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This lesson is a kind of experiment. You should do this lesson before and/or after watching the May 1 video podcast of a program called The Daily English Lesson. The video podcast is the creation of Sarah. Sarah is from New Zealand. She lives and works in Japan, where she teaches English. Here is the link to the May 1 edition of The Daily English Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfzPshMpF1Y Sarah achieved her dream. Sarah reached one of her highest goals. She was voted the number one video podcast. Her video podcast was voted number one. She voted for herself. She cast a vote for herself. Thank you very much. That’s very cool. I can’t thank you enough. That’s really nice. Sarah printed out the list. Sarah made a printout of the list. Some people left some very nice comments. Some people wrote very nice comments. A woman emailed to ask if she could get broadband service. A woman emailed to see about getting broadband service. The word gay has several uses. The word gay has a number of different meanings. The word gay can mean a homosexual person. The word gay can be used to mean a homosexual person. A woman named Gay received an automated reply email. A woman named Gay got back an automated reply email. The company apologized. [missing in audio] The company made an apology. You heard that Gay received an automated reply email. The prefix AUTO- in the word automated means “by oneself” or “by itself” or “self acting.”An automated email reply program studies the words in the email you write. It matches your words against a list of words and uses those matches to decide what message you should receive back. In the case Sarah describes, the filter saw the word GAY and decided that it was an inappropriate word for a business email, because it can mean homosexual. Now here are some sentences to help practice words that have the prefix AUTO ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine. I took out 50 dollars from an ATM. I got 50 bucks at an automated teller machine. Can you tell me where the nearest ATM is? Can you point me to the nearest ATM? Some restaurants automatically add a tip to the bill. If you are born in the USA you are automatically a citizen. If someone writes the story of your life, it is called a biography. If you write your own life story it is called an autobiography. I wonder if anyone would read my autobiography? Have your read any good biographies lately? I read the autobiography of Charles Darwin. Reading biographies is a good way to study history. Less
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Today’s sentence Hello. How are you today? Here’s the latest in the series on phrasal verbs. Smoking’s really starting to catch up with him. Notes To catch up with someone in today’s sentence means that the bad effects (of smoking) are beginning to affect him. He’s smoked for years. It never appeared to affect him much. But we all know that smoking is really bad for the health and that eventually it’s going to affect you if you smoke. Suddenly, he coughs a lot and he has no energy etc. The (inevitable) effects (which had never affected him before) are now beginning to show themselves. Another example? “All these late nights I’ve had are beginning to catch up with me.” (I’ve stayed up late for several nights and I’m only now, suddenly, beginning to feel the effects. Hope that was useful…bye for now! Search Linguagum for more English tips, check out our very useful links and our shop! And please, tell us what you think of us! Text and audio © linguagum.com 2006-2009 Less
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My house is less than two hours from several theme parks. Where I live is no more than two hours from several theme parks. The most famous of these is Disneyland. Disneyland is the best known of these. I have to admit I’ve never gone there. I hate to say it, but I’ve never been there. It strikes me as being one big ad for the Disney corporation. To my mind, it is a massive ad for the Disney organization. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Disney films. Don’t misunderstand me, Iâve got no problem with Disney films. But I find the intensity of the marketing by Disney to be offensive. But I am put off by the intensity of Disney’s marketing. Especially because it is aimed at children. Particularly because children are the target audience. Also, I have heard that the lines for rides are endless. Also, people say that the wait times for rides are not to be believed. The one theme park I have been to is Legoland. Legoland is the one theme park I have been to. The park features exquisite constructions made with Lego blocks. A main feature of the park is beautiful Lego block constructions. Sometimes they have a cityscape like that of New York or Las Vegas. Sometimes they have the model of a city like New York or Las Vegas. My visit there was seven years ago. My visit there was seven years back. Now rides and entertainment are the big attraction. These days it’s rides and entertainment that are the big draw. Tickets for theme parks are not inexpensive. Theme park tickets don’t come cheap. You can expect to pay $40 to $60 per person for an all-day admission. An all-day admission goes for upwards of $40 to $60. Plus the cost of food, drinks, and souvenirs. Add to that the outlay for food, drinks, and souvenirs. Many of the parks have annual tickets. A good number of the parks offer yearly tickets. I think theme parks will suffer if the economy goes bad. My guess is the parks will not do well in a down economy. People will look for cheaper family entertainment. People will seek out less expensive family entertainment. Less
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Today’s sentence Hi – how’s it going? Here’s the latest in the current theme of going to the toilet. Do you know where’s the gents’ is? / The ladies’ is? Notes The gents’ / the ladies’. These are the toilets in a pub or restaurant, for example. The gents’ = the gentlemen’s toilets. (Men’s toilets). The ladies’ = the ladies’ (women’s) toilets. Grammatically, it should be, “the gents’ are.” However, colloquially, it’s OK to say is. OK, we’ll continue with this theme tomorrow. Bye for now! Search Linguagum for more English tips, check out our very useful links and our shop! And please, tell us what you think of us! Text and audio © linguagum.com 2006-2008 Less
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Today’s sentence Hi! We’re still looking at mysterious things you’ll probably hear when you go to England. Tomatoes are a pound a pound. Notes A pound a pound. This is something you will hear in a market. Even though, officially, everything is sold in kilograms in England now, people still talk about pounds. 1 kg = 2.2 pounds / 2.2 lbs So, you still might hear “Cheddar (a kind of cheese) 2 pounds a pound.” Listen again to the recording of today’s sentence: it sounds like “tomatoes a pound a pound.” The verb, are, is very indistinct, or even missing. OK, that’s all for today. We’ll look at another one tomorrow. Bye for now! Search Linguagum for more English tips, check out our very useful links and our shop! And please, tell us what you think of us! Text and audio © linguagum.com 2006-2008 Less
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