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Feifei: Hello and welcome to The English
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We Speak. I'm Feifei...
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Rob: ...and hello, I'm Rob.
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Feifei: Rob, I'm having a bit of trouble with
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my computer...
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Rob: What, again! What's the problem
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this time?
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Feifei: Well, I've written the script for
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this programme, but it won't save. And I
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can't print it out - this computer just
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does not work. Can you fix it?
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Rob: Let me have a pop at it.
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Feifei: A pop? Are you going to make it
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explode? That's a bit extreme, Rob.
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Rob: Don't worry, Feifei. If I have a pop
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at something, I just mean I'll try and do
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it - so I'll have a go at doing something,
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like fixing your computer...
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Feifei: Right! OK, Rob, have a pop then.
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But just don't delete all my work.
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Rob: Don't worry, Feifei, I would never do
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that, would I? Let's hear some more
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examples of the phrase while I sort this out...
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I'm going to have a pop at doing this
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online application for a passport -
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apparently it's really easy.
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We had a pop at making a cake but we
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baked it for too long and it burnt!
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Why not have a pop at yoga? I've heard it's
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good for your mind, body and soul.
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Feifei: This is The English We Speak from
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BBC Learning English and we're talking
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about the phrase 'have a pop', which
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means to try something. So, Rob, you've
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had a pop at fixing
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my computer... any luck?
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Rob: Ermm, not exactly. Everything seems
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to have disappeared from the screen.
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Feifei: Let me look... no! You have deleted
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my script. Hmm, Rob, did you know that
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'have a pop' has another meaning?
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Rob: Oh yeah, what's that?
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Feifei: To 'have a pop' also means to
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criticise or even to try and hit someone.
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And I'm going to have a pop at you
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for losing my script.
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Rob: Hold... hold on, Feifei. If we don't
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have a script, we won't know what will
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happen next.
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Feifei: I think the listeners know, Rob,
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don't they? Bye.
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Rob: Bye. Ouch!
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