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🎧Food in England
Phil talks about the food he misses from back home in England.
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Phil talks about the food he misses from back home in England.
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🔍 Learn Vocabulary from the Lesson
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▪️ Can't get
My favorite fruit is raspberry, which you can't get in Japan.
If you 'can't get' something, it means that it is not available or you can't find buy it anywhere. Notice the following:
▫️I can't get the copy of the book I need anywhere.
▫️You can't get real jams anymore.
▪️ Loads of
We have loads of raspberries for free.
When you have 'loads of' something, it means that you have so much that you have more than you need or can handle. Notice the following:
▫️I have loads of different shirts at home, you can borrow as many you need.
▫️There is loads of food in the cupboards.
▪️ Filling
You take the blackberries or raspberries, and it's the filling and a pie crust over it.
The 'filling' is the food that is put in the center of a pie or other type of food. Notice the following:
▫️I like to use fruit fillings when I make a pie.
▫️There are lots of different sandwich fillings in the cafe.
▪️ Cosmopolitan mix
British food basically is just a cosmopolitan mix of foreign stuff.
When there is a 'cosmopolitan mix' of something, it means that there is a good variety. Notice the following:
▫️I like to live in cities, as there is a cosmopolitan mix of shops and cafes.
▫️I have a great cosmopolitan mix of friends.
▪️ Diced vegetables
You have it with cheese or with meat, and you put it on, it's like diced vegetables, but really thinly chopped.
'Diced vegetables' refers to vegetables which are cut up into very small pieces. Notice the following:
▫️Make sure that you use diced vegetables in the sauce.
▫️I am not very good at preparing diced vegetables.
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▪️ Can't get
My favorite fruit is raspberry, which you can't get in Japan.
If you 'can't get' something, it means that it is not available or you can't find buy it anywhere. Notice the following:
▫️I can't get the copy of the book I need anywhere.
▫️You can't get real jams anymore.
▪️ Loads of
We have loads of raspberries for free.
When you have 'loads of' something, it means that you have so much that you have more than you need or can handle. Notice the following:
▫️I have loads of different shirts at home, you can borrow as many you need.
▫️There is loads of food in the cupboards.
▪️ Filling
You take the blackberries or raspberries, and it's the filling and a pie crust over it.
The 'filling' is the food that is put in the center of a pie or other type of food. Notice the following:
▫️I like to use fruit fillings when I make a pie.
▫️There are lots of different sandwich fillings in the cafe.
▪️ Cosmopolitan mix
British food basically is just a cosmopolitan mix of foreign stuff.
When there is a 'cosmopolitan mix' of something, it means that there is a good variety. Notice the following:
▫️I like to live in cities, as there is a cosmopolitan mix of shops and cafes.
▫️I have a great cosmopolitan mix of friends.
▪️ Diced vegetables
You have it with cheese or with meat, and you put it on, it's like diced vegetables, but really thinly chopped.
'Diced vegetables' refers to vegetables which are cut up into very small pieces. Notice the following:
▫️Make sure that you use diced vegetables in the sauce.
▫️I am not very good at preparing diced vegetables.
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✴️ Today's Idiom
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✳️ a matter of life and death
🔷 Meaning:
🔹If something is a matter of life and death, it's extremely important and it could involve someone's survival.
🔶 For example:
🔸Getting someone to hospital quickly after an accident or a heart attack is a matter of life and death. Just a few minutes can make all the difference.
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✳️ a matter of life and death
🔷 Meaning:
🔹If something is a matter of life and death, it's extremely important and it could involve someone's survival.
🔶 For example:
🔸Getting someone to hospital quickly after an accident or a heart attack is a matter of life and death. Just a few minutes can make all the difference.
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📆 Today's phrasal VERB
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✳️ tie up (2)
🔷 Meaning:
to make somebody busy with something
🔶 For example:
🔺 be tied up
He'll be tied up all afternoon, but he can see you tomorrow morning.
🔺 be tied up with sth
Most of the time Gillian is tied up with day-to-day tasks like managing the office and sorting out staff issues.
➕ Note: Often used in a passive form, such as, "He'll be tied up with clients all morning."
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✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️
✳️ tie up (2)
🔷 Meaning:
to make somebody busy with something
🔶 For example:
🔺 be tied up
He'll be tied up all afternoon, but he can see you tomorrow morning.
🔺 be tied up with sth
Most of the time Gillian is tied up with day-to-day tasks like managing the office and sorting out staff issues.
➕ Note: Often used in a passive form, such as, "He'll be tied up with clients all morning."
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✴️ #phrasal_verb
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📅 VOCABULARY
✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️
✴️ glue
⏺ a sticky substance used for joining things together
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🗣 PRONUNCIATION ↙️
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✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️
✴️ glue
⏺ a sticky substance used for joining things together
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🗣 PRONUNCIATION ↙️
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📆 VOCABULARY
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✳️ funnel
➖ noun
➖ plural funnels
🔺 The funnel cloud of a tornado
🖼 Definitions of FUNNEL
1⃣ a device shaped like a hollow cone with a tube extending from the point
➕ Note: A funnel is used for pouring something (such as a liquid) into a narrow opening.
2⃣ something that is shaped like a funnel
🔹the funnel cloud of a tornado
3⃣ a large pipe on a ship through which smoke or steam comes out
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✳️ funnel
☢ Pronunciation ⤵️
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✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️
✳️ funnel
➖ noun
➖ plural funnels
🔺 The funnel cloud of a tornado
🖼 Definitions of FUNNEL
1⃣ a device shaped like a hollow cone with a tube extending from the point
➕ Note: A funnel is used for pouring something (such as a liquid) into a narrow opening.
2⃣ something that is shaped like a funnel
🔹the funnel cloud of a tornado
3⃣ a large pipe on a ship through which smoke or steam comes out
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✴️ #vocabulary
✳️ funnel
☢ Pronunciation ⤵️
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🏷 VOCABULARY
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✳️ Word : Sanctuary
👉 meaning ( 1 ) :
👉 Examples :
✅ The park is the largest wildlife sanctuary in the US.
✅ a sanctuary for tigers
✅ Fleeing refugees found sanctuary in Geneva.
✅ a sanctuary for battered women
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✴️ pronunciation ↙️
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✳️ Word : Sanctuary
👉 meaning ( 1 ) :
an area for birds or animals where they are protected and cannot be hunted
👉 Examples :
✅ The park is the largest wildlife sanctuary in the US.
✅ a sanctuary for tigers
✅ Fleeing refugees found sanctuary in Geneva.
✅ a sanctuary for battered women
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✴️ pronunciation ↙️
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🇬🇧 Gareth: What do you think?
🇺🇸 Rebecca: I don't know. A lot of times, I think people who commit crime might commit crime because they want attention, or they don't get the amount of attention that they feel that they need. They want to be loved, or they want people to pay attention to them to know that they existed. You know, - I'm here, hear me roar type thing.
And maybe I've heard things that sometimes, abortion might actually potentially be related to a decrease in crime rate, because instead of having this child that maybe you don't want, you won't care for, who will grow up feeling unloved and potentially commit crime, you don't have the child. So then, it becomes not an option.
Gareth: Oh, yeah, definitely. Psychologically, when you're not cared for, and you're not loved, and no one's ever said that they love you, that can have a **huge impact** - yeah, definitely. So to go from one foster home to another foster home to another foster home, and to have foster parents that don't really care for you; they just put food on the table, and they clothe you, and they send you off to school, and they never hug you, they never kiss you, that I'm sure will have an effect on people, and kind of maybe lead to more crime.
Rebecca: But I think another thing that could also be helping is we keep ourselves busy a lot more in the home now because of all the new technology. And you know, you can be online chatting for hours on end, or you could be playing video games. Again, a lot of the media tries to say that, you know, the video games is the cause, but sometimes I wonder if maybe because we're all at home playing video games, well, if you're at home doing something else, you can't be out there causing crimes, right?
Gareth: Yeah.
Rebecca: So sometimes I wonder if maybe that's related.
Gareth: Sometimes we don't even know our own neighbors.
Rebecca: Yeah.
Gareth: I once heard this story, I don't know if this one is true, but if a woman's - and this might be inappropriate - but if a woman is being raped, or someone is going to try and rape her, she should say - Fire!
Rebecca: Fire - yeah. I've heard it.
Gareth: Instead of saying 'Rape!'
Rebecca: Or - Help!
Gareth: Because with fire, it will spread, and it will affect others around that place where the fire started. So if someone owns a shop nearby, and they hear someone say - Fire! then they'd be more worried about helping.
Rebecca: Yeah, I've heard a similar thing. If you actually get in a situation where you need help, scream - Fire! because people come running because that might be immediately a danger to themselves.
Gareth: Hm.
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🇬🇧 Gareth: What do you think?
🇺🇸 Rebecca: I don't know. A lot of times, I think people who commit crime might commit crime because they want attention, or they don't get the amount of attention that they feel that they need. They want to be loved, or they want people to pay attention to them to know that they existed. You know, - I'm here, hear me roar type thing.
And maybe I've heard things that sometimes, abortion might actually potentially be related to a decrease in crime rate, because instead of having this child that maybe you don't want, you won't care for, who will grow up feeling unloved and potentially commit crime, you don't have the child. So then, it becomes not an option.
Gareth: Oh, yeah, definitely. Psychologically, when you're not cared for, and you're not loved, and no one's ever said that they love you, that can have a **huge impact** - yeah, definitely. So to go from one foster home to another foster home to another foster home, and to have foster parents that don't really care for you; they just put food on the table, and they clothe you, and they send you off to school, and they never hug you, they never kiss you, that I'm sure will have an effect on people, and kind of maybe lead to more crime.
Rebecca: But I think another thing that could also be helping is we keep ourselves busy a lot more in the home now because of all the new technology. And you know, you can be online chatting for hours on end, or you could be playing video games. Again, a lot of the media tries to say that, you know, the video games is the cause, but sometimes I wonder if maybe because we're all at home playing video games, well, if you're at home doing something else, you can't be out there causing crimes, right?
Gareth: Yeah.
Rebecca: So sometimes I wonder if maybe that's related.
Gareth: Sometimes we don't even know our own neighbors.
Rebecca: Yeah.
Gareth: I once heard this story, I don't know if this one is true, but if a woman's - and this might be inappropriate - but if a woman is being raped, or someone is going to try and rape her, she should say - Fire!
Rebecca: Fire - yeah. I've heard it.
Gareth: Instead of saying 'Rape!'
Rebecca: Or - Help!
Gareth: Because with fire, it will spread, and it will affect others around that place where the fire started. So if someone owns a shop nearby, and they hear someone say - Fire! then they'd be more worried about helping.
Rebecca: Yeah, I've heard a similar thing. If you actually get in a situation where you need help, scream - Fire! because people come running because that might be immediately a danger to themselves.
Gareth: Hm.
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✳ #LISTENING
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✨ Transcript ✏✏✏✏✏✏ 🇬🇧 Gareth: What do you think? 🇺🇸 Rebecca: I don't know. A lot of times, I think people who commit crime might commit crime because they want attention, or they don't get the amount of attention that they feel that they need. They want…
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Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
✴ pay attention
They just want people to pay attention.
People who want us to pay attention, want us to notice, listen to, or think about them. Notice the following:
◼The teacher repeatedly asked him to pay attention.
◼Stop talking and pay attention!
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✴ potentially be related
Abortion might potentially be related to a decrease in crime rate.
Things that are potentially related are possibly connected in some way. Notice the following:
◼Some think the unusual weather lately is potentially related to global warming.
◼Doctors believe stress and heart disease are potentially related.
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✴ huge impact
That can have a huge impact.
When something has a huge impact, that means it affects someone or something in a serious way. It can be positive or negative. Notice the following:
◼The tsunami had a huge impact on the economy.
◼The large salary increase had a huge impact on his standard of living..
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✴ foster home
Children who go from one foster home to another.
A foster home is a temporary place where children are cared for by people who are not their parents. Notice the following:
◼He spent much of his childhood in foster homes.
◼Life in foster homes is generally not great for kids.
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✴ inappropriate
I don't know if this is appropriate.
Something that is appropriate is suitable or correct for a situation. Notice the following:
◼We couldn't decide on an appropriate gift.
◼I think the gray suit is more appropriate, don't you?
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✳ #vocabulary
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Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
✴ pay attention
They just want people to pay attention.
People who want us to pay attention, want us to notice, listen to, or think about them. Notice the following:
◼The teacher repeatedly asked him to pay attention.
◼Stop talking and pay attention!
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✴ potentially be related
Abortion might potentially be related to a decrease in crime rate.
Things that are potentially related are possibly connected in some way. Notice the following:
◼Some think the unusual weather lately is potentially related to global warming.
◼Doctors believe stress and heart disease are potentially related.
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✴ huge impact
That can have a huge impact.
When something has a huge impact, that means it affects someone or something in a serious way. It can be positive or negative. Notice the following:
◼The tsunami had a huge impact on the economy.
◼The large salary increase had a huge impact on his standard of living..
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✴ foster home
Children who go from one foster home to another.
A foster home is a temporary place where children are cared for by people who are not their parents. Notice the following:
◼He spent much of his childhood in foster homes.
◼Life in foster homes is generally not great for kids.
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✴ inappropriate
I don't know if this is appropriate.
Something that is appropriate is suitable or correct for a situation. Notice the following:
◼We couldn't decide on an appropriate gift.
◼I think the gray suit is more appropriate, don't you?
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✳ #vocabulary
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📆 Idiom
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🏞 yellow streak
🌅 Meaning:
If someone has a yellow streak, they can sometimes act in a cowardly way and not be very brave.
🏞 For example:
🔹Some people say Jimmy's got a yellow streak a mile wide, but I've never seen anything in him except courage and bravery.
🔹Monty says he likes his yellow streak because it keeps him out of trouble. He never gets into fights or has accidents because he's so scared of getting hurt.
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💢 Origin: Related to the fact that in European culture the colour yellow has traditionally been associated with cowardice or a lack of bravery. You can see this derivation in other words such as "yellow-bellied", or just "yellow", both of which mean cowardly.
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✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️
🏞 yellow streak
🌅 Meaning:
If someone has a yellow streak, they can sometimes act in a cowardly way and not be very brave.
🏞 For example:
🔹Some people say Jimmy's got a yellow streak a mile wide, but I've never seen anything in him except courage and bravery.
🔹Monty says he likes his yellow streak because it keeps him out of trouble. He never gets into fights or has accidents because he's so scared of getting hurt.
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💢 Origin: Related to the fact that in European culture the colour yellow has traditionally been associated with cowardice or a lack of bravery. You can see this derivation in other words such as "yellow-bellied", or just "yellow", both of which mean cowardly.
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📅 Phrasal Verb
✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️
✳️ knock down (2)
✍Meaning:
🚕
✍For example:
🔺be knocked down:
One of our office workers was knocked down right outside our building.
🔺knock sb down:
If he'd been concentrating on his driving instead of talking on the phone, he wouldn't have knocked the old lady down.
🔺knock down sb:
In sixty years of driving, he's never knocked down anyone.
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💢 Variety: This phrasal verb is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️
✳️ knock down (2)
✍Meaning:
to hit someone with a vehicle
🚕
✍For example:
🔺be knocked down:
One of our office workers was knocked down right outside our building.
🔺knock sb down:
If he'd been concentrating on his driving instead of talking on the phone, he wouldn't have knocked the old lady down.
🔺knock down sb:
In sixty years of driving, he's never knocked down anyone.
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💢 Variety: This phrasal verb is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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