How to Introduce Yourself (Without Sounding Annoying) in English | Learn Basic English

hi hi Internet welcome welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about self introductions self introductions level up your self introduction specifically Oh Alexa's on I think how do I turn her off like that okay so if you are just joining please make sure to hit the like button and share the video as well we greatly appreciate it we are going to begin in perhaps two to three minutes we will give everyone a little time to join us live and then begin Facebook is up it appears great so I'm going to go to Facebook and share the Facebook video as always and I will see you tube YouTube is also a pie everybody on YouTube Sergio and Mick Rick and Zhou and damn hello welcome I see that I don't see facebook facebook chat hi guys Kareem and Mika Bay and Mario Ola hi everybody welcome welcome to our weekly live stream as I said we're going to begin in like two to three minutes or so so please hit the like button as you join us and we'll start today's topic again is self introduction so how to level up your self introduction so not just like hi my name is how are you that sort of thing but how to make it sound a little bit more natural how to give some more like details about yourself so that's going to be today's topic there's our video on Facebook lots of you watching on Facebook thanks for coming today okay so a couple of quick announcements as always yes there is new stuff on the channel there's lots of new stuff on the YouTube channel please check that out there's lots of good stuff for your listening practice especially on YouTube but some of you already know you saw this on Instagram at Facebook and Twitter and so on but we have a new studio look this is our new studio that we have just for video so yesterday we shot a few new things in this new studio so I'm looking forward to share I hope sometime soon but this is our new video space so we can prepare lots of exciting things I hope so maybe you'll see this soon coming soon you soon in the future so that's some exciting news from us so very excited about that yesterday alright but any other news I don't think I have any other news so we'll go over there ok yes that's me hi ok ok so with that then let's I guess I see lots of people in the chat hi everybody I'll try to say hello as much as possible if you're just joining yes today's topic is self introductions self introductions there's a lot to do so let us begin yes here's a good little graphic nice nice one it's nice to meet you so as I said today I want to focus or practice rather how to like level up yourself introductions how to make yourself introduction a bit better a bit better ok so let's begin last week I realized it's difficult to see different colors on the board so I'll try to choose a color that's a little easier to notice the difference let's go with this yellow green ok anyway let's begin today's lesson oops I'm too far down in my notes I'll steal the mouse for a second and move up great ok so um today's lesson as always I made today's lesson into three parts three parts for today part number one will be probably review for some of you how to give your name and talk about your work or your studies part two will be talking about where you live and where you studied or where you currently live and where you currently study and number three will be talking about your relationship to the event you are at or to the person that maybe is hosting the event there's a lot to talk about I don't have enough space on the board so you're going to see the text above the board also so please don't worry if you can't see the board you'll see the example sentences here okay so let's begin the first part for today's lesson then is how to share your name and how to explain your job so for today please send lots of examples in the chat I'll try to check the chat and try to help fix any problems or fix any errors so please send lots and lots of examples in the chat today okay so let's begin some review perhaps first one for today the first time you meet someone of course hi nice to meet you I'm followed by your name so I have the same thing on the board here hi nice to meet you I'm named so lots of people say can I say my name is that's fine also yes my name is sounds a little bit more formal than hi I'm Alicia hi I'm nice hi I'm Devin so this sounds a little bit more casual I'm your name so this is the one I use when I introduce myself really this is how I introduce myself hi nice to meet you I'm Alicia that's what I say really so this is my favorite way to introduce someone okay so this is probably some review for you guys I think but I want to go to kind of our first level up point for today when you ask about the other person's job so we don't say what is your job that's not a natural question we don't ask what is your job when we want to ask about someone's occupation instead we use this expression what do you do so what do you do it's the same thing here and same thing on the board what do you do this means what is your job what is your job but we do not say what is your job please use what do you do same thing it's on the board here to you but it's hard to see what do you do what do you do so and when you ask this question it sounds very like we reduce all the sounds a lot so not what do you do but what do you do that sounds much better what do you do so please use this question when you ask about someone's jaw what do you do to answer this question then this part I want I hope you can send a lot of examples in the chat please when you answer this question try to share some details about your job so not just your job title but also the details about your job so let's look at this example so if I say what do you do this is a pattern to explain your job if you're a student you can say I'm a student that's fine so when you explain your job I'm uh or I'm an what's the difference here if your job title begins with a vowel sound like electrician or engineer for example use an if your job title begins astrologist your job title begins with a consonant sound please use a I'm a teacher I'm a doctor so for students I'm a student so don't just finish with I'm a teacher or I'm an engineer give us some information so if you're like in my case if I say I'm a teacher like I should say what I teach so like I'm a teacher I teach English on the internet for example or I'm an engineer I I don't know I do application engineering or I do systems engineering for example so please give some details for students I see a couple of you l Elias and Fatima Osman on YouTube if you're a student explain your studies what are you studying so if you're as if you're a student you can say I'm a student I'm studying philosophy I'm a student I'm studying engineering so please give some details about yourself so Vicki you said I'm a worker so what does worker mean like if you work in an office for example try to give some information like what kind of office this leads to kind of the next follow-up question if it's difficult to explain your your job specifically like your jobs responsibilities you can talk about the kind of company you work for so let's look at this next one if it's okay control this so if your job title here if your job title is difficult like if it's if it's kind of a complicated job role it might be easier for you to talk about the kind of company you work for so this is a great pattern to use for that I work for a or I work for N and then the industry so the same rule here with your up and your end yeah so if your industry starts with a vowel sound use an if your industry starts with a consonant sound use up remember vowel sounds are like AEIOU those sounds so if I say I work for an education company or I work for uh I don't know medical company for example then you can give some job details so I have an example of this so if you want to if it's easier for you to explain your your job or sorry if it's easier for you to explain your company's like your company's role and then give some job details this is a great pattern to use so an example of this I'm gonna scroll down a little bit more in my notes thank you okay so an example of this is like I work for a travel company I make arrangements with hotels and I prepare content for our company's website for example so again give some job details if you just explain your company or you just give your job title it might be hard for the other person to understand your responsibilities and the kind of work you do so try to give some details like it helps like the conversation to continue so share some details about yourself and then ask the other person too don't forget to ask questions so I do this what do you do so make sure to give information so don't just expect the other person to do all the work in the conversation you need to do some work too so this is a great way to do it I work for a type of company or just share your job title and also give some details ok good so nice one I'm a student in college since walid okay so what are you studying don't forget this part your details or your study details I'm sorry your details or your your job details if you're a student give your study details so I study English for example or I'm studying math you can use the progressive tense I'm studying or I study those are great so please give some more details not just your job tight ends Oh on YouTube says I work for a food company I'm an engineer nice nice great what do you engineer at a food company I'm curious Jorge says I'm technical support' nice technical support that maybe what kind of company so this is how you sort of level up your your introduction giving some more details a bit so on Facebook says I work for a bank as a management assistant checking some credit files nice that is excellent nice job lots of details check the check betos comment if you're watching on facebook that was good Han and says I work as I work as a salesperson al-qasas international company nice nice lots of details ah Miguel has a question on Facebook Alicia what do you do for a living or what do you do for a living it is living living not leaving what do you do for a living living how do you live in other words what do you do for a living what's your job li v I n G living living living and leaving have different pronunciations careful okay great good so let's see we're about 13 minutes in oh my gosh let's take a quick break a break any break break and then we'll go to the second topic as always this week we have free stuff for you guys if you have not checked it out yet we have lots and lots of free downloadable PDFs on the website over at English class 101 dot-com oh that's right I'm supposed to go to this camera Nick sorry okay uh-huh sorry I forgot ah let's see this one's romance and love but what's good for today let's see we're talking about your job introducing your job right now so here's a reminder the business English PDF is free so you might need to use some of these words to talk about your job and your responsibilities this is for a meeting aha perfect job titles job titles if you don't know your job title or if you want to refresh your memory about other people's job titles this is a great resource so please check this PDF you can find the link for this in the you can find the link for this in the description on YouTube the description is below the video under the video check under the video below the video on YouTube check for the link above the video on Facebook and other places Twitter or Instagram if you're watching on Instagram you should probably watch on YouTube or Facebook to get the full experience so the link is available everything is free you do need an account but the account is free so please you can download this everything is free go check it out and get some extra vocabulary and phrase phrase points to me news okey-dokey artichokey let's continue okay if you are just joining today if you're just joining today please don't forget to hit the like button and share the video we really appreciate it today's topic is self introduction self introduction so I'm focusing today on sort of leveling up your self introduction so not just the same hi my name is but how to kind of give some more details how to explain a bit more about yourself okay so let's continue in the first part of today's lesson our very warm lesson the first part of today's lesson we talked about sharing your name my name is and we talked about sharing your job or your study details if you missed it you can watch this video this video is being recorded check it on the YouTube channel or Facebook page okay but let's move to part two of today's topic part two we'll go to the second half of the board here we want to talk about where you live and how long you have lived there so the a common follow-up question after asking about someone's job is asking about the city you are in or the place that person lives so let's say we meet in Los Angeles for example we meet at a party in Los Angeles for this example to ask about the other person's living situation you can say so do you live in Los Angeles or are you just visiting this is a really natural question instead of where you live ask about where you are now so do you live in Los Angeles or do you live in New York do you live in Bangkok or are you just visiting just visiting means like you're on vacation or you're coming for business purposes something like that so do you live in Los Angeles meaning like is your job is your work is your life here or are you just visiting so to respond to this question just say yes I live in Los Angeles or yes I'm just visiting so you can use this just visiting as your answer that's perfect just visiting is great then your follow-up question to this so the other person chooses your conversation partner says yes I live in Angeles or I'm just visiting Los Angeles depending on their answer you need to choose your next question then so your follow-up question can be a question about the length of time they've lived in the city or they're staying in the city so we'll look at not quite that I don't think we need the job title one if that's okay okay all right I'll explain first so there's this is a key grammar difference with this question when you want to ask about the length of time someone lived in a city or has lived we'll use the present perfect tense to do that how long perfect thank you how long have you lived in Los Angeles here how long so the length of time have you lived this is a present perfect tense sentence how long have you lived in Los Angeles when you answer this question you can use for or since a grammar point you can check the channel for some more information about this grammar point but how long have you lived in Los Angeles when you answer this question you can say eyes I've lived here I don't have text prepared for this I've lived here for six years so alright I'll just write a key for both of these will zoom into this later oh now okay so when you answer this question how long have you lived in Los Angeles you should use I've lived and then you should use for or since in your reply so this is just a very quick grammar review but I've lived in Los Angeles for six years or I've lived in Los Angeles since 2013 for example so remember you need to choose a length of time or a period of time when you answer this question but don't forget that I've I've I've lived in Los Angeles that I have however if okay I'm checking comments send some examples if you like if however you are visiting the answer to the question is I'm visiting Los Angeles I'm just visiting Los Angeles you can ask a different follow-up question and this follow-up question requires different grammar you need to use different grammar if it's just visiting so this is for a person who lives in the place let's look at a question for if they are just staying for a vacation for example so this question will change how long are you staying so here's the progressive form yeah how long are you staying in Los Angeles how long are you staying so not how long have you lived but how long are you staying we're using progressive tense here because this is a continuing action that is temporary this is a temporary thing they're visiting it's temporary it's not permanent so we should use the progressive tense here okay so how to answer this to answer this one we'll use a different grammar point from what we saw here I think we'll zoom in in a second yeah thank you okay so in the first one we used I've I have lived here for a period of time in the second one now how long are you staying in this city please use the progressive to reply I'm staying I'm staying you can use for here I'm staying for two weeks or maybe I'm staying until next month for example so please keep in mind the grammar changes depending on which question you ask a question about a permanent status how long have you lived in that city or how long are you staying a temporary status your grammar for your question and your answer will change I've lived or I'm staying progressive here okay everyone who says we have a small blackboard this room is very small to understand okay all right good yeah nice one on shine as well how long have you how long have you lived on Facebook how long have you lived in Los Angeles don't forget have so Molly says how to answer about how long so how long I just gave some examples about how to answer this question so how long have you lived if that's the question you can use I've lived for or I've lived since if it's a how long are you staying question use the progressive tense to answer someone on facebook says I think this word isn't easy to pronounce yeah I've I've it's a good one to practice okay good ah then did I have another question for this part no oh my gosh I did okay I don't think we have time I might skip that question and we'll move on maybe to the third part because times going quickly um shoot do we have time what do you think control disk only seven minutes sure hey control desk says sure okay so let's look at one more question for part two today part twos final question is about where you are originally from so lots of people move to different cities and different countries around the world so maybe the place you live when you meet someone is not the place where you were born or it's not the place where you grew up so how do you explain that okay so the question if for example I meet someone I'm clearly not from Bangkok originally so if I meet someone in Bangkok they can say where were you born or you can ask this question to where were you born or this is oh sorry I can't see it yet yeah perfect thank you so where were you born where were you born so I was born in the US I was born in Thailand I was born in England so give your country I was born in Bob Loblaw then if you want to explain the difference between the place where you were born and the place where you grew up try this sentence that you'll see in just a second perfect thank you I was born in the USA I grew up in Thailand so here place 1 is the place where you were born here place 2 or it could be many places place 3 place for place by you can explain if you moved a lot the places where you lived when you were growing up here you'll notice grew up I grew up this is past tense grow up I grew up in some country or some see good I was born in Cambodia Semele I was born in Peru I was born in India not I'm born not I born not any of those I was born I was born in India not I born lots of you are sending I born I born I was born I was born in don't forget this was I was born in some place uh toll money hi sorry I'm originally from Laos but I live in Thailand so I'm originally from that's another idea in the facebook chat nice idea I'm originally from les okay good all right that was the last one for part two one more break time whew it's warm in here uh why was born it's why don't we use I born it's like because someone else gave birth to you someone else gave birth to you there okay oh let's move along let's move along to our break I forgot interesting questions all around today we are talking about meeting people so perhaps an idea we are talking now about travel I'll go to camera two to do so traveling when you travel a couple of expressions you can use when you travel if you are traveling and meeting people a couple questions for review this one is important as well I don't understand but good one to remember so this is one example of some of the free stuff you can find on the website we have some other things I don't show very often we've talked about your family a bit here and there but when you're meeting other people's family members it could be good to remember their relationships so if you're studying abroad this could be a good refresher for your vocabulary I think so this and some more PDFs are all available for free on the website so please check the link below the video under the video there's a link in the description not the chat but the description on YouTube and above the video on Facebook there's a link there so please check that out and grab your free stuff there's a lot all right today we're going to finish the lesson with a question about relationships so when you go to a party when you go to an event and you were invited by somebody you were invited by like the host of the event where you were invited by a friend how do you explain that relationship and how do you talk about them so first let's look at the question this question it's on the board and it's the same here how do you know person so how do you know how do you know Alisha like why why are you here in other words but this is a polite way to ask how do you know the person or you can change this how did you hear about the event that's another idea but how do you know this person how do you know Alisha you can say oh she's my teacher for example so when you answer this question the answer for this question how do you know person I just put a question mark there how do you know this person when you answer this question then you can use a very simple pattern but don't forget your is he's or she's she's my and you need a noun here but this noun should be a relationship word he's my neighbor she's my teacher he's my professor he's my doctor she's my friend something like that so your noun phrase should be a relationship phrase so we talked about like this this this PDF a minute ago this family and relationships word this could be a good one to review so here okay so use a relationship related noun here he's or she's to do it yeah Alicia's my teacher hey Harley I yeah good good good Alicia is my teacher so again don't forget your is she is he is don't forget this littles he is she is okay she's my coworker perfect nice one next one Joan nail this class is 30 minutes long okay okay then if you want to give some more details about your relationship like they're your roommate or they're your best friend for example you can give some more information so he's my roommate or she's my roommate for example if you say that you can give some more details some more information like this one so we used to verb together like we used to play soccer together or we used to study together or we used to work together so this can help you like in a quick and easy way give some details about your past relationship with someone we used to we used to we used to work together that's a great one that's a great so like he's my best friend we used to work together it's a very similar or a very common way to express a relationship another way if you know someone through what's called mutual friends mutual friends mutual I'll write this up here so you can see mutual friends this is a good vocabulary word to know for this mutual mu T al mutual friends so that means you share a friend like you see this on Facebook too I think mutual friends it's like you have the same person in common you know the same connection so if you are at an event because of a mutual friend someone you both know you can say this like oh we met through a friend through a friend so it's like there was you and then this friend and the other person but you're at the event with you met because of this person but we use through to describe that relationship we met through a friend that's how we explain this good okay Alicia and I used to learn English on YouTube what's closed I'm the one teaching in that case my friend and I used to swim together nice one honesty Ayane says we used to walk around okay you don't walk around anymore remember with used to a key like a like a grammar review for used to used to is you just for something you do not do now so this is an action that finished it's done so if you still do these things it sounds strange to use used to if you still do that thing with that person just say he's my roommate or she's my coworker just use that you don't have to use used to unless the action is finished quick grammar reminder I think there's some stuff on the YouTube channel you can check for grammar points about that okay but I think we have to finish there because we're kind of out of time for today yep okay alright so I hope that you found a couple of expressions you can use to kind of level up your self-introduction so not just my name is and i'm and so on but for today I would suggest really reviewing these points about your job details like how do you explain your job details so share details about yourself your conversation shouldn't just be you waiting for the other person to do some think you need to participate and give information yourself - oh sorry make sure to do that and then everyone can enjoy the conversation a little bit more alrighty then we have to finish for today so thank you as always for joining us this week we'll end there but I will be back next week actually next week is gonna be a really good topic I think next week's topic July 11th Wow is how to tell time how to tell time so lots of you have asked about this this will be like not just 1 o'clock 2 o'clock but like half past 10 quarter till 9 like those kinds of expressions how to use those expressions to be specific and kind of natural about time felling so please join us next week this is Wednesday July 11th 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Wednesdays Eastern Standard Time is New York City time if you don't know your city's time please google it use your Google skills alright so that will be next week I look forward to that sounds like a good one I'll prepare as always - please make sure to check the YouTube channel and the Facebook page for lots of exciting videos that are coming up we have always new stuff there also please make sure to check the link below the video on YouTube and above the video on Facebook for all your free stuff all these free PDFs that you can download don't forget to do that if you haven't already but I'll finish there for today so thank you so much for liking the video and for sharing and all that good stuff and we will see you next week enjoy your day enjoy your night - enjoy your weekend and I'll see you again soon bye you

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Length: 35min 9sec (2109 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 04 2018