Catch Word #265 – Take the fifth

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🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Have you ever found yourself in a situation where it was best to just remain quiet? In English, there are many ways to say, “I don’t want to talk about it”. In this episode, Andrew and Kassy teach you two idiomatic expressions you can use to talk about being quiet and not talking. The Catch Word series helps intermediate and advanced English language learners understand idioms, phrasal verbs and expressions that you may encounter in daily life. This Culips audio lesson will help you improve your listening skills, build your vocabulary, and give you interesting conversation topics to use every day. Fun facts Some people enjoy being in the spotlight and having the attention of an audience, but research has reported that about two-thirds of people say that they feel anxious and struggle to speak in front of large groups. Expressions included in the study guide To take the fifth To clam up In a jovial manner [Someone’s] eyes pop out of [their] head In the running Goody two-shoes 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: Image: Jelleke Vanooteghem (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.
0:26.7	Welcome back to Kuleps, everyone. This is Catch Word, the series for intermediate and advanced English learners where we teach you idioms, phrasal verbs, and expressions that will help improve your English listening and speaking. To help me with today's lesson is my co-host, Cassie.
0:36.0	Hey there, Cassie.
0:37.0	Hey Andrew and hi listeners, I hope you're all doing well.
0:42.0	So, Andrew, today we've got kind of an ironic episode
0:47.0	planned for everyone. Yeah, it's funny, we do actually, and it's ironic because I know that most of our listeners are here because they want to
0:57.2	improve their English speaking right but the topic for this episode is actually about the opposite.
1:04.6	It's about shutting up and staying quiet.
1:08.0	Yes, it is kind of ironic, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't learn
1:12.3	how to talk about this situation in English because I think both of these phrases we're going to learn today are pretty fun.
1:20.0	Yeah, absolutely. And so everyone in today's episode we're going to teach you two idiomatic expressions that are commonly used in everyday English just like Cassie was saying and they're about staying quiet and not speaking and along the way in this
1:37.1	lesson will give you some conversation examples and break down the meaning of the expression so that you can understand them really well.
1:47.0	And the two idioms that will be teaching you are to take the fifth and to clam up.
1:54.0	And guys, we'll get started with the lesson in just a sec,
1:58.0	but before we do, I want to let you know that there is a transcript
2:02.0	and study guide for this episode available to all
2:05.9	Q-Lips members. We've designed the practice exercises that are in the guide
2:10.6	specifically to teach you the important parts of this lesson and to help build your
2:16.0	English fluency and help your English sound more natural. To learn about all the details and to become a QLips member and get that study guide, visit
2:26.8	QLips.com.
2:28.9	And also we want to say a huge thanks to all of the Qulips members out there who support the work that we do here
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