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okay let's do it let's practice now I have
a little story it's very short first I will
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say it listen then we will learn all the
vocabulary and expressions and phrases and
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then we will have a little listening speaking
test and then we will practice our fluency we
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will practice speaking with shadowing let's do
it here's the here's the text after my divorce
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I was hitting the bar every night to drown my
sorrows I was living on the streets I hit rock
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bottom when I got arrested after a bar fight
it was a real wakeup call that was the moment
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I decided to turn my life around okay don't
worry don't worry we will learn and practice
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the expressions and the vocabulary of that text
hitting the bar hitting the bar literally no you
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go to the bar if you go to the bar you hit the
bar for example he was hitting the bars all night
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he was going to the bars all night all
right so he went to one bar he went to
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another bar he went to the next bar
he was hitting the bars all night did
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you notice I said hitting hitting the bars
hitting kind of cut off that g hitting the
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bars hit the club you go to the club right so if
I say let's go to the club there's another way I
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could say it what can what can I say that's right
let's hit the club let's hit the club come on guys
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let's go let's hit the club drown my sorrows so
if you drown your Sorrows you drill you you deal
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with your problems by drinking lots of alcohol
drink alcohol and you deal with your problems
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you drown your Sorrows drown one's Sorrows okay
so to forget one's Problems by getting drunk
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that's another way to say our phrase forget
one's Problems by getting drunk or What's the
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phrase drown one's Sorrows drown my sorrows drown
his Sorrows she drowned her sorrows with wine
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she drowned her sorrows with
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wine hit rock bottom reach the bottom like
the bottom of the ocean where all the rocks
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are you go down and hit the Rocks so you reach the
lowest point possible everything is awful in your
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life you hit rock bottom it can't it can't get any
worse than this this is the very bottom he reached
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his lowest point in life what was our phrase he
hit rock bottom he hit rock bottom he reached
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the lowest point in his life and in life he hit
rock bottom it was a wakeup call it was an event
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that made him pay attention or me it was my wakeup
call it was his wakeup call a wakeup call so it's
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it's an event that something happens in your life
where you say things must change I can't continue
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like this anymore I must make a change it's a
wakeup call it's usually some kind of a an event
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that makes you wake up I realized the dangers and
problems I woke up and realized what was happening
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this is not literally waking up this is kind of
your mind wakes up so what was our phrase again
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how about I had a I had a I had a wakeup call
yeah you got it turned my life around I had a
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wakeup call and then I turned my life around I
completely changed the direction of my life 180
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completely changed the direction of my life turn
my life around so I turned from good to bad from
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bad to good oh I said from good to bad from bad
to good there we go I turned my life around you
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don't want to turn your life around the other
way that's that's turning your life backwards
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all right we're going to do a little repeat after
me listening practice I'm going to say it and I
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want you to listen and repeat after my divorce
I was hitting the bar every night to drown my
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sorrows did you catch it try it again after
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my divorce I was hitting the bar
every night to drown my sorrows
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after my divorce I was hitting
the bar every night to drown my
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sorrows okay next one I was living
on the streets I hit rock I hit rock
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bottom I was living on the streets I hit rock
bottom I was living on the streets I hit rock
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bottom I was living on the streets that could
imply homelessness but not usually usually
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you're just not going home you're staying out
you're going to clubs you're going to drink
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you go to the park you don't want to go home
maybe so you're on the you're living on the
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streets I hear Rock Bottom when I got arrested
after a bar fight it was a real wakeup call
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when I got arrested after a
bar fight it was a real wakeup
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call when I got arrested after
a bar fight it was a real wakeup
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call all right he got he got in a fight at
a bar the police took him to the station
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he realized ah things have got to change
it was a real wakeup call he decided to
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turn his life around right that was the
moment moment I decided to turn my life
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around that was the moment
I decided to turn my life
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around okay are you ready to practice those
let's see if we can say him at a nice fluent
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Pace I'm not going to go too fast just nice
and natural you try to follow along and say
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it with me three times each here we go
after my my divorce I was hitting the
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bar every night to drown my sorrows after my
divorce I was hitting the bar every night to
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drown my sorrows after my divorce I was
hitting the bar every night to drown my
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sorrows all right hey say that one more
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time say it without me no text you just say
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it did you get it all right little quiz little
quiz I was living on the streets I hit rock
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bottom I was living on the streets I hit rock
bottom I was living on the streets I hit rock
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bottom say it
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again when I got arrested after a
bar fight it was a real wakeup call
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when I got arrested after a bar
fight it was a real wakeup call
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when I got arrested after a bar fight
it was a real wakeup call say it
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again when I got arrested after
a bar fight it was a real wakeup
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call that was the moment I decided to
turn my life around that was the moment
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I decided to turn my life around that was
the moment I decided to turn my life around
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I decided t t T I decided to turn I decided
to turn my life around I decided to turn my
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life around that was the moment I decided
to turn my life around all right say it
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again that's it boom good workout way to
go guys keep moving forward one step at a
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time we'll get there I'll see you in the next step
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