empty

It feels a bit empty.

Biraz boş hissettiriyor.

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It's literally empty.

Kelimenin tam anlamıyla boş.

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I never seen an empty dumpling before.

Daha önce hiç boş bir mantı görmemiştim.

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Let's move on to another episode I did recently. It was called, "Is the glass half empty or half full?"

Yakın zamanda yaptığım başka bir bölüme geçelim. Adı "Bardak yarı boş mu yoksa yarı dolu mu?" idi.

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Here's a good point from Patricia. Remember the question is, is the glass half empty or half full?

İşte Patricia'dan iyi bir nokta. Unutmayın soru şu: Bardak yarı boş mu yoksa yarı dolu mu?

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And Patricia said, seeing the glass as half full doesn't mean ignoring the empty part. So if you are optimistic, it doesn't mean you're blindly optimistic. It doesn't mean that you're ignoring the negative side.

Patricia şöyle dedi: bardağı dolu tarafıyla görmek, boş kısmını görmezden gelmek anlamına gelmez. Yani iyimser biriyseniz, bu körü körüne iyimser olduğunuz anlamına gelmez. Olumsuz tarafı görmezden geldiğiniz anlamına da gelmez.

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"...have time to dress, dine, and enjoy." In the morning I was up, but some toast crumbs and two empty eggshells told me that my companion was earlier still. I found a scribbled note upon the table: "Dear Watson, there are one or two points of contact which I should wish to establish with Mr. Josiah Amberley. When I have done so, we can dismiss the case or not. I would..."

"...giyinmeye, akşam yemeği yemeye ve keyif almaya vaktim var." Sabah kalkmıştım ama birkaç ekmek kırıntısı ve iki boş yumurta kabuğu, arkadaşımın benden daha erken kalktığını söylüyordu. Masanın üzerinde karalanmış bir not buldum: "Sevgili Watson, Bay Josiah Amberley ile kurmak istediğim bir iki temas noktası var. Bunu yaptığımda, davayı kapatabiliriz ya da kapatmayız. Ben..."

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Check your account. Give me a moment. And who packed my belongings? The maintenance team did it this afternoon. Without calling me. We believed the apartment was empty. Empty?

Hesabını kontrol et. Bir saniye ver. Peki eşyalarımı kim topladı? Bakım ekibi bu öğleden sonra yaptı. Beni aramadan. Dairenin boş olduğuna inanıyorduk. Boş mu?

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The house should be empty. Well, it clearly isn't. Let me call the office. No.

Evin boş olması gerekiyordu. Şey, açıkçası değil. Ofisi arayayım. Hayır.

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The house was completely empty. So, someone moved in overnight? Please give me a moment. I'm supposed to move in today. I understand.

Ev tamamen boştu. Yani, biri gece gelip yerleşti mi? Lütfen bir dakika verin. Bugün taşınmam gerekiyordu. Anlıyorum.

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Ready, I'm ready. Oh wait, the bowl is empty. It's deflated. Deflated. Can we inflate it? Do you have the pump? Right, the pump here. Cool. Oh wait, I need the small thing to connect with the ball. You need a needle. The needle? Yeah, I think I have it here. Cool.

Hazırım, hazırım. Oh bir dakika, kase boş. Sönmüş. Sönmüş. Onu şişirebilir miyiz? Pompan var mı? Tamam, pompa burada. Harika. Oh bir dakika, topla bağlantı kurmak için o küçük şeye ihtiyacım var. Bir iğneye ihtiyacın var. İğne mi? Evet, sanırım burada bende var. Harika.

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The house, it feels so empty Cause now I live alone The kid next door keeps asking me Where you've gone and I tell

Ev, çok boş hissettiriyor Çünkü artık yalnız yaşıyorum Yan komşunun çocuğu sürekli soruyor Nereye gittiğini ve ben ona söylüyorum

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YEAH, BUT THAT MIGHT BE MYSTERIOUS, but I never ate the candy last night and it's completely empty.

EVET, AMA BU GİZEMLİ OLABİLİR, ama dün gece şekerleri ben yemedim ve kutu tamamen boş.

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And that makes sense why the pack was empty. And that also makes sense why they're targeting us cuz we got a lot of pizza and candy.

Paketin neden boş olduğu mantıklı geliyor. Ayrıca bizi hedef almalarının nedeni de mantıklı çünkü elimizde çok fazla pizza ve şeker var.

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don't need to break the news to them. I don't believe in one word, like just like, it's so on my nerves, like so on my nerves, like makes me want to just die. What? Like literally makes me all just perish, like just combust and go away, is when you order a drink, right, and they charge you for the drink, and then the waiter comes over and gives you a refill when your drink's like halfway empty, and then

onlara bu haberi vermeme gerek yok. Tek bir kelimeye bile inanmıyorum, yani sadece, o kadar sinirimi bozuyor ki, o kadar sinirimi bozuyor ki, beni öldürmek istiyor. Ne? Kelimenin tam anlamıyla beni yok olmaya, patlayıp gitmeye zorlayan şey, bir içecek sipariş ediyorsun, değil mi, ve senden içeceğin parasını alıyorlar, sonra garson gelip içeceğin yarıya kadar boşaldığında sana yeniden dolduruyor ve sonra

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hello listeners welcome back to Luke's English podcast how are you today I hope you're doing fine so here's a brand new episode and this one is a short story episode this is one of those episodes where I read you a short story and then use it to teach you some vocabulary and some grammar okay so uh I'm always looking for short stories always looking for little stories that I can use in episodes of my podcast uh this particular story I found this one on the website kora.com I don't know if you're familiar with Kora basically it's a website where uh people can post questions and then other users of the website will post their responses to those questions and the responses get upvoted or down voted and uh if a if a response gets upvoted a lot it then gets pushed up to the top of the page so I was looking on Kora and one of the questions I found there was something like this can you share any true scary stories can you share any true scary stories that I think was the original question that someone had posted and the the top response the most upvoted response was the story that I'm going to tell you today it was actually posted by a guy called Lance Stevenson and pretty sure that the story happened in the United States of America the USA and it was posted yes as a true scary story okay first of all I'm going to just read the story to you and you can try to understand it right uh if you're look at the video version you will see the story on the screen you'll see the text on the screen next to me uh if you are listening to the audio version uh and you want to read the text as well then you can just go to the page for this episode on my website you'll find the whole story uh copied there for you so you can check out the text in your own time if you want to read it as well uh so listen to the story try to understand it and you can think about this like why what can you identify uh the the scary SC elements so what's scary about this story uh try to imagine what is going to happen next and what happens at the end so can you get the specific details what is the scary element to this um after I've read the story to you I will summarize it in my own words just to try and clarify it just to make sure that you've got the details and that you've understood the the kind of the twist let's say the twist at the end of the story and then after that I'll go back through the text of the story and break it down for language highlighting vocabulary and also some some bits of grammar as well we'll be looking at things like um gern and infinitives and participle phrases and other things we're going to look at the way that the story was told and with different kinds of structures okay right so let's let's get started then with this apparently true scary story all right are you ready yes you're ready okay well let's begin then so I've decided to call this Story the invitation so here we go then what is scary about this story about 7 years ago I got an invitation to attend a dinner party at my cousin's house I have a pretty large family and I'd never actually seen this particular cousin before I'd only ever spoken to him on the phone I was surprised that his family unexpectedly invited me over but I was curious to finally meet them the invitation had an address that I didn't know and the GPS was unfamiliar with it too it was in one of those areas where Google Maps doesn't work properly because of poor phone reception so I had to use an old-fashioned paper map I marked the location on the map tried to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car as I was driving I I started to notice how far I'd traveled into the countryside and away from civilization I saw trees farms and Fields passing by just trees farms and Fields and more trees and more farms and more Fields where the hell am I going I thought to myself I'd never ventured out so far in that direction before I drove for quite a long time trying to locate the address I had marked on the map the thing is in this area a lot of the roads don't have names or the names aren't clearly marked by road signs I just had to try to match the layout of the streets to the layout I could see on the map I finally found a place at a location that looked like the one I'd noted on my map I was pretty sure that this was the right spot so I parked and got out of the car approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked it was completely covered in leaves branches and overgrown trees this can't be it I said to myself but as soon as I walked onto the rocky driveway my aunt and uncle came out to greet me they seemed excited and welcoming hello hello come in come in they said beckoning me inside walking into the house I asked where my cousin was answering immediately one of them said oh he just went to run a few errands he should be back later I waited in their kitchen and we spent a couple of hours talking about my mother and my family my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast that I finished off in minutes after dinner we played an enduring game of Uno it was surprisingly fun and competitive my aunt in particular seemed delighted to be playing when we finished the game of Uno it was almost dark and there was still no sign of my cousin my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon despite what they said I decided that I had to leave it was almost dark outside and I knew it would be a nightmare to find my way out of this Dreadful place after sunset with no street lights or road signs as my GPS just wasn't working I asked my aunt and uncle the most efficient way to get to the highway they gave me a puzzled look but we thought you were staying the night they said I told them I couldn't because I had work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day it's it's much better if you leave tomorrow morning trust us you'll get lost they said I Shrugged it off and told them not to worry ah don't worry I've got a pretty good sense of direction I could find my way out of the Sahara Desert I told them looking aggravated they strongly advised me to stay the night for my own sake their body language was weird too as they became more serious and insistent my uncle stood shaking his head and my aunt began to move about the place picking up a set of keys to unlock what I assume was a spare bedroom at this point I was getting annoyed and irritable I sighed fine I'll stay the night then but I have to get up very early for work I said both of them seemed strangely ecstatic that I was staying the night as soon as they went out of the room to get bed sheets and pillows I ran out of the door got in my car and hastily pulled away I know it was rude but I suddenly felt the urge to get out of there quickly it seemed to take me ages but I finally found my way back to the main Highway and drove back through the night wondering why my cousin had never turned up I got home several hours later than I expected it was after midnight and I didn't want to wake my parents up climbing over my fence and entering the back door I noticed that the kitchen lights were on as soon as I took my first step through the door I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient Where Have You Been she asked I was at Aunt Deborah's I told you I replied then why did she call saying you never arrived to this day I still have no idea who I visited okay so that's the story hm did you understand all of that what did you think did you think it was scary I don't know did you understand it enough what's going on what was actually going on here now I've read that story to people before and to an extent some people sort of misunderstood what was going on or they expected something to be happening so let me let me go through the story again and try and tell it to you in my own words to make it clear what happened so here are things that I think didn't happen so I remember telling that story to other people in the past they have they have assumed that the aunt and uncle like the they they assumed that maybe the reason the cousin didn't turn up is because the aunt and uncle maybe had killed him or something um I remember one person I read that story too uh thought that the pot roast was suspicious like what was in the pot roast did they kill the cousin and then they put him in the pot pot roast and he ate the the cousin I don't think that's what's going on basically this the creepy thing about this is that the guy almost definitely got the wrong house he got he went to the wrong house and he spent an evening with two people who he thought were his aunt and uncle two people who essentially seem to be pretending to be his aunt and uncle and who were lying to him about the cousin and stuff they were just strangely delighted to have a stranger in their home they were sort of weirdly uh excited to have someone at home with them and they really wanted that person to stay the night which is strange so who were these people we don't know because he got the wrong house and and meanwhile his real aunt and uncle and and uh his cousin were in a different house somewhere waiting for him to arrive live so a key thing to to know about this is that at the beginning of the story um this the Storyteller the writer says that uh he'd never actually met um his aunt or uncle or cousin before and that seems a little bit odd right a little bit strange that there would be like members of your family especially like an aunt and uncle and a cousin that you'd never actually met before but I suppose it's possible Right some people have very large families and uh especially in the United States which is such a big country if like there are members of your family who live fairly far away then it's not completely strange to to have never seen them or never met them and some families are a bit you know some families are not that close you know and and sometimes if there's like a bad relationship between the parents that they just don't see each other you know so you know there's that right so let me just let me try and clarify the story so the story starts with the guy saying um that s years earlier he received an invitation to have dinner at his cousin's house and he'd never actually met his cousin or his aunt or Uncle before so he was surprised that they had sent him a dinner invitation he'd only ever spoken to his cousin on the phone so he had actually spoken to his cousin but never actually met them face to face another slightly strange thing is that you'd imagine that maybe he would have seen photos of them but apparently not in this case but um so um the address was in a remote location quite far away from where the guy uh lived and he had to go there by car but the GPS his his um you know his satellite navigation in his car his uh his GPS couldn't locate the address and also the um the address that area is like very difficult to to navigate because there are no uh street names or road signs it's very poorly um indicated and apparently very bad mobile phone reception so he wasn't able to use Google Maps so he was forced to use an old fashion paper map and mark the location uh Mark the address on the map and then set off in his car and after driving for a long long time through lots of Countryside uh further and further away from civilization out into the middle of nowhere um he eventually found what he thought was the right place because the the streets didn't have street signs on them it was difficult for him to locate the right address but he tried to match the streets he could see with the streets he could see on the map and he found what he thought was the correct house um he wasn't completely sure uh but when he stepped onto the driveway when he approached the house what he thought was his um aunt and his uncle like these two people quickly came out of the house and greeted him and sort of very enthusiastically welcomed him in and I guess he didn't really have time to think about it but he assumed that these two people must be his aunt and uncle and they welcomed him in very enthusiastically and then he chatted with them in the kitchen for a couple of hours talking about his mother and their family so I suppose I don't know what what's going on there maybe these people pretended you know they were just like oh yeah yeah yeah just going along with it he would talk about his his mom and they would just sort of like just agree and go along with everything so as far as he was concerned these this was his aunt and uncle and when he said oh what about my cousin they just kind of um brushed It Off by saying oh he he'll be back later he's just running a few errands anyway would you like something to eat and uh the woman made him a a pot roast which is a kind of um like a roasted um meal in a in a pot with vegetables and some sort of meat and onion and sauce and stuff like that and he ate the whole thing apparently was delicious then they played a game of Uno which is a kind of card game and uh he noticed that the the his wouldbe aunt and uncle were behaving a bit strangely and the aunt in particular seem to be like like ecstatic about playing the game and like strangely delighted you know and it got darker and darker and he realized that the cousin perhaps wasn't going to turn up and so he he decided that he had to leave but his so-called aunt and uncle were very keen for him to stay and they were they were shocked at the idea that he would leave and they they were like no no no you must stay it'll be too difficult to find your way uh uh out of the area at this time so no no no you must stay and um they started to prepare a bed for him and he suddenly got a weird feeling at this point and decided that he had to leave he also mentioned something about the fact that he had to work the next day and he couldn't afford to miss another day so probably you know he was probably um in already in a little bit of trouble with his boss for missing days of work previously and so it was really important that he got back home in time to be able to get to work um you know without missing another day so he decided that he really did have to leave and in the end he just sort of escaped while they were doing something while they uh quickly went away to get some bed sheets and pillows he sort of escaped and went out of the door got in his car and drove off and managed to find his way home it took him a long time and then when he finally got home um it was late and he wanted just to go straight to bed but his mom was still up waiting for him uh and annoyed with him and she said what where have you been and he said I was at aunt and uncle I was at Aunt Deborah's like I told you and she said well why did they call saying that you never arrived so in fact the real aunt and uncle were waiting the entire evening for him to arrive he must have gone to another house and who were these strange people and why were they so Keen for him to stay the night what was going on and what was in that pot roast anyway just weird I mean so that is one of those sort of stories that is supposed to be scary because of what might have happened or what could have happened or the fact that there are lots of unknown things like we don't know who these people were and why they were so enthusiastic about him being in their home and then staying the night and what and some other details like why was the bedroom door locked with a key and why would why was their behavior so odd so there you go that's the story so what do you think do you think it's a true story I mean we've got no idea of tell we we don't know we can never know if that was a true story or if Lance what was his name Lance Stevenson Lance Stevenson maybe Lance Stevenson just made it up it could be one of those Urban myths you know those sorts of stories which are presented as being true but they're really just made up and designed to be scary little stories like normally stories like this if they if they if we know that they're not true if we know that they're made up then they become less effective they have less impact if you listen to that story believing it's true then it makes it more creepy doesn't it so who knows maybe it's true maybe it's just made up no idea but I quite enjoy it I quite enjoy the um creepiness of it okay so let's now do a language review let's see how the story was written and this is where we're going to focus on some vocabulary and some grammar I'm actually going to give you the sort of Luke's English podcast premium treatment now because normally I do this kind of thing in premium episodes of my podcast and uh that's where I go into the vocabulary and the grammar and stuff in a lot more detail so this is just a flavor of the sort of thing you can get if you subscribe to my premium content uh and if you do that you'll get like loads of extra episodes in your podcast app so you'll get the premium feed which means you'll get all of the free episodes of my audio show without any advertising and also you'll get all these extra episodes that uh involve lots of language teaching from me and this is just a little tap of the sort of thing that you get in those extra premium episodes if you're interested in that by the way uh just go to teacher. co.uk premium info and you can find all the details audio episodes that you can get in your audio podcast app with PDFs every single premium episode has a PDF with worksheets and the rest of it vocabulary teaching grammar teaching pronunciation practice memory exercises and also video versions there are video versions of those premium episodes uh too so you can get all the information at teacher. co.uk premium info so let's start then by going through vocabulary from the story okay you'll see that I've highlighted some words in the story in Orange not every single um slide here has a has a word on it for example the first slide about seven years ago I got an invitation to attend a dinner party at my cousin's house okay fine nothing in particular to to point out there the next slide I have a pretty large family pretty large right it just means fairly large quite large I have a pretty large family and I'd never actually seen this particular cousin before so that word particular this particular cousin just means this specific cousin this cousin in particular okay so obviously this guy's got lots of cousins but now he wants to say this cousin specifically so he'd never actually seen this particular cousin before all right so this particular cousin on this particular day this particular episode of Luke's podcast was particularly interesting for me in particular all right moving on I was surprised that his family unexpectedly invited me over so unexpectedly it's pretty clear I suppose right but it's it's a nice adverb to do something unexpectedly when was the last time you use that word um do something that you don't expect do something unexpectedly okay so they they they unexpectedly did something they did something unexpectedly in this case his family unexpectedly invited me over so invite me I think you understand it's like would you like to come to our house for dinner but invite me over why have we got the word over in there using the word over imp implies visiting someone's home okay and we often use that we say come over invite someone over stay over over means over here at my place so that's just very common when you're talking about coming or visiting someone's home invite someone over come over and stay over yes the invitation had an address that I didn't know and the GPS was unfamiliar with it too so GPS I think it's probably International right GPS the sort of um electronic map device that everyone uses in their car GPS um global positioning system in the UK we also call it satnav satnav did you know that one satellite navigation satnav GPS satnav it was in one of those areas where Google Maps doesn't work properly because of poor phone reception so phone reception refers to you know your the the how much coverage you have how much connection you have on your phone we call it phone reception uh or signal or network or coverage for example if you've only got one bar on your phone and you're trying to do something like maybe you're trying to uh look something up on the Internet uh and you've only got one bar then your phone works very slowly and you can tell I've got such ter terrible reception here have you got any reception I've got no network or the signal here is terrible isn't it okay or if you're on the phone to someone it's like I can't hear you no I've got really bad signal I've got really I've got really bad I've got no network here okay so reception signal or network right I marked the location on the map try to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car if you are headed in in a particular direction it means you're going in that direction right so where are we headed we're headed for London meaning we're going to London we're headed for the pub meaning we're going to the pub so if you're headed or heading as well somewhere it means you're going in that direction so I tried to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car to set off means to start your journey okay start your journey set off in your car set off on your bike set off on foot okay remember it's always on foot it's never by walking but on foot set off on your journey set off in your car set off on your bike set off on Foot Right set off meaning start your trip as I was driving I started to notice how far I'd traveled into the countryside away from civilization the countryside I mean it's a very common word but as a teacher I often notice that my Learners don't use this word or don't seem to remember it so you got the city and then you've maybe got the suburbs which is that area just around the city and then where it's all green and you've got lots of fields and trees and stuff that's the countryside okay in this case he was driving and driving and he realized how far he' traveled into the countryside away from civilization I saw trees farms and field passing by passing by meaning passing next to him passing on the side as as he looked out of the window passing by where the hell am I going I thought to myself um I just wanted to highlight the use of the hell in that question where the hell am I going and you know you can do that to add a sort of emphasis or anger or surprise or um sort of confusion to your question where the hell am I going just add the word the phrase the hell after the question word where the hell am I going what the hell are you doing what the hell are you talking about what the hell is going on right um and there's also the more rude version which is the f word where the F am I going what the are you talking about right everyone knows that but also you got what the hell where the hell we going what the hell are you doing who the hell are you what the hell are you talking about for example all right there's another one too there's on Earth where on Earth am I going what on Earth are you talking about what on Earth is happening who on Earth is this guy anyway right so on Earth after the word where where where the hell am I going what on Earth am I doing those are slightly more or slightly less rude versions of saying the fword in that situation instead where the hell am I going I thought to myself I'd never ventured out so far in that direction before to venture out means to leave a familiar place and go somewhere new right kind of go on an adventure an adventure that's a noun but the verb is to venture to venture out meaning go out go away to a new place uh that you haven't been to before and go on a journey that involves maybe some risks right so to venture out into the countryside to venture out into the desert to venture out of the house if the snow stops I might venture out to get some supplies from the shop for example okay all right let's keep going I drove for quite a long time trying to locate the address I had marked on the map the thing is in this area a lot of the roads don't have names so the the thing is this is a phrase that we use a lot and normally it's used before giving a reason or maybe giving an excuse like for example where's your home you didn't do your homework where's your homework oh well sorry teacher but the thing is my dog ate it right just like that classic terrible student excuse not that not that uh in all my years as a teacher no one has ever given me that excuse but it's the sort of cliched excuse oh I'm sorry my dog ate my homework if someone actually if if one of my students genuinely gave that excuse oh the thing is my dog ate my homework I would be genuinely impressed of like really wow that's incredible is the dog okay anyway the thing is last night I was out and then uh I lost my bag and then it's like never mind just sit down stop stop giving me this ridiculous excuse so the thing is it's used to give a reason or an excuse right in this case um he's explaining why he had problems like the thing is in this area lots of the roads don't have names okay so it's very common to use the thing is when you're giving excuses or reasons for example if someone says to you would you like to go for a drink with me and you you need to say no you might say oh I'd love to but the thing is I can't or I'd love to go for a drink with you but the thing is you know I'm I'm washing my hair tonight um right okay moving on I just had to try to match the layout of the streets to the layout I could see on the map so the layout is the design or the way in which things are laid out or arranged so the layout of the streets like where the houses are positioned where the road is positioned where the where trees are and stuff that's the layout of the streets and the layout of the map you know the way that the map has been designed okay that's the layout you also have things like the layout of a website you know the way that the website is arranged the way it looks there's a picture here there's text here there's this this this that's the layout of a of a website for example um so approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked so dull basically means boring another word would be drab uh so dull boring not interesting looking okay dull and boring and dreary dreary another adjective to describe the appearance of this house that didn't look very nice or interesting dreary means sort of depressing so you can imagine a house that is yeah sort of dark depressing it doesn't look like it's been um cleaned or maintained very well it's the it's the classic scary house from a hor from a horror film isn't it there always a house like this it's kind of creepy dull dreary looking house with lots of over grown trees and bushes and and grass and stuff dark Windows the door opens you know with a creek like that the whole thing basically if you're in a movie if you ever find yourself in a movie not that that's ever going to happen but if you do find yourself in a movie and there's a big dreary creepy looking house with lots of overgrown bushes generally it's a good idea to to turn around 180° do a 18 and just go home and stop being in horror films okay right so approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked it was completely covered in leaves branches and overgrown trees so branches we know are the parts of the tree that come off the main trunk you got the main trunk of the tree the trunk and then from the trunk you get branches of the tree that come out and there are leaves and stuff on the branches um over grown trees a tree that's overgrown is that it's grown too much and it's maybe covering the street or covering a building and it needs to be you know cut back it needs to be pruned or trimmed this can't be it I said to myself but as soon as I walked onto the rocky driveway my aunt and uncle came out to greet me to greet someone just means to say hello to someone like for example if someone comes to your office you would go down to reception to greet them uh uh Luke could you go and greet our guests in reception please you go go and greet them hello You Must Be Our Guests Hello nice to nice to meet you hello that's right come this way uh how was your journey was it all right okay so they greeted him they seemed exciting and welcoming hello hello come in come in they said beckoning me inside to beckon someone is to sort of uh wave with your hand to try and make someone come towards you come in come in so the hand gesture that you would use with your hand when you're saying come in that's to beckon someone or to say come here come here with your hand that gesture is called beckoning to beckon someone walking into the house I asked where my cousin was answering immediately one of them said oh he just went to run a few errands to run a few errands it means just to do a few small jobs right so maybe go to the shops post some letters take something to the cleaners you know fill up the car with fuel just to run a few errands to do a few little jobs I waited in their kitchen and we spent a couple of hours talking about my mother and my family my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast this is where I said it before meat and vegetables in a big pot in the oven cooked for quite a long time yum yum yum that's a pot roast we don't know what was in this particular pot roast but he said that he finished it off in minutes they made a my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast that I finished off in minutes finished he finished it I think we understand there was nothing left at the end but finished off what's the function of saying off there I finished it off it just emphasizes that it was completely finished so finish and finish off right if you finished it off it means you completely finished it I mean to be honest if something is finished it's completely finished I mean something is either finished or not finished right so I don't know how really you could say that something is completely finished but it's really just emphasizing it okay that's the function of that phrasal verb it's just emphasizing that it was completely finished so you can it's it's quite nice because you can imagine that the the bowl or the plate that he was eating from is completely complely empty at the end and the pot totally empty he finished it off I suppose this is this is one of the this is one of the creepy elements because later on when you realize that we don't know who these people were or what their intentions were or what their agenda was you start to think what did he what did he eat what was that that he ate we don't know but he trusted these people and maybe he shouldn't have so he finished the entire pot roast off but wonder I wonder what was in it h um after dinner we played an enduring game of Uno do you know the game Uno it's a kind of card game that you play with kids where you kind of deal out cards and then you can you have to pick up cards if you if you can't play the right number You' got to pick up cards it's sort of just a fun not very challenging game that you play with children this is uno so they played an enduring game of Uno enduring means that it lasted a long time an enduring game of Uno a game that lasted a long time other things you could say would be enduring appeal right for example the enduring appeal of The Beatles You Know The Beatles this is the example I always love to use but the Beatles you know they split up in 1970 but they're still popular and they still got new music coming out even now and it just shows that they have an incred they have an an enduring appeal you know people like them and they continue to like them so their appeal has lasted for a long time other things another example might be an enduring memory an enduring memory is a memory that sticks with you for a long time okay when we finished the game of Uno it was almost dark and there was still no sign of my cousin just means that there was no indication of him um he didn't come home and there was no sense that he was going to come home soon just zero nothing no indication no sign of my cousin at all my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon so they assured him so basically means they made him sure they um made him convinced right so to assure someone is to give confidence to someone to make someone sure or to convince someone okay they assured me that he'd be back anytime soon don't worry he'll be back anytime soon I'm sure he'll just be a few moments they assured him we got similar other words like ensure e NS u e is to make certain that something will happen so you we we assure someone that something will happen and we ensure that something happens for example I just want to ensure that uh um I just want to ensure that the lesson starts at the right time meaning I want to make certain that the lesson starts at the right time let ensure with an E I want to assure you that's with as s Ur e that's to make someone feel sure and also we've got the word insure as well to ensure I'm going to ensure my car to ensure my house and that is to protect that thing against loss and that's to take insurance right so that's where you pay an insurance company and if you if the car gets damaged then the insurance company will pay for the damage so I've insured my car okay in this case my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon don't worry he'll definitely be be back anytime soon MH ensure I wanted to ensure that I was on time for work my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back soon um it was almost dark outside I knew it would be a nightmare to find my way out of this Dreadful place after Sunset so a dreadful place is an awful terrible horrible bad place okay now Dreadful doesn't mean scary it doesn't mean frightening okay um even though it's got the word dread in it dread now the noun dread um does mean fear or or fright right to be filled with Dread means that you're ter scared right but if something is Dreadful it just means it's it's bad for example what did you think of the film I thought it was Dreadful one of the worst films I've seen for ages for example all right um what did you think of the pot roast oh no I couldn't eat it it was Dreadful okay so Dreadful just means bad so the guy decides that he needs to leave because he knew it would be a nightmare to find his way out of this terrible place this Dreadful awful place okay all right as my GPS just wasn't working I asked my aunt and uncle the most efficient way to get to the highway now the efficient way it's not it doesn't mean just the best way to get to the highway it means the in this case the quickest way so in English if something is efficient it means it does something quickly without using a lot of time quickly obviously uh without using a lot of energy or effort or or money okay the most efficient way of getting to the highway just in this case means the quickest way okay you can also say an efficient car an efficient car is one that travels a long way on a smaller amount of fuel right that's an efficient car like you know typically you know German or Japanese cars tend to be pretty efficient right famously like a Volkswagen Golf is a very efficient car but then because they they they do lots of miles to the gallon as we say uh whereas you know those classic American cars those big American muscle cars they look really cool but they are not efficient at all because you need to fill up the car with fuel you drive for about 10 minutes and you got to fill it up again because they're so inefficient yeah okay moving on they gave me a puzzled look so a puzzled look just means a huh a confused look puzzle a puzzle is a thing you have to solve like a crossword puzzle or a word puzzle a puzzled look is a look that you know is confused a confused look okay to give someone a look as well is quite a nice phrase you know uh he gave me a dirty look like when if you say something that someone doesn't like it might give you a dirty look I'm trying to I'm trying to do a dirty look I don't know um she gave me a friendly look hello you know in this case a puzzled look I told them I couldn't stay because I had to work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day so I couldn't afford to or I can't afford to okay it's always can or could not in this case afford to do something means not have enough m uh not have enough time or enough money to do it okay normally for example do you want to come to Disneyland I can't afford to come to Disneyland uh not until the end of the month when I get paid because it's very expensive isn't it Disneyland you got to pay for the ticket to get there ticket to get in and then you got to you know you got to pay for all the food and all the other stuff it's very expensive I can't afford it right mean I don't have enough money to do it in this case he said I had to work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day uh in this case couldn't afford to in the sense that he doesn't have enough chances left right if he's late another day or he misses another day he's probably going to get fired by his boss so in terms of Chances with his boss he doesn't have enough chances left so he really couldn't afford to miss another day okay so couldn't afford to because you don't have enough money can't afford to because you don't have enough time can't afford to because you've run out of opportunities you know I Shrugged it off and told them not to worry to shrug something off now to shrug shr u shr u right shrug is to kind of move your shoulders up as if you care as if you don't really care a it's all right you know when you when you kind of move your shoulders up and down to to show that you don't really care or it doesn't matter you don't mind now to shrug something off is is basically a way to say that you consider it to be unimportant or to say that it's not important or act like something is not important someone has said something and you just shrug it off like for example someone has criticized you and you shrug it off like Luke your podcast episodes are quite long aren't they quite long aren't they those podcast episodes who can listen to who could listen to a podcast for that long like it's all right people seem to like it you know just shrug it off shrug off the criticism in this case uh in this case they said to him oh no you you must stay you'll get you know you you'll get lost and he he Shrugged it off and just told them not to worry ah it's all right don't worry I've got a pretty good sense of direction your sense of direction is your ability to know where you are and where you're going if you've got a good sense of direction you generally don't get lost but if you've got a bad sense of direction you get lost easily looking aggravated they strongly advised me me to stay the night for my own sake so aggravated just means annoyed or bothered irritated or peeved like they're like God no you no you shouldn't you shouldn't leave no no no no no no you must stay they were kind of annoyed or bothered or irritated they strongly advised me to stay the night for my own sake right if if if you do something for your own sake it means for your own interest as if to say or if you leave you might get lost it'll be bad for you you could have a you know you could get lost you could get into trouble just for your own sake not for us not for us not for us we don't mind but just for you you see for your own sake for your interest um their body language was weird too because they became more serious and insistent if you are insistent it means you're demanding or adamant or not taking no for an answer oh no no no no no no you must stay no absolutely absolutely not no no no you're staying you're staying no that's that no I won't have any more of it thank you no you are staying and that's the end of it to be insistent and they like no no really really really no no no no you're stay get get the blankets um my uncle stood shaking his head and my aunt began to move about the place moving from here to here to here picking up a set of keys to unlock what I assume was a spare bedroom he assumed it to assume is to think that something is true without actually checking or or getting proof so he wasn't sure he hadn't checked what the room was but he just assumed that it was a spare bedroom oh it must be a spare bedroom this is probably where they want me to sleep but he's only assuming that which again is quite quite nicely written because it suggests to us that oh maybe that room was something else what was that room oh my God it's a torture chamber I don't know uh a spare bedroom a spare bedroom an extra bedroom that's not being used okay so we talk about a spare bedroom um other things a spare pen if you turn up to your English lesson and you don't have a pen then you could say excuse me does anyone have a spare pen do you have a spare pen I could borrow okay at this point I was getting annoyed and irritable so annoyed aggravated frustrated irritated and irritable irritable just means that you are in a state where you can become irritated so if someone is irritable it means they can easily become irritated irritated annoyed aggravated irritable means that you can easily become irritated they're very similar really to be irritable and to be irritated very similar like for example or don't talk to him in the morning he's very he gets very irritable if he hasn't had any coffee I I would leave him alone until he's had his coffee he gets very irritated if he hasn't had his coffee they're more or less the same thing irritable and irritated I sighed fine I'll stay the night then to stay the night obviously means to stay and sleep somewhere both of them seemed strangely ecstatic if you are ecstatic it means you're extremely happy very very pleased oh good he's staying the night bit weird as soon as they went out of the room to get bed sheets and pillows I ran out of the door got in my car and hastily pulled away so we've got the word hasty or in this case the adverb hastily uh if Hasty means in a hurry without thinking carefully so you just do something quickly without really thinking carefully in this case escaped in his car right quickly without really sto stopping to think he did it hastily he pulled away so to pull away this phrasal verb means to leave in a car so the car is parked you get in you start the engine you turn the wheel and V you pull away or pull off is another one okay and the opposite of that is to pull over to pull over that means you're driving in the car and you get to your destination you turn to the side of the road and stop you pull over it's also what police would ask you to do if you're driving along I don't know what it is you're doing you're driving too fast or you're you're completely drunk behind the wheel of the car hopefully not and the police W and they say pull over the car please right pull over have you have you played Grand Theft Auto then I'm sure you've heard the police shouting at you to pull over pull over the car don't do anything stupid buddy you get those sorts of things when you you're playing Grand Theft Auto but anyway pull over just means stop the car by the side of the road and then the opposite would be to pull off or to pull away I know it was rude but I suddenly felt the urge to get out of there quickly if you feel the urge to do something uh it means you feel uh strong motivation to do something suddenly feel that you have to do something I felt the urge to get out of there I felt compelled to get out of there I felt that I had to get out of there I felt the urge an urge is like a a push inside yourself or a a strong uh compulsion or feeling that you need to do something I felt the urge to go to the toilet for example in this case I felt the urge to just get out of there to escape quickly it seemed to take me ages but I finally found my way back to the main Highway and drove back through the night wondering why my cousin had never turned up to turn up means to arrive okay to turn up very common phrasal verb just means to arrive okay for example I've been waiting for you I waited for you all morning and you just didn't turn up what happened okay or like he finally turned up half an hour late or look these three students just didn't turn up today does anyone know what happened to them to turn up meaning to arrive okay um climbing over my fence and entering the back door I noticed the kitchen lights were on a fence do you know what a fence is between two gardens you got like a wooden thing or maybe a metal thing that divides the two gardens and that's a fence right you you'd need to climb over it if you want to get into the back back door of the house that's a fence um as soon as I look as soon as I took my first step through the door I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient a note about the spelling of the word mom or in this case mom M oom is pretty standard in American English right I saw my mom sitting there so that's normal in American English usually in British English it's muu m although in some cases in the UK some people do spell it m for example in Birmingham you know they would say mom as well and spell it with an M but for the most part generally speaking in the UK it's muu M for Mom and in American English M O M for Mom uh I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient so she was looking impatient like she'd been waiting for a long time annoyed frustrated irritated and in this case impatient where have you been where have you been she asked I was at Aunt Deborah I told you then why did she call saying you never arrived dun d d That's the kind of um crucial moment of the story this is where we realize that so he went to the wrong house to this day I still have no idea who I visited so to this day to this day um to this day just means since then and until now including now okay since then until now including now as well so other examples to this day I've never seen Star Wars I I've never seen Star Wars to this day meaning never in my life including today to this day I still remember the moment that we met another example the old castle is still standing to this day all right and in this case to this day I still have no idea who I visited okay so that was that was vocab there a Little vocab recap with phrases like to this day and to be impatient on your on the fence to turn up to feel the urge to do something to pull away or pull over to be ecstatic to be annoyed or irritable or uh irritated or aggravated to stay the night to assume something a spare bedroom a spare pen a spare chair uh to um to do something for your own sake or for someone else's sake to be insistent to shrug something off your sense of direction to to be able to afford something I can't afford to I couldn't afford to a puzzled look to give someone a puzzled look um efficient Dreadful um no sign of someone and so on and so on and so forth right now again if you want to uh find the entire text for this story uh and a a vocabulary list as well check the episode page for this episode on my website okay just follow the link in the description it will take you straight there uh the link in the description for this episode in your show notes uh you'll find a link there click that it'll take you straight to the page for this episode on my website where you'll be able to uh read the entire text and also see uh a list of vocabulary that I've just explained okay now I had planned to go through grammar from the story as well okay and that includes the classic narrative verb tenses looking at past simple past perfect and past continuous and the ways in which those different tenses are used to sequence events in the story in a fairly sophisticated way with the use of some conjunctions as well um also gern and infinitives so for example you may notice that sometimes you see an ing form of a verb and sometimes you have the infinitive form of the verb like inviting and to invite also I wanted to give some comments about what's the the difference between a gerand like inviting and a present participle like inviting how do you know if it's a gerand or if it's a present participle well if it's a present participle it's used as part of a uh a continuous verb form like be doing to be waiting I am waiting she was waiting I have been waiting so if you need that if you have that verb be along with the ing form that ing form is a present participle but if there's no auxiliary verb be then and it's an ing word then it's probably a Geren and gern are used where you actually need a noun in the sentence like for example as the subject of the sentence skateboarding is my favorite thing for example skateboarding is a Geren there it's like the name of a sport right it's like a noun or we use Jaren in other loc where you need a noun like after certain verbs okay I enjoy skateboarding after the verb enjoy if you want to have another verb I enjoy listening to your podcast after the the verb enjoy you need a gerand because that's you know some verbs are followed by gern some verbs are followed by infinitives I enjoy skateboarding I want to go skateboarding want is followed by an infinitive of course that gets a bit complicated because you start to realize okay this verb or even this whole expression is followed by a gerand but this verb and these expressions are followed by an infinitive for example I am looking forward to is followed by a gerand I'm looking forward to seeing you soon what about I can't wait I can't wait to see you so can't wait is followed by an infinitive you see so there's that and there's some examples of that kind of thing in the story and also participle phrases this is where a present participle is used to create a phrase which informs the rest of the sentence like approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked and there are loads of examples of that in this story you could just write as I was approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked or when I was approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked but it can be more efficient to say approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked and there are loads of examples of that in this story as well and various other bits of grammar now I would go through that now but you know what I'm not going to go through that now because that would take too long and I want to go through it in proper detail but you know what I said before that this is the sort of thing I do on uh in I said before this is the sort of thing I do in premium episodes I think what I'll do is I'll wait and I'll probably make a premium episode where I go through the grammar from that story so if you want to get that if you want to get my comments and my my teaching about all of the grammar that's in that story focusing on participle phrases to make efficient reasonably complex sentences gern and 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hello listeners welcome back to Luke's English podcast how are you today I hope you're doing fine so here's a brand new episode and this one is a short story episode this is one of those episodes where I read you a short story and then use it to teach you some vocabulary and some grammar okay so uh I'm always looking for short stories always looking for little stories that I can use in episodes of my podcast uh this particular story I found this one on the website kora.com I don't know if you're familiar with Kora basically it's a website where uh people can post questions and then other users of the website will post their responses to those questions and the responses get upvoted or down voted and uh if a if a response gets upvoted a lot it then gets pushed up to the top of the page so I was looking on Kora and one of the questions I found there was something like this can you share any true scary stories can you share any true scary stories that I think was the original question that someone had posted and the the top response the most upvoted response was the story that I'm going to tell you today it was actually posted by a guy called Lance Stevenson and pretty sure that the story happened in the United States of America the USA and it was posted yes as a true scary story okay first of all I'm going to just read the story to you and you can try to understand it right uh if you're look at the video version you will see the story on the screen you'll see the text on the screen next to me uh if you are listening to the audio version uh and you want to read the text as well then you can just go to the page for this episode on my website you'll find the whole story uh copied there for you so you can check out the text in your own time if you want to read it as well uh so listen to the story try to understand it and you can think about this like why what can you identify uh the the scary SC elements so what's scary about this story uh try to imagine what is going to happen next and what happens at the end so can you get the specific details what is the scary element to this um after I've read the story to you I will summarize it in my own words just to try and clarify it just to make sure that you've got the details and that you've understood the the kind of the twist let's say the twist at the end of the story and then after that I'll go back through the text of the story and break it down for language highlighting vocabulary and also some some bits of grammar as well we'll be looking at things like um gern and infinitives and participle phrases and other things we're going to look at the way that the story was told and with different kinds of structures okay right so let's let's get started then with this apparently true scary story all right are you ready yes you're ready okay well let's begin then so I've decided to call this Story the invitation so here we go then what is scary about this story about 7 years ago I got an invitation to attend a dinner party at my cousin's house I have a pretty large family and I'd never actually seen this particular cousin before I'd only ever spoken to him on the phone I was surprised that his family unexpectedly invited me over but I was curious to finally meet them the invitation had an address that I didn't know and the GPS was unfamiliar with it too it was in one of those areas where Google Maps doesn't work properly because of poor phone reception so I had to use an old-fashioned paper map I marked the location on the map tried to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car as I was driving I I started to notice how far I'd traveled into the countryside and away from civilization I saw trees farms and Fields passing by just trees farms and Fields and more trees and more farms and more Fields where the hell am I going I thought to myself I'd never ventured out so far in that direction before I drove for quite a long time trying to locate the address I had marked on the map the thing is in this area a lot of the roads don't have names or the names aren't clearly marked by road signs I just had to try to match the layout of the streets to the layout I could see on the map I finally found a place at a location that looked like the one I'd noted on my map I was pretty sure that this was the right spot so I parked and got out of the car approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked it was completely covered in leaves branches and overgrown trees this can't be it I said to myself but as soon as I walked onto the rocky driveway my aunt and uncle came out to greet me they seemed excited and welcoming hello hello come in come in they said beckoning me inside walking into the house I asked where my cousin was answering immediately one of them said oh he just went to run a few errands he should be back later I waited in their kitchen and we spent a couple of hours talking about my mother and my family my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast that I finished off in minutes after dinner we played an enduring game of Uno it was surprisingly fun and competitive my aunt in particular seemed delighted to be playing when we finished the game of Uno it was almost dark and there was still no sign of my cousin my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon despite what they said I decided that I had to leave it was almost dark outside and I knew it would be a nightmare to find my way out of this Dreadful place after sunset with no street lights or road signs as my GPS just wasn't working I asked my aunt and uncle the most efficient way to get to the highway they gave me a puzzled look but we thought you were staying the night they said I told them I couldn't because I had work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day it's it's much better if you leave tomorrow morning trust us you'll get lost they said I Shrugged it off and told them not to worry ah don't worry I've got a pretty good sense of direction I could find my way out of the Sahara Desert I told them looking aggravated they strongly advised me to stay the night for my own sake their body language was weird too as they became more serious and insistent my uncle stood shaking his head and my aunt began to move about the place picking up a set of keys to unlock what I assume was a spare bedroom at this point I was getting annoyed and irritable I sighed fine I'll stay the night then but I have to get up very early for work I said both of them seemed strangely ecstatic that I was staying the night as soon as they went out of the room to get bed sheets and pillows I ran out of the door got in my car and hastily pulled away I know it was rude but I suddenly felt the urge to get out of there quickly it seemed to take me ages but I finally found my way back to the main Highway and drove back through the night wondering why my cousin had never turned up I got home several hours later than I expected it was after midnight and I didn't want to wake my parents up climbing over my fence and entering the back door I noticed that the kitchen lights were on as soon as I took my first step through the door I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient Where Have You Been she asked I was at Aunt Deborah's I told you I replied then why did she call saying you never arrived to this day I still have no idea who I visited okay so that's the story hm did you understand all of that what did you think did you think it was scary I don't know did you understand it enough what's going on what was actually going on here now I've read that story to people before and to an extent some people sort of misunderstood what was going on or they expected something to be happening so let me let me go through the story again and try and tell it to you in my own words to make it clear what happened so here are things that I think didn't happen so I remember telling that story to other people in the past they have they have assumed that the aunt and uncle like the they they assumed that maybe the reason the cousin didn't turn up is because the aunt and uncle maybe had killed him or something um I remember one person I read that story too uh thought that the pot roast was suspicious like what was in the pot roast did they kill the cousin and then they put him in the pot pot roast and he ate the the cousin I don't think that's what's going on basically this the creepy thing about this is that the guy almost definitely got the wrong house he got he went to the wrong house and he spent an evening with two people who he thought were his aunt and uncle two people who essentially seem to be pretending to be his aunt and uncle and who were lying to him about the cousin and stuff they were just strangely delighted to have a stranger in their home they were sort of weirdly uh excited to have someone at home with them and they really wanted that person to stay the night which is strange so who were these people we don't know because he got the wrong house and and meanwhile his real aunt and uncle and and uh his cousin were in a different house somewhere waiting for him to arrive live so a key thing to to know about this is that at the beginning of the story um this the Storyteller the writer says that uh he'd never actually met um his aunt or uncle or cousin before and that seems a little bit odd right a little bit strange that there would be like members of your family especially like an aunt and uncle and a cousin that you'd never actually met before but I suppose it's possible Right some people have very large families and uh especially in the United States which is such a big country if like there are members of your family who live fairly far away then it's not completely strange to to have never seen them or never met them and some families are a bit you know some families are not that close you know and and sometimes if there's like a bad relationship between the parents that they just don't see each other you know so you know there's that right so let me just let me try and clarify the story so the story starts with the guy saying um that s years earlier he received an invitation to have dinner at his cousin's house and he'd never actually met his cousin or his aunt or Uncle before so he was surprised that they had sent him a dinner invitation he'd only ever spoken to his cousin on the phone so he had actually spoken to his cousin but never actually met them face to face another slightly strange thing is that you'd imagine that maybe he would have seen photos of them but apparently not in this case but um so um the address was in a remote location quite far away from where the guy uh lived and he had to go there by car but the GPS his his um you know his satellite navigation in his car his uh his GPS couldn't locate the address and also the um the address that area is like very difficult to to navigate because there are no uh street names or road signs it's very poorly um indicated and apparently very bad mobile phone reception so he wasn't able to use Google Maps so he was forced to use an old fashion paper map and mark the location uh Mark the address on the map and then set off in his car and after driving for a long long time through lots of Countryside uh further and further away from civilization out into the middle of nowhere um he eventually found what he thought was the right place because the the streets didn't have street signs on them it was difficult for him to locate the right address but he tried to match the streets he could see with the streets he could see on the map and he found what he thought was the correct house um he wasn't completely sure uh but when he stepped onto the driveway when he approached the house what he thought was his um aunt and his uncle like these two people quickly came out of the house and greeted him and sort of very enthusiastically welcomed him in and I guess he didn't really have time to think about it but he assumed that these two people must be his aunt and uncle and they welcomed him in very enthusiastically and then he chatted with them in the kitchen for a couple of hours talking about his mother and their family so I suppose I don't know what what's going on there maybe these people pretended you know they were just like oh yeah yeah yeah just going along with it he would talk about his his mom and they would just sort of like just agree and go along with everything so as far as he was concerned these this was his aunt and uncle and when he said oh what about my cousin they just kind of um brushed It Off by saying oh he he'll be back later he's just running a few errands anyway would you like something to eat and uh the woman made him a a pot roast which is a kind of um like a roasted um meal in a in a pot with vegetables and some sort of meat and onion and sauce and stuff like that and he ate the whole thing apparently was delicious then they played a game of Uno which is a kind of card game and uh he noticed that the the his wouldbe aunt and uncle were behaving a bit strangely and the aunt in particular seem to be like like ecstatic about playing the game and like strangely delighted you know and it got darker and darker and he realized that the cousin perhaps wasn't going to turn up and so he he decided that he had to leave but his so-called aunt and uncle were very keen for him to stay and they were they were shocked at the idea that he would leave and they they were like no no no you must stay it'll be too difficult to find your way uh uh out of the area at this time so no no no you must stay and um they started to prepare a bed for him and he suddenly got a weird feeling at this point and decided that he had to leave he also mentioned something about the fact that he had to work the next day and he couldn't afford to miss another day so probably you know he was probably um in already in a little bit of trouble with his boss for missing days of work previously and so it was really important that he got back home in time to be able to get to work um you know without missing another day so he decided that he really did have to leave and in the end he just sort of escaped while they were doing something while they uh quickly went away to get some bed sheets and pillows he sort of escaped and went out of the door got in his car and drove off and managed to find his way home it took him a long time and then when he finally got home um it was late and he wanted just to go straight to bed but his mom was still up waiting for him uh and annoyed with him and she said what where have you been and he said I was at aunt and uncle I was at Aunt Deborah's like I told you and she said well why did they call saying that you never arrived so in fact the real aunt and uncle were waiting the entire evening for him to arrive he must have gone to another house and who were these strange people and why were they so Keen for him to stay the night what was going on and what was in that pot roast anyway just weird I mean so that is one of those sort of stories that is supposed to be scary because of what might have happened or what could have happened or the fact that there are lots of unknown things like we don't know who these people were and why they were so enthusiastic about him being in their home and then staying the night and what and some other details like why was the bedroom door locked with a key and why would why was their behavior so odd so there you go that's the story so what do you think do you think it's a true story I mean we've got no idea of tell we we don't know we can never know if that was a true story or if Lance what was his name Lance Stevenson Lance Stevenson maybe Lance Stevenson just made it up it could be one of those Urban myths you know those sorts of stories which are presented as being true but they're really just made up and designed to be scary little stories like normally stories like this if they if they if we know that they're not true if we know that they're made up then they become less effective they have less impact if you listen to that story believing it's true then it makes it more creepy doesn't it so who knows maybe it's true maybe it's just made up no idea but I quite enjoy it I quite enjoy the um creepiness of it okay so let's now do a language review let's see how the story was written and this is where we're going to focus on some vocabulary and some grammar I'm actually going to give you the sort of Luke's English podcast premium treatment now because normally I do this kind of thing in premium episodes of my podcast and uh that's where I go into the vocabulary and the grammar and stuff in a lot more detail so this is just a flavor of the sort of thing you can get if you subscribe to my premium content uh and if you do that you'll get like loads of extra episodes in your podcast app so you'll get the premium feed which means you'll get all of the free episodes of my audio show without any advertising and also you'll get all these extra episodes that uh involve lots of language teaching from me and this is just a little tap of the sort of thing that you get in those extra premium episodes if you're interested in that by the way uh just go to teacher. co.uk premium info and you can find all the details audio episodes that you can get in your audio podcast app with PDFs every single premium episode has a PDF with worksheets and the rest of it vocabulary teaching grammar teaching pronunciation practice memory exercises and also video versions there are video versions of those premium episodes uh too so you can get all the information at teacher. co.uk premium info so let's start then by going through vocabulary from the story okay you'll see that I've highlighted some words in the story in Orange not every single um slide here has a has a word on it for example the first slide about seven years ago I got an invitation to attend a dinner party at my cousin's house okay fine nothing in particular to to point out there the next slide I have a pretty large family pretty large right it just means fairly large quite large I have a pretty large family and I'd never actually seen this particular cousin before so that word particular this particular cousin just means this specific cousin this cousin in particular okay so obviously this guy's got lots of cousins but now he wants to say this cousin specifically so he'd never actually seen this particular cousin before all right so this particular cousin on this particular day this particular episode of Luke's podcast was particularly interesting for me in particular all right moving on I was surprised that his family unexpectedly invited me over so unexpectedly it's pretty clear I suppose right but it's it's a nice adverb to do something unexpectedly when was the last time you use that word um do something that you don't expect do something unexpectedly okay so they they they unexpectedly did something they did something unexpectedly in this case his family unexpectedly invited me over so invite me I think you understand it's like would you like to come to our house for dinner but invite me over why have we got the word over in there using the word over imp implies visiting someone's home okay and we often use that we say come over invite someone over stay over over means over here at my place so that's just very common when you're talking about coming or visiting someone's home invite someone over come over and stay over yes the invitation had an address that I didn't know and the GPS was unfamiliar with it too so GPS I think it's probably International right GPS the sort of um electronic map device that everyone uses in their car GPS um global positioning system in the UK we also call it satnav satnav did you know that one satellite navigation satnav GPS satnav it was in one of those areas where Google Maps doesn't work properly because of poor phone reception so phone reception refers to you know your the the how much coverage you have how much connection you have on your phone we call it phone reception uh or signal or network or coverage for example if you've only got one bar on your phone and you're trying to do something like maybe you're trying to uh look something up on the Internet uh and you've only got one bar then your phone works very slowly and you can tell I've got such ter terrible reception here have you got any reception I've got no network or the signal here is terrible isn't it okay or if you're on the phone to someone it's like I can't hear you no I've got really bad signal I've got really I've got really bad I've got no network here okay so reception signal or network right I marked the location on the map try to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car if you are headed in in a particular direction it means you're going in that direction right so where are we headed we're headed for London meaning we're going to London we're headed for the pub meaning we're going to the pub so if you're headed or heading as well somewhere it means you're going in that direction so I tried to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car to set off means to start your journey okay start your journey set off in your car set off on your bike set off on foot okay remember it's always on foot it's never by walking but on foot set off on your journey set off in your car set off on your bike set off on Foot Right set off meaning start your trip as I was driving I started to notice how far I'd traveled into the countryside away from civilization the countryside I mean it's a very common word but as a teacher I often notice that my Learners don't use this word or don't seem to remember it so you got the city and then you've maybe got the suburbs which is that area just around the city and then where it's all green and you've got lots of fields and trees and stuff that's the countryside okay in this case he was driving and driving and he realized how far he' traveled into the countryside away from civilization I saw trees farms and field passing by passing by meaning passing next to him passing on the side as as he looked out of the window passing by where the hell am I going I thought to myself um I just wanted to highlight the use of the hell in that question where the hell am I going and you know you can do that to add a sort of emphasis or anger or surprise or um sort of confusion to your question where the hell am I going just add the word the phrase the hell after the question word where the hell am I going what the hell are you doing what the hell are you talking about what the hell is going on right um and there's also the more rude version which is the f word where the F am I going what the are you talking about right everyone knows that but also you got what the hell where the hell we going what the hell are you doing who the hell are you what the hell are you talking about for example all right there's another one too there's on Earth where on Earth am I going what on Earth are you talking about what on Earth is happening who on Earth is this guy anyway right so on Earth after the word where where where the hell am I going what on Earth am I doing those are slightly more or slightly less rude versions of saying the fword in that situation instead where the hell am I going I thought to myself I'd never ventured out so far in that direction before to venture out means to leave a familiar place and go somewhere new right kind of go on an adventure an adventure that's a noun but the verb is to venture to venture out meaning go out go away to a new place uh that you haven't been to before and go on a journey that involves maybe some risks right so to venture out into the countryside to venture out into the desert to venture out of the house if the snow stops I might venture out to get some supplies from the shop for example okay all right let's keep going I drove for quite a long time trying to locate the address I had marked on the map the thing is in this area a lot of the roads don't have names so the the thing is this is a phrase that we use a lot and normally it's used before giving a reason or maybe giving an excuse like for example where's your home you didn't do your homework where's your homework oh well sorry teacher but the thing is my dog ate it right just like that classic terrible student excuse not that not that uh in all my years as a teacher no one has ever given me that excuse but it's the sort of cliched excuse oh I'm sorry my dog ate my homework if someone actually if if one of my students genuinely gave that excuse oh the thing is my dog ate my homework I would be genuinely impressed of like really wow that's incredible is the dog okay anyway the thing is last night I was out and then uh I lost my bag and then it's like never mind just sit down stop stop giving me this ridiculous excuse so the thing is it's used to give a reason or an excuse right in this case um he's explaining why he had problems like the thing is in this area lots of the roads don't have names okay so it's very common to use the thing is when you're giving excuses or reasons for example if someone says to you would you like to go for a drink with me and you you need to say no you might say oh I'd love to but the thing is I can't or I'd love to go for a drink with you but the thing is you know I'm I'm washing my hair tonight um right okay moving on I just had to try to match the layout of the streets to the layout I could see on the map so the layout is the design or the way in which things are laid out or arranged so the layout of the streets like where the houses are positioned where the road is positioned where the where trees are and stuff that's the layout of the streets and the layout of the map you know the way that the map has been designed okay that's the layout you also have things like the layout of a website you know the way that the website is arranged the way it looks there's a picture here there's text here there's this this this that's the layout of a of a website for example um so approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked so dull basically means boring another word would be drab uh so dull boring not interesting looking okay dull and boring and dreary dreary another adjective to describe the appearance of this house that didn't look very nice or interesting dreary means sort of depressing so you can imagine a house that is yeah sort of dark depressing it doesn't look like it's been um cleaned or maintained very well it's the it's the classic scary house from a hor from a horror film isn't it there always a house like this it's kind of creepy dull dreary looking house with lots of over grown trees and bushes and and grass and stuff dark Windows the door opens you know with a creek like that the whole thing basically if you're in a movie if you ever find yourself in a movie not that that's ever going to happen but if you do find yourself in a movie and there's a big dreary creepy looking house with lots of overgrown bushes generally it's a good idea to to turn around 180° do a 18 and just go home and stop being in horror films okay right so approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked it was completely covered in leaves branches and overgrown trees so branches we know are the parts of the tree that come off the main trunk you got the main trunk of the tree the trunk and then from the trunk you get branches of the tree that come out and there are leaves and stuff on the branches um over grown trees a tree that's overgrown is that it's grown too much and it's maybe covering the street or covering a building and it needs to be you know cut back it needs to be pruned or trimmed this can't be it I said to myself but as soon as I walked onto the rocky driveway my aunt and uncle came out to greet me to greet someone just means to say hello to someone like for example if someone comes to your office you would go down to reception to greet them uh uh Luke could you go and greet our guests in reception please you go go and greet them hello You Must Be Our Guests Hello nice to nice to meet you hello that's right come this way uh how was your journey was it all right okay so they greeted him they seemed exciting and welcoming hello hello come in come in they said beckoning me inside to beckon someone is to sort of uh wave with your hand to try and make someone come towards you come in come in so the hand gesture that you would use with your hand when you're saying come in that's to beckon someone or to say come here come here with your hand that gesture is called beckoning to beckon someone walking into the house I asked where my cousin was answering immediately one of them said oh he just went to run a few errands to run a few errands it means just to do a few small jobs right so maybe go to the shops post some letters take something to the cleaners you know fill up the car with fuel just to run a few errands to do a few little jobs I waited in their kitchen and we spent a couple of hours talking about my mother and my family my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast this is where I said it before meat and vegetables in a big pot in the oven cooked for quite a long time yum yum yum that's a pot roast we don't know what was in this particular pot roast but he said that he finished it off in minutes they made a my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast that I finished off in minutes finished he finished it I think we understand there was nothing left at the end but finished off what's the function of saying off there I finished it off it just emphasizes that it was completely finished so finish and finish off right if you finished it off it means you completely finished it I mean to be honest if something is finished it's completely finished I mean something is either finished or not finished right so I don't know how really you could say that something is completely finished but it's really just emphasizing it okay that's the function of that phrasal verb it's just emphasizing that it was completely finished so you can it's it's quite nice because you can imagine that the the bowl or the plate that he was eating from is completely complely empty at the end and the pot totally empty he finished it off I suppose this is this is one of the this is one of the creepy elements because later on when you realize that we don't know who these people were or what their intentions were or what their agenda was you start to think what did he what did he eat what was that that he ate we don't know but he trusted these people and maybe he shouldn't have so he finished the entire pot roast off but wonder I wonder what was in it h um after dinner we played an enduring game of Uno do you know the game Uno it's a kind of card game that you play with kids where you kind of deal out cards and then you can you have to pick up cards if you if you can't play the right number You' got to pick up cards it's sort of just a fun not very challenging game that you play with children this is uno so they played an enduring game of Uno enduring means that it lasted a long time an enduring game of Uno a game that lasted a long time other things you could say would be enduring appeal right for example the enduring appeal of The Beatles You Know The Beatles this is the example I always love to use but the Beatles you know they split up in 1970 but they're still popular and they still got new music coming out even now and it just shows that they have an incred they have an an enduring appeal you know people like them and they continue to like them so their appeal has lasted for a long time other things another example might be an enduring memory an enduring memory is a memory that sticks with you for a long time okay when we finished the game of Uno it was almost dark and there was still no sign of my cousin just means that there was no indication of him um he didn't come home and there was no sense that he was going to come home soon just zero nothing no indication no sign of my cousin at all my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon so they assured him so basically means they made him sure they um made him convinced right so to assure someone is to give confidence to someone to make someone sure or to convince someone okay they assured me that he'd be back anytime soon don't worry he'll be back anytime soon I'm sure he'll just be a few moments they assured him we got similar other words like ensure e NS u e is to make certain that something will happen so you we we assure someone that something will happen and we ensure that something happens for example I just want to ensure that uh um I just want to ensure that the lesson starts at the right time meaning I want to make certain that the lesson starts at the right time let ensure with an E I want to assure you that's with as s Ur e that's to make someone feel sure and also we've got the word insure as well to ensure I'm going to ensure my car to ensure my house and that is to protect that thing against loss and that's to take insurance right so that's where you pay an insurance company and if you if the car gets damaged then the insurance company will pay for the damage so I've insured my car okay in this case my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon don't worry he'll definitely be be back anytime soon MH ensure I wanted to ensure that I was on time for work my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back soon um it was almost dark outside I knew it would be a nightmare to find my way out of this Dreadful place after Sunset so a dreadful place is an awful terrible horrible bad place okay now Dreadful doesn't mean scary it doesn't mean frightening okay um even though it's got the word dread in it dread now the noun dread um does mean fear or or fright right to be filled with Dread means that you're ter scared right but if something is Dreadful it just means it's it's bad for example what did you think of the film I thought it was Dreadful one of the worst films I've seen for ages for example all right um what did you think of the pot roast oh no I couldn't eat it it was Dreadful okay so Dreadful just means bad so the guy decides that he needs to leave because he knew it would be a nightmare to find his way out of this terrible place this Dreadful awful place okay all right as my GPS just wasn't working I asked my aunt and uncle the most efficient way to get to the highway now the efficient way it's not it doesn't mean just the best way to get to the highway it means the in this case the quickest way so in English if something is efficient it means it does something quickly without using a lot of time quickly obviously uh without using a lot of energy or effort or or money okay the most efficient way of getting to the highway just in this case means the quickest way okay you can also say an efficient car an efficient car is one that travels a long way on a smaller amount of fuel right that's an efficient car like you know typically you know German or Japanese cars tend to be pretty efficient right famously like a Volkswagen Golf is a very efficient car but then because they they they do lots of miles to the gallon as we say uh whereas you know those classic American cars those big American muscle cars they look really cool but they are not efficient at all because you need to fill up the car with fuel you drive for about 10 minutes and you got to fill it up again because they're so inefficient yeah okay moving on they gave me a puzzled look so a puzzled look just means a huh a confused look puzzle a puzzle is a thing you have to solve like a crossword puzzle or a word puzzle a puzzled look is a look that you know is confused a confused look okay to give someone a look as well is quite a nice phrase you know uh he gave me a dirty look like when if you say something that someone doesn't like it might give you a dirty look I'm trying to I'm trying to do a dirty look I don't know um she gave me a friendly look hello you know in this case a puzzled look I told them I couldn't stay because I had to work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day so I couldn't afford to or I can't afford to okay it's always can or could not in this case afford to do something means not have enough m uh not have enough time or enough money to do it okay normally for example do you want to come to Disneyland I can't afford to come to Disneyland uh not until the end of the month when I get paid because it's very expensive isn't it Disneyland you got to pay for the ticket to get there ticket to get in and then you got to you know you got to pay for all the food and all the other stuff it's very expensive I can't afford it right mean I don't have enough money to do it in this case he said I had to work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day uh in this case couldn't afford to in the sense that he doesn't have enough chances left right if he's late another day or he misses another day he's probably going to get fired by his boss so in terms of Chances with his boss he doesn't have enough chances left so he really couldn't afford to miss another day okay so couldn't afford to because you don't have enough money can't afford to because you don't have enough time can't afford to because you've run out of opportunities you know I Shrugged it off and told them not to worry to shrug something off now to shrug shr u shr u right shrug is to kind of move your shoulders up as if you care as if you don't really care a it's all right you know when you when you kind of move your shoulders up and down to to show that you don't really care or it doesn't matter you don't mind now to shrug something off is is basically a way to say that you consider it to be unimportant or to say that it's not important or act like something is not important someone has said something and you just shrug it off like for example someone has criticized you and you shrug it off like Luke your podcast episodes are quite long aren't they quite long aren't they those podcast episodes who can listen to who could listen to a podcast for that long like it's all right people seem to like it you know just shrug it off shrug off the criticism in this case uh in this case they said to him oh no you you must stay you'll get you know you you'll get lost and he he Shrugged it off and just told them not to worry ah it's all right don't worry I've got a pretty good sense of direction your sense of direction is your ability to know where you are and where you're going if you've got a good sense of direction you generally don't get lost but if you've got a bad sense of direction you get lost easily looking aggravated they strongly advised me me to stay the night for my own sake so aggravated just means annoyed or bothered irritated or peeved like they're like God no you no you shouldn't you shouldn't leave no no no no no no you must stay they were kind of annoyed or bothered or irritated they strongly advised me to stay the night for my own sake right if if if you do something for your own sake it means for your own interest as if to say or if you leave you might get lost it'll be bad for you you could have a you know you could get lost you could get into trouble just for your own sake not for us not for us not for us we don't mind but just for you you see for your own sake for your interest um their body language was weird too because they became more serious and insistent if you are insistent it means you're demanding or adamant or not taking no for an answer oh no no no no no no you must stay no absolutely absolutely not no no no you're staying you're staying no that's that no I won't have any more of it thank you no you are staying and that's the end of it to be insistent and they like no no really really really no no no no you're stay get get the blankets um my uncle stood shaking his head and my aunt began to move about the place moving from here to here to here picking up a set of keys to unlock what I assume was a spare bedroom he assumed it to assume is to think that something is true without actually checking or or getting proof so he wasn't sure he hadn't checked what the room was but he just assumed that it was a spare bedroom oh it must be a spare bedroom this is probably where they want me to sleep but he's only assuming that which again is quite quite nicely written because it suggests to us that oh maybe that room was something else what was that room oh my God it's a torture chamber I don't know uh a spare bedroom a spare bedroom an extra bedroom that's not being used okay so we talk about a spare bedroom um other things a spare pen if you turn up to your English lesson and you don't have a pen then you could say excuse me does anyone have a spare pen do you have a spare pen I could borrow okay at this point I was getting annoyed and irritable so annoyed aggravated frustrated irritated and irritable irritable just means that you are in a state where you can become irritated so if someone is irritable it means they can easily become irritated irritated annoyed aggravated irritable means that you can easily become irritated they're very similar really to be irritable and to be irritated very similar like for example or don't talk to him in the morning he's very he gets very irritable if he hasn't had any coffee I I would leave him alone until he's had his coffee he gets very irritated if he hasn't had his coffee they're more or less the same thing irritable and irritated I sighed fine I'll stay the night then to stay the night obviously means to stay and sleep somewhere both of them seemed strangely ecstatic if you are ecstatic it means you're extremely happy very very pleased oh good he's staying the night bit weird as soon as they went out of the room to get bed sheets and pillows I ran out of the door got in my car and hastily pulled away so we've got the word hasty or in this case the adverb hastily uh if Hasty means in a hurry without thinking carefully so you just do something quickly without really thinking carefully in this case escaped in his car right quickly without really sto stopping to think he did it hastily he pulled away so to pull away this phrasal verb means to leave in a car so the car is parked you get in you start the engine you turn the wheel and V you pull away or pull off is another one okay and the opposite of that is to pull over to pull over that means you're driving in the car and you get to your destination you turn to the side of the road and stop you pull over it's also what police would ask you to do if you're driving along I don't know what it is you're doing you're driving too fast or you're you're completely drunk behind the wheel of the car hopefully not and the police W and they say pull over the car please right pull over have you have you played Grand Theft Auto then I'm sure you've heard the police shouting at you to pull over pull over the car don't do anything stupid buddy you get those sorts of things when you you're playing Grand Theft Auto but anyway pull over just means stop the car by the side of the road and then the opposite would be to pull off or to pull away I know it was rude but I suddenly felt the urge to get out of there quickly if you feel the urge to do something uh it means you feel uh strong motivation to do something suddenly feel that you have to do something I felt the urge to get out of there I felt compelled to get out of there I felt that I had to get out of there I felt the urge an urge is like a a push inside yourself or a a strong uh compulsion or feeling that you need to do something I felt the urge to go to the toilet for example in this case I felt the urge to just get out of there to escape quickly it seemed to take me ages but I finally found my way back to the main Highway and drove back through the night wondering why my cousin had never turned up to turn up means to arrive okay to turn up very common phrasal verb just means to arrive okay for example I've been waiting for you I waited for you all morning and you just didn't turn up what happened okay or like he finally turned up half an hour late or look these three students just didn't turn up today does anyone know what happened to them to turn up meaning to arrive okay um climbing over my fence and entering the back door I noticed the kitchen lights were on a fence do you know what a fence is between two gardens you got like a wooden thing or maybe a metal thing that divides the two gardens and that's a fence right you you'd need to climb over it if you want to get into the back back door of the house that's a fence um as soon as I look as soon as I took my first step through the door I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient a note about the spelling of the word mom or in this case mom M oom is pretty standard in American English right I saw my mom sitting there so that's normal in American English usually in British English it's muu m although in some cases in the UK some people do spell it m for example in Birmingham you know they would say mom as well and spell it with an M but for the most part generally speaking in the UK it's muu M for Mom and in American English M O M for Mom uh I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient so she was looking impatient like she'd been waiting for a long time annoyed frustrated irritated and in this case impatient where have you been where have you been she asked I was at Aunt Deborah I told you then why did she call saying you never arrived dun d d That's the kind of um crucial moment of the story this is where we realize that so he went to the wrong house to this day I still have no idea who I visited so to this day to this day um to this day just means since then and until now including now okay since then until now including now as well so other examples to this day I've never seen Star Wars I I've never seen Star Wars to this day meaning never in my life including today to this day I still remember the moment that we met another example the old castle is still standing to this day all right and in this case to this day I still have no idea who I visited okay so that was that was vocab there a Little vocab recap with phrases like to this day and to be impatient on your on the fence to turn up to feel the urge to do something to pull away or pull over to be ecstatic to be annoyed or irritable or uh irritated or aggravated to stay the night to assume something a spare bedroom a spare pen a spare chair uh to um to do something for your own sake or for someone else's sake to be insistent to shrug something off your sense of direction to to be able to afford something I can't afford to I couldn't afford to a puzzled look to give someone a puzzled look um efficient Dreadful um no sign of someone and so on and so on and so forth right now again if you want to uh find the entire text for this story uh and a a vocabulary list as well check the episode page for this episode on my website okay just follow the link in the description it will take you straight there uh the link in the description for this episode in your show notes uh you'll find a link there click that it'll take you straight to the page for this episode on my website where you'll be able to uh read the entire text and also see uh a list of vocabulary that I've just explained okay now I had planned to go through grammar from the story as well okay and that includes the classic narrative verb tenses looking at past simple past perfect and past continuous and the ways in which those different tenses are used to sequence events in the story in a fairly sophisticated way with the use of some conjunctions as well um also gern and infinitives so for example you may notice that sometimes you see an ing form of a verb and sometimes you have the infinitive form of the verb like inviting and to invite also I wanted to give some comments about what's the the difference between a gerand like inviting and a present participle like inviting how do you know if it's a gerand or if it's a present participle well if it's a present participle it's used as part of a uh a continuous verb form like be doing to be waiting I am waiting she was waiting I have been waiting so if you need that if you have that verb be along with the ing form that ing form is a present participle but if there's no auxiliary verb be then and it's an ing word then it's probably a Geren and gern are used where you actually need a noun in the sentence like for example as the subject of the sentence skateboarding is my favorite thing for example skateboarding is a Geren there it's like the name of a sport right it's like a noun or we use Jaren in other loc where you need a noun like after certain verbs okay I enjoy skateboarding after the verb enjoy if you want to have another verb I enjoy listening to your podcast after the the verb enjoy you need a gerand because that's you know some verbs are followed by gern some verbs are followed by infinitives I enjoy skateboarding I want to go skateboarding want is followed by an infinitive of course that gets a bit complicated because you start to realize okay this verb or even this whole expression is followed by a gerand but this verb and these expressions are followed by an infinitive for example I am looking forward to is followed by a gerand I'm looking forward to seeing you soon what about I can't wait I can't wait to see you so can't wait is followed by an infinitive you see so there's that and there's some examples of that kind of thing in the story and also participle phrases this is where a present participle is used to create a phrase which informs the rest of the sentence like approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked and there are loads of examples of that in this story you could just write as I was approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked or when I was approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked but it can be more efficient to say approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked and there are loads of examples of that in this story as well and various other bits of grammar now I would go through that now but you know what I'm not going to go through that now because that would take too long and I want to go through it in proper detail but you know what I said before that this is the sort of thing I do on uh in I said before this is the sort of thing I do in premium episodes I think what I'll do is I'll wait and I'll probably make a premium episode where I go through the grammar from that story so if you want to get that if you want to get my comments and my my teaching about all of the grammar that's in that story focusing on participle phrases to make efficient reasonably complex sentences gern and 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854. The Invitation (Learn English with a Short Story)

We went to a coffee shop last week and I fully got in the parking lot and I was like, "Wow, this is really empty."

Geçen hafta bir kahve dükkanına gittik ve otoparka tamamen girdim ve "Vay canına, burası gerçekten boş" dedim.

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I could smile and jiggle it 'till his pockets empty. ♪ ♪ I could be the CEO, just look at Robyn Fenty. ♪ ♪ And Imma be there for you 'cause you on my team, girl. ♪ ♪ Don't ever think you ain't hella these niggas dream girl. ♪ ♪ They wanna pit us against each other ♪ ♪ When we succeedin' for no reasons. ♪ ♪ They wanna see us end up like we Regina on Mean Girls. ♪ ♪ Princess or

Gülümseyip cepleri boşalana kadar sallayabilirim. ♪ ♪ CEO olabilirim, Robyn Fenty'ye bak yeter. ♪ ♪ Ve senin için orada olacağım çünkü benim takımımdasın, kızım. ♪ ♪ Bu heriflerin hayallerindeki kız olmadığını asla düşünme. ♪ ♪ Bizi birbirimize düşürmek istiyorlar ♪ ♪ Biz sebepsiz yere başarılı olurken. ♪ ♪ Bizi Mean Girls'teki Regina gibi bitmiş görmek istiyorlar. ♪ ♪ Prenses ya da

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But nursing all the way, Mom's lost over a quarter of her body weight. Thousands of punishing miles means she's running on empty.

Ancak yol boyunca emzirdiği için anne, vücut ağırlığının dörtte birinden fazlasını kaybetti. Binlerce zorlu mil, enerjisinin tükendiği anlamına geliyor.

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empty. ♪ ♪ Just one last push to reach the feeding grounds of North America. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ With her calf breaching ahead of her... ♪ ♪

tükendi. ♪ ♪ Kuzey Amerika'nın beslenme alanlarına ulaşmak için sadece son bir gayret. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Yavrusu önünde sudan sıçrarken... ♪ ♪

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