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Hello and welcome to The English We Speak
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with me, Feifei…
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…and me, Roy.
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In this programme, we have a word that is
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used to say that something is amazing or extremely
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good. Speaking of which have you seen that
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new blockbuster that everyone’s talking
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about, ‘Unicorns Eat Bananas in the Stars’?
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What kind of title is that?! That film
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sounds awful!
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It’s not! ‘Unicorns Eat Bananas in the
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Stars’ is fire!
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Fire? The unicorns that eat bananas in the
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stars are on fire?! What is this film about?
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No, Roy! Don’t be silly, the banana eating
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unicorns aren’t on fire! That would be ridiculous.
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I said the film is fire. I mean that the film
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is amazing!
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Ahhh of course! We use 'fire' to describe
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something that is really good! For example,
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your T-shirt is fire, Feifei!
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Thanks, Roy! I bought it this week! It’s
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official merchandise for the film!
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Anyway, let’s listen to these examples…
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Have you checked out my new phone? It’s
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fire. It can do so many cool things!
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I went to a concert to see ‘Rob’s Rolling
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Biscuits’ last night. Their new song is
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fire.
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That new series everyone is talking about
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is fire! It’s got dragons, zombies and
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vampires in it. I love it!
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This is The English We Speak from BBC Learning
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English and we’re talking about the word
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‘fire’, which is used to say that something
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is amazing.
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I might have to go tonight and watch the film
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at the cinema.
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You definitely should. It’s straight fire!
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We sometimes put the word ‘straight’ in
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front of ‘fire’. Straight here means ‘very’.
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So I probably should have said your t-shirt
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is straight fire, then.
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Only if that’s what you really think! You
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haven’t even seen the film yet!
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What about my T-shirt? Do you think it’s
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fire?
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Honestly, no. It looks like it needs to be
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put in a fire. You should just burn it. The
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film on your T-shirt is not fire! That film
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is terrible.
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OK, maybe I’ll buy a new one today.
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Bye, Roy.
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Bye.
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