let's learn some B2 phrases that you absolutely need to know and I say this because they are so common and I want to make sure that you are using them correctly and effectively like our first phrase all of a sudden it means very quickly or without warning and there are two things that I want to say about this phrase the first is that you're likely going to use it either at the beginning or the end of a sentence and the next thing is that it's very useful because this is a great way to EMP emphasize
the fact that something happened suddenly you may even emphasize the phrase when speaking all of a sudden my pants fell down okay there there's no context but it really captures your attention or I got really tired all of a sudden great phrase to know and use for pronunciation linking will occur this is when we link the final consonant sound of one word with the beginning vowel sound of the next word and we can link the phrase all of a all of a and people are going to say say this a bit quicker and they're really
just going to pronounce it all together all of a sudden it seems like all of a sudden so much is happening well it kind of happened all of a sudden it was a spur of the moment you know all of a sudden you care what happens to me Sudden Valley just sort of implies that something awful could happen all of a sudden now if you would like to build your vocabulary improve your pronunciation develop your grammar skills Please Subscribe turn on notifications that way I can become your teacher my name is Wes the channel is
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specific time I submitted the report at the last minute or we checked in for our flight at the last minute you may wait or leave something until the last minute he waited until the last minute to board the train or maybe someone asked you why do you leave everything until the last minute if you like to procrastinate then probably you've heard somebody ask you this question for pronunciation the only thing that I wanted to point out is that a lesion will occur this is when sounds or syllables get removed so the final T in the
word last it's going to Al light it comes between two consonants so you're not going to hear it the last minute I want you to listen for it the town of Woodbury was supposed to host it this year but because of recent flooding they cancelled at the last minute didn't anticipate so many people losing their nerve at the last minute now let this be a lesson to you don't always leave things until the last minute now learning these phrases is important but it's also essential that you pronounce them correctly and practice using them when speaking
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to get an Elsa premium membership and take your speaking fluency to the next level let's continue with our next common and useful B2 phrase which is for the sake of someone or for someone's sake this means in order to help or bring advantage to someone now I'll be honest when I was putting the together I thought it would be a little more advanced than a B2 phrase but sure enough it is a B2 phrase and I want to give you examples with both of those phrasings for the sake of someone and for someone's sake so
let's start with for the sake of someone I could say I decided to move away from the city for the sake of my mental health or maybe the parents decided to stay together for the sake of the children and if we're talking about for someone's sake I could say I hope that you're right for both our sakes or maybe you're thinking I should hit the like button for Wes's sake yes it would it would it would help me when pronouncing this phrase just keep in mind that the word for is often reduced it's unstressed therefore
the vowel sound may change and it's going to sound a little more like fur and then we can link the phrase sake of and it's like we're moving that consonant sound over for the sake of someone or for someone's sake she was my mother too mother gone for the sake of you baby you don't have to pretend other women aren't attractive just for my sake well I'm glad it turned out to be somebody else for everybody's sake once and for all let's break down the myths and destroy the lies and Distortion for your sake for
their sake then we have by far which means by a great amount now often this phrase is going to come after the verb to be and we're going to follow it with a superlative which is an adjective or adverb indicating that something has more of a quality than anything else in a group so I could say English is by far the most commonly used language in the world and teaching English is by far the hardest thing that I've ever done but it is by far the most rewarding as well and of course you are by
far the best student that I've ever taught and I hope that this is by far the best vocabulary lesson you have ever seen and if it is yes you can you can hit that like button when pronouncing this phrase I think it's pretty simple and straightforward by far here are some more examples I am by far the most qualified person they interviewing you have to let me study that machine of yours is by far the most magnificent invention I've ever seen in my life all the things that Bart might do for money this is by
far the most legal this is why out of the five dads that I have had you are you are by far my favorite I'll take that next is the phrase as far as I know or you could say so far as I know and this is used to say what you think is true even though you do not have all the facts now you may end up using this phrase as a standalone statement someone ask you a question and you respond and just say as far as I know this is what I think is true
but you may also often use this at the beginning of an independent clause I could say as far as I know my daughter still believes in Santa Claus or so far as I know you have already subscribed to the channel I like to think that it's true even though I'm I'm not sure but if you haven't done so please you can go ahead and do that now we have these two phrases they mean the same thing but I would like to share with you which one is more commonly used so we can check out engram
viewer to see how frequently these phrases are used used and as you can see it's more common for people to use the phrase as far as I know for pronunciation more linking may occur we can link the three words far as I when saying the phrase as far as I know or so far as I know let's listen to some more examples as far as I know yeah there's only two ways you can injure your neck mhm there's no one to blame here but Oscar as far as we know your staff wasn't hurt but the
patient's abdomen was open he's stable as far as I know then there's can't take your eyes off someone or something this means to not be able to stop looking at someone or something and it is a great phrase to add emphasis I could say I can't take my eyes off that dessert it just looks so good for you music lovers there is a famous song from 1967 we're going way back Frankie belly Can't Take My Eyes off of you you're too good to be true can't take my eyes off of you I'm not going to
keep singing this song cuz my voice is just wrong okay I don't want to I don't want you to take your eyes off the video for pronunciation I want to highlight the word can't because there is a difference between American English can't and British English can't now you're going to hear me say can't and if you listen to many online dictionaries you're going to hear that te get released however most people are going to say this with that nasal sound and then follow it with a stop te so your tongue is going to come up
behind your top front teeth and block the flow of air can't the other thing that is happening is that more linking will occur we can link the phrase eyes off Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You right now that that is true you're just too good to be true can't take my eyes off of you oh my God I can't take my eyes off this Li on woman is absolutely mesmerizing it's the ring you can't take your eyes off it then we have an incredibly useful phrase to
take advantage of someone or something this phrase actually has two different meanings one positive and one negative now the positive connotation is is actually a B1 phrase which means to use the good in a situation like you're going to take advantage of an opportunity when using this phrase in a negative way which is the B2 meaning it refers to treating someone badly in order to get something good from them so if someone is taking advantage of you or you are taking advantage of someone else it's not a good thing to help you better understand this
phrase I have some humorous memes that I want to share with you like this one if you need someone to take advantage of you I'm your man or how about this one please explain to me how not letting you take advantage of me is being mean and finally whenever you feel taken advantage of at work just remember how lucky you are to be stupid enough to tolerate it for pronunciation there's more linking this is just commonly used in casual conversation we can link the phrase take advantage of and we're moving that consonant sound over to
take advantage of someone or something he's taking advantage of her didn't exactly sound like anything was happening against her will last night and I think that Ryan knows that and he's taking advantage of you I think you are wrong because I'm doing it too I'm taking advantage of Pete like you're taking advantage of Tracy then there's as a result of something this just means because of something and the phrase is really interchangeable with the meaning and it's also interchangeable with the phrase due to and in my opinion I feel like as a result of may
sound a little more formal I could say I hope that you build your vocabulary as a result of watching this lesson I could say due to watching this lesson or because of watching this lesson all of them work and it's good to get a little variety but to help give you a better understanding as to how to use the phrase as a result of here are some news headlines San Francisco museums brace for layoffs as a result of the city's budget deficit Pope Francis remains hospitalized but doctors say he's no longer in imminent danger as
a result of pneumonia ponia and in this case imminent just means immediate and finally chick sail soaring as a result of ongoing egg shortage West Texas feed stor say for pronunciation we can link two different phrases as a and result of as a result of listen for it as a result of our success I'm getting a seat on the High Council I made a promise as a result of the promise I have to stay on us it simply says you won't hold us responsible if you die as a result of gross negligence then we have
to be in your 50s this is the period in which a person is aged 50 to 59 and and of course we're really referring to any 10-year period it doesn't have to be your 50s I could use this phrase to say well someone's in their 30s or 40s or 50s 60s and so on really you would use this phrase to approximate someone's age and you're just guessing and you have that 10-year period so let's have a little fun right now and play a little guessing game I am going to show you the picture of a
well-known person and I just want you to guess this person's age you have a a 10year window right there so let's begin how about Leonardo DiCaprio what do you think I hope that you said he's in his 50s because yes that that is true he's in his 50s how about Joe Biden what would you say I think everybody knows yeah he he's old Joe Biden he's in his 80s how about Cristiano Ronaldo famous footballer he's been playing for quite some time he is in his 40s Taylor Swift famous musician she is in her 30s Pope
Francis I know that yes he is old he is in his 80s and finally what do you think what about me what would you say I am not in my 20s I'm not in my 30s I'm not in my 50s so hopefully by process of elimination you would guess that I am in my 40s that's true not going to tell you my my exact age but for pronunciation the only thing that I want to point out is that more linking may occur with the verb to be if you say someone is in their 30s or
40s or 50s or if you're talking about a a group of people they are in their 30s or 40s so just something to keep in mind here are some more examples can't even tell when the disease would hit you if you do have it could be in your 70s like your mom or could be sooner could be sooner the mullers and the enzers indicates he was in his 40s and then there was this dermatologist and she looked like she was in her 20s she's like in her 50s hey you're Nifty 50s yeah one way or
another great phrase it just means in some way that is not known yet and it's almost like you're expressing confidence that something is going to happen I could say I am going to pay you back one way or another all right I'm going to make it happen or One Way Or Another We're going to get out of this mess and I'm just expressing that that confidence once again for music lovers you may be thinking this phrase sounds familiar and that may be because of Blondie's hit song One Way or Another one way or another I'm
going to find you I'm going to get you get you get you get you one way or another I'm going to win you going to get you get you get you you you get the idea and I feel like I'm such a terrible singer I'd be better off just playing the actual song even though I might get a a copyright strike for pronunciation I I just want to point out that the word or is often reduced and when that happens the vowel sound's going to change slightly instead of or it may sound more like er
one way or another and then we can link the final consonant sound in that r with the vow sound in another one one way or another just listen for it everything's going to work out one way or another we'll get that money one way or another this rival we has to stop one way or another sooner or later one way or another the gods have a plan for us then there's to make a fool of someone this means to trick someone or make someone appear stupid in some way now someone could be a reflexive pronoun
and in that case it's like you're you're doing it to yourself I could say I got drunk and made a fool of myself so in that case the subject and the reflexive pronoun we we're talking about the same person someone may also be used as an object pronoun and in that case it's like someone else is doing it to you she made a fool of him in front of his friends or I sometimes I ask you to hit the like button and I could say please don't make a fool of me if you if you
don't do it I'm I might just feel stupid so please don't make a fool of me for pronunciation there are a couple of phrases that we can link make a and fool of to make a fool of someone I'm sorry it's taking me this long to figure it out but I promise done making a fool of myself let him make a fool out of himself no he will make a fool out of you you won't make a fool of me any longer oh I'm embarrassing him you're making a fool of yourself then there's the phrase
one by one which means separately or one after the other I could say the children exited the classroom one by one or over time the apartment buildings have been built one by one I've been talking about music a lot in this lesson and of course there is a famous children's song the ants go marching one by one don't worry I'm not going to sing it I don't want to hurt your ears but fun fact this is an American folk song to the tune of the Civil War song When Johnny Comes Marching home and here is
a fun meme that I wanted to share you see these soldiers marching and one person starts singing the end go marching one by one and then someone else says shut the up Carl so I I just thought it was humorous and wanted to share it with you for pronunciation it's pretty simple and straightforward just say each word one by one here are some more examples one by one come in one by one one by one I'm not going in there than began to wrinkle and go black one by one plopped to the ground at my
feet they all Dove down from the high Pier One By One or my son will kill you all one by one now I hope that you don't make a fool of me and go on and do something else I want you to keep watching these video lessons one by one so you continue to build your vocabulary and as a result you're going to learn a lot of new words and phrases so please do it now for my sake don't wait until the last minute and I I'm not trying to take advantage of you this is
by far the best way to improve your English fluency as far as I know you see how easy it is to use these phrases in casual conversation and I hope that you go out and do the same if you enjoyed this lesson and learned something new you can let me know by hitting that like button as always thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time so long
