Learn English with the Ellen Show | vocabulary, expressions and conversational English

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hey there it's Hadar and this is the Accent's Way. today I have a special
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lesson for you because today you are going to learn English with Ellen
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DeGeneres and no no I did not invite her to talk on my show but I have someone
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even better for you and that is Ethan from learn English with TV series learn
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English with TV series is an awesome channel where you learn English when
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watching different shows such as Seinfeld and Friends and Ellen and games
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of throne and actually they have a method in which they break down the
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episode or they break down the scene and teach you different idioms and
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expressions and cultural references and today Ethan is going to share with us a
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lesson that he has created using a funny monologue by Ellen DeGeneres also we did
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a video for his channel where I break down a funny monologue by Ellen and I
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break down the intonation rhythm and stress and I talked about rising
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intonation and rising falling intonation so you should go and check it out as
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well and when you're there don't forget to subscribe so what are we waiting for
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and let's bring Ethan on tell you something that happened to me the other
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day I was on the internet I was searching on how to remove red wine
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stains from a People's Choice Award and so I'm scrolling and minding my own
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business and then an ad popped up and I have no idea why it popped up but this
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is the ad specialty casting for look and sound 'likes I was searching on how to
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remove red wine stains from a People's Choice Award I was searching on how to
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remove red wine stains I was searching on how to remove red wine stains
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I was searching on how to remove red wine stains from a People's Choice Award
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and People's Choice Awards is an American award show as its name suggests
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the winners of each category in movies TV and music are chosen by people
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through voting this is in contrast with the Oscars or the Grammy Awards where
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the winners are chosen by a select group of people ellen often talks about how
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much she loves red wine and in this case she jokes about having spilled some of
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it on one of the many People's Choice Awards that she has won if you spill
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wine or another liquid on something it can leave a stain this is also a verb to
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stain example ding it I just stained my shirt
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she says she was searching the web on how to remove that stain when you talk
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about removing a stain you want to make it disappear this is funny because an
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award like this one doesn't absorb liquid and probably couldn't get stained
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Ellen is just bragging in a humorous way so I'm scrolling and minding my own
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business and then an ad popped up to scroll is what you do when you move up
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and down on a website for example when you use the wheel of your mouse hear
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what she means by minding her own business is that she was focused on her
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own personal matters or activity without bothering or involving anyone else
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we often say this to describe a moment before someone interrupted or bothered
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us in some way Ross was mugged as a kid you were yeah it was pretty traumatic it
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was outside st. Mark's comics you know I was just there minding my own business
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you know seeing what kind of trouble Spiderman got into that week Wonder
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Woman often when we say mind your own business
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to another person we are asking them in a rude way to respect our privacy oh no
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way oh my god knock it off
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mind your own business specialty casting for look and sound alikes
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a casting is a process for selecting an artist such as an actor dancer singer
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etc to perform in a particular role in a movie TV or play in this case specialty
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means we relating to that which someone specializes in example this French
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bakery special is their chocolate gateau if you go there you have to try it a
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look-alike is someone that looks like another person a sound-alike therefore
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is a person that has a similar voice to another person
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Chandler entered a Vanilla Ice look-alike contest at one wast came in
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fourth and cry so in other words the casting is for actors who specialized in
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looking or sounding like a famous person I don't I don't know what that had to do
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with anything I was searching for and these are celebrity impersonators that
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you can hire for events as you can see there's Hillary Clinton they're deep in
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thought that's it looks pretty much like her that's a
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look like this and then there's a Johnny Depp look-alike there who looks a little
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more like a home repair guy on HGTV that may look like for those guys on HGTV
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anyway and then there's a woman in the middle I don't know who she's supposed
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to be I don't I don't know what that had to do with anything I was searching for
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and these are celebrity impersonators that you can hire for events if
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something has to do with something else there's a connection between those two
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things you can see that what Ellen was looking for information on how to remove
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stains doesn't have anything to do with add about impersonators all right we
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found our first fight this morning I think it has to do with my working late
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I said some things that I didn't mean and an impersonator is someone who
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imitates another person especially a celebrity who looks a little more like a
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home repair guy on HGTV home repair refers to any activity involving fixing
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something from your home like appliances that is your TV air conditioning fridge
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etc or plumbing painting etc HGTV is an American television channel that
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primarily broadcast reality programming related to home improvement and real
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estate hey guys just a quick interruption if you are enjoying
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learning English with Ellen then I highly recommend that you check out this
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playlist of lessons of teaching you English with the Ellen show over on our
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channel learn English with TV series you can find that by clicking up here or
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down in the description below I don't know who that's supposed to be what do
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you think even longoria somebody yeah really I don't think it looks like her
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but anyway I'm not in the market for a celebrity impersonator because I can get
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the actual celebrities here I've had Hilary here I've had Johnny Depp here
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and again I don't know who was in the middle but I'm sure she's been here
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what do you think even longoria who do you think eva longoria what do you think
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what do you think even longoria somebody yeah really I don't think it looks like
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her but anyway here she says anyway to return to the main point of the
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conversation anyway I just don't think you and I are gonna work also one of the
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reasons we often say anyway is to change the topic of conversation anyway well
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I'm glad there's there's no hard feelings
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no none at all I'm not in the market for a celebrity impersonator because I can
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get the actual celebrities here to be in the market for something means that
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you're interested in buying something so what are you fine gentlemen in the
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market for we got two scarves supernet post part
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other examples are I'm in the market for a new camera if you're interested in
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selling your car we're in the market then she says she gets the actual
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celebrities on her show that's to say the real ones as opposed to
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impersonators we use this word to emphasize that something is real example
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is this a replica or is this an actual dinosaur skeleton now pay attention to
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the tents in the following clip and again I don't know who was in the middle
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but I'm sure she's been here a common mistake learners make is to
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overuse the past simple to say that you have visited a certain place we don't
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say I was in Rio we say I have been to Rio when it's correct to use the past
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simple is when we specify when that happened I was in Rio last year an
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important structure for you to always remember is I've been to let's watch
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some funny examples from the Big Bang Theory
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look at this guy you think he came like this when I met him he was a hot goofy
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max
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my mom's been to Arizona she rode one of those mules down in the
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Grand Canyon long story short they had to shoot it
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I was curious to see more so I see they got me so I clicked on and went on to
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their website and I was skeptical skeptical at first but then there's
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actually some of them that aren't bad Bradley Cooper looks like a little like
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Bradley Cooper a little creep here kind of like kind of stocky looking but then
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there's a Mariah Carey look-alike right there yeah kinda and then there's a
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Fidel Castro and perfect for your kids dictator theme birthday party guess
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who's here kids I was curious to see more so I see they
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got me so I clicked on and went on to their website and I was skeptical
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skeptical at first but then as you know the verb get has many different meanings
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in this specific case Ellen means that they the creators the ad were able to
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obtain what they wanted from someone searching the web which in this case is
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their attention this Eve's probably derives from the broader use of this
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verb to mean to catch or take hold of somebody example he was on the run for a
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week before the police got him skeptical is a state in which you have or express
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doubt about something example the weather forecast says tomorrow the Sun
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will be out but I'm a bit skeptical that will happen actually some of them that
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aren't bad actually actually some of them that aren't bad actually some of
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them that aren't bad Bradley Cooper looks like a little like Bradley Cooper
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a little creep here kind of like kind of stocky looking but a creep or a creepy
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person is someone who acts weird in a way that makes you uncomfortable or even
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scares you guys we were just in the storage area and we saw this really
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creepy man it was like this crazy eyed hairy beast man it was like a like a
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Bigfoot or I Getty or something Ellen invents a term here stocky looking she
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simply means that the person on the photo looks like someone who could be a
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stalker to stock means to follow watch and even harass someone without them
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knowing about it hey you j.crew guy yeah they all week long everywhere I look
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there's you by the way note how she uses the word looking kind of stocky looking
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but this is used rather freely after certain adjectives to indicate that a
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person looks like the adjectives mentioned example who's that angry
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looking man I'm kind of funny-looking the same idea applies to adding themed
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after certain nouns perfect for your kids dictator themed birthday party it
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means that a party has a specific theme a themed party or another occasion such
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as a wedding is based on a specific subject or style like an 80s themed
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party my dad and Lorraine decided to have a 1920s themed wedding such a
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romantic time and then I came across a me impersonator I didn't know I had one
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but here she is that's her so what do you think does she look like me I don't
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I mean I can see the hair is similar and I guess I guess so and then I wanted to
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see well because it said you know sound alike too so there was a video that she
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posted so I I watched it and so you have to thank you
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right back at you
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what do you think does she look like me what do you think what do you think what
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do you think does she look like me I don't I mean I can see the hair is
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similar and I guess I guess so we say I guess when we make a statement but we're
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not so sure of it a close synonym is I suppose thank you right back at ya
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it's hard to deduce the meaning of this expression with this little context but
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this is something that we would say to return something that someone has said
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to us for example a compliment example why do you look lovely this evening
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that's so kind of you right back at you in this context the fake Ellen is acting
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as if she's being received with applause her right back atcha is maybe a way of
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returning that show of affection or ignorant to the audience like I did it
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the first two years he doesn't even remember that I used to go but that's
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like a ten year old impression she's got to like update it then she tried to tell
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some jokes here's one of them wow what a great-looking audience tonight yes
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you're very very attractive matter of fact you should turn around and look at
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one another you're about attractive yeah I mean there's more Flair in here than a
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waiter at TGI Fridays folks that's the accident matter of fact you
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should turn around and look at one another your marriage matter of fact
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matter of fact you should turn around and look at one another you're about
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attractive yeah we often say this as as a matter of fact and we say it when
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we're going to give more details about something there's nothing more
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horrifying than embarrassing yourself in front of your in-laws as a matter of
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fact when I started dating Judy I was unemployed and her father asked me what
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I did for a living and I told him I was a lawyer I mean there's more Flair in
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here than a waiter at TGI Fridays folks just an accident
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Flair is stylishness and originality example Michelle Obama was a pretty
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unique first lady she always dresses it with flair TGI Fridays is the American
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restaurant chain seen here TGIF is an acronym that stands for thank
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God it's Friday and we can say it on Friday to show our enthusiasm that the
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weekend is upon us lastly folks is a common way to address
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a group of people I don't want a girl I just want a little boy know what it
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sounds like folks okay that's it thank you so much for watching and thank you
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Ethan for this awesome lesson again I highly recommend for you to go check out
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Ethan's channel learn English with TV series and go check out my video there
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where I break down Ellen's monologue in terms of intonation rhythm and stress
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and be sure to subscribe when you're there and if you like this content as
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well I invite you to come on over to my website the accents way calm and get
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