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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

71 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—to TINKER AROUND with something

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

4.7756 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2014

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: to TINKER AROUND with something What are you gonna do today? I might tinker around with my blog. Is there a problem? Well, I want it to look nicer.     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!) www.letsmasterenglish.com/grammar (CHECK YOUR GRAMMAR!) 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.

0:14.0

You and me every day, come on, let's master English.

0:19.0

English.

0:30.5

Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.

0:37.1

Thank you so much for taking the time to download and listen to this podcast. Today's expression is very, very useful.

0:42.6

To tinker around. It's a phrasal verb and we usually finish it like this. To tinker around with something. What are you tinkering around with?

1:02.0

So you'll often hear it with around with together. So the key verb is to tinker. Now listen to the sound

1:10.0

tinker. Tinker, tinker, tinker, tinker.

1:12.7

You can imagine somebody using a screwdriver with some tools, making sounds, fixing something.

1:24.6

To tinker around with something is to fix something. To tinker around with something is to fix something or to adjust something to make it better.

1:37.7

So a good example would be my uncle loved to tinker around with his car.

1:48.8

So my uncle would open up the engine and take apart the engine and fix this and fix that.

1:56.8

And inside the car, he would change the stereo system or he would do things he would make adjustments

2:06.3

he would fix things he would add things add add things he would tinker around with his car he loved to

2:17.0

tinker around with his car. He loved to tinker around with his car. Do you understand? So many people who like to

2:24.9

tinker around with things, they become engineers. It's a natural area for those people, or they become a mechanic, fixing cars or fixing airplanes or something like that.

2:40.5

And they might even become a doctor.

2:44.4

A surgeon opens up the human body.

2:48.5

What are you doing, doctor?

2:50.2

I'm just tinkering around oh that's scary

2:54.6

all right let's check out a dialogue what are you going to do today i might tinker around with my

3:02.6

blog is there a problem well i wanted to look nicer. Great example.

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