AEE 2396: What Gives? English Vocabulary For Expressing Surprise

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast, episode 2396. What Gives? English vocabulary for expressing surprise.
0:10.2	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,
0:26.8	with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer,
0:34.9	coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA. And to get your transcripts
0:42.3	delivered by email every week, go to all earsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. Are you ever shocked by what you see in the news, especially these days?
0:57.6	Today gets six native ways to say that you're surprised in varying levels of intensity.
1:03.5	Listen in today.
1:08.9	Are you feeling stuck at your English level?
1:12.3	Are you sure what your real English level is?
1:15.3	If you take our free quiz, we'll tell you what level you're stuck at and how to reach your next English milestone.
1:22.0	Go to allersenglish.com slash fluency score now.
1:26.3	That's fluency score, one word. AllEarsenglish.com slash fluency score.
1:37.2	Hello, Aubrey. What's shaken? Hey, Lindsay, how are you? Hey, I'm happy to be on the mic today.
1:42.3	Aubrey, has anything surprising happened to you recently?
1:45.8	Yes. I just got back from an amazing trip to Rocky Point. And before we left, we had seen that
1:52.0	immigration laws were sort of changed, that now you have to provide your passport and an immigration
1:56.3	form. The Mexican consulate is requiring this. And so we expected to have like a long line, a long wait at the border.
2:03.2	And we were getting there the Friday of ASU's spring break. So I would expect a long wait. But
2:08.1	surprisingly, I got to the border. There was no line. I was like, what gives? This is not what I expected.
2:15.6	What gives? We went through with no weight.
2:18.3	And it was the best trip to Mexico of my life.
2:21.3	I had the experience that I hope all of you are having in English, where I was able to like make jokes.
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