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Hello, everyone.

My name is Robin and in this video I'm going to talk about 'titles'.

Titles are very formal so when we're talking to someone in the business

world we should use a title before their name.

Now first I'm gonna talk about titles for people we know or people we just met.

And later I'm gonna talk about titles for strangers.

Let's take a look

Okay I have five titles here.

Very common titles.

Maybe you've already heard about them or know them.

Let's take a look.

The first one M-r-s. is pronounced [misses], misses.

And misses is used only for married women.

Okay so if her last name is Smith I would call her Mrs. Smith.

Okay she's a married woman.

The next one is miss.

Miss and Miss is used for single women not married. Okay?

So Mrs. Smith, oh I know she is married.

Miss Smith, oh she's single.

Okay again both of them are only used for women.

Mrs. and Miss are a little bit old style. Okay?

So we don't use those too much anymore. What we use nowadays is this one, m-s.

The MS is pronounced [mizz], [mizz].

And we only use Ms. for women but we don't know if they're married or single.

Okay? We're just using a title for women so in the

very formal situation and in business this is what you should use Ms., Ms. Smith.

Okay? Okay so those are what we use for women.

Over here we have Mr.

And Mr. of course is used for all men.

Doesn't matter if they're married single.

Every man is mister. Okay, so again if his last name is Smith, Mr. Smith.

And the last one doctor.

Of course doctor we use for doctors.

Doesn't matter if it's a woman or a man. All doctors we should call doctors before

their name so like Dr. Smith.

Okay? So those are the titles.

Again for business, you only need to know this one Ms. and this one Mr.

Any man is Mr. and every woman should be Ms.

Let's take a look at my name.

Okay of course I'm a man so we should use Mr.

But Mr., we should use it in a formal way so I wrote three styles here.

One of them is wrong. Okay? Very wrong.

Let's take a look.

I have Mr.Robin Shaw, Mr. Robin, Mr. Shaw.

Which one is wrong?

Well it is this one Mr. Robin.

Now a lot of my students say Mr. Robin. Mr. Robin, Mr. Robin.

This is wrong, okay?

You got to be very careful.

Robin is my first name. Okay? And in a formal situation don't just use the first name with Mr.

Okay? So this is wrong. You never want to say Mr. Robin.

Mr. Robin Shaw. Okay my first name is here but actually the Mr. Shaw.

Okay This is this is a good way very formal.

Mr. Robin Shaw or Mr. Shaw.

Okay use this style or this style but never say this style.

All right let's take a look at an example.

I invited six people to my party.

I invited Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Ms Jane Spark, Miss Kirkland, Mr. Scott and Dr. Casting.

I invited six people to my party.

I invited Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Ms Jane Spark, Miss Kirkland, Mr. Scott and Dr. Casting.

Alright now I'm gonna talk about some titles or expressions to use when you're

walking in public and you don't know someone.

Okay you don't know their name, but you want to talk to them in a polite way.

Okay very formal way

And if you look here you might say excuse me you want to get someone's attention you say "excuse me."

Okay there's four main ways.

This is for men. This is for women. So let's start with the men.

So, very simple "excuse me sir".

Okay very polite, "excuse me sir."

"Excuse me Mr.", "Excuse me Mr." This is the best one but this one is also possible.

Okay when you don't know their name, "excuse me sir" or "may I help you sir?".

Okay the other two are for women.

Now you can say "excuse me ma'am" "excuse me ma'am".

This is usually for older women. "Excuse me ma'am" and

"Excuse me miss" is for younger women.

So probably under age 20.

Okay under age 20 we would probably say "miss".

So young women and even children females women "excuse me ma'am", "excuse me, miss".

"May I help you, ma'am?", "May I help you, miss?"

Okay so all of these very polite and you should use them.

Alright, so that's titles titles for people we know.

Titles for people we don't know - if you want to speak in a polite way

you should you always use titles. It shows a lot of respect.

Okay that's it for this video see you next time.

Hello everyone I'm Robin and in this video we're gonna talk about being fired

okay there are many expressions in English that express being fired of

course when you're fired from a job that's a terrible thing because you lost

your job and as I said there are lots of expressions to express being fired let's

take a look now I'm gonna use the sentence he was of course it could work

for men he or women she he was she was he was fired all right that's the most

common way to express being fired he was fired but there are some other ones and

this is the first group there will be a second group later

let's take a look he was fired he was laid off okay

now fired is probably your fault the employee fault but if you're laid off

that's the company fault the company has some financial difficulties so they have

to layoff many workers he was dismissed okay he was dismissed this is kind of a

polite way to say he's fired he was let go okay fired is a very terrible word he

was fired he was let go means the same thing but it's not as powerful so it's a

little a little nicer to say he was let go he was released he was released again

kind of a more polite way to say he was fired and last one he was terminated he

was terminated this is actually very strong terminated cut he was terminated

all right this is the first group but there's more let's move on here's the

second group of expressions remember they all mean the same thing to be fired

or right so there's lots of slang and

idioms to look at the first one dumped he was dumped again it just means fired

he was sacked he was sacked he was canned he was canned

he was axed he was axed now an axe is like an axe to cut a tree so he was axed

similar he was cut now the last two idioms also very common he was given the

boot the boot he was given the boot so he was kicked out of the company and he

was given the pink slip okay now a long time ago when someone was

fired from a company they were given a form to say you're fired and the color

of this form was usually pink okay so this expression given the pink slip

that means he's fired these days they don't use that form anymore but they

still use the expression or the idiom here to mean that person is fired

alright so these are also all very common and very good to use to talk

about when someone is fired alright so again being fired is a terrible thing

but in English we have a lot of expressions that mean you are fired

alright so I hope you learned a few more today that's it and I'll see you next

time

hello I'm bill and in this video we're going to talk about how you can

introduce yourself and your job because when you're meeting new people knowing

what you do for a living is kind of important and it happens a lot so think

about what's important about who you are and what you do for work now think about

the three most important things they are easy your name standard when you

introduce yourself and then also your title now your title is what you do at

your job maybe you are an accountant an engineer maybe you do marketing or

you're a Salesman or a manager any of these things okay that tells a lot about

you as a person or what your job title is and then also company what company do

you work for because different companies do different things if you work for a

company like Samsung you probably know a lot about electronics if you work a lot

of work for a company like Doosan you probably know more about heavy machinery

and industry so that explains a lot about who you are as well so if you're

introducing yourself and your job you want to focus name title company the

orders not too important we'll talk about that later but here as an example

I will introduce myself to you so you can see how people do it alright let's

take a look at my example okay so this is my official introduction I say hello

my name is Bill and I am an English professor at a university in Suwon so

one more time this is how I say my introduction hello my name is Bill

and I am an English professor at a university in Suwon as you just saw I

clearly said my name my title and my company now there are many universities

in Suwon that's why I didn't say the exact name because not everyone knows

every University in Suwon but that's okay not very important also just

remember always start name first then company and title you can put them in a

different order if you want to and in the next examples you can see how

there's different ways to organize your introduction let's take a look let's

look at a few examples of how to introduce you and your job my name is

David and I am a director at SK again my name is David and I am a director at SK

there's another way to do it I'm Paul and I currently work in the human

resources department at Doosan let's do it again

I'm Paul and I currently work in the human resources department at Doosan now

we'll take one more look yeah my name is Chris and I do marketing for

Samsung listen again my name is Chris and I do marketing for Samsung so there

you have it several examples that can help you remember how to do this okay if

you remember them you should be more than ready and confident to introduce

yourself and your job I hope this was helpful and I'll see you next video

hello I'm bill and in this video I'm gonna tell you about two questions you

need to know for business okay now they're really easy so you should not

have any stress about this okay what we have here is this question what do you

do now if you say it really fast what do you do

gets a little sounds a little strange but just don't worry go natural with it

what do you do what do you do what do you do that's what people want to know

now if this question we're longer what do

you do on the weekend well now it's about your weekend your

hobbies your fun time but if the question is just what do you do it's

about work and that's all it is so if you ask me what do you do I say I'm a

teacher that's my job that's my work now of course you may

have to change a to an if you're I'm an engineer or I'm a student just the a ok

that's what we have so think job title for this one now there's also here I'm

in charge of now in charge that means duty what are you responsible

for what do you need to do for your job if you're a leader of a marketing team

you may say I'm in charge of a marketing team you're the leader

that's your duty take care of them or you ask me I'm in charge of helping my

students that's what I have to do so I'm in charge of my students of course a

very easier than that we have the simpl where do you work now you can say the

company name you can be very specific and say

something like I work at worry Bank or you don't have to say the company name

you can just say I work at a bank that's fine too

let's look at some example dialogue where we put these two questions

together okay all right here's our first examples here

the question was what do you do well the easy answers I'm a doctor or I'm a

banker or I'm an accountant

what's whatever you do the next question where do you work well I work at a bank

I work at a store I work at a school just the place you work at put that in

there all right just like those two phrases I just showed you there's

another question that's very common especially in American conversation and