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understand the phrases and vocabulary

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used by our interviewees in London

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interviews episode 1 talking about plans

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Melvyn

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so Melvin said that he was going to be

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taking on or to take on some new

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modeling jobs well I'm about to see a

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new agent to take on some modeling jobs

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to take on some modeling jobs to take on

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some modeling jobs what did he mean by

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to take on something to take on a new

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job yeah so he wanted to accept or do a

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new task or responsibility so you could

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say like I want to take on a new

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challenge at work wooly

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cardies Willy cardi's is quite British

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isn't it and it's actually slang for

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Willy cardigan what what type of

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modeling jobs oh well who knows I

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suspect it might be wooly cardis because

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I suspect it might be wooly cardi's what

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do we mean by Willy firstly okay Willy

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is the adjective of wool Oh is the coat

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of a sheep or a goat or even another

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similar animal that has that kind of

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texture so that's what wool is and

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cardigan is a form of another kind of

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jumper or a top with a fastening

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normally yeah yeah yeah so it's like an

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open jumper on to the distinguished

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gentleman that is Harry and Melvin

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Melvin was the slightly older

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distinguished gentleman anything that

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would suit me well I can see clearly

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that you are a distinguished gentleman

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but perhaps not an older distinguished

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gentleman such as myself distinguished

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gentleman is may be a successful person

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who demands the the respect or deserves

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the respect of other people and then the

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last one we caught was to suit you or to

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suit someone okay anything that would

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suit me it means does it go well with

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you does it complement your style yeah

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exactly yeah does it look good on

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so he said that his mission houses take

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after their father their father being

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Melvin clearly they take after their

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father what does that mean to take off

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to somebody I suppose it means to adopt

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the characteristics and actually be like

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that person

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to be remain as a similar lid of me

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or to be remiss of someone I was just

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thinking the other day that this is

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really remiss of me not having anything

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planned for the autumn to not do

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something that you should have done

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already

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oh well it was remiss of me to not flush

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the toilet for my dear girlfriend last

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night James and Katie so I like the way

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Charlie started this one up this one up

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he started he started with the question

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what are you up to today or what you up

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to

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mmm what you up to today probably more

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common than what are you doing today

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yeah okay okay so to be a native say

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that what are you up to what are you up

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to it went on to James saying how he

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would check out something probably go

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down to Camden check out some a South

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Bank you know workers with Rathbun and

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that literally means to observe to come

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and see what's happening yeah not

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normally for the first time isn't it

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yeah check it out by then we could say

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ah check out our new video yes yes yeah

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you could also check out a woman though

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if we're going back to the women izing

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yeah okay check her out

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yeah again that'll be the first time

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wouldn't it probably yeah

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and just by my mother were suppose bum

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around suggests a bit of a lazy term and

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not the most productive time yeah there

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was no particular plan and and he had no

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rush to to be anywhere you're just going

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to run around run around do whatever no

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hard and fast plans yet but we'll see

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we'll see where it takes us Oh hard and

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fast plans so they have nothing in the

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in the diary there's no specific

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organized bent so they'll just see what

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happens

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yeah just bomb around and see what

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happens so then Charlie asked and what's

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he doing for Christmas and

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and the reason why I want to talk about

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this is because it's really useful and

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it's very native to use the present

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continuous when talking about fixed

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plans in the future

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and for example in two weeks I am going

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to Seville in Spain next one was to pop

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over so they were to pop over to Camden

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oh no to pop over to Disneyland have you

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got any plans for Christmas not yet

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probably I got uni so do that my poem

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was at Disneyland

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my program was a Disneyland yeah pop

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over to Disney World which would see :

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which would seem strange because

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popping over suggests a very short quick

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visit that's not really a big deal yeah

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popper to go to Disneyland for me would

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be a big deal and so it suggests maybe

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that they've they've done this already

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that they like Disney World or

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Disneyland and yeah I just pop over to

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Disneyland

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yeah yeah yeah it's true it is yeah it

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does suggest that it requires minimal

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effort and then yeah I'll pop over I'm

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popping to the shop I asked where abouts

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in Italy whereabouts in Italy every now

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so just an easy way to ask a location

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whereabouts yeah yeah I live in Germany

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are where about Adam and Ryan I think

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the other question was do you have any

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plans for today for Christmas he said

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nah and towards Christmas have you got

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any plans for that for that month I'm

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not at the moment not really a big

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Christmas person so no plans at the

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moment I'm not a moral okay yeah nah

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they're do you like Christmas

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nah yeah if you gotta buzz cuz man and

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then he said I'm not really pretty big

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Christmas person so it's a really common

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way to say no isn't it like especially

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the youth would say nah

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got a popover another cup of tea nah

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Roger

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outside London I with me he said and to

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pop into the National Gallery to look at

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the Caravaggio's he intended to pop in

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to see the Caravaggio's yeah

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meaning the Caravaggio paintings very

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popular in a British English yeah

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and unanimously voted this is quite a

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posh phrase I was unanimously voted

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worst karaoke singer of the night

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unanimously voted hmm meaning meaning

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everyone at the place voted for him to

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be the worst singer mm-hmm yeah not one

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single person said he wasn't behave

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yourself or I'll sing it again mmm oh

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but that's like what son was it

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raindrops keep falling on my head and

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behave yourself or I'll sing it again

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being that I've got to be good otherwise

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something bad will happen yeah yeah and

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he used it and he's often using a

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sarcastic jokey way and you say Oh

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behave yourself as an imperative behave

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yourself or I will sing it again

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none worse singer unanimously voted the

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worst singer you don't want me to sing

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it again yeah be good or I'll do

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something bad a detective play is a

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whodunit play but that we have a huge

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variety there'll be tragedies and dramas

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and whodunits and comedies and who

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doughnuts if we were acting Sherlock

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Holmes that would be a whodunit okay

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I suppose that's come from who has done

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this or who has done that so um it would

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be rude not to was another nice phrase

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that he said that sounds lovely Bordeaux

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a lot of wine why don't we rude not to

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drink it when you're they wouldn't have

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done fatally Bordeaux people it would be

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rude not to although being the capital

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of wine I suppose and it would be rude

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not to it would be

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bad behavior to not drink wine in the

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capital of the wine region yeah yeah

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you're right you're right yeah so that

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was all of the phrases that we thought

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were very useful for you we hope that

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you learnt them make sure that you

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actually start using them before you

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lose them we've got another episode of

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