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in London interviews episode 1 talking
about plans
Melvin
so Melvin said that he was going to be
taking on or to take on some new
modeling jobs well i'm about to see a
new agent to take on some modeling
jobs to take on some modeling jobs and
to take on some modeling jobs
what did he mean by to take on something?
to take on a new job
yeah so he wanted to accept or do a new
task or responsibility so you could say
like I want to take on a new challenge
at work... Woolly Cardies
quite British isn't it and it's actually
slang for Woolly cardigan.. OK what what
type of modeling jobs? well who knows i
suspect it might be Woolly Cardies I
suspect it might be Woolly Cardies what do we
mean by Woolly firstly? ok Woolly is the
adjective of wool
Wool is the coat of a sheep or a goat or
even another similar animal that has
that kind of texture so that's what wool
is and cardigan is a form of another
kind of jumper or a top with a fastening
normally yeah yeah yeah it's like an
open jumper.. on to the distinguished
gentleman that is Harry and Melvin Melvin
was the slightly older distinguished
gentleman.. anything that would suit me?
well I can see clearly that you are a
distinguished gentleman but perhaps not
an older distinguished gentleman such as
myself distinguished gentleman is maybe
a successful person who demands the the
respect or deserves the respect of other
people and then the last one we thought was
to suit you or to suit someone ok
anything that would suit me? it means
does it go well with you does it
compliment your style yeah exactly yeah
does it look good on you so he said that
his miniature schnauzers take after
their father
their father being Melvin clearly they
take after their father
what does that mean to take after
somebody suppose it means to adopt the
characteristics and actually be like
that person
to be remiss of me or to
be remiss of someone I was just thinking
the other day that this is really remiss
of me not having anything planned for
the autumn to not do something that you
should have done already
oh well it was remiss of me to not flush
the toilet for my dear girlfriend last
night.... ha ha... James and Katie
so I like the way Charlie started this
one up
he started with the question
what you up to
today? or what you up to mm what you up
to today is probably more common than what are
you doing today?
yeah ok ok so to be a native say that
what you up to what you up to? it went on
to James saying how he would check out
something probably go to Camden check
out some of South Bank , you know
check out some of South Bank...and that literally
means to to observe to come and see
what's happening
yeah normally for the first time isn't it?
mm
check it out like we could say check out
our new video
yes yes yeah you can also check out a
woman though if we're going back to the
womanizing .. yeah okay
check her out yeah again that would be
for the first time wouldn't it?
probably yeah! and then just bum around London I suppose
Bum around suggests a bit of a lazy term
and not the most productive yeah there's
no particular plan and and he had no
rush to be anywhere just gonna bum
around around do whatever no
hard-and-fast plans yet but we'll see
where it takes us
no hard-and-fast plans so they have
nothing in the in the diary there's no
specific organized event so they'll just
see what happens
yeah just bum around and see what
happens so then Charlie asked what are you
doing for Christmas? and and the
reason why I want to talk about this is
because it's really useful and it's very
native to use the present continuous
when talking about fixed plans in the
future... for example in two weeks i am
going to Seville in Spain
next one was to pop over so they wanted to pop
over to Camden.. oh no to pop over to
disneyland Have you got any plans for
Christmas? not yet probably.. I've got uni.. so
do that, might pop over to Disneyland might
pop over to Disneyland
yeah, pop over to Disneyland which
which would seem
strange because i'm popping over suggest
a very short quick visit that's not
really a big deal
but to go to Disneyland for me
would be a big deal and so suggests maybe
they've they've done this already that
they like Disney World or Disneyland and
that
yeah I just pop over to disneyland yeah
yeah
yes true it is yeah it does suggest it
requires minimal effort .. yeah
i'm popping to the shop.. i asked
whereabouts in Italy whereabouts in
Italy? Verona
just an easy way to ask a location
where abouts yeah yeah i live in Germany
Ahh where abouts?
Adam and Ryan..I think the
question was do you have any plans for
Christmas? he said, nah.. and ermm towards
Christmas have you got any plans for that
for that month? Nah I'm not really
a big Christmas person so no plans at
the moment ermm nah, ermm nah.. OK
Nah, nah... do you like christmas? Nah..
yeah have you got any plans for christmas?Nah.. and then he said I'm not really
a big Christmas person so nah is a
really common way to say no isn't it like
especially in the youth would say nah .. Do you wanna
pop over and have a cuppa tea? Nah..
outside London Eye with me he said ..
we intend to pop into the National Gallery
to look at the Caravaggio's he intended
to pop in to see the Caravaggio's yeah
meaning the Caravaggio paintings very
popular in British English yeah then
unanimously voted this is quite a posh
phrase.. I was unanimously voted worst
karaoke singer of the night
unanimously voted mm meaning and meaning
everyone at the place voted for him to
be the worst singer
yeah not one single person said he
wasn't behave yourself or I'll sing it
again! Fantastic what song
was it?
raindrops keep falling on my head and
"behave yourself or I'll sing it again!"
meaning that I've got to be good
otherwise something bad will happen
yeah yeah and he used it and is often
used in a sarcastic and Jokey (playful) way..
you say ohh behave yourself as an
imperative, behave yourself or I will
sing it again!
unanimously voted the worst singer you
don't want me to sing it again
yeah be good or I'll do something bad
a detective
play (theatre show) is a whodunit play.. but that we
have a huge variety there'll be tragedies
and dramas and whodunits and comedies whodunits
so if we were acting sherlock holmes
that would be a whodunit play.. I suppose
that's come from
'who has done this?' or 'who has done that?'
it would be rude not to was
another nice phrase that he said that
sounds lovely bordeaux a lot of wine?
Well it would be rude not to drink it when you're
there wouldn't it? It would be unfair to the
Bordeaux people.. it would be rude not to!
So Bordeaux being the capital of wine i
suppose and it would be rude not to
it would be bad behavior to not drink
wine in the capital of the wine region
yeah you're right you're right yeah so that
was all of the phrases that we thought
were very useful for you
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