Intensifying & Emphasizing #1 - Smrt Live Class with Shaun #31

all right there I am oh wow that's a dark it's a dark background for me I don't know if what color is that is it grayish some kind of grayish blue kind of color hi everybody good to see ya um it's been it's been a while it's been a long time we had a bit of a week off last week because I was I was feeling a little bit a little bit under the weather but I'm feeling better now I'm not I'm not a hundred percent I wouldn't say I'm a hundred percent today but I'm not intensely ill or anything CF teachings there hi roses there lots of people good draya's I know who else is in in the chat here you guys heard me sigh I always I always start the class with a big deep sigh before before I get started Navya sing hello how are you alright cool yeah lots of people Steve Lynn's there nice so yeah sorry I had to cancel class last week I was a little bit a little bit sick but I'm looking forward to class today so Ravi's there hi lots of people hmm millena cool alright so anybody who's new if this is your first time my name is Sean and I'll be your teacher for the next hour or so okay good to see you too guys it's good to see you too and if anybody else is new then then I'll introduce Zach who is our friendly moderator he's he's in the chat and he will help you out if you have questions during the class yeah put them in the chat questions comments concerns about anything at all about the lesson about English about life put your questions in the chat and Zach will he'll either answer your questions or he'll get them to me and we'll try to answer your questions as quickly and as best as we can okay yeah I'm trying to just really release some stress with a nice side before the class right yeah and again a couple tears - all right now job this is your first time well welcome to the live stream welcome to our crazy little global classroom here yeah okay so yeah I'm Sean as many of you know because you've been here before we've got lots of familiar names and faces in the chat and I'm coming to you live from Vancouver BC Canada at the Canadian College of English language in Vancouver from our studio here coming at you every every Thursday at this time 9 o'clock in the morning for me I don't know what time is where you are or what day it is or maybe even what year it is who knows who knows when you're watching this but everyone is welcome all right Jose is there - all right you guys ready I'm ready I'll try not to I'll try not to cough on you guys I'll do my best okay so let's let's jump into the lesson here let's get started 11 o'clock in Vietnam is it yeah oh yeah a few people there from from Vietnam cool all right well let's get let's get rockin and rollin here guys let me jump into the lesson there I am okay so today's class and this was going to be our class last week this is probably gonna be about a two part lesson here we're gonna start it today and we're probably gonna finish it next week Jess from Columbia is here 11 o'clock in the morning Jose is 11 - yeah it's a good time for class you guys have lots of time to wake up I'm still it's 9:00 I'm woken up but I still need a little bit of coffee keep me going okay so on this relaxing nice nice peaceful Vancouver morning we're gonna start with kind of the word of the day okay the word of the day what we're talking about today is the word intense okay intense is an adjective what does intense meanwhile intense is it's a good word to know and to use because it can be used in many different situations to describe many different 7:00 p.m. in Saudi Arabia um yeah Abdel Aziz Ashish lots of people there cool yeah there are lots of it looks like there's some new some new names in the chat here - cool all right so intense last last week my cold was pretty intense that's why I had to cancel school so intense means strong right it means extreme or passionate do you know as saying war is intense yes absolutely war is intense lots of lots of things can be described as intense even though those things are very different right I mean you can say flavor can be intense right if you're saying like these little spicy chicken wings spicy food can be intense being very strong very a very strong taste right experience can be intense and it can be think about intense is it can be good or bad I mean intense obviously this jumping out of an airplane is intense means it's a it's a very strong feeling that you get in an extreme experience when you're ice I assume I've never done this but when you're jumping out of an airplane okay an intense experience can be good or bad if you're chased by a bear in the woods for example that could be intense as well people can be intense a test can be intense absolutely feelings can be intense people can be intense this guy seems very intense but you guys are right some who said feelings do you know that intense feelings feelings can be into the intense hate can be intense very strong right passionate feelings music look music can be intense this music I can't obviously we can't hear it but it seems like this guy and his music are intent right so why are we talking about that work can be intense absolutely you can have an intense day or an intense job right like what kind of jobs are intense air traffic control probably is an intense job thanks Malena for that teaching online is intense teaching online can be really intense yeah I don't know maybe it could be it can't be hater that's a good one alright so intense is an adjective as we said and a few weeks ago we talked about probably maybe maybe more like a month ago we talked about word formation and and word families and how every adjective may have different word forms in the same kind of same family so intense is an adjective the adverb being intensely right the noun intensity it's a good one to know and the verb intensify as she is saying passion can be intense absolutely robbery can be intense well all of these these are great examples of of intense that's good so the last one here intensified is the verb and and that's kind of where this class is leading right because today our class is gonna be all about what we call in English intensifiers okay so if you go back to intensify as a verb that verb intensify means to make something intense right to make something intense is to intensify okay so today we're going to be talking about words in English that make other words or other parts of the sentence more intense stronger more extreme more passionate okay so as I said today is going to be probably the first of two classes we're going to spend on intensifying and on emphasizing in class okay and it's Zach says passion fruit can be yeah I guess so that's it that's a good one so let's talk about intensive powers what our intensive fires now the thing about this lesson too is that we're really putting together a lot of stuff that we've that we've studied in in other classes okay so quite a while ago now we did a class on modifiers meaning adjectives are adverbs or phrases or clauses that we use to describe or give more information about other parts of the sentence other words right so adjectives and adverbs are called modifiers okay because they describe or they modify they change another word or part of a sentence okay so intensifiers are modifiers but the thing about intensifiers is these words most of them are adverbs by the way intensifiers are usually adverbs but they can be adjectives as well now intensifier x' they don't really affect the meaning of a word okay they don't change the meaning of the word itself they just enhance it they make it they make the meanings stronger they they give emphasis to it they kind of they sometimes they give emotion or an emotional context let me say to the word Ravi same does intensify have a connotation of harsh not not necessarily Ravi I mean it could be connected to being harsh but it doesn't have to be right because again intensify could be it could be a good thing as well as just making something stronger so it's a if it's a bad thing and you make it stronger it becomes really bad right but if it's a good thing and you make it stronger it's really good so it really depends on on the words you're using but I'm glad that Ravi mentioned conant connotation because I think we're going to be talking about that little bit later but the word itself intensified I wouldn't say that that has a positive or negative connotation to it okay good question Rabi so when we're talking about intensifiers the ones that are most common you guys probably know all of these words here right like so very and really these are the most common intensifiers right rather quite - these are intensifiers - and then completely absolutely and totally these are probably the most common intensifiers but there is an endless list of intensifiers of words that we use to make other words stronger okay so we're going to start with the basics today and later in class we're going to get a little bit more complex and then next week we'll get even even deeper into it okay one thing to another intensifier that isn't in the list but it's a very common intensifier is the word super and we use it in conversation all the time like today I'm super tired right super tired not something that you would use in an essay academic English or anything right but it's something we use in speech all the time honey camera is here the best teacher is here you're a little you're a little late but better late than never you haven't you haven't missed too much yet alright super cool CAF teaching says exactly super cool super tired super excited I'm super excited to be here to teach you guys right Logan super is an intensifier because it makes that word excited even stronger kudrya saying pretty tired right pretty tired now pretty is sometimes considered kind of like the opposite of the intensifier and it kind of goes the other way in it it kind of tones something down if you say I'm pretty tired pretty confident but that's good yeah good super duper you're super duper interested awesome me too all right so as I was saying those are the common intensifiers right these are the most common ones like you say hot this guy is really hot right he's clearly hot you say he's very hot but as I said there is this endless list of intensive fires that we can use right so rather than really or very which is fine lots of times you would say boiling hot it is boiling hot in this room it's smoking hot Rosa Rosa has a question in academic writing is it better to replace words with intensifiers that have the same meaning yeah I mean one one thing about academic writing is that yeah you don't want to use too many intensive fires and I'll talk about that a little bit later too is that you don't want to have just intensifier after intensive fire in your writing everything is very or really it can actually it can actually negatively affect your your writing he's a hot boy okay he's a smokin hot boy Steven freezing freezing cold I wouldn't say freezing Lee freezing cold scorching hot yeah you guys are on it good so boiling hot this is this is one that I like loud so again you can say really loud you can say very loud but again getting back into what we were talking about with word word formation check what I'm gonna do here you can say deafeningly loud deafeningly loud right def meaning unable to hear so defin deafening and you're intensifier is it was so loud that it it made me deaf basically I couldn't hear the next day deafeningly loud you're extremely motivated Everton good good to hear it Ilyas is is late but he yeah you're not you're not extremely late so so don't worry about it all right all right and then hi one more example of these these intensive fires here's here's a good one ass chronically high right so the whole point here is that you yeah you can use really you can say very that's fine so high super high but we also have other very specific intensifiers that go together with adjectives okay like astronomically high means very high if you say for example the level pollute of the level of pollution in the air was astronomically high alright is for real and intensifier I'm didn't say for reals and intensify it's just more of a phrase but it emphasizes I would say it's a it's an emphasizing phrase it's a good one to have John alright so basically when you're dealing with intensifiers the first thing you need to know if you don't know it yet is that adjectives can be put into categories okay when you take an adjective you can really split adjectives into two categories which are called gradable adjectives and non gradable adjectives and the non gradable adjectives can be broken down into strong adjectives and absolute adjectives okay it's so gradable and non gradable which are strong and absolute so what does this mean alright what do these different adjectives mean well let me show you okay pizza so a gradable adjective to describe this pizza would be good alright it's fine good is fine okay so good is a gradable adjective because gradable means you can you can change the the intensity of the adjective you can make it stronger and you can make it weaker by adding different adverbs to it okay so for example you can say very good something's good something's very good something's small something's really small so words like good and small are gradable thank you go up and they can go down okay because you can also you can go kind of the other way and say it's kind of small right it's a little small this this slice of pizza it's a little small for me yeah I would prefer a bigger slice of pizza right okay or pretty pretty good right these words that you guys were talking about before anybody was saying it's perfectly sliced it is yeah it's it's a model it's probably not even real is probably plastic right this is Mark's favorite food yeah all right so I don't know if that's vegetarian though so this these are gradable ideas adjectives like good small big right gradable the non gradable adjectives like a strong adjective is a word like fantastic if i say this this pizza is fantastic you call that a strong adjectives okay now it's a strong adjective because the the word very is kind of already in the meaning of fantastic right because fantastic means very good so it's already strong it's already has that it already has that very meaning in it and that's why you considered a strong adjectives okay so good is gradable strong or fantastic is is strong all right and now the other form of non gradable adjectives would be what we call absolute now in this case you can say this pizza is perfect all right and I think Ilya has even said that all right it's at least perfectly sliced it's a perfect triangle right now the word perfect is an absolute adjective because hi Valerie fantabulous that's a good one it's good to just make up words in English sometimes Shakespeare did it so you guys can do it too right so when we say absolute it means it's it is or it isn't there's no there's no middle they can't make it stronger or weaker it's either perfect or it isn't perfect right so it's a little bit different from something like good which can very good or kind of good so something cannot be very perfect okay it's perfect or it isn't now in my opinion for whatever reason today I'm saying that this that this pizza is perfect it's the perfect slice of pizza all right these love is here by the del hello impeccable flawless Wow you guys see you guys are cranking out some some good adjectives here mediocre pizza yeah you think this pizza looks mediocre mediocre is a good adjective too okay so these are the three different kinds of adjectives and and this is where we're going to start because the type of adjectives will help you determine the type of intensifier you need to use with it okay so I'm gonna put you guys to work right now what are we gonna do we're gonna say are these adjectives gradable strong or absolute so let me let me jump out of here I'm gonna go here this is my copy I'm gonna ask my good friend Zack to put the link please to the to the document in the chat if he would be so kind as to do that and I'm gonna make this nice and big so everybody can see because my first question for you guys today I'm going to give you I don't know about 10 or so adjectives and I want you to decide is this adjectives gradable strong or absolute okay so again yeah Zack can put that put that link in there there it is you guys can you can follow that link you can open that up and you will see this exercise you can make a copy so that you can write on your own document or you can just look at the screen here because I'm going to keep the whole exercise on the screen for you to see so the question is are these adjectives gradable strong or absolute so the word friendly gradable strong or absolute I'm gonna say friendly that is gradable right it's gradable because someone can be really friendly extremely friendly or someone can be kind of friendly is he friendly yeah he's kind of friendly he's okay yeah he's alright right so that makes it gradable so if you guys can put your answers in the chat and this do you know has that has the best method already in there if you put put the adjective and then next to it you can put a G an S or an A for absolute okay so friendly is gradable alright Zahra is saying she doesn't doesn't understand the difference between strong and absolute yeah the difference is really with absolute Zara it it's not it's more than strong okay because it's it can only be it it can only be if something is perfect it is either perfect or it isn't but it cannot be very perfect okay I just got that that question in from Zara all right now if you're a little unclear about that Zara don't worry about it look through these and we're going to go through them together and as we discuss it it will hopefully become clearer to you okay all right so try it out take a couple minutes I'm going to pop off the screen I'll put the music on for you guys to enjoy alright and and I'll be back put your answers in the chat and then we'll go over it together go for it [Music] [Music] you all right lots of stuff coming in in the chat this is fantastic so many answers and so much to discuss okay so gradable strong or absolute now for some of you still unclear about the difference between strong and absolute let's let's let's go through these and hopefully we'll make it a little bit clearer for you okay so I'm gonna go down here just so I can just so I can highlight effectively here yeah or maybe yeah I'll just make them all underline them or something okay so friendly we said was gradable right so just make that blue gradable because someone can be really friendly or a little friendly so it can go up or down okay now furious as Ravi said there and Donny okay yeah so Donny Dee and Ravi have two different answers I would say that that furious I would consider strong okay now again the difference between strong and absolute I would say that a strong adjective means that there is another synonym or a gradable word that it is is similar in meaning but just a little bit weaker okay so furious is a strong version of angry right so angry is gradable furious means very angry so it's strong okay now see is an example of I would say absolute okay because something is essential or it isn't it cannot be really essential that can't be very essential and there's not really a weaker word for essential right you can't go down from essential right important you might say but important and essential are not exactly the same thing okay essential means you need it so if you need it I would say it's absolute okay now D I think most of ya most of you got this one - no D is a good example of an absolute adjective because you cannot be a little dead right except for maybe a zombie or something like that right so some would say Rab is saying what's the what's the absolute alternative to furious now I don't think there really is an absolute version for that and that's what I mean with these absolute adjectives there's not really other strong or gradable versions of these words right for example dead you can't come up with a weaker word for dead right you're either almost dead or your or your dad but you can't be a little bit or very dead or something like that right okay so that's where absolute comes in as I said again with the exception of things like vampires zombies which are maybe maybe a little good okay so II surprised what do you guys think about surprised now let me see some answers here yeah now some people think it's strong but it's not exactly strong in itself the word surprised is not necessarily strong surprised is gradable because again you can be really surprised or you can be I was a little surprised right that was a little surprised when when you jumped out from behind that table or whatever whatever happens ok good what about F impossible impossible hooking me in pause because it's me impossible here the Grenda thinks it's strong Salima says it's absolute and I would say I agree with that one impossible is absolute because something is either impossible or it is not but cannot be a little bit impossible and it cannot be very impossible okay just a few more and then and then I'm gonna kind of show you why we're talking about this okay now ridiculous what do you know says do you know says it's strong and that is absolutely right ridiculous is strong because ridiculous is a strong version of silly right something can be silly something can be really silly and that thing that's really silly means it would be ridiculous okay good what about important different H yeah some people say yeah right you guys got it you're saying important is gradable and it's true now again you see the word important and you might think it's strong but again something can be a little important not really important okay hypothetical so we're seeing gradable for hypothetical not great of all signed up thinks it's strong not strong I would say hypothetical again is absolute because hypothetical means it's not it's not real it's just an idea right so something can is either hypothetical or it isn't it can't be in between okay two more terrified all right okay so terrified is strong you guys are right oops because terrified means very scared and popular is gradable okay because something can be extremely popular or something can be kind of popular a little popular all right good guys all right yeah you're saying hypothetical is based on theory right so it's either hypothetical or it isn't okay good stuff guys now if you have some questions about that put them in the chat and we'll come back to it if you're still a little bit confused about the difference ask a question now really with strong and absolute just remember that the more important thing is is not necessarily telling the difference between strong and absolute but telling the difference between gradable and non gradable adjectives because that will determine the intensifiers or the adverbs you use with these adjectives okay so if you have questions about these or if you're extremely angry about any of these answers put the questions in the chat okay and we'll come back to it but for now let's get back into my presentation because I believe before we continue before we go on it's honey calorie you're putting imperative in the chat imperative I'm not sure if your as an example but imperative would be an absolute adjective for sure okay so it's time once again for the mistake of the week the mistake of the week alright so let me let me put it up here all right I'm gonna put a sentence on the screen and I want you to see if you can see what's wrong with this sentence okay look at the sentence and find me a mistake okay now I'm gonna pop off I'm going to put the music on I'll go away for about 10-15 seconds and whoever gets the mistake first is the fastest person on the Internet at this particular time okay so here's the sentence see if you can find me the mistake okay there we go I'm popping off find the mistake in this sentence go for [Music] you [Music] all right wow you guys are fast I guess yeah I've got to get up earlier in the morning to pull one over on you guys good stuff so yeah answers still coming in good good good good good and your most of you are seeing this mistake of course it connects to what we're talking about today now swathi Bora you got you were you were in there you were real close to be in the first you're absolutely right do you know came in just before you Donny D coming in coming in third honey after that lots of everybody got it and of course the the problem with this sentence and it's not it's not a huge problem but it is a little bit awkward it's it's a good example of how sometimes people who use English as a second language or third language or however many languages you speak sometimes use an awkward combination of words now you're right that in this case the problem is the word very right you cannot say he was very brilliant now why not what's the problem with that well the problem is the word very cannot be used to modify brilliant because brilliant is a strong adjective it is a non gradable adjective and you cannot use the adverb very with strong or absolute adjectives okay so that that is why so instead you would say something like he was absolutely brilliant as an example this is done you don't have to use this adverb but this is one thing you can do instead of very or some of you are saying just take out very and just say he was brilliant and would one day become very successful but you can't say very with brilliance okay now this is what I want to talk about for a couple more minutes here is that like why exactly is this a mistake so let's let's look at this chart here these six intensifiers so really very super rather quite how about absolutely correct Donnie D you are absolutely correct absolutely because that's a good one Donnie D is saying absolutely and correct now that works perfectly because correct is an absolute adjective right you can either be correct or not right there's no there's no weak or strong version being correct you can't be really correct or very correct right Luciano showing up Hey how are you welcome all right so he's right absolutely correct Donnie D you are absolutely correct now in this case these these six or in this chart these six intensifiers are used with gradable adjectives right so we said before for example tired is a gradable adjective you can be really tired or very tired okay now here you're saying so tired really tired very tired super tired because tired is gradable yeah now this chart with these six intensifiers are examples of intensifiers you use with non gradable adjectives totally completely absolutely exceptionally purely and utterly roses saying what's the difference between absolutely and extremely um well I would say absolutely means 100% absolutely as it's similar to completely or or purely Rosa okay so extremely just means very right and that's that's the difference I would say extremely is is is closer to very and absolutely is closer to completely or totally yeah extraordinarily brilliant Everton good one nice okay good so these are intensifiers you use with non gradable adjectives so if you use these with a word like tired before it would sound very strange if you said I was completely tired so I didn't go to school doesn't work right but why doesn't it work now this is an important word for you guys when you get up in the levels of a language you have to talk about this magic word here which is collocation okay now I'll probably put together an entire class based on this word at some point right because collocations are really important okay very important but not absolutely important right that doesn't work all right so collocations are words that we commonly use together in a language right we have certain expressions that are kind of like fixed expressions to word or three word combinations that we use together that if you change one of those words a little bit it just sounds it sounds weird it sounds strange some words go together in English and some of them don't and it's not based on really a logical reason that we can explain to you is just this is how these words are used and it sounds weird if you mix them up so if you say absolutely tired that sounds strange right and if you say as we said very correct that sounds strange and that's all about this word collocation right so let me give you some examples of collocation brand-new that's a collocation right we use that word brand with the word new but we don't we don't use brand to really intensify other words quite so much fast food not quick food exactly fast food is a collocation good so I ate is saying that the Oxford collocation dictionary is helpful yeah right good now Swati you're giving me kind of yeah examples of prepositions going together with with verbs those are collocation stew and we can have I could teach an entire course just on collocations collocations are hard because it's really the only way to really learn them is by using the language and see the language reading and listening to the language right to see how it's used so brand new is a collocation absolutely perfect is a collocation these two words go together right now some collocations are strong and some and some are weaker but this is a collocation these two words work together okay and this one staggeringly expensive right staggeringly means really surprising right it's shockingly expensive and these are Col occasions now you can as I said we could talk forever about verb noun collocations adjective noun collocations preposition collocations and we'll do more of that in in other classes but it's important to know when it comes to intensify errs that yeah you have to consider that some some words go together and some words don't staggeringly beautiful say that's staggeringly beautiful maybe maybe yeah quite brilliant that works out yeah good okay now I want to get you guys to to use some intensifiers and kind of put intensifiers together with adjectives to form these collocations okay so let's let's go back into I think let's go back into the document okay let's go back into the exercise alright now in this one I want you to go down to part two okay now this one I might have to go back a little bit whoops go the other way make it as big as I can there we go alright so collocations are hard to just to figure out all right so I'm being alia so you just are you an are you are you experimenting there with with new words yeah staggeringly yeah that's it if the hardware yeah that's good all right now I'm gonna be nice to you guys I've given you the intensifier if you look at these if you look at these sentences the intensifiers have been put into bold okay substantially abundantly genuinely bitterly these are all words that intensify the the feeling of the adjectives alright now what you have to do is take an adjective here and you have to put it in the right spot here okay now you'll notice that there are eight sentences and there are ten adjectives just to make it a little bit more challenging right and you guys are already ahead of me here this is good so let's do the first one together it says though the two scientists took substantially then you're missing an adjective here approaches their research had very similar findings now for this exercise really don't worry about the intensifier at all just find an adjective that makes sense with the rest of the sentence and you will almost accidentally create a collocation alright now if you look at this sentence and do you know is ahead of me here you guys are already into it I would say different works here there okay so say though the two scientists took substantially different approaches right substantially different meaning very different but substantially different is a collocation okay take a few minutes see if you can do the other seven sentences and then we'll go over it together and and basically by as I said by putting these adjectives in there you're also creating a two-word collocation all right now I'm gonna pop out put your answers in the chat and then we'll go over together guys okay good luck and if you're stuck or scared or extremely confused put a question in the chat all right I'm out of here [Music] [Music] you [Music] you all right good stuff guys you just cranking out answers into the chat this is great all right really good yeah and a couple of those a couple of the options are kind of tricky but let's go over it together here this is good so a did it for you we said substantially different meaning to things that are very different extremely different substantially is just a another option that you can use other than other than very now be some people I think said obvious no I don't think I would say abundantly obvious now I think going up here to near the top like I saw that Donnie D - Donnie D get it yeah Donnie D got its with abundantly clear right we said I thought I thought I made it abundantly clear that I didn't want to see you again because I don't know where I come up with these sentences but not the nicest thing to say to somebody unless they did something very bad to you but if you don't want to see somebody again you have to make it abundantly clear to them that you don't want to see them again or they'll just I guess they'll just keep coming back until you make it abundantly clear all right so abundantly clear is your collocation there with the intensifier abundantly and your gradable adjectives alright so what about see Jake was genuinely Navjot Singh says genuinely surprised I would say that - yeah he was genuinely surprised meaning and that's a good collocation because you know sometimes people will fake surprise right they won't they will pretend to be surprised but Jake seemed genuinely surprised when he opened the door and saw the cake another good collocation with genuinely would be something like moved meaning to feel emotion right you give someone a present and it affects them emotionally in a good way you can say that person was genuinely moved or genuinely touched by a gift or something like that this is good okay now D another good collocation to know yes Wade got it Ravi got it and that is D not surprisingly fans of the losing team were bitterly disappointed by something to be bitterly disappointed to be bitter it means to to be really angry to resent something right so it's it's a strong a very strong disappointment to be bitterly disappointed and in the world of sports obviously there is a lot of bitter disappointment whether you're talking about soccer or hockey or any sport in between there's a lot a lot of intense emotions in sport all right what about e Yan okay this is a good one because a couple people I think put the word obvious here now and that would be fine if if you said do you do you mind if I ask you an obvious question an obvious question is good but obvious doesn't call a Kate with the word purely right now if you think about purely sounds like absolutely it sounds like completely right I think I would put it with an absolute adjective like hypothetical something is purely hypothetical totally completely not real we're just talking about something is if a situation is purely hypothetical yeah you guys got it good sign I've got it - nice all right a couple more here F now this is an important one the students were how did the students feel about about everything that shot that Shawn does for them Samir got a Luciano got it yeah all right students of course you were you were immensely grateful all right let me get that off the screen here Steve Lynn's asking a question quick question doesn't not connects to today's topic though in E is it okay to say do you mind if I asked no that's a fine question I mean it's the kind of relates to to what we're doing here Steve so you're saying do you mind if I asked I would do you mind I would say if you're putting an IDI here Steve I would put a would here would you mind if I asked you because now you're turning that's kind of tricky because now you're turning that into a kind of a second conditional right do you mind if I ask is more of a first kind of first or zero conditional kind of situation right so that's a good question if you put an IDI here on ask I would put a would you mind if I ask this question all right good good question now immensely grateful I've done a thing obviously grateful yeah obviously grateful is fine too I'm glad nobody put disappointed here right students were disappointed no yeah of course in this case you can't put disappointed I I wouldn't I wouldn't allow you to put disappointed here because of collocation you can't be disappointed for something you can be disappointed in something or disappointed up here you say disappointed with right you can be disappointed in Sean you can be disappointed with Sean but you can't be disappointed for well yeah not in this case anyway so you have to be grateful I made sure that you had to be grateful okay so two more two more sentences here with G Donnie DS in there with superiors I know I've got a to give somebody else's shadow Ashish said superior yeah so many people consider Apple products to be vastly superior to their competition now we could take that sentence anybody that was here two weeks ago and we could we could use that impersonal passive and say apple products are considered by many to be vastly superior to their competition means um better right superior is better and vastly superior together is a good intense collocation alright and the last one h per ticket to london was ridiculously cheap ridiculously cheap it was so cheap it is ridiculous okay it's really silly how cheap it is but of course she had to make three connecting flights which which explains it okay Steve Steve Lansing I was immensely disappointed that you did not show up here last week yeah yeah bitterly disappointed I'm sure yeah but I was deathly ill last week there's a collocation for you right I was deathly ill so that's why I wasn't here so don't don't hold a grudge alright now this is good good work now the one last thing that I want to say to you guys about about these collocations about these intensifiers my tip of the day for intensifiers is um don't be confused by the intensifiers meaning okay now some sometimes if you look at the intensifier itself you may be confused because of what you think of as the meaning of that word but remember that the intensifier doesn't have a meaning itself it's just making the adjective stronger so let me give you an example of this sentence too day-old pasta is perfectly fine okay I had some for lunch yesterday I didn't get sick it's fine you can eat pasta that was made two days before it's okay now in this case the intensifier perfectly going with the word fine don't be confused by the word perfect thinking that I am NOT saying in the sentence that two-day-old pasta is perfect it's definitely not perfect it's fine it's perfectly fine all right now in this case perfectly is just making fine a little bit stronger it's the intensifier but it doesn't have the meaning of perfect this is the confusion that sometimes students have when looking at intensifiers okay so to do past is definitely not perfect but it's perfectly fine all right now let me give you another example this guy's not happy he's not happy with his teeth I don't know if what he doesn't have to day old past he's I don't know why he's so mad about it it looks like a perfectly fine English breakfast there but he's saying this food is positively awful right now if you if you really think about the word positive right you think of it as kind of a good thing an optimistic thing all right something's positive it means it's good but positively awful positively dreadful these are collocations that that work together but again don't look at the word positive for meaning it's just intensifying the word awful okay so that's kind of the confusing little thing that I wanted to point out to you guys today right all right so I think yeah time is up time flies when you're talking about collocations yeah and I've had a an incredibly wonderful time teaching you guys today okay so how about this if you like a little bit of of homework all right right some example sentences try to use try to use these for collocation z' in sentences indescribably beautiful incredibly talented infinitely better and perfectly relaxed right because really the only way that you're gonna get comfortable with any of these collocations or any of these intensifiers is to try to use them use them right terrible sentences right now make make huge mistakes fix them learn from them and get better at it that's how it works okay so you can do you know saying he's positive that the food is awful right yeah so you guys can take these collocations right you some example sentences and you can even yeah you could put them in the comments under this video and it gets published as the video or you can put it in the in the Facebook group okay now that's that's all the time we have for today Shawn is an incredibly talented teacher that's that sentence Rosa is absolutely perfect okay Shawn is also indescribably beautiful okay so here let me let me pop out here let me go back to this color again I don't know if this is my color but it'll do for this week now thanks for coming it's always my pleasure to jump in here and teach you guys for an hour it's a highlight of the week I'll be back here same time next week 9 o'clock pacific standard time that's vancouver time 9 in the morning and and i look forward to seeing you then now in between then and there now and then you can keep watching marks classes and yeah take a look at the schedule we've got lots of other courses that you can take part in and join up with we've got neal we've got nicole we've got joshua we've got lots of lots of classes that you can choose from ok so keep watching our videos keep liking the videos tell your friends tell your mom tell your family and join us on learn English on Facebook come to Vancouver to the Canadian College of English language and study here with us if you if you like we'll be waiting for you okay so keep keep practicing keep using your collocations and we'll see you here next time okay guys until then bye

Channel: Smrt English

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Length: 64min 23sec (3863 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 22 2016