8 What's your name again 再说一遍你的名字

Elementary - Daily Life - What's your name again?(C0008)

M: Hello, English learners and welcome backto English pod. My name is Marco.

E:  AndI'm Erica.

M: How are you Erica?

E: Michael, I'm doing really well today.

M: You’re excited.

E: Aha! We've got a great lesson foreveryone.

M: Yes, we have a really common situationwhere we're going to use real English, right?

E:  Yeah,everyday English, English that people really use.

M: And that's what we want you to learn. Whatare we talking about today Specifically?

E: Today we have a really common situationthat is a little bit embarrassing.

M: Alright, an embarrassing situation. So,let's listen to the dialogue for the first time and it's going to be kind offast.

E: Yeah, but don't worry if you don'tunderstand everything, because after ten minutes, you'll understand everything.

M: Perfect. All right, that's listening.

DIALOGUE, FIRST TIME

E: Wow, Nick forgot her name.

M: Yeah, that's happened to me a couple oftimes, and I'm going to tell you about a little bit later.

E: OK, alright, well, let's start with ourthree language takeaways.

Voice:Language takeaway

M: So, our first word on the language takeawayis in a bit of a hurry.

E:  Ina bit of a hurry.

M: In a bit of a hurry.

E: In a bit of a hurry.

M: So Nick was in a hurry.

E: Yeah, that's right. This is a greatphrase, so let's listen to three examples of how you can use this phrase.

Voice: Example One.

Canyou drive faster? I'm in a bit of a hurry.

Voice: Example Two.

Ican't talk right now. I'm in a bit of a hurry.

Voice: Example Three.

I'min a bit of a hurry, so I'll check these files later.

M: Okay, so it's clear now. Basically, itmeans that you don't have time.

E: You're moving really quickly.

M: OK, perfect. Now let's look at our secondlanguage takeaway word and it’s contactdetails.

E: Contact details.

M: Contact details.

E: Contact details.

M: So what are your contact details?

E: Basically, this is the information you canfind on your business card.

M: All right, so we have like our name, ourtelephone number,

E: Your email address, perhaps your mobilephone number,

M: So all the useful information so peoplecan get in touch with you,

E: Yeah, so people can phone you or emailyou. OK, so contact details.

M: Great. OK, so our third word is slipped my mind.

E: Slipped my mind.

M: Slipped my mind.

E: Slipped my mind.

M: So this is a funny phrase. It's kind ofstrange, right?

E: Yeah, slipped my mind. It sounds veryweird

M: Exactly.

E: OK, so now we're going to listen to twoexamples of this phrase. Try and see if you can figure out what it means.

Voice: Example One.

 I'm sorry I forgotto respond to your email. It just slipped my mind.

Voice: Example Two.

 Don't you know what date is today? Oh, it'syour birthday. It completely slipped my mind.

E: Ah, so slipped my mind is like I forgot

M: You forgot something.

E: So…

M: Accidentally

E: Right.

M: Okay, great. Now it's time for putting it together.

Voice:Putting it together.

M: All right, Erica, why don't you tell ourlisteners what putting it together is .

E: Well, putting it together helps you putlanguage together. It helps you be more fluent by knowing how words fittogether.

M: Great. So let's look at our first phrasetoday, and it's around here

E: Around here.

M: Around here.

E: Around here. So this is like close by.

M: Close by, right, I can say, for example,is there a bank around here?

E: Yeah, yeah, I'm so that is there a bankclose to here.

M: Exactly

E: Now. This phrase around here we can changeit a little bit, and it means something a little bit different.

M: Right.

E: I could say, Marco, there's a great restaurantright around the corner.

M: Right, and that would mean there is agreat restaurant on the other street.

E: Yeah.

M: Around the corner.

E: Yeah.

M: Great, or we have another example. We cansay around there.

E: Around there.

M: Right. So, for example, I can say LosAngeles is a great city. I used to live around there.

E: So you used to live near Los Angeles.

M: Exactly.

E: Alright.

M: It's a really good phrase and it's reallycommon.

E: Yeah, now our next phrase and putting ittogether is terrible with.

M: Terrible with.

E: Terrible with.

M: Terrible with. So we have a couple ofexamples that will show you how this phrase works.

Voice: Example One.

 You're terrible with numbers, you can'tremember your own telephone number.

Voice: Example Two.

 I am terrible with directions. I'm alwaysgetting lost.

Voice: Example Three.

 I'm terrible with faces. I can never rememberwhat people look like.

E: Wow, I understand that I am also terriblewith numbers I can barely add two plus two.

M: Well, yeah, I guess not everyone is anumbers person. I'm terrible with the faces. I sometimes forget what peoplelook like.

E: Really?

M: Yeah.

E: Oh,

M: So I think it's time now for us to listento our dialogue a second time.

E: OK, This time, the dialogue will be alittle bit slower. So try and listen for some of the words we've just talkedabout.

DIALOGUE, SECOND TIME

M: So, it's more clear now.  You can understand a lot better, right?

E: Yeah, that's true.

M: Great. So now it's time for us to take alook at fluency builder.

Voice:Fluency Builder.

E: So with Fluency Builder, we take some verysimple phrases and show you how you can be more fluent or how you can…

M: Sound more native.

E: Yeah.

M: Great in the beginning of the dialogue,Anna said Nick, How's it going?

E: Yeah, this is a great phrase. It soundsreally really natural, you know, sometimes I hear students say “How are you?”…

M: Or “how are you doing?”.

E: Those are two great phrases, but this onesounds really really natural.

M: It just sounds more casual.

E: Yeah, let's listen again to that phrasefrom the dialogue.

Voice:How's it going? How's it going?

M: Great. So next time that you find a friendon the street, you can just say, Hey, How's it going?

E: Yeah, so, Marco have you ever forgottensomeone's name?

M:Yeah, it's happened to me a couple oftimes, and actually the most embarrassing situation was that I forgot a familymember’s name．

E: No… a family member’s name…

M: We had like a family reunion, and thereare a lot of aunts and uncles and cousins that I hadn't seen in a while, and Ijust forgot one of my uncles’ names and I was…

E: Oh oh, that's pretty embarrassing.

M: Yeah.

E: So, what did you do?

M: Well, I had to ask one of my other cousinslike: “Hey, who is that guy? Is he that Uncle John?” and like: “oh, man, Itotally forgot.” Yeah, so it was really embarrassing because I didn’t know whatto call him, so I just called him uncle. Cause I didn’t know his name.

E: Hi, Uncle.

M: Yeah.

E: Oh, yeah, so when that happens to me whenI'm in a business setting, sometimes what I do is I ask for someone's card.

M: Ah, yeah. That's the good technique.

E:  Yeah,or sometimes I might ask them to write down their email. Cause usually theirfull name is spelled out in their email address. So that's my trick when I'veforgotten someone's name.

M: That's a good trick and there is a lot ofour listeners can take your advice on that.

E: OK, so I think it's time for us to listento our dialogue one more time, this time at natural speed.

DIALOGUE, THIRD TIME.

E: Well, I hope that you've all enjoyed ourlesson for today and remember to check out our website at EnglishPod.com…

 M: Where youcan find a lot of other resources and you can leave all your questions andcomments.

E: Yeah Marco and I are always on this site,so we’re happy to answer all of your questions.

M:  Exactly. So now it's time for us to say…

E:  Goodbye.