I'm gonna tell you a story.

I'm going to speak slow enough so that you can understand my wonderful story.

Um, and make this kind of like a listening test for you too.

You know, kind of practice your english listening because people speak really quickly and it's hard to understand when people speak in slang and they use different words or they speak really quickly and they mush words together and you're like, what is this person talking about?

So here it goes.

Um, I think it was yesterday, the day before.

No, it was definitely yesterday.

I was, I was looking at tac Tic and this guy just telling a story about a simple guy and he was on the way on his way to the store because he wanted to buy a cat kit because he's really hungry, right?

Because he had the munchies.

So he went into the store and he got his cat kit.

But when he was there, he also saw those mints, What are those mints called?

They're called tactics.

So he's like, oh, it's been a long time since I've had a tactic, I'm going to get some of those.

So you know, he paid for his, his chocolate bar and his, his mint and he started to go back home.

But on the way home, he was walking down the street and he flipped over a pong, ping ball that someone, I don't know, someone was playing table tennis and the ball just landed on the road.

He flipped over it and it's summertime and he actually broke his flat flip?

He was so mad.

But then he realized, oh bollocks, I've forgotten something at the store.

I need more rolling papers.

So he goes back to the store and he asked for his favorite rolling papers which were players, but they didn't have them.

And the guy said, oh hey, do you know what?

We don't have players, but we definitely have the zigzags if you want those.

And he's like, well, okay, I'll try something new today.

So he's got his chocolate bar, he's got his rolling papers, he's got everything, he's got a broken flip flop and he was kind of, you know, looking sad.

And the guy behind the cash, the cashier said dude, are you okay?

What's up man?

You look kind of stressed out or whatever.

And he said, you know, I'm kind of piste because they, I broke my sandal here and the guy's like, do you know what will cheer you up?

I just got an old school snoop Dogg hop hip album in and the guy put it on and it was like they had such a good time hanging out in the variety store listening to music.

It was such a cool story because these are the wonderful stories that you have on these apps.

They're just so exhilaratingly wonderful.

They're not actually died.

Yes, I was just lying there.

But did you understand my story?

There's probably some words that you were kind of like, what are you even talking about?

Ronnie what is toxic.

Well, here's something so cool that even native speakers don't even know the rules too.

So I'm gonna let you in some inside knowledge of ye olde english language, you know the app is called Tiktok.

Okay, But did you know they spelled it differently?

But it's actually the sound of a clock.

So in english, when a clock makes the ticking noises?

An old clock, right?

Like a clock.

When we imitate the sound of the clock, it says Tiktok and that's how the company got the name for the app.

The spelling is different.

They use capital here, capital there.

But when I said to you, talk tick, oh, it was really confusing.

Like Ronnie has an app called tactic Tiktok.

Um, we have this zig zag zig zag rolling papers, they're also Zigzag is also a pattern.

Hello, do you work a pattern?

Hello, a patterns like this.

It's like a lightning bolt.

My mark is dead.

That's okay.

So zigzags a pattern and this is what happens in english.

If I said to you, zag zig or if I said dong ding, maybe it wouldn't seem that weird to you, but other people go, oh, there's something not quite right about that.

And there's a rule to it, which I really don't like rules, but I'll teach you what it is.

Whoa, hold on there.

The rule is what we put first, the word we put first is an eye.

So tick zig zagging tic tac.

Okay, I'll explain what these words mean later and then we have an A.

So it's always going to be the eye word and then the A word or if you don't have an A, it'll be an oh, so we would never reverse the order of this.

We would never say pong ping because we have an eye here and oh there, we always have to put the word with an eye first.

And then the word was O or an A after it.

And there's one crazy example that uses all of them and it's a game, it's called tick attack two.

But we're going to play the game later.

When I get a new marker, that'll be fun.

And in the U.

K, they call it knots and crosses.

That's, that's irrelevant.

U.

K.

Hello.

So a ding dong.

Does anybody know what a ding dong is?

I want you to play with my ding a ling, ding dong.

A ding dong is the sound that a bell makes.

So remember I told you that Tiktok was the sound of a clock zigzag pattern and a rolling paper brand.

But ding dong is the sound of bells, not balls.

Bells that go ding dong And the clock goes tick tock.

Do you have those little candies?

Those little mints that I talked about in the story.

Those are actually called tic tacs, not tactic.

So you might be thinking Ronnie, why are you even teaching us this?

This is just nonsensical.

You're right.

It is a bit of a wishy washy.

It's a little bit crazy.

But there's three reasons why I'm telling you this one.

If you mess it up like I did in the story and say talk tick instead of tick talk, people are going to not understand you.

Um, it'll let people know right away that you're not a native speaker.

Was this fine?

But it's a dead giveaway.

Um, the other one is, if you are creating something in english, if you're a content creator, like on, oh, I don't know youtube or something.

Um, or you're creating characters for a book or anything creative, you should follow the rule because that's how the rhythm goes in english.

But what if you didn't follow the rule?

Hey, try it, Make a character called pumping and see how that goes over.

But it seems to be like the rhythm of english.

Um, Tiktok is a candy Kitkat chocolate bar, famous all over the world.

You get four little pieces of chocolate in that one, ping pong.

Oh, this is fun, ping pong is a game called table tennis and when I was researching it, it's also called, with, with, with, with, again, these are words that sound like what you're doing that could get tricky, but look, it even follows the same rules as the same pattern.

This one has an eye and then this one is followed by a so it's with wife not wife wife to be like playing it backwards you're like oh I'm with laughing you and it's just not a good scene.

You like hip hop music.

Yeah good.

Um If you are familiar with some old school hip hop, snoop Dogg doesn't work because he's an O.

N.

And O.

Here's a song ideally deli I went to the alley I found a smoker named sally.

I'm paraphrasing there but dilly dally to dilly dally around.

It's so I don't know my grandmother would say that to me um it means like you're kind of like you're wasting time you don't really have a purpose, you're just oh let's go over here, oh what's over here?

You're having a pfaff your dilly dallying, you're you're not walking purposefully.

And also I'd like to put a shout out to the Canadian band from Newmarket Dilly dally guys, what's going on?

Good name are you playing or you just dilly dallying around on stage there.

So in the hip hop genre even snoops out says dilly dally so it must be cool.

Um Hippity hoppity yeah I listened to hippity hoppity music which may be dilly dally does but hippity hoppity is like oh you see this guy he's a bunny rabbit.

Um When were Children bunny rabbits they listen to hip hop but when they jump they go hippity hoppity.

Hippity hoppity not hoppity hippity.

So yeah this bunny rabbit, he's he's gonna hippity hoppity over here because he's a cool bunny.

Now as I was telling you, tic tac toe, do you know how to play tic tac toe?

Look at this, there's an eye and a and then oh so this is a prime example of this rule and you know how much I hate rules?

Um So tic tac toe is basically you put either an X.

Or an O.

And you try and get them in a line.

Now remember at the beginning of the lesson I said that they're called knots and crosses ha ha that sounds a little bit better to me because No it would have to be across and then not but not in British English means, zero but we call them oh we call them Xs and Os in english, X and Os or tic tac toe, choose which one you like better knots and crosses ex's nose or tic tac toes.

So we used to play this and we were a kid and basically you have to get three Xs in a row or three os in a row and they can be very critical which is up and down, they can be horizontal which is around or they can be diagonal.

Yeah one tic tac toe um like this Dingle dangle, I even like the word of it.

I was trying to figure out what song had.

Dingle dangle in it and I came up with nothing.

Um, but the best example I can give you of how to use Dingle dangle is think of um, your grandfather if you have one and think of his balls, they're probably drooping almost down to his knees.

And when he walks they, they sway from side to side.

So if something dingle dangles, it means it moves from side to side with little little effort.

So mostly his balls.

Dingle dangle in the wind.

Um, so that's how you remember that Now.

Close to that would be teeny weeny!

Teeny weeny means very small.

So some grandfathers have big dangler is big Dingle dangles, but a little teeny weeny little guy there on his.

Yeah, this boot is also teeny weeny, teeny weeny means very small.

So next time you're hanging out with your grandpa ask him, hey, can I see your Dingle dangle urz and help totally show them to you to be great family fun time.

Um, wishy washy, wishy washy means something that's not really serious or it's a little bit weird or straight me.

Yes, I'm kind of wishy washy.

It doesn't mean that you're not smart.

This means you're a little strange or unorganized though.

This is kind of, this lesson is kind of wishy washy.

Uh, I don't know what's happening here, but there's another reason reason number three, why I really want you to understand the a, the I, the a and the oath method because when you're learning verbs, everyone hates irregular verbs.

So I'm going to teach you how to use this method to remember those crazy irregular verbs.

Okay, so this whole Tiktok talk gibberish thing.

It actually has a purpose.

When you're learning the irregular verbs.

Mm Mine, there aren't a lot of them.

But anything to help you.

We have the A.

In the second row.

So like I said, all of these verbs begin with the I begin drink and swim.

Then when we put them into the simple past, all the changes is the verb changes from an eye to an A.

So begin began drink, drink, swim swam.

So in the simple past we're following this cool little pattern that I showed you.

Um they don't rhyme and have fun things like wickedly wacky and stuff like that.

But that's okay.

Um Then instead of an O.

We actually have A.

U.

So we're not following the I.

A.

Oh we're following the I.

Au but that's cool because it helps us remember begun drunk and swum.

So we have begin, began, begun the past participle drink, drank drunk, swim, swim, swam.

And swum is always weird for me.

It's like I have swum in the river.

It always sounds strange but that's english for you.

So when we use the past participle, we have to clear our throats and we use the past participle, we're going to use it in anything that's perfect, so present, perfect or past perfect.

Also in passive voice, you're gonna have to know your past participles there.

So remember this this this cool thing I A and O or you hippity hoppity, I'm out of here guys, I hope you enjoyed everything.

Even if you didn't, it doesn't matter.