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Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.

This is Coach Shane, your English coach.

It's my honor and privilege to be with you every day.

Thank you so much for listening. Today we have another fantastic expression to learn. To mold A into B. Mm-hmm. To mold something into something else.

That's a type of phrasal verb, isn't it? To mold something into something else? Well, M-O-L-D. That's how we spell it in America. M-O-U-L-D is how they spell it in British spelling. To mold something means to shape something. Okay? So if you want to make Christmas cookies into what shapes will you mold the cookie dough?

Well, I like to make Christmas cookies and I like to mold my cookies into Christmas trees and Santa Claus's and candy canes. That's the idea. I like to mold my Christmas dough, I'm sorry, my cookie dough into Christmas trees. I like to shape my Christmas cookie dough or my just my

cookie dough into Christmas trees. Do you understand? So you can mold something into something else,

into a different shape. But usually we use this expression regarding people. Oh yes. How can you shape people? That sounds really cruel. That sounds really gross. Well, let's check out a dialogue.

Why do you teach English? I coach students to be masters of English.

Why?

So that they can change their world.

I want to mold global leaders in every part of the world.

Yeah, I know that might sound silly, but it actually is true.

Why do I teach English? Because I want to

help mold the world into a better place. I want to help mold people into global leaders all

over the world. So, you know, you might be listening to this podcast,

and do you want to be a global leader?

Probably not.

You probably don't.

Neither do I.

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