The Tired Mum -- LEARN BRITISH ENGLISH

17,322 views ・ 2017-03-13

English Like A Native


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oh well that's a lovely cup of tea
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thank you and thanks for coming over i
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really appreciate it, and no i'm not just
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saying that because you had gave me a
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hand with the boxes in the Attic i
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genuinely really appreciate having a
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little bit of adult conversation I
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feel like I'm going mental
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if I'm being honest I've had a nightmare
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recently I can't get the babies to go to
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sleep, and I'm absolutely shattered you
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know it if they happen to lie in in the
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morning then the workmen wake me up
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because they're outside making a racket
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I can't remember the last time i had
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more than four hours solid sleep i
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overslept
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the other day I had a job interview at
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nine o'clock and i overslept because i'm
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that tired obviously i messed up on that
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one
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haven't had another job interview for
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ages anyway I'm sure I'll be fine i just
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need to take some time out try and
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recharge the batteries
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yeah and I'm sure their kids will start
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sleeping through soon enough just one of
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those things isn't? it's
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what babies do, I just, you know, I never
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expected twins and I never expected that
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it would be as hard as it is
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sorry don't mean to rain on your parade
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or anything
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congratulations on the promotion it's
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really exciting
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yeah oh no text no one of my kids is
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sick i'm gonna have to take a raincheck
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on tonight I'm
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sorry. Hello everyone my name is Anna and
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this is English like a native what
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you've just been watching is a monologue
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so that you can get an idea of natural
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English speech so i'm going to go
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through with you some of the things that
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I said in that monologue and explain
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them to you to help you to understand so
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I said you gave me a hand with the boxes
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in the Attic so to give someone a hand
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is to help them so i might say to you
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I'm washing the car could you give me a
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hand
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so literally bring your hands and help i
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also said I've been having a nightmare
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is being a nightmare when we say this we
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mean that something has been very
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unpleasant or very stressful so if you
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have a day where everything goes wrong
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you would say that day was a nightmare i
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said when the baby's lie in the lion is
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a phrasal verb which just means to stay
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in bed longer than normal so most people
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who were from monday to friday will have
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a line on saturday and sunday because
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they don't have an alarm to wake them up
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I talked about the workmen who were
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making a racket now they're not
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literally outside stringing up a tennis
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racket or anything like that in this
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context to make a racket is to make a
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lot of noise usually used in the
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negative sense i shut up you're making a
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racket i said because i was so tired i
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had overslept this means you sleep
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longer than you intend to
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so if you want to get up at eight
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o'clock but you sleep right through your
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along and actually wake up at nine
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o'clock then you have over slept very
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different to slept over which is to stay
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at somebody's house i use the word ages
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i said i haven't
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something in ages when we use this it
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means a very long time I haven't done it
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in ages
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I haven't done it in a very long time I
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said I need some time out to have time
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out is to have a break away from
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whatever it is you're doing and to relax
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and have a relaxing moment in sports you
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might see some people doing this they're
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calling for timeout they want the game
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to stop so they can have chance to
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recharge rethink change their strategy
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they're asking for time out so we have
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time out in life time to relax away from
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the normal routine i also said because
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my child was sick i would have to take a
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raincheck to take a raincheck means to
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postpone something was planned until a
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later date
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so to hold it to pause it until a later
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time
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so if something is booked in for monday
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that's saying you are having a cup of
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tea on Monday with booked it is in the
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diary but I can't do it so i'll ask for
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a rain check which means we'll still
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have a cup of tea but not on Monday
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we'll do it on friday instead so we
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booked it for another time
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well I think that covers everything
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