the woods we're not in the jungle

we're in the

woods the jungle that's a different

lesson okay today we're doing the

woods let me tell you the next part of

the

story

the woods are

private you have other things to

do however you

stop and want to sit for a while your

horse isn't so sure about

this why do you think you want to

stop why do you want to sit for a

while the woods are private you have

things to

do however you stop and want to sit for

a while your horse isn't so sure about

this why do you think you want to stop

why do you want to sit for a

while use your creativity folks there is

no right or wrong answer I just want to

know what you think so can you imagine a

reason you're in the woods you're on

your horse the snow is

falling the woods are

private not your Woods not public woods

but there's someone else's

woods but you want to stop and sit for a

while why do you want to stop and sit

for a

while Mina says to see the beauty of

nature without the know the to see the

beauty of nature vanera says enjoy the

moment and play snowball and mariaan

says first look at the Sun and then the

sky well it seems like we have a lot of

people in the chat

who appreciate the beauty of nature

Santos says one day I was riding on a

horse in the woods so I found a shelter

in the woods but I saw a princess and

she was tied to a chair I felt sad so I

immediately freed her oh well that's

great isn't it I must ask what was a

princess doing tied to a chair in the

woods that sounds a little bit K

up K

up got kidnapped indeed Cherry says feel

the beauty of nature very

nice all right folks so this is of of

course a

poem this is a poem called Stopping by

Woods on a snow evening by Robert

Frost I'm going to read the

poem I'll read the poem

twice I want you to try to

remember the important

words

okay I'll read the poem

twice I want you to remember the

important

words all

right so just

listen and try to remember the important

words let me drink my

coffee

whose woods these

are I think I

know his house is in the village

though he will not see me stopping

here to watch his Woods fill up with

snow my horse must think it

queer to stop without a farmhouse

near between the woods and frozen

lake the dark

evening of the

year he gives his harness bells a shake

to ask if there is some

mistake the only other sounds The

Sweep of the easy wind and Downy

flake the woods are lovely dark and deep

but I have promises to keep and miles to

go before I sleep and miles to go before

I

sleep I'll will read that

again whose woods these

are I think I know his house is in the

village though he will not see me

stopping here to watch his Woods fill up

with snow my

horse must think it queer to stop

without a farmhouse near between the

woods and frozen lake the darkest

evening of the

year he gives his harness bells a shake

to ask if there is some

mistake the only other sounds The Sweep

of easy wind and Downy

flake the woods are lovely dark and

deep

but I have promises to

keep a miles to go before I sleep a

miles to go before I

sleep okay folks so if you take a look

at your screens you will see the poem

with some missing words there are 11

missing words I would like you to typ

type the words you remember in the chats

you might not remember all the words

that's okay just do your best to type

the words that you do remember if you

remember a synonym or something like

that that's okay if you don't remember

you can guess and if you can't guess

then just skip it and try the next one I

don't expect you to remember all the

words obviously that's not the point of

of the activity the point of this

activity is not to remember all the

words I do not expect you to remember

all the

words Manuel says if Rich tells us the

first and second pictures were taken in

denner Reef in Winter I would believe

it Manuel also says seeing pictures of

snow makes my hands become

numb it's a sense of empathy I don't

know if that's empathy Manuel if you can

see a picture of snow and your hands go

numb I don't I'm not sure that's

empathy I think that's something else

actually

so to remind you of the task for this

activity you need to write the words in

the chats to fill the

gaps so we have here some text and we

got some gaps and I'd like you to write

in the chat the missing

words write in the chat the missing

words and Mina of course asks the

interesting question what is a queer so

queer is a word that used to mean

strange so queer was a way of saying

strange however due to the current

political climate the word queer has

become to be

associated with sexuality and relates to

the

LGBT Etc

Community as such if you hear people use

the word queer in a modern sense they

are probably referring to

someone who is not

heterosexual I don't want to say

homosexual

necessarily because some people who call

themselves queer

don't also call themselves homosexual

it's far too complicated for me I'm just

a language teacher I don't deal with

gender

politics

um why I B I love big sunshine

um it's the political aspect I don't

like

I have I mean we we've I think we solved

I think we solved these problems in the

1990s and I think the modern

approach to dealing with

equality Liberty Etc I think the modern

approach is taking goes

backwards and it's too complicated and I

don't have time to read about that

listen to it

whatever I'll take the early 90s

approach we're all equal and we're all

free to do what we want as long as it

doesn't harm other people end of

story I did not understand some of the

lines in the poem they are not easy for

me I can explain any specific lines that

you'd like however first I think I

should go through the answers here so

let's go through the

answers so number one is

Woods number two Village number three

horse by the way this is a good

opportunity to practice your your

pronunciation listen to the words that I

say and then try to repeat so

horse number four

Farmhouse number five

Frozen number six

darkest number

seven

mistake number eight

wind number nine deep number 10 keep and

number 11 is

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miles and you can see the full poem

there so this poem is called stopping by

the Woods on a Snowy Evening it's by

Robert Frost I think it's

lovely isn't it a lovely poem simple not

too complicated short and it just gives

that feeling of the snow and being in

the

woods doesn't have a lot of secret

hidden messages

right it's just just a simple poem about

the snow and being in the woods and

stopping for a

moment before you carry on with your day

with your

work that's

it all right folks oh Santos says I did

not understand the only other sounds The

Sweep of easy wind and Downy flake

what's that the only other sounds The

Sweep of easy wind and Downy flake ah

yes okay yes

so the sweep of easy wind The Sweep of

easy

wind so easy wind is like a breeze a

soft wind and

sweep sweep is this kind of motion that

I do with my hand now sweep sweep I'm

sweeping sweeping the air okay it's this

soft delicate motion we often use it for

sweeping the floor for example if you

have a brush you sweep the floor to

clean it and the wind sweeps

around okay and the sound of the wind

sweeping and what's the Downy flake so

the Downy flake is very soft snow what

do you think is the sound of very soft

snow that's the sound of Downey

flake very soft

snow all

right so let's move on to our next poem

everybody what is this life if full of

care we have no time to stand and

stare what does that

mean and wum Salam to eroda from

usbekistan

peace be upon you

too what is this life if full of care we

have no time to stand and stir so when

do we say full of care what here is the

meaning of

care and what is this stand and stare

what does that

mean so let's talk together a bit about

this what is this idea of full of care

and what does it mean to stand and

stare type in the chat chat what do you

think

Julia kataar says stand

still and Fabius says

worry yes that's it Fabio we can tell

the poet can't we you're good at this

Fabio you're

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and it's a difficult

one it's a difficult one

folks so in this case full of care

although in the modern sense we might

might think full of care means you

really care about someone here it

actually means

worried

stressed so that's kind of an older

meaning of full of care and

obviously poets often use words with an

older

meaning now how about stand and

stare so stand

means stand

up and normally

still so stand up without walking

further and stare means look at

something uh with a fixed a fixed look

for a period of time

so we stand up look at

something and

wait uh Gabby

PR Gabby P says good morning I'm from

Argentina I want to know what is that

what is

what no blinking you can blink you can

blink it just means a fixed gaze do you

want to experience a fixed

gaze hang on

there you go that's a fixed gaze did you

did you enjoy that so fixed gaze you

just look at something for a

bit and obviously if we are standing in

a beautiful place then when we stand and

stare then we're taking in the beauty of

that place aren't

we we're taking in the beauty of that

place if we have a

moment to

stand and

stare I seem to have lost my notes oh

here they

are brilliant okay so before we talk

more about this poem we need to look at

some

vocabulary so pre-teaching vocabulary

look at the pictures 1 2 3 4 five6 these

are pictures of things which appear

within this poem I want you to match the

pictures to the

vocabulary and if you can't see the text

I will try to put that text in YouTube

but it has just appeared as a load of

nonsense so sorry about that Jan campus

says I'm Indian well

Namaste Jan new

campus or if you're Christian

then

hello or if you are Muslim

then um Salam

alaykum or if you are Arabic but how are

you Arabic and Indian that's not

possible if you're an Indian in person

who speaks Arabic than

alhamdulillah and to all of my

Vietnamese friends out there may I say

shincha and I'm I would also like to say

and dick face

with hi I'm Faria from Pakistan hello

Faria how is Pakistan these

days

and Manuel says Rich it's my landscape

every day Manuel just constantly wants

me to move to

tene it's just constant Rich come to

tene come to tene come to tene Manuel do

you have connections in the local

government in tenar I would need local

government support I don't think I can

live in tenar without local government

support if I'm supported by the local

government then I I do believe I could

live in

tenie King Z says I love big sunshine

I'm sorry King is that Vietnamese I I I

I can't read Vietnamese I can just speak

some are you ready for some answers

folks the answers are 1 E so this is a

squirrel this is broad daylight broad

daylight means daylight and you're just

emphasizing that look it's daylight you

can see a lot right that's all it is

just emphasizing daylight broad daylight

and then we have a streams Full of Stars

so we can see the night Stars reflected

in the dark stream

in number four we can see the sheep and

the cows notice the plural of sheep is

sheep number five we've got between the

boughs so

boughs very old word to mean the tree

trunks and here we say between the

bowels here you can see the sun between

the

bowels and then number six we've got

nuts in the grass nuts in the

grass obviously squirrels like to put

nuts in the grass Mina says what's the

opposite of

daylight uh the opposite of daylight is

uh the Darkness at

night what's the opposite of daylight

it's quite an interesting question Min

yeah I think the Darkness at

night

the sun is covering my body body with

his light um I mean it's quite unusual

to call the sun he and say his light uh

but you

could if you want uh maybe its light

would be sort of more normal but but if

you you could be poetic and say you know

he the son he has risen and he covers me

with his light sounds like sounds like

someone else else I

know

Yeshua the son is a man could be yeah

yeah normally uh people do personify the

Sun as a man and the moon as a woman uh

that is the sort of

historical uh

cultural

default most

um most countries do

that and now I get to hide someone on

the channel because they're not speaking

English boom bye-bye goodbye black money

doesn't sound brilliant text

either right then so that's some

vocabulary about this I'm going to do

the same thing now I did before so I'll

read the poem I'm going to read the poem

twice I want you to just listen and

remember the words so I'll read the poem

twice you listen and remember the words

are you

ready this is

lasure what is this life if full of care

we have no time to stand and

stare no time to stand

between no time to stand beneath the

bows and stare as long as sheep and

cows no time to see when Woods we

pass where squirrels hide their nuts in

Grass no time to see in Broad day

light streams Full of Stars like skies

at night no time to turn at Beauty's

glance and watch her feet how they can

dance no time to waits till her mouth

can enrich that smile her eyes

began a poor life this if full of care

we have no time to stand

and

stare I will read that

again this time I'm going to do my best

poetry voice are you ready for this

everybody let's try

this should I I'll pick up a book as

well seems like it's there all I need

now is GL glasses right a book in

glasses and I do

this what is this life if full of

care we have no time to stand and

stare no time to stand beneath the

bowels and stare as long as sheep and

cows no time to see when Woods we

pass where squirrels hide their nuts in

Grass no time to see in broad

daylight streams Full of Stars like

skies at

night no time to turn at Beauty's

glance and and watch her

feet how they can

dance no time to wait till her mouth can

enrich that smile her eyes

began a poor life this if full of

care we have no time to stand and

stare

and you can see now on the screen the

poem with missing words there are 12

missing words type the words that you

remember in the chat if you do remember

the words if you do not remember the

words then you can try to type a synonym

and if you do not remember a

synonym then you can guess and if you

can't guess then skip it and go to the

next

one so this was a poem called Leisure

from wh Davies I also think this is a

lovely poem nice simple

cute does anyone have any questions

about the meaning of the

poem

oh thank you Ashley Chen you like my

baby Yoda t-shirt

wonderful it's a it's a shirt actually a

short we call this a short sleeve

shirt it's a shirt because it has

buttons T So t-shirts don't have buttons

all the way down this has buttons all

the way so it's a short

sleeve

t-shirt

there should be no ads on this stream

Manuel I I do believe that ads are not

enabled on this stream I I I

believe so you you should not see any

ads

here yeah Fabia that's exactly it

there's so much beuty that we Overlook

by always being in a hurry and that is

of

course that is of course the point of

the poem and it's so

true and I have learned this lesson in

my life so many times and I will learn

it so many more times because it's a

mistake I will make again and

again we

rush we rush through things we rush

through the good things we rush through

the beauty we're always in a

hurry and we miss everything don't we

why don't we just take a moment just to

appreciate

things it's always a pleasurable

experience isn't it just take a moment

just you know

like I'm drinking this coffee but I'm

not really experiencing it I'm just

drink in in it

pointlessly can I just take a

moment with my coffee maybe smell

it it smells

great and I never smell the thing I just

chook it down my

throat ah you can smell the beans and

everything it's

brilliant

right oh

wow you see what I mean you take a

moment and the whole thing tastes like

20 times

better

brilliant take a moment folks that's

what this poem is about just take a

moment

sorry about that if you heard

that so we are wrapping up here today if

you want to continue learning with me

today please do join me I put a link now

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immediately and we're talking about why

did the UK leave the EU it's a topic

that was requested by several

subscribers and it's going to be a

little difficult to talk about but I

will talk about

it because I think it's something people

do try to understand they want to

understand and it's quite difficult to

understand so I'm going to give you the

answers now for the missing words in the

poem and here you can see the full poem

that is Leisure by wh

Davies what is this life if full of care

we have no time to stand and stare no

time to stand beneath the boughs and

stare as long as sheep and cows no time

to see when Woods we pass where

squirrels hide their nuts in Grass no

time to see in Broad dayl streams Full

of Stars like skies at night no time to

turn a Beauty's glance and watch her

feet how they can dance no time to wait

till her mouth can enrich that smile her

eyes began a poor life this if full of

care we have no time to stand and stare

if you have any questions about that

then please do ask me now in the chat I

will answer your questions for the next

few minutes and then I'm

going and I will be live on Professor

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for an indepth analysis of a

brexit all right no questions about the

poem it seems oh explain the sentence

stare as long as sheep and cows that was

an easy one

Santos that's an easy

one um so look at a sheep and a cow what

do they do they stand still in a field

and they

stare for

hours that's what they do right they're

always

watching and the the point is to stare

as long as sheep and cows it's like they

can stare for hours

can

you so it's simply like that uh Beauty

glances let me just see that a minute no

time to turn at Beauty's

glance yeah that's an interesting one so

it's I think this is an anthropomorphic

representation of nature so the poet is

refer referring to Nature collectively

as Beauty we see here the capital B

indicating this is a person or an entity

called Beauty and Beauty's glance a

glance means she's looking at

you so she is glancing at

you

right so if we get sort of an example of

this

I'm just going to do a Google glance

okay random Google

glance okay so this lady here is

demonstrating a glance all right so we

can imagine Beauty's glance this

anthropomorphic this

person um that we call Beauty that

represents perhaps Nature's beauty or

whatever she's glancing at you in other

words she's looking briefly at you but

you have no time to turn towards it so

she glances at you but you've no time to

turn that's the

idea the picture is not clear that's

your

internet

uh Santos doesn't understand the as long

as so as long as is pretty simple as

long as means uh so if we say x as long

as y it means X will

happen while y happens when y stops X

will stop no that's not what it means

here sorry I'm confusing

you here as long as means for the same

duration

as so I

can't run for as long as him it means he

runs for longer than me I get tired

before

him it's like

that so it's a different as long as

Santos it's not that as long as it's a

different

one I can't run for as long as him means

he runs for longer than

me all right folks this is the countdown

to the end winter poetry is over next

week no in two weeks we'll be talking

about the Christian in Christmas so let

me explain what inspired this idea is

that many people people do videos about

Christmas but it's always like Christmas

around the world and even myself last

year I did a video called English

Christmas and we talked about the Pagan

traditions of Christmas and all this

stuff and I kind of thought you know

what English teachers never seem to do a

a Christmas talking about the Christian

element so I thought well why not so I'm

going to talk about the Christian part

of Christmas what is the Christian part

of Christmas let's get into that so I

will be talking about

religion is you might that might

surprise you right if you go and watch a

stream about Eid then probably you're

going to hear some religion in uh if you

go and watch a stream about the Indian

festival of light then you'll hear

something about the Indian gods perhaps

so I'm going to do a stream about

Christmas I'm going to talk about

Christianity and our good friend Yeshua

we will talk about

him and then my final stream on Oxford

online English on the 30th goodbye but

not farewell if you wish to continue to

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Professor all right folks question time

and you can download the notes from

today do check those

out uh I will not be talking about this

uh about Christmas from from a Catholic

perspective

Manuel I will be talking from an English

Christian Perspective which is not

Catholic so it's a bit

different bit

different

right it seems that there are no

questions

today so thank you very much for joining

me

folks and to answer your question Ashley

Chen

yes uh the streams will be ending at the

end of the year so OE live

streams are ending this

month could you explain the types of

poetry um mujahid I have done that in

the

past so if you look at the previous

stream on poetry I did you can find out

about the types of poetry I don't have

time right now cuz I'm going to stream

on my channel in like 2 minutes so come

and join me folks come across

youtube.com/ Professor reach and we're

talking about brexit and I'm a bit

concerned because brexit is difficult

issue to talk

about but I'm going to have a go thank

you very much for joining me and

hopefully I'll see you soon and catch

you in two weeks all right folks see you

soon bye-bye

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
poem /ˈpoʊ.ɪm/ A2	noun - a piece of writing that expresses feelings and ideas, usually with a particular structure
winter /ˈwɪn.tər/ A1	noun - the coldest season of the year, between autumn and spring adjective - relating to or occurring in winter
snow /snoʊ/ A1	noun - frozen white water that falls from the sky as small white flakes verb - to fall as snow
forest /ˈfɔːrɪst/ B1	noun - a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth
horse /hɔːrs/ A1	noun - a large animal with four legs that people can ride
imagine /ɪˈmædʒɪn/ B1	verb - to form a picture in your mind
ride /raɪd/ A2	verb - to sit on and control the movement of an animal or a vehicle
woods /wʊdz/ B1	noun - an area of land covered with trees
private /ˈpraɪvɪt/ B2	adjective - for the use of a particular person or group only
beauty /ˈbjuːti/ B2	noun - the quality of being physically attractive or pleasing
snowflake /ˈsnoʊ.fleɪk/ B2	noun - a single ice crystal that falls as snow
promise /ˈprɒmɪs/ B1	noun - a statement that someone will do something or that something will happen verb - to say that you will definitely do something or that something will happen
dark /dɑːrk/ A2	adjective - having little or no light
mistake /mɪˈsteɪk/ A2	noun - an action or judgment that is wrong or produces a bad result verb - to understand or judge something wrongly
stare /ster/ B1	verb - to look at something or someone for a long time with wide-open eyes
glance /ɡlæns/ B2	noun - a quick or brief look verb - to take a quick or brief look
squirrel /ˈskwɜːrəl/ B2	noun - a small animal with a long tail that climbs trees and eats nuts
hurry /ˈhɜːri/ A2	noun - a need to move or act quickly verb - to do something quickly because you have little time