1026 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—to put something into perspective

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

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🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today's English expression and dialog: to put something into perspective The US is 20 trillion dollars in debt? Yep. That's a lot. Hmm…yeah. Could you put that into perspective for us? Sure! One trillion dollars in $1000 bills would be 101 km high! So, that's a lot of money! GET FREE LESSONS: DailyDictationMembers@gmail.com Say, "Free lessons, CS!" Subscribe on iTunes and get my 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/ 𝐋𝐌𝐄 365The 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 Newsletter! www.LetsMasterEnglish.com/free Get some coffee for me OR BETTER help buy some 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. 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.
0:14.5	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.
0:20.8	This is number 1, the podcast.
0:21.6	This is number 1,026.
0:24.9	What a great expression.
0:26.9	To put something into perspective.
0:31.3	To put something into perspective.
0:35.7	All right.
0:37.1	Very good expression. And what it means is to make something
0:43.4	complicated, easy to understand. If you're talking about something or trying to explain something
0:52.8	and people aren't really sure how to feel or how to
0:57.5	understand what it is you're talking about. You can compare it to something else, something that
1:04.5	the other person might easily understand. There are actually other uses of this expression, but I want to focus on this type of
1:13.6	thing. So let me give you a few examples. These are all examples from the news recently.
1:19.5	300 million tons of plastic is produced every year to put that into perspective, that's equivalent to the weight of the
1:31.3	entire human population.
1:34.6	Okay?
1:35.3	So 300 million tons of plastic, okay, I understand the number and yeah, it sounds like a lot,
1:42.4	but I don't really have a good feeling for what 300 million
1:46.0	tons is but if it's the same as the entire weight of the entire human population oh my god now i have a
1:55.4	better understanding wow that's a lot of plastic let Let's talk about rain and snow, okay?
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