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All Y'all
All Y'all English, baby! Video Lesson

Learn English meaning of 'All Y'all'

Date: Feb 28 2017

Themes: Hobbies, Music, Soap Opera

Grammar: Reflexive Pronouns

Intro

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Imagine that you and a group of friends are planning a trip to the United States. You’re not sure where to go. Should you visit the tropical islands of Hawaii? The busy streets of New York? The dark forests of Alaska? Then, a couchsurfer invites you to visit the American South. He sends you a message that reads, I invite all y’all to my neck of the woods. I reckon it’ll be fun. After reading his email, you’re not sure what he means.

The American South is an area with a lot of interesting words and expressions. If you travel to a state like Georgia, Texas, or Mississippi, you’ll hear some of these things. Let’s read that email again: I invite all y’all to my neck of the woods. I reckon it’ll be fun. In regular American English, the message is: I invite all of you to my town. I think it’ll be fun. For English language learners, y’all is a really cool word. It can be used when talking to a group of people in the South. Many languages have a word for y’all, meaning you all or all of you.

It’s time to start filming Kelsey’s country music video, but no one knows what the backdrop will be yet. Will it be tractors, a hayride, or something else? We hope all y’all enjoy watching today’s English soap opera!

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Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Kate

Kate

Brad

Brad

Jordin

Jordin

Dominique

Dominique

Kate:  All right! It’s great to have all y’all here today. Let me introduce you to the crew while Kelsey gets ready. This here is Ted. He will be running the camera. Next to him is Brad. Brad will be helping Ted with the camera and the lighting. Say hi, Brad.

Brad:  Hi.

Kate:  Over here, we have Dicky. He will be holding the microphone.

Jordin:  Quick question.

Kate:  Yes.

Jordin:  Will we be using the sound from today for the music video?

Kate:  No. We have a high-quality recording of the song that we will use.

Jordin:  So, why the sound guy?

Kate:  Gives him something to do. Any other questions?

Jordin:  Oh! Me! I brought several options for wardrobe. Did you want to see…

Kate:  Oh! Wait just a minute. Yes, I hope you all brought wardrobe. If you can get it ready, then I’ll come by and choose which clothes work best.

Dominique:  What’s going to be the backdrop?

Kate:  The backdrop?

Dominique:  Behind us. Since we are filming right in front of the green screen, I was curious what was going to be on the backdrop.

Kate:  Yes, Kelsey and I are still working on that, but we wanted to shoot the video before we decide what it’s going to be.

Dominique:  What if we were on a beach? We could have Sheila film herself on the beach, and then you could put it in later.

Jordin:  It’s a country music video.

Dominique:  Or a hayride?

Jordin:  Or we could all be driving tractors.

Dominique:  Or if we were on horses.

Jordin:  Horses! Yeah, that’d be great!

Kate:  Excuse me! Can I have all y’all’s attention? Let’s focus on the next step, which is choosing wardrobe. So, Jordin, I’m going to start with you.

 

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Kelsey’s friends are excited. They’re in the studio, finally ready to help Kelsey with her country music video! Kate, who is directing the video, introduces them to the crew. Ted will be behind the camera. Brad will help with the camera and the lighting. Dicky will hold the microphone.

Jordin and Dominique have a few questions for Kate. Jordin wants to know if Kate can look at her wardrobe. Jordin isn’t sure what to wear for the music video. Dominique is more interested in the green screen behind her. She has some ideas about what kind of backdrop will be best, but Kate thinks this decision must wait until after wardrobe.

What kind of music do all y’all enjoy? Would you like to go on a hayride someday?

 

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allenzhaojl

China

I’m inviting y’all to go on a trip to the burger restaurant with me, in which we’ll have eggs, chicken, and beef.


01:44 PM Mar 09 2017 |

Fatihh

Turkey

I can not say exactly I like this kind of music because it depends how I feel at that moment. But, in this topic I want to say I am always suprised about this green screen thing. Is it all about the colour green or can we change it to any colour we want? Is this a feature of green colour that other colours do not have? By the way, I want to thank to englishbaby.com again for letting me learn some new vocabs. looking forward to reading other lessons. 

04:19 PM Feb 28 2017 |

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