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1. 0:04Hello Eduardo. Nice to see you again.
2. 0:07>> Hi young. How are you?
3. 0:08>> I'm good, thank you. And you? How's your
4. 0:10day gone?
5. 0:12>> Well, fine. I've been working and now I
6. 0:14am here at home. So, not bad.
7. 0:17>> Excellent. It looks sunny where you are
8. 0:19over there in Madrid.
9. 0:21>> Yeah. Yeah, it's a very good day.
10. 0:24>> Yeah,
11. 0:24>> maybe some clouds, but not a bad day.
12. 0:27>> It's very dark and miserable here. You
13. 0:29can see I have all of my lights switched
14. 0:30on. Uh [laughter]
15. 0:32quite the opposite to Madrid weather.
16. 0:34No.
17. 0:35>> Yes. Exactly. Exactly. Quite the
18. 0:36opposite to Madrid. So, uh uh [laughter]
19. 0:40anyway, listen um we'll get going now.
20. 0:42Um just so that you're aware as always
21. 0:44over in the shared notes on the um your
22. 0:48left hand side of the screen, I think um
23. 0:50I'm going to put any vocabulary or
24. 0:52anything and if you have questions and I
25. 0:54need you to type anything, just type it
26. 0:55into the shared notes for me. Okay.
27. 0:57Perfect.
28. 0:58>> Excellent. And as you know, we're
29. 0:59recording this class today um so that uh
30. 1:02some some teachers can watch this and
31. 1:04see uh uh see what it is that we're
32. 1:06actually doing. Okay.
33. 1:07>> Sure. Yeah. No problem.
34. 1:08>> Excellent. Wonderful. Right.
35. 1:12Let's look at an image. And when you see
36. 1:14this image, what I'd like for you to do
37. 1:16is to think about some of the
38. 1:18controversial things that these people
39. 1:21have done. Okay.
40. 1:24>> So, the image should be coming up on
41. 1:25your screen now.
42. 1:27I think we are we are looking at Elon
43. 1:31Musk no the the owner of Tesla and well
44. 1:37now the owner of Twitter but I don't
45. 1:40know if if he is going to resign to to
46. 1:44that to to Twitter no because he I think
47. 1:48>> one as you asked me one of his
48. 1:50controversies was to to buy Twitter and
49. 1:53then to make like uh uh Yeah, a
50. 1:57referendum.
51. 1:59>> Okay. Yeah.
52. 2:01>> To know if the if the people wanted him
53. 2:06at, how do you say it?
54. 2:10Controlling the platform or
55. 2:12>> Perfect. Well done.
56. 2:16Okay. Was there any other controversial
57. 2:18things that he did?
58. 2:21Uh well I think well anything that that
59. 2:25this man do is is is controversial. No
60. 2:29to try to
61. 2:33>> no to try to to to
62. 2:36take the the man to the moon or to Mars.
63. 2:40I don't know everything. It's it's a
64. 2:43it's a controversy.
65. 2:44>> Okay. Perfect. Right. Let's have a look
66. 2:46at someone else who's controversial. And
67. 2:48again, I want you to tell me some of the
68. 2:50controversial things you think he did.
69. 2:54>> Well, the the the former prime minister
70. 2:56know there in the UK, [laughter]
71. 2:59>> one of the former prime ministers,
72. 3:02>> one one of the former in this six
73. 3:05months.
74. 3:05>> Yes, [laughter] that's correct. Well
75. 3:07done.
76. 3:09>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And no, I I I heard
77. 3:12about him that he did parties during the
78. 3:16lockdown and during the the morning
79. 3:20period or the Duke of
80. 3:23>> Well done. He held parties.
81. 3:27>> Okay. So he held to hold parties.
82. 3:29>> Okay.
83. 3:30>> Okay. And yeah. Well, and every word as
84. 3:34a prime minister, every word that he he
85. 3:37said
86. 3:38well and in in this case I think is is
87. 3:42more know controversial because of his I
88. 3:46don't know if of his thoughts of his way
89. 3:48of
90. 3:50of his behavior.
91. 3:52>> Okay, perfect. Okay, now this one's a
92. 3:55little bit more familiar. What kind of
93. 3:57controversial things did this man do?
94. 4:01Oh yeah, our former king here in Spain.
95. 4:06Yeah, he he was uh the the king that we
96. 4:10had until 2014 and we all knew about his
97. 4:17offices about his
98. 4:20influences outside of Spain know
99. 4:24with some businesses some dark
100. 4:27businesses. But yeah, now we are knowing
101. 4:29more related to to yeah
102. 4:34a a fault that he has there in the in in
103. 4:38the UK and and in the Muslim countries.
104. 4:44>> Uhhuh.
105. 4:47>> Yeah.
106. 4:47>> Okay. Good. Excellent. Right. Let's have
107. 4:49a look at uh uh one more I think. Let's
108. 4:53see. Uh who do we have
109. 4:56uh here? Let me see if I can pick one
110. 4:59that's uh
111. 5:01even more controversial.
112. 5:03Uh let's try
113. 5:07let's try this one.
114. 5:11Yeah.
115. 5:13Yeah. I think that is from your country.
116. 5:16I'm like um
117. 5:19a member of the crown like the the last
118. 5:25person that we saw and he is now he's a
119. 5:29member of the British crown. I think is
120. 5:31the the well I I was about to say the
121. 5:35the the son of the queen but is the the
122. 5:38brother of the king.
123. 5:40>> Okay. Good. Well done. Well done.
124. 5:41Excellent. Okay. and his controversy his
125. 5:45contro controversy
126. 5:48things or controversial things was
127. 5:50related with Jeffrey
128. 5:54>> that's and some abuse
129. 5:58issues
130. 5:59>> with how do you say underage girls
131. 6:04>> exactly yes underage girls or minors you
132. 6:06can use okay
133. 6:07>> okay
134. 6:08>> all right excellent okay um all right
135. 6:11good okay some good examples there.
136. 6:13Okay. Um I'll just put that there on the
137. 6:14screen. So you have that. Okay.
138. 6:16Excellent. Um one more very quickly. Um
139. 6:20see if you can uh come up with any
140. 6:23controversial things for this person
141. 6:25here.
142. 6:27>> Some he is related to
143. 6:30this past year. No, 2022
144. 6:33that he how you say smash or
145. 6:39describe what it was he did.
146. 6:42Yeah. To when you hit someone in his
147. 6:45face.
148. 6:46>> Okay. So, it was to hit or to punch?
149. 6:51>> To punch. Okay. So he punched another I
150. 6:54I don't know the name of the of of the
151. 6:56other celebrity but I I saw the moment
152. 7:01when he punched
153. 7:04that that guy and it it was well it was
154. 7:08a bad a bad thing but in it was a little
155. 7:12bit how you say hilarious.
156. 7:15>> Okay. Well done. Why was it hilarious?
157. 7:19>> Well I don't know. It's like I I I don't
158. 7:22I didn't expected that. So it was like
159. 7:25oh my god.
160. 7:27>> Okay. Perfect. Excellent. Right. Well,
161. 7:30let's leave it there for the moment.
162. 7:31Okay. We'll come back to uh those
163. 7:33controversial figures later. Okay. Um so
164. 7:37if we think about for example um Elon
165. 7:41Musk, okay. All right. Um Elon Musk has
166. 7:45done lots of things since he's taken
167. 7:47over Twitter. Okay. Uh one of the things
168. 7:50that he did was uh he fired a lot of
169. 7:54employees from uh from Twitter when he
170. 7:57when he um bought the company. Okay. So
171. 8:00if we go to the shared notes and we have
172. 8:02a look in the shared notes there. Okay.
173. 8:04Um
174. 8:04>> how do you say bought the company?
175. 8:07>> When he bought the company
176. 8:10>> when he when he he paid for it. Yeah.
177. 8:13>> Go on.
178. 8:14>> Bought. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. It
179. 8:16does only to bought.
180. 8:18>> There we go. To buy and bought. There we
181. 8:21go. Okay.
182. 8:22>> Ah, bought. I I understand you. Bored.
183. 8:26>> Bought. No problem. Okay. The internet's
184. 8:29a little bit strange today, I think. Um,
185. 8:32okay.
186. 8:33>> So, so we can see there. Okay. It was
187. 8:35Elon Musk's fault that hundreds of
188. 8:38Twitter employees lost their job. Okay.
189. 8:43Mhm.
190. 8:44>> What do I mean by uh this it was his
191. 8:49fault? What do you think I mean there?
192. 8:53>> Well, that he was the responsible of of
193. 8:56those h of those hires.
194. 9:02>> Okay. Those uh well in this case it was
195. 9:05firings because he he fired the people.
196. 9:08Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Good. Okay.
197. 9:12Um, give me an example from one of those
198. 9:17other controversial figures that we've
199. 9:19just seen. Give me an example of um
200. 9:23something else that was someone's fault.
201. 9:26For example, if we think of Boris
202. 9:28Johnson,
203. 9:30>> okay, it was Boris Johnson's
204. 9:34fault
205. 9:38that the UK passed a political crisis.
206. 9:45>> Okay, good. Perfect. Okay, excellent.
207. 9:47Okay, I'm sure there was a couple of
208. 9:49other prime ministers that were involved
209. 9:50that in that as well, but Okay, perfect.
210. 9:53Okay, excellent. Now, another way that
211. 9:56we can talk about it being someone's
212. 9:58fault is
213. 10:00to use this form. Okay. So, Elon Musk
214. 10:04was to blame for firing Twitter
215. 10:08employees. He did it. Okay.
216. 10:11>> Okay.
217. 10:12>> All right. So, in this case, we're using
218. 10:15a structure of to blame someone for
219. 10:19something. Okay.
220. 10:21>> Okay. Mhm.
221. 10:23>> Okay.
222. 10:24So give me an example of something that
223. 10:27maybe uh Boris Johnson was to blame for.
224. 10:32Well, in the same example, for example,
225. 10:35Boris Johnson was to blame
226. 10:39for causing that political crisis.
227. 10:43>> Excellent. Okay. Brilliant. All right.
228. 10:46Well done. Any questions there?
229. 10:49>> No, I understood everything.
230. 10:52>> Excellent. Okay. You're doing really
231. 10:53well. Okay. So, what I'd like for you to
232. 10:55do, I'd like for you to think of some
233. 10:57examples in your country. We've already
234. 10:59talked a little bit about the king.
235. 11:00Okay. Your your your uh previous king.
236. 11:03Okay. But, um think of something that's
237. 11:07been in the news recently where someone
238. 11:09was guilty of doing something. Okay? Or
239. 11:12maybe where someone made a mistake.
240. 11:14Okay? What um what examples can you
241. 11:17think of where it was someone's fault or
242. 11:19where someone was to blame for
243. 11:21something? Tell me a little bit about
244. 11:23that.
245. 11:25>> Okay. Do you want that I make first the
246. 11:28example with fold and then with with to
247. 11:30blame or
248. 11:32>> it doesn't really matter what you can do
249. 11:33if you want. Yes, that's fine. Yeah.
250. 11:35Yeah. So,
251. 11:42how do you say when you h take someone
252. 11:46out of the
253. 11:48jail to give him the freedom or to
254. 11:52>> No, typically we use
255. 11:56this. Have a look in the chat. See if I
256. 11:58can give you a clue.
257. 12:02Any
258. 12:05idea?
259. 12:06>> Released.
260. 12:07>> Well done. Okay. Excellent. Okay.
261. 12:11>> Okay. From jail.
262. 12:12>> That's it. Perfect.
263. 12:14>> Okay.
264. 12:17>> Okay. So
265. 12:19in Monontto was to blame for releasing
266. 12:23from jail many sexual
267. 12:30how would you say sexual
268. 12:34um
269. 12:36how do you say it? How do you call those
270. 12:39type of people who who did sexual fault
271. 12:43or
272. 12:44>> the the general kind of term that we can
273. 12:46use is
274. 12:47>> criminals
275. 12:48>> sexual offenders. That's that's the the
276. 12:51the general term that we'd use.
277. 12:52>> Okay.
278. 12:54>> Yeah. So Monte was to blame for
279. 12:59releasing from jail
280. 13:02sexual offenders.
281. 13:04>> Wow. And uh and tell me a little bit
282. 13:06about that. How did that uh how did that
283. 13:08happen?
284. 13:10>> Well, she is a minister from the go from
285. 13:12our government and from the equal
286. 13:16equality go minister.
287. 13:19>> Okay. Um and she made a law h two or 3
288. 13:24months ago and that law who pretend to
289. 13:29um to make bigger the
290. 13:33the condemns
291. 13:37because it it was a very bad reduction
292. 13:40of of that law and now the the lawyers
293. 13:44are using that law for releasing their
294. 13:48clients out of the out of the jail.
295. 13:52>> Okay. So, what what can you blame
296. 13:56something or someone for in that
297. 13:58example?
298. 14:01Erh well we we can blame our minister
299. 14:09for not modifying
300. 14:12that law when when everyone is telling
301. 14:16him her that he has she has to to
302. 14:19modify.
303. 14:20>> Well done. Really good example. Really
304. 14:22good example. So, what what what other
305. 14:25things have happened in in Spain or
306. 14:26maybe internationally if you if uh if
307. 14:29you can't think of anything in Spain um
308. 14:31where someone was to blame for something
309. 14:32where it was their fault?
310. 14:36>> Well, for example,
311. 14:39Donald Trump was to blame for
312. 14:43assaulting the
313. 14:46the the
314. 14:47Congress of the United States. Not
315. 14:50because he promote that situation and
316. 14:53>> promoted
317. 14:54>> and and promoted that situation and
318. 14:57called the the people for doing that.
319. 15:01>> Yeah. Well done. Okay. Well done. Take
320. 15:03care. He called on the people to call on
321. 15:08people to do something. Yeah. Okay.
322. 15:11Yeah. Really good example. Yeah. And
323. 15:12what do you think people blame him for?
324. 15:15Because obviously he was a very
325. 15:16controversial figure. Um what are some
326. 15:18of the other things that people people
327. 15:20are blaming him for do you think?
328. 15:24>> Well uh for example
329. 15:28or
330. 15:32for forbidding the
331. 15:36foreign people enter to the to to the
332. 15:40United States. foreign people. I mean,
333. 15:43South American people
334. 15:45>> or for
335. 15:47I don't know now for for stealing
336. 15:52secret documents. No, I think I heard
337. 15:55and he had them the documents in her
338. 15:58house. In his house.
339. 16:00>> Okay, good. Okay. Excellent. Well done.
340. 16:03Okay. Some really good examples there.
341. 16:04Excellent. Well, what we're going to do
342. 16:06now, Eduardo, we're going to listen uh
343. 16:08and watch a video. Okay.
344. 16:11>> Where a political advisor to uh Boris
345. 16:15Johnson has uh has done something and
346. 16:17he's making a statement to uh the press.
347. 16:21Um do you remember someone called
348. 16:23Dominic Cummings?
349. 16:26>> Yeah, I think I heard something about
350. 16:29>> Yeah, I think we we've talked a little
351. 16:31bit about him, I think, in previous
352. 16:32classes um on occasions. Yeah. Yeah. So,
353. 16:36what you're going to do is you're going
354. 16:37to watch a video. Okay. um about uh
355. 16:39about him. Okay. And all I'd like for
356. 16:42you to do while you're watching the
357. 16:43video is just identify at least three
358. 16:47things that um he said he did in the
359. 16:51video. Okay.
360. 16:52>> Yeah. Um so we're just going to watch it
361. 16:54all the way through to begin with. Okay.
362. 16:56See if you can identify those three
363. 16:58things and we'll just briefly talk about
364. 17:00it afterwards. Okay.
365. 17:02>> All right. So let me just pop that up on
366. 17:03the um the screen. I'm going to mute
367. 17:07your microphone while the um uh while
368. 17:11the video is running. Okay. So, you'll
369. 17:13just need to unmute it at the end.
370. 17:16>> Okay.
371. 17:17>> Okay. One second. Let's just get that on
372. 17:20the screen there.
373. 17:30Okay. So, just tell me you should be
374. 17:32able to see the video I think now. Oh,
375. 17:34is it appearing on the screen?
376. 17:36>> Yeah. And yeah, I'm seeing
377. 17:39>> There we go.
378. 17:41Okay. So, just watch the video and
379. 17:44identify three things that he said he
380. 17:46did. Okay.
381. 17:48>> Mhm. Okay.
382. 18:06>> [snorts]
383. 18:10>> Why weren't you honest with the public
384. 18:12before now?
385. 18:13>> Why weren't you honest the public before
386. 18:15now before Friday?
387. 18:17>> What was I not honest? I've explained
388. 18:18what my thought process was. I was
389. 18:20trying to balance these the these three
390. 18:22things about the safety to my child. And
391. 18:25I stressed the point about it wasn't
392. 18:26that it was some nice place to be. If
393. 18:28you've been there, you'd see that it's a
394. 18:30sort of um it's sort of concrete blocks.
395. 18:34It it's the point about it was it was
396. 18:37not that it was a nice place to be, but
397. 18:39that it was the safest place to be in
398. 18:41the circumstances. On Sunday the 12th of
399. 18:43April, 15 days after I had first after I
400. 18:46first displayed [music] symptoms, I
401. 18:48decided to return to work. My wife was
402. 18:50very worried, particularly given my
403. 18:51eyesight had seemed to seem to have been
404. 18:54affected by the disease. She did not
405. 18:56want to risk a nearly 300 mile drive
406. 18:58with our child given how ill I had been.
407. 19:02We agreed that we should go for a short
408. 19:04drive to see if I could drive safely. I
409. 19:06drove for roughly half an hour and ended
410. 19:08up on the outskirts of Barn Castle Town.
411. 19:11>> What is your message from Conservative
412. 19:12voters who voted this [music] government
413. 19:14in less than six months ago? A lot of
414. 19:16them for the first time in the northeast
415. 19:18around Darham who want you out of
416. 19:20Downing Street and want you out of this
417. 19:22government.
418. 19:24Um,
419. 19:30what's my message to them? Well, I think
420. 19:36I've made mistakes in how I've dealt
421. 19:39with this uh the the the
422. 19:42all sorts of things in government. I
423. 19:43don't think I made a mistake about these
424. 19:45last about these 14 days that that that
425. 19:48are in question. O obviously haven't I
426. 19:50feel um extreme sympathy for for single
427. 19:54moms who'd have been in in in in in s in
428. 19:57[music] such a terrible situation. Um
429. 20:02but all I can do is all I can do is
430. 20:04repeat is repeat what I said before
431. 20:06[music] on that evening my wife had re
432. 20:08had just been in a situation where she
433. 20:11felt barely able to look after our
434. 20:13child. I'd been was essentially
435. 20:15surrounded by people who um were testing
436. 20:19were were either testing positive or had
437. 20:22symptoms for for COVID. I thought that
438. 20:24if I did not [music] develop symptoms
439. 20:25that I might be able to return to work
440. 20:27to help deal with the crisis. There were
441. 20:30ongoing discussions about [music]
442. 20:31testing government staff in order to
443. 20:33keep people like me working rather than
444. 20:36isolating.
445. 20:37At this point on the Friday, advisers
446. 20:41such as myself had not been included in
447. 20:42the list of who of who were tested, but
448. 20:46it was possible that this might change
449. 20:47the following week.
450. 20:50Therefore, I thought that after testing
451. 20:52negative, I could continue working.
452. 20:55In fact, this did not change and special
453. 20:57advisers were not tested [music] and I
454. 20:58have never been tested.
455. 21:01Third, there have been numerous false
456. 21:03stories in the media about my actions
457. 21:05and statements regarding CO. In
458. 21:07particular, there were stories
459. 21:08suggesting that I had opposed lockdown
460. 21:09and even that I do not care about many
461. 21:11deaths.
462. 21:13For years, I have warned of the dangers
463. 21:14of pandemics. Last year, I wrote about
464. 21:16the possible threat of corona viruses
465. 21:18and the urgent [music] need for
466. 21:19planning.
467. 21:20The truth is that I'd argued for
468. 21:22lockdown, but I did not oppose it. But
469. 21:24these stories had created [music] a very
470. 21:26bad atmosphere around my home. I was
471. 21:28subject to threats of violence. People
472. 21:30came to my house [music] shouting
473. 21:31threats. There were posts on social
474. 21:32media encouraging attacks. There were
475. 21:35many media reports [music] on TV showing
476. 21:36pictures of my
477. 21:46Okay, just unmute your microphone so I
478. 21:48can hear you.
479. 21:51No, there we go. Perfect. Okay. So, just
480. 21:55tell me um at least three things that he
481. 21:58uh identified that he did during that
482. 22:00statement.
483. 22:03>> Okay. Erh well uh he said that
484. 22:09his wife and him
485. 22:13took their children's to another place
486. 22:15during I I guess the lockdown and uh
487. 22:19because it wasn't
488. 22:22safe the place he he were they were
489. 22:27previously.
490. 22:28>> Okay. Erh then um he drove he talk about
491. 22:34when he drove I think he said I don't
492. 22:37know how how many miles but he drove to
493. 22:42to know if he was able to to drive h in
494. 22:46that conditions
495. 22:48and
496. 22:51he said also that his wife was worried
497. 22:54about
498. 22:55he was in contact with with positive
499. 23:00with based on people who tested positive
500. 23:05and he tested negative and continue
501. 23:07working.
502. 23:09>> Okay. Excellent. Okay. Good. Yeah. Good.
503. 23:12There's some good answers there.
504. 23:13Excellent. Well, look, what I'm going to
505. 23:14do now, I'm going to get you to uh watch
506. 23:17the video again. Okay.
507. 23:20This time, while you're watching the
508. 23:22video, I want you to answer some
509. 23:24questions. So, if you go to the um
510. 23:26public chat on the left hand side of
511. 23:28your screen, you'll see that there's um
512. 23:31three questions coming uh sorry, four
513. 23:34questions coming up there in the public
514. 23:35chat. Can you see those?
515. 23:37>> Mhm. Okay.
516. 23:38>> Excellent. Okay. So, um just have a
517. 23:41quick look through those questions there
518. 23:42and uh if you've got any questions about
519. 23:45vocabulary, just feel free to ask me.
520. 23:48>> Mhm. Okay.
521. 23:50>> Okay. Any questions there?
522. 23:54No.
523. 23:55>> Excellent. So, what I'd like for you to
524. 23:57do is to watch the video again and just
525. 23:59write down your answers to each of those
526. 24:02four questions. Um, if you need time, if
527. 24:05you need time to write and you want me
528. 24:07to pause the video, just raise your hand
529. 24:09like that, okay? So that I can see and
530. 24:11I'll pause the video to give you time to
531. 24:13write. Okay.
532. 24:14>> Okay.
533. 24:15>> Excellent. Right. Let's try again then.
534. 24:17Here we go. Um, I will mute your
535. 24:18microphone as before. Okay.
536. 24:21>> Okay.
537. 24:28Why weren't you honest with the public
538. 24:30before now before Friday?
539. 24:32>> Why weren't you honest?
540. 24:35>> In what way was I not honest? Explain
541. 24:37what my thought process was. I was
542. 24:38trying to balance these the these three
543. 24:40things about the safety to my child. And
544. 24:43I stressed the point about it was that
545. 24:45it was some nice place to be. If you've
546. 24:47been there, you'd see that it's a sort
547. 24:49of um it's sort of concrete blocks. It
548. 24:53it's the point about it was it was not
549. 24:56that it was a nice place to be, but that
550. 24:58it was the safest place to be in the
551. 25:00circumstances. On Sunday the 12th of
552. 25:02April, 15 days after I first after I
553. 25:05first displayed symptoms, [music]
554. 25:06I decided to return to work. My wife was
555. 25:09very worried, particularly given my
556. 25:10eyesight seemed to seem to have been
557. 25:12affected by the disease.
558. 25:14She did not want to risk a nearly 300
559. 25:16mile drive with our child given how ill
560. 25:18I had been.
561. 25:21We agreed that we should go for a short
562. 25:22drive to see if I could drive safely. We
563. 25:25drove for roughly half an hour and ended
564. 25:27up on the outskirts of Barn Castle Town.
565. 25:29>> What is your message from Conservative
566. 25:31voters who voted this government [music]
567. 25:32in less than 6 months ago, a lot of them
568. 25:34for the first time in the northeast
569. 25:36around Durham who want [music] you out
570. 25:38of Downing Street and want you out of
571. 25:39this government.
572. 25:42Um,
573. 25:52what's my message to them? Well, I think
574. 25:58I've made mistakes in how I've dealt
575. 26:01with this uh the the the
576. 26:04all sorts of things in government. I
577. 26:05don't think I made a mistake about these
578. 26:07last about these 14 days that that that
579. 26:10are in question. Obviously have I feel
580. 26:13um extreme sympathy for for single moms
581. 26:16who'd have been in in in in in such a
582. 26:19terrible situation. Um
583. 26:24but all I can do is all I can do is is
584. 26:27repeat what I said before. [music] On
585. 26:28that on that evening, my wife had re had
586. 26:31just been in a situation where she felt
587. 26:33barely able to look after our child. I'd
588. 26:36been was essentially surrounded by
589. 26:38people who um were testing were were
590. 26:42either testing positive or had symptoms
591. 26:44for for COVID. I thought that if I did
592. 26:46not develop symptoms, then I might be
593. 26:48able to return to work to help deal with
594. 26:50the crisis. There were ongoing
595. 26:52discussions about testing government
596. 26:54staff in order to keep people like me
597. 26:57working rather than isolating.
598. 26:59At this point on the Friday, advisers
599. 27:02such as myself had not been included
600. 27:04[music] in the list of who of who were
601. 27:06tested.
602. 27:07But it was possible that this might
603. 27:09change the following week.
604. 27:11Therefore, I thought that after testing
605. 27:14negative, I could continue working.
606. 27:17In fact, this did not change and special
607. 27:19advisers were not tested and I have
608. 27:21never been tested.
609. 27:23Third, there have been newsful stories
610. 27:25in the media about my actions and
611. 27:27statements regarding COVID. In
612. 27:29particular, there were stories
613. 27:30suggesting that I had opposed lockdown
614. 27:31and even that I don't care about many
615. 27:33deaths.
616. 27:35For years, I have warned of the dangers
617. 27:36of pandemics. Last year, I wrote about
618. 27:38the possible threat of corona viruses
619. 27:40and the [music] urgent need for
620. 27:41planning.
621. 27:43The truth is that I had argued for
622. 27:44lockdown, but I did not oppose it. But
623. 27:47these stories had [music] created a very
624. 27:48bad atmosphere around my home. I was
625. 27:50subject to threats of violence. People
626. 27:52came to my house shouting threats. There
627. 27:54were posts on social media encouraging
628. 27:55attacks. There were many media reports
629. 27:58on TV showing pictures of my
630. 28:02Okay. Why don't I just unmute your
631. 28:04microphone? There we go. Lovely.
632. 28:06>> Oh, hang on. Let me just get rid of the
633. 28:09video there. Okay. How did you get on
634. 28:11with that then?
635. 28:15>> Well, I think so. Yeah.
636. 28:17>> Excellent. Okay. Let me just clear the
637. 28:19video. Uh, okay. So, let's Oh, let's get
638. 28:23rid of him as well. Hang on. There we
639. 28:24go. [clears throat] Right. So, let's
640. 28:26have a look then at question one because
641. 28:27he mentions his thought process. So, um,
642. 28:31what was your interpretation of what he
643. 28:32said about his thought process?
644. 28:36Well, I think he said that he balanced
645. 28:42two things like the the safe the safest
646. 28:45h way of taking care about his children
647. 28:50and
648. 28:52and he decided to with with his with his
649. 28:55wife. He decided to to transfer them
650. 29:00from a a nicest place to another who
651. 29:05which were
652. 29:08safest
653. 29:09and because it was because he were he
654. 29:14was surrounded by people who tested
655. 29:18positive.
656. 29:20>> Excellent. Okay. Good. And and what what
657. 29:22did he think that he'd not made mistakes
658. 29:25about? because because there was a lot
659. 29:26of talk there about mistakes. So
660. 29:29>> yeah, mistakes I think he took that
661. 29:35maybe he were wrong taking his his
662. 29:40children's from one place to another but
663. 29:43he defended his act his yes his measures
664. 29:48in the government. No, he think he
665. 29:50thought that
666. 29:54that the the government issues were
667. 29:57correct. No, I think I think I
668. 29:59understood that.
669. 30:00>> Okay, that's good. Okay, excellent. And
670. 30:02his message to voters, was that was that
671. 30:04particularly important, do you think?
672. 30:08>> Yeah. Yeah. [laughter]
673. 30:10Well, his message I think he talked
674. 30:15especially to the single moms and single
675. 30:18dads. that that he felt sympathy with
676. 30:22with them
677. 30:24but I think I I don't understand why he
678. 30:28felt sympathy with
679. 30:29>> with them and and he always defend his
680. 30:34his message in the in the government
681. 30:38>> with
682. 30:40>> you you mentioned before about how um
683. 30:42you know people were testing you know
684. 30:44for COVID and things um why did he think
685. 30:48that after testing negative he could
686. 30:49continue working.
687. 30:53>> I understand. I understood because
688. 30:57he has to help in the government issues.
689. 31:01No, he has to continue his work and and
690. 31:05after all they are not going to like
691. 31:08retest him and well the symptoms
692. 31:12disappears and he continue working
693. 31:15continued working
694. 31:16>> continued working. Well done. Good.
695. 31:18Okay. Excellent. So, what what were your
696. 31:20thoughts then in terms of the way that
697. 31:22he responded to some of those questions?
698. 31:25Do you think that maybe he accepted
699. 31:27responsibility for some of the things he
700. 31:29was blamed for?
701. 31:33>> Erh, well, I think he
702. 31:37tried to
703. 31:39to not seem or or appear like guilty.
704. 31:45You know it's
705. 31:47he always when when the reporter ask him
706. 31:52about some questions he thought and or
707. 31:56um he
708. 31:58answers the questions with another
709. 32:03path no another path another way you
710. 32:05know trying not to focus on the question
711. 32:09and and trying to avoid the the the
712. 32:12truth maybe.
713. 32:13>> Oo okay. Yeah. Well, well, well
714. 32:15observed. Excellent. Um, okay. What what
715. 32:18do you think, and I realize that the
716. 32:20video is a little bit abstract, but what
717. 32:22do you think people were blaming him
718. 32:25for?
719. 32:28>> Uh, for maybe establishing some
720. 32:32some measures, some some or some laws
721. 32:36related to the lockdown, related to the
722. 32:38pandemic. And then uh when when he has
723. 32:42some problems or when he or he had some
724. 32:46problems or when he had a different
725. 32:49situation at her home at his home
726. 32:54he pass how do you say that pass above
727. 32:58those measures.
728. 33:00>> Oh um there's a couple of different ways
729. 33:02you could say that. You could say to um
730. 33:05break the rules. You know, he he kind of
731. 33:07broke his own rules there.
732. 33:10>> Yeah. To he broke his own rules.
733. 33:14>> Yeah.
734. 33:14>> And the people were were like
735. 33:19like how do you say replying him for
736. 33:22that?
737. 33:23>> Yeah. Okay. Replying to him. Yeah.
738. 33:24Another way that you could do that would
739. 33:26be we can use this expression to be
740. 33:28above something. Okay. Or someone. Okay.
741. 33:34So, for example, in Boris Johnson's
742. 33:36case, Boris Johnson held parties during
743. 33:38lockdown and he thought he was above the
744. 33:41rules. The rules didn't apply to him.
745. 33:44>> Okay,
746. 33:46>> that's an example. At least some people
747. 33:48may not agree with that, but that that
748. 33:50was the example. Yeah, perfect. Okay,
749. 33:52good. Right, let's have a a quick look
750. 33:55at something then. So, let's uh let's
751. 33:56just bring something up on the screen
752. 33:58very quickly for you to look at. Um and
753. 34:01uh we'll just bring this up. Hopefully
754. 34:04you can see that there.
755. 34:07Okay. So, we've got some examples here
756. 34:09of some of the things that um he uh was
757. 34:12blamed for. Okay. Um you know, he said
758. 34:14that he uh tested his eyesight by
759. 34:17driving 300 miles. Okay. And obviously
760. 34:20we we know from that press conference
761. 34:22that he made some uh big mistakes. Okay.
762. 34:26Yeah.
763. 34:26>> Yeah.
764. 34:27Let's have a little look at some of
765. 34:29these examples. So, um let me just get
766. 34:34get some uh something on the screen
767. 34:36here. Okay. So, if we look at um this
768. 34:39first example, he tested his eyesight by
769. 34:42driving 300 miles. What can you tell me
770. 34:45about the grammar tense that's being
771. 34:47used in that sentence?
772. 34:49>> Is uh past simple.
773. 34:52>> How do you know it's past simple?
774. 34:56because of the verb and because we don't
775. 35:00have any auxiliary verb or anything that
776. 35:04show us that is another
777. 35:06>> excellent just um just tell me which is
778. 35:08the um the past simple verb in that
779. 35:10first sentence
780. 35:13>> tested
781. 35:15>> tested excellent okay excellent let's
782. 35:17just underline that there excellent
783. 35:19right so
784. 35:21if we go to the next sentence what can
785. 35:25you Tell me about the grammar tense
786. 35:27there. Let's have a look at the verbs.
787. 35:32>> Yeah, we you have transformed it into a
788. 35:36passive tense.
789. 35:38>> Oh, how do you know that that's a
790. 35:40passive tense? What can you tell me
791. 35:42about the verbs?
792. 35:43>> Well, because
793. 35:45we have the verb to be as an auxiliary
794. 35:47verb
795. 35:50before the the main verb.
796. 35:53>> Excellent. Okay. And where's the main
797. 35:55verb?
798. 35:57>> Tested is the word.
799. 36:01>> Excellent. Okay. So, if this sentence is
800. 36:05passive, what's the original sentence?
801. 36:12>> The original is the first one.
802. 36:15>> The first one. Yeah.
803. 36:18>> Mhm.
804. 36:20>> But are you asking me something or I
805. 36:22>> So, yeah. So, what what's the
806. 36:24>> what's the opposite of um the passive?
807. 36:27>> If it's not a passive tense,
808. 36:29>> it's the active tense. Well done. So,
809. 36:30we've got active in the first one and
810. 36:33passive in the second one. Okay, great.
811. 36:35Let's have a look at this one here. So,
812. 36:37he made a big mistake. Where are the
813. 36:40verbs in that one?
814. 36:43>> Made.
815. 36:45>> Okay, good. Well done.
816. 36:47>> Okay. And is that active or passive? I'm
817. 36:50happy
818. 36:51>> is an active verb.
819. 36:53>> Okay. I'm sorry. My my Google is talking
820. 36:55to me. I don't know whether you heard
821. 36:56that. Um [laughter]
822. 36:58um sorry, just repeat that. You said
823. 37:00it's Did you say it's active?
824. 37:03>> Yeah, it's an active sentence.
825. 37:04>> Okay, good. So, what about the next one
826. 37:06then? Big mistakes were made.
827. 37:10>> Well, as the as the first example, we
828. 37:12have an auxiliary verb. In this case, is
829. 37:15the verb to be and it's a a passive a
830. 37:17passive sentence.
831. 37:19>> Excellent. Okay, now you've got the verb
832. 37:21to be. Um, the next verb, what form is
833. 37:24the next verb in?
834. 37:26>> It's a past participle.
835. 37:28>> Oh, well done. Excellent. Okay. Well
836. 37:31done. Very good at this. Okay.
837. 37:33>> Excellent. Right. Okay. So, if we had to
838. 37:36create a formula for creating the
839. 37:39passive. Okay.
840. 37:41>> What would that formula be? So which um
841. 37:45which auxiliary verb um do we need in
842. 37:49order to create the passive?
843. 37:53>> The verb to be.
844. 37:55>> Okay. Excellent.
845. 37:56>> Plus a participle.
846. 38:00>> Excellent. Let's get this just up here
847. 38:01on the um uh on the screen. So we've got
848. 38:04Oh,
849. 38:06sorry. I'm having a little bit of
850. 38:07trouble there with uh Mhm.
851. 38:11>> It's all right. I'm I'm I'm on a boat as
852. 38:13you know and uh the wind is is very bad.
853. 38:16It's shaking the boat like this. You
854. 38:17can't see it on the camera, but uh
855. 38:19[laughter]
856. 38:19>> No, no, no.
857. 38:21>> Every time I try to click somewhere, I
858. 38:23miss it. Um so, we've got the verb to
859. 38:25be, which is
860. 38:26>> which is the auxiliary verb. And then
861. 38:28you um and then you said that the the
862. 38:30main verb is in which form?
863. 38:33>> In past participle.
864. 38:35>> In past participle. Excellent. Okay. So,
865. 38:37we'll get that up there on the screen.
866. 38:39past
867. 38:41participle.
868. 38:42Excellent. Okay. Oh, I've made a little
869. 38:44mistake there. That should be should be
870. 38:47an I there. There we go. Okay.
871. 38:49Excellent. Okay. So,
872. 38:51why are we using why can we use the
873. 38:54passive in this example, you know? So,
874. 38:56instead of saying he tested his eyesight
875. 38:58by driving 300 miles, why do you think
876. 39:00we're saying his eyesight was tested?
877. 39:04Maybe because
878. 39:07the person here doesn't care.
879. 39:13No,
880. 39:13>> right. Well done. The person that um the
881. 39:16person doing the action is not
882. 39:17important. Okay. Um that's a good
883. 39:19example. In the second one, he made a
884. 39:21big mistake. Well, in the second one, we
885. 39:23don't mention him. We just say big
886. 39:25mistakes were made. Okay. And
887. 39:29>> this type of language is used typically
888. 39:32in situations where people want to avoid
889. 39:36um saying that that it was their fault
890. 39:39or that they were to blame for
891. 39:41something. Okay.
892. 39:42>> Politicians,
893. 39:44>> politicians use passives all the time.
894. 39:46If you watch a if you watch a
895. 39:48politician's speech, particularly when
896. 39:49they're making a statement about
897. 39:51something controversial, they will
898. 39:53usually use the passive because it
899. 39:55softens the the language a little bit.
900. 39:58Okay.
901. 39:59>> Yeah. Like not me, someone else.
902. 40:02>> It kind of Yeah. and and and even if the
903. 40:05person um who uh is even if it's the
904. 40:09actual person who is making the
905. 40:11statement about their actions, the
906. 40:14passive is less kind of direct with um
907. 40:17uh in terms of language use. You're not
908. 40:19necessarily saying I did this. You're
909. 40:21saying I didn't I didn't make the
910. 40:23mistake. Mistakes were made. Okay.
911. 40:26[snorts]
912. 40:27>> And that that that's the important
913. 40:28thing. Okay. Good. Okay. Now, sometimes
914. 40:31we can use this um in a slightly
915. 40:34different again passive as well, but we
916. 40:37could say that he was blamed for driving
917. 40:42300 miles during lockdown. Okay,
918. 40:45>> he was blamed. That gives us our
919. 40:47passive. So, he was blamed by other
920. 40:50people. So, that's another way that we
921. 40:51can use our passive. Okay.
922. 40:54>> So, when we want to use blame in a
923. 40:59passive way is he was blamed.
924. 41:04>> Let me put this up on the screen and
925. 41:06then you can see an example. So, he was
926. 41:11Oh, it's a little slow there. He was
927. 41:12blamed
928. 41:14uh for driving
929. 41:18300 miles during lockdown. Okay.
930. 41:23>> Okay.
931. 41:23>> And who who was he blamed by?
932. 41:29>> Who was he? By by people, not by by the
933. 41:33voters or
934. 41:34>> Yeah. But they're not important in this
935. 41:36case. What we're doing there is we're
936. 41:37saying he was blamed by some you know
937. 41:40that the person that is doing the action
938. 41:42of blaming is not important in this
939. 41:44case.
940. 41:45>> Mhm. Yeah. It's like when when you have
941. 41:47h for example when you're in a court the
942. 41:51person is not important. The person who
943. 41:53blamed you is not important. It's like
944. 41:55he was blamed for
945. 41:58stealing
946. 41:59€3,000 in a
947. 42:02>> That's it. You've got it. Excellent.
948. 42:04Well done. Okay. Well done. Okay. So,
949. 42:06just give me um give me a couple of
950. 42:07examples based on what you saw in the
951. 42:09Dominic Cummings video. Give me a couple
952. 42:11of examples of of some of the things
953. 42:13that he might say if he was trying to
954. 42:16avoid the blame. So using that passive.
955. 42:22>> Okay. Okay. So
956. 42:26he was blamed
957. 42:29really with blame or only or
958. 42:31>> it could be anything. Anything anything
959. 42:33in the passive. So if you think about
960. 42:34some of the things that we talked about
961. 42:36that he'd done. Okay. Um, [snorts]
962. 42:39how could you put those into passive
963. 42:41form?
964. 42:43>> So,
965. 42:46for example, I don't know.
966. 42:53Well, for example, his children were
967. 42:57transferred from a nicest place to a
968. 43:00safest place.
969. 43:01>> Oh, that's good. Okay. Right. That
970. 43:03works. Well done. Okay. Good.
971. 43:05>> Okay.
972. 43:05>> Okay. Good. Try try to imagine here that
973. 43:09uh let's say if if um if Boris Johnson
974. 43:12who was prime minister at the time had
975. 43:15to comment on uh Dominic Cummings, what
976. 43:19do you think he might say in order to
977. 43:21avoid giving the blame to anyone?
978. 43:26>> Well, for example,
979. 43:37the gravity of the
980. 43:40of the event. No,
981. 43:44>> go on. Give it a try. Go on.
982. 43:47M
983. 43:56what what about for example um we could
984. 44:00say um
985. 44:04uh he was told
986. 44:07uh he he was told he could continue
987. 44:10working during the pandemic. So it's
988. 44:13irrelevant where he worked from.
989. 44:17Yeah.
990. 44:17>> Okay. Was told that would be that would
991. 44:20be part of your passive there.
992. 44:21>> Okay.
993. 44:23>> Okay.
994. 44:23>> See if you can give me another example.
995. 44:27[clears throat]
996. 44:28>> So we talk about that.
997. 44:37>> Think of specific actions that maybe
998. 44:38Dominick Cummings did that we can
999. 44:40comment on.
1000. 44:42>> Well, yes. So I I I am thinking about
1001. 44:44the action that he he did.
1002. 44:47>> Yeah.
1003. 44:48>> So
1004. 44:51he was
1005. 44:58so
1006. 45:03many of them were tested positive or
1007. 45:06>> that's a good example of the passive.
1008. 45:08Yeah. Many many many people many of his
1009. 45:10colleagues were tested positive. Okay.
1010. 45:13Yeah. Okay. All right. Good.
1011. 45:16The the person who tested them is
1012. 45:19irrelevant. No.
1013. 45:20>> Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Well, now
1014. 45:23what's interesting about this is that
1015. 45:25typically we use this kind of form of
1016. 45:27the passive when someone is making a
1017. 45:29statement about somebody else. Okay.
1018. 45:32>> Yeah. So that's why for example I me you
1019. 45:34know I mentioned there that if you think
1020. 45:36about you know if if you're Boris
1021. 45:38Johnson making a statement about the
1022. 45:39actions of your advisor you're
1023. 45:41commenting on somebody else you see.
1024. 45:43Okay.
1025. 45:44>> Um so I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll
1026. 45:46have a little look at um how to make a
1027. 45:50statement about somebody else. Okay. So
1028. 45:53let's um on the screen now you should
1029. 45:55see um
1030. 45:57can you see can you see that there? Can
1031. 45:59you see uh Boris Johnson's adviser?
1032. 46:02Yeah.
1033. 46:03>> Yeah. Okay. So, let's have a little look
1034. 46:05at this one. Okay. Let's imagine that
1035. 46:07you're the adviser for Boris Johnson.
1036. 46:09Okay. And we've got a few things here
1037. 46:11that he's been accused of. Okay. So, you
1038. 46:14you mentioned earlier on holding parties
1039. 46:16while the rest of the nation was in
1040. 46:17lockdown. Okay.
1041. 46:20We've got um withholding the truth about
1042. 46:22the behavior of members of his team and
1043. 46:25misspending funds on PPE. So, the masks
1044. 46:28and the the gloves and everything else.
1045. 46:31Okay. Um, so what I'd like for you to
1046. 46:33do, just take a couple of minutes and I
1047. 46:36want you to imagine that you are the
1048. 46:38adviser to Boris Johnson and you have to
1049. 46:40make a statement on his behalf
1050. 46:44stating these at least these three
1051. 46:46things.
1052. 46:48>> But you need to use the passive in order
1053. 46:50to avoid blame.
1054. 46:52>> Okay.
1055. 46:53>> Okay. So if you want um take take say
1056. 46:55two minutes see what you can come up
1057. 46:57with and if you want to write it into
1058. 46:59the shared notes you can do if it helps
1059. 47:02you to write it down.
1060. 47:04>> Okay when yeah then we think I'm here.
1061. 47:07>> Okay just take a minute or two there.
1062. 48:13>> [snorts]
1063. 48:34>> I know how to write. [laughter]
1064. 48:37>> Don't worry. Take take your time.
1065. 48:38Remember the passive though,
1066. 48:42>> with your
1067. 48:45Oh,
1068. 48:48>> don't worry. Take your time.
1069. 48:51>> Remember the passive though. Okay.
1070. 48:53>> Mhm.
1071. 50:11And I don't know withholding withholding
1072. 50:15is what what does it mean of
1073. 50:17withholding? So, um, withholding the
1074. 50:21truth kind of, um, uh, if I if I told
1075. 50:26maybe a a part of a story, okay,
1076. 50:30>> but didn't really explain the whole
1077. 50:33truth, I would be withholding the truth,
1078. 50:36not telling you the truth.
1079. 50:38>> Okay.
1080. 50:39>> Okay.
1081. 50:41>> Okay. Okay.
1082. 50:43>> Should we should we have a go verbally?
1083. 50:45See if you can just make that statement.
1084. 50:47Yeah.
1085. 50:48>> Yeah. Maybe.
1086. 50:56Okay. I was I was thinking about they
1087. 50:59they weren't controlled every second of
1088. 51:02the day, for example.
1089. 51:03>> Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. Well,
1090. 51:05just have a go. Let's let's take just
1091. 51:06take take 30 seconds or a minute just to
1092. 51:09um uh imagine you're making a statement.
1093. 51:11Okay. And um you can use some of those
1094. 51:14notes that you've written there in the
1095. 51:15shared notes. Okay.
1096. 51:18Okay. Okay. For example, [clears throat]
1097. 51:21okay.
1098. 51:24Like good morning. I am the advisor for
1099. 51:28for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and I'm
1100. 51:32going to explain the on the the
1101. 51:36controversial events that we have lived
1102. 51:40in in this recent days
1103. 51:44regarding the parties that the someone
1104. 51:52were told or or the parties. cool
1105. 51:56>> that were told about
1106. 51:59the circle of the prime minister. I'm
1107. 52:02going to say that no more than 10 people
1108. 52:05were met in in down the street. So is it
1109. 52:09it is not considered
1110. 52:11a a party. It's more like a a reunion of
1111. 52:17government or relaxing reunion.
1112. 52:23our members outside of down the street
1113. 52:26were not weren't controlled every second
1114. 52:30of the day. So we we couldn't uh know
1115. 52:36the behavior of of all the members of
1116. 52:38the government
1117. 52:40and related to the PPE
1118. 52:45found
1119. 52:47I I just want you to know that we didn't
1120. 52:51know the the specifications correctly
1121. 52:54because of the of the knowledge that we
1122. 52:56had in that moment. So with PPE were
1123. 53:01bought with the best of our intentions
1124. 53:04to protect the the population and and
1125. 53:08the the the the health system workers.
1126. 53:13>> Thank you.
1127. 53:14>> Really well done. Good job. Really well
1128. 53:16done. Okay. Excellent. Excellent. I
1129. 53:18think you've you've you've you've
1130. 53:19clearly avoided all blame from the press
1131. 53:21there. That was
1132. 53:23>> it's convincible. I can work as as a
1133. 53:26advisor of
1134. 53:27>> It was very convincing. Yeah, it was
1135. 53:29very convincing. Excellent. Let's take
1136. 53:32um le let's have a go at one more, but
1137. 53:34this time we'll do it verbally rather
1138. 53:36than writing it down. Okay. Um let's
1139. 53:39pick out maybe
1140. 53:42this one. Let's see what happens here.
1141. 53:45[clears throat] Um
1142. 53:46Oh, okay. There we go. Um, [laughter]
1143. 53:50so in this case, you're going to imagine
1144. 53:53you're the secretary to Juan Carlos.
1145. 53:55Okay?
1146. 53:57And these are some of the things that he
1147. 53:58was um he was accused of. Okay? So, just
1148. 54:03imagine that you're going to make that
1149. 54:04statement. We'll do that verbally. Just
1150. 54:05improvise it a little bit.
1151. 54:07>> Mhm.
1152. 54:15>> Okay.
1153. 54:16>> Okay. whenever you're ready.
1154. 54:18>> Mhm. Okay.
1155. 54:22The first thing that I want to say is
1156. 54:25that
1157. 54:27no money quantity were received
1158. 54:32h by
1159. 54:34our former king
1160. 54:38in in regarding to contracts
1161. 54:42neither here in Spain, neither in
1162. 54:46neither here in Spain nor in in the
1163. 54:49outside in French countries.
1164. 54:53And
1165. 54:54obviously
1166. 54:58no no credit cards,
1167. 55:00no black cards or credit cards were used
1168. 55:05by
1169. 55:07our former king
1170. 55:09because he has a lot of money by his own
1171. 55:14and
1172. 55:16he all all the money that he us
1173. 55:22um
1174. 55:25were declared
1175. 55:27in in in our country. So So he is always
1176. 55:33paying taxes as every citizen.
1177. 55:37>> Oh, well done. I I think you've just
1178. 55:40cleared your your ex king of all uh all
1179. 55:43blame there. Well done. [laughter]
1180. 55:45>> Sure.
1181. 55:48>> Good work. Really good work. Excellent.
1182. 55:51Right, Eduardo, just um just tell me
1183. 55:53what we've learned in today's class.
1184. 55:55What is it that we've been uh
1185. 55:56practicing?
1186. 55:59Well,
1187. 56:00we are we've been practicing about how
1188. 56:04to to say someone is guilty to blame
1189. 56:09someone's fault. Erh, and then we we
1190. 56:13will uh review the the passive tenses
1191. 56:18and then we mix it all together and we
1192. 56:22take the the
1193. 56:25to blame and the passive and we we have
1194. 56:29some formula that the politicians or the
1195. 56:32famous people use to to avoid any any
1196. 56:36fault.
1197. 56:37>> Good. And and when do you think you
1198. 56:39would be able to use this?
1199. 56:44>> Well, for example, if I break something
1200. 56:48in my house and my parents
1201. 56:51[laughter]
1202. 56:54discover it. Well, someone
1203. 56:57these were broken by someone. [laughter]
1204. 57:01>> This was this was broken by my brother,
1205. 57:03you know. That's that [laughter]
1206. 57:06>> with my brother. No, not there. But
1207. 57:10>> good. Well done. Okay. Excellent job,
1208. 57:12Edward. You did really well. Listen, um
1209. 57:14don't forget to take a copy of the um of
1210. 57:17the vocabulary uh on the uh in the
1211. 57:19shared notes. You can also download it
1212. 57:21as well as a um as a PDF, I think. Um
1213. 57:24but uh uh by just clicking on the the
1214. 57:26two little arrows and then um and then
1215. 57:28choosing the PDF version. Okay. Um but
1216. 57:31excellent job. Well done. And I will see
1217. 57:34you in the next class. Okay.
1218. 57:37Perfect.
1219. 57:39>> Excellent. All right. Have a have a good
1220. 57:41day, Ed. I'll talk to you soon. Bye-bye.
1221. 57:44>> Okay. Byebye.