The ESL Teacher Kenn Podcast

hello students

this is teacher Kenn

I would like to start by apologizing for this

long pause; I was moving and taking care of some things

but we are back with our free English Practice podcast

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now today's lesson is intermediate

so we're not going to have any Spanish

if you feel like this is a little bit too

difficult to understand

you can go ahead and go back to the basic level

on that one

I will explain things in Spanish

but we will always practice in English

now today's lesson

which is starting Lesson 12 on our grammar book

our English sentence structure book

has some interesting

things that I am very happy to share with you

let me go ahead and just show you the screen right away

because I know that this is something that

you are going to enjoy

now as you guys can see over here

we're going to be practicing some actions that go with

prepositions or as it says on the page

prepositional expressions or particle expressions

and these are actions that when we have a pronoun

sometimes the pronoun goes before

that expression

and sometimes it goes after

as the examples here say

which by the way

for the ones listening to the podcast

if you have the physical book

the English sentence structure book

please go to page 121, okay?

page 121 is going to be

the page on the English sentence structure book

in case you have it in physical format

if you are using my PDF

which is available for free

also in the podcast

you can go to page 134, okay?

we are starting lesson 12

and we will look at actions like call on and call up

these are actions in which sometimes

in some cases

the pronoun him

her them you

those, right?

they go before or they go in between

the verb or the action and the expression

so the examples here say

the teacher called on the students

he called on them

in this case

to call on means to ask someone for help

so the teacher called on the students

means the teacher asked the students for help

then we have call up the action

call up is just the same as the regular call action

it's just a little bit more emphatic

so the teacher called up the students

you say he called them up

it is not correct to say "he called up them"

why? because this is a particle expression, okay?

I like to say "because English says so"

okay... it's something that's the language in itself

you just have to learn as you're going

just a moment guys

so let's jump right into the information that we need

the ones that we have to separate

are the ones we call particle expressions, okay?

this is a little technical

so I don't like giving you too much

of the technical stuff

on the same page

right here on notes

we have what we call common prepositions

and common particles

what I think is most important for this lesson

is that you remember the common particles

because those are the ones that we have to separate

okay I'm going to read these for you

you can go ahead and repeat after me okay

the common propositions are on

at

to

from

for

of

into

and the common particles

the ones that we have to separate from the action

when we are using a pronoun, okay...

those are up, down

on

off

in

out

away

back

over

okay so again

we're going to remember that the particle expressions

again up down

on off in out

away back over

and those similar

we will have to separate from the action okay

we're going to go ahead and

practice with these illustrative examples

illustrative examples sorry

again same page

the ones on page 121

are the ones that we do not separate, okay?

so when we are using the pronoun

the pronoun goes at the end, okay?

so, for example:

look at the book is "look at it" and not look it at, okay?

now, before we read these illustrative examples

I want to give you some let's say

tips when it comes to more fluent pronunciation, okay?

whenever we have the letter "t"

as in Tom between two vowels

it sounds like an "r" okay

and also the pronouns her him

and them suffer a transformation in their pronunciation

when we are speaking fluently

we will not pronounce the h in her or him

and we will not pronounce the th in them

what I mean is that when we have

look at the book with the pronoun

we don't say look - at - it

we do not separate every word for it to sound fluent

we will say "look at it", okay?

so I will go ahead and say it

and give you an opportunity to repeat after me

look at the book

one more time all together look at the book

look at it

one more time look at it

okay in the case of her

when we are speaking fluently we just say er

so talk to Mary is "talk to 'er" okay?

so one more time talk to Mary

talk to 'er

one more time talk to 'er

in American English

it's not necessary to say talk to her

like, to emphasize that H is not necessary

the same is going to happen with him

him becomes "im" and them becomes "em", okay?

so listen to John

again listen to John

listen to 'im

again listen to 'im

alright look for the pencils

again look for the pencils

look for em

again look for em

let's continue

ask for the package repeat

again ask for the package

ask for it

again ask for it

wait for Mr Miller

again wait for Mr Miller

wait for 'im

again wait for 'im

think of his name

think of 'is name

think of it

think of it

okay. if you guys have any questions about pronunciation

please leave them in the comments

or send me a message in WhatsApp

I am available over there, too

now we're going to practice the particles

the particles are the ones that we have to separate

so we will do the same

I will go ahead and read them and give you time

to repeat after me

and I will say each of the sides two times... twice. so

fill out the form

again fill out the form

fill it out

again fill it out

give back the papers

give back the papers

give em back

again give em back

hand in the homework

again hand in the homework

hand it in

again hand it in

okay remember

we are practicing the fluency in the pronunciation okay

let's go with hand out the papers okay

so hand out the papers

hand out the papers

hand them out

hand em out

very good leave out the number

leave out the number

leave it out

leave it out

look over the lesson

look over the lesson

look it over

look it over

look up the new words

again look up the new words

look em up

look em up

put away the books

again put away the books

put em away

again put em away

now let me just pause right there

to explain something real quick, okay? now

we have to pronounce the t between two vowels like an r

that's why we say put away and not put - away

okay put away

and here we have two things

first of all

we don't pronounce these th

it becomes sorry this th

so we say em

and because this t is between two vowel sounds

you have to say put em

so let's repeat those two

put away the books

again put away the books

put em away

again put em away

let's continue put on your shoes

put on your shoes

put em on

again put em on

put out the cigarette

again put out the cigarette

put it out

put it out

put up your hand

put up your hand

put it up

again put it up

pick up the paper

pick up the paper

pick it up

pick it up

take off your glasses

take off your glasses

take em off

again take em off

talk over the lesson

again talk over the lesson

talk it over

talk it over

throw away the paper

throw away the paper

throw it away

throw it away

turn on the lights

again turn on the lights

turn em on

again turn em on

turn off the radio

turn off the radio

turn it off

turn it off

wake up Mr Smith

wake up Mr Smith

wake 'im up

wake 'im up

write down the answer

write down the answer

write it down

write it down

okay guys so I know that this is not very easy to

remember, okay?

there are a lot of different actions

and some of them you have to separate

and the others you don't have to separate

I understand it's hard to remember which is which okay

but I actually want to give you a practice with

the other book that we have, okay?

if it's online

if you are checking the PDF online

it's only one document

but in its physical form

it's actually separated into two books

the first one is English sentence structure

which is the one that we're using right now

and the second one is English sentence practices

this second book

coincides with the first one in regards of grammar

but it's not for conversational practice

like the exercises in English sentence structure

is for written practice

so in case you guys are interested um again

it's available completely for free in the podcast

but for this grammar

I actually prefer to practice on that other book

so on that other book

if you have it in physical form

it's going to be on page 171 okay

171 of the English Sentence Practices book okay

if you are using the PDF

you should go to page 497 so 497

and here we have Lesson 12

in English sentence practices

we have an exercise here

and it's going to let us practice both of the

let's say situations

so it's going to tell us which one to use

and then we're going to use it either before or after

the expression okay

it's usually made in written form

but for today's practice

we are going to do it in conversation, in spoken form

I want you guys to just go ahead and repeat after me

first we're going to say it

just the verb and the expression

and after that

we're going to include the pronoun in the correct place

so if you look at the book

it has three columns

the first one has it

the second one has you

and the third one has us

we're going to use that pronoun

in the corresponding column

and we have to think if it goes before or after

the expression

No.1 and again I will say it twice

once just the verb and second with the pronoun

go ahead and repeat after me

ask for

ask for it

hand in

hand it in

put on

put it on

take off

take it off

listen to

listen to it

now on the second column we are using you, speak to

speak to you

wake up

wake you up

think of

think of you

wait for

wait for you

call on

call on you

and on the third column we have us

talk to

talk to us

pick up

pick us up

wait for

wait for us

listen to

listen to us

look for

look for us

so again I know that this is not a simple exercise

if you don't remember

you have two options

this book has the answers at the end

so if you want

you can go all the way to the far end and

you start looking for the responses

let's see and you go to Lesson 12

let's see if I can find a lesson 18

14 13 and 14

let's see lesson twelve

so let's see

Lesson 12 exercise 1

and here we have all the answers

that is page 380

on the physical English Sentence Practices book

and it's page 706 on the PDF available for free

if you don't want to check it here

you can go all the way up okay

and you can go back

to the lesson that we were seeing initially

that would be on page 121 on the book

134 on the PDF

and you can check it

right here on the illustrative examples

if you are in the exercise and it says look at

you come here and you see that look at uses it

but if it's using for example fill out fill out is here

so we say fill it out just a moment guys

okay sorry about that

now again if you guys have any questions

go ahead and send me a message

or you can watch this video

listen to this episode as many times as you need okay

English is easy

you just need to practice

all right now

see you next class

thank you very much guys