Key Vocabulary

Now before we get started with the actual practice for this lesson let’s just go over some some basic vocabulary.

I think you probably know one or two of these words before.

We’ve talked certainly a little bit about variation but a variation is basically a another version of the same thing.

If you do a variation of something that means you do it again in a slightly different way whether it’s a painting or maybe a dish you’re cooking whatever it happens to be a variation means you’ve taken that thing and you’re going to try to do that same thing but make a couple of small changes.

So you’ve made a variation of that.

And if we have many of those we can say many variations that will make more sense a little bit later in this lesson with what we’re going to do next.

OK now liberties Well you might know the word liberty means freedom.

OK.

Liberties can mean the plural form of freedom.

But when I say in this case take liberties we often hear say take liberties.

That means don’t restrict yourself too much to one specific thing.

So if you take some creative liberties for example when you’re doing a variation of a painting maybe you’re trying to paint a painting similar to a famous painting.

OK.

And you might add I don’t know an extra flower or you might add some different colors.

That would be taking liberties.

That means just following your following your heart I guess taking some freedom to do what you want to do to do what feels right.

OK.

So that’s OK.

That’s what we call taking liberties.

And when we do today’s lesson and the exercises that we’re going to talk about today we need to remember that it’s OK to take liberties sometimes taking liberties or doing what we feel might be interesting is a good way to explore new types of grammar or explore how we use words it might be also a good way to maybe find new uses of for example vocabulary.

So it actually can be really useful.

All right.

Now improvisation and we’ll talk a little bit more about this at the end or toward the end of the lesson.

The short version of this is often improv I and P R O V improv and improv is often related to comedy.

So you might see improv comedy which means that nothing is planned.

Maybe there’s a situation maybe there is a scene but nobody knows what’s going to happen.

There’s no script there’s no dialogue.

So you’ll see maybe an improv comedy show.

It’s very funny because nobody knows what’s going to happen.

And it’s kind of crazy.

Improvisation is this ability to be able to speak naturally and continuously without really thinking carefully about what you’re saying.

And we’re going to practice that later on in the lesson.

So I hope these three words are clear and let’s go on to our first exercise.