English Learning Podcast Conversation Episode 43 | Elementary | English Podcast For IELTS Listening – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.[Music] hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and we're bringing you another great Elementary lesson for all our elementary Learners you know what Marco I think this lesson is so useful this is language that you can actually use every single day exactly every day exactly because today we're going to be teaching you small talk so what is Small Talk well small talk is small conversations that you would have with people that you don't know very well but you still want to be polite yes right and you want to maybe just chat a little bit okay so let's listen to our dialogue and as always it's going to be a little bit fast but don't worry about it cuz we'll come back in a minute and help you with some of the difficult [Music] language morning hi there Mr Anderson how are you in this fine morning fine thank you it's short is cold this morning isn't it I barely even got out of bed yeah it's pretty cold all right did you catch the news this morning I heard that there was a fire in Byron Street no I didn't hear about that did you happen to watch the football game last night the Patriots scored in the last minute no I don't like football oh oh by the way I saw you with your daughter at the office Christmas party she's really beautiful she's my wife oh here's my floor nice talking to you goodbye oh oh sir this is the 56th flooor we're on the 70th that's okay I'll take the stairs okay I think this guy was a little bit annoying yeah Mr Anderson really didn't want to talk to him did he yeah I think that was pretty obvious he left the elevator in a hurry okay let's take a look at our language today in language takeaway language takeaway all right what do we have today in language takeaway well we've got four words and phrases and our first one is barely even barely even barely even so how do we use barely even it's a little bit difficult it's really similar to like almost couldn't or almost nothing or almost can't so we use it usually in a negative sense for example I could say I was so busy today I could barely even eat my lunch okay so I can maybe say it was so dark I could barely even see yeah okay yeah or I'm so poor I can barely even pay my rent okay good barely even mhm all right let's take a look at our next one catch catch catch did you catch the news so by did you catch the news you mean did you hear the news exactly so how else can we use this did you catch a really common one is I didn't catch your name yeah I didn't hear your name I didn't hear your name yeah and we can also say I didn't catch what he said I didn't catch what he said yeah so I didn't hear y okay let's look at our next word by the way by the way by the way by the way okay so let's listen to some examples first of how we can use by the way and then we'll come back and talk more about it example one are you going to be at the meeting today yeah I'll be there oh by the way did you hear what happened today example two by the way I almost forgot to tell you Maggie called okay so I see that when we say by the way um we're introducing a point after we've already talked about something exactly and maybe it's not even related to the topic we were talking about no it's a different topic different topic right it's like saying oh I almost forgot to tell you exactly so I was like oh Erica don't forget we have a meeting today oh and by the way I like your new haircut thanks Marco all right see that's the way you would use by the way okay and our last word on language takeway take the stairs take the stairs take the stairs take the stairs so it doesn't mean you're going to take them somewhere no no no you're not taking them home with you it means you're going to go up the stairs mhm okay so take the stairs yes a lot of people might say use the stairs or go up the stairs but our English pod Learners they know right to use take the stairs St yep take the stairs okay so now we're ready to listen to our dialogue again we're going to slow it down a little bit and this will help you to catch these phrases a little bit [Music] better morning hi there Mr Anderson how are you on this fine morning fine thank you it sure is cold this morning isn't it I barely even got out of bed yeah it's pretty cold all right did you catch the news this morning I heard that there was a fire in Byron Street no I didn't hear about that did you happened to watch the football game last night the Patriots scored in the last minute no I don't like football oh oh by the way I saw you with your daughter at the office Christmas party she's really beautiful she's my wife oh here's my floor nice talking to you goodbye oh sir this is the 56th floor we're on the 70th that's okay I'll take the stairs okay so now let's take a look at ways to start up some small talk in putting it together putting it together so Marco today we've got some great patterns or structures that you can use uh in in your small talk yeah exactly we saw some great patterns let's start with the first one it sure is cold this morning it sure is cold it sure is cold it sure is cold okay so we can change it up a little bit and say it sure is hot mhm or it sure is late okay this sure is interesting mhm or you could say he sure is smart so basically you can change the adjective yes cold hot smart hard difficult and when you say sure is uh this is a great way of emphasizing that you believe this adjective to be true okay sure is now what would be the answer to this well in the dialogue uh Mr Anderson said yeah it's pretty cold all right it's pretty cold all right it's pretty cold all right so again using the examples we used before we can say oh it's pretty hot all right mhm or it's pretty late all right or he's pretty smart all right mhm or this is pretty interesting all right so it means you're agreeing with that person exactly okay great so Marco these things it sure is blank and yeah it's blank all right these can go together really well can't they yeah as a question and answer format they go well so why don't we listen to some examples of how these two phrases work together example one it sure is a nice day today yeah it's nicer right example two the bus is sure late today yeah it's late all right example three this class is really hard yeah it's hard all right okay so now let's take a look at our next word in putting it together did you happen to did you happen to did you happen to did you happen to did you happen to see Bob this morning I didn't happen to see Bob so it means like like did you by chance by chance did you by chance see Bob or something yeah okay another example would be did you happen to go to that restaurant I recommended M or maybe do you happen to have a pen do you happen to know where the bathroom is yeah that's a really useful one that's a useful one that's basically how you would use this structure did you happen to do happen to so now let's listen to our dialogue for the third time and I'm sure that you'll be able to understand [Music] everything morning hi there Mr Anderson how are you in this fine morning fine thank you it's sure is cold this morning isn't it I barely even got out of bed yeah it's pretty cold all right did you catch the news this morning I heard that there was a fire in Byron Street no I didn't hear about that did you happen to watch the football game last night the Patriots scored in the last minute no I don't like football oh oh by the way I saw you with your daughter at the office Christmas party she's really beautiful she's my wife oh here's my floor nice talking to you goodbye oh sir this is the 56th floor we're on the 70th that's okay I'll take the stairs all right Marco that was a really useful dialogue for daily life wasn't it yeah I think you can find a lot of useful language there and that you can apply tomorrow yeah well speaking of useful things let's talk a little bit about our website yeah be sure to go to our website at englishpod do.com where you can find other lessons as well maybe you're an intermediate student or Advanced yes so we've got intermediate Advanced Upper Intermediate lessons on our website and a lot of other res resources that you can explore so be sure to come to our website and leave all your comments because Erica and I are always there and we're really happy to answer all of your questions okay everyone well we're out of time but until next time [Music] goodbye the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word affirmation or conf formation of something it sure is hardly could almost not barely even here listen to catch by chance uh someone did something did you happen to phrase used to interject another Topic in conversation by the way go up the stairs use the stairs take the stairs let's try that faster affirmation or confirmation of something it sure is hardly could almost not barely even affirmation or confirmation of something it sure is hard could almost not barely even by chance uh someone did something did you happen to affirmation or confirmation of something it sure is here listen to catch affirmation or confirmation of something it sure is by chance uh someone did something did you happen to phrase used to interject another Topic in a conversation by the way now say the word and hear it in a sentence by the way by the way did you get my message catch I'm sorry but I didn't catch your name by the way by the way did you get get my message [Music]