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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

0660 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—to draw a blank

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.7812 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a lot of ideas? If someone asks you to help them solve a problem--are you good? Are you creative? If your wife asks you something like--"Honey, if you could change something about me, what would you change?" Are you able to give her an answer? Are you able to think of things that you could tell her to change? In both situations, many times we are UNABLE to THINK of ANYTHING!! In that case, I have an excellent expression you can use! Don't forget: free lessons: www.LetsMasterEnglish.com/free Have a super day, Coach Shane Today's English expression and dialog: to draw a blank What are you writing? My resolutions, but I've drawn a blank. You have nothing to improve? I don't think so. I think I really am perfect. Subscribe on iTunes and get this English podcast EVERY DAY! PLEASE support my sponsors: www.letsmasterenglish.com/free www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) Study English, FREE ENGLISH LESSONS, on our YouTube channels: http://letsmasterenglish.com/tv Support the Let's Master English team! On PayPal: Send to parmyproductions@gmail.com Or you can go here: www.patreon.com/coachshane Today's Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST is UP and READY for YOU!! #LME #LearnEnglish #ESL

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. My name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions.

0:11.0

Come on, let's master English.

0:15.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.

0:22.4

Yes.

0:23.4

Today we have a great expression.

0:25.1

It is to draw a blank.

0:30.9

To draw, D-R-A-W, a blank, B-L-A-N-K.

0:37.2

Okay, so to draw, that's easy.

0:40.6

When I was a child, I enjoyed drawing pictures, you know, with a pencil or a pen or a crayon,

0:49.6

creola.

0:50.6

I would draw pictures and I would color.

0:52.9

It was fun.

0:55.0

What about a blank?

0:56.8

A blank means something that is empty.

1:01.4

So in my DDM class, I give everybody a video and an audio and they can watch the video and listen to a conversation,

1:13.3

and then I give them a script, you know, A, B, A, B, A, B, the conversation.

1:18.2

I give them all of the words except for some sections.

1:24.2

Those are blanks.

1:26.9

They're empty, and the student needs to test their listening ability.

1:33.0

So they need to fill in the blanks. They need to write something in the blanks. Okay. So we understand draw.

1:41.5

And now we understand blank.

1:47.9

Draw the verb, blank, the noun meaning empty.

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