Hello and welcome to the English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too.

I'm Faye Faye and I'm here with Phil.

Now, I should be telling you that you shouldn't eat in the studio.

But that looks delicious.

Where did you get the recipe for that, Phil?

I didn't. I just made it up on the fly.

I started cooking and then looked to see what was in the fridge.

It's a bit random, but it turned out all right.

Do you want to try some?

Oh, thanks.

And also, thank you for giving us a phrase to learn in this episode, on the fly.

It means that you decide what to do as you're

doing it. So you do something quickly without any preparation, improvising as you go along. Yes, I was

talking about making food, but it could be anything. If we didn't have a script for this programme,

we could just come in and make it up on the fly.

If you're very good at something,

then you can do it on the fly.

For example, a simultaneous interpreter

can come up with translations

of what people are saying on the fly.

Let's hear some more examples of people using on the fly. Let's hear some more examples of people using on the fly.

I've got a job interview and I haven't prepared, so I think I'm going to have to make my answers up on the fly.

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