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In this episode of the podcast, Kevin and Jack read a dialogue about cars. They then unpack vocabulary words and expressions from the dialogue. And finally, they discuss several questions related to the topic.If you would like to join along, you can download a PDF version of the homework guide. You can find the link to the PDF file here:https://atozenglishpodcast.com/do-you-own-a-car/If you would like to discuss this episode and share your answers to the discussion questions with the hosts and other listeners of the podcast, join out WhatsApp group here:https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7If you could take a minute and complete a short survey about the podcast, we would be very appreciative. You can find the survey here:https://forms.gle/HHNnnqU6U8W3DodK8We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes.Intro/Outro Music by Eaters:https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/the-astronomers-office/agents-in-coffee-shops/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, Kevin and Jack teach a lesson related to where they live. They begin the episode with a practice dialogue. Next, they unpack vocabulary related to the dialogue. Finally, the answer the discussion questions on the homework guide. You can download a copy of the homework guide for episode four here.https://atozenglishpodcast.com/where-do-you-live/Click the WhatsApp link here to chat with your hosts and other listeners: https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7If you could take a minute and complete a short survey about the podcast, we would be very appreciative. You can find the survey here:https://forms.gle/HHNnnqU6U8W3DodK8We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes.Intro/Outro Music by Eaters: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/the-astronomers-office/agents-in-coffee-shops/Transcript: Quick Tips 2: Where do you live? You're listening to the A to Z English Podcast. Welcome to the A to Z English Podcast. We are here to help you with anything English A to Z. I'm Kevin. And I'm Jack. Kevin: And today we're going to talk about where you live. We're going to start with a dialogue that Jack and I will read, then we'll look to unpack some of the vocabulary that we used in the dialogue. And finally, we'll have a short discussion about the topic. Remember you can follow along with the PDF that will be linked in our show notes. And that you can join our WhatsApp group to ask questions or join the discussion yourself. So let's go ahead and start with our dialogue. Jack: Where do you live? Kevin: I live in Seoul. Jack: Where is Seoul? Kevin: It's in South Korea. Jack: Is Seoul a big city? Kevin: It's incredibly big. Jack: How big is incredibly big? Kevin: It has about 10 million people. Jack: Wow, that's huge. Kevin: And where do you live? Jack: I live in Los Angeles California. Kevin: How big is Los Angeles? Jack: It has about 4 million people. It's tiny compared to Seoul.  Kevin: Cool, so now Jack let's look at some of the vocabulary here from here. The first word we've got here is incredibly incredible. And, and what does that mean? We said that it's incredibly big. So what is incredible? Jack: Yeah, incredibly and maybe we should first, uh say what part of speech that is. So, incredibly is uh again that's a kind of, uh a kind of word and it's called an adverb. Yeah right, but when you see l-y words that have l y in them are often called adverbs and they're right verbs. Kevin: Yeah it's changing the verb right?Jack: exactly and so incredibly means too a large degree so you know, too a large amount, or too a large degree, something is a very uh strongly, incredibly, um can you think of some other words that might be similar to incredibly?Kevin: Amazingly, amazingly, Jack: Yes fantastically Jack: fantastically. Kevin: Really, any of those words just adding the l y, and amazing fantastic. Jack: It's a very incredible word, yeah right yeah. Kevin: And about number two about, if something is about something else what is what does that mean in this context? Jack: Yeah so so about has different meanings in different context, but in the context of our dialogue about means more or less. So if I say about 10 million does that mean exactly 10 million Kevin? Kevin: No, of course not it's more or less than. It's near 10 million, about 10 million. Jack: Exactly, so it could be 9 million, 950,000 would be about 10 million. Kevin: Right. Jack: Or if I borrow ten dollars from Kevin and I give him nine that's about ten dollars right Kevin? Kevin: It's about ten dollars, but I want my extra dollars. Give me my money back down. Jack: Fair enough, fair enough, Yeah, that's a good point okay. Kevin: It's not a it's not a huge difference, but that one dollar does make some difference. And number three then what is huge? Jack: Yeah, huge well, again that one dollar is not huge, but if I took a million dollars from Kevin that would be a large amount, uh so something large is huge. So we use this you know for all the time I use the word huge to describe like how about an elephant how would you describe an elephant? Kevin: Yeah, they're huge animals. Jack: They're huge animals right. Kevin: Even bigger than the blue whale, the hugest, the biggest animal on the earth. Jack: There you go. Uh yeah, another word is enormous or, yeah huge, enormous,Kevin: Gigantic.Jack: Those are another synonyms of the word huge, yeah. Kevin: Right some countries America is a huge country, rightp, China is a huge country, South Korea is a pretty small country Overall. It's not very big in size. Jack: Or you could say it's tiny. Kevin: You could say that, so tiny is just small, but it's more than small it's not just small it's very small it's tiny something that's tiny. Jack: Could we say it's incredibly small? Incredibly cool? Kevin: I wouldn't say that South Korea is incredibly small, but something that's tiny we could say is incredibly small. So next to that huge elephant what would be a tiny animal? Jack: A mouse. Kevin: Right, you've got a tiny mouse next to that huge elephant. Jack:  And maybe an incredibly tiny, uh animal or not animal, but an insect could be an ant. Kevin: Right. Kevin: There you go, so there we go nice so let's go ahead and talk about some of the discussion questions here about where we actually live? Now, Jack, you know, you and I, we both do live in South Korea of course, so we're in different cities. So where, what's your city? Where are you? Jack:  Well, I live in Pyeongtaek, and Pyeongtaek is, it'll be just outside of Seoul, so I'm maybe 45 minutes away from Seoul. If you take a bus, it takes about 45 minutes to get to Seoul. Kevin: Okay, yeah not too far, but not just a foot outside. Jack: Yeah, uh what about you, Kevin? Kevin: Have 45 minutes, that's a good one. It's not exactly 45 minutes, a lot of times. Jack: Sometimes, 50 minutes. Sometimes, one hour if there is a lot of traffic. Kevin: Right, right. Jack: Yeah if it's, uh, incredibly busy on the freeway, then which one? Kevin: It's Often in Korea. Jack:  Yeah, um Kevin, what about you? Where do you live? Kevin: I'm in Seoul. I'm in Seoul proper. And Seoul is a huge City, so I'm up in the northern part of Seoul, so I'm probably from your house, it's about, almost two hours away just to. Jack: Probably because Seoul is a very wide open City. I mean the land is by land, it's very huge. Kevin: Yeah it's very spread out. Jack: Not just by population, but also by Land, so yeah yeah. Kevin: It was definitely big. Jack: Yeah, so if you're in the north and I'm in the south of the city, it probably is about two hours, probably I'm about two hours away from you, yeah. Kevin: Which is why we meet here on Zoom because so much, so much easier. Jack: For sure. Kevin: So you live down in down in Chunky Duck. I mean that's a little bit different from Seoul, but you know Seoul pretty well of course, and what do you like about Pyeongtaek? What's interesting about that City? Jack: Something I like about Pyeongtaek is that it's a little bit quieter than Seoul. Seoul is a very busy city. There are a lot of people, and there is a lot of traffic, and it's very loud and noisy all the time in Seoul, but in Kangertech there's less traffic, uh there are fewer people and, it is a little bit quieter than Seoul. So I like that. It's a little bit more like the countryside, just a little bit. Just a little bit. Kevin: Right. Jack: Yeah, what about you? What do you like about Seoul? Kevin: Well, so I mean being such a huge City. It has everything, everything. If you want to go shopping or shopping, there's amusement parks, there's movie theater, there's a park, there's a river. And so as far as big cities go is pretty amazing. It's got really everything you want. It's a pretty fun city to live in I think. Uh, there's never you are bored in Seoul. Jack: You've got movie theaters and amusement parks and just everything right? Kevin: Yeah, and I'm from a pretty small town in Arizona when I was in university, so the difference from there to Seoul is huge, the difference as well. And yeah, it's nice to have everything that I want, but to be fair, sometimes, Seoul is a little too big for me. Actually there's a little too many people as we said in the dialogue, it's I think there's more than 10 million people here. It's crazy. Jack: It's a lot of people. Kevin: It's a lot of people and driving on the roads is difficult, riding on the subway, the Subways are great in Seoul, but during rush hour time, there's a lot of people riding on the trains in Seoul, and that's not so fun here. Sometimes, it's a little too big for me. Jack: Do people sometimes push you onto the subway, like so that the train is packed? Kevin: It's super packed. You can't not push on the subway. There's just so many people in the rush hour time that it's really tough. Jack: Yeah,. Kevin: So that's something even though Seoul is a good city I do it's almost too big for me. But what about Pyeongtaek for you? I know you said it's kind of nice, but it's not perfect. Jack: Yeah, well what don't I like about Pyeongtaek? Well, something that I don't like about Pyeongtaek is that there aren't as many choices of places to go in Pyeongtaek. So I think it's the opposite of what you just said, you said there are a lot of movie theaters, and uh you know amusement parks, and things like that in Seoul. Also, there are no mountains in Pyeongtaek. And I like hiking and I can't go hiking in Pyeongtaek. I have to go somewhere else, but even in.. Kevin: a lot of mountains. Jack: Yeah, even in Seoul there are quite a few mountains, so it's easy to go hiking. But in contact we're kind of in a valley, like it's kind of a flat area, so there are no mountains to hike up. And I wish there were some mountains. Kevin: Fair enough, cool well Chung Tech and Seoul are both nice cities, but they leave a little bit to be desired maybe. Kevin: So everybody thanks for listening today. Remember to join our WhatsApp group and come tell us about where do you live? Where  do you live? What's your city like? How big is it? Um, what do you like? What do you not like about the city where you are? Also, you can ask any questions or just feel free to chat with each other. Hope to see you there. Have a good one all. Jack: Right, bye-bye. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of the podcast, Kevin and Jack teach a lesson about music. They begin the podcast with a practice dialogue. Next, they unpack vocabulary and key words from the dialogue and explain the meanings. Finally, they answer discussion questions related to music. Download a homework guide for this episode by clicking the link here:https://atozenglishpodcast.com/what-kind-of-music-do-you-like/Click the WhatsApp link here to chat with your hosts and other listeners:https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7If you could take a minute and complete a short survey about the podcast, we would be very appreciative. You can find the survey here:https://forms.gle/HHNnnqU6U8W3DodK8We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes.Intro/Outro Music by Eaters: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/the-astronomers-office/agents-in-coffee-shops/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. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, hosts Kevin and Jack talk about the first time they flew on an airplane. They talk about their travel experiences and the countries they have visited in their lives. To join the conversation on WhatsApp, click on the link:https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7If you could take a minute and complete a short survey about the podcast, we would be very appreciative. You can find the survey here:https://forms.gle/HHNnnqU6U8W3DodK8We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes.Intro/Outro Music by Eaters: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/the-astronomers-office/agents-in-coffee-shops/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to The A to Z English Podcast. We're here to help you with anything English, A to Z! in this episode of the podcast, hosts Kevin and Jack introduce themselves and talk about their hometowns, activities they enjoyed when they were young, their current hobbies, and their jobs. Click the WhatsApp link here to chat with your hosts and other listeners:https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7Visit our website here: http://atozenglishpodcast.comIf you could take a minute and complete a short survey about the podcast, we would be very appreciative. You can find the survey here:https://forms.gle/HHNnnqU6U8W3DodK8We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes.Intro/Outro Music by Eaters: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/the-astronomers-office/agents-in-coffee-shops/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy