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Hello English learners. Welcome to another lesson with us at EnglishPod. My name is Marco

And I’m Erica

and today we don’t feel very good.

That’s right. Actually in this lesson we’re talking about a hangover.

hangover. Well, that’s an interesting word. What does that mean?

Well, when you drink beer or wine or vodka, you drink too much of it; the next morning you have a hangover.

Okay, so a lot of our listeners have probably experienced a hangover before.

It’s very likely

but the problem is when you have to go to work the next day.

Yes, and you might need to actually miss work but you need some good words and phrases to describe how bad you feel.

Okay, so let’s listen to this dialogue for the first time. We have a guy describing his hangover and why he missed work that day.

Are you okay, man? You don’t look very well.

Ugh, I feel terrible. I went out last night with Trevor and things got a little out of hand.

Nice! So, where did you guys go?

We hit a couple of local bars, and met up with some friends. Everything was cool until Mike came along, and it turned out that it was his birthday yesterday!

Oh no! Mike’s birthday is a drink fest for sure!

Tell me about it! We drank everything in the bar!

Is that why you missed work today?

Yeah. I woke up this morning feeling really nauseous. I threw up like five times.

Eww!

I was so dehydrated that I drank like a gallon of water, and my head has been pounding all day. I swear, I’m never gonna drink again!

Too bad man, tonight is Tracy’s going away party and she asked if you were gonna go.

Oh, yeah. I’m there!

Alright, so he’s never drinking again but then at the next chance for a party he’s already ready to go.

I think that’s the typical lie of every person that drinks. They say, I’ll never drink again; but a week later or a month later there they are again.

or a day later.

Alright, so we saw some great vocab here. So let’s look at it now in language take away.

Language take away

We’re gonna look at five words here. Now, the first one, they talked about how Mike’s birthday is a drinkfest

a drinkfest

It’s a drinkfest

All right, so we have this word drinkfest; now what is this fest part?

Well, maybe recognize the word Oktoberfest

okay or festival

So, fest is like a party. There’s lots of food. There’s lots of drink. A drinkfest is an event where there’s a lot of drinks.

Okay, so can I have different types of fests?

Yeah, this is a really informal sort of slang way of saying there’s lots of something so I could say, “oh my god, it’s a puppy fest”.

So there are a lot of puppies

or I can say like a fast food fest

okay so you’re eating a lot of fast food.

There’s a lot of fast food.

Yeah

alright so, fest. Interesting. Now when he was describing his hangover, he said that he felt really nauseous

nauseous

nauseous

Now I always have a hard time spelling this word so n a u s e o u s, nauseous.

nauseous. It kind of seems like you should say now see use

right

but you say nauseous

yeah, okay. So, when you’re feeling nauseous what do you feel like?

So you feel dizzy. You don’t feel very well

like your stomach hurts

yeah and your head is kind of spinning

okay, and you feel like you might throw up

right, exactly. Now this word that you just mentioned, throw up, is actually our next word and well, we’re not going to describe it. Why don’t we just listen to a person throwing up.

Oh, Marco. That was horrible.

Well, that’s the only way we could actually explain throw up. I mean it’s kind of hard word to explain, but I’m sure everyone understands know what it means, right?

Okay, the word is to throw up

to throw up

to throw up. Our next word, now our guy who’s hung over, he said, I was so dehydrated.

dehydrated

to be dehydrated

so, this is an adjective and it means that I have no water in my body.

exactly

okay, so I am dehydrated. I need water.

Yeah, common feeling after drinking too much beer, ha?

exactly

now, our final word, he said he had a headache and he said, my head’s been pounding all day.

Okay, so his head has been pounding all day.

Now this verb pounding, it sounds like this

All right, so a clear example of what your head feels like when you have this very bad headache.

You can also say I have a pounding headache.

I have a pounding headache, exactly.

or my head is pounding

alright, so 5 great words that we’ve just looked at right now. So why don’t we listen to our dialogue a second time. Let’s slow it down just a little bit and then we’ll come back and take a look at some phrases.

Are you okay, man? You don’t look very well.

Ugh, I feel terrible. I went out last night with Trevor and things got a little out of hand.

Nice! So, where did you guys go?

We hit a couple of local bars, and met up with some friends. Everything was cool until Mike came along, and it turned out that it was his birthday yesterday!

Oh no! Mike’s birthday is a drink fest for sure!

Tell me about it! We drank everything in the bar!

Is that why you missed work today?

Yeah. I woke up this morning feeling really nauseous. I threw up like five times.

Eww!

I was so dehydrated that I drank like a gallon of water, and my head has been pounding all day. I swear, I’m never gonna drink again!

Too bad man, tonight is Tracy’s going away party and she asked if you were gonna go.

Oh, yeah. I’m there!

All right, well that was a little easier to understand this time. Now you mentioned that we’ve got some great phrases. So let’s go to them now in fluency builder.

Fluency builder

All right, so as we heard in the dialogue, the party was– I think it was a great party, right?

it sounds like it was fantastic.

Well, apparently it was a great party and he said that he went out with Trevor and things got a little out of hand.

Things got a little out of hand

Right, so things got a little out of hand

Now, to get out of hand. What’s that mean?

Well, we have some examples, so let’s listen to a couple of them before we explain it.

Example 1

Honey, the kids are getting a little out of hand. Can you do something?

Example 2

Guys, this argument is getting out of hand. All come down.

Example 3

The party last night got out of hand. The neighbors called the police.

Okay so when things get out of hand, you lose control.

Exactly, they get out of control, just a little bit maybe.

Yeah, go a little crazy.

Alright, so things got a little out of hand. Now the opposite of this was everything was cool.

Everything was cool.

So everything was cool.

So basically, everything was okay. Everything was relaxed. Everything was going fine.

Exactly. And then Mike came along and then things got a little out of hand.

Oh, that Mike

and now for our last phrase he was describing that Mike’s birthday party was a drinkfest, right?

and then his friend agreed. He said tell me about it.

Tell me about it.

Tell me about it.

Now what does this mean, exactly, when he says, tell me about it?

Basically, it means I completely understand.

I completely agree with you.

yeah

Okay

So, I could say, oh my God Marco it’s so hot outside today.

Right, and I would say, I know, tell me about, right? So I’m saying, yeah I agree with you. You are right.

Yeah

Very good. So, these phrases—okay, so 3 great phrases that we’ve just looked at. Let’s listen to our dialogue for the last time and then we’ll come back and talk a little bit more.

Are you okay, man? You don’t look very well.

Ugh, I feel terrible. I went out last night with Trevor and things got a little out of hand.

Nice! So, where did you guys go?

We hit a couple of local bars, and met up with some friends. Everything was cool until Mike came along, and it turned out that it was his birthday yesterday!

Oh no! Mike’s birthday is a drink fest for sure!

Tell me about it! We drank everything in the bar!

Is that why you missed work today?

Yeah. I woke up this morning feeling really nauseous. I threw up like five times.

Eww!

I was so dehydrated that I drank like a gallon of water, and my head has been pounding all day. I swear, I’m never gonna drink again!

Too bad man, tonight is Tracy’s going away party and she asked if you were gonna go.

Oh, yeah. I’m there!

So, it sounds like these guys sure like to go out and have a few drinks, don’t they?

Yeah, exactly and I think this is a very common thing among young people, usually in the United States, you know, after a day at the office or something they’ll go or even Europe, they’ll go to the pub, right?

Yeah, but the thing is that in America and Canada we’re very careful about alcohol in young people, right?

Yeah, exactly. The legal drinking age in the most part of the United States is 21 years of age.

And really many parents or families will never let their children drink alcohol until they’re 21.

Right. And also the laws that control alcoholic, for example, on television, if you notice a TV commercial with a beer or a wine, you will never see the person actually drinking it. It’s illegal.

Yeah, that’s true.

While in other countries it is okay. You see people drinking and having fun. In these commercials, they can only maybe put them close to their lips, but not drink it.

Interesting. And another weird thing is that sometimes you might want to sit in your back garden and out on your porch and have a beer after work, right? But in places, it’s totally illegal to do that. You can’t be outside with alcohol.

Right, you can’t be seen drinking or you can’t be on the sidewalk or on the bus drinking. While in other places you can, right?

You can just have a beer on the subway.

So, it’s a little bit different policies on alcohol control. What do you guys think about it? Do you think it’s correct or think maybe it’s a little bit too exaggerated? Come to our website Englishpod.com and tell us about it.

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