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Hello everyone welcome back to another lesson with us here at English pod, my name is Marco.

and I’m Erica.

and today we’re going back to school.

that’s right, we’re talking about my least favorite subject.

Hahn that would be math.

that’s right.

okay, so we’re going to be talking about math, now I know that many of you of course know math.

right.

but do you know the operations in English

many people find it hard to find the right words to talk about math in English.

right so that’s what we’re going to be looking at today.

and we’ll also look at some names that you can call people who are really really really smart.

Hanh, so let’s listen to our dialogue for the first time and then we’ll come back and look at those math words.

Alright, children, let’s review. Tommy! Pay attention!

Sorry Miss Kadlec.

Okay, Crystal, now tell me, what’s four plus eleven?

fifteen!

Miss Kadlec always asks Crystal; she’s such a teacher’s pet.

Okay. and what about fifty six minus sixty?

Um. negative four!

Very good. twelve times twelve?

Very good. Suck up.

One hundred and forty four!

Zero divided by one?

Zero!

How did you know that? Okay, smarty pants, the square root of two!

Bet you’re not going to get that one, know-it-all.

Um.one point four one four two one three five.

all right, so that’s one smart little girl, huh?

yeah pretty smart actually smarter than me.

ha-ha, all right so let’s take a look at some of those words that the teacher used to ask her about certain operations in language takeaway

language takeaway.

okay so like we said you guys know how to do math and you know the words in your language but maybe in English it’s a little bit harder to find the right word. So let’s look at those now.

okay so let’s look at the first question that she asked.

what’s 4 plus 11?

4 plus 11.

okay plus.

plus.

all right so four plus eleven Erica is..

uh let me take a look at here, um 15.

fifteen. Okay, so we are adding, right?

yes.

so that’s how you would say let’s go with an easy one. Two plus two?

four

four, right?

yeah.

or five plus five.

ten.

ten, okay

you’re really testing my skills.

ha-ha, so that’s how you would add numbers.

now what about taking away numbers.

okay so taking away or subtracting, all right let’s test you again in the dialogue she said fifty-six minus sixty.

56 minus 60 equals negative 4.

okay minus. So that’s negative, right.

minus.

so and of course if you have 56 apples and you take away 60, you are left with

negative four.

negative four.

actually you’re left with zero apple.

yeah exactly, now that answer is also interesting negative four.

negative four.

that means minus four right.

four less than zero.

four less than zero. Very good negative four. Okay so now for our next operation 12 times 12.

12 times 12.

12 times 12.

now Marco don’t ask me the answer.

ha-ha, all right 12 times 12 equals 144. Now that’s multiplying.

right or multiplication.

multiplication. Okay so this times part it’s very easy to remember because for example four times four. You can just say four the number four and you add it right.

four times.

four times four plus four plus four plus four.

right so times.

times uh-huh.

now the opposite of times.

all right the opposite of multiplication is division.

division.

okay so in our dialogue the teacher said zero divided by one.

zero divided by one.

zero divided by one. Any number divided by zero is zero.

all right so let’s give another example 15 divided by three.

all right so 15 divided by three equals?

five.

five, exactly.

so divided by.

divided by, very good. so after division the teacher was very impressed and now she asked a very hard mathematical operation especially for a girl this age. The square root of two.

the square root of.

square root.

so let’s give some examples to show what is the square root?

okay so if i ask you the square root of nine?

three.

three right?

yes.

what about the square root of four

two

two okay, so now one more the square root of 16.

four.

four okay so you notice the pattern right and I’m sure everyone knows this in their own language how you would get a square root.

exactly so this language is pretty simple you all know it in your own language but let’s hear it again in English one more time with the dialogue.

Alright, children, let’s review. Tommy! Pay attention!

Sorry Miss Kadlec.

Okay, Crystal, now tell me, what’s four plus eleven?

fifteen!

Miss Kadlec always asks Crystal; she’s such a teacher’s pet.

Okay and what about fifty six minus sixty?

Um. negative four!

Very good. twelve times twelve?

Very good. Suck up.

One hundred and forty four!

Zero divided by one?

Zero!

How did you know that? Okay, smarty pants, the square root of two!

Bet you’re not going to get that one, know-it-all.

Um.one point four one four two one three five.

okay so we understand the mathematical operations that we saw here very easy.

ohm

but now there was another little kid in there who was very I think envious or jealous.

yeah tommy.

tommy right.

ohm

so he called her a couple of different names.

well let’s look at those now in fluency builder

fluency builder

okay so the first one that he called crystal the little girl. He called her a teacher’s pet.

teacher’s pet.

teacher’s pet.

a teacher’s pet.

so Erica what exactly is a teacher’s pet?

it is the favorite student the teacher has in that class.

all right so it’s always the student that’s helping the teacher.

yeah the smartest students.

yeah

yeah.

the teacher’s pet.

yeah and it has a negative meaning in English.

yeah I wouldn’t say that it’s a good thing to be the teacher’s pet.

like the teacher thinks it’s good

yeah

but all of the friends and the classmates, they think it’s bad.

yeah exactly teacher’s pet

and similar to teacher’s pet is a suck-up.

suck up.

suck up again.

suck-up what is this, what is a suck-up.

a suck-up is a person who tries really really hard to make the teacher like him

okay now we can also use it outside of the classroom right

yeah at work maybe.

okay there is always at work there is always one person who is the suck-up,

yes.

alright.

um now again this has a negative meaning in English.

yeah I guess in the workplace the rest of your colleagues don’t really like that person who’s considered to be the Suck-up. Who’s always trying to please the boss?

exactly.

all right.

all right so the teacher calls crystal, a smarty pants.

smarty pants.

smarty pants.

okay so this is also a little name calling right

ohm

so what is a smarty pants?

somebody who is too smart.

too smart.

who tries too hard to be smart?

now this is only for little kids right you I wouldn’t call you a smarty pants.

no it’s definitely for children adults don’t say this.

unless maybe you are joking or having fun with someone.

yeah but if you say it you are um suggesting that you’re being like a child.

right.

yeah.

okay smarty pants.

ohm

and our last one and this is also a very good phrase and a way to describe someone know it all.

know it all.

know it all.

I know it all.

sometimes you say Mr. know it all right

yeah that’s right.

okay so what is a know-it-all?

somebody who um tries to show everyone that they know it all.

they know everything.

yeah they’re so smart.

they have the answers to everything.

but they really really try and show everyone that they know everything.

ohm, these people can be sometimes a little bit irritating right

yeah very very annoying

ha ha. Annoying

yeah.

all right so it’s not a good thing to be a know-it-all all the time.

yeah actually all of these phrases are not good things to be.

ha-ha, okay so let’s listen to our dialogue one more time and then we’re goanna come back and Erica is goanna tell us how much she hates math.

Alright, children, let’s review. Tommy! Pay attention!

Sorry Miss Kadlec.

Okay, Crystal, now tell me, what’s four plus eleven?

fifteen!

Miss Kadlec always asks Crystal; she’s such a teacher’s pet.

Okay and what about fifty six minus sixty?

Um. negative four!

Very good. twelve times twelve?

Very good. Suck up.

One hundred and forty four!

Zero divided by one?

Zero!

How did you know that? Okay, smarty pants, the square root of two!

Bet you’re not going to get that one, know-it-all.

Um.one point four one four two one three five.

Alright. So Erica you were telling me that you hated math or you still do.

well yes that’s true I really do hate math and even, even doing a simple um you know like 16 plus 32.

ohm.

is too hard for me.

ha-ha. So you were never really that type of person that’s good with numbers.

no I’m terrible with numbers I can’t even remember my own phone number.

really.

that’s true like I I really if someone asks me for my phone number I have to look on my phone. I’m in the address book to find out.

well yeah sometimes numbers can be difficult I kind of liked Uh math when I was younger it’s it just made sense. so

ohm, well, I guess there’s a reason why I’m an English teacher not a math teacher.

and I was actually not very good at language.

but here you are.

exactly well I mean in Spanish I like grammar

oh

not very good at that all those rules.

yeah but you’re pretty good at English

ha ha

so that’s all right.

that’s all right.

yeah

what about you guys tell us what your favorite subject or your least favorite subject in school was? What about you do you have any favorite subject or did you have a favorite subject.

I’m history.

history

yeah. Yeah.

okay I liked chemistry for a while.

oh god, chemistry involves numbers.

hmm well a little bit but it was interesting as well.

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