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Hello everyone, this is the English we speak. With me Faye Faye and... Oh no, Rob is late again. Oh, sorry I'm late. I miss my train. Oh and I had to wait for I had to wait for the next one. Are you okay, Rob? You're very breathless.

Well, you would be if you'd run to the station and from the station to the office.

Mmm, it's not that far, Rob. I think this is a wake-up call.

A wake-up call? A wake up call?

No, no, I set my alarm.

I got out of bed.

It just seems to take longer to walk to the station these days.

I didn't mean your alarm, a wake up call is a warning that you need to change your

current situation before it gets any worse and what is my current situation?

Your own fit. You need to do some more exercise.

Let's hear some examples of a wake-up call, shall we? Martha's bad test results were a wake-up call for her to work harder before her final

exams.

The store's poor sales results are a wake-up call for the business to move with the times and sell more fashionable clothes.

The recent extreme weather is a wake-up call for us all to do something about climate change.

This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English and in this program we're learning about the phrase

a wake-up call which means a warning to change your current situation and stop

things from getting any worse. It's time to change, like Rob's Fitness.

So Rob, how are you going to change your current situation?

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