This is an all ears English podcast episode 1822.

How to use the float-and-hook method to create mystery in English.

Welcome to the all ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times.

Are you feeling stuck with your English?

We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection

with your American host, Aubrey Carter.

Click the IELTS whiz and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer.

Coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.

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People with good social awareness rarely come out and say the biggest part of a story right away.

Instead, we lead into it with phrases that draw people in to hook them for a great story.

In today's episode, you'll learn four of these phrases so that you can be more interesting in English.

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Hey, Aubrey, I got a quick question for you.

Alright, let's hear it.

Alright, so when's the last time you put your foot in your mouth?

Oh, just the other day I told a neighbor she was skinny.

And I'm thinking of that as a compliment, but she did not take it as a compliment.

I think the culture is going toward a little bit more of like women looking healthy rather than skinny.

And maybe even like a little thick, as we say, is like in curvy, is it in, right?

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