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English Club. Welcome to today's Effortless English show. Today we discuss Chapter 7 of Animal Farm.

So again, another show as part of our Effortless English Book Club and we are doing Chapter 7 of Animal Farm

by George Orwell. Let's just get started right away. Chapter 7, here we go.

Chapter 7 begins, it was a bitter winter, a bitter winter. A bitter winter. So bitter, usually we use this word bitter for taste, right?

It's something that is not sweet, not sour, bitter is kind of, you know, I'm trying to think of something, a food that's really bitter.

But it's a food, it's usually not a very nice tasting right some medicine is very very bitter tasting but we can

also use bitter like to describe other things, not taste. So for example, bitter can be used to describe people as an emotion. And a bitter person is someone who's very unhappy and very negative

they're unhappy about their life they're unhappy about their life.

They're unhappy about the world.

They blame everybody else for their problems.

So that's a bitter person.

Now a bitter winter gives the idea if you're describing winter again as very very

unhappy winter so it means it's a very, it's a terrible winter. Very, very, very cold. Right. More cold than normal. Cold and unpleasant. So on the farm a bitter winter, so a really terrible

cold winter. They get a lot of snow and the ground becomes very, very hard.

So during this winter, the animals continue trying to rebuild, to build again, the windmill.

So remember the last chapter, the windmill fell apart, fell down,

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