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🗓️ 18 June 2024
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Ever felt like you’re on the rollercoaster of life and you don’t know a good way to say it?
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the English we speak where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers |
0:07.3 | so that you can use them too. I'm Fay Faye and I'm here with Neil. |
0:12.8 | Hi Faye Faye how are you? I'm here with Neil. Hi Fay Fay, how are you? |
0:14.4 | I'm well, thank you. |
0:16.0 | Now, Neil, have you ever experienced the peaks and troughs of life? |
0:21.0 | Oh, of course, yes. Life is full of peaks and troughs isn't it |
0:25.1 | highs and lows so peaks and troughs is the expression we're looking at in this |
0:30.6 | program but what exactly do we mean by it well in this programme, but what exactly do we mean by it? |
0:34.0 | Well, in this expression, peaks refer to that high points in life, moments of success, happiness, |
0:41.4 | or achievement. I suppose that comes from the top of a mountain which is called a peak. |
0:48.0 | Well troughs are the low points so moments of difficulty or challenges? |
0:53.0 | Yeah, so we're talking about the ups and downs of life. |
0:57.5 | That's right. Life is like a roller coaster with its peaks and troughs. You said you've experienced the peaks and |
1:04.8 | troughs of life. Would you mind sharing? Oh yes okay so I did a master's |
1:11.6 | degree as an adult when I had a young family that was really challenging |
1:16.4 | but I managed to do it so that felt good that was a good peak. |
1:20.8 | A trough I lived abroad for a long time and then when I came back home it was difficult to adjust so that that was a trough I'd say. |
1:30.0 | Well good examples thanks for sharing. Here are some more examples of people using peaks and troughs. |
1:38.0 | My boyfriend is self-employed and he doesn't have any work at the moment but it's |
1:45.9 | peaks and troughs. Something will come up soon. |
1:48.9 | I went to a play the other day and it was all right. I liked some of of it there were real peaks and troughs. |
1:55.0 | I went to an amazing restaurant in London the other day but it was really expensive |
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