Podcast 26 Dictated by: Joaquin, Gulya, Alex, Maha and Azin Hello everybody. You're listening to Let's Master English, and my name is Coach Shane. How are you doing everybody? It was mother´s day yesterday; well, for me it’s still Monday. Sunday, the second Sunday in May was mother´s day in the United States and I gave my mom homemade banana bread. She was very nice and she said it was delicious, but I don´t know. So, tonight I will go over to my mom´s house and I will try the banana bread, I hope it was ok. If it was mother´s day in your country, even if it wasn´t mother´s day and you are a mother, happy birthday. Mothers have the toughest job in the world and, ah, I think everybody agrees. We love you mom! Yes, ok it´s time for the Let´s Master English podcast 26. We're already at number 26. Thank you so much for downloading today´s podcast. Today we´ve got a news story, we´ve got several questions, a fact from Country Shane and some statistics and that´s about it. So enough chit-chat! let´s begin: Do you protect yourself from the sun’s rays? Do you go out of your way to get out of the way of the sun? You may be doing yourself more harm than good. We’re all aware of the risk of skin cancer from too much intense sunlight, but avoiding the yellow orb altogether and coating your skin with creams could actually be worse. Sunlight helps the body create Vitamin D and that vitamin is crucial to your well-being. Just remember, skin is not for baking! Everything in moderation. Alright! That was a little bit long and there were some difficult words. Let me say it one more time a little bit slowly. Do you protect yourself from the sun’s rays? Do you go out of your way to get out of the way of the sun? You may be doing yourself more harm than good. We’re all aware of the risk of skin cancer from too much intense sunlight, but avoiding the yellow orb altogether and coating your skin with creams could actually be worse. Sunlight helps the body create Vitamin D and that vitamin is crucial to your well-being. Just remember, skin is not for baking! Everything in moderation! Ok, let´s look at these sentences and figure out the story. The first sentence was a question: Do you protect yourself from the sun’s rays? So, first of all let´s look at the word rays R-A-Y-S; another word for rays would be beams, the sun´s beams B-E-A-M-S. Like a laser beams, the sun´s beams or we could you say the light from the sun. So, do you protect yourself from the sun´s rays? Do you protect yourself from the sun? Now, many people, especially with light colored skin are afraid of the sun. They’re afraid of getting a sunburn, they are afraid of skin cancer, they´re afraid because the sun can dry out the skin, it can cause ageing and wrinkles, and freckles all sort of problems from the lovely sun. So, do you protect yourself from the sun´s rays? Well, how can you protect yourself from the sun rays, sun´s rays? You could use sunscreen, that´s a lotion that you put on your skin to protect your skin; you could wear long sleeves and long pants, so the sun doesn´t actually touch your skin; you could use a parasol which is like an umbrella to protect yourself from the sun or when it´s sunny outside you could just stay inside. There are several ways to protect yourself from the sun. Do you protect yourself from the sun’s rays? The next question or the next sentence, also a question: Do you go out of your way to get out of the way of the sun? What? Ok, so I made two very similar, but very different expressions. The first expression: to go out of your way, to do something, to go out of your way to do something means to work very hard, or to try very hard to do something. So, for example some students have a difficult time studying English. So they go out of their way to talk to native English speakers; they search really hard to find a native English speaker, so that they can practice their English. It´s not easy, but they try really hard. They go out of their way. So here the sentence is do you go out of your way to.. to do what? To study English? No, no, no. To get out of the way of the sun. So this is another expression to get out of the way of something, that means to avoid something; to get out of the way of someone, that means to avoid someone. When my mother is angry, I always get out the way of my mother; I always avoid my mother. So, let´s look at the sentence again: Do you go out of your way to get out of the way of the sun? Do you work really hard to avoid the sun? That´s the same thing, You got it? Now, I do wanna talk about pronunciation: to go out of your way, when we say it fast: go out of your way, go out of your way, go out of your way. To get out of the way, we say: to get out of the way, to get out of the way, to get out of the way. Do you go out of your way to get out of the way of the sun? Let´s go to the next sentence: You may be doing yourself more harm than good. So, if the answer to those questions is yes, then you may, you might be doing yourself more harm than good. Ok, so here is another expression: to do yourself something; that means to do something for yourself; but by using do in the beginning it emphasizes that you´re trying to do something. So, you may be doing yourself more harm than good. You might be hurting yourself rather than helping yourself. By avoiding the sun, you might not be doing something good, you actually might be doing something bad to yourself, to your body. So, in other words, avoiding the sun is not necessarily good. Many people think avoiding the sun is good, it prevents cancers, you don´t get wrinkles, you don´t get a sunburn, you stay healthy, but actually that might be not true. The next sentence: We are all aware of the risk of skin cancer from too much intense sunlight. Everybody knows that if we are in the sunshine and the sun is really hot and really strong, we know that there is a risk, there is a chance of getting skin cancer. We all know that, we are all aware, of the risk of skin cancer from too much intense sunlight, strong sun light, but avoiding the yellow orb altogether, avoiding the sun altogether, the yellow, the sun is yellow; orb, orb means a round shape, a ball, and the sun is around shape, it looks like a ball. So, avoiding the yellow orb altogether, now here the word “altogether” is one word A-L-TO-G-E-T-H-E-R. It's an adverb and it means completely. So, once again, but avoiding the sun completely and coating your skin with creams could actually be worse. So, coating your skin with creams, coating is a verb C-O-A-T-I-N-G, to coat something means to cover something, especially with a liquid, like paint, or lotion, or in this case cream. Coating your skin with creams, okay so that means a sunscreen, a lotion that protects your skin from the sun could actually be worse by doing these two things, avoiding the sun and coating your skin with creams could actually be worse. So, let's listen to that sentence again, we're all aware of the risk of skin cancer from too much intense sunlight, but avoiding the yellow orb altogether and coating your skin with creams could actually be worse. Humm, why is that? The next sentence: sunlight helps the body create vitamin D, and that vitamin is crucial to your well-being. Okay so we've all heard of the vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin D. Vitamin C is from oranges, ah, Vitamin A is I don't know from vegetables, I don't know, Vitamin D, we need sunlight in order for our body to naturally make vitamin D, and vitamin D is very good for the body. If you don't know about vitamin D, go to Google and search it. Vitamin D is very good for your body, and we need sunlight in order to make vitamin D. Sunlight helps the body to create vitamin D, and that vitamin is crucial to your well-being. Crucial, C-R-UC-I-A-L, crucial means very important. Vitamin D is very important to your well-being. Wellbeing W-E-L-L- - -B-E-I-N-G. Well-being simply means your health. Sunlight helps the body create vitamin D and that vitamin is very important to your health. We've got two more sentences: just remember, skin is not for backing. Just remember, simply remember, you should remember this: skin, your skin is not for baking, B-A-K-I-N-G, baking is for bread, your skin is not for baking. Bread is for baking, so don't stay in the sun too long, don't cook yourself . And the last sentence: everything in moderation. Moderation, M-O-D-E-R-A-T-I-O-N, this is a common expression, everything in moderation, that simply means you can do anything but not too much, you can have some alcohol in western culture, but not too much, don't drink too much, one drink might be enough. You can have some ice cream and cake, but not too much, just a little bit, enjoy the taste. Everything in moderation, and that means you can enjoy the sunlight too but not too much. Everything in moderation. Okay, so I know many of you probably have dark skin brown or even black skin and the sun probably doesn’t affect you too much. I don't know, I have light skin. I have really light skin, we also call it fair skin, F-A-IR. And my skin is sensitive to the sun. I easily get sun burns, and unfortunately, I do have skin cancer. So, I've been to the doctor a couple years ago and they have taken care of some areas, some problem areas, but I know I still have some problems, oh, but the doctor is so expensive, in the United States and I can't go yet but one day I will go. So for me I do worry about skin cancer, and you know me, I love to ride my bike. So, it’s very frustrating. I need to wake up very early in the morning before the sun is too strong, in order to ride my bike and I like to sleep, so it's not easy! What about you? Do you have light skin? Or do you have dark skin? Do you avoid the sun? Why do you avoid the sun? Have you had experience with skin cancer? What did you do? What are you doing? Leave a message, you can leave messages for me on Facebook. You can leave a message for me on twitter, and you can leave a message for me on our website too. My twitter ID is "@coachshane" my Facebook address is "ESL Coach Shane". And of curse our website is www.letsmasterenglish.com . Okay, so let's look to the vocabulary one more time. Rays: R-A-Y-S, sunrays, that the same is beams: b-e-a-m-s, like laser beams, or light, simply it means light, a concentrated line of light. To go out of your way to do something: to work very hard, to try very hard, to do something. To get out of the way of something: to avoid something, to do yourself something, to do something for yourself. Harm: H-A-R-M, something harmful, something that is not good for you or your body, it's damaging, it can cause damage. Intense: I-N-T-E-N-S-E, something very strong, or concentrated. Orb: O-R-B, a round shape, a ball. Altogether: A-L-T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R, completely. Coating your skin with something: C-O-A-T-I-N-G. It means to cover your skin with a lotion or some sort of cream to apply a thick layer of lotion to your skin. We also use coating when we paint. So, I put a new coat of paint on my wall. I’m coating my walls with white paint. Creams: C-R-E-A-M-S, of course there a cream that is like milk but also many lotions especially if they’re thick lotions are called creams. Crucial: C-R-U-C-I-A-L: crucial means vital, V-I-T-A-L, very important. Well-being: well, - , being: your health. How is your well-being? It could be your physical health, it could be your emotional health. And finally, moderation: M-O-D-E-R-A-T-I-O-N. Moderation is to control your behavior or to control your consumption. To control your actions, to control your thoughts. Everything in moderation means you can do everything but not too much, not excessively. Okay? Yeah, lots of words. Today, it might be a little bit tough but I hope that you understand. Let’s listen to the story two more times. The first time nice and slow, the second time normal speed. Here we go: Do you protect yourself from the sun’s rays? Do you go out of your way to get out of the way, of the sun? You may be doing yourself more harm than good. We are all aware of the risk of skin cancer from too much intense sunlight, but avoiding the yellow orb altogether and coating your skin with creams could actually be worse. Sunlight helps the body create Vitamin D and that vitamin is crucial to your well-being. Just remember, skin is not for baking! Everything in moderation! Do you protect yourself from the sun’s rays? Do you go out of your way to get out of the way of the sun? You may be doing yourself more harm than good. We’re all aware of the risk of skin cancer from too much intense sunlight, but avoiding the yellow orb altogether and coating your skin with creams could actually be worse. Sunlight helps the body create Vitamin D and that vitamin is crucial to your well-being. Just remember, skin is not for baking! Everything in moderation! How’re you doing everybody? This is Country Shane. And I’m here to bring you the facts. A study of 30,000 women found that those who did their best to stay out of the sun were twice as likely to die younger. Huh! This has been Country Shane, bringing you the facts. Wow! Yes that’s true. There was a study done in Sweden. It studied 30,000 women and women who actually did their best to avoid the sun were twice as likely to die younger relatively younger. Wow, so that’s some interesting news. So, do some research, protect yourself but don’t avoid the sun altogether. Thanks a lot Country Shane for that nice fact. And I think it’s question and answer time. Our first question today comes from Andrey. Andrey says: “explain the difference between altogether and all together. Also do they sound the same?” What a great question! And in our news story today we talked about one of those words. So, all together that’s 2 words: A-L-L, together, T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R. And then altogether as one word: A-L-T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R. Okay, so first of all, do they sound the same? Yes they do, and when Americans are writing a sentence, many times, many Americans make a mistake. They write the two worded all together when they should have written the one word altogether or vice versa. So it’s easy to remember if you think like this, all together, two words means everyone together as on. So I’ll give you a couple of examples: We sing all together. That means all of us, maybe there are 10 people, as one group, as one, we sing. So, when somebody’s birthday, do you sing “Happy Birthday” to the person? Sure, usually one person starts singing “happy birthday…” and then everybody joins and they sing all together, as one. Here’s another one: We saw the movie all together. We, me, my mom, my sister, my dad, we saw the movie all together. That means the four of us went to the movie theatre as one and we sat down in one group and watched the movie together. And I’ll give you one more example: He spoke to all of us together. He spoke to all of us together. That means he spoke to all of us as one group. So what’s important is, all together in the middle we can add other words. He spoke to all of us together. Okay? Now, let’s look at the word altogether, A-L-T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R. This is one word. It’s an adverb and it means completely. It also means with everything considered or all considered. It can also mean on the whole, W-H-O-L-E. So I’ll give you a couple of examples: The movie was altogether too complicated. The movie was everything considered on the whole too complicated. Your questions are altogether great. Your questions are on the whole great, absolutely great. I missed the movie all together. I missed the movie completely. I completely missed the movie. So, if you take a little bit of time and think about the sentence and think of it. Is this talking about a group as one or is it talking about completely, is it an adverb. If you think about that you should be able to find the correct word. The adverb is one word as a group, it’s two words. Okay? Thanks for the great question Andrey. Goyo has a question: “what is the different between story and history?” I like that question. ST-O-R-Y and history H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. Well you know? Sometimes when we listen to history it sounds like a story, but the big difference is: stories are usually fiction. That means not true, and histories are true. They’re supposed to be true. Histories are based on time events, something that happened at a certain date, at a certain time. So, technically we say a history is a chronological story of what took place. So something happened and the history described ah, you know, on day one this happened, on day two this happened, on day three this happened. So it goes in the order of time and it tells you what happened. It is a fact. However stories can be like Harry Potter. Harry Potter is a story, it’s not true. Star wars, the movie, is a very popular story. And what’s interesting, it is not in chronologic order. The order of star wars was actually mixed-up. So it was kind of confusing for some people when they saw the Star wars movies in the 1970s and then the rest of the movies came out a few years ago, 10 years ago, something like that. And the time sequence was not in order. So once again histories are supposed to be true, stories are supposed to be fun. Nonfiction: history, fiction: hist, ah, story. Okay? Now, we have another question from Mikhail: “THREE T-H-R-E-E and FREE F-R-E-E. Ah, sometimes this is confusing. The pronunciation of these two words is confusing when I speak fast! Is it possible that these two words sound the same?” Oh, boy Mikhail. That is a good question. Now, in proper pronunciation, NO. These two words do not sound the same. However, in daily English, especially in, the type of English called ebonics, which is Ebony Phonics Black English. Yes, they can actually sound the same. So, the thing to remember is , of course, the “TH” sound, to make the “TH” sound TH, THREE, you have to put your tongue between your teeth. THTHTHREE, THTHTHREE. And of course FFFREE- your upper teeth should touch your lower lip. Now what's interesting Mikhail and this might help you when you speaking fast. When you say “free”, F-R-E-E the wind comes out through the center of your mouth FFFREE, FFFREE, FFFREE. But, when we say THREE, THREE- the tongue is blocking the center of the mouth and the wind, your breath, actually comes out the sides of the mouth. Three, three, The sides and below the tongue. Free - three, free - three. Now of course in context people are probably not going to have any problems understanding what you are saying. However Mikhail, I strongly recommend that you do not pronounce the words the same. And I understand it's possible that you might hear in that way, but make every effort you can to distinguish those two sounds- the “TH” and the “F”. Thanks for the question Mikhail. And we have one more question from, and I hope my pronunciation is OK, Alcides A-L-C-ID-E-S. I hope my pronunciation is OK. So, Alsides says: “I can't see the DDM material. Help me!” Oh boy! Yeah, this happens everybody. As you know I have the DDM class- Daily Dictation Members. It's a listening class, speaking pronunciation and American pronunciation....hmmm American culture. Now, this class, I teach it in video. And videos are big, so you have to download the files. So, if you want to get 8 Free DDM lessons, go to www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm , leave your name and e-mail. And I will send you a link, so that you can download the files. The files are big and it's 8 lessons. Ok, so it’s, there is a lot of files. Now, people who are having a problem downloading the files, this seems to be the best solution- use the browser Google Chrome. That's C-H-R-O-M-E. You can install it free on your computer. When I send you the e-mail, I give you a link to something called “copy.com”. Click on that link and install the program. Then you need to login to “copy.com”. Make sure you use the e-mail address that you gave me in order to login to “copy.com”. After you login you should see your name, you know: “Welcome to copy.com. Shane Peterson”. Something like that. And then you should see the files that I shared with you. At that point you should be able to download the files. Ok? So, you can use your IPad, or notebook computer, a laptop computer, or a desk top PC. It works on Mackintosh, the Apple computers, it works on the Windows computers. I think it works on Linux, but I am not sure. So, it should work on everything. It even works on mobile phones. However, the key is, my recommendation, use Google Chrome, make sure you are logged in with the e-mail address that I gave, that you gave me, and then you should be able to download the files. If you are having the problems, please go to our community, that's the Google Plus community, It's called “Let's Master English”. Go there and leave your question and you can write your question in your language, ok? If you wanna use English, great. But we have people from all over the world who speak all the different languages, and I am sure somebody will be able to help you if you are having problems. I do get lots of e-mails, asking how to do this and what do I need to do, to download the files, and I know it's confusing and it's complicated and I apologize. But there is nothing I can do. These are video files. So they’re very large. That's why you have to, ah, download them. That's why I have to give them to you on Copy.com. Ok? So, Alsides (Alsidis or Alsides- I don't know) I hope that you can resolve the problem, If not, once again, go to our community: Let's Master English, that's Google Plus Community and ask for help there. Ok? I guarantee somebody will help you very very quickly. Ooh! Thanks for the questions everybody. And we come to the end of another Let's Master English podcast. Let me introduce a couple of people on iTunes. This week we got ELEVEN 5 star ratings. No 4 star, no 3 star, no 2 star, no 1 star. Yay! Thank you very much, I sincerely appreciate that. Your ratings and comments help people find Let's Master English and you know this podcast, I do it because it, it's my life's work. You know I really want to help you all master English and I truly believe that through communication we, ah, we learn so much about each other. And the world, it's becoming a small place because of the internet. And with proper communication it...the world can become a very nice place. Now, let me read a couple of comments here: First of all Philip Beguin from Belgium: “Fabulous! Thanks for all.” Thank you very much Philip. I think they speak French in Belgium. Is that correct? And if I am wrong, I sincerely apologize. Merci beaucoup! If you do speak French. From Russia, Motherland Russia, we have Andrey: “Thank you Coach Shane M. Peterson for another great podcast”. He is using my middle initial because it sounds more intelligent. And he says: PS. By the way, “Did you know that your abbreviation SMP Shane M. Peterson means Symmetrical Multi Processor? Oh my goodness! That's, that's so complicated. Yeah, the abbreviation SMP stands for Symmetrical Multi Processor. Hmm. Well Andrey I prefer to think of my name, my initials SMP as standing for SiMPle, S-I-M-P-L-E, simple. And I like that. Because I like to try and make English and English comprehension simple. That's my goal. Thanks a lot Andrey. And from Argentina, Flomit: “A brand new approach. Here is a podcast, the state of the art for learning English”. WOW! Flomit, that means a lot to me. Thank you so much for that great comment. I really appreciate that. ¡gracias ! Oh. I have to say to Andrey, hmm, how do you say “Thank you” in Russian....”Spasibo”. “Spasibo”. Now from America, we have Nary, or is it Naty, Marcant, or is it Marcante. I apologize if I was wrong on your name. I enjoy it. “Hello Coach Shane. I am from Brazil but now I am living in the USA as a visiting scholar at Penn State University in State College Pennsylvania. When I arrived here, it was difficult for me to understand people. But I found your podcast and now I listen every day. My comprehension skills have approved. Thank you very much”. Oh, Naty, thank you very much. Penn State University is a great University. I am curios what do you teach. By the way to Naty and to everybody else we do have a new podcast, a daily podcast, but as of May 12, 2014 it is not on iTunes yet. But soon it will be. The name of the podcast is Daily Easy English Expressions. And it's a Daily podcast everyday, 7 days a week, it's about 6 or 7 minutes long. So if you do want to listen to an English podcast everyday, get that. It will be available on iTunes and I hope that everybody enjoys it. We have one more, from Tualsuan, Tualsuan from France. Merci beaucoup! Oh, wait a minute. From Naty I have to say “Obrigado”. Thank you very much. Tualsuan says: “Let's Master in English” Yes! You are doing a great job. It helps a lot. I appreciate it. The best podcast I've signed up for”. Yay! “It helps us to understand English. At first he reads the news in normal English and then he tears each phrase apart and explains the new words and expressions.” Nice! Thanks! Merci beaucoup! Thank you Tualsuan for not only listening to my podcast but for taking the time to make a rating and to leave a comment. And I appreciate that from everybody! I really sincerely appreciate that. Now, you know iTunes is perfect for the iPhone, the iPad and you know, Apple computers. But you can't use iTunes on your PC. And in the future we will have an Android app. So you can download the podcasts if you have an android phone like a Samsung Galaxy or something like that. So, don't worry we are going to, ah, expand the stuff as soon as we can. The problem is it takes time, it takes a lot of investment and that’s our enemy time and money. These are enemy. Now, the person helping me with the app is an absolutely wonderful man from Sochi, from Sochi, Russia. His name is Max. And Max, ah, once again I wanna thank you right now, personally, for doing everything that you’ve done. He started our Let’s Master English website, he updates it and, ah, he’s working on an app. And Max, you rock! I also want to thank Parmy. Now, Parmy is my web bear, and many people think that Parmy is me. No, Parmy is not me. Parmy is doing an outstanding job with newsletters, with helping me answer people’s questions and comments. Parmy, you are doing so much for me and I sincerely appreciate that. Ah, you, you absolutely rock! Parmy, has a twitter account and the twitter ID is: at P-A-R-M-Y-S-M-A-R-M-Y, @parmysmarmy. And parmysmarmy has something called critter thoughts. Critter thoughts are pictures of usually animals and what the animal is thinking. It’s all in English. These thoughts are very clever and very funny. So I encourage everybody to follow parmysmarmy on twitter and study English with critter thoughts. And finally I have to say a big thank you to Miguel. Miguel also is doing so much for Let’s Master English and the Let’s Master English community. Miguel is taking care of the scholarship students. Miguel is also handling the free DDM lessons, that’s a lot of work. And Miguel is hosting hangouts, live hangouts. For people especially who are studying DDM open. DDMs are the lessons, we have three levels, and DDM open is one of those levels and Miguel is having live hangouts and I encourage everybody who is a DDM open member, join Miguel in the hangouts, if you have time. I know you’re busy, I know you’re busy. But whenever you have time join him. And you need to be a DDM open member but you can find out more information from him by going to our Let’s Master English community on google plus. And finally, one more thank you! I have to thank Sue. Sue is taking care of the accounting. She’s managing ah, the new student’s. Well, we don’t have many students, not yet. Ah, She is taking care of the payments and things like that for DDM. And she is taking a lot of work off my hands, giving me more time to create. And that’s what I want to do. This is a business, you know? Daily Dictation Members it’s my job, it’s how I pay for my rent and my electricity and my computers and my cameras and everything. So it’s, it’s a job, but ah, I’m not a business guy, I want to create content and thanks to Sue, Miguel, Parmy and Max, I was able to start the new podcast. And there are more things that I want to do. There are more lessons that I want to create. Free lessons and premium lessons, but in order for me to do that we need to grow. So, once again if you’re serious about studying English, if you can invest 30 minutes every day I highly, highly, highly, highly recommend that you join DDM, Daily Dictation Members. The idea of DDM is that I give you a video and I give you a script. But in that script there are missing words and you need to dictate those words. You need to listen and write those words down. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s impossible! The next day I give you the script with the answers and I also give you a video that explains the pronunciation. And then the next day I give you another video that explains what the story was about. And sometimes we have an extra video about American culture. So every week I give out two lessons. So 8 lessons a month. If you want to try 8 lessons, that’s one month of DDM for free, once again go to www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm and if you’re serious, I guarantee, this class will help you master English. Okay that’s it. Thank you so much everybody. I love doing a podcast and I really appreciate you and join the podcast. Don’t forget we have the greatest dictation team on our community who does all the dictation for these podcasts. Azin has been leader the last couple of times. Check her out. Go to the community, say hi, if you want to help volunteer. And that’s it for today everybody. Let’s master English!
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