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[Music] hello everyone and welcome back to another great lesson with English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica Erica today we have a great intermediate lesson that's right we've got a lesson about love about love and about apologizing ah okay love and apologizing they go together yes they do especially if you have a girlfriend or boyfriend right that's true okay so why don't we start by looking at our vocabulary preview vocabulary preview in today's vocabulary preview we will learn two important words from our dialogue what's the first word knock over knock over knock over

knock over so that's a really simple one when you knock something over you make it fall down make it fall down yep speaking of knocking things over this morning I knocked over my coffee cup all over my desk yeah I saw that you almost ruined our lesson plan for today yes I did it was all over the place okay let's look at our second word explode explode explode explode so when something explodes this is what happens all right that's pretty clear that's more than clear I think so now we've looked at our two vocabulary preview

words for this dialogue and we are ready to listen to it for the first [Music] time whoa whoa what's going on watch out hey watch where you're going oh no I'm so sorry are you right I don't know I feel terrible I really didn't mean to knock you over my tire just exploded and I lost control of my bike really it was an accident please accept my apologies just let me try to stand up you seem really familiar I think I know you from somewhere yeah that's right I think we've met somewhere before we met

at Aaron's place last weekend what a coincidence but anyway I'm glad to see her not badly hurt and I should probably get going I've got a 9:00 meeting but here's my number call me and we'll exchange insurance information ouch my ankle I think it's broken you can't just leave me like this are you calling an ambulance nope I'm canceling my appointment so that I [Music] can I love happy endings such a romantic dialogue yeah this guy oh my God he is amazing I would love to meet a guy like that like that like crashing into

you maybe not like that okay well I think it's time to uh look at some of the language in this dialogue let's start with our language takeaway language takeaway today we have three important words from our dialogue that we will learn for our language takeaway the first word is familiar familiar familiar familiar this one I think is a little bit hard to explain yeah so let's listen to some examples on how we use familiar example one Norman Clark that name sounds familiar where have I heard it before example two do you know where we are

I have no idea nothing looks familiar I think we're lost example three you look really familiar did we go to high school together so when something's familiar you think you know it but you're not exactly sure exactly familiar okay our next word is place place place Aaron's place exactly so when we refer to place we refer to house right so I can say hey Marco come over to my place for dinner tonight exactly or I could say um we're having a party at my place tonight at 8 you might ask someone how's your new place

right how's your new apartment exactly that's a good one so place it's a house right our final word today is coincidence coincidence coincidence coincidence so again we have some great examples for you to understand how we use coincidence example one I'm going to New York this weekend what a coincidence I am too example two by coincidence everyone in the room was named Alex example three we met by pure coincidence one day we ran into each other on our bikes and we've been together ever since a coincidence is something that happens by chance right right you

didn't plan it it just happened yeah these funny little things happen all the time I love it when these coincidences happen yeah they're great so Erica why don't you tell us about a coincidence that's happened to you well uh the other night I was having dinner uh in a restaurant and I looked up and I saw my old Professor from University it was such a coincidence because here we are in Shanghai and I see my professor from Canada having dinner at the table next to me it was such a coincidence that is a coincidence or

has it ever happened to you that you're thinking of someone and that person calls you that happens all the time that's a coincidence yeah yeah okay so now that we have learned these three language takeaway words we can listen to our dialogue a second time but this time it's going to be [Music] slower hey watch where you're going oh no I'm so sorry are you all right oh I don't know I feel terrible I didn't mean to knock you over my tire just exploded and I lost control of my bikee really it was an accident

please accept my apologies just let me try to stand up oh wait a second you seem really familiar I think I know you from somewhere yeah I think we have met somewhere before that's right we met at Aaron's place last weekend what a coincidence but anyway I'm glad to see that you're not badly hurt and I should probably get going I have a 9:00 meeting but here's my number call me and we'll exchange insurance information ouch my ankle I think it's broken you can't just leave me like this are you calling an ambulance no I'm

canceling my appointment so that I can stay here with you [Music] well that was much clearer wasn't it yes that was clearer and this brings us to fluency Builder fluency builder in today's fluency Builder we're going to show you different ways of apologizing it's so important to be able to apologize well um and fluently exactly and you also want to say something different from I'm sorry right so that's what we're going to show you today we heard some Great Expressions for I'm sorry in the dialogue let's listen now I'm so sorry I feel terrible please

accept my apologies I'm so sorry I feel terrible please accept my apologies yeah I feel terrible I say this one all the time yeah it's a great way of saying I'm sorry now now also if you want to say I'm sorry you also want to tell the person that you made a mistake right that's true and we did hear some wonderful expressions for I made a mistake in this dialogue I didn't mean to knock you over it was an accident I didn't mean to knock you over it was an accident well I didn't mean to

knock my coffee cup over this morning exactly it was an accident it was not on purpose right or so you think okay so all of these phrases are really useful and great for apologizing and telling someone you made a mistake well it's time for us to listen to our dialogue a third time this time it'll be at its normal speed and I think you'll be able to understand a little bit better [Music] waa whoa what's going on watch out hey watch where you're going oh no I'm so sorry are you all right oh I don't

know I feel terrible I really didn't mean to knock you over my tire just exploded and I lost control of my bike really it was an accident please accept my apologies just let me try to stand up you seem really familiar I think I know you from somewhere yeah that's right I think we've met somewhere before we met at Aaron's place last weekend what a coincidence but anyway I'm glad to see her not badly hurt and I should probably get going I've got a 9:00 meeting but here's my number call me and we'll exchange insurance

information ouch my ankle I think it's broken you can't just leave me like this are you calling an ambulance nope canceling my appointment so that I can great dialogue and great music right wonderful music who picked that Marco of course me I'm a romantic type I love romantic music really yes well speaking of a romantic type do you believe in love at first sight I I kind of do I'd like to believe it yeah well that surprises me well I think the first time that you see someone it impresses you some way and you feel

attracted to them that person really yeah at least it's the first feeling that you get that makes you want to talk to that person or get to know that person I am the exact opposite really when I see somebody for the first time my first impression is always wrong ah okay so if I see someone and I like them at the beginning in 3 weeks I'll hate them and if I see someone and I I don't like them when I first meet them I I'll be their best friend yeah yeah so love at first sight

doesn't work for me I'm I'm sure that our listeners have some stories that love at first sight maybe they met their wives or their boyfriends in this way I'd like to hear about it me too and if anybody knows the name of the songs we used also be sure to post it on the discussion board that's right our challenge for this week our challenge for this lesson yeah so that's all for today everyone but be sure to go to our website at englishpod do.com and as we said leave all your comments your stories and see

if you know the name of the songs okay well thanks for listening everyone and until next time goodbye bye hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're bringing you the sequel of I'm sorry I love you part two part two that's right I guess uh a lot of our listeners enjoyed the first part mhm and since it was such a romantic dialogue and hit we're bringing part two so it's even more romantic and I'm sure everyone is going to find some great and useful language in

it that's right we've got language that we use to talk about uh dates a date yeah so useful language for when you're going on a date that's right well before we look at this date language let's listen to the dialogue for the first time [Music] I'm so relieved that your ankle wasn't broken I feel just awful about this whole thing I want to make it up to you let me take you out to dinner tonight my treat oh that sounds great I'd love to here's my address pick me up at 8 [Music] perfect thank you

for such a lovely evening the food was amazing and I had a great time me too you look so beautiful tonight I wish this night would never end there's something that I have to tell you but what is it I woke up today thinking that this would be just like any other day but I was wrong the twist of fate brought us together I crashed into your life and you into mine and this may sound crazy but I'm falling in love with you Veronica [Music] wow such a romantic dialogue it really sounds like they're falling

in love yeah it's a really romantic thing that's going on right now but there was some really useful words here so why don't we take a look at language takeaway language takeaway today we have three words for language takeaway and the first one is relieved relieved relieved so we have some great examples on how we use relieved and I'm really sure you can understand the meaning from the sentences example one they were relieved to hear that the company would not be making any layoffs example two I'm so relieved to hear your voice I was worried

something happened to you I guess relieved is like a a happy or relaxed feeling that you get if you avoid something bad right right I'm so relieved that didn't happen yeah now for our second word pick me up pick me up pick me up so when you ask someone to pick you up you're saying basically come and get me okay so let's let's give a couple of examples um my husband was supposed to pick me up from work yesterday but he forgot does that really happen yes all right we'll have a talk with him or

we could also say oh I need to hurry up the taxi will pick me up at 7 yes so come and get me right pick me up and our final word in today's language takeaway is ordinary ordinary ordinary ordinary so ordinary is a normal word yes meaning it's normal uh-huh nothing uncommon about it yeah so you can have like an ordinary person an ordinary day an ordinary day ordinary life uh-huh nothing exciting about it what else is ordinary ordinary podcast an ordinary podcast which English pod is not okay yeah so ordinary okay great words and

I guess now we can listen to our dialogue a second time this time it'll be a little bit slower and this will help you to understand the language more [Music] clearly I'm so relieved that your ankle wasn't broken I feel just awful about this whole thing I want to make it up to you let me take you out to dinner tonight my treat that sounds great I'd love to here is my address pick me up at 8 perfect thank you for such a lovely evening the food was amazing and I had a great time me

too you look so beautiful tonight I wish this night would never end there's something I have to tell you what is it I woke up today thinking this would be just like any other ordinary day but I was wrong a twist of fate brought us together I crashed into your life and you into mine and this may sound crazy but I'm falling in love with you Veronica okay so we looked at some great vocabulary and now we can look at some great phrases so let's start with fluency Builder fluency Builder on fluency Builder today we

have three great phrases so why don't we just start with the first one yeah the first one we heard at the beginning of the dialogue make it up to you make it up to you make it up to you okay so we have some great examples on how we use make it up so let's listen example one I'm sorry I forgot your birthday how can I make it up to you example two I feel terrible for calling your mother fat I want to make it up to her so I got her these flowers example three

John forgot my anniversary again he's going to have to make it up to me we can see from the examples that when you use the phrase make it up to you you're kind of saying you want to balance something bad you did with some good action right right so if you call your uh mother-in-law fat you better buy her at least some flowers or a card or something to make it up right yeah so the bad action was calling her fat and the balance in good action was the flowers the flowers yeah I don't think

flowers will be enough though looks like a doomed marriage okay our second phrase my treat my treat my treat so we use this phrase when we want to say I'll invite you I'll pay for you I'll pay uhhuh right so I can say hey let's go get some uh beers it's my treat o thanks Marco so I'm paying right yeah my treat and our last phrase for fluency Builder a twist of fate a twist of fate twist of fate a twist of fate so Erica what is a twist of fate a twist of fate is

an unplaned event that has a big impact on your future or your life okay Marco can you give us an example of a Twist of Fates all right for example okay you're supposed to catch a flight to another country all right but you're late so you miss your flight okay and uh that flight crashes wow right so that's a Twist of f so yeah it's like it's like fate it's like Destiny yeah um you were you weren't supposed to be on that flight okay so a twist of fate a twist of fate great on a

happier note let's listen to the dialogue a third [Music] time I'm so relieved that your ankle wasn't broken I feel just awful about this whole thing I want to make it up to you let me take you out to dinner tonight my treat oh that sounds great I'd love to here's my address pick me up at 8 [Music] perfect thank you for such a lovely evening the food was amazing and I had a great time me too you look so beautiful tonight I wish this night would never end there's something that I have to tell

you but what is it I woke up today thinking that this would be just like any other day but I was wrong the twist of fate brought us together I crashed into your life and you into mine and this may sound crazy but I'm falling in love with you Veronica [Music] okay so we're back Erica I know you have a story of a twist of fate in your life yes uh recently actually this happened um I went to this party and at the party there was a contest like sort of a lottery mhm you could

buy some tickets and win a prize and the prize was a week-long vacation okay so I went with some friends of mine and they were tired so they left early and they gave me their tickets and guess what happened what happened I we won we won we won the weeklong vacation wow yeah it was amazing so that was a really lucky twist of fate lucky twist of fate yeah that's a good story yeah I'm sure uh it wasn't that good of a twist of fate for your friends yeah but they were very generous and let

me have the prize anyway all right well we want to hear your stories of maybe some type of twist of fate that you've had yes maybe love stories maybe tragic stories any story mhm H so be sure to leave your questions and comments and your stories at our website englishpod do.com and uh where you can also find us to answer any questions or doubts yes that's right so I guess until then it's goodbye [Music] bye hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're we're bringing you

the third part of this series that we've created called I'm sorry I love you that's right the third part in our story about our English pod couple yeah it's a romantic series but today we're bringing you an argument that's right like in every relationship you have fights you have discussions so we're going to teach you how to do that in English that's right in today's lesson you'll learn some great language that people use when they get into an argument with their boyfriend or girlfriend right so why don't we take a look at vocabulary preview vocabulary

preview we have one phrase today get a hold get a hold get a hold to get a hold to get a hold of someone means to try and communicate with that person exactly so to try and call that person for example I can say I've been calling his phone all day but I can't get a hold of him or I could say finally Marco I got a hold of you where have you been all day exactly MH now we're going to listen to our dialogue and as always it's going to be at a normal Pace

but you don't have to worry about it we'll come back and teach you all of the important [Music] words Steven where have you been I've been trying to get a hold of you for hours I uh there was an emergency at work so I was waiting for you in the restaurant for 3 3 hours and you didn't even have the decency to call me do you have any idea how embarrassed I was honey I promise this won't happen again it's just that I yeah right I've heard it all before I'm not going to take any

more of your empty promises this is the fifth time you stood me up in 2 weeks you need to get your priorities straight I'm tired of you putting your job first all the time come on Veronica that's not fair I do care about you a lot you know that I tried you know what maybe we should just take a break I need some time to think about where this relationship is heading but Veronica would you listen to me there was a fire alarm at my office building today and I [Music] was okay so a little

bit of trouble in the relationship yeah that's too bad yeah well I think um she's overreacting you do we'll talk about that later on but we saw some great words and phrases here so it's time for language takeaway language takeaway today on language takeaway we're bringing you three words the first word is stood me up stood me up stood me up stood me up the phrase stand someone up when do we use this if for example you have a date and you don't go okay so let's say you and I were supposed to have dinner

together and you just didn't come and didn't call right so I stood you up y okay stand someone up our next word priorities priorities priorities so priorities are something that's really important in your life that's right like family or maybe work or making a lot of money or whatever it is what what are your priorities in life right right yeah okay and our last word for language take away heading heading heading heading this is a bit of a funny verb so let's listen to a couple of examples of how it's used so we can understand

its meaning example one I don't know where our relationship is heading example two where's bus heading example three where is this project heading so basically heading means going exactly a heading is where you're going yep okay easy word and interesting okay so now it's time for us to listen to the dialogue a second time it's going to be slower so now we can understand the words that we just talked about [Music] Stephen where have you been I've been trying to get a hold of you for hours I um there was an emergency at work so

I was waiting for you in the restaurant for 3 hours and you didn't even have the decency to call me do you have any idea how embarrassed I was honey I promise this won't happen again it's just that I yeah right I've heard it all before I'm not going to take any more of your empty promises this is the fifth time you've stood me up in two weeks you need to get your priority straight I'm tired of you putting your job first all the time come on Veronica that's not fair I do care about you

a lot you know that I tried to you know what maybe we should just take a break I need some time to think about where this relationship is heading but Veronica would you just listen to me there was a fire alarm at my office building today and I was [Music] stuck okay now we saw some interesting phrases in dialogue yeah we saw some great phrases um that people use when they're getting in a fight right why don't we take a look at some of them in fluency Builder fluency Builder the first phrase that I want

to take a look at today is do you have any idea do you have any idea do you have any idea this is a great way to set up an argument so let's listen to some examples of how you would set up an argument using this phrase example one you forgot my birthday do you have any idea how angry I am example two Julie kissed my boyfriend does she have any idea how mean that was example three I just broke up with my boyfriend don't you have any idea how sad I am so it's a

great phrase to make that person understand that you were really worried or really angry really angry yeah okay and now the second phrase that we can take a look at is I've heard it all before I heard it all before I've heard it all before I've heard it all before so this is a great phrase of just saying you don't have to give me an excuse I know what you're going to say exactly and our last phrase today take a break take a break take a break so when a couple takes a break they sort

of stop stop their relationship right they're breaking up yeah but it's is it really like forever like a breakup that lasts forever not well maybe it could be forever but they're saying let's just take some time away from each other for a couple of days or weeks yeah yeah and see what happens yes take a break take a break okay so our happy couple is going to take a break well I guess they're not that happy then hey yeah okay so let's listen to our dialogue again and then we'll come back and talk some [Music]

more Steven where have you been I've been trying to get a hold of you for hours I uh there was an emergency at work so I was waiting for you in the restaurant for 3 hours and you didn't even have the decency to call me do you have any idea how embarrassed I was honey I promise this won't happen again it's just that I yeah right I've heard it all before I'm not going to take any more of your empty promises this is the fifth time you stood me up in 2 weeks you need to

get your priorities straight I'm tired of you putting your job first all the time come on Veronica that's not fair I do care about you a lot you know that I try to you know what maybe we should just take a break I need some time to think about where this relationship is heading but Veronica would you listen to me there was a fire alarm at my office building today and I [Music] was so Marco this phrase to take a break really reminds me of a Friends episode yeah that really famous Friends episode when Ross

and Rachel were on a break and and Ross like went with another girl right yeah and then they definitely broke up after that yeah so that's one of the key ISS right if you're taking a break can you start to date someone else I've got to agree with Rachel really yeah no you can't you can't you can't so what's the point of taking a break just you need some time away you need some time to think but you're not really broken up exactly that's convenient I don't know they were on a break I agree with

Ross well you would wouldn't you all right guys we're out of time today I hope you enjoyed our lesson and be sure to listen next time because we will definitely have a part four to this yes coming out soon yep and also come to our website at english.com and leave all your questions and comments yeah Marco and I are always happy to hear from you and we love answering your questions right and maybe you can tell us what you think happens in the fourth part yeah okay well until then it's goodbye bye [Music] hello English

Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're bringing you part four of our romantic series called I'm sorry I love you yeah and today we've got some drama don't we we got a lot of drama and we got a lot of useful language yeah we're going to learn um some phrases we can use to describe a mistake and uh we're also going to learn how we can comfort someone we can make them feel better okay exactly so in our dialogue today Veronica and her boyfriend are on a

break right so what does it mean to be on a break well it means you stop having a romantic relationship for a short time so you can say we are on a break so we're not dating we're not dating but we don't date all right or we could say let's take a break right so we've got the state on a break and the action take a break take a break okay let's take a break okay so let's listen to our dialogue and it's going to be a little bit fast and the girl I think she's

crying it'll be a little bit difficult to understand but Marco and I will come back in a minute and we'll talk about some of the difficult language [Music] here so so I said let's take a break and since that night I've been waiting for him to call but I still haven't heard from him you don't think he's seeing someone else do you come on don't be so dramatic I'm sure everything is going to work out just fine you think so oh no how could he do this to me I'm sure he's cheating on me why

else wouldn't he call but you two are on a break theoretically he can do whatever he likes he's the love of my life I really messed this up come on hun pull yourself together it's going to be all [Music] right but I I still love him and it's all my fault I can't believe how immature and sers I was being I mean he is a firefighter it's not like he can just leave someone in a burning building and and meet me for dinner I've totally messed this up you know what Veronica I think you should

make the first step I'm sure he'll forgive you no this is not going to happen I I ruined everything hey do you hear [Music] something guess what it's your lovely firefighter you know I sit around my [Music] H wow that's a romantic boyfriend singing in the street yeah yeah that's amazing have you have you ever done that for a girl um no well have you have you ever sung to a girl at KTV I've sung to a girl in KTV karaoke karaoke yeah so but not so much as an on the street with all the

Neighbors coming out to see me wow okay well I don't blame you all right let's take a look at the language that we saw in our Dialogue on language takeaway language takeaway all right so let's take a look at our first word seeing someone seeing someone seeing someone seeing someone so if I'm seeing someone you're dating them I'm dating them yeah I'm frequently going with that person right so but it's not very serious no it is serious but not really it's more of a casual thing it's not very exclusive so so if you are seeing

someone then you can also see another person maybe H well I think sometimes seeing someone can mean actually they're your boyfriend or girlfriend like I'm seeing John he's my boyfriend okay yeah see this is the difficult thing about seeing someone is that for some people it means it's really serious while for other people it means it's more casual I guess it's important that you and your boyfriend or girlfriend share the same view on the meaning of this word have to agree on what seeing someone means okay well what's our next word Marco cheating on cheating

on someone cheating on me cheating on someone okay so if you're cheating on someone then you are like kissing or even having sex with someone who's not your boyfriend or your husband or your girlfriend or your wife so if I say she cheated on me m that means that my girlfriend kissed or had sex with another guy right but if I say she cheated me yeah that's different that's different right it's different maybe she sold you something for a really high price she cheated me yeah or maybe she sold me something that was fake or

yeah or broken or something or broken okay so cheated on is really different from cheated okay let's take a look at our next word mess this up messed this up messed this up messed this up so Marco this is a phrasal verb um and that means we can sort of switch it around a little bit right exactly why don't we listen to some examples and then we can come back and talk some more example one I messed up on the exam and now I went past my class example two when I'm cooking I always mess

up and burn the rice okay so messed up it's pretty clear I think y all right let's take a look at our next word Immature Immature Immature Immature so when someone is immature they're acting really young really young right but it's not a very good thing to be immature no it has a negative meaning right it's normal for children to be immature cuz they're children right but not an adult yes okay so we've got some examples that will help you to understand this word a little bit better example one your toilet jokes are not funny

stop being so immature example two Genie acts like she's 16 she's so immature example three God you and your friends always act so immature all right so immature now let's take a look at our next word selfish selfish selfish selfish so a selfish person is a person who only thinks about themselves okay so I only think about me mhm no one else yeah you don't care about other people's feelings okay so it's not a good thing to be immature or selfish exactly okay so I think it's time for us to listen to our dialogue again

we're going to slow it down a little bit and this will help you to understand these phrases a little bit more clearly [Music] so I said let's take a break and since that night I've been waiting for him to call but I still haven't heard from him you don't think he's seeing someone else do you come on don't be so dramatic I'm sure everything is going to work out just fine you think so oh no how can can he do this to me I'm sure he's cheating on me why else wouldn't he call but you

two are on a break theoretically he can do whatever he likes he's the love of my life I've really messed this up come on hun pull yourself together it's going to be all right but I I still love him and it's all my fault I can't believe how immature and selfish I was being I mean he is a firefighter it's not like he can just leave someone in a burning building and meet me for dinner I've totally messed this up you know what Veronica I think you should make the first step step I'm sure he'll

forgive you no this is not going to happen I I've ruined everything hey do you hear something guess what it's your lovely [Music] firefighter okay so we saw Veronica's friend trying to calm her down yeah trying to comfort her okay to make her feel better mhm let's take a look at some of the phrases she used influency Builder fluency Builder okay so what was the first phrase that she said everything is going to work out just fine everything is going to work out just fine everything is going to work out just fine what does that

mean it's going to be okay it's going to be okay right yeah the problem will be solved okay so if somebody's worried or somebody is crying you can say ah don't worry everything is going to work out just fine mhm okay okay let's look at the next one pull yourself together pull yourself together pull yourself together pull yourself together so what does that mean exactly it sounds kind of weird I know I guess it just means stop crying relax and you know take a deep breath okay just like calm down yeah get organized with your

ideas and your thoughts yeah so you can think of maybe somebody who's got tears down their face and everything is sort of in a mess if you pull it together they clean up and they they sort of relax right okay pull yourself together mhm all right and the last phrase that we saw it's going to be all right it's going to be all right it's going to be all right it's going to be all right so it's going to be all right means everything is going to be okay yeah it's going to be fine it's

going to be fine the problem will go away you'll feel better maybe could even say it'll be all right yeah yeah it'll be all right yeah these are three really helpful phrases that you can use when you want to say something nice to a friend or a colleague who who has a problem okay exactly very useful language so let's listen to some more examples example one don't worry everything is going to work out just fine I'm sure he's still loves you example too everything's going to be all right we'll find your puppy don't worry okay

great examples and I think it's clear now mhm so let's listen to our dialogue again and then we'll come back and talk some [Music] more so so I said let's take a break and since that night I've been waiting for him to call call but I still haven't heard from him you don't think he's seeing someone else do you come on don't be so dramatic I'm sure everything is going to work out just fine you think so oh no how could he do this to me I'm sure he's cheating on me why else wouldn't he

call but you two are on a break theoretically he can do whatever he likes he's in love of my life I really messed this up come on hun pull yourself together it's going to be all [Music] right but I I still love him and it's all my fault I can't believe how immature and sish I was being I mean he is a firefighter it's not like he can just leave someone in a burning building and and meet me for dinner I've totally mess this up you know what Veronica I think you should make the first

step I'm sure he'll forgive you no this is not going to happen I I ruined everything hey do you hear [Music] something guess what it's your lovely firefighter around my head H [Music] down okay I really like this dialogue it's so romantic it's drama but at the same time romantic MH so we want to know what you think will happen next yeah will they get back together will they get married will they have a baby maybe they'll break up forever maybe she'll move halfway across the world anything can happen so let us know what you

think will happen mhm come to to our website at englishpod do.com and leave your comments on the lesson page exactly and maybe you'll be right yeah you never know okay so we're out of time for today I hope you guys had fun and we'll see you next time until then it's goodbye [Music] bye hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're bringing you again the great series I'm sorry I love you part six the newest installment in the English pod soap opera drama romance love tragedy

all of it here at English pod and and in our Series so today we have a really great dialogue I I I just can't believe what's happening here but before we get into it we need to preview one word that's right so let's take a a look at it in vocabulary preview vocabulary preview well we're going to preview this word sleeping with sleeping with sleeping with someone sleeping with him yes so it seems pretty easy I mean sleeping with it just sounds like you are in bed with somebody yeah but you are doing a little

bit more and sleeping all right so so in English this phrase actually means that you are involed D with someone and have an intimate sexual relationship right yes you are in a relationship with someone and you are having sex exactly so be careful how you use it because I know that sometimes you want to translate and just say well they are in the same bed together but it's not that they're having sex right so most of the time in English the phrase sleeping with means sex right okay sleeping with be careful okay well let's find

out why are we talking about sleeping with well obviously somebody is sleeping with somebody so let's listen to the dialogue and then we'll come back and talk about [Music] it this is ridiculous I can't believe you've been sleeping with someone else how could you do this you know what I'm out of here wait doctor how is this possible I haven't cheated on my boyfriend I have something to confess I'm sorry for onica I [Music] lied wait what what do you mean I lied you aren't even pregnant there's no bun in the oven I was just

so overwhelmed with jealousy that I couldn't help myself Veronica I love you what are you talking about who who are you it's me Daniel don't you remember me from high school I sat behind you in science class I used to go to Every football game and watch you in the cheerleading squad you're insane we never even spoke why did you lie like that to my boyfriend because Veronica it's not fair I love you I have since the first day we met everything was going fine until that jerk came into the picture and ruined everything I

went to med school and became a doctor for you you always said how you wanted to marry a doctor you will be mine now one way or another I heard everything you lying bastard get your hands off of her Scandal again oh this poor Veronica and Stephen I just I don't know how their relationship could get more complicated it's amazing they're having an amazing uh Adventure in their love life I'm sure glad my love life looks nothing like this all right so we saw some really great words so let's take a look at them in

language takeaway language takeaway the words we're looking at now are about feelings mhm and so let's take a look at the first one confess okay confess to confess to confess so confess what does that mean when you confess something you you tell a secret that you've been hiding okay so that's pretty easy so you have a secret and you want to tell it to someone so you are confessing yeah and it's usually something negative negative okay so Marco I confess that I stole $5 from you oh you did yeah sorry okay no wonder my wallet

was lighter yeah all right so confess I shall not forgive you for this oh no all right let's take a look at our next word overwhelmed overwhelmed I am overwhelmed so when I am over overwhelmed I am filled with emotion okay with emotion it can be good emotions and bad emotions right yeah but you just you feel too much it's like you're you're you're going to explode okay I am overwhelmed with joy yes or I'm overwhelmed with work and I am overwhelmed with jealousy like this guy right and that's our third word jealousy jealousy so

this is interesting because say jealousy is the noun that's right it's the feeling of being jealous which is the adjective which is the adjective so what does it mean when you are jealous it means that you you see somebody and you want what they have okay you want what they have y so in this case the doctor is jealous of Veronica's boyfriend because the doctor wants Veronica Okay jealous mhm so so Erica are you a are you a jealous wife um I don't know maybe a little bit a little bit but I've never gone to

the extent of telling someone that they're pregnant when they're not all right jealousy okay and let's take a look at our next two words which are actually kind of insults right yeah they're not very kind words at all okay but you got to learn them anyways okay let's take a look at this one jerk jerk jerk he's a jerk j e r k jerk jerk so what does it mean if someone is a jerk a stupid and mean person plain as simple as that stupid and mean so can a woman be a jerk it's mostly

male but now it's becoming more common to to use with women as well okay so I can say he is a jerk or she is a jerk yeah but it is more common for men okay and now let's take a look at last word you lying bastard bastard bastard bastard wow this is pretty strong as well yeah you got to be careful about this one this one is almost a swear word almost not like on the line Y so what does it mean if you call someone a bastard well literally it means your mother and

father were not married when when you were born when you were born exactly so it is a pretty big insult yes a little bit I guess but but it doesn't really really mean that your mother and father weren't married just it means that you are a jerk you're a jerk you're a really big jerk you're a mean person a really mean person so jerk isn't as strong as a bastard right bastard is stronger okay so you got to be careful when you throw that word in there or how you would use it and again it's

for men right not for women yeah you can't use this word with women oh okay that's there's another one out there but that I'll have to wait for another English pod well apparent ly all of these words are Just For Men what did we do wrong I Marco I can't begin to tell you okay okay so let's listen to our dialogue again and then we'll come back and look at some great [Music] phrases this is ridiculous I can't believe you've been sleeping with someone else how could you do this you know what I'm out of

here wait doctor how is this possible I haven't cheated on my boyfriend I have something to confess I'm sorry Veronica I lied wait what what do you mean I lied you aren't even pregnant there's no bun in the oven I was just so overwhelmed with jealousy that I couldn't help myself Veronica I love you what are you talking about who who are you it's me Daniel don't you remember me from high school I sat behind you in science class I used to go to Every football game and watch you in the cheerleading squad you insane

we never even spoke why did you lie like that to my boyfriend because Veronica it's not fair I love you I have since the first day we met everything was going fine until that jerk came into the picture and ruined everything I went to med school and became a doctor for you you always said how you wanted to marry a doctor you will be mine now one way or another I heard everything you lying bastard get your hands off of her [Music] all right so great stuff jerk bastards all that good words going around but

we've also got some amazing phrases so why don't we take a look at those now in fluency Builder fluency Builder all right so in fluency Builder today we have three great phrases let's take a look at the first one bun in the oven a bun in the oven a bun in the oven okay this is obviously an idiomatic phrase right well it could be literal as well right like you could actually have a piece of bread in your oven right bun is a piece of bread y in the oven but in this context we're not

using it no um it means you're pregnant you're pregnant so the baby is the bun yeah and the oven is your stomach right so you say she has a bun in the oven yes she's pregnant she's pregnant okay it could be difficult to understand if you don't really uh have the explanation right you you would say what she has bread in the oven yeah a bun in the oven okay now let's take a look at the second one couldn't help myself I couldn't help myself I couldn't help myself so when you can't help yourself you

can't control yourself right you you did something be but you couldn't control it you couldn't stop it you couldn't stop it okay so let's listen to some examples of how you would use I couldn't help myself because it's a phrase that you can use in many different ways right that's right let's listen example one I just couldn't help myself when I saw your car I just had to buy it example two I'm sorry I couldn't help myself I just started laughing example three that cake was so good I couldn't help myself I ate it all

right perfect couldn't help myself easy now the doctor he couldn't help himself from lying to Veronica because he was angry that her boyfriend Steven came into the picture came into the picture to come into the picture okay so what does it mean when somebody comes into the picture well basically you appear in somebody's life you come into somebody's life so imagine imagine that your life is a picture uhuh and somebody all of a sudden comes into it so they come into the picture they come into your life come into your life yes so he's angry

that Stephen appeared into Veronica's life and they're in love and all that stuff right yeah all right well these are some great phrases and why don't we listen to them again in context so let's listen to the dialogue [Music] this is ridiculous I can't believe you've been sleeping with someone else how could you do this you know what I'm out of here wait doctor how is this possible I haven't cheated on my boyfriend I have something to confess I'm sorry Veronica I [Music] lied wait what what what do you mean I lied you aren't even

pregnant there's no bun in the oven I was just so overwhelmed with jealousy that I couldn't help myself Veronica I love you what are you talking about who who are you it's me Daniel don't you remember me from high school I sat behind you in science class I used to go to Every football game and watch you in the cheerleading squad you're insane we never even spoke why did you lie like that to my boyfriend because Veronica it's not fair I love you I have since the first day we met everything was going fine until

that jerk came into the picture and ruined everything I went to med school and became a doctor for you you always said how you wanted to marry a doctor you will be mine now one way or another I heard everything you lying bastard get your hands off of her okay so Veronica's not pregnant that was a close one yeah actually they're not married so this is a very controversial topic right y being Knocked Up yes nice phrase nice phrase so there's a lot of interesting phrases and um and and ways you can talk about pregnancy

so if you're knocked up you're pregnant right so you could hear that in movies it's not really I would say a proper way of saying no it's not that polite because it it it gives you the idea that it was a mistake right so you would say she got knocked up yes another common phrase is um prar prar I heard this is a more Australian right she's prar so she's pregnant uh so it's actually a pretty interesting topic I know that for example in Latin America if a girl that's maybe in her early 20s uh

gets pregnant accidentally by her boyfriend usually the families expect them to get married really yeah so it's kind of like should they get married should they not so there's a lot of pressure a lot of pressure but it's different in other countries right so I don't know for you guys what what's it like in your country where where you live is there pressure on the the guy and the girl to get married I mean should Stephen and Veronica get married in this situation or what about just living together or as they say living in sin

right living in sin living together living in sin so is it okay to just live together with your girlfriend or should you get married before mhm this is a controversial topic so we'll have a lot of different opinions but it should be interesting yes so visit our and tell us what you think englishpod do.com all right guys we'll see you [Music] there hello everyone welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're bringing you again our romantic dramatic suspense series I'm sorry I love you part seven so we're going

to find out what's happening with Steph and Veronica right in the last episode Veronica was at the doctor's she was pregnant but then the doctor told her it was a lie and he made it up and she wasn't even pregnant exactly so now let's see what Veronica and Steven are going to say to each other maybe they will break up I don't know I don't think so but let's listen [Music] thank God you showed up when you did he's insane do you think we should call the police uh don't worry about it I'll call my

friend and have him take care of it I can't believe he was stalking you all these years what a nut job I know well he said I'm not pregnant I'm sorry if I got you all worked up over nothing I want you to know that I didn't do it on purpose don't apologize from the moment I met you not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you and now that I'm with you again I'm just I'm just scared Veronica The Closer I Get to You the worse it gets the thought of not

being with you I mean I just can't handle it we were made for each other Veronica you're my everything my soulmate what what can I do just hold me I'll always be here for you no matter what and together we can tackle whatever life throws at us I Believe in Us Steven I'm so happy to hear that I know we belong together I love you so [Music] [Applause] [Music] much oh it was such a romantic uh moment and now what happened somebody got shot oh my God I don't know this is like so big I

can't believe this is happening well it's a very uh intense drama but we saw some great words and a lot of great phrases in there when Steven was telling her all these beautiful words right that's right so why don't we look at some of these words now in language takeaway language takeaway Veronica was glad or she was very happy that Steven showed up that's right showed up so to show up right to come to a place okay or to arrive that's right so let's listen to some examples of how we can use show up in

different contexts example one we were waiting for you like an hour and you never showed up example two I didn't invite him to the party he just simply showed up on invited example three after months of being lost my dog finally showed up with a family all right so I think it's pretty clear now the verb show up and I think this verb is a little bit informal isn't it yes you wouldn't really tell your boss hey I'm waiting for you to show up yeah yeah it's a it's a bit too informal as we know

the doctor he was a he was stalking Veronica that's right so that's our next word stock to stalk somebody St t a l k okay stock now this isn't a good thing right no this is a this is bad so what happens when you stalk someone you follow them secretly for a long time and then maybe you you watch them and yeah like you have you're standing outside their window watching them get undressed or something okay so many famous people have stalkers right yeah which is the noun the the noun form exactly so if I

am stalking somebody I am considered to be a stalker yes so to stock so don't do this mhm so Stephen described this stalker as a nut job a nut job Nut Job a nut job okay very very informal and it doesn't really mean anything literally but it's crazy yes it means a crazy person a crazy person what a nut job he's a nut job okay so would you really call this to someone someone like to their face no no definitely not it's definitely impolite right you you can't say to someone oh you're a nut job

yeah but it's not a swear word no but it's a little bit insulting right it's like saying you are you're crazy but stronger well the doctor was a nut job he was talking her and she apologized to Steven for getting him worked up worked up so work up to be worked up when you get worked up what happens you get really emotional and usually angry or sad or upset but a negative emotion okay so you got worked up so it's always used with the verb to get so to get worked up okay you get worked

up you got worked up okay very good and well stevenh got worked up over nothing but he didn't mind he said she is his love and he called her his soulmate his soulmate soulmate that's right a very romantic word meaning the perfect person for for you right your other half yes okay so your soulmate is that perfect compliment for you and it's usually romantic right usually romantic but sometimes you might use it with your very very very best friend okay because you understand each other yeah you you know what the other one's thinking you're the

perfect fit together okay soulmate mhm very good well we've seen some really interesting words so why don't we listen to our dialogue again and then we'll come back and look at some of the phrases that we're using [Music] used thank God you showed up when you did he's insane do you think we should call the police uh don't worry about it I'll call my friend and have him take care of it I can't believe he was stucking you all these years what a nut job I know well he said I'm not pregnant I'm sorry if

I got you all worked up over nothing I want you to know that I didn't do it on purpose don't apologize from the moment I met you not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you and now that I'm with you again I'm just I'm I'm just scared Veronica The Closer I Get to You the worse it gets the thought of not being with you I mean I just can't handle it we were made for each other Veronica you're my everything my soulmate what what can I do just hold me I'll always

be here for you no matter what and together we can tackle whatever life throws at us I Believe in Us Steven I'm so happy to hear that I know we belong together I love you so much that was a little bit more clear this time but now I want to look at some phrases um in the dialogue and see how they can be put together putting it together so Veronica apologized to Steven for getting him worked up over nothing over nothing over nothing now it's the complete sentence I'm sorry for getting you worked up over

nothing so over nothing means for no reason right right exactly so why don't we listen to some other examples of how we can use over nothing example one you always get angry over nothing you have such a bad temper example two I called the police last night over nothing I thought I had a thief in my house example three let's not fight over nothing let's just have dinner in peace okay so we see you can use many different verbs together with over nothing so get excited over nothing get angry over nothing get upset over nothing

exactly very good so over nothing mhm and now for our next phrase so when Steven was telling Veronica how much he loved her he told her not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you so not a day has gone by mhm so that part of the sentence not a day has gone by what what does he mean by that he's he means basically every day I think of you there hasn't been a moment where I haven't thought of you now how can we change a little bit what can we change within

this phrase well you can put in different times okay so not a day has gone by not an hour has gone by not a moment has gone by not a month not a year exactly okay so you can use different times in that phrase but an important thing is that the compliment is always negative right that's right so it's always followed by a negative not a day has gone by that I haven't wished you were here okay so it's followed by a negative that's right um maybe one more not a second has gone by that

I haven't missed you okay very good examples very romantic oh Marco all right and now our last phrase he told her I'll always be here for you no matter what no matter what no matter what so no matter what what does he mean by that well regardless of or you know nothing's going to stop me okay so if I want to get that job I'm going to get it no matter what so nothing's going to stop you now we can change the wh word what at the end right with other ones exactly so no matter

where no matter where you are I will find you yeah no matter when no matter when your birthday is I will be there that's right you can see how you can use different wh words here okay very good and it's a very common phrase right no matter what no matter where no matter when no matter why no matter how yeah no matter how Okay so those were some really great phrases and I think you can play with them a little bit change some things and then you can use them in your everyday life that's right

but why don't we hear them again one more time in context with the [Music] dialogue thank God you showed up when you did he's insane do you think we should call the police uh don't worry about it I'll call my friend and have him take care of it I can't believe he was stucking you all these years what a nut job I know well he said I'm not pregnant I'm sorry if I got you all worked up over nothing I want you to know that I didn't do it on purpose don't apologize from the moment

I met you not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you and now that I'm with you again I'm just I'm I'm just scared Veronica The Closer I Get to You the worse it gets the thought of not being with you I mean I just can't hand it we were made for each other Veronica you're my everything my soulmate what what can I do just hold me I'll always be here for you no matter what and together we can tackle whatever life throws at us I Believe in Us Steven I'm so happy

to hear that I know we belong together I love you so much [Music] [Music] okay Erica so who do you think got shot I don't know but I'm starting to think this story is becoming a soap opera well it certainly is and well what do you guys think happened or who do you think got shot or who did the shooting who shot who maybe wasn't even a gunshot maybe it was just the car the tire could have popped I don't knowly so well come to our website tell us what you think happens or what you

would like to happen because I know many people are expecting a little bit more uh romance maybe and less drama but if you have any questions about the language in this lesson please visit the website at englishpod ccom exactly Erica and I are always there to answer your questions and well anything you guys need anything anything well thanks for list listening to this lesson and until next time goodbye [Music] bye hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're bringing you the eighth part of our dramatic

romantic love story I'm sorry I love you that's right we're coming close to the end of this story aren't we yeah we're coming close to the end and we still have a lot lot of uh interesting things going on so I wonder what's going to happen well um I can tell you that today's lesson involves this word which we'll hear in vocabulary preview vocabulary preview So today we're just going to look at this one word spy a spy a spy Spy all right so we probably know famous Spies Like James Bond or Austin Powers right

so basically it's a person who is secretly trying to get information about a government or maybe a business right so that's a spy now the verb to spy same thing right M to spy on someone to spy on a company yep so why are we talking spies and spying here in English pod why don't we find out by listening to our dialogue [Music] [Applause] [Music] I haven't been completely honest with you Veronica I'm sorry I'm not a fireman I'm not even from the United States I'm a spy for the Indian government what why didn't you

tell me before what are you doing here when I was a young boy I used to play cricket with my father back in my hometown of Hyderabad it was a peaceful town and my my father was a renowned chemist one day he was approached by members of the CIA claiming that my father had made the discovery of the Millennium in his small lab back at the University where he taught biochemistry I never saw him again I vowed to discover the whereabouts of my father and consequently joined the Indian intelligence Bureau what does that have to

do with those men shooting at us most importantly why did you lie to me I'm sorry I wasn't supposed to meet you I wasn't supposed to fall in love with you but you have to believe me when I tell you that what I feel for you is real I can't believe this why are all these things happening to me I I can't take it anymore let me out of the car Veronica [Music] wait all right so stepen is not even American he's an Indian spy he's not even a firefighter well there you go see many

surprises on this love story it gets deeper and deeper well why don't we take a look at some of the vocabulary that was used in this great story in language takeaway language take away well here we've got a lot of language uh that you can use when you need to be honest about something we're going to look at six phrases here now the first one Sten says he needs to come clean come clean come clean right so basically he needs to tell the truth he needs to confess confess right about something that he maybe wasn't

truthful about in the past yeah maybe he had a secret or maybe he lied about something y so now he's coming clean mhm very good so he comes clean and he tells the story about his childhood and he says his father was a renowned chemist renowned renowned okay so if you are a renowned chemist you're are very famous and well respected so you can use that with people with with places a renowned restaurant okay so very popular very wellknown yeah we also hear it commonly like this a world renowned chemist a world renowned restaurant so

not only popular locally but the whole world knows about it very good all right and so he continues with his story and he says he was approached by members of the CIA approached to be approached by okay so if I am approached by somebody from the CIA what does that mean well they they come to talk to you about something uh really important okay so the verb to approach someone can mean get close to right to walk up to them or something like that right but it also carries this this meaning of coming to talk

to you about something something important something very important y so for example I can say my my boss approached me this morning to talk about an important pay raise oo lucky you or maybe um Jim approached me to ask if I know if his wife is cheating on him or not wow all right so that's how you would use this verb approach someone now let's move on to the next word so he was approached by members of the CIA and they were claiming something about his father that's right so to claim claim something to claim

something all right so basically when you're claiming something you are saying that it's true right it might not be true but we don't know yeah so for example he claims he makes $4 million a year okay or Bob claims that he saw UFO mhm we can't prove it if it's true or not but that's what they're saying is true yep so Steven's father disappeared and well he vowed to discover where he was so Steven vowed to find his father vow vow to vow so this verb to vow means to make a strong promise right yes

and we use it also in marriage right wedding vows wedding vows which are basically promises M so if you vow something you make a very strong promise yes it's very very bad if you break a vow oh really what happens I don't know probably Thunder strikes you and you die all right so don't break your vows yeah and the last word on language takeaway today the where whereabouts the whereabouts the whereabouts of his father mhm so the whereabouts is the location the location kind of unknown location right right I think this is a great word

for us to listen to some more examples example one the police don't have any information on the whereabouts of the murderer example two currently the whereabouts of the president are unknown example three you live in Toronto too whereabouts do you live all right so whereabouts perfect you can use it for location unknown location mhm all right so some great words now I want to move on to some phrases that we heard in the dialogue um and let's look at those now in fluency Builder fluency Builder all right on fluency Builder today we have four great

phrases and let's start with the first one what's going on so Veronica asks what's going on Stephen what's going on basically what's happening right what's happening what what's what's the situation yeah now another interesting thing is that among friends you could use this phrase to say hey how are you you how are you how's it going right so you can say hey Erica what's going on and it all depends on your your tone of voice so um when you want to know how that person is hey Marco what's going on right but if you're angry

or maybe something strange is happening you're like hey what's going on here yes so your your voice Falls right now let's take a look at our next phrase and this one is very very useful especially if you've lied yes so stevenh says I haven't been complet completely honest with you I haven't been completely honest with you I haven't been completely honest with you so that means he hasn't been telling the whole truth right pretty easy to understand but I think its use is interesting here right you might use it to kind of soften up the

person to confess something right so when you're ready to come clean about a secret you have or a lie you told this is a great way to prepare your listener right you know what I haven't been completely honest with you yeah moving on to our third phrase so the CIA claimed that Steven's father had made the discovery of the Millennium the discovery of the Millennium discovery of the Millennium okay let's break this down Millennium Millennium is a thousand years right so the discovery of the Millennium is the best most important Discovery in the past thousand

years right so now we can change it a little bit and say the invention of the Millennium or even the party of the Millennium exactly so it doesn't necessarily have to be the most important of the last 1,000 years but it means it was pretty good it was pretty good very important hey you can also say the the discovery of the decade right of the decade of the century of the Year yep and now let's take a look at our last phrase so Steven confessed he came clean he told her everything but he said he

wasn't supposed to fall in love with her I wasn't supposed to I wasn't supposed to fall in love with you all right so let's look at this phrase I wasn't supposed to it's an interesting one it's sort of like a cross between I didn't need to and I shouldn't have done right now let's look at some examples I wasn't supposed to come to work today all right so you didn't need to it wasn't necessary all right so maybe it was your annual vacation day but you came into work anyway or maybe it was a holiday

and I came to work anyways so so the plan was not for you to come to work right so in this case we're saying it wasn't necessary mhm or it wasn't planned or planned y now let's look at it the other way when you shouldn't okay Marco I wasn't supposed to tell you this but okay so now in this case you shouldn't be telling me this you shouldn't tell me the secret y but you're going to anyways yes off air so I wasn't supposed to in this case it means I shouldn't mhm all right some

really great language here now I think it would help us to hear it one more time in the [Music] [Applause] [Music] dialogue I haven't been completely honest with you Veronica I'm sorry I'm not a fireman I'm not even from the United States I'm a spy for the Indian government what why didn't you tell me before what are you doing here when I was a young boy I used to play cricket with my father back in my hometown of Hyderabad it was a peaceful town and my father was a renowned chemist one day he was approached

by members of the CIA claiming that my father had made the discovery of the Millennium in his small lab back at the University where he taught biochemistry I never saw him again again I vowed to discover the whereabouts of my father and consequently joined the Indian intelligence Bureau what does it have to do with those men shooting at us and most importantly why did you lie to me I'm sorry I wasn't supposed to meet you I wasn't supposed to fall in love with you but you have to believe me when I tell you that what

I feel for you is real I can't believe this why are all these things happening to me I I can't take it anymore let me out of the car Veronica Waits okay great so now we're getting close to the end of this series so what's going to happen maybe Veronica is also a spy oh my God I don't think I could handle that all right so we really need your suggestions we need your ideas we want to know how you think the series ends or how you would want it to end do you want it

to be a happy ending or a tragedy or maybe action filled ending all right well we got two lessons left in this series so visit our website at englishpod do.com and leave your suggestions all right guys we'll see you guys there and until next time goodbye [Music] bye hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're bringing you part nine of our romantic drama suspense action series I am sorry I love you this is actually our penultimate lesson exactly this story will end in part 10 so

we're almost done what's happening well I am pretty excited to find out so why don't we go straight into the dialogue and catch up with Steven and Veronica [Music] Veronica wait come on honey get back in the car let's talk it over okay no I'm tired of your lies I don't know who you are anymore Veronica it's me the man that has and always will love you I'm sorry that I've lied to you believe me it's been hard for me as well and time and again I've thought of coming clean but I couldn't put you

or my mission at risk it's all over now my assignment is complete and now I have to go back to India what are you kidding is there anything else I should know before I never see you again how could you deceive me like that yes Veronica I know that this isn't the best time and you probably hate me right now but I want to be completely forthright with you I know deep in my heart that you are the best thing that has ever happened to me Veronica will you marry me come with me to India

baby I can't make it for everything that's happened but I can promise you my undying love I will be the most devoted husband and I will cherish you always stepen I can't just leave everything at the drop of a hat with everything that has happened between us I just don't know you anymore I just can't build a relationship on a foundation of Lies I do love you but I can't go with you I'm sorry I love you this is the last call for flight 8:15 from Los Angeles to Hyderabad I'm sorry sir we can't wait

any longer you must board the plane are you waiting for someone I was but I don't think she's coming [Music] all right so it seems like our poor Steven is going home by himself oh it's so sad I know he proposed she didn't accept and now he's going back to India by himself you know I think this must be one of the worst feelings in the world you know like wondering if the person you love is going to show up at the last minute and realizing they aren't I think it's very common of movies you

always expect the person to come running and show up but as you can see our dialogues are more realistic so it didn't happen in this occasion more realistic okay anyway let's not debate that topic let's go straight into the language now uh with language takeaway language takeaway all right so today on language takeaway we have six words that we're going to be looking at and let's get started with the first one Okay so we've got language about love and language about telling the truth and the first one is a word about telling the truth so

um Stephen said I've thought of coming clean okay to come clean to come clean now if I want to come clean it means I want to you want to admit to something or to tell the truth about something you've been hiding exactly okay so I want to finally tell the truth or confess mhm so someone needs to come clean about who stole the chocolate out of the kitchen no okay come clean so Steven wanted to come clean on many occasions but Veronica said how could you deceive me like that deceive someone How Could You deceive

me so to deceive someone all right to deceive you when you deceive somebody um you make them believe something that is untrue so you kind of trick them yeah yeah okay make them believe or see something that is not really true exactly all right so that that's the uh the verb to deceive now the noun the action of doing this is called deception it was all a great deception okay so a big trick um something a big untruth you deceived me mhm all right very good and now the opposite of deceive is to be forthright

forthright so stepen want wants to be completely forthright with Veronica okay I want to be forthright with you all right when you are forthright with somebody you are very honest and truthful with them right direct you tell them the truth and everything directly and you don't so you don't like hide it or soften it or anything very good so forthright mhm all right so three um words about honesty now we've got three words about love for you so Stephen promised Veronica his undying love my undying love my undying love now undying well I think it's

pretty pretty easy right it won't die it won't die exactly so he's offering her his for his love forever mhm a very romantic phrase very romantic and he also promised to be a devoted husband devoted husband I'll be the most devoted husband now this word devoted what am I saying there so as a devoted husband um Stephen really really would love his wife he'd really look after her well and he would put all of his energy into that into his marriage right okay so he would be very committed to her mhm and work really hard

now can I change the noun husband for something else yeah we can talk about a devoted friend or a devoted father or a devoted employee very good and our last word about love well Stephen also promises to cherish Veronica okay I will cherish you always I will cherish you always so if I cherish somebody like like my girlfriend what would that mean it means you hold her in your heart like you really love her and you really respect her and you hold her close in your heart okay so I respect her and maybe you don't

take that person for granted MH okay to cherish someone y all right so some nice honesty words some nice love words and I think now we can move on to some interesting phrases with fluency Builder fluency Builder all right so Veronica was upset she didn't want to get in back in the car and Steven said let's talk it over okay let's talk it over let's talk it over to talk something over now if I tell you that I want to talk it over um what am I saying well obviously you want to talk about it

right mhm but you want to talk about it for some time to really talk about all of the problems and the issues and everything so to try and make things clear exactly all right and also when he was confessing he said time and again I've thought of coming clean so this phrase time and again time and again time and again so that's basically the same as saying again and again or many times right so time and again I've thought of quitting smoking but never really have done it so you've thought many times of doing it

time and again yep all right so let's go to our next phrase now um Veronica said I can't just leave everything at the drop of a hat at the drop drop of a hat at the drop of a hat so this is a very interesting and colloquial way of saying immediately mhm so um why don't we hear a few examples of how this is used in English example one my boss expects me to come into work at the drop of a hat example two Laura is always willing to help me at the drop of a

hat example three I can't leave at the drop of a hat hat I need time to prepare okay so as you can see you can change it for different things but basically you're saying I can't do something immediately yeah and it it is almost always attached to this idea of doing something or going somewhere being somewhere mhm very good at the drop of a hat all right now our final phrase here for this lesson so um Veronica was saying I can't go to India at the drop of a hat and she also said I just

can't build a relationship on a foundation of Lies okay a foundation of lies to build something on a foundation of Lies now this is interesting let's take a look at this uh Foundation what is that well you know you have a house right and the part that's in the ground that supports the house is the foundation okay so it supports the entire structure right so here she refers to the lies as the foundation mhm um and that's no way to start a strong relationship is it oh exactly so we use it metaphorically in this way

but we can always but we always have to say it but we always have to use the verb build okay so it's basically to make something on a base of something else right uhhuh so for example a strong relationship is built on a foundation of trust or this country was built on a foundation of Liberty very good so always use foundation with built mhm very good very interesting and well I think we should listen to this dialogue for the last time and then we'll come back and talk a little bit more about Veronica and [Music]

Steven Veronica wait come on honey get back in the car let's talk it over okay no I'm tired of your lies I don't know who you are anymore Veronica it's me the man that has and always will love you I'm sorry that I've lied to you believe me it's been hard for me as well and time and again I've thought of coming clean but I couldn't put you or my mission at risk it's all over now my assignment is complete and now I have to go back to India what are you kidding is there anything

else I should know before I never see you again how could you deceive me like that yes Veronica I know that this isn't the best time and you probably hate me right now but I want to be completely forthright with you I know deep in my heart that you are the best thing that has ever happened happened to me Veronica will you marry me come with me to India baby I can't make it for everything that's happened but I can promise you my undying love I will be the most devoted husband and I will cherish

you always Steven I can't just leave everything at the drop of a hat with everything that has happened between us I just don't know you anymore I just can't build a relationship on a foundation of Lies I do love you but I can't go with you I'm sorry I love you this is the last call for flight 8:15 from Los Angeles to Hyderabad I'm sorry sir we can't wait any longer you must board the plane are you waiting for someone I was but I don't think she's coming [Music] so Marco I think I see a

bit of a tear there in the corner of your eye I'm very sad I can't believe he proposed and she just said no just like that it's not supposed to happen and plus he was inviting her to India and exotic getaway and well EXO exotic getaway for the for the rest of her life well what do you think will happen part 10 it all ends so do you think they all just keep on living their separate lives will they meet again who knows come to our website and tell us what you think will happen so

you can find us at englishpod dcom all right don't miss our finale of this lesson and until next time we'll see you guys there [Music] hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and my name is Katherine and today Marco and I get to share with you the thrilling conclusion to the well very popular I must say series I'm sorry I love you that's right today is the finale the final episode episode 10 this is where it all ends so what do you think is going to happen if I guess you're

just going to get angry at me cuz I actually know how it ends but let's just say I hope that it ends as well for our protagonists there was a lot of controversy around it because you know I wanted to know if people wanted a happy ending a sad ending unexpected I guess everyone wants a happy ending right absolutely so we're going to well keep our fingers crossed for Stephen and Veronica and check out this dialogue one time Steven good to see you brother how are you how was your trip it was fine I've been

better but it's great to be home I've missed you all how's Mom she's great all she ever does is talk about you her little boy that went to United States you're her pride and joy you know that right can't wait to see you you what's new with you well Nisha and I are expecting you'll have another nephew or nie soon that's great wow congrats you two are great together you know you have such a beautiful family I hope that one day I can have that of course man come on I mean everything was set here

for you to marry Shin you know she's still pining after you I don't think she'll ever get over you what are you talking about I hardly knew her how could she be in love with me I couldn't go through with it even though she's a great woman no I Left My Heart in the United States I just hope Veronica is Happy get over it you're home now everyone here thinks so highly of you there'll be girls throwing themselves at you you can marry anyone you want I don't want to marry anyone I want to marry

her don't you understand you are encourageable stepen my baby how are you you I miss you so much hey Mom great to see you you look so thin didn't those Americans feed you come come let's have some time by the way there is a girl here waiting for you hi Steven Veronica how did you get here I now declare you husband and wife you may kiss the bre all right so uh they got married oh you got married we got married I got married yeah wow I should have called my mom and not only did

you get married but you got married in Bollywood Style with like music and everything nice and those weddings are like 4 days long who a family member Steven's Indian family who he hasn't seen for a long long time M and the first thing he's he's talking to his brother about his brother and his wife so gulam and Nisha are expecting we find out right they're expecting so if gulam and Nisha are expecting what does that mean exactly they're expecting a letter expecting a baby maybe aha yeah so here we go I'm expecting it's very common

English way of saying I'm going to have a baby I'm pregnant all right so don't get this confused if somebody says oh well I'm expecting you don't have to say expecting what exactly when it's only expecting when it's not a thing afterwards I'm expecting means I'm pregnant or or she's expecting she's going to have a baby mhm MH so they are expecting a baby or they're expecting well and they were talking about well stepen he he was supposed to get married in India and uh his brother said a very interesting word he said well these

girls are still U this girl is still pining over you so the Shalini some girl that Steven used to to know when he was living in India she's pining after you mhm well Pine has many different meanings in English but in this sense we're talking about having a crush on or being in love with and also it's a way of saying that you are that you desire you yearn for this person very very much but that you don't have them right you want them you want them so you're pining over this person now can you

Pine over an object no no usually it's maybe uh related to love or to in a person right yeah so she she stands by the door every day waiting the letter that doesn't come she's pining away for her dear love Thomas or whatever and you know what I read recently is that people can get addicted to pining really yeah after a breakup maybe you can Pine after a person not because you miss them or you want to but you kind of grow accustomed to it and you become addicted to this pain that's kind of pleasurable

M there is a way to to describe this it's called petar in love well it's this kind of traditional idea in poetry where you have a love that's never consummated that's never filled you never get to be with the person that you love that you desire and so it's a way yeah it's a way of uh distinguishing the two different kinds of love one where you're with the person and the other where you always want them but you can never have them well hopefully none of our listeners are pining over anyone or get to experience

that huh exactly but uh if you do pine away or you Pine after someone um you have to hope that one day you'll get over that person yeah you have to get over it and that's what his brother says hey get over it I don't think she'll ever get over you so what does it mean when you're supposed to get over someone okay this is a good question because you know we're talking here not about actually getting up on top of a fence or a wall we're talking about emotions so getting over someone so I

have to get over him means that I have to stop feeling so sad about what what happened right because usually you say this when someone's sad or angry and and also it kind of means that you have to forget or let that person go you know like get over it we're going to move on here too to the last word in today's language takeaway which is encourageable okay an encourageable person all right encourageable what could this mean well let's look at the sentence where we find it you are encourageable mhm gulam says this to Stephen

right so it's an adjective and basically it means that you have no correction of some sort where there's an argument between Steven and gulam so they're brothers and Stephen says I don't want to get married I don't want to marry her he's complaining and his brother says you are encourageable you just won't stop right so someone's someone's feelings their emotions their ideas about something they just can't be changed or or altered they're fixed you know this guy he's like I'm not going to get married and his brother says you're encourageable I just can't change your

mind it's kind of like being stubborn yeah yeah exactly and we hear this phrase a lot um together so you're inar right so this is often just kind of a it's a it's not an insult but it's a way for us to kind of be sarcastic or to make fun of someone M you're incable Marco usually say when you're laugh you know you're being nice Okay cool so five great words in language takeaway today and well before we move on and listen to the dialogue again why don't we take a look at fluency Builder fluency

Builder all right this first phrase is something that parents often use and grandparents as well because obviously parents and grandparents they're very proud of their children their grandchildren so they describe something as being their pride and joy mhm my pride and joy so it's usually a person that's your pride and joy it could be a thing too it could be a thing his Porsche Boxer is his pride and joy he goes out every morning and he washes it he changes the oil he checks the gas he checks the tires so it's his pride and joy

all right it's his most valued possession so it always goes together right my pride and joy pride and joy yeah just think of it as a phrase pride and joy all right so um I'm my mother's pride and joy I think you are all right so you don't know my mom all right so so somebody's pride and joy so now another phrase that we took a look at and it's a way of making conversation especially with a person that you haven't seen in a while he said hey what's new with you what's new with you

uh-huh what's new with you all right so this might sound a little strange because normally we say how have you been it's been a long time how are you but this is like you know it's it's a fluency Builder phrase so it's very colloquial it's very spoken language so this you hear often between friends or family members hey Marco what's new with you so how do you I would answer this by saying oh well not much or uh I just bought a new house so basically you're asking for news from a person I haven't seen

you in a long time you look you look happy and healthy so what's new with you oh I got married I got a new car these things that you can say these are changes in my life all right and usually after somebody asks you what's new with you you say something and then you usually would follow up and ask that person as well right what's new and what's new with you exactly so you know I got a new house got a new job what's new with you yeah or what about you what about you so

it's a nice very relaxed informal way of asking someone for news in their life Perfect all right what's new with you um what else now he was supposed to get married right right so this is news he was supposed to get married he didn't get married what's going on his brother his mother they all want to know what's going on and we find out that wedding that girl he just couldn't go through with it mhm so I can't I couldn't go through with it okay this past tense so he's saying before I came to India

with this girl I couldn't go through with it mhm so present would be I can't go through with it and going through with what here we've got it this kind of magical strange word it what what could this be so basically what he's saying is that he couldn't complete or maybe finish something that he started right so in this case we're talking about a relationship marriage a relationship so maybe we loved each other but I couldn't go through with it I couldn't go to the Finish Line mhm right I couldn't get married you see that

a lot when maybe in movies two people are supposed to get married they're at the altar and all of a sudden the bride says I can't or she goes away crying I can't go through with this exactly right so because she loves somebody else so can't go through with it great so really good phrase I can't go through with it he couldn't go through with it and uh we find out that well not such a bad thing Stephen he's very popular in India the girls love him we've got a great phrase for describing having lots

of girls who love you right he says there will be girls throwing themselves at you literally like ow that might hurt I can't imagine that like just somebody throwings at you no it's not literal it's basically saying girls are very interested in you girls are so interested in you that they'll be chasing you almost all right so many many girls they will they will follow you they want to be in a relationship with you they like you so he's saying listen there are other girls don't worry girls here they love you and it doesn't only

work with girls right I can say there'll be boys throwing themselves at you right so this is uh this is something we say about both genders there's boys and girls you could say oh God all the boys were throwing themselves at her I'm so jealous right so but it's only basically in a loving way right it can't be anything else like somebody's chasing you for other reasons no this is saying that they have crushes they have feelings they want to be romantic it's not like a it's not a bad thing but sometimes it's too much

attention so it can be kind of negative yeah all right well interesting phrases on fluency Builder today I think it's time for us to listen to this dialogue for one last time get up and dance yeah get up and dance and we'll be back in a little bit Stephen good to see you brother how are you how was your trip it was fine I've been better but it's great to be home I've missed you all how's Mom she's great all she ever does is talk about you her little boy that went to United States you're

her pride and joy you know that right can't wait to see it you what's new with you well Nisha and I are expecting you'll have another nephew or niece soon that's great wow congrats you two are great together you know you have such a beautiful family I hope that one day I can have that of course man come on I mean everything was set here for you to marry Shin you know she's still pining after you I don't think she'll ever get over you what are you talking about I hardly knew her how could she

be in love with me I couldn't go through with it even though she's a great woman no I Left My Heart in the United States I just hope Veronica is Happy get over it you're home now everyone here thinks so highly of you there'll be girls throwing themselves at you you can marry anyone you want I don't want to marry anyone I want to marry her don't you understand you are in encourageable Sten my baby how are you I miss you so much hey Mom great to see you you look so thin didn't those Americans

feed you come come let's have some Tie by the way there is a girl here waiting for you hi Steven Veronica how did you get here I now declare you husband and wife you may kiss the [Applause] Bri all right so um it's over ah sad sad but sweet sad but sweet huh 10 well we went from them meeting casually by a bike accident yeah had nice music then it turned out that uh she was angry they kind of broke up they got back we can do um something scary like a thriller or horror I'm

a big fan of sci-fi or sci-fi maybe we can do something sci-fi maybe we can do a comedy something maybe like friends I don't know that'd be kind of cute yeah it could be all right so listeners why don't you give us your input we need your feedback tell us what series you would like next what type of series maybe like we said drama Sci-Fi Action what what would you like and please get in touch with us leave comments and questions at our website englishpod do.com we like to check those and answer you so uh

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