Episode 56: Strut around and show off your words!
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Implode, Strut, Pragmatic, Contentious.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, this is Sam and today for episode 56 I'm going to start off the |
| 0:08.2 | podcast in a slightly different way. So I'm a, well, I feel like I'm a teacher. I'm not formally a teacher, but for all the people |
| 0:19.0 | listen to this podcast, I'm basically, I'm basically a teacher and I think teachers don't just have to teach they don't just have to give you the nuts and bolts of whatever it is you're learning I think good teachers have to try and |
| 0:35.0 | inspire and not just teach the ABCs but to to make people think and dream and want to be more. |
| 0:45.9 | So I thought to do something different I'd start off today's podcast with a poem, |
| 0:51.2 | not one of my own poems. |
| 0:53.6 | Quite a famous poem, but I do love poetry, |
| 0:57.6 | that's another thing about me that you probably should know. |
| 1:01.4 | So I'm gonna read you a poem poem and then we'll get started with our words. This poem is called |
| 1:08.7 | Warning. When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me |
| 1:18.0 | and I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and sat in sandals and say we've no money for butter. |
| 1:27.0 | I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells and run my stick along the public |
| 1:36.7 | railings and make up for the sobriety of my youth. |
| 1:41.7 | I shall go out in my slippers in the rain and pick flowers in other people's gardens and |
| 1:47.8 | learn to spit. |
| 1:50.8 | You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat and eat three pounds of sausages at a go or only |
| 1:57.5 | bread and pickle for a week and hoard pens and pencils and beer mats and things in boxes. But now we must have clothes that |
| 2:06.9 | keep us dry and pay our rent and not swear in the street and set a good example for the children. We must have |
| 2:15.3 | friends to dinner and read the papers. But maybe I ought to practice a little now |
| 2:21.5 | so people who know me are not too shocked and |
| 2:24.7 | surprised, when suddenly I am old and start to wear purple. |
| 2:32.0 | So that poem was Warning by Jenny Joseph, love that and a few of any comments on my reading of poetry feel free to let me know and now let's go review the the words from the |
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