Practice English Conversation (Gearing Up for the Holidays)🤗🎉

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Rachel's English


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Hey how are you? I'm doing okay, just gearing up for the holidays. 
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How are you?
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How are you? The word are, it reduces. 
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Think of it as just an er ending  on the end of the word 'How'. 
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How are-- How are you? 
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We're good. Keeping busy. Brian is in soccer, and John is the coach. 
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Oh fun. Does he enjoy coaching? It's a bunch of 7-year-olds so  
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sometimes I think he just feels like he's herding  cats, but overall I think he's enjoying it. 
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Herding cats. This is not the same thing as hurting  
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cats, even though it's pronounced the same. Herding cats. This is an idiom that means trying  
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to organize or manage people or groups of people  that are very difficult to organize or manage. 
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Like a bunch of 7-year-olds.
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Herding cats. Yes. That makes sense.
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