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Hello
again and welcome back for some more English.
ln that last episode there were some interesting
sentences.
Jack said: 'Why were you so nervous?', 'Why
were you so nervous?'.
This word 'so' plus an adjective, and Sharon
said:
'This is such a surprise', 'such', those are
the words l want to look at with you now 'so'
and 'such'.
Now l want to illustrate them by telling you
something about a holiday that l went on, listen
to how l use them.
Now in front of me l have some objects which
l found when l went to Tibet,
l had a fantastic holiday in Tibet, it was so
interesting, and we visited the monasteries
there which were so huge and so beautiful, and
inside the monasteries we met some monks, now
there aren't actually many monks left in the
monasteries any more but they were very interesting,
and so special and... we saw this instrument,
this here, is an instrument and, look, if you...
you can open it, it's so strange and it's so
long and it's actually so difficult to blow,
I'll try it, listen.
Well, when they played it, in Tibet, it was
much easier, anyway, so interesting this, so
they have these instruments and the monks wear
these, these hats look, look, so strange!
Look at them! Very strange, so, or very interesting
and in Tibet obviously the temperatues are low
and Tibetans have a special type of milk and
this is a container were they keep the milk,
and the milk is yak milk, it comes from these
unusual cows with long hair and horns, that
make this milk, yak milk, which is so unpleasant
if you are not used to it.
But anyway it was such an interesting trip that
l really recommend you should go and visit Tibet.
Now as l was describing Tibet to you l was using
both 'so' and 'such', let me show you how that
works.
'So' is usually followed by an adjective, the
example is 'Tibet is so interesting', 'interesting'
is an adjective, 'so interesting' and it gives
the impression of being very, extremely interesting.
'We were so impressed by Tibet', 'so' plus adjective,
'These instruments are so difficult to play',
'they're so difficult to play', 'the monasteries
are so huge' and 'it was so cheap' in fact 'the
holiday was so cheap', alright?
So 'so' followed by an adjective.
Now 'such'; l said 'lt was such an interesting
trip', now look at that 'lt was such' is then
followed by the noun and if you have an adjective
describing the noun that goes before, so look
'lt was such an interesting trip'.
Not easy, it was not 'a such interesting' but
'such an interesting trip', another example
'lt was such a different experience', so 'such'
goes before the noun and its adjective.
ln the plural look at what happens
'They sang with such deep voices', yes in fact
in Tibet the monks, they sing in their boots,
they sing... incredible sound.
You notice in this example we take out 'a',
or 'a' or 'an' which is the indefinite article
and it becomes
'They sang with such deep voices', 'They wore
such strange hats' alright?
So 'so' and 'such', 'so' we use with adjectives,
'such' we use with the noun and its adjective
alright?
So, Tibet is so interesting l recommend you
go there for a trip, ok.
Great, well l look forward to seeing you in
the next lesson for more English, take care
and keep practising, bye!
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