Explanation Of Vocabulary And
Expressions That May Be New To You
(These will help you understand the video more)

covered = in this context, the word "covered" means researched and wrote about

reputation =  something the person or place is known or famous for

arsty = slang expression to mean "art"

culturally aware = understands different cultures (usually many cultures)

humming with life = very active and busy

facial expression = moving your face into a different position/appearance

pursed lips = the shape of your lips when you are about to take a drink/sip of hot coffee (almost the same as a kissing position)

take a sip of coffee = have (take) a drink (a sip) of coffee

cliché = a common or famous phrase we use to describe a situation

raging coffee addiction = very strong feeling to need coffee (feel that you cannot live without coffee)

Aussie Rules =  Australian football (sport)

given a team at birth = when they are born, they are told which team they will support

what team you follow = which team you support

you better come up with one pretty quickly = think of a team quickly

incredible = amazing

multi-cultural city = a city with people from many different cultural backgrounds

any corner of the earth = an expression we use to mean from all areas of the world

massive = huge

a new wave of African residence = a new large number of African people

vibrant = active and exciting

must sees = things you must see if you go there

big ones = important or main ones/places

Federation Square = a place in Melbourne

Acne, the National Gallery of Victoria = a place in Melbourne

St. Kilda = a (suburb) place in Melbourne

beach side suburb =  a place next to the beach

crazy = too busy

Fitzroy = a (suburb) place in Melbourne

take a stroll down Brunswick street = enjoy walking slowly down the street

coz = slang for "because"

lined with cafes and restaurants = many cafes and restaurants along the street

interesting characters = interesting people

Stencil art = creating images or text from a stencil

huge = massive

laneways = small lanes or alleys to walk down

wallpapered with art = art covering the wall, so it looks like wallpaper

rather = quite or fairly (a little less than "a lot")

boldly = confidence, without shame

the stencil art capital of the world = the city with the most stencil art

dispute = argue or disagree

happy to claim = happy to accept the compliment or comment

Answers

Q1) Lonely Planet
Q2) Football
Q3) Coffee
Q4) When they are born
Q5) African
Q6) Because
Q7) Active
Q8) Any area of the world
Q9) Federation Square
Q10) No

This Month's Feature Correction

STUDENT'S VERSION:
there is a big chess at the center of a park. the colors of the pawn are black and white. many people are around there and looking them. someones may be playing game using them. one of players may be the man standing at the nearest the chess. he has a big black bag and black hat. the other player may be the woman who wear blue jeans. because she is seriously thinking with loking the chess. one of audiences rides a bycecle, another is talking with someone with her cell phone the others are a child who has blue bag and right green hat and his mother who has a yellow bag, and she whisper to him something.
there is a restaurant behind the big chess. it has several white parasols to eat something outside.

CORRECTED VERSION:
There is a big chess game set up at the center of a park. The colors of the pieces are black and white. Many people are standing around watching people play the game.

One of the players may be the man standing nearest to the chess board. He has a big black bag and black hat or beanie on. The other player may be the woman who is wearing blue jeans, because it looks like she is seriously thinking about the game.

One of the people in the audience has a bicycle, another is talking with someone on her cell phone. There is also a child who has a blue top and light green hat. Their mother who has a yellow bag, and she is whispering something to her child. There is a restaurant in the background. It has several white parasols for people to enjoy eating outside.

NOTES:

• It is called "chess game" or "game of chess" or "chess set"
   

• Set up = a great way to describe the game or activity is ready to use
   

• Pawn is the name of only one of the kinds of pieces, but not all, so we need to call them "pieces"
   

• "Many people are standing around" is a good way to describe the audience.
   

• "Watching people play the game" is a good way to describe what the audience is doing.  I used "watching" because the people and game move.  We watch things that move (TV, movie, sport), and we look at things that don't move (art, computer screen, floor).
   

• When we use "one of" we must use plural.  So we need to say "One of the players"
  
  Examples:
  He is one of my friends
  She is one of my students
  I saw one of the actors
   

• Chess board is the location where the game is played.  So "chess" is not enough.
   

• If you can see it clearly, the type of hat he is wearing is called a "beanie".  If you are still confused what a beanie is, click here.
   

• If we use "has" when talking about "wearing" we need "on".  He has a beanie on.
  If we use "wearing", we don't need "on.  He is wearing a beanie.
   

• We describe photos in present tense, so we need to say "the woman who is wearing blue jeans" rather than "the woman who wear blue jeans"
   

• "She is seriously thinking about the game" is better than "she is seriously thinking with looking the chess"
  because "seriously thinking about the game" means they are thinking a lot about the game of chess.  "she is seriously thinking with looking the chess" means they are thinking a lot about something and at the same time looking at the chess game, but maybe they are not thinking about the chess game.
   

• "Another is talking with someone on her cell phone" is better than "another is talking with someone with her cell phone", so when describing people talking with their cell phone, use "on" (They are talking on their cell phone).
   

• I used "their mother" because I don't know the gender of the child.  We usually use "their" for plural, but we can also use it for singular, when we don't know the gender.  But we wouldn't use "their" for singular for animals.  We would use "it"
   

• I used "background" when I referred to the restaurant.
  
  Foreground = The objects in the picture closest to the camera.  Usually they are in focus (clear) and in the bottom half of the photo.

  Background = The objects in the picture further away from the camera.  Usually out of focus (not clear) and in the top half of the photo.

This Month's Feature Story Correction

STUDENT'S VERSION:
I don't know much about Melbourne, therefore the monthly video was very interesting for me. That Melbourne is the most European of the Australian cities is good to know, so when I will visit Australia I will go there first.

I can't believe the cliche Melbourne people are usually wearing black, because there are also other nice colour to wear. And that they have a raging of coffee addiction and they're always talking about football? I suppose a lot of people from almost any corner of the earth have such a coffee addiction and also a lot of people are talking about football. These habits are very spreading.

I am very interested in watching the laneways which are wallpapered with art. I suppose it looks very artisticly. I've never seen this before. So I will take a stroll down the streets and enjoy the art. I will also take a sip of coffee in one of the restaurants or cafes which are lined along the street. I hope it will taste different to the coffee I know. And I will also speak with the people who live here in this multi-cultural-city. I will ask them for the must sees and maybe discuss with them about their football- team.

CORRECTED VERSION:
I don't know much about Melbourne.  Therefore, this monthly video was very interesting for me.  Especially learning that Melbourne is the most European of the Australian cities is good to know, so when I will visit Australia I will go there first.

I can't believe the cliché Melbourne people are usually wearing black, because there are other nice colours to wear. And that they have a raging coffee addiction and they're always talking about football? I suppose a lot of people from almost any corner of the earth have such a coffee addiction and also a lot of people talk about football. These habits are very common world wide I guess.

I am very interested in watching the laneways which are wallpapered with art. I suppose it looks very artisticly. I've never seen that before. So I will take a stroll down the streets and enjoy the art. I will also take a sip of coffee in one of the restaurants or cafes which are lined along the streets. I hope it will taste different to the coffee I know. And I will also speak with the people who live in that multi-cultural-city. I will ask them for the must sees and maybe discuss with them about their football team.

NOTES:
Paragraph 1
I just changed the word "the" to "this in the first sentence to make it even more specific.

In the second sentence I added "Especially learning" to give extra expression of how interesting the video was for the listener.

Paragraph 2
I changed "there are also other nice colour" to "there are other nice colours" because using "also" and "other" sounds just a little too much here.  By saying "there are other nice colors" is enough.  We also need "s" at the end of "colour" because we are talking about more than one colour.

The Golden Rule:
Another = one (but not the last one)
Others = the last one or plural

Examples:
One, another, the other
One, another, another, the other
One, another, another, another, the other

One, others.

With "they have a raging of coffee addiction" we don't need "of" between "raging" and "coffee.  It's simply "they have a raging coffee addiction"

I changed "a lot of people talking about football" to "a lot of people talk about football" to make it every day tense.  Every day tense is the tense we use to describe a habit or routine (something we do on an on going basis, such as every day).

"These habits are very common world wide I guess" is a great expression to use. You can use this as a template when describing something is common in general.

Examples:
These actions are very common here I guess
These words are very useful I guess
These problems are very common world wide I guess

Paragraph 3
I used "that" instead of "this" in the sentence "I've never seen that before" because "that" refers to something away from you, and "this" refers to something near you.  if you haven't seen it, I would say it is away from you.

We need "streets" (plural) with the sentence "I will also take a sip of coffee in one of the restaurants or cafes which are lined along the streets" because while the video talked about one street that is lined with restaurants and cafes, you have not mentioned that one street, so your sentence is referring to streets in general (or any of the streets), so we need "streets" and not "street".

You need to talk about Melbourne as a city away from you, so you will need to use "that" not "this" in the sentence "speak with the people who live here in that multi-cultural-city"

EXCELLENT JOB WITH YOUR STORY :)