Paris lockdown day 11 and 10 a little bit. Now yesterday some much stricter measures
came into force in France. All the markets are closed in Paris anyway. Some
cities in France now have a curfew and you're not allowed to go further than
one kilometer from your home unless you have a very, very good reason. So you
can't do it for exercise or shopping you have to stay within one kilometer and
that's kind of tough but I hope they resolve this soon. Anyway thank you
everybody who sent in their daikon recipes. If you remember a few days ago I
brought lots of daikons, white radishes, from the market and I asked you to send in
your recipes and it was great and I tried some of them but I still had lots
of daikon left over so what I did I made card kkakdugi
yes that's right I got a message from Ainur A
who suggested it. iI's a Korean recipe and two things; it lasts for a
few days and it's spicy. So two good things the only problem was
I didn't have all the ingredients and in particular I didn't have Korean chili
flakes so I thought oh, I should go and get some Korean chili flakes but
where's the where is the Asian supermarket? oh yeah two kilometers away
in Belleville so I can't go. I mean is that a very, very good reason? if I'm
stopped by the police coming out of the Asian supermarket and they say "why are you so
far away from your home?" - "well I had to go and get some Korean chili flakes for my
"oh really Monsieur 135 euros please"
adapt the recipe but we'll see. Anyway let's get cooking.
So last time I gave the expression STIR CRAZY
which means that you start to go a little bit crazy when you're in a
confined space for a long period of time and. Prince Wang, I think his American,
says that he uses the term CABIN FEVER which means more or less though the same
thing of course as a cabin is where you sleep on a boat Erminia she suggested
an idiom she says she says that you should give everybody the idiom AT ARM'S
LENGTH literally I think here it's used you must keep other people at arm's
length so that's about a meter as a meter I don't know you know at arm's
length so during the coronavirus you must keep your your distance.
okay that's Erminia from Milan. thank you everybody who's sent in
questions, by the way, I can't answer them all I get so many also I like questions
to a more general that could be appreciated by everyone rather than
those that are very, very specific and I do have some good ones today so do stay
tuned. You're going to learn a lot I promise you that and we're gonna start
with an advanced question, an advanced question, yes I'm talking to you, you can
do this, and it comes from not one but two people who ask the same question Cau
Silvestrini in Argentina hello Cau and Elena Prokopenko in Moscow hello
Elena and they both asked about the suffix -WISE
was so I'll give some examples in
a second, so what it means is, with respect to, or concerning, so you say a
noun and then you put a dash and then you say WISE so I'll give you examples
so we're in lockdown at the moment but health-wise I'm okay. So that
means regarding my health, concerning my health I'm okay.
health-wise I'm okay food wise I'm okay, money-wise yes I'm
beverage wise I've got lots of drinks here I'm okay.
social life-wise. No not okay. I can't go out. I can't socialize with anybody. So
there you are that's that's all it means but don't overuse it - as I did just then
because it starts to sound a little strange if you're using -WISE as a suffix
all the time. Be selective about when you use it and, by the way, I do recommend a
film The apartment with Jack Lemmon and [err SHIRLEY MACLAINE] which uses this -WISE
suffix for humorous effect if you see the film, a great film and you'll get a
better understanding on how to use it and you'll enjoy the film too. And the
next question is from Nora AL Journy who asks what's the difference between
WISH and HOPE that's a very good question
and actually it comes up a lot in my classes .So both of these [words] you use
to say what you want or what you want to happen.
However WISH is impossible, unrealistic it's not going to happen right now.
Use HOPE for a real possibility. However, the grammar is also different.
hope you can use it with WILL "I hope the lockdown will finish soon"
You can use it with an infinitive. "I
hope to finish this work by the end of the day." okay it's a real possibility I
hope to finish it so use it with an infinitive and you can also use it with
a present continuous. "I'm hoping" it's a real hope now I hope now "I'm hoping to
buy a new car by the end of the year"
"I'm hoping to go on holiday to Bali this year." Now
with WISH you use it, for a present wish or future with WISH
you use the past tense. This is what we call unreal time.
in English okay. It's not the past so, for example, "I wish I didn't have to stay at
home all day." okay "I wish I didn't have to stay - I do okay I have no choice. it's
unrealistic it's impossible. I wish I spoke French with a French accent
and not with an English accent okay it's a wish, it's a dream, it's impossible.
Bonjour Madame you see - I can't do it so you use WISH + a past tense. For what
you want to be able to do you can use "I wish I could ""I wish I could go to the
café this afternoon." I can't go to the cafe I wish I could. if it's the verb TO
BE it's always WERE okay even with I okay "I wish I were a woman" I
"I wish
you were here now." you will you will hear people say "I wish I was", "I wish I was
rich" but, no, grammatically it should be "I wish I were rich." For a future wish, a
present or future wish, you use a past tense so what do you say if you're
talking about a regret for something in the past? You can't use the past tense
because that's already taken so what you do is you use past perfect. I'll give you
an example. "I wish I hadn't eaten all that daikon I feel sick now I wish I
hadn't eaten ..." okay so that's a past perfect or I could say "I wish I had
stayed in London and not moved to the countryside." Now I live in the
countryside I'm very bored." By the way sometimes I get questions about grammar
points that I've already answered in other videos so I don't tend to tackle
them here. However, I'm making an exception today because I've got this
question so many times. From Chels Ze, Louis Schreurs, Delta2414 and
they asked the difference between who and whom. Now I'm not going to cover
all of it okay. I'm just going to focus on the one part where we still use WHOM in
everyday conversation because mostly we don't. in formal, written English, yes, but
not in everyday conversation. "who do you love?" or "whom do you love?" "whom do you
love?" is grammatically correct but in everyday conversation everybody, almost
everybody will say "who do you love?" I won't explain that today but there is
one case we still use whom in everyday conversation and that is after
quantifiers and that means after "some of", "several of", "a number of", "two of", "both of".
I'll give you some examples and you'll see what I mean.
Ten people had caught the virus but only five of whom were showing symptoms." okay
five of whom you wouldn't say "five of who" it sounds wrong.
"There were lost suspects in this case, a number of whom were already known to the
police a number." a number of whom. okay I'll give you one more example "we saw
lots of interesting candidates several of whom were invited to a second
interview." So there you are a case where you do use WHOM in everyday conversation and
it's not formal it's normal. well there you are thank you once again,
carry on sending in your grammar vocabulary etc questions and I will read