1017 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—to riff

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

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Today's English expression and dialog: to riff What are you guys laughing about? Nothing~ Just guy talk. No, tell me! We were just riffing~ It was nothing! FREE LESSONS: DailyDictationMembers@gmail.com Say, "Free lessons, CS!" Subscribe on iTunes and get this English podcast FRESH! I'm from the USA, I make videos for 𝐄𝐅𝐋/𝐄𝐒𝐋 students and my teaching focuses on 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. I hope my videos help you out. We need your support and there are MANY ways you can do that! 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐃𝐌, 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬. Master your English listening, comprehension and pronunciation https://www.letsmasterenglish.com/signup/ddm/ 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐅𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧. https://www.letsmasterenglish.com/signup/pirf/ 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐥, 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚. https://www.letsmasterenglish.com/signup/ddm-brasil/ 𝐋𝐌𝐄 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 The best of the both worlds here—DDM and PIRF together https://www.letsmasterenglish.com/signup/lme-weekly/ 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 Challenge yourself with Coach Clive or Coach Matt https://www.letsmasterenglish.com/signup/action-english/ 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓! JOIN our classes: www.LetsMasterEnglish.com/signup Coffee for me and diapers for Mikey and Jimmy!: paypal.me/LetsMasterEnglish We're on PATREON, too. And we give nice gifts!. https://www.patreon.com/coachshane PLEASE support my sponsors: www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) www.gorillamind.com/?atid=106 Get the best NOOTROPICS for your mind and body. (USA-only☹) Study English, FREE ENGLISH LESSONS: www.letsmasterenglish.com/free http://letsmasterenglish.com/tv http://letsmasterenglish.com/radio #coachshane #esl #englishpronunciation #americanpronunciation #americanenglish #actionenglish #lme #ddm #pirfectenglish #pirf #coachshanepodcast

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. My name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions.
0:11.1	Come on, let's master English.
0:14.6	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.
0:20.7	This is number 1,017. If you're listening to this
0:27.0	live, it is June of 2021. Right now, it's just before noon Sunday, June 6th for me. We have a big
0:37.0	sale coming up at the end of the month.
0:40.5	I want you to join my classes, okay?
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0:50.8	That's where the sale information is.
0:53.6	Sign up for the newsletter.
0:54.5	www. www. Let's MasterEnglish.com slash free. Now, today's expression is great. It is to RIF.
1:04.5	RIF, RIF, RIF, RIF. And to RIF actually is a musical term. It's common with guitarists, but not only guitarists, but typically rock guitarists when they'll just suddenly play some really cool music. It's usually a little bit fast. It's really fun. They are riffing. They're practicing or even in a concert they might riff and play something, not planned or not written.
1:33.9	It's just kind of improv, improvisation, just kind of making stuff up, usually for fun.
1:41.1	And typically in a concert, people love it.
1:43.7	However, we also use riff in daily English. usually for fun and typically in a concert people love it.
1:48.4	However, we also use RIF in daily English.
1:55.9	When we're talking about something or somebody and we start making some jokes about the subject. So it's really common among comedians.
2:00.9	Okay, so you can imagine there's a talk show on TV and they start talking about something.
2:08.0	And suddenly the comedian starts making jokes about a subject or a person.
2:14.5	And it wasn't planned.
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