How to Connect Ideas & Sentences in English - Basic English Grammar

Oh YouTube and Facebook welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about how to give your opinion and connect your ideas in this lesson I'm going to talk about basic opinion statements I'm going to talk about ways to support your opinions and expressions to support your opinion and we're going to talk a bit about connecting expressions how you can connect your opinion to you're supporting argument so we have a lot to cover today and I hope in today's lesson you send lots of examples in the chat so if you have an opinion great send it in part one and practice supporting your opinion in part two I will try to check live as much as possible and of course feel free to send it after the live lesson has finished - okay a couple things oh I forgot to give you a picture I was going to talk about monthly review if we have that one available at home anyway a couple of announcements as always there is free stuff available this is always here this one 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hello Itachi hello wow there are lots of new names I see lots of maybe new people there over on Facebook Tata from Cambodia hi there and Fareed hello good morning Messiah hello yes it is very humid today I am warm sigh ah hello there Kali a sh as well hi everybody great there are lots of names I have not seen before today though I miss a lot of people's names because the check those quickly anyway let's get started as you join please make sure to like and share the video so other learners can find today's lesson as well we really appreciate it I'm going to share the lesson and then I am going to begin the first thing we're going to talk about today is basic opinion statements basic opinion statements so I'm going to give you the beginning of the statement and then I hope you finish the statement in the chat so send some opinion statement in the chat with this at the beginning so we'll talk about how to use each of these need to find the video so I can share it too and then we'll get going yeah okay my Internet's are having issues I'm having issues okay so let's get started with the first expression the first expression is just simply I think I think I can't share the video today what's going on the first expression is the most basic way to share your opinion with the expression I think I think so this is just a neutral way to say your opinion a neutral way to what you have in your mind I think pizza is the best food I think this livestream has lots of interesting information or I think Germany is a really interesting country to visit whatever this is the most neutral way so that means like the base way to share your opinion to share your ideas I think something something so this is the most basic one so you can send a few examples with this one but we're going to get a little more like advanced or a little bit more specific with the next expressions so let's move on from I think because I think many people know this expression I think many people know this expression the second one I have here is I'm not sure but I'm not sure but so I'm not sure but expresses a lack of confidence so that means I maybe I'm wrong or I might not have the right information but I think something so we can follow I'm not sure but I think something something something so I'm not sure but I think the meeting starts at 3:00 or I'm not sure but I think our boss left the office today so I'm not sure but it's like maybe I'm incorrect maybe I'm incorrect I'm not sure but I'm not sure but okay some examples are coming in with I think great I think it is the best time to learn English good I think Alicia is a good teacher thank you I think chandran is the prettiest princess in the world Wow okay interesting good so I'm pretty I'm sorry I'm not sure but I'm not sure but so this but shows that you want to share your opinion even though your confidence is kind of low so let's go to I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure this is like the opposite of I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure is like you have confidence but not 100% so on this scale here for it for these expressions these three I'm not sure but is maybe like fifty percent or so I'm pretty sure is like maybe 75 percent or so I'm pretty sure so pretty here doesn't mean physical appearance pretty it means fairly or a little bit sure so I'm pretty sure something I'm pretty sure something so for example I'm pretty sure Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States so I'm fairly confident there's a high confidence level there so I'm pretty sure something so this is a little stronger then I'm not sure but I'm not sure but okay some other examples are coming in I'm not sure but I think she was sleeping from Lori on Facebook very nice I'm not sure but I think it might rain could be okay uh I'm not sure but at least you did not take a shower today Alicia did take a shower today definitely did take a shower today I'm not sure I'm pretty sure that there is a difference between high and high there I'm not sure what that example means I'm pretty sure that this lesson maybe is a good a good way to pass the time could be okay nice okay there's some interesting example sentences let's continue to this one I saw a question about this one I'm almost positive I'm almost positive almost positive means I'm almost 100% about this idea like I think it's a fact it's very I'm very very close to that so I'm almost positive it's like 95% from these this is very very strong not 100% but almost very very close to 100% sure of something so like I'm almost positive Lady Gaga isn't married actually I don't know do you know I don't know is Lady guy she okay she's not married that's does control this usually talk I don't know I'm positive I'm almost positive Lady Gaga is not married so something we're very very close to control that's his way into Bradley Cooper yeah that's funny so I'm almost positive of something I'm almost positive of something means I have a very high level of confidence like almost 100% sure of someone says Robson says I'm almost positive that English is hard to learn uh yeah I think language in general is challenging for sure I'm almost positive that you want to share your cheesecake that's a very interesting example sentence I approve of that I'm almost positive that I'm going to get a promotion at my jobs is Andre Wow that's good I hope that's true that's exciting I'm almost positive Donald Trump will lose the next election okay a really interesting nice one nice one on Facebook I'm pretty sure you're an awesome teacher okay cool I'll take it I'll take it I'm pretty sure I'm going to get married says me on Facebook I'm going to get married is the correct sentence I am almost positive that after watching your channel I'll speak English oh sorry sorry I'll speak fluent English very soon nice very positive Nilesh nice nice nice okay I'm almost positive the lesson will be nice great great there's so many very nice and very positive example sentences great excellent okay so let's move on then we have these three kind of levels than of confidence like I'm not sure I'm pretty sure and I'm almost positive so let's change gears let's kind of move to a slightly different way to express opinions with I believe I believe so I believe and I think are used in the same way to express like this really neutral kind of feeling but I believe is more formal sounding than I think so if you're in like a business meeting for example and you need to share something share an opinion like I believe this information is true or I believe we agreed on that at the last meeting like I believe regular exercise is important for your health you can talk about a personal like strong beliefs as well so this is slightly different but this one will sound more formal than I think and you can use it for something like a like a key idea that is important to you so I believe we should all work together something like that so that's like a key belief for you or in a more formal situation you can use it to mean I think I think okay someone says I believe that I am almost fluent in English says sabelli nice that's cool okay uh I believe uh some people are talking about this for religion yes you can use believe for religion if you want to use believe for religion please use I believe in I believe in like god or a goddess or whatever you know whatever is appropriate for your religion I believe in something or I believe in an ism I believe in capitalism or whatever so believe in we use the preposition in here so if you want to talk about religion and faith and so on use in I believe in something I believe and you can use I believe in you which means I have confidence in you I think you can do this thing I believe in you when you want to express just an opinion like a formal opinion though I believe plus your idea okay let's go to the last sort of sentence beginner I don't think I don't think so this is just the negative of I think yeah the opposite here I don't think I don't think so like something you think is incorrect you can use it here I don't think this data is correct for example or I don't think our live stream starts at like 3:00 p.m. hmm I don't think it's going to rain today so something you'd think is not correct or is not going to happen or was not correct in the past so some kind of negative statement we use I don't think to express that I don't think so although yes it is a negative but that that doesn't mean that like you're saying no we're like rejecting someone's idea it just means you think something will not happen or is not correct okay I don't think my dog bites says Hugo bites VI t es vit yes okay I don't think that will happen again I don't think that will happen again on Facebook I don't think that the weather is pleasant today nice examples okay I don't think you are right good okay I don't think all aliens are reptilians very interesting one there on YouTube okay I don't think the economy situation the economic situation will get better a nice example so I don't think the economic situation will get better is the correct sentence there I don't think my girlfriend is always right okay nicely careful nice good examples on Facebook I don't think my friend will come back tele go I don't think my friends will come back mmm I don't think we have completed the lessons I don't think we have completed the lessons okay Diego can I say I believe I can fly yes of course that's a well-known song okay oh we have new member hello there Robson thanks for joining okay so let's finish this part with this one and then I need to move on this took a long time this first part the expression here is that can't be right that can't be right this expression means it's not possible that your opinion or that that idea is correct so here right means correct that can't be right that can't be right so something some information you hear you know it's not possible you can respond with that can't be right that can't be right so for example like like Oh Barack Obama is President of the United States right now and I might say huh no that can't be right like I'm positive that Donald Trump is the President of the United States now it's impossible it's impossible so that can't be right this is this is something we use to respond and then we share after this sentence we share the correct information share the correct information after this that can't be right this is correct so these are our basic opinion statements okay that was a lot to start so we're going to use these a little later in the lesson and in part 2 we're going to talk about supporting your opinion a few just a few phrases to support your ideas so let us take a break let us take a break I showed these at the beginning of today's lesson these are uh oh that's right we have webcam today tonight uh I will wait okay so I'm gonna show these zoomed in over here these are a few examples of the PDF the free PDFs that we have that you can download from the link below the video on youtube or above the video if you're watching on facebook if you're watching on instagram please check YouTube or Facebook for the links for these so these are just these are the ones I kind of like to show a lot um I feel like on the back of each of these is a lot of useful information this is the school one but on the back there are phrases that you can use for class so of course for today's lesson we're focusing on sharing your opinions and so oftentimes in classes in the u.s. you need to be able to share your opinion and connect your ideas really well so there are some expressions for doing that here and type classes as well another key time when you need to express your opinion and connect your ideas carefully is in business situations I know many of you are studying for work reasons so please have a look these are phrases for a business meeting this is a great one right here you can see what are your views on this that means what is your opinion about this topic so check this out you can find this from the link below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook they are free check it out ok let's go to part 2 for today if you're just joining today's topic is giving your opinion and connecting your ideas if you have not already please make sure to like and share the video so other learners can find today's lesson alrighty let's go to part 2 on to part 2 part 2 is supporting your opinion expressions to use to support your opinion so over here you shared your idea you had some concept you wanted to say so how do you give information to persuade another person how do you support your opinion here are some expressions to do that first is according to according to that's the pronunciation of this word we can follow according to with any media type for example according to a newspaper or according to an article I read or according to a blog or according to my friend you can use any source of information any place and information comes from you can use that after according to so you could use your parents as a source of information whatever just to support your opinion whatever is the best way like the most natural way to support your opinion you can follow according - according to so like according to the press conference or according to the President's speech according to a blog post I read yesterday according to this newspaper article you can follow anything here it's gonna be a noun phrase a noun phrase so some kind of known phrase will go here okay so this one is very useful I will say this sounds a little on the formal side we use this more in writing and we use it more informal or polite situation according to something according to or something Mazhar on youtube has a good example according to my teacher I'm an intelligent boy very nice what is your website to our website is English class 101.com English class okay on to the next one this one is more specific I read I read this is past tense not read I read an this is a I read an article about I read an article about topic I read an article about topic so this is more specific so this could be article this could be book this could be blog I read an article about something so this topic should connect to this opinion here so for example I'm pretty sure that Germany is the most powerful country in the world you could say I read an article about Germany last week I read an article about the current state of Germany last week so I read an article because this starts with a vowel sound yeah I read an article or I read a blog post or I read a book about so make sure you change your article a definite are indefinite article here I read an article or a blog and so on so about this topic you mentioned earlier okay for reporting things that other people said you can use a very simple pattern here I've used my friend said my friend said of course you can change this to my mom said my dad said my coworker said my boss said my friend said my husband said my wife said so use past tense and the pronunciation here is said said not Sayyed sometimes I hear that said is the correct pronunciation so my friend said Lady Gaga is with Bradley Cooper that's true he did say that a few minutes ago you did I didn't know I don't know I don't keep up with these things so my friend said something so my friend said we are gonna get dinner this weekend or my friend said someone is leaving his company so give some information like some you're giving some information you heard from a friend in this case so use said for a simple report of information you heard there are many examples okay I'll look at a couple examples and then we'll continue there are lots of good examples of this one I read an article about good so to recap I read an article about Apollo 11 nice one I read an article about Canada great okay I read an article about politics yesterday good okay I okay and now some examples from my friend are coming in good my friend said that Alicia was not in school probably so okay my friend said being a member is the best way to learn and improve cool nice one okay my friend said that the United States is a good country okay okay my friend said I am very intelligent good you have nice friends excellent my girlfriend said I'm handsome great great okay um I can't see the rest of the facebook comments getting cut off there for some reason my friend said he will not my friend said to me he will not see me next week maybe my friend thank you my friend said he is hungry good good lots of good examples you have it I think it sounds great so let's continue to two more expressions that's it short for this part the other day I saw the other day I saw so our big hint is this saw saw past tense of see so this means information we got with our eyes and usually we use this for like video video that could be TV YouTube Instagram whatever the other day so this is a useful phrase the other day it's not a specific day the other day doesn't mean yesterday or the day before yesterday just means some day in the past fairly recently so the other day I saw a video on YouTube about this topic about this topic so the other day I saw media usually video media video or TV media about or on this topic the other day I saw some kind of media about this topic so you need to explain where your sources are so where did you get your information in this case a video a video or TV something like that okay onto this one specifically for a TV news TV news this is for TV news I saw something on the news about so there are a couple points in this sentence one again we're using past tense I saw something on the news on the news we always use the news to talk about recent news information the news it's a set phrase and when we're talking about TV news so it could be video news like YouTube news is okay when we're talking about TV and video news we say I saw something on the news on the news about whatever if you want to talk about news that you read news in a newspaper change this to I read something in the news I read something in the news so these small changes tell us where like what type of news so in the news is like a newspaper or you're reading like a news website on the news sounds more like TV or video so these prepositions make kind of subtle changes pilota says I saw or I watched we use I saw here um you can say like I watched the news last night but generally when we report something we use I saw we usually use I saw here okay other examples I saw something on the news recently about Trump yes exactly good good good the other day I saw a video I saw a video about how to improve English online okay whoo time's going quick so I have to wrap up the last few points I want to make I guess just a couple small points to finish today's lesson about these the these two here are some interesting expressions you might hear I saw some article and there was this report so native speakers will use some and this and they'll kind of emphasize them in speech I saw some article about or there was this report about so we use these words but it just means like uh I saw an article or there was a report about but we use words like these just for a little extra emphasis okay so last point for today is over here connecting your opinion to your supporting ideas these are just some quick ways to connect your thoughts together so these are some connecting words you can use to put your ideas together connecting words like moreover moreover is a formal word that we use to mean like and more what's more even more than what I said before so this one you can use before you add like another point to your idea these are just some very simple connecting words though the rest of these are very simple connecting words just to put your sentences together so plus so you can imagine plus is it's just this symbol yeah plus so it's like this idea plus this idea just it's like a math problem kind of but with words you're just putting them together plus blah blah blah and test the same function we use and in the same way so I think like I'm pretty sure that Lady gaga isn't married and she's dating Bradley Cooper so we put them together in this kind of just very simple way okay these two but and yet are used to show contrast when you're using these as conjunctions we use them in the same way I talked about this in a recent episode of ask Alicia if you want to know more but in this case when we're using them as connecting words we use them in the same way when we use so we're giving a reason we're giving a reason so I read an article about this last week so I think that may be my opinion these mean this this means the same thing for that reason I believe something something something uh-oh we lost a connection for some time that's very creative is it back now yeah okay something happened it says it's back now no more internet Oh No but it's still rolling okay well it says it's still rolling we were interrupted sorry about that I hope that you can see us again we had a short technical hiccup there so it was really quickly so fully no other problems happen for that reason I believe so again we're using I believe to share our opinion here and then again we're saying for that reason of course you can change this to for those reasons given many reasons in a presentation or speech okay it says just the audio now just the audio it's very interesting I don't know so I guess we have to wrap up up we can see you says Leah thanks Leah okay something very strange happened there sorry about that we had a little error sorry about that at the very end of the lesson everybody we're just finishing up here we'll just finish up the lesson we had a short a strange technical problem okay so we'll finish up with these last two that's why I said so more casually that's why I said my opinion and finally for that reason alone this is the last point I want to make for that reason alone means just for that reason just for that reason yeah I don't know exactly where the livestream had a problem someone said explain but and yet in this use for connecting words but and yet mean the same or we use them the same way to show contrast I think this but this and I think this yet this so we use them in very similar ways all right strange technical problem sorry about that everybody but it was at the end of the lesson thankfully so I will finish up there for today so I hope that you found some ways that you can express your opinions support your ideas and connect your ideas if you have any questions please let me know in the comments I will check the comments after the live so please send along comments questions and so on thank you as always for liking and sharing the video next week we will be back next week the date will be July oh my gosh July 31st I think the last one oh that reminds me them now that's our two year anniversary of live streams we cool the topic for next week is I remember expressions for celebrations expressions for celebrations will be the topic for next week so please join us next week July 31st at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time that is New York City time or 11 a.m. Japan Standard Time so expressions for celebration so it's kind of like our two-year anniversary of the livestream so please join us live and celebrate and practice your celebratory expressions with us too we will be here and yeah if you have not already please do make sure to check out the free stuff from the link below the video if you're watching on YouTube or above the video on Facebook so thank you very much to everyone who liked and shared the video thanks for watching on Instagram behind the scenes to the sorry I can't see your comments in real time but we will be back next week so enjoy the rest of your week enjoy your weekend and we'll see you again next time next time bye bye you

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Published: Wed Jul 24 2019