Cloud cuckoo land

Learning English Conversations

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Can you make the impossible possible? This phrase implies you can't but what's it got to do with a cuckoo?

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English We Speak.
0:09.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:12.0	This is the English we speak with you Neil and you
0:16.8	Faye. Hello everyone.
0:18.2	Ah Neil it sounds like you're in a good mood.
0:21.6	You'll never find me in a bad mood, Faye, why?
0:25.1	Well, I wanted to ask you a favour.
0:28.0	Oh yeah.
0:28.9	I need to leave early today and wondered if you could finish this program on your own and then start writing another
0:35.5	script? Are you joking? If you think I'm going to do all my work and yours, then you're living
0:41.3	in Cloud-Cuckoo land.
0:43.0	Where is that exactly?
0:45.0	I can assure you our living London.
0:47.0	Yes, I know that.
0:49.0	What I mean is that you are silly to think The Impossible is Possible. That's living in Cloud Cuckoo lad.
0:55.2	Basically you are misguided to think I can do my work and your work, okay?
1:00.0	Okay, Neil, if you say so. Neil thinks I'm silly to believe he can do his work and mine, but we'll see.
1:08.0	Let's hear some examples, shall we, while you visit Cloud Cuckoo Land?
1:17.0	If my teacher thinks I can do my grandma homework and learn all my new vocabulary tonight, then he's living in Cloud Kuku Land.
1:27.0	If you think we're going to win this match with only 10 players, then you're living in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
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