Pot luck
Learning English Conversations
BBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2017
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Not sure what to expect? Learn a phrase about hoping your choice will turn out ok
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a 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 | com. BBC Learning English. English. . . |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to the English we speak. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Fay Fay. And hello I'm Rob. |
| 0:20.0 | Now Fay Fay I've got a confession to make. |
| 0:23.0 | Okay so what is this confession? |
| 0:26.0 | Well I haven't chosen a piece of authentic real English to explain today. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, okay. Do you have any choices? Right, well here's the list of phrases. Have a look. What do you think? |
| 0:38.0 | Hmm. Let me see. Shall we take potluck? |
| 0:44.3 | Potluck. So you mean one at random and see what happens? |
| 0:48.1 | No, I mean let's pick potluck as a phrase. Look, it's there on your list. |
| 0:54.0 | Oh, Fayfe, you are a genius. |
| 0:56.2 | You have just explained an authentic English phrase. |
| 0:59.5 | Job done. |
| 1:00.4 | Don't sound so surprised. |
| 1:02.3 | Well, our phrase is potluck, which describes a situation in which one must take a chance |
| 1:07.5 | that whatever is available will prove to be good or acceptable. |
| 1:11.0 | Yes, potluck describes a situation that isn't planned or prepared. You just take a chance and |
| 1:17.5 | hope that the result will be good or acceptable. Let's take potluck Rob and hope these examples will show this phrase in action. |
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