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1. 0:04Okay. So, Harry, tell me about your
2. 0:07work. I remember you recently told me
3. 0:10you have a new boss from Germany. So,
4. 0:15>> tell me about your your boss and your
5. 0:17work at the moment.
6. 0:19Yeah, right now
7. 0:23my company
8. 0:25have
9. 0:26have both to to to
10. 0:29men for for Germany.
11. 0:32>> Okay. Okay.
12. 0:34>> And tomorrow
13. 0:36I I have a meeting with with with him
14. 0:42another colleagues in the company all in
15. 0:46English. I have a big problem.
16. 0:50>> Sure, it'll be fine.
17. 0:52>> Yeah. And well, my my work is is a art
18. 0:58director of animation for for for the
19. 1:02kids.
20. 1:03>> Wow.
21. 1:05>> I I prepare the production, the
22. 1:09backgrounds, character, props, and other
23. 1:12things. Um,
24. 1:15>> and
25. 1:17I check the the storyboards the
26. 1:21>> animation for the other animators.
27. 1:25>> Mhm. Yeah.
28. 1:27>> This is my my work. My job.
29. 1:30>> Is it your work? Okay. Very nice. Let me
30. 1:33share my screen with you, Har. So, can
31. 1:37you see the documents?
32. 1:39>> Yeah.
33. 1:40>> Wonderful. So just to um note a couple
34. 1:43of uh corrections there. So just was
35. 1:46writing these as you were speaking. So
36. 1:49you said my company have bought a German
37. 1:52company more or less. Okay. Um when we
38. 1:56talk about company in English even
39. 1:58though it's a lot of people we're
40. 2:01talking about it as a singular entity.
41. 2:04Okay? So one thing. So if it was a
42. 2:07singular entity like one person or one
43. 2:10thing, what would be the conjugation of
44. 2:12has here? Have.
45. 2:14>> Oh, okay.
46. 2:16>> What would it be?
47. 2:18>> Yeah, has.
48. 2:19>> Has. Yes, I gave the game away there,
49. 2:21didn't I? My company has bought a German
50. 2:23company. Fantastic.
51. 2:25And you were describing your skills at
52. 2:27work. Um, and I'm not sure if you said
53. 2:31this sentence correctly or not. There
54. 2:32was maybe it was pronunciation but I
55. 2:35think you said I produce the background.
56. 2:37Is that right?
57. 2:39>> Okay.
58. 2:39>> Yes.
59. 2:40>> Okay. So, can I hear you say produce?
60. 2:44>> Produce.
61. 2:46>> Okay. Let's try again. It's it's quite
62. 2:48hard to to hear over um over online. Let
63. 2:53me just go here. So, listen. Produce
64. 2:57>> produce.
65. 2:58So we'll go
66. 3:03>> for juice.
67. 3:06>> That's it. It's It's definitely a bit
68. 3:08more difficult. It's produced. So it's
69. 3:11only two syllables. Okay.
70. 3:14>> And the du. So if we look at the word,
71. 3:18just go back to the screen for a second.
72. 3:21The du here is more like a J sound.
73. 3:26J produce.
74. 3:28Okay. Produce.
75. 3:30>> Produce.
76. 3:32>> Produce.
77. 3:33>> Okay. Getting there. Getting there.
78. 3:34That's all right. We'll keep practicing.
79. 3:36We'll keep practicing. Don't worry.
80. 3:38>> Produce.
81. 3:39>> All right. Um,
82. 3:42so now you're with a new German company.
83. 3:45Tell me about your new boss who I
84. 3:47understand is German.
85. 3:52>> I know
86. 3:54a few things.
87. 3:56>> Okay.
88. 3:57A few things or not many things?
89. 4:03>> Which do you think it is?
90. 4:05>> A little.
91. 4:06>> Is it positive or negative?
92. 4:08>> I I don't know. Tomorrow is the first
93. 4:12time.
94. 4:13>> Okay.
95. 4:14>> Mhm.
96. 4:16>> I think is is very
97. 4:21>> what? Sorry, I didn't hear it. Very
98. 4:23>> young.
99. 4:25Young,
100. 4:26>> young, very young.
101. 4:27>> Very nice. Very young. Very good.
102. 4:29>> Very young.
103. 4:32He's lucky.
104. 4:34>> It's good
105. 4:35>> because he has a lot of money
106. 4:42and and I I don't know
107. 4:46because tomorrow is the the first
108. 4:49meeting.
109. 4:51>> Okay. One second.
110. 4:55And so um
111. 4:57what do you expect to happen at the
112. 4:59meeting?
113. 5:03>> I don't know. I expect don't speak so
114. 5:07much.
115. 5:09>> You will you will be fine
116. 5:11>> and only listening.
117. 5:14>> What makes you most nervous about
118. 5:15speaking in English?
119. 5:18>> Nervous.
120. 5:20>> Yeah. What makes you most nervous about
121. 5:23speaking in English?
122. 5:26>> Because I don't have a frequ
123. 5:33it's is only only
124. 5:37take know drink water.
125. 5:40>> Okay.
126. 5:42>> Is is a is a good for for relaxing.
127. 5:48>> Very good. Very good. Let's have a look
128. 5:50at this um phrase here.
129. 5:54So, you said, "I don't have fluent
130. 5:55English." I think that was the phrase
131. 5:57you used there, hab. Okay. So, what is
132. 6:01the um what is the verb that we need to
133. 6:05to talk about being fluent? What are we
134. 6:09doing when we're trying to be fluent? We
135. 6:11are.
136. 6:13>> What is the action?
137. 6:16>> Fluent to to speak. Oh,
138. 6:18>> speaking. Exactly. Yes. So, you can say
139. 6:21instead of I don't have fluent English,
140. 6:23what could you say here instead with
141. 6:25that word?
142. 6:26>> Ah, okay. I don't speak fluent.
143. 6:30>> Very good. I don't speak fluent English
144. 6:32or I don't speak
145. 6:35what could we say English.
146. 6:38>> Fluent
147. 6:40>> fluently. Okay. Because then we're
148. 6:42describing how we're speaking English.
149. 6:44Okay. I don't speak fluent English and I
150. 6:46don't speak English fluently. But what
151. 6:48what do you describe then as a fluent
152. 6:52English speaker?
153. 6:57when when when a person has a skill to
154. 7:02to speak fluently.
155. 7:06>> Mhm.
156. 7:09>> And
157. 7:11he he can understood
158. 7:16all conversation
159. 7:21and respond the ask.
160. 7:25and
161. 7:27make new new question for the other
162. 7:31person.
163. 7:33>> I think that that's agreed. And what
164. 7:35about grammar and vocabulary? What do
165. 7:36you think uh people need to have to be
166. 7:39able to speak fluently
167. 7:44>> in grammar? Well, uh to know all
168. 7:49all all times, all
169. 7:52present, present perfect, future, past,
170. 7:57um
171. 7:59in other times. I don't know the correct
172. 8:03>> Yeah. tenses. Tenses in other tenses.
173. 8:07>> Okay. With other tenses.
174. 8:09>> So, we call like the future, the past,
175. 8:11and the present, and conditionals and
176. 8:13things like that. Yeah. Yes. And the
177. 8:15formula to to make question is so
178. 8:18important.
179. 8:19>> Okay. Nice. Okay. Good. And what makes
180. 8:23you think you are not there yet then?
181. 8:27What makes you think that you are not
182. 8:28fluent?
183. 8:30>> For example,
184. 8:34I must to to to
185. 8:37ask question.
186. 8:39>> Yeah. Um sometime
187. 8:42well sometime all all time I confuse the
188. 8:47the the formula
189. 8:49happen in past
190. 8:53have or will you
191. 8:56well I confuse in my in my my brain when
192. 8:59the filter
193. 9:00>> confused sometimes between some of the
194. 9:01tenses and the use of the tenses. Yeah.
195. 9:05>> Yes.
196. 9:06>> Okay. Okay. Well that's normal. That is
197. 9:08part of the process, isn't it? When
198. 9:10you're not fluent, you have to keep
199. 9:12practicing to get to to that fluent
200. 9:15stage. And it can be frustrating when
201. 9:18you're talking to a native speaker or
202. 9:21somebody like um a German speaker who
203. 9:24speaks pretty fluent English as well. Um
204. 9:27I'm sure it's frustrating. Okay, let's
205. 9:29just take a look at a couple of things
206. 9:31here. You said earlier, you said he can
207. 9:33understand the conversation. That's
208. 9:34great. you were describing um how the
209. 9:37the person can speak. Now, we don't
210. 9:41necessarily know it's a he if we're
211. 9:43talking in general. Okay.
212. 9:46>> So, it could be he or it could be she.
213. 9:48Correct?
214. 9:50>> Yeah.
215. 9:52What is the
216. 9:55what is the when when you speak you use
217. 9:59he, she or or it or what what what is
218. 10:03the It's a more of a general one here.
219. 10:05Let's see if you can guess. It is four
220. 10:08letters
221. 10:11and it's more general.
222. 10:13>> They
223. 10:14>> That's it exactly. Yeah. So, they can
224. 10:17speak. Well done. Or they can understand
225. 10:19the conversation. So, we can use they to
226. 10:22just talk about people in general when
227. 10:24we don't want to be specific or we don't
228. 10:26know who we're talking about. Okay? And
229. 10:28we can use it for they as in singular or
230. 10:30they as in plural. So, that's absolutely
231. 10:33fine. And then we have the word answer.
232. 10:39>> This is the pronunciation that you you
233. 10:42said earlier. This is very typical um
234. 10:44error in pronunciation in general. Okay.
235. 10:46For English learners because we have
236. 10:49this really annoying W here
237. 10:53that we don't pronounce.
238. 10:55>> That we don't pronounce. So go again.
239. 10:57>> Answer.
240. 10:58>> Answer. Exactly. Yeah. So earlier I
241. 11:01think you said an which is very typical
242. 11:04um because we often see Spanish speakers
243. 11:08pronouncing every letter obviously
244. 11:10because that's what you do in Spanish.
245. 11:12Um but in this case the the W is silent.
246. 11:16>> Okay.
247. 11:17>> Thank you for the session today and um I
248. 11:21will see you in class anyway very soon.
249. 11:23Okay.
250. 11:24>> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Take care.
251. 11:27Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.