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🗓️ 25 November 2014
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions. |
0:11.0 | You and me every day, come on, let's master English. |
0:26.2 | Hello, everybody. |
0:29.3 | Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression. |
0:34.2 | Today's expression, oh, it is a phrasal verb. |
0:34.9 | It's great. |
0:35.7 | It's fun. |
0:56.1 | It is to flake out. F-L-A-K-E-O-U-T. To flake out. Okay, let's look at the word flake. F-L-A-K-E. Now, if you say flake to an American, many Americans will think of a snowflake. |
0:59.0 | Ah, yes, snow. So beautiful. |
1:07.9 | One piece of snow falling to the earth is a snowflake. |
1:17.0 | I know that many of you have never actually seen a snowflake. I know that many of you have never actually seen a snowflake. So I hope that you get the chance to see one soon. Actually, if you see a perfect snowflake, they're truly beautiful. They're |
1:25.1 | very, very pretty. And they say that no two snowflakes are alike. |
1:33.4 | They say they're all different. That may be. But anyway, a flake. So that's the idea of a flake. |
1:39.2 | Okay. Now, can you imagine a snowflake actually falling to the earth? |
1:47.9 | Do you think it's like rain, like a drop of rain? |
1:52.0 | Now, when rain falls to the earth, it goes like in a straight line. |
1:57.5 | It just goes straight down, right? |
2:02.6 | But what about a snowflake? |
2:06.6 | Does a snowflake also come straight down? |
2:08.9 | No, no, it doesn't. |
2:13.5 | Can you imagine a feather falling to the ground? |
2:23.2 | It goes right, right, right, left, right, left. And then it goes down, right left and then it goes down right the same thing with a snowflake it goes especially a big pretty snowflake and when we say the phrase of verb flake out, that is the image you need. |
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