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com. Hello and welcome to See Learning English. English. . .

Hello and welcome to the English we speak.

I'm Faye.

And hello I'm Rob.

Rob, I'm having a bit of trouble with my computer.

What again? What's the problem this time?

Well, I've written the script for this program,

but it won't save, and I can't print it out. This computer just does not... Save! have a pop at it? A pop? Are you going to make it explode? That's a bit extreme Rob.

Don't worry fe feyfei if I have a pop at something I just mean I'll try and do it so I'll have a go at doing something like fixing your computer.

Right, okay.

Rob, have a pop then, but just don't delete all my work.

Don't worry, Fay.

I would never do that, would I?

Let's hear some more examples of the phrase,

while I sort this out.

I'm going to have a pop at doing this online application for a passport.

Apparently it's really easy.

We had a pop at making a cake, but we baked it for too long and it burnt.

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