oh well that's a lovely cup of tea
thank you and thanks for coming over i
really appreciate it, and no i'm not just
saying that because you had gave me a
hand with the boxes in the Attic i
genuinely really appreciate having a
little bit of adult conversation I
feel like I'm going mental
if I'm being honest I've had a nightmare
recently I can't get the babies to go to
sleep, and I'm absolutely shattered you
know it if they happen to lie in in the
morning then the workmen wake me up
because they're outside making a racket
I can't remember the last time i had
more than four hours solid sleep i
overslept
the other day I had a job interview at
nine o'clock and i overslept because i'm
that tired obviously i messed up on that
one
haven't had another job interview for
ages anyway I'm sure I'll be fine i just
need to take some time out try and
recharge the batteries
yeah and I'm sure their kids will start
sleeping through soon enough just one of
those things isn't? it's
what babies do, I just, you know, I never
expected twins and I never expected that
it would be as hard as it is
sorry don't mean to rain on your parade
or anything
congratulations on the promotion it's
really exciting
yeah oh no text no one of my kids is
sick i'm gonna have to take a raincheck
on tonight I'm
sorry. Hello everyone my name is Anna and
this is English like a native what
you've just been watching is a monologue
so that you can get an idea of natural
English speech so i'm going to go
through with you some of the things that
I said in that monologue and explain
them to you to help you to understand so
I said you gave me a hand with the boxes
in the Attic so to give someone a hand
is to help them so i might say to you
I'm washing the car could you give me a
hand
so literally bring your hands and help i
also said I've been having a nightmare
is being a nightmare when we say this we
mean that something has been very
unpleasant or very stressful so if you
have a day where everything goes wrong
you would say that day was a nightmare i
said when the baby's lie in the lion is
a phrasal verb which just means to stay
in bed longer than normal so most people
who were from monday to friday will have
a line on saturday and sunday because
they don't have an alarm to wake them up
I talked about the workmen who were
making a racket now they're not
literally outside stringing up a tennis
racket or anything like that in this
context to make a racket is to make a
lot of noise usually used in the
negative sense i shut up you're making a
racket i said because i was so tired i
had overslept this means you sleep
longer than you intend to
so if you want to get up at eight
o'clock but you sleep right through your
along and actually wake up at nine
o'clock then you have over slept very
different to slept over which is to stay
at somebody's house i use the word ages
i said i haven't
something in ages when we use this it
means a very long time I haven't done it
in ages
I haven't done it in a very long time I
said I need some time out to have time
out is to have a break away from
whatever it is you're doing and to relax
and have a relaxing moment in sports you
might see some people doing this they're
calling for timeout they want the game
to stop so they can have chance to
recharge rethink change their strategy
they're asking for time out so we have
time out in life time to relax away from
the normal routine i also said because
my child was sick i would have to take a
raincheck to take a raincheck means to
postpone something was planned until a
later date
so to hold it to pause it until a later
time
so if something is booked in for monday
that's saying you are having a cup of
tea on Monday with booked it is in the
diary but I can't do it so i'll ask for
a rain check which means we'll still
have a cup of tea but not on Monday
we'll do it on friday instead so we
booked it for another time
well I think that covers everything
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