023: Conversations: Describe a Recent Situation that Made you Crack Up
Conversation & Pronunciation: Learn English with The Rachel's English Podcast
Rachel's English
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🗓️ 13 December 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
David and I ask each other questions to get the conversation going – then we stop when we use an idiom, phrasal verb, or challenging vocabulary word and explain it. You’ll learn and these words and phrases because you heard them in context! Some of the phrases we discuss this week: to roll with something, under your belt, to be caught off guard, amped, back pedal.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Rachel's English podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm you with my husband David. |
| 0:05.2 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:06.2 | And this is a conversational podcast where we've come up with some questions that we're |
| 0:10.5 | going to ask each other to start conversation, to get the conversation going. |
| 0:15.4 | And then we're going to try really hard to pay attention to phrasal verbs or idioms |
| 0:21.0 | or interesting vocabulary words |
| 0:22.8 | that come up naturally |
| 0:24.3 | when we're naturally speaking real |
| 0:26.7 | American English. And we'll stop and |
| 0:28.7 | discuss those so that you have |
| 0:30.8 | a better understanding for some of these things. |
| 0:33.3 | If you'd like a copy |
| 0:34.7 | of the transcript for this podcast, |
| 0:36.4 | it's absolutely free to download. |
| 0:39.0 | Just visit racheltsenglish.com slash podcast and search for this episode. |
| 0:43.9 | Okay, David, I have a good question to start off with. |
| 0:46.6 | Okay. |
| 0:47.3 | Describe a recent situation that made you crack up laughing. |
| 0:51.4 | So actually, in the question there, there's a phrasal verb, to crack up. Oh, yeah, |
| 0:56.1 | that's a good one. To crack up means to laugh really hard. Oh, it's the best kind of laughing. |
| 1:00.7 | Yes. So just like your belly hurts afterwards from laughing so hard. So when's a time recently that you've |
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