I walk in and there's a model like a real one and she's like on the treadmill right and she's running like faster than a racehorse would run she's top speed top speed and not breathing heavy at all she's like oh yeah today we're learning English with two funny clips from the interview with Taylor Swift and remember if you want to understand your favorite movies and TV series without getting lost without missing the jokes and without subtitles subscribe to our Channel and hit the Bell down below to never miss a single new video okay so you've
just come from France haven't you yeah actually we were um I was in Paris doing a music video and I got to go to a fashion show wow cuz it's Fashion Week over there isn't it or it's just been okay how was that it was beautiful beautiful dresses and um yeah I knew it was fashion week because I was going there for fashion week but you don't realize like the models are all there of course because they would be for fashion we I suppose You' forget that on the way then but like I didn't realize
they were like St they're all staying in the same hotels as as like people that aren't models and um cuz you'd think they'd have one with just very thin doors and stuff like that I don't know what I thought or they like sleep on clouds or something I don't know but like I um I was going to the gym cuz I was trying to like run off the jet lag I walk in and there's a model like a real one and she's like on the treadmill right and she's running like faster than a racehorse would
run like six like I don't know 80 M an hour probably they can do that so she's top speed top speed and not breathing heavy at all she's like and I'm on the elliptical which is kind of like that's the lazy person's running machine isn't it and I hate it and you can see in my face that I hate it and you can hear that I hate it and I'm like and she keeps running like that for like 30 minutes wow and then she has this like Italian boyfriend come in and he's like incredibly good-look
and they're both good-look and he I swear leans Over the Bar of the treadmill and and they and they start making out while she's running this back that's the most annoying woman on the planet it and I just wanted to be like you win you already won okay so you've just come from France haven't you yeah we were um I was in Paris doing a music video and I got to go to a fashion show wow cuz it's Fashion Week over there isn't it or it's just been okay how was that it was beautiful the
first thing that you know comes to mind is uh this different in pronunciation of uh the name of the country Ethan can you name this country he they were talking about France France so you would say France and the host of the show says France because he's from Britain right okay so you've just come from France haven't you yeah what I also noticed he didn't say the tag question haven't you he didn't say it with the sound the way we would say with you right but he drops the T here T is silent actually so
what we hear is haven't you haven't you right and do you want to explain what a tag question is yeah it's something that seemingly is unnecessary right you could just take it off and have the question mark but we sort of do it to add a little bit of extra emphasis when the initial part of the question is positive then you need a negative question tag and if the initial part is negative then you need a positive question tag so um we could change this for example to you've not been to France have you mhm
cuz Fashion Week over there wasn't it or just been okay how was that and just briefly Fashion Show is something what yeah models would do uh showing the clothing or new style walk the catwalk oh there's another word for that the catwalk right that's the thin part of the stage that goes out into the audience that the models walk down and what the host wants to say here that it's a Fashion Week over there or it's just been uh with the present perfect he was to say that something just happened recently yeah uh he is
just double checking is just being or is it going right now right mhm that's also British English because we would use the simple past there the same way that American would say I already had breakfast today a Brit would say I've already had breakfast today mhm Hey guys you're doing great job so far and to make sure you remember all the words and expressions from today's lesson go to the real life English app and search for the deck of flashcards we created for you there you'll find the same Expressions we're defining right here and you'll
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app but you don't realize like the models are all there of course because they would be profession I suppose you would forget that on the way that that was such hilarious and he's such a good host by trying to you know encourage her and also support her joke if she was joking yeah so here he says like um because they would be there for your show and then he supports her or by saying that but I suppose that you'd forget so what does it mean when you are supposing something it's the same as assume to
assume something mhm and why does he say You' forget what does d stands for here right that's a contraction of wood you is you would so it's saying a it's a conditional statement right that he has that experience himself but hypothetically he can imagine that that would be true yeah I knew it was fashion week because I was going there for fashion week but you don't realize like the models are all there of course because they would be for fashion we I suppose You' forget that on the way then and again couple of notes about
uh connect to speech here I noticed that he doesn't say because he says cuz yeah right but like I didn't realized they were like they're all staying in the same hotels as as like people that aren't models and um cuz you'd think they'd have one with just very thin doors I don't know what I thought or they like sleep on clouds or something I don't know but like okay so she's an American so could you uh you know break down her connected speech here yeah I'm sure Learners are thinking that was just so fast I
didn't catch any of it without the subtitles so she says I don't know this is very common that instead of saying I don't know that we just reduce that to don't know I don't know and then there's an American T here that happens because of the T between two vowel sounds between uh what what and I so it becomes what I I don't know what I thought or they like sleep on clouds or something I don't know but like and that also connects to the next word thought so what I thought so we actually have
two chunks here I don't know and what I thought I um I was going to the gym cuz I was trying to like run off the jet lag I walk in and there's a model like a real one and like a real one so the jet lag is that feeling of um tiredness uh when you cross several time zones so you either feel sleepy or you're not sleepy at all because of this change of time zones but what does it mean to run off the jet lag yeah that's a really nice expression that she used
there if you run off something it means that you are basically running to try to remove that thing so in the same way that a lot of people might try to run off after they might try to run off a big meal in this case she was trying to do some exercise to reduce this feeling of tiredness that the jet L caused I walk in and there's a model like a real one and she's like on the treadmill right and she's running like faster than a racehorse would run so she's describing a situation that happened
to her back in Paris but why does she use here present indefinite I walk in and there's a model as if it's it's happening right now we often do this when telling a story to emphasize and really bring the person inside of it as if it were happening in that moment also to make you feel more present in that story so it was more engaging for you right what is treadmill Ethan yeah you can't see it but I have one right here that I sometimes this desk can go up and down and so sometimes I
put the treadmill so I can walk and work at the same time since they say that sitting is like the new smoking treadmill is this belt basically that's on a machine that goes round and round so you can walk or you can run on it to exercise but you don't actually your body doesn't actually move right like many people might do at the gym and I really like this that she's saying that the model is running faster than a race horse which a race horse is a horse that runs races which run incredibly fast right
yeah it's the same like a race car but this is a race horse and I noticed that it's like um one word it's written in as one word right I'd also just point out for people to pay attention to all of the filler words all the discourse markers she uses she uses like a lot in explain this and it's not something that you want to abuse when you speak but it is a way for you to sound more natural and also to give yourself a little bit of space to think as you're speaking like six
like I don't know 80 M an hour probably I can do that so she's top speed top speed and not breathing heavy at all she's like 80 miles an hour that is incredibly fast that would be top speed I think it's maybe 120 km per hour or something like that something like that that's hard to imagine that a model runs like that without a heavy breath without heavy breathing and top speed that means as fast as a person can go or as fast as a car can go that's its top speed the maximum speed and
I'm on the elliptical which is it's kind of like that's the lazy person's running machine isn't it and I hate it and you can see in my face that I hate it and you can hear that I hate it and I'm [Applause] like yeah that's hilarious elliptical I imagine this is another trainer machine yeah yeah it's like a mix between stairs and a treadmill and she even does the motion here with the arms that people can see we can show what that machine looks like and it's elliptical is like a stretched out Circle as an
ellipsis and so it's making that sort of motion elliptical motion a little bit of connected speech uh here in this part she said that you can see that I hate it can you break it down mhm and she said it three times here so this is really great for practicing listening to it and repeating how she said it and I hate it and you can see in my face that I hate it and you can hear that I hate it and I'm like so we have especially in that second part to double American tea so
we have the tea between that and I that I that I and hate and it hate it hate it that I hate it that I hate it and she keeps running like that for like 30 minutes wow and then she has this like Italian boyfriend come in and he's like incredibly good-look and they're both good-looking and he I swear leans Over the Bar of the treadmill and and they and they start making out while she's running this back that's the most annoying woman on the planet and I just wanted to be like you win you
already won that's such like a hilarious situation to imagine yeah she's a really good Storyteller right that she describes this Italian guy as incredibly goodlooking so what does it mean yeah that's a phrase we'll use a lot to describe that someone is attractive yeah incredibly it means like you can't believe how beautiful he is by the way good-looking this word fits for both men and women but I know when I was learning English they used to repeat that okay if you're talking about a man use handsome if you're talking about a woman use pretty this
is even sort of a playful way the language can be used is if you say that someone's a handsome woman it can kind of give them more masculine qualities or if you say that it's a pretty man it can give them more feminine qualities so that can happen but if you made that mistake without meaning to then mhm maybe for the person that could feel that it's a strange compliment if you call a man pretty or a woman handsome okay she says I swear and again she uses the present indefinite tense here and she just
want to intensify uh like how funny or how weird the situation can be and she asks them to believe she asked the host to believe her words right right emphasizing that you're not lying this really happened right mhm when you are leaning over what are you doing so if you lean it's people watching it's like this sort of motion right so you can imagine generally treadmills have these two bars on the side that's that you can grab on to you know if you lost your balance or something so you can imagine that both of them
are in treadmill so maybe they're leaning over the bars to come together and to make out and that the next word I wanted to ask you to Define yeah what is making out yeah so make out it's kissing it's a synonym for kissing but there's different kind of kissing right there's a Ki kissing which is like a PEC we would call it a PE is what a bird does but we'll call it this kind of kiss that like your grandmother would give you right it's a very quick dry kiss and there's what we call French
kissing which is usually when you use tongue and making out is generally has more of a more of a sexual intention to it because it's very heavy kissing that two that a couple that two lovers that two people that are very into each other would do and so this adds to the humor right because it's not like they just gave each other a quick kiss like greeting or something like that it's like they're heavily kissing while running fast it's quite the situation that's hilarious everyone starts somewhere uh we've got a very uh early gig of
of Taylor uh this is you now you haven't sold out oh yeah so do you remember this yeah this was a big deal for me I was 14 and it was an event called the Nashville rubber duck race and it is exactly as it sounds they would put rubber ducks in the river wow and uh see who won wow and I was the official entertainment as you can see the banner is incredibly High concept it just says it like it is you know like this is her name did you play before the race or after
the race oh you know what that's a really good question I think I blocked a lot of this out okay fair enough I won't dwell it might be triggering that was the whole crowd the whole crowd is in I can see three people there they do look like fans of rubber duck racing everyone starts somewhere uh we've got a very uh early gig of of Taylor uh this is you now you haven't sold out oh yeah usually your first gig wouldn't be as sold out or you wouldn't sell out could you define these words yeah
gig is a job and usually it has a connotation of being something more artistic so for example a musical gig or it could be a gig for an artist that gets to show some of their paintings for example and like you said they wouldn't normally be sold out so if something sells out it means that all of the tickets are sold there's none left nowadays you can't just the same day buy a concert ticket for Taylor Swift right you would have to buy it maybe months in advance or you have to pay phenomenal prices to
get one a couple weeks before it because they sell out very quickly do you remember this yeah this was a big deal for me I was 14 and it was an event called the Nashville rubber duck race she was 14 and she says it was a big deal for her if something is a big deal it means it's of great importance and we'll use it a lot too in the negative to say oh it's not a big deal so for example let's say I help you to move CU you're moving apartments and you say oh
thank you so much I appreciate it I say oh it's no big deal meaning that ah it's it wasn't that important it was my pleasure yeah I I I also think that it's mostly using this negative um form you could also say that someone is a big deal like nowadays Taylor Swift is a big deal meaning that she is someone very important she's a VIP so in the first clip we had the racehorse and here she says that the event was the rubber duck racing yes so rubber ducks are those cute small yellow ducks right
and the race is actually the competition yeah who gets first do you know if in keev is there one of these shops that has like a thousand different types of rubber ducks in different different costumes and so on that you can buy we have one here in Barcelona think heard I think I heard about it we don't have it here but I saw a couple of them yeah they look really nice so it could be good for a race to go to one of those shops oh okay we won't be including into the lesson but
I remember there was this very funny situation when the tank was like collapsed or something on the sea or in the ocean and it was like millions of rubber ducks show that if there's like some video of it I don't remember but it was like that in the on the news but it's like a past event old event anyway there is this one more going to stay in the video away and it is exactly as it sounds they would put rubber ducks in the river wow and uh see who won wow and I was the
official entertainment as you can see the banner is incredibly High concept so I see Taylor Swift likes the word incredibly in the first clip we saw her say incredibly good-looking and here she says incredibly High concept when something is high concept what does it mean means that it's very abstract or Innovative we have for example in entrepreneurship something called the high concept pitch that you might say it's the Uber of food delivery or something like that so it's it's a way to compare a new startup to one that already exists so that people can conceptualize
it in their head you might also say that for example someone's art or someone's music is high concept meaning that it's something that's never been done before but obviously Taylor's being sarcastic here right it's a very basic thing that looks like someone made on Microsoft Word it just says it like it is you know like this is her name did you play before the race or after the race oh you know what that's a really good question I think I blocked a lot of this out okay there's an interesting phrasal verb here when the host
asks her about like when did she sing before or after she says that like I blocked it out to block out what does it mean did she faint no it means that either deliberately or unconsciously you tried to forget it you tried to put it out of your mind so sometimes something traumatic happens to us and to protect us like our brain will block it out but sometimes we might deliberately try to block out something that was very embarrassing that we don't want to remember remember we don't want anyone to tell us about or remind
us of okay fair enough I won't dwell it might be triggering that was the whole crowd the whole crowd is in the I see three people back they do look like fans of rubber duck [Laughter] racing I love that at the end she just takes a drink from her wine yeah she feels embarrassed maybe a little bit and the host says that it may be triggering so that's exactly what you were saying it can bring back some bad memories right can or especially something traumatic he said I won't dwell uh when you dwell you what
what do you do if you dwell on something you're sort of insistent on it you won't leave it alone so he's saying he's not going to dwell he's going to move on from it quickly Okay so we've learned some really nice phrases and words today and now it's time for a test you will watch the clip one more time this time without subtitles okay so you've just come from France haven't you yeah actually we were um I was in Paris doing a music video and I got to go to a fashion show wow cuz it's
Fashion Week over there isn't it or it's just been okay how was that it was beautiful beautiful dresses and um yeah I knew it was fashion week because I was going there for fashion week but you don't realize like the models are all there of course because they would be for fashion week but I suppose but You' forget that on the way than but like I didn't realize they were like they're all staying in the same hotels as as like people that aren't models and um cuz you'd think they'd have one with just very thin
doors and stuff that I don't know what I thought or they like sleep on clouds or something I don't know but like I um I was going to the gym cuz I was trying to like run off the jet lag I walk in and there's a model wow like a real one and she's like on the treadmill right and she's running like faster than a racehorse would run like six like I don't know 80 miles an hour probably I can do that so she's top speed top speed and not breathing heavy at all she's like
and I'm on the elliptical which is kind of like that's the lazy person's running machine isn't it and I hate it and you can see in my face that I hate it and you can hear that I hate it and I'm like and she keeps running like that for like 30 minutes wow and then she has this like Italian boyfriend come in and he's like incredibly good-look and they're both good-looking and he I swear leans Over the Bar of the treadmill and and they and they start making out while she's running this back W that's
the most annoying woman on the planet and I just wanted to be like you win you already won everyone starts somewhere H we've got a very early gig of of Taylor uh this is you now you haven't sold out oh [Applause] yeah so do you remember this yeah this was a big deal for me I was 14 and it was an event called the Nashville rubber duck race and it is exactly as it sounds they would put rubber ducks in the river wow and uh see who won wow and I was the official entertainment as
you can see the banner is incredibly High concept it just says it like it is you know like this is her name did you play before the race or after the race oh you know what that's a really good question I think I blocked a lot of this out okay fair enough I won't dwell it might be triggering that was the whole crowd the whole crowd is in the I can see three people there they do look like fans of rubber duck racing so guys for all the swifties out there there are fans of Taylor
Swift you may or may not know that she's a really good storyteller you could just see that with our first clip and this is actually what you can learn from her uh because you can use those techniques or use those expressions when you are telling your personal story so there's this line staring at the ceiling with you you know I can hear the song in my head already staring at the ceiling with you you know it was surprisingly good when I listen to that song you know it has that dramatic feel to it I admire
ter Swift as well like I didn't used to like her music so much she's had such a a journey on her career she started as a country singer and she went into pop and she's done more recently some more folk and she she's just crossed a lot of different genres during her career done many different things
