Frogmarch

Learning English Conversations

BBC

Education, Language Learning

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2014

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

A style of walking that is hard to do on your own.

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0:00.0	This is a feature from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	For more information and our terms of use go to BBCworldservice.com
0:09.0	forward slash podcasts.
0:11.0	The English we speak. broadcasts.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to the English We Speak from BBC.
0:18.0	Hello and welcome to the English We Speak from BBC Learning English.
0:22.0	I'm Rob.. I'm Rob.
0:23.0	Hello, I'm Helen. This is a program where we try to help you understand language often heard in English conversations.
0:30.0	Well, I went to a presentation this morning and I heard a word that made me laugh.
0:35.0	What is it? Well, see if you can guess, Ellen. Let's play a word game.
0:40.0	Are you ready? Yes, I am.
0:42.0	Okay, well it's made up of two words and the first word is a cute little animal
0:47.0	Okay, and if you kiss this animal it may turn into a prince? I know this one. If you kiss a frog it turns into
0:56.6	prince. The first word is frog. Well done. The second word is frog is the type of walk that soldiers do. Easy, marching.
1:08.7	Yeah, you've got it. I heard the word frog march this morning and do you know what we call a lot of frogs together?
1:17.6	A school of frogs?
1:19.6	No.
1:20.6	A herd of frogs? No. It's an army of frogs. I just have this cartoon picture in my mind of
1:28.2	an army of frogs all wearing boots and marching down the river.
1:31.8	Oh that's hilarious.
1:34.0	But what does frog march really mean?
1:37.0	Surely it's not a way of marching.
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