to BEAT

Welcome to season 8 of FYI. This season instead of tackling topics we’ll discover the most common verbs in the English language! Are you BEAT? Don’t let English BEAT you up. We won’t miss a BEAT on this week’s episode of FYI! 

Transcript

0:03

welcome to season 8 of FYI this season instead of tackling topics we'll discover the most common verbs in the English language are you beat don't let English beat you up we won't miss a beat on this week's episode of f y i welcome to for your info English you got it got it hello hello hello fyers welcome welcome to FYI nothing beats a new episode of FYI nothing beats it we're learning already nothing beats my FYI as well and if there is something well I can't think of it it beats me it beats me is I have no idea so we just started a minute ago and we've already looked at two different uses of this amazing versatile verb beat beat it beat it no one wants a beat beat it is he saying no be it remember this the song Beat It Beat It Beat It and hit the road Jack they mean the same thing so this did you ever think that that the song Beat It by Michael Jackson and hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more no more no more no more hit the road Jack they mean the same thing two different ways I'm going to beat it I'm going to hit the road El Jack all right well welcome fyers let's take a look in the intro I said are you beat I didn't say beaten beaten is Beno I said beat are you beat and beat means tired exhausted pooped worn out you want more synonyms for exhausted are you beat don't let English beat you up I said then we won't miss a beat and that's a great song by what's the name of the Kaiser Chiefs take a look at the kids on the street CA they never miss a beat never miss a beat beat they never miss a beat no and there beat if you're in the orchestra you shouldn't miss a beat so think of it like that you'll never Miss A Beat they always say it about the kids kids never miss a beat they never miss a beat so folks we're going to learn so much about this versatile verb but just a quick reminder every week you've got a bonus episode and in that bonus episode it's another extra half hour or more of content and in that bonus episode you have access to all the phrasal verbs around this verb all the idiomatic expressions more po culture references as well and at the end a little test where you have to beat the clock Ultra Uso the beat all right so if you want to join our community and get a bonus episode every week and you can even get PDF documents and follow along with me where you can take notes and if you're in our highest level you can also get access to a video podcast hello to all our Interstellar students well I'll just take a moment now to send a shout out to all my students on patreon there are over 300 of us thank you thank you thank you for being the producers of this show and for choosing to come on this English adventure with me so this is for you my English explorers especially my Interstellar students the ones who are in class with me Adrian Carmen lenina Issa Paco David J Maria and Edgard keep up the great work nothing nobody nowhere beats my students Alum all right so let's take a look at the verb we've already looked at a lot of different incarnations how do we conjugate it every day I beat myself up is this okay another way of using it every day I beat myself up yesterday I beat myself up and lately lately I've beaten myself up all right so beat beat beaten all right and it has multiple meanings as we're going to see and we have already seen and uh a lot of times it applies with Force applying force uh achieving victories but it's not limited to that the first usage is to strike repeatedly and that's a great verb we should look at too to strike a strike is also unaa right so strike oh I'm gonna write that one down to add to our list wow I don't think I have it on the list so to strike repeatedly to hit someone or something usually with Force let's use it in context because that's really the best way to make sure we've got it okay the chef beat the eggs until they were frothy in fact there's a corny joke why was the chef so mean or why did everybody think the chef was so mean cuz he was always beating the eggs and whipping the cream to be right and um and to whip is so you you beat eggs we looked at this in our cooking episode you beat eggs and you whip cream and whip they beat me they whipped me synonymous so the chef beat the eggs until they were frothy beats right so the chef know chef chef beat the eggs until they were frothy and frothy is what we use also to describe beer right fo froy all right so can you turn it into a question did he Mak Chef did he did he beat the eggs until they were frothy yeah he beat the eggs until they were frothy the next one is to defeat someone in a competition okay now this is an interesting one because we use win so we usually use win when we're talking about kiano let me use the example Real Madrid won the match Real Madrid beat felta Deo I don't know I'm just making up a team here okay you see the difference because you could say Real Madrid won against what one against is that easy to say or just beat them they beat them they whip them is that right so whip again if you just think of the idea behind it it all makes sense let's take a look at an example the team beat their Rivals rales R the team beat their rivals in the championship game ask me did they did they beat their Rivals yeah you bet claro Casi you bet you bet they beat their Rivals say that five times fast you bet they beat their Rivals the next one is to move rhythmically or regularly you beat a drum in fact the idiomatic expression he marches to the beat of his own drum he marches to the beat of his own drum and you've heard it in music right a drum beat a heartbeat you've heard all these songs I know you've you've heard all the these uses in songs I know you have I know it right um to the beat of the Rhythm of the Night dance until the morning live forget about the worries on your mind and we'll look at more songs so let's look at an example his heart was beating fast due to the excitement due to Toto his heart was beating fast due to the excitement ask me was his heart was his heart beating fast due to the excitement oh yeah his heart was racing his heart was beating really fast so to beat like a drum boom boom just think of that the beat Compass right boom boom boom the idea not the word again if we look at words they're onedimensional if we look at ideas we can expand upon those ideas so his heart was beating the drum was beating right can you beat the well the drum doesn't beat but you can beat the drum so not we don't say the drum was beating don't don't write that one down okay he was beating the drum he marches to the beat of his own drum and the next one is to surpass or to outdo to outdo is you outdid yourself wow this this place is really decorated extravagantly so remember so do did done outdo outdid outdone he has never been outdone okay great one to know to perform better than another or go beyond what was expected as we also say to go above and beyond to give 110% let's look at it in context no other movie can beat the record ba I think would be the translation the record-breaking success of that film so no other movie movie and film they're both the same thing no other movie can beat the record-breaking success of that film can you ask me can or will any other movie will any other movie beat the record-breaking success of that film we shall see BOS we shall see all right the next one is to mix vigorously which we just looked at to beat the cream to beat the eggs we usually don't say to whip the eggs for some reason it's to beat the eggs and you can use a fork or you can use an egg beater Okay and to whip or to whisk the cream if you're getting confused with all these cooking terms just remember we do have an episode on cooking and we look at a lot of uh idiomatic expressions that have to do with cooking as well one of my favorite what's cooking good looking get with it wapo wapa what's cooking goodlooking right because you're even if you're not you know hitting on them you are reaching out right and you're making them smile you're calling them goodlook so to uh to perform better we said we said to mix Vig vigorously she beat the cream until it Formed soft peaks so the same way you can beat a person see again the idea you can beat food and nothing beats oh man nothing in the world beats my mom's beats did you catch the joke it's also a homophone nothing beats we already said my mom's beats and beats are is a how you say Rema oh that you have a beat there or a beet root so nobody beats my mom's beats remember Thea is b t I'm sure we looked at that one in the gardening episode so those are just some of the primary meanings we've already looked at a couple phrasal verbs in the intro we've looked at a couple idiomatic expressions but now I want to make sure you've got it down pat so are you ready for a little drill where we're going to look at it in all the different contexts here we go the first one the rain beat against the window during the storm same as the heart same thing just the idea Isom the rain beat against the window during the storm ask me did the rain did it did the rain beat against the window the rain beats against the window does the rain beat against the window the rain beat so those are confusing sometimes because they don't change only in third person right third person singular in the present so the rain beat against the window during the storm ask me did it did it beat against the window during the storm oh yeah it was beating down hard no we say the rain is beating down hard it was pissing down last night the one we don't say is it was raining cats and dogs I don't know why they teach people that one a lot but it's more common to say it was pouring last night poor there all right let's look at it talking about Victory they beat the def the defending excuse me they beat the defending champions in the final round ask me did they beat the defending champions in the final round did they beat did they beat the defending champions in the final round so did they beat the defending champions in the final round okay Deo oh no no no they didn't beat the defending champions in the final round they couldn't beat them they're unbeatable inv unbeatable right superp it out oh man you should take advantage of that deal it's unbeatable no it's how unbeatable so this is such a rich word as you're seeing the next one's the Rhythm the drummer beat a steady Rhythm that energized the crowd the drummer remember we don't call him the battery El so ask me did the drummer beat a steady Rhythm that energized The Crowd Oh yeah they were pumped up to be pumped up is to be motiv ated excited Mentos they were pumped up because of the beat they love the beat and if you think about it somebody explained this to me once they said Alberto why do we connect with music so much on a different level than when someone's talking to us I mean what is it about music that can make us cry more than just somebody saying the same sentence where it can make us react or make us feel and it was brilliant I don't know if it's true but it stuck with me for life he said well music what is music the drum there's a beat in the background and at some moment that beat synchronizes with your heart and they go either they're alternating but so your you we've got music inside of us all day we're like little stereos little boom boxes think about it though right and we we kind of start moving with it some songs when you hear them you can't help it right you hear the beat you hear the beat and what happens you just start stomping your feet you start shaking that booty shake shake shake shake that boot all right also another usage it's hard to beat homemade cookies when it comes to taste okay they're taste tasty they're tasty their bland is the opposite their bland is again this is all stuff that we looked at in the cooking episode and there's just one thing that's happening here in this episode and I didn't expected because I thought we were going to talk more about bened I'm getting really hungry is anybody else getting hungry my mouth is watering right now homemade cookies really where so it's hard to beat homemade cookies when it comes to taste ask me is it no is it did you say is it tell me you didn't say is it is it is it is it is it it it's so it's it's it's it's it's it's and and is it is it is it is it and if you keep practicing it over and over you're never ever going to say eat the or E eat again and that's what the most common way already looked at it the verb to be episode one you know in season 7 The First Essential verb episode we all know how important it is to master those basic structures those structures that we look at in every episode of FYI all right last one and then we'll look at some synonyms and antonyms beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy okay so beat the butter laa and the sugar that's a word that's often mispronounced did you say sugar sugar suaros sugar sugar sugar say it with me honey honey sugar sugar you are my cand girl so beat the butter and sugar together until light Lio and fluffy you know what I think of I think I feel like sometimes every adjective has like a a noun that it just goes with when we talk about fluffy we talk about a cake we talk about a cloud right unu fluffy clouds we talk about a cat you know a big cat with a lot of fur so just certain words you know you you talk about memories you say the word fond no oh they were really fond h you talk about mountains you talk about Majestic you talk about views you say breathtaking there are certain adjectives that just go with certain nouns right and I think that happens in Spanish it's not just an English thing all right time to take a look at some synonyms because as I said these are other ways of saying the same thing and since this has many meanings let's take a look at it to strike all right now I'm going to ask you if you know how to conjugate this one right so every day the company strikes okay toga yesterday the company struck that's right struck strike struck struck that is a really difficult one and we will look at it in the future because I'm realizing it is really a rich word it's even the expression man you struck out think about it in our baseball episode a strikeout is you had your chance you struck outter so very very rich word there strike the next one punch he beat me up he punched punched me right to punch it's a regular verb you would say he punched me so did he not did he did he punch the punching bag he punched it he punched did he did he punch it yeah he punched it okay and also that's another Rich one to punch in to punch out fich gu sales that might be another one there the next one to defeat okay it's a regular verb I know you know this one he defeated the home they defeated the home team remember we have the home team and the away team okay they defeated the away team defeated the home team the next one worn out we already looked at many ways to say I'm beat I'm tired I'm exhausted I'm worn out I'm spent I'm pooped I'm knackered if you're British and uh the last one is whip and this is in man they whipped them at their stadium and that one is also I'm going to ask you um did he whip it did he did he whip it yeah he whipped it in punch he punched it and he whipped it okay these syntaxes here okay punched it and he whipped it all right and some antonyms all right lively that's right if you're lively that's anim you're not beat you're not tired you're Lively right the next one to protect to protect right protection it's not protect it's Pro protect protect it reminds me of a song by Placebo we don't say Placebo we say Placebo protect me from what I want protect well no it's belga it's protect sorry Brian MCO the next one to surrender he surrendered did did he surrender it did he he surrendered it he surrendered it okay Stillness sure okay so if there's a beat going on boom boom bo boom boom well Stillness means there's no beat going right and Stillness if we're talking about your heartbeat we all know what that means and this last one I love cuz it's an idiomatic expression we already said many ways to say that you're exhausted you're spent you're worn out you're pooped you're beat but how do we say you know those days when you wake up feeling like the world is your oyster the world is my oyster talking a lot about food I'm gonna have to grab a bite to eat because between these two episodes folks well the last expression is to be fresh as a daisy and a daisy is a kind of flower a daisy is Margarita to be as fresh as a daisy we looked at it in the feel episode you feel like a million bucks well I hope you feel like a million bucks after listening to this episode and I hope you'll join us in the bonus episode of this week's FY I