Catch Word #262 – Doomscrolling

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

At some point, we’ve all found ourselves scrolling through the news or social media for hours on end. Sometimes the things we discover make us feel good (cute puppy videos!), and other times we find things that makes us feel bad (most news article about the world nowadays!). In this episode, Andrew and Kassy teach you two idiomatic expressions that you can use to talk about spending time on the Internet. The Culips Catch Word series teaches you idioms, phrasal verbs, and expressions used in everyday life. Listening to this Catch Word audio lesson will help you improve your English listening and speaking skills, while also giving you interesting new ways to talk about the internet and social media. If you’d like to watch the video Andrew mentions in this video, you can find it here. Fun facts While people have used doomscrolling to describe their internet usage since early 2018, it only became popular and entered everyday usage in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Expressions included in the study guide Doomscrolling Break the internet Apt Doom and gloom Pack If I do say so myself Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Step On by Jahzzar Image: Adrian Swancar and LinkedIn Sales Solutions (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone. My name's Andrew and I'm Cassie. And this is the
0:08.3	Culeps English podcast. Last.
0:31.0	Welcome back to Culeps friends. You're listening to Catch Word. The series for intermediate and advanced English learners, where we teach you idioms, phrasal verbs, or expressions that will help improve your English listening and speaking. Today, I'm joined by my co-host Cassie. Hello Cassie.
0:35.8	Hi Andrew and hi listeners. So everyone we've got a great vocabulary
0:42.1	lesson lined up for you today.
0:44.0	Andrew and I are going to teach you about two idiomatic expressions that we use to talk
0:50.4	about the internet and social media.
0:53.7	Yeah, everyone, that is right.
0:56.0	I think this is going to be a fun episode.
0:58.4	I'm excited about it.
1:00.1	And the two key expressions that will be teaching you are Doom scrolling, aka Doom surfing
1:08.4	and to break the internet. These are really popular expressions these days. They're hot, hot,
1:14.9	and we use them to talk about using the internet and surfing the internet. So we think
1:20.8	they're important for you all to know and in this episode we'll break them down,
1:25.8	tell you about what they mean and how you can use them.
1:29.7	We'll get started with this lesson in just a moment, before we do guys we want to let you know
1:35.4	that there is a transcript and study guide for this episode available to all
1:40.8	QLips members we've designed the practice exercises that are in the guide
1:46.0	specifically to teach you the important parts of this lesson that will help
1:50.9	build your English fluency and help your English sound more natural.
1:56.4	To learn about all the details and to become a QLips member and get the study guide, visit
2:01.7	QLips.
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