135. Raining Animals - "It's raining cats and dogs"

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🗓️ 17 June 2013

⏱️ 73 minutes

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"It's raining cats and dogs" - Do native speakers of English often use this idiom to describe heavy rain or do they use different expressions? Click here to read vocabulary notes and other information http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/135-raining-animals/

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacher Luke.
0:06.0	Wordpress.com.
0:10.0	Hello everybody, welcome to Luke's English podcast. This is Luke speaking and that's you listening.
0:15.0	Don't forget who you are, you're you, okay? And I'm Luke.
0:19.0	Welcome to the podcast. Now you might be able to hear some background noise in this episode. In fact, I'm going to lift the
0:26.3	microphone up so you can hear it. Can you hear that? I'm not going to open the window so you can hear
0:32.1	it more clearly.
0:37.0	That's right, ladies and gentlemen, it's the sound of very heavy rain.
0:41.0	The rain is driving down. You might be able to hear it, hitting the roof of my
0:48.0	apartment here. It's absolutely pouring it down outside.
0:54.1	Now you might say it's raining cats and dogs.
0:58.2	Okay, this is an idiom which many people know and by many people I mean kind of non-native speakers of English.
1:05.6	This is a phrase that I hear all the time,
1:08.7	I hear it all the time, not from my friends or my family
1:11.3	or people I know in the UK, but from learners of English who I've met
1:15.8	in London coming to learn English at school.
1:19.9	Oh my God, it's absolutely pouring it down now.
1:22.4	This is terrible weather. Anyway, it's
1:25.1	it's the... Oh can you hear the thunder? Come on you've got to hear this. This is
1:29.2	amazing.
1:42.0	It's the middle of June, right? It should be the beautiful weather. This is supposed to be the middle of summer or the beginning of summer but listen to that it's terrible what's
1:45.6	going on so as I was saying the expression it's raiding cats and It's something that many learners of English or non-native speakers of English seem to know.
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