154 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—busy work

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: busy work My employees have nothing to do. Give them busy work. Like what? Hmm…how about cleaning keyboards? Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! www.patreon.com/coachshane Our sponsors: www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm (Get 8 FREE DDM lessons!) www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) (Join DDM and get 1 lesson every week!) Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish

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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.
0:31.7	Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.
0:36.9	Today's expression is brought to you by you.
0:41.3	That's right, you are my sunshine. Yeah.
0:43.1	All right.
0:44.1	Now, today's expression is really excellent.
0:48.0	Busy work.
0:49.9	Busy work.
0:51.7	B-U-S-Y-W-O-R-K.
0:55.6	What are you doing?
0:57.7	I'm doing busy work.
0:59.9	My boss gave me busy work.
1:04.1	My mother always gives me busy work.
1:09.0	Busy work.
1:10.0	What is busy work?
1:11.1	It sounds important, right?
1:13.1	But actually, it means the opposite.
1:16.7	Busy work is unimportant work.
1:21.0	It's just work that makes you busy.
1:24.0	So, for example, if you're at your office and you have some work to do, you work
1:30.9	really hard, and you finish, and you have nothing to do, which is an amazing thing, it happens
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