1 00:00:03,070 --> 00:00:07,090 But I'll show you something about it in terms of question number two. 2 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,960 I mean, my my my response to question number two was very similar to his response. 3 00:00:21,010 --> 00:00:22,450 Have you ever lost a wallet? 4 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:24,280 You know, I started off. 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:25,540 How do you lose a wallet? 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,810 No, that tragedy has never occurred to me personally. 7 00:00:28,900 --> 00:00:31,630 And if it did, I'm not sure how I lived that down. 8 00:00:32,230 --> 00:00:34,060 And then there's something else I said under there. 9 00:00:34,060 --> 00:00:34,660 But I can't. 10 00:00:34,660 --> 00:00:35,680 I can't see it. 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:39,310 Right. 12 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:46,730 But these are these are some of the these are some kind of this is these are some examples of responses 13 00:00:47,450 --> 00:00:51,710 that someone might make to these different types of questions. 14 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:53,840 All right. 15 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,500 My next volunteer is Yasmin. 16 00:00:58,370 --> 00:01:01,580 You asked me and I'm going to activate your microphone now, Yasmin. 17 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:09,800 Hello, everyone. 18 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:10,910 Hi, Yasmeen. 19 00:01:10,910 --> 00:01:11,570 Are you there? 20 00:01:11,990 --> 00:01:13,040 Yes, I'm here. 21 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:14,180 Okay. 22 00:01:14,330 --> 00:01:14,930 Where are you from? 23 00:01:14,930 --> 00:01:15,740 Yasmeen? 24 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:17,570 I'm from Jordan. 25 00:01:17,930 --> 00:01:18,510 Jordan? 26 00:01:18,590 --> 00:01:19,160 Okay. 27 00:01:19,660 --> 00:01:20,200 Yes. 28 00:01:20,210 --> 00:01:20,780 All right. 29 00:01:23,380 --> 00:01:28,450 All right, so Yasmeen is going to be helping me with question set for Yasmeen. 30 00:01:28,450 --> 00:01:29,200 Are you ready? 31 00:01:29,650 --> 00:01:30,610 Yes, I am. 32 00:01:30,930 --> 00:01:31,280 Okay. 33 00:01:35,090 --> 00:01:35,350 OC. 34 00:01:35,610 --> 00:01:39,790 Yasmeen, let's talk about the sky and stars. 35 00:01:40,870 --> 00:01:41,650 Do you like. 36 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:43,720 Do you like to look at the sky? 37 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,440 In fact, I love the sky. 38 00:01:46,460 --> 00:01:51,890 I love night skies and watching the sunsets and sunrises. 39 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:58,190 I like going to places where where there is no light at all, like the light of the town and cities 40 00:01:58,190 --> 00:01:58,670 are dim. 41 00:01:58,670 --> 00:02:01,910 So I can clearly watch the shining of the stars. 42 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,030 Can you see the moon and stars at night where you live? 43 00:02:08,990 --> 00:02:14,690 And not clearly, in fact, because there's too much street lights and houses lights. 44 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:26,090 But if I go like a little far away to like the roads, I can clearly see it. 45 00:02:28,070 --> 00:02:29,540 OC Next question. 46 00:02:29,660 --> 00:02:33,800 Do you prefer the sky in the morning or the sky at night? 47 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:38,930 I like them both, but I would prefer the night sky. 48 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:40,050 It's called more. 49 00:02:40,070 --> 00:02:47,870 It has more breezes of air that makes the combination of the view and the environment a very calming 50 00:02:47,870 --> 00:02:48,680 and cozy. 51 00:02:51,290 --> 00:02:51,710 All right. 52 00:02:51,710 --> 00:02:53,130 And final question. 53 00:02:53,150 --> 00:02:57,680 Where is the best place to look at the sky at night in your country? 54 00:02:59,090 --> 00:03:06,740 So I live in Jordan and we have this desert called the Wadi Room and it's like far away from the cities. 55 00:03:06,740 --> 00:03:16,400 And it's the skies over there are so dark it makes the stars and they make the stars shine really bright. 56 00:03:16,550 --> 00:03:18,680 You can really enjoy it from there. 57 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,740 All right, Yasmeen, thank you very much for volunteering. 58 00:03:22,770 --> 00:03:25,050 Thank you very much, everyone. 59 00:03:25,770 --> 00:03:29,130 Take a minute and give Yasmeen your feedback. 60 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,880 Personally, I think that Yasmeen actually did a really good job. 61 00:03:33,330 --> 00:03:37,140 She has very clear pronunciation. 62 00:03:38,130 --> 00:03:38,730 I could. 63 00:03:38,730 --> 00:03:42,090 I had no problems hearing any of the words that she said. 64 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:49,440 I mean, there were a few grammar mistakes here and there, such as she said, too much street lights 65 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:55,830 and really she meant to say too many street lights, but there weren't any grammar mistakes that I heard 66 00:03:55,830 --> 00:03:59,040 consistently over and over again. 67 00:03:59,670 --> 00:04:03,750 A couple of the responses I would have maybe have had her add one more sentence. 68 00:04:04,230 --> 00:04:12,960 But in general, she she was able to answer each question with really clear pronunciation and also in 69 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:18,570 general, really clear, really good fluency in terms of the pace of her speaking. 70 00:04:20,270 --> 00:04:20,650 Yeah. 71 00:04:20,660 --> 00:04:21,440 A good subject. 72 00:04:21,590 --> 00:04:22,430 A good subject. 73 00:04:22,430 --> 00:04:25,770 Specific word would have been like light pollution, right? 74 00:04:25,940 --> 00:04:27,140 That would have been very subjects. 75 00:04:27,230 --> 00:04:29,570 But yes, my lab, my lab. 76 00:04:29,570 --> 00:04:31,850 Radia gave a really good response. 77 00:04:31,850 --> 00:04:33,590 She was very natural. 78 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,650 She was very, very natural. 79 00:04:36,650 --> 00:04:37,880 StarGaze. 80 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,060 StarGaze is a really good subject. 81 00:04:41,060 --> 00:04:45,500 Specific vocabulary everywhere was clearly audible. 82 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:52,250 Yeah, I think she could have used more adjectives to be more descriptive in her, in her, in her, 83 00:04:52,250 --> 00:04:54,170 in her, in some of her sentences. 84 00:04:55,670 --> 00:05:01,010 But overall, she did a really, really good job. 85 00:05:01,010 --> 00:05:07,730 And, and and so asking somebody about the skies and stars is what I mean by an unexpected question. 86 00:05:09,150 --> 00:05:14,220 Right is the kind of question that you're not you may not really be prepared for and you have to be 87 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:18,120 able to really show on your feet that you can respond. 88 00:05:18,690 --> 00:05:26,570 And I think overall, she did a really, really good job on it in terms of, you know, some good you 89 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:31,170 all were able to probably hear some nice ways to be able to respond to a question. 90 00:05:32,220 --> 00:05:34,590 And then, of course, you know, hindsight is 2020. 91 00:05:34,590 --> 00:05:39,870 So yeah, she could have used some subjects, subjects, specific vocabulary like light pollution and 92 00:05:39,870 --> 00:05:41,580 stargazing and things like that. 93 00:05:42,270 --> 00:05:42,830 Right. 94 00:05:45,650 --> 00:05:45,810 Right? 95 00:05:46,150 --> 00:05:46,690 Yeah. 96 00:05:47,460 --> 00:05:53,290 You keep asking about being a volunteer, but I already have the eight volunteers, as I've suggested. 97 00:05:53,620 --> 00:05:56,440 You can still respond to the questions. 98 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,330 While I'm asking the questions. 99 00:05:58,330 --> 00:05:59,460 You just respond. 100 00:05:59,470 --> 00:06:01,450 Just respond at home to the question. 101 00:06:24,450 --> 00:06:24,620 Right. 102 00:06:24,790 --> 00:06:28,540 These are some responses, some example responses you can take a look at. 103 00:06:35,770 --> 00:06:36,060 Right. 104 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:38,200 These are some example responses. 105 00:06:38,620 --> 00:06:40,810 And like I said, you can go back and take your time. 106 00:06:40,820 --> 00:06:42,340 You can look at my response to the first one. 107 00:06:42,340 --> 00:06:44,680 Do you like to look at this at the sky? 108 00:06:45,130 --> 00:06:49,390 Indeed, I've enjoyed this from a young age when I wanted to be an astronaut. 109 00:06:49,780 --> 00:06:57,520 Because of that, I still to this day spend time sky surfing off and my wife will catch me lost in an 110 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,800 upward gaze thinking about what's up there. 111 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,580 Can you see the moon and stars at night where you live? 112 00:07:03,610 --> 00:07:08,050 Since I live outside of the big city, I can view the constellations almost daily. 113 00:07:09,070 --> 00:07:12,640 The only time I cannot observe the moon and stars occurs. 114 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,650 And then I can't see the rest of my response. 115 00:07:14,650 --> 00:07:15,340 I'm sorry. 116 00:07:16,750 --> 00:07:23,020 But if you look at if you look at a lot of my responses, I'm not speaking I'm speaking in 2 to 3 sentences 117 00:07:23,020 --> 00:07:23,830 at most. 118 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:29,260 And I'm speaking with a lot of high quality sentence form and sentence structure. 119 00:07:30,460 --> 00:07:37,780 One thing that you want to do, and I can't remember who did this more, maybe it was the second person 120 00:07:37,780 --> 00:07:38,410 or third person. 121 00:07:38,410 --> 00:07:39,340 I don't remember. 122 00:07:39,580 --> 00:07:43,240 But you don't want to respond every question with. 123 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:44,020 Yes. 124 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,650 Like in this verse when you hear me responding with indeed or without question, there are different 125 00:07:50,650 --> 00:07:52,000 ways to say yes. 126 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,930 And like I told you, you know, scoring well is about range. 127 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,800 It's always about range. 128 00:07:59,810 --> 00:08:02,360 All right, Con if con is still there. 129 00:08:02,390 --> 00:08:04,190 Con, I'm coming to you next. 130 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:09,260 All right. 131 00:08:09,260 --> 00:08:10,250 Connor, are you there? 132 00:08:10,820 --> 00:08:11,450 Yes, sir. 133 00:08:15,170 --> 00:08:15,400 All right. 134 00:08:15,710 --> 00:08:16,400 Are you ready? 135 00:08:16,970 --> 00:08:17,420 Yes. 136 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:21,740 All right. 137 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,040 Khan is going to be doing set number five for me. 138 00:08:28,150 --> 00:08:30,610 Let's talk about special costumes. 139 00:08:32,230 --> 00:08:35,740 Do you like to wear special costumes or clothes? 140 00:08:37,090 --> 00:08:41,950 Indeed, I like to wear on special costumes on various occasions. 141 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,510 Since I'm living in a country with a diverse cultural background. 142 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:52,480 So every month you can say that we have a festival going on and I like to dress up for that. 143 00:08:54,060 --> 00:08:58,420 OC Did you wear any special costumes when you were young? 144 00:09:00,220 --> 00:09:07,690 I can recall one incident during my school period when I was very young since I was 5 to 6 years of 145 00:09:07,690 --> 00:09:10,810 age and we had a fancy dress competition. 146 00:09:11,650 --> 00:09:18,160 I, i, I was wearing a mango shaped costume. 147 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:27,460 It was designed by papercut, by my mother, and with a green hat on the green leaves and a green leaves 148 00:09:27,460 --> 00:09:28,270 on my head. 149 00:09:31,180 --> 00:09:36,490 Third question When was your last time to wear special costumes? 150 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:43,180 I can recall an incident back few years, back to four years. 151 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:52,480 It was my best friend's marriage, and at that time, all our group decided to wear a special costume 152 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:57,100 made up of a mermaid like a bridesmaid dress. 153 00:09:57,100 --> 00:09:59,980 So we had an we. 154 00:10:00,340 --> 00:10:07,360 We is we did wear on my dress during her marriage. 155 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:13,390 And do you ever buy special costumes and assembly? 156 00:10:13,390 --> 00:10:20,500 I didn't brought any special costume because due to the pandemic going on and we are mostly in our houses 157 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:20,750 only. 158 00:10:20,770 --> 00:10:26,680 So that is there are no special occasions now since last two years. 159 00:10:28,570 --> 00:10:29,020 All right. 160 00:10:29,020 --> 00:10:31,870 So, Khan, let me ask you a question. 161 00:10:31,870 --> 00:10:33,070 Were you nervous? 162 00:10:33,790 --> 00:10:34,900 Yes, I was. 163 00:10:35,410 --> 00:10:35,890 Okay. 164 00:10:36,310 --> 00:10:39,490 Because your nervousness is coming across and it's affecting. 165 00:10:41,410 --> 00:10:41,760 So? 166 00:10:41,770 --> 00:10:42,520 So probably. 167 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:43,060 No, no, no. 168 00:10:43,060 --> 00:10:44,280 It's nothing to apologize for. 169 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:45,670 I'm just trying to help you. 170 00:10:46,140 --> 00:10:46,590 Right. 171 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:51,760 So one thing that you want to be able to do is you have to relax. 172 00:10:52,810 --> 00:10:53,230 You got it. 173 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,690 You got you got to take a breath and you've got to relax. 174 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:56,670 One other question. 175 00:10:57,350 --> 00:10:59,050 What other word? 176 00:10:59,050 --> 00:11:01,980 What other word can you say other than costumes? 177 00:11:05,260 --> 00:11:05,720 Sorry, sir. 178 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:07,870 I need to get what other work. 179 00:11:07,870 --> 00:11:08,310 And she. 180 00:11:08,350 --> 00:11:10,180 I'll ask the question in general. 181 00:11:10,180 --> 00:11:11,950 Khan, go ahead and mute your microphone. 182 00:11:13,330 --> 00:11:13,550 Sure. 183 00:11:14,230 --> 00:11:14,590 All right. 184 00:11:14,890 --> 00:11:15,650 All right, everybody. 185 00:11:15,670 --> 00:11:17,440 What other word can she use? 186 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:18,590 Other than costume? 187 00:11:18,610 --> 00:11:19,540 Outfit? 188 00:11:19,990 --> 00:11:21,130 Anything else? 189 00:11:25,130 --> 00:11:31,670 Dress clothes, traditional clothes, traditional outfit attire. 190 00:11:32,750 --> 00:11:33,050 Right. 191 00:11:33,050 --> 00:11:35,000 There are other words we can use. 192 00:11:35,270 --> 00:11:38,060 And so, you know, you have to be careful. 193 00:11:38,090 --> 00:11:41,120 Now, in terms of her fluency. 194 00:11:42,350 --> 00:11:43,700 Fluency was fine. 195 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,120 There were some issues sometimes with hesitation. 196 00:11:47,270 --> 00:11:55,160 But I think her nervousness affected her a little bit because some of the answers I would have liked 197 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,830 for her to give one more sentence to respond. 198 00:11:58,100 --> 00:12:03,380 But I think because she was a little bit nervous, she wanted to answer a party, where's a great one? 199 00:12:03,380 --> 00:12:05,150 Yeah, party wear is a great one. 200 00:12:06,410 --> 00:12:09,320 The holiday where party where. 201 00:12:11,010 --> 00:12:12,320 Special occasion outfits. 202 00:12:12,330 --> 00:12:16,680 There are a lot of different words we can use and when you're able to show that range. 203 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,530 One of the questions I think it might have been question two. 204 00:12:20,610 --> 00:12:23,010 Question two, she answered very well. 205 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:29,820 And that's because she was she used a lot of she tried to use a lot of adjectives and descriptive language 206 00:12:30,270 --> 00:12:33,000 when she was when she was answering question number two. 207 00:12:33,330 --> 00:12:35,340 And that's what you want to be able to do. 208 00:12:36,030 --> 00:12:37,200 But again. 209 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:38,520 Yes. 210 00:12:38,540 --> 00:12:40,840 Extended, especially with question number two. 211 00:12:41,230 --> 00:12:43,600 She extended and expanded really, really well. 212 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:49,480 And again, you know, getting a question about special costumes is unexpected. 213 00:12:51,060 --> 00:12:53,760 Right is not an easy question to respond to. 214 00:12:54,300 --> 00:13:01,410 And so we have to kind of tip our hats to these volunteers because, you know, it's not easy to speak 215 00:13:01,410 --> 00:13:05,640 in front of 100 people and be able to do that. 216 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:09,210 But it's not an easy question to respond to. 217 00:13:09,270 --> 00:13:10,140 It really isn't. 218 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:11,760 She had a good foot. 219 00:13:11,970 --> 00:13:12,480 I agree. 220 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:17,640 She had a good range of vocabulary, especially in the beginning, extended and expanded well. 221 00:13:19,140 --> 00:13:22,590 I do think probably she was affected by her daughter in the background. 222 00:13:24,090 --> 00:13:28,050 She may not say that, but I'm sure that affected her a little bit. 223 00:13:28,410 --> 00:13:30,030 But thank you very much. 224 00:13:30,030 --> 00:13:33,390 And we're going to go ahead and move on to the next person. 225 00:13:34,290 --> 00:13:35,910 And the next person 226 00:13:38,220 --> 00:13:40,650 is going to be. 227 00:13:42,350 --> 00:13:45,890 Bowling Alley, Boland, Dolly from Nigeria. 228 00:13:46,250 --> 00:13:49,190 You can take a look at some of my response is also everybody. 229 00:13:49,220 --> 00:13:51,290 I'll give you a minute to look at some of my responses. 230 00:13:52,410 --> 00:13:54,250 You can see my response to the first one. 231 00:13:54,270 --> 00:13:56,850 Do you like to wear special costumes are clothes? 232 00:13:57,510 --> 00:14:01,320 I never liked playing dress up as a youth and even less so as an adult. 233 00:14:01,950 --> 00:14:06,360 This dislike stems from a horrible Halloween experience where I had nightmares from all of the ghoulish 234 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:07,830 faces I saw that night. 235 00:14:10,620 --> 00:14:10,760 Right. 236 00:14:10,830 --> 00:14:17,790 So you can see sometimes students ask me, is it okay to answer in the negative? 237 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:19,140 What of? 238 00:14:19,150 --> 00:14:20,350 My answer is no. 239 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,780 And I like to tell people whether your answer is no or yes. 240 00:14:26,170 --> 00:14:27,940 You still expand. 241 00:14:27,940 --> 00:14:30,280 Explain your response. 242 00:14:31,750 --> 00:14:36,610 You can see in each one of my responses, not each one, but question one, three and four. 243 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:38,200 I'm negative. 244 00:14:40,010 --> 00:14:40,250 Right. 245 00:14:40,310 --> 00:14:42,380 I'm answering in a negative way. 246 00:14:43,100 --> 00:14:45,680 But I'm I'm still explaining, right? 247 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,000 I'm still explaining it. 248 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:52,340 And that's what that's what you have to that's what you have to be able to do. 249 00:14:56,050 --> 00:14:56,200 Yeah. 250 00:14:56,230 --> 00:14:57,460 Con did a good job. 251 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:58,840 She did a good job. 252 00:14:59,380 --> 00:15:04,090 Like I said, when the people are making the responses to UConn is more it's just to help you. 253 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:07,420 Somebody asked me, how much longer is this going to go on? 254 00:15:09,130 --> 00:15:11,770 I have I have three more people and then that's it. 255 00:15:12,190 --> 00:15:18,340 So I'm about to do Bhola and Dolly, and then I'm going to move on from that. 256 00:15:19,630 --> 00:15:21,910 Hi, Bill and Dolly, are you there? 257 00:15:24,380 --> 00:15:25,280 Yes, I am. 258 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:26,160 All right. 259 00:15:26,180 --> 00:15:27,560 Am I pronouncing your name correctly? 260 00:15:27,590 --> 00:15:28,730 Would you help me, please? 261 00:15:29,790 --> 00:15:32,300 Bottom line, darling, there is no end. 262 00:15:32,870 --> 00:15:35,120 Bolt, bolt, bolt, darling. 263 00:15:36,260 --> 00:15:38,210 Well, I can take that bowler. 264 00:15:38,210 --> 00:15:40,190 Dale, darling. 265 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:41,060 Okay. 266 00:15:41,090 --> 00:15:41,480 Darling. 267 00:15:41,510 --> 00:15:42,140 Okay. 268 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:42,830 All right. 269 00:15:42,830 --> 00:15:46,130 So I'm going to go ahead and take you through the next set.