78 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—to GOOF OFF

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: goof off Dad, can I go study at the library? No! Why not? All the other kids are there. I know. And all you do is goof off. If you want to study, stay home and study. 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.
0:30.7	Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.
0:43.6	Today's podcast is brought to you by Ostap Bender and Ivan Beltron. Thank you so much, gentlemen, for becoming my new patrons, my new sponsors. I sincerely appreciate it. Now, thanks to these two guys, today's
0:51.0	expression is goof off. Now, goof off can be a phrasal verb. Do not goof off.
1:01.8	I was goofing off. But it can also be a noun. He is a goof-off.
1:13.0	When it's a noun, the spelling is G-O-O-O-F-----------------------.
1:19.9	When it's a phrasal verb, it's two words.
1:22.4	It's G-O-O-F------------------, O-F-F, all right.
1:29.3	So, get that pronunciation, goof-off.
1:34.3	Goof-off.
1:35.9	And the F, we can connect it.
1:37.7	Goof off.
1:38.7	Don't goof off.
1:40.5	Who's goofing off?
1:42.1	You're such a goof-off. What does it mean to goof- off? You're such a goof off.
1:45.5	What does it mean to goof off?
1:48.0	Well, have you ever seen Disney?
1:51.6	You know Disney.
1:53.1	Now, in the Disney characters, isn't there a dog whose name is goofy, G-O-O--f-y and his name is goofy because he's funny and stupid and that's the
2:09.7	idea of goof off to goof off means to do something fun or funny, but also stupid, a waste of time.
2:20.8	So, do teachers like it when their students goof off?
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