Quick Tips 001: What kind of music do you like?

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Full Transcript: Quick Tips 001: What kind of music do you like?

Welcome to A to Z English Podcast. We're here to help with anything in English A to Z. I'm Kevin. And I'm Jack. 

Kevin: And today, we're going to talk about the kind of music you like. And today for our lesson, we're going to start with a dialogue that Jack and I will read, then we'll look to unpack some of the specific vocabulary that we used and finally we'll have a short discussion about the topic. You can follow along with the PDF file that will be linked in the show notes and remember that you can join our Whatsapp group to ask questions or join in the discussion together. So let's start with the dialogue. 

Jack: Hey Kev, what kind of music do you like?

Kevin: I like all kinds of music, Jack. 

Jack: Give me a few examples of genres that you like. 

Kevin: I like Classic Rock, Hip Hop, and R&B. 

Jack: Rock and Roll is my favorite genre of music. 

Kevin: Yeah, you seem like a Rock and Roll kind of person. 

Jack: I'm so, who is your favorite singer? 

Kevin: Adele is my favorite singer. She's amazing. Did you know she's from England? 

Jack: Yes, I did. You know who else from England? 

Kevin: Who? 

Jack: The Beatles. They're my all-time favorite band. 

Kevin: Great. And now that we've done our dialogue. Let's go ahead and look at some of the vocabulary. So our first vocabulary word is kind of or kinds of. And Jack, what is kind of, what is kinds of? 

Jack: Yeah, so what kind of is singular and kinds of is plural and a kind of would be a type of something, so we use the expression type of, which has the same meaning. A type of car. UKevin, could you give me an example of a kind of car or a type of car?

Kevin: Alright, well there's sports cars which would be a kind of car, or a pickup truck would be a kind of car or a van, a sports soccer van would be a kind of car. Jack: A soccer mommy van. 

Kevin: Exactly, so kind of any part of a big category of things, right, a kind of food would be Thai food or Mexican food. A kind of car, a kind of music. 

Jack: Right, and so if I asked you, like what kinds of food do you like? If I ask you kinds of with an s. Then you might say I like Mexican food and Thai food, so you can give me two examples of two types or three types or four types. So Kevin: Our next word is genre and why don't you, uh, tell our students what genre means? 

Kevin: A genre is basically a kind of, but it's a kind art thing. It's used for art topics, like music or movies or TV shows or actual art paintings and things like that as well. So there's many genres of movies for example. Right, so what's your favorite genre of movie, Jack? 

Jack: My favorite genre of music is probably science fiction. I really enjoy outer space and I like aliens and robots and things like that. So science fiction is my favorite genre. What about you? What's your favorite genre? 

Kevin: I like science fiction a lot, but also, comedy and action films. I like those are one of my favorite genres of movies. 

Jack: If we put two genres together like science fiction and comedy, what does that make? 

Kevin: Means like a sub genre. 

Jack: Yes exactly, so you have a sub genre. So that's another word you could you add there to your list. A sub genre is when you put two genres together and create another kind of a film or kind of.. 

Kevin: An under a sub, under a submarine under water or a sub genre. Yes, under the main genre. 

Jack: Nice.

Kevin: So then, let's go back to music which is a type of art of course? So number three Classic rock, Hip-hop, or B rock and Roll. What are those? 

Jack: Those are different genres of music. So Kev, which genre do you like the best?

Kevin: Um, probably listen to a lot of rock and roll. I think. 

Jack: Me too. Yeah, do you like Hip-hop though? 

Kevin: Yeah, there's some really good Hip-hop out there. Definitely. 

Jack: Yeah, I agree. I agree. I feel I'm too old to listen to Hip-hop, but I don't care. I like what I like. 

Kevin: There's some old Hip-hop as well that you can listen to. 

Jack: That's true. 

Kevin: And then well, then that's a good transition for number four is all time, right. Your all-time something. Your all-time favorite, so what does that mean? 

Jack: Yeah, so all-time would be better than all the others, so for example if I said what is your all-time favorite kind of food. Your all-time favorite kind of food. So in your life, of all the different kinds of food that you have tried. Which one is your favorite, the number one all-time favorite? So, Kevin, can I put you in the hot seat right now and ask you, what is your all-time favorite food? 

Kevin: Right and that's tough because there's a lot of amazing food out there I love Korean food and Mexican food and Thai food. I think my all-time favorite would probably be Thai food. It just has so many different intresting flavors and it's spicy and I love that. It's my number one. My all-time favorite. Other foods are fantastic, but that one's just a little better for me. At least I love Thai food. 

Jack: Actually, it's that's interesting because that is my answer as well. Uh, I lived in Thailand for a few years and I think they have a wonderful cuisine, Yeah, wonderful kind of food. 

Kevin:Every country has their own special food, but Thailand just they got something special down there. 

Jack: They're doing something right over there. All right. 

Kevin: So let's go ahead and move to our discussion questions and just talk about music here for a bit Jack, so you already said you like rock and roll. Why do you like rock and roll? 

Jack: I'm not sure. I think maybe it's because rock and roll is what my friends and I used to listen to when we were growing up. I think part of it is that rock and roll was very popular in American culture in the 1980s and the 1990s, especially the early 1900s. And so because of those reasons I think that's why it's my favorite genre of music. It's very much to do with when I was a teenager where I lived and what other people listened to at the same time when I was growing up. What about you, Kevin? What's your favorite genre of music? 

Kevin: Pretty similar I think. I listen to a lot of rock and roll as well mostly though. I did check out just about everything when I was a kid. I listened to a lot of countries because I like countries in the desert. But these days, I listen to mostly a lot more rock or a lot of Hip-hop. Actually I do like Hip-hop and some electronics. It really depends on my mood for the day. If I'm studying I don't really like rock and roll, I like electronic music for studying, but when I'm riding my bike, then rock and roll is great. 

Jack: Yeah, these days rock and roll is not as popular as other genres of music. I would say Hip-hop is by far. You know, country music is much popular. Kevin.

Kevin: Just pop music and pop music and k-pop. K-pop is big all around the world these days. 

Jack: Yes, that's right BTS. 

Kevin: Yep, although I hear they're breaking up actually what.  

Jack: Oh I didn't know that okay breaking news. Wow, all right. Um, good, okay. 

Kevin: Who's your favorite musician do you think? I think I mean you like a lot of rock you said, so maybe you're not a BTS fan so much, but who is your all-time favorite band? 

Jack: My all-time favorite band is the Beatles for sure, um, you know, if I think this is an interesting question. You know, who is your favorite Beatle? And that tells a little bit about your personality and so.. My favorite Beatles George Harrison. I like the guitar player with mystique. That's my favorite Beatle. What about you, who's your favorite Beatle? 

Kevin: I think you know me too well. I was probably going to say Ringo, yeah. I don't know the Beatles all that well, I quite like their music, but if I had to pick one that I think would be the most fun I probably would have picked Ringo.

Jack: Yeah, anybody who I know, that you like Weird al. And if you like Weird al as much as you do. Then, your favorite Beatle has to be Ringo. I think that makes sense. 

Kevin: Yeah, I love some of the stranger songs that Ringo wrote. It was great. 

Jack: And I do like drums a lot as well as actually. I've never learned how to play the drums. I like the beat of it a lot. 

Jack: Yeah, I'm an amateur guitar player. But I just appreciate the genius of someone like George Harrison. George Harrison wrote, uh, here comes the Sun which is one of the Beatles most beautiful songs in my opinion. And he also wrote something which is a beautiful song. So yeah, of the entire discography of the Beatles I would say George Harrison has written some of my favorite songs in the best albums. 

Kevin: Very cool. 

Jack: Yeah, so should we ask our students out there that maybe they should take a minute and see if they can join in on, you know, the discussion by.. How can they participate in the lesson? 

Kevin: Well, we've got our Whatsapp group linked in the Show notes below, right. They should be able to go. And there's just a like down there if you're on your phone. You can click that and it should open up Whatsapp and automatically join the group. So feel free to come and talk to us and talk to each other about any questions you had from any of the dialogue or the vocabulary or just tell us what your favorite music is or your favorite band. 

Jack: Just share and we can get to know each other on Whatsapp. It'll be fun. 

Kevin: Nice, hope to see you in there. All right, well thanks for listening, everybody today. Remember to join our Whatsapp group and we'll see you there. 

Jack: Alright, bye bye. 

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