23 - Annoyance

RealLife English: Learn and Speak Confident, Natural English

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Words to Know

• Electrocuted - to be injured or killed by an electric shock
• Earbuds - headphones
• Stove - what you use to cook your food with fire
• Chopped - cut through the base of something
• Stick around - stay until the end
• Viral - the rapid spread of something on the internet
• Keep it up - continue doing a good job
• Postman - someone who delivers mail
• Poking - jabbing or prodding someone with something (usually your finger) (see photo)
• Rambling - talking about something in an unorganized and confusing manner.
• Shenanigans - mischief, playing around
• Mess up - to make a mistake
• Handlebars - what you use to steer/direct a bicycle/motorcycle
• Cracked - to break something without the parts completely separating
• Reinforce - strengthen or support

News

• Find out more about the Real Life Yoga Picnics
• 11 Things I Like About Living in Belo Horizonte by Josh, the Brazilian Gringo

Shout Outs

• Practice your English while you get your haircut with expert Irish hairdresser, Simon
• 30 Uncommon Ways to Learn English
• Victor Cordero, originally from the Dominican Republic but living in Vietnam
• Stoichka Varbanova, unknown location.
• Yago Santiago, São Paulo, Brazil @yago_yago

Questions

• What's the difference between "a little" and "a few"?

Expressions

• To walk on egg shells/walk on thin ice
• Add fuel to the fire
• Blow a fuse
• Eat someone alive
• Give someone a piece of your mind

Tip

• How to best use this podcast to learn English

Joke

• Why is Santa so jolly (happy)?

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Song

Believe by the Dirty Heads

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