British Bitesize Lesson #2: SQUASH

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hello this is the second part of my gift
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to you especially for christmas i am
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giving you 25 bite-sized lessons and
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today's session is all about the word
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squash or squeeze squash is a game which
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you play with rackets on a court you can
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play two player 3 player or even four
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player i play regularly at my local
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squash club and I really enjoy it it's
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very good for your health
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you can also eat a squash. A squash is a type
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of vegetable I don't eat very often
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because I don't know how to cut it up
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easily and cook it easily. You can also
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be squashed or feel squashed or give
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someone a squeeze
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so to squash is to confine or pressurize
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something on all sides squash it down i
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talk about giving somebody a squeeze
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sometimes and I mean a hug so I wrap my
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arms around them and give them a tight
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squeeze
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so i might say give me a squeeze
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and that means give me a hug or if
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you're going to work during rush hour
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and lots of people are getting on the
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train
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you might have to all squeeze in and you
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might feel a bit squashed I hate being
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squashed on the train
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let's hope that this year i'm able to
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squeeze all the presents that i bought
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for everybody into my car because if I
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can't I don't know what I'm going to do
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finally we also talked about squeezing
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someone in or squeezing it in when we're
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talking about an event or meeting so
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this is when you don't have much time
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and someone says could we meet up for
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coffee or would you like to go see a
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play or can we have a meeting on a
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certain day and you look at your diary
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and you say or I'm quite busy but I'll
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see if I can squeeze it in
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that means trying to make time by
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compacting everything down and putting
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that event into your diary so i'll try
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and squeeze you in or are try and
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squeeze it in
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so we complain squash we can eat squash
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we can be squashed and we could try to
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squeeze it in
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I hope you found that helpful don't
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forget to join me tomorrow for another
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bite sized lesson
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take care don't forget to subscribe and
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the by give us the squeeze
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