Living English - Episode 20 - You walk sadly

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hello welcome to living English today

we're going to find out about Words

which describe how people do things

we'll also look at giving advice

first here's today's episode of our

drama in the last episode Anne went to

see the detective John

Bara he told her that he hadn't found

her brother but there was a

letter her brother's University

Professor has the letter and now Anne is

on her way to talk to the professor

she's going there by bus

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hello dear how are you very well thank

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you are you sure is anything wrong no

I'm fine

I watched you

walking you walk

sadly I'm old I walk slowly but you walk

sadly well I do have a problem not too

serious I hope I don't know I hope not

worrying doesn't help my

dear think positively it

helps do something take action you'll be

all right

I hope so thank

you where are you from dear Singapore

you speak English very well thank you

sometimes when people speak very quickly

I can't understand don't worry I speak

slowly and I see badly these days what

number bus is that dear it's

190 at last it was nice talking to you

you

too in that episode we saw the old lady

give Anne some advice and

sympathy sympathy is being concerned

about other

people listen to how the old lady shows

her

concern first she finds out if something

is wrong hello dear how are you very

well thank

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you are you sure is anything wrong she

calls Anne dear usually we only call

children dear but old people often call

young people

dear an is polite and says that she's

very well is anything wrong no I'm

fine she says that she's fine this is

the same as saying she's well or she is

okay there's nothing

wrong try saying it with her is anything

wrong is anything wrong no I'm fine the

old lady doesn't believe her and Anne

admits that something is

wrong well I do have a

problem notice that Anne says I do have

a problem not just I have a problem

she emphasizes do because before she

said she didn't have a

problem now listen to the old lady show

her concern not too serious I hope she

could have said I hope it's not serious

listen to Anne's reply I don't know I

hope not notice that Anne says I hope

not we say not after hope instead of

saying don't before

it for most verbs such as know think or

say we say don't before them if they are

negative listen to an again I don't know

I hope

not I don't know and I hope not say the

negative of

these I

say I don't

say I think

I don't think I

understand I don't

understand I

hope I hope

not now listen to the advice the old

lady gives an worrying doesn't help my

dear think positively it

helps do something take action you'll be

all right she tells Anne to think

positively

she means to think that good things will

happen words that tell us how we do

something are called

adverbs doing words such as think are

verbs and words such as positively that

say how we think are

adverbs listen for the adverbs in this

clip I watched you

walking you walk

sadly I'm old I walk slowly but you walk

sadly the adverbs are sadly and

slowly they mean that Anne walks in a

sad way and that the old lady walks in a

slow

way we often add a Lee sound to

adjectives the words that describe

things you can say that a snail is slow

and that it moves

slowly listen for three Lee adverbs in

this

clip sometimes when people speak very

quickly I can't understand don't worry I

speak

slowly and I see badly these

days

quickly

slowly and

badly people speak

quickly or they speak

slowly she sees

badly now it's your turn to try some of

these Lee

adverbs he is quiet he

speaks he speaks

quietly she is loud she

speaks she speaks

loudly she is happy she

walks she walks happily

his thoughts are

negative he

thinks he thinks

negatively not all adverbs have this Lee

sound see if you can work out which is

the adverb in this

clip you speak English very

well it's well she speaks English very

well well is the adverb formed from the

adjective good

and here's someone else who speaks

English very well Michelle codin thank

you hello everyone what have you got

today a pack of cards I want you to

build a house of

cards

okay tell the viewers how you're

building it listen out for any adverbs

Brenton

uses I'm building it slowly

and

carefully if I built it

quickly it would fall

down

there you used four

adverbs do you know what they were

Brenton uh

slowly

carefully and quickly

what's the other one you said that if

you built the house of cards quickly it

would fall down adverbs say something

about

verbs what did you say about fall I said

it would fall down down is the

adverb adverbs say how when and where

things happen they also say how well you

do something if you're bad at it or good

at it you're good at English yes I speak

English

well listen again to the old lady at the

bus stop telling Anne how well she

speaks English and then say it with

her you speak English very

well very well remember that we use very

with adjectives to mean more than we we

also use very to do the same thing with

adverbs listen again to

an sometimes when people speak very

quickly I can't understand she can't

understand when people speak very

quickly let's look again at

adverbs how did Brenton build the House

of

Cards

slowly and

carefully how is this man walking

very slowly and

carefully let's have a look at someone

playing the

violin it sounds

beautiful how does she play she

plays she plays

beautifully what's your violin playing

like

Brenton my violin playing is

bad how does he play he

plays he plays

badly how well do you play

Michelle I had lessons when I was