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Hello English learners welcome back to English pod, my name is Marco and I’m Erica and today we’re bringing you the sequel of I’m sorry I love you part 2.

part2

That’s right.

I guess a lot of our listeners enjoyed the first part and since it was such a romantic dialog we’re bringing part two so it’s even more romantic and I’m sure everyone is gonna find some great and useful language in it.

that’s right we’ve got language that we use to talk about dates

dates, yeah.

Okay.

So useful language for when you’re going on a date.

That’s right well before we look at this date language let’s listen to the dialogue for the first time.

I’m so relieved that your ankle wasn’t broken I feel just awful about this whole thing.

I want to make it up to you look let me take you out to dinner tonight, my treat.

Oh that sounds great I’d love to here’s my address pick me up at 8:00.

Perfect

Thank you for such a lovely evening the food was amazing and I had a great time.

Me too, you look so beautiful tonight. I wish this night would never end there’s something that I have to tell you.

But what is it?

I woke up today thinking that this would be just like any other day and I was wrong. The twist of fate brought us together.

I crashed into your life and you into mine and this may sound crazy but I’m falling in love with you Veronica.

Wow such a romantic dialogue.

It really sounds like they’re falling in love.

Yeah, it’s a really romantic thing that’s going on right now, but there was some really useful words here, so why don’t we take a look at language takeaway?

language takeaway.

Today we have three words for language takeaway and the first one is relieved.

relieved.

relieved

so we have some great examples on how we use relieved and I’m really sure you can understand the meaning from the sentences.

Example one:

They were relieved to hear that the company would not be making any layoffs

Example two:

I’m so relieved to hear your voice I was worried something happened to you.

I guess relieved is like a happy or relaxed feeling that you get, if you avoid something bad right?

right I’m so relieved that didn’t happen.

yeah.

now for our second word pick me up.

pick me up.

pick me up.

so when you ask someone to pick you up you’re saying basically.

come and get me.

okay so let’s, let’s give a couple of examples um. My husband was supposed to pick me up from work yesterday but he forgot .

does that really happen?

Yes.

All right we’ll have a talk with him or we could also say oh I need to hurry up the taxi will pick me up at 7:00.

Yes, so come and get me.

right. And our final word in today’s language takeaway is..

ordinary.

ordinary.

ordinary.

ordinary.

so ordinary is a normal word.

Yes meaning

it’s normal.

uh-huh.

nothing uncommon about it.

yeah.

so you can have like an ordinary person.

an ordinary day.

an ordinary day, ordinary life.

uh-huh.

nothing exciting about it. What else is ordinary?

ordinary podcast

an ordinary podcast which English pod is not.

okay.

yeah.

so ordinary. Okay great words and I guess now we can listen to our dialogue a second time.

This time it’ll be a little bit slower and this will help you to understand the language more clearly.

I’m so relieved that your ankle wasn’t broken I feel just awful about this whole thing.

I want to make it up to you look let me take you out to dinner tonight, my treat.

Oh that sounds great I’d love to here’s my address pick me up at 8:00.

Perfect

Thank you for such a lovely evening the food was amazing and I had a great time.

Me too, you look so beautiful tonight. I wish this night would never end there’s something that I have to tell you.

But what is it?

I woke up today thinking that this would be just like any other day and I was wrong. The twist of fate brought us together.

I crashed into your life and you into mine and this may sound crazy but I’m falling in love with you Veronica.

Okay so we looked at some great vocabulary and now we can look at some great phrases so let’s start with fluency builder.

Fluency builder.

on fluency builder today we have three great phrases so why don’t we just start with the first one?

yeah the first one we heard at the beginning of the dialogue make it up to you.

make it up to you.

make it up to you.

okay so we have some great examples on how we use make it up so let’s listen.

Example one.

I’m sorry I forgot your birthday how can I make it up to you.

Example two.

I feel terrible for calling your mother fat, I want to make it up to her, so I got her these flowers.

Example three.

John forgot my anniversary again he’s going to have to make it up to me.

we can see from the examples that when you use the phrase, make it up to you, you’re kind of saying you want to balance something bad you did with some good action right?

right. so if you call your mother-in-law fat.

You better buy her at least some flowers or a card or something.

to make it up, right?

yeah.

yeah.

so the bad action was.

calling her fat.

and the balancing good action was the flowers.

The flowers, yeah. I don’t think flowers will be enough though.

mmm. looks like a doomed marriage.

Okay our second phrase my treat.

my treat.

my treat.

so we use this phrase when we want to say I’ll invite you I’ll pay for you.

I’ll pay.

uh-huh.

right, so I can say, hey let’s go get some beers it’s my treat.

oh, thanks Marco.

so I’m paying right?

yeah.

My treat. and our last phrase for fluency builder a twist of fate.

a twist of fates.

twist of fate.

a twist of fates.

so Erica what is a twist of fate?

a twist of fate is an unplanned event that has a big impact on your future or your life.

Okay.

Marco can you give us an example of a twist of fate?

All right, for example okay you’re supposed to catch a flight to another country, all right? but you’re late so you miss your flight.

okay.

and that flight crashes.

Wow.

right, so that’s a twist of fate.

so yeah, it’s like, it’s like fate, it’s like destiny.

yeah.

you were, you weren’t supposed to be on that flight.

okay so a twist of fate.

twists of fate great on a happier note let’s listen to the dialogue a third time.

I’m so relieved that your ankle wasn’t broken I feel just awful about this whole thing.

I want to make it up to you look let me take you out to dinner tonight, my treat.

Oh that sounds great I’d love to here’s my address pick me up at 8:00.

Perfect

Thank you for such a lovely evening the food was amazing and I had a great time.

Me too, you look so beautiful tonight. I wish this night would never end there’s something that I have to tell you.

But what is it?

I woke up today thinking that this would be just like any other day and I was wrong. The twist of fate brought us together.

I crashed into your life and you into mine and this may sound crazy but I’m falling in love with you Veronica.

Okay! so we’re back Erica I know you have a story of a twist of fate in your life.

yes, recently actually this happened. I went to this party and at the party there was a contest like sort of a lottery.

mm-hmm.

you could buy some tickets and win a prize and the prize was a week-long vacation.

okay.

so I went with some friends of mine and they were tired

so they left early and they gave me their tickets, and guess what happened?

what happened?

we won, we won the week-long vacation.

Wow.

yeah it was amazing so that was a really lucky twist of fate for me.

A lucky twist of fate, yeah that’s a good story.

yeah.

I’m sure it wasn’t that good of a twist of fate for your friends.

yeah, but they were very generous and let me have the prize anyway.

all right, well we want to hear your stories of maybe some type of twist of fate that you’ve had.

yes.

maybe love stories, maybe tragic stories, any story.

mm-hmm.

so be sure to leave your questions and comments and your stories at our website englishpod.com, and where you can also find us to answer any questions or doubts.

yes that’s right.

so I guess until then it’s.

goodbye

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