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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’ll CUT to the chase. Many people aren’t CUT out for it. We won’t CUT corners on this week’s episode of FYI! 

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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'll cut to the chase many people aren't cut out for it we won't cut corners on this week's episode of FYI welcome to for for your info English you got it[Music] got hello hello hello fyers welcome to another exciting edition of FYI for your English this month this season we are taking a look at the most essential verbs in the English language and man we are are looking at tons of them remember if you have any suggestions let me know as many of you know I've made it official already I'm doing season eight on verbs as well and season nine will depend on you guys if we can find another 30 verbs that are common enough that you need to know verbs such as to be to have to want you know all these to go all these verbs that we've looked at or will look at in the future and I want you to use this so much more than just a podcast I want you to use this as an English class where you can speak because if you if you think of the word podcast or video podcast if you're watching me well you think of something where I just listen or watch but that's not what I want I want you guys to be proactive I want you to give it 110% and I want you to vocalize that means to speak whenever I tell you why well I'm your teacher right and this is an English class right sure we're GNA have some fun we're going to sing we're g to laugh we're going to learn what we always do over here and if you're thirsty for more if you're hungry for more don't forget you can get a bonus episode every week that's another extra half hour or more of class where we look at the phrasal verbs we look at the idiomatic expressions we look at some examples from pop culture that means music and movies and lastly I put you to the test all of that is in the bonus episode and if you're in my community well then you can get access to the bonus episode if you're in the higher levels you can get PDF documents that accompany it so you can follow along and and you can take notes and by the end of this season you're going to have a lot of PDF documents because let's say every week There's anywhere from seven to 10 pages so that's 30 verbs do the math that is a lot of English content and that is content that directly accompanies this video podcast or audio podcast however you're listening to it so if you want more whether that's an extra bonus episode whether it's the PDF documents or whether it's access to me in a weekly review class you can get it just go to patreon.com Alberto Alonso and if you like this show will give it up for my patrons because it wouldn't be possible without them and the ones who I work with every week in class my Interstellar students let's send them a shout out a special shout out car lenina Issa Paco David Jose Maria Ariel and Edgard excellent job to each and every one of you and if you want to find out how you can get more go to patreon.com Alberto Alonso now let me cut to the chase this is the first expression we're going to take a look at today because it's in the intro to cut to the chase means to get to the point it's the opposite of beating around the bush andas so cut to the chase it comes from Hollywood all right the chase right a car chase that's usually the you know the meaty part of the movie no La carne the juicy part of the movie where there's a lot of action so cut let's cut to the chase if you can visualize these idiomatic expressions they'll make a lot more sense to you because if you're just saying cut to the chase okay whatever but if you're like then in your head you've already Associated it and the odds of you forgetting it go down tremendously because you've already used it and there's there's something to be said about proximity so when I pronounce something don't wait five minutes say it right when I say it so you can test and make sure you're saying it right right just like you would in a normal class so I'll cut to the chase I said Alano many people aren't cut out for it now if you aren't cut out for something you're not made for it I'm not cut out for this right I'm not good at it it's not my thing and you know some people are good at things and some people aren't good at things so if you don't do something very well you're not cut out for for it thankfully all of you are cut out for learning English and then I said we won't cut Corners we won't cut Corners means uh we're not going to take any shortcuts we're not going to be cheap when it refers to money in a company it means being cheap oh the company just took toilet paper out of the bathrooms because they're trying to cut Corners they're telling people they need to bring in their toilet paper from home well I'll tell you what I've got to say about that one so cut Corners taking shortcuts right and when it comes to money it means trying to save money but maybe being a little bit too stingy so those are just some idiomatic expressions from the intro we'll take a look at more of them in the bonus part let's start with the conjugation of cut it's really difficult are you ready every day I cut my finger yesterday I cut my finger and lately I've cut my finger okay it's not hard it's easy cut cut cut like set like put right there are certain verbs in English that the only time you're going to see any variation is in the third person Cuts puts sets obviously if you're using it in the present perfect you have to put have or has as your auxiliary verb but the word is the same so I set my alarm every day I've set my alarm every day this week so far the only thing that changes there is the V that have in there so as always let's define the verb because we can find a lot of good words in there some meaty words as I said the verb cut means to divide something into pieces using a sharp tool you can use a knife you can use scissors right to reduce or remove or to interrupt as well right so it's got a lot of meanings which we're going to look at it can be used in both literal and figurative senses and as we said it's an irregular verb it's cut cut cut why is it irregular because it doesn't end with an ed if verbs end with an ed then those are regular verbs and those are easy as far as memorizing them the problem with those verbs is the pronunciation I walked I talked I agreed right so in the end um what you're doing with these it's really about these little nuances this students you know that we practice these a lot because it's usually a problem area right for people as far as pronunciation is concerned let's look at some uses with some examples as always I want you guys to say them with me unless you just want to practice your listening you want to practice just your listening or do you w to you want to practice speaking all right well then come along the first one and probably the most common one to divide or slice something okay slice we looked at in our pizza episode can I have a slice of pizza a slice of cake and it's also the verb to slice oh ow I just sliced my finger I just sliced my finger so let's take a look at it she Cut the Cake into six pieces did you say it right no right cut cut she Cut the Cake into no into into she Cut the Cake into six pieces ask me did she cuts right so not does she cut it's did she did she cut the cake into six pieces yeah she cut C the cake into six pieces the next one is to reduce the size amount or quantity of something right so uh let's see as always an example always helps we need to cut costs to save money okay to cut cost cost expenses we need to cut costs to save money ask me do we need to not to to do we need to cut costs to save money do we do we need to cut costs to save money the no we don't need to cut costs to save money we've already done that and we're saving tons of money the next one to remove something or someone okay eliminating removing right he was cut from the play his character was cut let's take a look at the example the scene was cut from the final version of the movie okay the scene was cut from the final version of the movie can you can you ask me the question was the scene cut F the passive voice was the scene cut from the final version of the movie yeah it was cut right in this case oh and you want to talk about difficult pronunciation how would you say this in English I told him I'd edited it what yeah I told him I told him i' I had i' edited it what yeah that that's if you can say that you can handle regular verbs that's probably the one that the it sounds like almost like you're stuttering see right so did you edit it yeah I told him I told him I'd edited it that's a really tough one so to cut to edit all right the next one to interrupt or stop something right you say in Spanish Cal Royo same kind of idea there so stopping or interrupting some kind of action right let's take a look the director yelled cut to stop the scene cut Cort we say the same thing you know what we say at the beginning lights camera action right we looked at these in our Hollywood episodes or possibly in our English and movies episodes so ask me so let me give you the the affirmative again the director not director the director yelled cut to stop the scene did the director yell cut to stop the scene yes he yelled cut cut corta same right the next one to create a patho to create a path through something so think of in a forest right you have to cut a path you have to blaze a trail a Trail Blazer somebody who blazes a trail is the one who cuts down everything in the way if you're any basketball fans you remember the Trailblazers the basketball team well that's another way of saying a Pioneer a Trailblazer so let's take a look at an example as always the best way is in an example they cut a path through the forest can you ask me did they did they cut a path through the forest yeah they cut a path through the Forest ask me no tell me they didn't tell me they didn't we haven't practiced the negative enough they didn't cut a path through the forest ask me why why didn't they cut a path through the forest you can say the forest or the woods and we've looked at that idiomatic expressions the expression is to be out of out are we out of the woods is it's a great expression has to do with the woods so they cut a path through the forest the next one to bypass or skip to skip is because if not you know jump is you skipped me you skipped me and this is skipping over something or someone let's take a look he cut the line and when went straight to the front he cut the line This reminds me of theme parks often right you have people who cut their line Cutters he cut the line and went straight to the front ask me did he did he cut the line yeah he cut the line and in the United States we take that stuff seriously in fact you'll see signs all all over the different theme parks and it says line Cutters or line jumpers will be ER eliminated it doesn't say will be ejected from the park that means kicked out thrown out oh kick and throw we got to look at those in the future as well so they will be kicked out they will be thrown out if you are caught cutting okay so no cutting guys especially when you're online now remember the British say a q right they use the word q is this the I always think of this expression when I teach the British way to say it is this the Q for the L is this the Q for the L and in American English it would be is this the line for the John yeah yeah see Theos is this the Q for the L is this the line for the John did you know that the word John it means bathroom yeah so a porta John is a portable bathroom that's right a John is also somebody who visits prostitutes wow did you know the name John has so many meanings and a Dear John Letter yakos is I'm leaving you dear John it's not working out so she left a Dear John Letter did you ever know that the word John the name a basic Biblical name had so many meanings yeah I didn't either I just realized it myself here live on the show so the next one the next usage the next meaning to hurt emotionally Okay so we've heard this before your words cut Like a Knife right edit is the word you use in fact we have an expression it's very it's from the playground Theos and it's sticks it let's see if you guys know it sticks and Stones what what comes after that sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me so this means you know when kids call each other names H you're silly you're goofy you're you can call me whatever you want you you if you want to hurt me you'll have to use something physical right basically it's saying that no matter what anybody calls you in life shouldn't affect you right sticks and stones may break break my bones but words will never hurt me now we know as an adult words can really cut deep right especially if you hear those words for example in a Dear John Letter it's not working out we're going to split up we're GNA break up well those kind of words can cut really deep so how would you turn that into a question her words cut really deep did did her words cut really deep did her words cut really deep yeah they cut really deep man I was hurt I was really hurt and be careful with the pronunciation of the word hurt I've heard people pronounce everything except hurt in fact write this down right next to the word cut deep hurt and then next to it I want you to write j e t hurt that's what I want you to see when you see the word hurt because maybe if you see that you won't mispronounce it the same with heart I've heard every variation so think of this j a t heart shout out to David it's not right or David I'm saying a shout out to David now but a lot of people over pronounce that H right let's say it together okay he hurt his heart he hurt his heart he hurt his R right he's got a lot of heart he's got a lot of heart is same thing as in Spanish Bion he's got a lot of heart right there's a lot of Art in his heart see if you rhyme words then maybe it makes it easier I know that's a way we learned words when we were learning English and kindergarten and first grade they would put the word po po po and then you'd have to rhyme words with it home po Dome Rome right until you knew that it's not poem poem yeah this is English as I say the hardest part about English is figuring out how to pronounce something but there are tricks right responsible respectable delectable are you hearing something in all of them Uno a bull right are you a respons it's not responsible you don't know how many times I've heard that word mispronounced so if you just think A and E is a bull you got it all you have to do now is go to Google and Google or look up look it up you'll find it put words with AB e and IBL e endings like the word sensible you hear something in common in all of them gath and I know you're able to pronounce AB so say it with me respectable responsible delectable I'm trying to think of uh manageable it's man it's manageable it's a very common ending so if you know how to pronounce it every time well you're all set you just have to think about the first part of the word now but these little tricks can help us they sound the same I caught a fish then I bought some rice because I thought we fought they all sound the same ought so again we're always looking for patterns Patronis inside of this chaos that is learning how to pronounce things in English but there are tricks okay so anytime my students know when I do the horns over my head it means you said able or Eble instead of a all right guys practice and if you I'm telling you if you take a list that you get off Google and you say them every day for a week you're never going to say A and E or able again why because your mind your your mouth that muscle memory is telling you that's not how you say it right all right the next one is to shorten or trim this is a good one to know if you're going to get a haircut could you just trim it to trim record yeah I've never gone to get a haircut and say um could you cut my hair never I can you just trim it CU I don't want it cut I just want a trim know cut the the split ends by the way we looked at all this vocabulary in the FYI episode on hair if you haven't given it a listen very useful and hair believe it or not something we all have and it's fascinating stuff you know like the episode on teeth you always learn fascinating stuff and as we say in English you learn something new every day you learn something new every day or you can say live and learn and both of those mean especially if you listen to FYI every week and you go over all the essential verbs and the most common structures as well so to shorten or trim you can say shorten GL shorten shorten to shorten what is the opposite to lengthen to shorten versus to lengthen it's a good way to practice those to tighten versus to loosen no to harden versus to go soft we don't say to soften I'm saying there aren't always patterns okay there English there's one thing that I remember from you know kindergarten first grade when the teacher would say except for except for so that means English is full of exceptions that's why I try to avoid blanket statements like that's the way it works that's English right but if we know that well it'll help us navigate through the language and feel comfortable in the language let's take a look at the example of reducing the length to shorten he cut his hair short for the summer ask me did he did he cut his hair short did he cut his hair short is so diddy oio diddy rapo diddy he's a criminal and sex crazed person but his name can help us pronounce did he right El rapo Diddy so did he cut his hair short for the summer yeah how would you say no because I've heard a lot of people say I cut my hair yesterday and that technically in English means you did it which I don't recommend I've done it and uh I looked like the guys in Dumb and Dumber yeah you know that that look with the bangs yeah I've done that look before I'm not proud of it and that's why I'm saying don't be your own hairdresser well we say to get a haircut so instead of I cut my hair yesterday I got a haircut yesterday well actually a few a hair a haircut people say only one no no a few I got a few of them so to get a haircut again if you want to learn more about hair facial hair beards goatees um what are they called The Sideburns Patillas you've got all of that in our hair episode remember to explore all the different topics that we've got we've got Christmas Halloween so we've got something for the holidays as well and this way you've always got some English coming into your ears and your inbox all right and another meaning here is to make a sharp turn or change direction so you this is is usually in a vehicle if you're in a vehicle uh it is for example he cut across three lanes of traffic he cut across three lanes of traffic okay and a lane did he put on his blinker I don't know if he put on his blinker inter all I know is he cut across three lanes of traffic can you ask me did he did he cut across three lanes of traffic and in the bonus part we're going to take a look at cut off which is another one we use not only in the car but when speaking it is a very very useful phrasal verb but we're going to take a look at all the phrasal verbs all the idiomatic expressions pop culture and our test in the bonus episode I hope you guys will join us but before we get going here here in the first episode let me give you some synonyms and then we'll get going BOS Mara the first synonym is slice we already looked at this one right it's a regular verb I sliced my finger we use it for pie can I have a slice of pie can I have a slice of pizza a slice of bread ranada might be a good translation the next one's chop now this is very different than slicing slicing is like a little cut like chop is chop chop it's onic it's I think of what a butcher does right butcher I think of what a butcher does and they chop the meat is called a chop right a pork chop so it makes sense they go chop right it's a regular verb he chopped the meat right he chopped it the next one snip or nip oh when you get a haircut and you take too much off man he really chopped your head or chopped your hair you can say either one which means right the next one I put two here because they're similar snip and nip to snip well you probably know nip if you know the series Nip Tuck which is about plastic surgery so toip is and to tuck is I guess that's what you do if you get PL I surgery I don't know much about this but snip or nip a little cut as opposed to a chop then you've got trim which we talked about you trim your hair you can trim your eyebrows you can trim your beard right and then you've got slash and all I have to do is tell you that slash is bar if we're talking about internet vocabulary so what is slash slash no it's right and if you think about it it Mak makes sense slash is what Zoro does you call him thoro we call him Zoro that's slash slasher films because they carry a knife and they slash people all right so as you see they're synonyms but they all have their own weight peso and some antonyms we've got to join just be careful we don't say to join to I've heard that mistake a lot he joined the club he joined patreon not so careful in English he joined the group he joined the gym notu all right the next one to attach we use this one in emails right I attached the documents check out the attachment adun the next one connect connected it's a regular verb connected the next one unite also a regular verb United and the last one extend which is also uh uh not irregular I'm thinking irregular irregular verb extended extended so these are your synonyms and antonyms just an opportunity to expose ourselves to other words in the English language but folks we are out of time so I've got to cut this short but I hope you guys will join Us in the bonus episode of this week's FYI[Music]