0541 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—a knee-jerk reaction/response

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

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🗓️ 9 December 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: a knee-jerk reaction/response What do you think of the riots? Well, my knee-jerk reaction is to support the people. But? But, after I thought about it, violence with violence never solves anything. Nowadays we get information SO fast...we need to be careful. On my iPhone, I receive "Earthquake Alerts". The other day there was a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Tajikstan and I immediately started wondering if people were okay. I was quite worried. I went online and searched for information...but fortunately, I couldn't find any "bad news". I was relieved. But...I "wasted" 20 minutes of time...TOO MUCH INFORMATION. When I heard the "bad news", my automatic response was to "find more information". And...would that information help me really? Well, there is SO MUCH information available nowadays, we need to really be careful! Check out today's expression! More information!! 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.
0:26.0	Hello, everybody.
0:30.4	Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.
0:33.4	Oh, thank you very much for listening.
0:36.5	Today's expression is so good.
0:37.1	Listen carefully. A knee-jerk reaction or a knee-jerk response. So
0:44.6	reaction, R-E-A-C-T-I-O-N, response, R-E-A-S-P-O-N-S-E. But what was that in the front?
0:54.8	A knee-jerk reaction, a knee-jerk response.
0:58.3	Knee, K-N-E-E.
1:00.2	You know, your leg, your foot, your knee.
1:02.6	Knee, K-N-E, the K is silent,
1:05.8	hyphen, short-d-J-E-R-K.
1:10.5	Now, the word jerk has several meanings, but in this case we want to think of
1:15.1	the verb jerk and the verb jerk means a quick sudden movement okay so imagine this. You go to the doctor and you're sitting down and the doctor
1:34.7	takes this tiny little hammer. It's not really a hammer, but it looks like a hammer and he
1:43.7	thunk. He hits your knee, right?
1:47.2	Right below your knee cap, right?
1:49.4	He, he hits your knee and thong, your leg, shun, kicks, right?
1:56.2	That, everybody, that is a knee jerk.
2:00.2	Your knee, thunk, jerks, it's a reaction.
2:04.3	By him hitting or hammering your knee, your knee shun kicks.
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