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Learn English with this party English lesson

Date: Apr 09 2013

Themes: Party, Soap Opera

Grammar: Imperative Form

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Intro

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Imagine you’re going on a run with some friends. You all start out running at the same speed, but soon you start to get tired. Your friends keep running at a faster pace, but you start slowing down. You just can’t keep up with them anymore.

Or maybe you’re speaking English to a friend who is just starting to learn. You tell your friend that you hope he can keep up with the conversation, since you are more advanced. Or you attend a mathematics class, and you have some trouble keeping up because the difficulty level is beyond you. To keep up simply means to stay at the same pace or level of performance as the rest of the people around you.

Jeff just went out for a night on the town with Lily and her friends. Find out if he was able to keep up with their partying in this party English lesson.

3. Watch - Watch the video without reading the dialog.

Dialog

1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.

2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Lily

Greta

Jeff

Lily: Hi.

Greta: Hi. I’m here for a meeting with Jeff.

Lily: Oh, you mean Bon Jovi?

Greta: Bon Jovi?

Lily: Yeah. This guy totally killed it last night at karaoke signing Bon Jovi.

Jeff: Whoa-oh! Livin’!

Greta: Wow.

Lily: Yeah, he actually won the karaoke contest using that song.

Greta: Amazing.

Jeff: It was amazing. Mason didn’t think I could keep up, but we pretty much partied all night. They wanted to go to bed, I wanted to go to breakfast. You should’ve seen it.

Lily: Yeah, but you didn’t keep up with us as far as drinking goes. You were sipping club soda all night, and we threw back whiskey.

Jeff: Alcohol is very hard on my voice.

Greta: Wow, Jeff. I didn’t know you were a singer. Singer, climatologist, healer. It’s hard to keep up with all your talents.

Jeff: Yeah. Thanks! Well, thanks for showing up for this meeting. Let’s get started.

Greta: OK. Great. Cause I have a lot of things that I want to talk about. First of all, I’m having a really hard time picking a winner of the “dating me” contest on the website. And…Jeff? Jeff! Jeff, if we’re gonna have this meeting, you’ve got to keep up with what I’m saying.

Jeff: OK.

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Discussion

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Greta comes into the office for a meeting with Jeff. Lily tells her that Jeff did an excellent job at karaoke the night before. He even won the karaoke contest by singing a song by 80s hard rock band Bon Jovi. He really kept up with Lily and her friends, although he didn’t drink as much as they did.

Greta is impressed that Jeff won the contest, but she’s mainly interested in getting on with her meeting. She has many things to discuss with him, about her dating contest and more. Unfortunately, Jeff’s night out made him very tired. He’s falling asleep, and may not be able to keep up with Greta.

Can you remember a time when you couldn’t keep up with your friends? What did you do to try to keep up?

Comments

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DAMAVAND

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Dear Seiyf, It’s related to the dynamic nature of these people, they can’t stand one place forever and always look for more things, maybe they couldn’t keep up with new students and not comfortable in new environment, so prefer to get together on FaceBook and spend time with their former friends, like many centuries ago…hahaha!!

by the way, tney are too old and have no enough energy ;) take it easy and don’t care about what these elderly people do :D haha!

And i should say that i myself enjoy your comments most of time,keep it on and don’t worry about the others….

Erise

Poland

Well, Jeff did tag along with Lily and her friends! Despite all Mason’s strong recommendations to leave that idea alone, to nip it in the bud, Jeff did it, moreover succeeded!

That’s the real trait of a winner. Determination, positive outlook on life, faith.

Jeff, you were able to keep up with the guys. Keep it up! :)

Moriza

Ukraine

There is always smth what I can,t keep up with for a moment,but it only shows that I have to train more or to think more,or to learn .If I want smth to happen,I make it happen.Through it,s easier to say , to do is more harder.

wafa2525

Saudi Arabia

I don’t can keep up my son all the times . He wants play every time and he hopes playing with me . When i am sick or boring he forces me to playing and if i refuse he cries and angry from me . Actually this position is very hard . I dont like this situation :(

haitham4vip

Egypt

keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

Ngubo Sixtus

South Africa

i do like this subject, it reminds me when we were practising dance with my friends. i didn’t keep up with them because my perants were not allowing me to go to practise.

Son of English

Hong Kong

Seiyfkhawas – do you have their Facebook details? You could talk to them there.

Actually, how long has englishbaby been around? I only found out about it last year.

Son of English

Hong Kong

I can’t keep up with the people speaking Cantonese around me.

I can’t keep up with all the characters in ‘Game of Thrones’ because they keep getting killed off.

I tried to keep up with The Rock in the gym, but he kept lifting 400kg.

DaeNg

Thailand

The meaning of the keep up is maintain, care, equal, preserve.

DaeNg

Thailand

It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says Yes and No

Ya Nina

Kazakhstan

It’s really very hard to keep up with the native speakers when you learn a language. But it’s necessary and only reading, listening and active practice using learning language could help you to learn the wish language.

Sometimes I start to think that it is impossible for me to begin to speak in English fluently. I really try but I don’t see real progress in it. Probably I can to write some topics with lesser difficulty than earlier but I still to understand the speeches of the native speakers with diificulty. Needless to say how hard to begin to talk, discuss or argue about something in English.

In such moments when I begin to think of it I recall many cases when my friends or someone I know to speak in English fluently. Then I think that nothing is impossible and continue to listening English speeches, to read English books and to write such topics=)

Englishty

Egypt

To be perfect is impossible so it’s usual not to keep up with the people around me all the time, for example, i can’t keep up with my sister when she drinks the tea very hot, i can’t keep up with my dad when he reads many books cause my tight schedule but i’m still learning.