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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

0516 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—to cry: sob, wail, whimper

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.7812 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2015

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s expression and dialog: to cry: sob, wail, whimper When I saw that puppy whimpering I wanted to cry. I was completely sobbing. It was so sad. I’m glad mom didn’t see it. I know! She would have been wailing!! How was your weekend? I saw that many of you left messages on Facebook:The dentist: OH NO!!Trekking: YES!Cycling: WONDERFUL!Rose, did you survive? Did you cry?! Nikolay, how far did you cycle? What kind of bike--road or mountain?Jorge, how far did you and your friends trek? Did you camp?BUT...now it is time to go BACK to WORK and SCHOOL! HA-HA-HA-HA! Don't cry^^ Be happy! In today's expression I will teach you THREE different "levels" of crying...and I want to know when the last time you cried was! Me? Listen to the podcast and you'll find out!!Have a super week,Coach Shane Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! On PayPal: Send to parmyproductions@gmail.com Or you can go here: www.patreon.com/coachshane Our sponsors: www.letsmasterenglish.com Click on JOIN CLASSES and get ALL the information! www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish Today's Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST is UP and READY for YOU!! #LME #LearnEnglish #ESL #Twinglish

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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.

0:29.4

Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.

0:32.4

I hope that you had a nice weekend.

0:35.5

Well, the weekend is over.

0:37.0

Don't cry. Don't sob. Don't wail. Don't whimper. It's time to go to work or go to school. Well, I'm sure most of you have to go to work or go to school. Did you have a nice weekend? I hope so. The weekends are actually my busy time. And Sunday and Monday, those are

0:56.5

pretty nice days for me. But it is time to get back to work. And today's expression is about

1:03.1

crying. I know that many of you, when you think about going back to work, you want to cry. Well,

1:15.8

when we talk about cry, cry can have many different levels of crying.

1:25.9

These are all methods of crying, right?

1:27.8

They are, they are.

1:29.6

So, let me tell you the difference.

1:31.6

So cry can be any of those.

1:34.5

We have a word sob, S-O-B.

1:38.1

We have a word whale, W-A-I-L.

1:44.5

And we have a word whimper, W-H-I-M-P-E-R.

1:49.3

And these three words represent different levels of crying. So Wimper is the lowest level, and the best idea is to imagine a puppy or a small child.

2:00.1

This is... a puppy or a small child,

2:06.3

this is the idea of whimpering.

2:11.0

There probably are no tears and no, you know,

2:13.8

the nose is not wet, the nose is not running.

2:15.0

It's just the sound, that, who, ooh, ooh, who, who, that's whimpering.

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