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Welcome to season 7 of FYI. This season instead of tackling topics we’ll discover the most common verbs in the English language! I hope you are ready to RUN the show as I RUN RUN by you.

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welcome to season 7 of FYI this season instead of tackling topics we'll discover the most common verbs in the English language I hope you're ready to run the show as I run run by you on this week's episode of FYI welcome to for your info English you got it[Music][Applause] got hello hello hello my Amigos fyers from around the world I want to send a shout out to all our Amigos worldwide we've got listeners in Argentina in land and the reason I say those two countries specifically Argentina and Ireland we don't only have listeners but we even chart in those countries so that is amazing that there are people listening to this podcast all over the world it happens to me with my radio show too it simply blows my mind that there are people who love to learn and specifically with me and you guys represent every Walk of Life so thanks for joining us it's always a pleasure to teach some students who are eager who are ready and willing and today we're going to take a look at a really common verb remember in this podcast we usually look at a topic from season 1 to season six that's 6 time 30 that's 180 episodes 180 80 different topics and you can find those wherever you're listening to this podcast and now season 7 I decided it was time to take a look at the essential verbs the verbs that make the language the verbs that you need to know and I decided we could take a look at all their useful meanings because the verb run as you just saw in the intro are you ready to run the show to run the show is to to to call the shots that's another way to say it you say that means to to be the the person who says what's going to happen to be the boss if you want to sum it up in one word so to run the show and then did you get that second part in the intro I said I'm going to run run by you and there's your first phrasal verb or collocation which we're going to look at today can you run that by me again and to run something by somebody means uh to check it with somebody you know to see what they think of it so listen I've got an idea let me run it by you it's a really really common idiomatic expression or phrasal verb whatever you want to call it that's used in business so I'm going to run it by and folks remember this there's a bonus episode every week where you guys can learn English with us and in each bonus episode what I do is I take a look at all the phrasal verbs that we have with run such as to run something by someone and remember it's really important that you get the structure it's not just run by it's can you run that by me again or run that by your father and see what he says and if he says it's okay Che re so the best way is always to say these things aloud and also to uh to take notes you know make your own examples as well but if you want to get the bonus episode where you can get all the phrasal verbs all the idiomatic expressions you can even see the verb in pop culture and when I say that I mean in music and movies as well I give you examples and then at the end we've got a test to see if you've got what it takes if you learned the the key ideas the key Expressions the things that I wanted to go over and speaking of go over we've looked at the verb go e to go over so if you want access to that very very useful bonus episode if you also want PDFs because you can get PDF documents which is the actual script that I follow with examples and this is great because if you think about it let's put it this way in in each um topic each verb there are usually anywhere from seven to 10 PDF documents that accompany each I should say each I was going to say each episode but I mean each set of episodes because remember if you're in my community then you get the bonus episode so that is a guide for the episode The the one that's comes out every Friday and also the bonus episode and you can follow along you can take notes but the most important thing is that you repeat it aloud so folks that's in a nutshell what you can get you can get a bonus episode you can get PDF documents that's for self-study now if you want to review every week with me you can also do that as well and that's in our Interstellar level you can find all the information you need over on patreon.com Alberto Alonso you should have the link in the show notes you can join for free and just get like a the bare minimum you get um posts early so you get uh um uh sneak peek at all of my posts before everybody else but if you really want to get involved if you really want to take your English to the next level and meet some really cool people people you can join us on patreon.com Alberto Alonso and I want to send a shout out to all my patrons especially my Interstellar students the ones who are in class with me every single week give it up for Garmin lenina Issa pako David Jose Maria and Edgar all right now let's get going bong excuse me Bongos in Mara let's get going in fact let me take a sip of water because as you guys know I do this live so sometimes well uh if I was when I wasn't doing them live I could just edit out you know when I got Tongue Tied or something like that but this is the real deal oras the expression is the real deal holy field accept no imitations I love how you say it in Spanish you Sayo all right let's define this verb to run because it's got many many uses as we just looked at it's got some idiomatic expressions and phrasal verbs but the first one is I guess you know the the one that first comes to mind at least for me and I imagine for you guys too it is a verb that is related to moving swiftly do you know the word swiftly do you know Taylor Swift the the singer Taylor Swift well what if I told you Swift means quick Rapido so swiftly to move swiftly on foot however seeo it also has various other meanings in different contexts and we're going to take a look at those right now and we're going to use examples and as always we're not just going to look at a translation or an example in English but I don't just want to know that you know how to use it in this uh meaning for example to move swiftly on foot but I want to know that you can play with it so if I give you um the negative I don't know how to run then you have to tell me I know how to run or ask me the question do you know how to run and this way you're really really practicing and remember to always do it aloud in bothal all right so uh the first one she likes to run every morning before breakfast she likes to did you notice I didn't say she likes to she likes to run every morning before breakfast okay how would you ask me that in a question does she like to run every morning before breakfast does she does she like to run every morning before breakfast we already said Cas see person she likes to run every morning before breakfast she doesn't like to run every morning before breakfast see now instead of just learning that one sentence you've learned how to flip it and play with it and be comfortable with it and I hope you're doing it aloud practice uh Contracting your words and and remember the the the perfect thing is to say it right after I've said it because then you have proximity it's a lot harder to repeat something five minutes later than to Parrot somebody and say it right after they say it all right and if you guys are watching in the video hello Interstellar students there's a vodcast you can read my lips here okay so she likes to she likes to he likes to right or they like to yeah like the idea is you shouldn't just know it you should know it inside and out the next use is to operate or function okay now to run operation or functioning right it's I think in Spanish how would you say it is um that's it my dad always says um do you get it this um he's not saying it doesn't he's talking about this computer doesn't work no so it doesn't run would be a synonym for that let's take a look at the example I've got here for you the car runs smoothly smoothly it's without any problems after the tuneup and what is a tuneup a tuneup is usually I don't know I'm not into cars very much but I imagine once every year you should get a tuneup and this is where they just take a look at your car it's like a checkup for a car so Med you say is a checkup but cars don't get a checkup they get a tuneup if you didn't know that we do have an episode on cars so the car runs smoothly after the tuneup ask me does the car run smoothly after the tuneup does the car run smoothly after the tuneup deeno the car doesn't run smoothly after the tuneup no I don't know what they did they charged me an arm and a leg but it does run smoothly oh man they ripped me off M the next one is to manage or control to run the show I used to say yeah I know I know hey as we say in English live and learn so to be in charge of or to manage manage right to be in charge of or to manage an operation business or activity let's look at the example he runs a small bakery downtown a bakery that's where they make bread or pastries or Donuts you say panad Pia if I'm not mistaken so he runsa he runs my you wouldn't really say Mana maybe I think Jaa would be the the at least in castian Spanish so he runs a small bakery downtown ask me does he run a small bakery downtown does he run a small bakery downtown Deo no that not him he doesn't run a small bakery downtown no he doesn't who told you that he doesn't he runs uh a butcher shop again don't be afraid to have conversations with yourself aloud I do it all the time in English and in Spanish by the way so he runs a small bakery he doesn't run one does he run one let's look at the indirect question inro do you know if he runs a small bakery down down toown all right are you playing along great job all right the next one is to extend or continue another usage of this very useful verb to run oh I forgot to tell you we've got a conjugated it it's an irregular verb so what does that mean that means it doesn't end in ed it's an irregular verb so every every day you know how we practice them do it with me every day I run two kilometers oh wow big big shot you saying bolt move over every day I run two kilometers yesterday your turn yesterday I Ran 2 kilometers and lately lately I've run run ran ran right run ran wait wait did I say it right run ran[Laughter] run it's well you know what we don't practice verbs like that native speakers we never say ring rang Rong we don't practice them that way we just use them in context which is what I'm trying to get you guys to do we never spat out a list of you know okay it's take took taken no every day I take a shower yesterday I took a shower and lately I've taken many showers and then you're not practicing three random words you're P practicing three very common structures and you're also reinforcing in your head why you're saying ran it's last year right so to extend or continue uh to extend in a particular direction or to continue over a period of time the second world war ran for dantos anos there's you're going to get me on my history there I'm not good at that uh here's another example the road runs parallel to the river the road runs parallel to the river ask me does the road run parallel to the river does the road run parallel to the river yes it runs parallel to the river and speaking of rivers well there's another usage right to flow the river runs right A River Runs water runs tap water it runs running water right does your house have running water so fluid right to flow when we're talking about liquids not just water uh here's an example tears ran down her cheeks tears L ran down down her cheeks you know the word cheeks right I think you say mofletes cheeks remember we have two sets of cheeks in English I probably told you this in the body episode two sets of cheeks you know where your other cheeks are your butt cheeks hey you got to know these double meanings and speaking of the word flow does anyone remember the expression in English go with the flow man just go with the flow we looked at that in the Go episode now are you ready for the bonus question how do you say and you can't use go with the flow so he always goes with the flow or the opposite he always goes against the grain we don't say to go against the flow I guess because it doesn't roll off your tongue it's not easy to say so tears ran down her cheeks and be careful with that word tear it's one of those confusing words and I get it because it's a word that can be pronounced to different ways depending on the context you've got tiar LMA oras and tear tear T torn every day I tear things upas yesterday I tore things up and lately I've torn things up and tear is he teared right he teared I know it's weird why didn't we just get another word it reminds me of the examples of luina which is a kind of fish which is bass but there's another word that's bass El the bass play the bass oh man funny story with that I was interviewing Jose mik Carona from ketama very very famous flamco family in fact uh the konas very respected excellent so so talented and he really hosi is you know he loves English he loves learning langu anges in general I mean he's been traveling and playing stages all around the world his whole life and then I had him on the radio show the show with no name on Von radio by the way and uh we started chatting and um he was like yeah you know I play the bass I play the bass I'm like Sami you know and you know with with artists you don't want to correct them too much because they're not used to being corrected they're pros at their thing but I also want to help them right and I said well hosi bass is I had for dinner last night it's uh a kind of fish yeah what you play is the bass and he's like and I gotta say it in Spanish just no shut the shut the front door he says you mean to tell me I've been telling people for 20 years that I be that I play the fish Laina I'm like yeah if that's what you've been saying yeah hey it's never too late to learn and to look at the expression we looked at before live and learn I think would be live and learn you know where you're going if you're not learning you're going down we got to learn something new even if it's not in English every day Discovery exploration I think it's so important not only because I have a four-year-old daughter well five-year-old I don't even know my daughter's age good dad a 5-year-old daughter who loves exploring and everything's an adventure with her so to flow right tears ran down her cheeks the river R I think there's even a movie A River Runs Through It A River Runs Through It Well another one is to compete in a race or an election and this is really funny I was telling you guys before how my dad said I'm like it runs it works well also my dad says Trump do you get it let's see if you get the literal TR to run for president Trump is running for president or whoever I'm using an example so to run for mayor but Senor like so in this case uh it means think about it though is that I mean if you if you can apply a logic to anything sometimes you got to really you know it's a reach no but if it works it works if you can make that connection there so uh the example he decided to run for mayor next year mayor the British say mayor yeah that's a word we do not pronounce the same Americans say mayor say it with me who's the mayor who's the mayor is he running for mayor I think would be the think it makes sense if you really do think about it and now let's say it the British way is he running for mayor May mayor me we don't it doesn't even have the same amount of syllables so to run for office do you know who's running for president right now to run for something again it doesn't make sense if you think about it as cored but if you think about it as a race I mean they call it the presidential race the candidates are in a race so it does make sense all right right let's see what else we've got and in the bonus part as I said when we look at our idiomatic expressions we've got a lot of Expressions that have to do with running and races right like slow and steady wins the race slow and steady wins the race I think you say s sisa something like that right slow and steady steady is constante wins the race let's take a look at some more uses of this extremely versatile verb the next one is to cause something to function okay to operate a machine or a computer program shout out to David and all the people who understand another language which is Tech that's another jargon so can you run the program again to check for errors to run a program right again it's it's always related to running to operating the next one to continue a course or a trend you know the word trend is trending topic right tendencia so the show has been running for Five Seasons we looked at this in the Friends episode I'm sure and in The Sopranos episodes to run I'm sure we looked at it too in the Broadway episodes right the show ran on Broadway it doesn't mean the show was running right so the show has been running for Five Seasons this is the present perfect continuous can you ask me the show's been running for Five Seasons the show's been running for Five Seasons how long's how long has how long's the show been running for the show's been running for or it's been running for Five Seasons okay uh it reminds me Le miserab has had a 20year run the next one is to smuggle this is the second to last one to smuggle uh this is uh contrabanda I think you say to transport illegal Goods secretly they were caught running drugs across the border maybe we looked at this one in our weapons episode because people some people run weapons some people run drugs it's another way saying to smuggle so they were caught running drugs across the the Border ask me were they caught running drugs across the border yeah they were caught running drugs across the border and the last one to run the to as you say to move quickly towards towards not TOS towards or away from a place the last example when the bell rang show Saved by the Bell when the bell rang the children ran out of the classroom to run out now we're going to look at that one because we look at a lot of phrasal verbs and to run out of I can put into context right now we are running out of time time so what I'm going to do is give you the synonyms and some antonyms right now and then we'll wrap up this first part if you want to join us in the bonus episode where we look at the phrasal verbs we look at the idiomatic expressions we look at it in pop culture and then I put you to the test simply join us on patreon.com Alberto Alonso and by the way great job great job to all of you who are here participating every week as I said slow and steady wins the race keep at it SEO and I'm sure you guys are not just going to improve you know all your knowledge of vocabulary Expressions but also of different grammar common grammar tenses and obviously the most common verbs ever and you know me I love synonyms so let's take a look at a few synonyms before we completely run out of time the first one is Sprint I know you even use that word in Spanish just be careful it's not a Sprint it's Sprint right Bruce[Laughter] sprintin all right I'll stop the next one's to jog now this is a great one because you say footing we don't say footing well your footing footing does mean something in English so when you start a new job you're finding your footing but jogging is slower running right to jog no yog jog the next one is race we looked at that word and we'll look at some idiomatic expressions that have to do with racing as well the next one dash dashes to run quickly right in fact it reminds me of unpa we call it to dine and dash right to dine and dash come and the last one manage which we looked at that it's a very common one he manages uh 20 people he runs a department he manages right same Yar would be the translation and our antonyms to walk don't run walk right I tell my daughter all the time don't run at the pool it's slippery you could slip the same way we're doing here we play with the language I don't just say you could slip I said Well when things are slippery and wet andah blah and now she's listening to five or six different words and structures and then we've got stop stop in English it's stop stop we've got idol idolo but Idol we also use to somebody for somebody who's not doing anything H he lost his job and he's been idle for quite some time great word to know and uh the next one pause we don't say p oh look at the dog's pause just take a pause and look at the dog's pause pause hey it sounds ridiculous but if you remember the two words are pronounced the same hey you might never say B in Spanish I know you say that but not in English and the last one is to rest and again you can just look at the word rest this Gad but why don't you play with a little you know if you play with it a little bit we've got restless Ino and if you keep playing with the language and keep playing with it aloud you are definitely going to improve so keep up the great work my Amigos and thank you so much for joining us I hope you'll join us in the bonus episode of this week's FYI[Music]