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Hello, this is Jack Farm to 
Fluency, and this is episode 32 

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of the To Fluency podcast. 
It's great to have you here 

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today. 
Now this episode is something a 

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little bit different because 
what I'm going to do is take a 

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recent podcast episode, episode 
30, where Kate and I talked 

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about fall or autumn, whichever 
way you want to say it. 

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And what I'm going to do is take
key phrases from that lesson and

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then teach you these phrases 
with more examples. 

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So to get the most out of this 
lesson, this episode, I 

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recommend listening to episode 
30 if you haven't done so 

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already, finish this episode. 
So listen to this episode now, 

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then listen to episode 30, and 
if you want, listen to episode 

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32 again. 
So yeah, this episode is going 

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to explain some very key 
phrases, some advanced phrases 

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that I think you're really going
to find useful. 

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So you're going to hear a clip 
of Kate and I talking, and then 

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you're going to hear me 
explaining what the key phrase 

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from that clip means. 
So let's get started. 

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This is your favorite season? 
It's my, well, one of my 

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favorite seasons. 
I actually really like. 

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I really like the transition 
from summer to fall. 

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Kate said, I really like this 
transition from summer to fall, 

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so I thought that fall was her 
favorite season. 

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But she said, well, nearly, but 
it's that transition from summer

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to fall because that's the sweet
spot here, which means the 

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temperature is just right where 
you can go outside and being 

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comfortable, it's not too hot 
and it's not too cold. 

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And I think I agree with Kate 
here. 

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So the word transition means to 
change from one thing to 

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something else. 
Another example is I know a lot 

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of people who become online 
teachers and at first they find 

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this transition from traditional
in person lessons to online 

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lessons difficult. 
So they find this change 

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difficult, They find this 
transition difficult. 

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A few of the warmer beverages 
and soups and things that are 

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more hearty and comforting. #2 
hearty and comforting. 

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So Kate was talking about food 
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hearty food, which basically 
means in my mind it's when food 

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is is warm and it's very filling
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So think of things like lasagna,
chilies, and stews to get a 

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better idea of what a hearty 
meal is. 

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Then just Google search hearty 
meals and see which recipes come

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up. 
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stodgy. 
It's not exactly the same, but 

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it it's very similar. 
And to have a stodgy meal in the

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UK means to have lots of 
carbohydrates and it's warm and 

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it's filling things like pies or
bangers and mash. 

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But it started to get a little 
bit cooler at night. 

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But it started to get a little 
bit cooler at night. 

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You. 
It started to get a little bit 

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cooler at night. 
So start to get this is a verb 

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pattern. 
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this verb pattern is that you 
have the infinitive and the 

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gerund after the word and they 
both mean the same thing. 

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So you can say it started to get
a little bit cooler at night or 

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it started getting a little bit 
cooler at night. 

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Another example is I've started 
working out again, which is true

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or I didn't actually stop, but 
let's say I stopped, I've 

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started working out again or 
I've started to work out again. 

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Now Kate also used the word get 
there and get means become and 

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again it's talking about a 
transition of change. 

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Another example is he started to
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He started to get a bit angry. 
I don't know why. 

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For example, the TH sound, it's 
going away in London. 

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Yeah, because that's. 
Right. 

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Yeah, nothing. 
Nothing. 

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Instead of nothing. 
Oh so that TH sounds going away 

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and you can see on a map how now
this one isn't an expression or 

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a word to learn. 
Instead, it's just something 

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interesting where in the UK 
people are predicting that the 

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TH sound might disappear within 
50 years because a few years ago

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or a long time ago, only a 
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the F sound instead of the TH 
sound. 

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For example, saying free instead
of three. 

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Now, sometimes I do this 
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and the map that I'm going to 
leave a link to in the 

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description shows that that this
is spreading throughout the UK 

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throughout or throughout. 
But yeah, definitely check out 

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that link because it's 
interesting and it shows other 

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evolutions of the English 
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No, I can't do an impression of 
you. 

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You know it. 
I want to be able to do a good 

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impression of you. 
And I think in general I do do 

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decent impressions, but your 
accent is very hard for me. 

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So Kate can't do an impression 
of me. 

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She tries. 
It's not always that accurate. 

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She really wants to be able to 
do an impression of me. 

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And to do an impression of 
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that someone speaks. 
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to do an accent, which means to 
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Now, some people say that I can 
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I live in New York. 
I've got my dog, I've got my 

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car, I go to the park, I like 
coffee. 

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I need to work on this a little 
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And the way I'm doing this 
actually is using my method to 

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listen, repeat, record, compare 
method where you listen to a 

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phrase, you record yourself 
repeating it, and then you 

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compare it to the original and 
make changes. 

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Now this is a method you can use
to learn English as well, and 

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there is a link to the method a 
video in the description. 

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But let's start with Halloween. 
Halloween is huge in the USI I'm

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always shocked every year just 
by how big it is and how early 

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people have to get prepared for.
Halloween is huge in the US. 

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It's huge, which means it's very
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Now, big, huge, huge normally 
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Halloween is big, Halloween is 
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Both of these words mean popular
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Another example is he's huge on 
Instagram, which means he's very

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popular on Instagram. 
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Instagram. 
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Oasis were huge in the UK, they 
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known in the US. 
Here's a question, were Oasis 

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popular where you are? 
Are they still popular? 

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Leave a comment below. 
No. 

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You said people will come back 
and egg your house if you don't 

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leave candy for people. 
Now to egg a house means to 

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throw eggs at a house, and this 
is very naughty, Can get in 

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trouble if you like people's 
houses, but it does happen. 

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Some kids do do this. 
People will egg a house or egg a

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car. 
And again, this just means to 

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throw eggs at a house or a car. 
And I was worried that people 

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would egg our house or Kate said
people are going to egg our 

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house if you leave out carrots 
instead of candy. 

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I I was never going to leave out
carrots instead of candy. 

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But yeah, I don't, I still don't
like kids getting so much candy 

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at Halloween. 
Everyone dresses up, right? 

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Parents. 
Children. 

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Yes. 
Most parents. 

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Yes. 
And it's hard to get an outfit 

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in the week running up to 
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everything's sold out, which is 
why you often do it six weeks 

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before everyone dresses up. 
To dress up means to wear a 

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costume. 
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is specific to the UK and and 
probably Australia and Ireland, 

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but it's not used in the US 
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wear a costume, to wear a 
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But I remember people in the UK 
saying what you're going to 

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dress up As for Halloween, what 
you're going to dress up As for 

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Halloween. 
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Some of my friends hate dressing
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They hate dressing up. 
And you know, every year I just 

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run out of time a little bit. 
But I think that you can get so 

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creative and do something really
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Every year I just run out of 
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Every year I just run out of 
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So to run out of time means that
you have no time left because we

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normally leave it to the last 
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just before a deadline when it 
comes to making costumes for 

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Halloween. 
So we always run out of time. 

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We don't have enough time to 
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Now listen to these two 
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We're running out of sugar and 
we've run out of sugar. 

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We're running out of sugar and 
we've run out of sugar. 

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So if we're running out of 
sugar, it means we still have a 

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little bit of sugar left, but 
soon we won't have any left. 

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And if we say we've run out of 
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sugar. 
I had a whole design with like a

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headpiece and a Cape in my 
tentacles and in the end all I 

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ended up wearing were like some 
tights that I never had time to 

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stuff. 
Kate's still talking about a 

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costume here, saying all I ended
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Now to end up doing something 
means to conclude something with

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a particular action. 
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explain how to use this, but 
this, I think this example is 

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really going to help you imagine
that you haven't seen somebody 

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in a while, but the last time 
you saw them, let's say two 

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months ago, they were telling 
you about their vacation and 

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that they wanted to go on a 
vacation, but they weren't sure 

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about where they wanted to go. 
And then you see this friend 

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again today and you say, oh, 
where did you end up going on 

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vacation? 
Where did you end up going on 

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vacation? 
Where did you finally decide to 

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go on vacation? 
And they say, we ended up going 

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to Preston. 
Another example is we were going

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to go out last night, but we 
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watching a terrible TV show. 
And sometimes it's been rainy 

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and cold and they just want to 
eat the candy and then they get 

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the sugar rush. 
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you know, as a former teacher, 
the day after Halloween was the 

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worst day to teach to get a 
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This means to to get that 
uncontrollable energy after 

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eating too much sugar. 
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hyperactive and they can't sit 
still and they shake and they're

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constantly moving. 
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normally you get a crash. 
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tired, sometimes cranky, 
sometimes children get cranky 

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after a sugar rush. 
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in the house that we live in 
now, it was known as the best 

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house in the neighborhood 
because they had all these 

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decorations. 
But they didn't leave them for 

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us. 
The neighbor got them. 

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So then they put up all these 
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The person who used to live in 

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the house where we live now. 
So the person who used to live 

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in our house means the person 
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past. 
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between used to be used to and 
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For example, I used to live in 
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So in the past I'd lived in 
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I am used to living in America 
because I've been here for 10 

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years and I'm accustomed to 
living here. 

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I'm used to living here, but 
I'll never get used to people 

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saying yoghurt instead of 
yoghurt. 

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I'm not going to make that 
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What happens when the leaves 
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We'll say on three, 123, 123, 
bag them up. 

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We'll put them in compost. 
To bag something up means to put

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something in a bag next. 
It's a little bit crisper, it's 

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more crisp and there's a little 
bit of a chill in the air at 

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night. 
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What? 
What do I say when I come 

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outside and it's there's a chill
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Kate talked about the weather, 
saying it was crisp and there 

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was a chill in the air. 
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the weather is crisp, it means 
that it is cold but also clear. 

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So you can imagine those winter 
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So the sun is shining. 
And if there's a chill in the 

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air, it means it's not too cold,
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the cold and you need to put 
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You need to put some more 
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Yeah, I've, I remember 
celebrating my birthday here and

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it was really warm. 
And I said I've never had a 

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warm, sunny day my birthday in 
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But it can be hit and miss. 
It could be cold near the end of

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October. 
I was talking about my birthday 

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here and how sometimes at the 
end of October where we live, 

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it's warm and sunny, but 
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So the weather can be hit or 
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It can be good or bad. 
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restaurant is is hit or miss. 
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great, sometimes the food is 
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Usually it depends on what you 
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OK, so those are the phrases. 
I hope you found them useful. 

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Now I forgot to mention, but 
what I have done is I have left 

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the key phrases from this lesson
in the description like I 

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normally do. 
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description, then check out the 
links that I leave there because

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I have some great resources for 
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Things like my book, the five 
step plan for English fluency, a

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link to my YouTube channel, and 
also a link to my paid program, 

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the to fluency program. 
OK so if you found this useful 

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then please just copy this link 
and share it with a friend and 

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also.