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hello this is jack from tofluency.com
and welcome to this lesson where you're
going to learn
some advanced english phrases
based on a conversation that my wife and
i had about fall now if you want to
watch that conversation then there's a
link in the description to do that you
can also watch or listen to this as a
podcast episode two just search for to
fluency podcast on itunes spotify or
whatever you use
so yeah we're going to show various
clips today
from the conversation
and then i'm going to explain
what these phrases mean
give you more examples
and i'm going to leave all the examples
in the description
for you now be sure to stay until the
end because i have a question for you as
well okay let's get started with the
first clip
this is your favorite season it's my
well
one of my favorite seasons i actually
really like
i really like the transition from summer
to fall
kate said i really like this transition
from summer to fall
so i thought that fall was her favorite
season but she said well
nearly
but it's that transition from summer to
fall
because that's the sweet spot here which
means the temperature is just right
where you can go outside and being
comfortable it's not too hot and it's
not too cold and i think i agree with
kate here so the word transition means
to change from one thing
to something else another example is i
know a lot of people who become online
teachers
and at first they find this transition
from traditional in-person lessons to
online lessons
difficult
so they find this change difficult they
find this transition difficult
a few of the warmer beverages
and soups and things that are more
hearty and comforting
number two hearty and comforting
so kate was talking about food here and
she's talking about hearty food
which basically means
in my mind it's when food is is warm
and it's very filling and satisfying
so think of things like lasagna
chilies and stews to get a better idea
of what a hearty meal is then just
google search hearty meals
and see which recipes come up a similar
word from the uk is stodgy it's not
exactly the same but it's very similar
into the stodgy meal in the uk
means to have lots of carbohydrates
and it's warm and it's filling
things like pies or bangers and mash
but it started to get a little bit
cooler at night but it started to get a
little bit cooler at night
it started to get a little bit cooler at
night
so start to get
this is a verb pattern now what's
interesting about this verb pattern
is that
you have the infinitive and the gerund
after the word
and they both mean the same thing so you
can say it started to get
a little bit cooler at night or it
started getting a little bit cooler at
night another example is
i've started working out again
which is true
or i didn't actually stop but let's say
i stopped i've started working out again
or i've started to work out again now
kate also used the word get there
and get means become and again it's
talking about a transition a change
another example is he started to get a
bit angry
he started to get a bit angry i don't
know why
for example the th sound
is going away in london
yeah because that's right yeah nothing
nothing instead of nothing oh so that th
sounds going away and you can see on a
map how
now this one isn't an expression or a
word to learn instead it's just
something interesting where in the uk
people are predicting that the th sound
might disappear within 50 years because
a few years ago or a long time ago only
a certain amount of people
made the f sound instead of the th sound
for example saying free
instead of three now sometimes i do this
especially when i speak quickly
and the map
that i'm going to leave a link to in the
description shows that that this is
spreading throughout the uk
throughout or throughout but yeah
definitely check out that link because
it's interesting and it shows other
evolutions of the english language in
the uk
no i can't do an impression of you you
know it
i want to be able to do a good
impression of you and i think in general
i do do
decent impressions but
your accent is very hard for me yeah so
kate can't do an impression of me
she tries
it's not always that accurate and she
really wants to be able to do an
impression of me and to do an impression
of someone means to imitate the way that
someone speaks we can also say to do an
accent to do an accent which means to
imitate an accent
now some people say that i can do a good
new york accent i live in new york i've
got my dog
i've got my car i go to the pork
i like coffee i need to work on this
a little bit and the way i'm doing this
actually
is using my method the listen repeat
record compare method where you listen
to a phrase
you record yourself repeating it and
then you compare it to the original and
make changes now this is a method you
can use to learn english as well and
there is a link to the method
a video in the description
okay but let's start with um halloween
yeah halloween is huge in the us
i
i'm always shocked every year
just by how big it is
and how early people have to get
prepared for
halloween is huge in the us it's huge
which means it's very popular now big
huge huge normally means very big
and you can say halloween is big
halloween is huge both of these
words mean popular in this case another
example is he's huge on instagram which
means he's very popular on instagram he
has a lot of followers on instagram and
another one is although oasis were huge
in the uk
they weren't very popular or well known
in the us here's a question
were oasis popular
where you are are they still popular
leave a comment below
no you said people will come back and
egg your house if you don't leave candy
for people
now to egg a house means to throw eggs
at a house and this is very naughty you
can get in trouble if you wake people's
houses
but it does happen some kids do do this
people will egg a house or egg a car and
again this just means to throw eggs at a
house or a car and i was worried that
people would egg our house or kate said
people are going to egg our house if you
leave out carrots instead of candy i was
never going to leave out carrots instead
of candy but yeah i don't i still don't
like kids getting so much candy at
halloween
everyone dresses up right parents
children yes
most parents
yes and it's hard to get an outfit in
the week running up to halloween because
every everything's sold out which is why
you often do it
six weeks before
everyone dresses up
to dress up means to wear a costume
now the phrasal verb dress-up
is specific to the uk in in probably
australia and uh ireland
but it's not used in the us because in
the us you say to wear a costume to wear
a costume i remember people in the uk
saying
what you're going to dress up as for
halloween what are you going to dress up
as for halloween and this is true some
of my friends
hate dressing up they
hate dressing up
and
you know i every year i just run out of
time a little bit but i think that you
can get so creative and do something
really special but
every year i just run out of time every
year i just run out of time so to run
out of time means that you have no time
left because we normally leave it to the
last minute
which means
we do things just before a deadline
when it comes to making costumes for
halloween so we always run out of time
we don't have enough time to make a
costume now listen to these two examples
we're running out of sugar
and we've run out of sugar
we're running out of sugar and we've run
out of sugar
so if we're running out of sugar it
means we still have a little bit of
sugar left
but soon we won't have any left
and if we say we've run out of sugar it
means
we have no sugar
i had a whole design with like a head
piece and a cape and my tentacles and in
the end
all i ended up wearing were like some
tights that i never had time to stuff
kate's still talking about a costume
here saying all i ended up wearing
was tights now to end up doing something
means to conclude something with a
particular action
and it's it's kind of hard to explain
how to use this but this i think this
example is really going to help you
imagine that you haven't seen somebody
in a while but the last time you saw
them let's say two months ago they were
telling you about
their vacation and that they wanted to
go on a vacation but they weren't sure
about where they wanted to go and then
you see this friend again today
and you say oh
where did you end up going
on vacation where did you end up going
on vacation where did you finally decide
to go on vacation and they say we ended
up going to preston
another example is we were going to go
out last night but we ended up staying
home
and watching a terrible tv show
and sometimes it's been rainy and cold
and they just want to eat the candy
and then they get the sugar rush and the
next day at school you know as a former
teacher yeah the day after halloween was
the worst day to teach
to get a sugar rush this means to to get
that uncontrollable energy
after eating too much sugar
it's where kids especially get
hyperactive and they can't sit still and
they shake
and they're constantly moving but then
after
a sugar rush
normally you get a crash and this is
where you just feel tired
sometimes cranky
sometimes children get cranky after a
sugar rush
we
the person who used to live in the house
that we live in now
it was known as the best house in the
neighborhood because they had all these
decorations
but they didn't leave them for us their
neighbor got them uh-huh so then they
put up all these new decorations yeah
yeah the person who used to live in the
house where we live now so the person
who used to live
in our house means the person that
lived in our house in the past and
people often get confused
between
used to
be used to
and get used to for example i used to
live in spain so in the past i'd lived
in spain
i am used to
living in america
because i've been here for 10 years and
i'm accustomed to living here i'm used
to living here but i'll never get used
to people saying
yogurt
instead of yoghurt
i'm not gonna make that transition
what happens when the leaves fall we'll
say it on three one two three
one two three bag them up
oh or put them in compost
to bag something up
means to put something
in a bag
next
it's a little bit crisper
it's more crisp and there's a little bit
of a chill in the air at night yeah
chill in the air
what do i say when i come outside and
it's
there's a chill in the air and it's not
humid
kate talked about the weather
saying it was crisp and there was a
chill in the air now if something is
crisp or if the weather is crisp
it means that it is cold
but also clear
so you can imagine those winter days
when it's cold but clear so the sun is
shining and if there's a chill in the
air it means it's not too cold but
you're uncomfortable
due to the cold and you need to put some
more layers on you need to put some more
clothes on
yeah i've i remember celebrating my
birthday here and it was really warm
so i've never had a warm sunny day
my birthday my life
but it can be hit and missed
it could be cold
yeah near the end of october
i was talking about my birthday here and
how
sometimes
at the end of october where we live
it's warm and sunny but sometimes it's
cold
so the weather can be hit to miss
meaning it's inconsistent it can be good
or bad another example is that
restaurant is is hit or miss
sometimes you get something great
sometimes the food is terrible usually
it depends on what you order
okay so those are the advanced phrases
for you again be sure to watch the
conversation or listen to the
conversation on your favorite podcast
app
and then also go to the description to
have a look at the phrases that we've
talked about and just to read the
examples that i've given you while
you're down there in the description
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what is a typical halloween like where
you live and
do you dress up for this event do you
dress up for halloween so leave those
comments below i look forward to reading
them again thank you for being here and
i will speak to you soon
bye
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