Advanced (C1) Phrases to Build Your Vocabulary

let's learn some Advanced C1 phrases to help you build your vocabulary and all things considered this lesson is going to be helpful and useful and all things considered is the first phrase that I would like to teach you so you would use this phrase when you're trying to say that something is true or good in general when you consider all of its aspects and it like you're saying that a situation is not perfect but in general it's pretty good and often I think you may use this phrase when you're referring to an event like the success of an event so if we're talking about a wedding I could say the wedding was a great success All Things Considered there's a lot of planning that goes into a wedding some things may go wrong but you could say all things considered it was a great success I also want to teach you the pronunciation of these phrases so that you can say them accurately and clearly and with this phrase the only thing that I'd like to point out is that there's a bit of co-artigan calculation going on with that final dark Ellen all and then you move right into that voiceless th in things because the tip of your tongue is going to be behind your top front teeth and it's like we can just connect those two words all things all things considered I guess All Things Considered I was lucky Dwight was there now I am not the perfect teacher no teacher is perfect but all things considered this is the best place for you to practice and improve your English skills and if that's what you'd like to do please subscribe turn on notifications so that I can become your teacher my name is Wes the channel is interactive English it's all about helping you reach your fluency goals that's what we're gonna do we're gonna do it bit by bit and bit by bit is the next phrase that I'd like to teach you so this is a binomial pair which is talking about an expression that has two words joined by a conjunction and that conjunction it's often and or or but in this case it's not we're talking about buy bit by bit and what this means is gradually you're going to do something gradually often I think that you would use this when talking about something you're going to grow or develop or even just the opposite something that you're going to destroy or take apart so I could say that I am trying to grow this channel bit by bit I'm doing it gradually and hopefully it'll get bigger and bigger you may be thinking is there really any difference between bit by bit and little by little which is also another binomial pair and they really have a similar meaning I would say that little by little is more commonly used it's actually a B2 phrase but if you know that binomial pair then you should have no trouble using bit by bit and for pronunciation there's not really anything too difficult going on here there's a little bit of alliteration when you have the same sound set again and again bit by bit you hear that sound so in that case it's pretty fun to just say bit by bit bit by bit when I sat back and watched Moriarty destroy my reputation let's just stay with the sound with our next phrase which is before you know it and this just means very soon so when you use this phrase you're emphasizing that something is going to happen quickly and suddenly and before I give you some examples I want to talk about the pronunciation and I really want you to pay attention to the linking that occurs at the end of this phrase so you have that consonant sound in no it's going to get linked with the vowel sound in it that beginning vowel sound no wit and people will generally say this phrase together they'll say it quickly so linking will occur when you use this phrase before you know it first she's texting at work and then she's going to doing our homework and then she's hanging out with the bad kid and before you know it she's pregnant to give you a few more examples I could say I know flying gives you some anxiety but the plane will be on the ground before you know it or perhaps someone's pregnant and you say congratulations I bet the baby will be here before you know it or if you start using Elsa speak before you know it your pronunciation will have improved dramatically and I'd like to thank Elsa speak for sponsoring today's lesson so this is a great app that I actually learned about from many of you but if you're not familiar with it let me show you what it's all about there are many different things that you can do to really help you fine-tune your pronunciation you can practice by skill and there are a lot of them you can also practice by topic and there are many of those as well and something else that's very cool about Elsa speak is that you can practice the words and phrases that you want to learn so we can even practice a phrase from this lesson if I were just to type in before you know it and then you can listen to it before you know it and then practice before you know it all right excellent and then let me show you what it would look like if a mistake is made so instead of no I'll say now before you know it and as you can see this instant feedback allows you to make adjustments and continue to improve and right now when you click on the link below and download the Elsa speak app you can get seven days of the pro membership for free but you can also use my discount to get 85 percent off a lifetime membership or forty percent off a one-year membership so check out the links and discounts in the description if you would like to improve your pronunciation and before you know it you're going to sound just like a native speaker it's going to happen one day out of the blue and that is the next C1 phrase that I want to teach you out of the blue you can use this phrase to say that something happens that is completely unexpected and often you would use this if you're telling a story and then you want to emphasize the thing that was unexpected last week out of the blue she said that we should move in together and I didn't know that our relationship was that serious it just happened out of the blue so I use this adverb phrase once at the beginning of the statement and then at the end you can kind of move it around a little bit and once again this phrase has a similar meaning to another phrase which is out of nowhere except out of nowhere is a B2 phrase but when you're building your vocabulary it's good to get a little variety when you're having a conversation or in this case when you're telling a story and you can use different phrases for pronunciation the one thing that I want you to keep in mind is that final T in out I'm from the United States so with the American accent I'm going to pronounce that t as a flap T it's going to sound like a soft D and then I will link it with the vowel sound in of it's going to sound like out of out of the blue and because you're emphasizing something that happens people will say this quickly and they will link those words together out of the blue everything was going great until he suddenly reappeared out of the blue but that dum dum ran his mouth the next phrase is at a glance this means to see something immediately or quickly and people may use this phrase with the word quick and say at a quick glance you're just adding a little emphasis to the speed or someone might say at first glance that's another collocation with this phrase saying that you looked at something quickly but then you had to look at it closer or maybe you looked at it again to show you how it's used in context I could say I could tell at a glance that something was wrong everyone looked worried or I recognized her at a glance she was the woman from the party and for pronunciation once again that t and at I'm going to pronounce it with a flap T and then I will link it with the vowel sound in uh that article add a at a glance at a glance we're going to line the front seat in the back seat in the floorboards we've got some blankets cup stops as it starts sticking his big snout in the car the subterfuge won't last but at a blast the car will appear to be normal then there's the phrase to have something against someone and this just means to dislike someone for a reason and even though the meaning is pretty simple and straightforward the usage of this phrase can be a bit challenging because the something is your reason and let's say you don't like someone because uh they stole something I would not say I have stealing against him that just sounds awkward instead the reason that something it's often well it's not going to exist or it's going to be unknown so let's talk about a reason that just doesn't exist in this case you're basically saying that you have no reason to dislike someone and people may use this with the words nothing or anything so I might say I have nothing against him we just don't have anything in common so I don't have any reason to dislike him the reason it just doesn't exist but maybe you don't have anything in common and therefore you're not friends or using anything I don't have anything against her we just don't get along so once again the reason why I dislike this person just doesn't exist but maybe again with some people you don't end up getting along and you're not friends if we're talking about a reason that is unknown well then people may ask a question and use this phrase like why were you so mean what do you have against her so again it's unknown the reason so that's why I'm asking the question what do you have against her or you could just use this in a statement if I'm asking you like well look I don't know what you have against me but we really need to find a way to work together so again what you have against me is that noun clause but I'm still talking about a reason that is uh that is unknown I don't know what you have against me but I know that's that's just an example you know we're friends we get along I think we work well together but if we're talking about the pronunciation of this phrase I'd like to point out that Elysian may occur if the someone is him or her and illusion is when you remove a certain sound or even syllable so in this case we're talking about that H in him or her and if it gets removed well then we can link that final T in against with the vowel sound so it'll sound like against him or against her what do you have against him what do you have against her and a vision may occur when you're pronouncing this phrase you don't care very much for our community do you Mr Walsh I have nothing against your community Mr Pruitt the next C1 phrase that I have for you is to look on the bright side and this just means to find good things in a bad situation and you would tell someone to look on the bright side so think about it in the context of trying to cheer someone up and there's a bad situation and you tell them look on the bright side and then you would follow it with a reason and that's really important so you're telling them to cheer up try and stay positive and then you got to give them a reason why if you just say look on the bright side and don't say anything else then it's going to seem a little strange so let's say you tear your new shirt and you're really upset about it and I'm trying to cheer you up and I say hey look on the bright side now you get to go shopping for some new clothes and you get to find a new shirt and you can look on the bright side when you're pronouncing this phrase just keep in mind that once again linking will occur we can link that final consonant sound and look with the vowel sound in on look on and remember the article the we're going to pronounce it with a schwa sound because it comes before that consonant B sound in bright look on the bright side look on the bright side this is a deal breaker look on the bright side what's the bright side only nine more months to Comic-Con oh yeah to take issue with so this just means to strongly disagree with someone or something and you could just use this instead of saying I disagree I take issue with that and it just gives it a little bit of emphasis I take issue with teachers who use corporal punishment or we took issue with the changes they made to the contract or you're not going to hit the like button I take issue with that okay I just I disagree with that and of course I'm just kidding you you can do whatever you want but when you are pronouncing this phrase keep in mind that we can link the final consonant sound intake with the beginning vowel sound in issue take issue and you can start to see a theme here that linking commonly occurs in many of these phrases that's not what we already are cool your tongue Airman because I intend to take issue with your performance then we have to keep a low profile and this means to avoid attracting attention to yourself and I think that we can all relate to this phrase right now can you think of a time when you were trying to keep a low profile perhaps you go to some social event maybe a party and you really don't feel like talking to many people so you try to keep a low profile or or perhaps it work maybe you showed up late or you forgot to submit something you don't want to attract attention to yourself so you try to keep a low profile and for pronunciation yes more linking we can link that consonant sound and keep with that schwa sound in the article uh keep uh keep a low profile Vice for me on my new position keep a low profile if I had a gold dragon or every time I heard that joke I'd be richer than you are then we have the phrase in accordance with and this means in a way that agrees with or follows and and typically you're talking about agreeing with or following a rule or a law and because of the meaning that you're following a rule or a law I think it's likely that you may hear this phrase being used in a more formal situation so I could say the justice department acted in accordance with the new law or to be honest I could get banned from YouTube If I am not in accordance with YouTube's terms of service so in both of those examples it's a it's a little more formal because I'm talking about following a rule or a law now when you pronounce this phrase of course we can link those first two words we can link that consonant n and n with the vowel sound in accordance in accordance and keep in mind that final syllable in accordance even though it's spelled d-a-n-c-e you're not going to say dance it's going to have that schwa sound it's going to sound like dunce in accordance with in accordance with FAA rules the first two people to the front will be upgraded to First Class okay YouTube the next couple of phrases are more related to driving and the first one is back road so a back road refers to a small road that does not have a lot of traffic on it so maybe you're just trying to avoid traffic or avoid those busy streets and you take some back roads and one thing I want to point out is that I think you'll often use this with the plural roads because when you're driving if you're trying to avoid traffic you're probably not just going to stay on one road you may take several different ones and that's why people often talk about back roads I know some back roads that we can take in order to avoid rush hour traffic and the pronunciation of this phrase is pretty simple and straightforward you just say those two words as they are back roads I'm glad we took the back rugs highways are probably a mess right now then there's bare left or Bear right this means to change directions slightly so that you're going in a particular direction in this case left or right and I think these phrases are very useful especially if you're giving directions and you want to be specific because some roads especially some of those back roads they may not always have a full left turn or right turn and I would say hey up ahead you're going to want to Bear left and then after that the road's going to intersect with another one and when that happens you should Bear right all right I'm just trying to be a little more specific and I also want you to keep in mind that the word bear this is a homonym do not think about the animal this is a verb to bear and it means to change directions slightly and again we're just going to provide that extra bit of information to Bear left or bare right and for pronunciation the only thing I want to say about well just one of the phrases Bear right you have that overlapping R sound that final R and bear in the beginning R and right just allows you to move from one word right into the next Bear right or maybe we'll bear left yes I know some of these phrases may be challenging but I want you to look on the bright side as you continue to build your vocabulary bit by bit well then you will continue to develop your overall English fluency you just need to keep reviewing these phrases from time to time and before you know it they'll become a part of your active memory and you'll be able to use them easily and naturally and I hope you agree with me and you don't take issue with what I just said I would love it if you write to me down in the comments unless you're trying to keep a low profile in that case I I understand but if you learn something new I'd really appreciate it if you hit that like button as always thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time so long

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Length: 19min 7sec (1147 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 28 2022