POINTS TO STUDY
Learn three idioms originated from vegetables
VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3ymE6B1nM
SCRIPT, LISTENING TIPS, & GRAMMAR
Hello, I’m a very
interesting and intelligent man. Today, this carrot, these peas, and this
potato are going to be teaching you some idioms in English. I bet you’ve never been told by some
vegetables before. Ah.. my boss. He’s not very happy with me at the moment. He found out / I’m giving you these secret
video classes, and he wants me to stop.
He thinks these lessons are just // silly. “It’s a hot potato.” In English, if
there’s a delicate issue and people can’t agree, we call it / a hot
potato.
But he has offered
me a carrot, well not a real one. If I
stop the classes, he will buy me a framed picture of Mr. Bean. But if I don’t, he’ll fire me and stop the
classes. It’s a carrot and stick. In English, if someone tries to persuade us
to do something / using an incentive and the threat, we call it “a carrot
and stick.”
Have you met my
brother? He is not very interesting or
intelligent, but does look very similar to me.
Yes, we’re like two peas in a pod.
In English, if two people look very similar, we can say that “like
two peas in a pod.”
TODAY’S PRONUNCIATION
Daily Pronunciation #26 - English Lesson – ZENITH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdugQo-yMag&feature=channel_page
PREVIEW FOR TOMORROW
Tomorrow, let’s see how other expressions out of fruits are there by so called the same very interesting and intelligent guy from the BBC.