hey guys welcome back to let's talk and
you are with me meera
well i am in auckland and i just wanted
to show you something
well the thing is that here i have found
out that people are very very healthy
because they make sure that they ride on
bicycles they walk a lot and they use a
lot of e-scooters well guys the best
part about these bikes is that you can
just pick them up from anywhere they
will be parked in different areas and
you know you unlock it you ride it and
you can leave them anywhere just like
this bike you know i'm sure someone took
a ride and left it here and i found it
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hi guys
well okay
i just got done from my work and i
completed my ride i was just riding
and
while riding i just was trying to
recollect a few phrases which i would
like to talk to you about and of course
they're related to cycling or biking and
of course in general how
what you can say while you're conversing
in english in general
all right guys let's get started with
today's lesson
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okay guys so let me start with my first
word which is related to cycling and
that is tempo okay so now when cyclists
use this word tempo they usually mean
the rhythm you know when they are riding
together in a group everyone is just
matching their pace and just keeping a
good rhythm
so
the good phrase the phrase that i've got
from this is just keep the tempo right
for example
i liked the tempo of my studies today
that means you probably kept a good
rhythm in studying and you studied for a
long period of time or you can say we
need to keep up the tempo and work a
little hard
that means you need to speed up the
tempo maybe you're slow
or i really like my team because we
always keep up the good tempo that means
your team probably has a great rhythm
good coordination together all right
guys now let's talk about freewheeling
okay so if you ask cyclists what's a
freewheeling what's freewheeling they
will tell you that it's nothing but just
writing without limits or without rules
so how can you use it in your
conversation
you can say that he led a free willing
life he led a life without any limits
without any rules or you can say that
hey
a little bit of freewheeling is fine but
don't overdo it
a little bit of being limitless without
rules is fine but not overdoing
something right
or you can say that although we love
freewheeling
it's good to be disciplined at times
right so that one is freebie link for
you guys hey
so there is always a lane that cyclists
follow right correct similarly there is
a phrase which is memory lane well let
me talk to you about that today
you can say that talking to my
grandmother
is like going down the memory lane of my
childhood right memory lane is nothing
but recollecting past memories all or
old bitter or sweet memories
either talking to my school friends is
like visiting
school memory lane
or school days memory lane right when
you talk to your old friends you talk
about your school and then you just try
and recollect what all happened in
school
the other day i met my friend
and we both just went down the memory
lane when we were children
right you recollected what all naughty
things you did as a child so that one is
memory lane okay now i cannot promise
that as a cyclist you will all get
always get a smooth ride right you might
get a bumpy ride
okay now the next phrase is bumpy ride
when i talk about bumpy ride i just mean
you know going through tough times
right for example
today was a bumpy ride for me that means
today you had a tough day tough time
well going to office has always been a
bumpy ride for me maybe your office is
not that smooth with you right you
always have tough times
or doing math has always been a bumpy
ride for me that means doing mathematics
has been tough
you can also say
that talking in public has always been a
bumpy ride
well that one was bumpy ride hey now uh
let's talk about this phrase along for
the ride
along for the ride is usually
being there only physically okay just
for the heck of it not really putting
any value into something so for example
hey can i just come along with you just
along for the ride
that means you just want to tag along
with someone just hang around with
someone just for the heck of it right
or hey i'm going for a party do you want
to just come along for the ride do you
just want to come there just be
physically present
don't act like you're here only just to
be along for the ride just be present
mentally as well
does it happen to you that you're just
physically somewhere and you're just
zonked off in another world
well sometimes when i'm tired it happens
to me
so this one was along for the ride the
next one is ride one's luck
well here you're trying to say that you
know things are happening just by chance
just
by some good luck or a fortune
so you can say these days i have just
been writing my luck
or you can say
i've not been studying really been
riding my luck lately
have you been doing that no don't do
that
because you must always work hard
don't just ride your luck all the time
okay so this one was ride one's luck and
you can use it when you want to say just
things are happening by luck or by
chances just you have a good fortune
that's why next one is pretty much
casual you know um you're just saying
that go for a spin
it actually means just going for a ride
or just you know just for a spin just
going for a ride
for maybe to buy something or just
casually right
so you can say today um we went just for
a spin with my family right your family
all of you guys went for a ride offer a
drive
anything or you can also say that
hey i'm just going for a spin do you
want to tag along with me right you're
just asking someone to come right along
with you go for a bike ride or anything
you can also say that whenever i'm
really tired working i just quickly go
for a spin so that i get relaxed
i personally do i like riding bicycles
because you know it just gets the
nervousness out of me and i'm much more
relaxed
so this one was go for a spin now the
next one is take for a ride that means
to con someone to mislead someone
for example
teenagers usually take their parents for
a ride right they mislead something they
mislead they tell them something else
but they're doing something else
well i was serious i wasn't taking you
for a ride
or you can say
that come on now don't take me for a
ride tell me what is the truth right now
don't mislead me
well now this one is roller coaster ride
what does it mean it means when your
life is all about ups and downs highs
and lows and you still go through them
and you survive right
so for example my life is a
rollercoaster ride
right
or you can say
he worked hard
went through a roller coaster ride and
then became a ceo this one was roller
coaster ride guys well how about i pump
you up with this one
get ready oh no not really the phrases
get ready and in cycle terms i would say
gear up that means get ready
gear up for your exams or boys gear up
for the rollercoaster ride
or guys
you guys must gear up otherwise it will
be too late
okay
okay guys now
i better gear up and
get
for my roller coaster ride
okay so
that's all for the day guys i really
hope you enjoyed my phrases for the day
and i hope you're enjoying to watch me
right as well well the next time you are
in auckland i really suggest for you to
try enzo because it's awesome
okay i will see you soon in another
lesson until then just keep rolling with
the flow guys
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