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The English we speak.

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Hello and welcome to the English we speak.

I'm Faye.

And joining me is Harry.

Hello there.

And the expression we're going to look at in this program is Wow Factor.

We'll look at what it means and when you can use it.

So anyway Harry, how's the flat hunting going?

Oh, don't ask. Not very well, really. I mean, I've seen a few places so far, but they didn't really

appeal to me. So none of them were any good? They were okay. Adequate, I suppose. I could live in some of them if I had to but none of them had the wow factor do you know what I mean?

Not really the wow factor what is that the wow factor something that makes you go wow when you walk in.

Wow is something we say in English when we're surprised.

So you know a sundack, a view of Big Ben, a steam room, a granite cocktail bar, a shared swimming pool, that kind of thing.

My friend who teaches English in Indonesia has his own swimming pool and I was hoping...

Yeah, yeah, but this is London.

It's quite hard to get any of those things unless you spend a lot of money. What else can have the wow factor?

You hear it a lot on TV, on cooking shows when someone creates an exciting tasty dish,

they say it's really got the wow factor yes I heard that it's

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