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hello hi everybody it's me elliot from

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etj english welcome to another british

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english

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british pronunciation lesson where today

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we are talking about

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food probably one of the biggest parts

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of my life at the moment

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not being able to go outside and do

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things my mind is always thinking

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what food am i going to eat next what

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will i cook next

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what food will i order which restaurant

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will i order from next

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so it made me think perhaps i should

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make a lesson where we build some

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vocabulary some idioms some expressions

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phrasal verbs

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all around the topic of food and eating

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and drinking

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i thought the best place to start was

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the difference between eat out

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and eat in for many of you this is

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probably very simple but when we eat out

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that's when we go

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to a restaurant okay we leave the house

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to eat we eat

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out outside of the house and of course

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the opposite eat in

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means to have dinner at home now

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remember eat in could also mean to have

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a takeaway so not just to cook at home

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but to have a takeaway

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a takeaway traditionally means to order

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something on the phone

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and then we would pick it up collect it

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and take it home however we often now

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even say takeaway

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when talking about delivery you know

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from companies like deliveroo or

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ubereats

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that we could still call a takeaway

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remember that americans tend to say

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take out to get a take-out in the uk we

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say

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take away so let's say i'm talking to my

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partner and she says to me elliot should

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we eat in tonight

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so shall we eat in tonight yeah sure do

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you fancy an

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indian yeah sure do you

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fancy an indian now fancy has many

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meanings fancy can mean to find someone

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attractive but i don't think i'm asking

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my girlfriend

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do you find this indian man attractive

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instead i am saying do you fancy

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an indian meal we could also say do you

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fancy a pizza

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do you fancy chinese tonight okay so

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do you fancy is a way of saying do you

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want so do you fancy this tonight what

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do you fancy

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that's like saying what do you want but

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when we eat out

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and we go to a restaurant we could go to

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a fancy restaurant a posh restaurant if

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a restaurant is fancy then we probably

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need to dress smart

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and uh you know it's probably very

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expensive

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or we could go to a chain for example a

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company

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which has multiple restaurants all over

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the world or all over the

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city now as well as having a takeaway at

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home we don't just have to have a

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takeaway of course we can cook

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our own food our own meal and there are

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multiple things we could say let's start

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with the small things first

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you could invite at the moment you can't

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but in the future you could invite some

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friends around for

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some nibbles for example i could say on

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the phone to my friend

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do you want to come around for some

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nibbles tonight and watch the rugby

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so nibbles are generally something you

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would have to eat

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when you are watching tv perhaps there's

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a big event on like the rugby

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and you would sit together and watch it

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and eat nibbles

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so this would be things like crisps

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remember americans say chips

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um maybe some dips uh

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some bread hummus you know these kinds

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of things these kind of nib

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we call it nibbly food or nibbles small

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bits of food that we can snack

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on uh while we watch something so do you

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want to come around for some nibbles and

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drinks maybe even small sandwiches that

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you could

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make for people who come round but let's

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say we are having a proper

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meal and it's a family meal we have all

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of our family together

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and let's say i am hosting this meal so

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it's my house and

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my family have come round the first

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thing i'd want to do while i'm cooking

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and getting things ready would be to

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lay the table to lay the table

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would be to put everything on the table

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so of course we have things like plates

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bowls we also have what we call cutlery

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cutlery this is knife fork spoon okay

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the things we

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use to eat we also have

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placemats placemats are the

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square mats or the rectangular mats that

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we put the plates on to protect the

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table

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and also we have the same thing for cups

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right

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we put a cup on uh something and this is

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called

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a coaster coaster

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so we have coaster placemat cutlery

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usually it's kind of a tradition i don't

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know if it's the same in your country

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some countries it is some countries it

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isn't from my experience

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where we wait until everybody has their

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food and then we begin

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so maybe before we all start eating the

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host

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might want to say something to

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encourage everybody to start eating the

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most common thing to say is probably

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tuck in tuck in

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tuck in notice my connected speech

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i'm not saying tuck in i'm saying tur

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kin the words are joining together tuck

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in

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so this just means go start eating

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another common one is

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dig in dig in again connecting my speech

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dig in dig in dig in or one which my dad

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uses a lot whenever i go to their house

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to eat which is

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come on guys get stuck in get

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stuck in i love this one to get stuck in

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just means get going begin

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start let's go and it's like saying do

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it with energy

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so we could say this to everyone before

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we start eating but we could also say it

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about maybe beginning a project

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maybe we have an important project to do

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and we just we just need to get stuck

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in get started go now when i get stuck

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in to my food

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i'm a fast eater and what i tend to do

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is i scoff

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my food scoff scoff

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so to scoff your food means to eat it

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really fast

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there's a slang word people use which

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would be to inhale

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your food maybe your friend ate that

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dinner really really fast you could say

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to them god you inhaled that

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to inhale is to to breathe in so it's

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like he's just breathing in and all the

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food is flying down

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into his mouth but uh if somebody is

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eating very slowly so the opposite of

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scoffing their face maybe you have a

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child who eats a bit slowly

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and generally we'll say this to a child

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who's eating slowly

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if we want them to eat their vegetables

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we might say

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come on eat up eat

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up meaning keep going

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eat eat eat it's like encouraging them

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to eat because

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you know you've noticed that they're not

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eating and we're encouraging them to eat

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more

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seconds ah seconds i love seconds so

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when you've finished your dinner

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one of my favorite things to do is to go

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and see if there are any

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seconds or if i can have any seconds

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which is basically when you go back up

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you take your food and you fill up your

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plate again and have a second serving

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we call it seconds difficult to

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pronounce this one seconds

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it's that schwa sound at the end and i

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got this question the other day on

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instagram somebody said to me elliot do

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british people say

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dessert or do they say pudding to be

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honest you can say either

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there are kind of backgrounds and

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traditions as to you know you'd say

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pudding about this type of food but

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you'd say dessert about this type of

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food

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if you want my complete honesty i don't

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say pudding

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i just say dessert i'd say what's for

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dessert i wouldn't say what's

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what's for pudding or what pudding do we

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have i call it dessert but in in modern

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english it's really fine just to say

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either so just pick the one you like the

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sound of the most really now another

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good one

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is when we want to check everybody is

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finished now we could say is everybody

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finished

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okay or you can just say the word

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finished but we don't just say

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finished because that sounds like i'm

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just telling my listener that

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i have finished finished instead we need

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to say

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finished finished finished

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okay so this intonation this kind of

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rising intonation it shows that we're

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asking a question

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okay so you can see how we can change

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the meaning of a word

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by changing the intonation finished

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and this makes it sounds like we're

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asking everybody or the person next to

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us

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have you finished eating we've laid the

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table and now we need to

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clear the table clear this word is

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lovely

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ear at the end don't add an r if you

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want a british accent it's just

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clear clear clear the table now we're

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going to take a step away from food

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we're just going to quickly talk about

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drink because drink whether it's

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alcoholic or not or not alcoholic

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we all need it so we need to know maybe

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some useful expressions

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i'll start from sipping to sip

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on a drink means to take small

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sips very slowly right sip

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so i'm sipping on a drink meaning i'm

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taking my time with it but you could

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chug a drink to chug really quickly

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drink

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when people are drinking like partying

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and playing drinking games

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if someone is chugging a drink people

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might cheer them and they might say

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down it right down it down it drink it

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fast

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down it like tip it upside down finally

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one

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for the road natural pronunciation

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one for the road for the notice how i do

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for

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the those two words are not important

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they're function words so we say them

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quickly

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for the for the for the road one

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for the road to have one for the road

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means to have

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one more drink before we go home before

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we finish

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to have one for the road and that is

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about all i have for today now i want

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you to share

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anything you want to share about food

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maybe some expressions and things i've

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mentioned today are similar in your

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language

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please write them in the comments below

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or maybe you have some more you'd like

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to add to this list

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of course i can talk about flavors in

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the future

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describing the taste of things if this

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is something you'd like please let me

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know and i will create a video about

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that let me know in the comments and

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don't forget if you want to work towards

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a british pronunciation a modern rp

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pronunciation just like mine

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you can work with me through whatsapp

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at etjenglish.com and of course if you

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enjoyed this lesson

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again as always it's been a pleasure i

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will see you next time

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cheers guys bye