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Are your mornings always go, go, go?
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And this week, are you swamped, on the go, or in a rush?
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We live in a busy world.
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So today you'll learn 12 English expressions perfect for busy people.
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Welcome back to J-Force English.
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Of course, I'm Jennifer.
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Now let's get started.
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Let's start with go, go, go.
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This means to be very busy.
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Generally when you're doing one thing after another.
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So your state is go, go, go.
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Go, go, go.
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Now, we use this to describe something.
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So you could say, my schedule is go, go, go from the moment I wake up until bedtime.
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So you're constantly doing something.
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You can use this in a general sense and say, life has been go, go, go lately.
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And notice the present perfect because it started in the past and continues until now.
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You could use the past simple and say it was go, go, go all day at work, maybe yesterday or last week.
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Notice here the sentence structure is noun, my schedule, the verb to be conjugated, my schedule is, and then the phrase go, go, go.
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You could also say she has a go, go, go lifestyle.
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So notice here we're using go, go, go plus noun.
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The adjective go, go, go comes before the noun in this context.
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So notice the spelling change where you have the dashes instead of the commas.
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Don't worry about taking these notes.
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I summarize everything in a free lesson PDF.
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You can find the link in the description.
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Let's review another expression with the word go to be on the go.
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This means to be busy and moving from place to place and to have very little free time.
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So you might say as a consultant, he's constantly on the go.
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Now this sounds to me like he's moving from place to place.
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So maybe he works from home sometimes, he works from the office, he has to go to client sites, he has to travel.
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So he's on the go.
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You might say she's been on the go since 6am.
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You've been on the go for days.
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So it started in the past and it continues until now.
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So she's busy, but she's also going from place to place.
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Maybe she has to get groceries, pick up laundry, run another errand.
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So it doesn't always have to be with work.
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Of course, we're busy in our personal lives as well you can make a general statement
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and say i'm always
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so an adverb of frequency in the present simple i'm always on the go during the week now
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if you want to sound even busier than on the go
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you can use to be running around like crazy manolo running
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around like crazy this means to be extremely busy moving between tasks or places with little time to rest.
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So it intensifies the last expression.
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You might say, I've been running around like crazy all day.
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And notice the connected speech with like crazy.
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Repeat after me, like crazy.
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Because we have that kuh sound in crazy, so we won't say it in like, like crazy.
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You might say she was running around like crazy before the event started.
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So notice our verb to be conjugated in the past, but we still have our verb in ing, so this is the past continuous.
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You can use this in the present continuous everyone's running around
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like crazy trying to finish the project let's review to be
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swamped have you heard this one natives uses on a regular
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basis to be swamped this means to have an overwhelming amount of work or tasks.
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So you have a lot of work, but you feel overwhelmed, swamped.
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So it has a more negative feel to it.
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You might say we're swamped with new orders this week.
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So there are a lot of new orders, which is positive, but swamped sounds too busy.
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So you're overwhelmed.
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And notice that pronunciation because
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that ed is pronounced as a t a t swamped swamped you could say i'd love to help you
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but i'm absolutely swamped today
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so this might be a way you decline a request for help
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and you can even add an intensifier like absolutely swamped today
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now you can also use all these phrases to ask about other people
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so you might ask that person why are you swamped today
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and then maybe you can offer some help
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because we're swamped over here let's review to be in a rush notice
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that preposition in a rush i'm in a rush this means to need to do things quickly
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because of limited time so just remember that it's limited time
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so you might say sorry i can't talk right now i'm in a rush
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and you'd probably say it with a rushed voice
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or rushed body language
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and then again you could ask someone why are you in such a rush today
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so notice i use such to intensify it
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but it's in a rush in such a rush today you can also use this to describe someone's actions.
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For example, she left the office to catch her train.
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But how did she leave the office?
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She left the office in a rush to catch her train.
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Now you can use in a rush or in a hurry.
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They're both the same.
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So you can just replace rush with hurry and you have the same expression.
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Here's another expression that natives commonly use to be stretched thin, stretched thin.
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This means to have too many responsibilities and not enough time or energy to manage them.
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So you could say our team is stretched thin right now.
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We've been stretched thin before.
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So your team has more work to do than capacity.
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Maybe someone quit or you had to lay someone off and that's the reason why your team is stretched thin.
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And notice that pronunciation because we have stretched that ends in a T sound, that ED is pronounced as T,
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but then thin begins with an unvoiced TH.
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So we're going to combine that together and say stretch thin.
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So make sure you get the unvoiced TH though, stretch thin, thin, stretch thin.
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You could say she's feeling stretched thin between work and family.
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So she's trying to balance these and she doesn't have enough time or capacity to do both fully.
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So notice here I use the verb feel.
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You can use be or feel with this expression.
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You could say they've been stretched thin since the new project started.
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So here you're identifying the reason why that they don't have enough capacity for the work.
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It's because of the new project.
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Another common expression is to be pressed for time.
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To be pressed for time.
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This means to have very little time available to do something.
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So you might say, I'm a bit pressed for time.
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So let's keep this meeting brief.
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And notice that pronunciation pressed for time.
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So that for is going to be an unstressed for
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and pressed ends on a T but it'll be very soft pressed for time, pressed for time.
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I'm pressed for time today.
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Or you could say, can we discuss this later?
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I'm really pressed for time today.
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You can intensify this and say, we're quite pressed for time today, so we need to be efficient.
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I'm really pressed for time.
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Have you heard the expression to be tied up?
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This means to be busy and unable to do something else.
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So you might say, I'm tied up in meetings all afternoon.
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He's tied up at the moment, but he's hoping you'll be able to stick around for a while.
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Even though I have so much work to do, I'm tied up in meetings all afternoon.
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So you're unable to do something else.
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And notice that pronunciation tied up, dup.
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We're going to take that D sound from tied and we're going to put it on the preposition up.
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So it will sound like tied up.
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Repeat after me, tied up.
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And this is commonly used as a reason why someone is not available.
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So the receptionist might say, oh, sorry, Jack's tied up right now, but he'll be free this afternoon.
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Or you could say, sorry, I couldn't take your call.
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I was tied up with a difficult customer.
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Let's review to have one's hands full.
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This is a great expression.
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It means to be very busy dealing with many responsibilities or problems.
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So you might say, I have my hands full with this project.
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I have my hands full.
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So it's one project, but there are many different responsibilities or maybe even problems.
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with that one project.
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Or you might say, she's a new mom running a startup.
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She definitely has her hands full.
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So remember, you have to conjugate the verb have depending on the subject and time reference.
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Or you could say, I was going to ask for some help, but it looks like you already have your hands full.
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So maybe you walk up to a person's office, but then they look very busy.
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It looks like you already have your hands full.
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So notice in this one, you need the possessive determiner, my hands, and hands is always plural.
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My hands, your hands, our hands, whatever it might be.
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Our next expression might sound a little odd.
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To be up to one's ears in something.
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Joe, I'm up to my ears in work.
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This means to have a large amount of work or tasks to deal with.
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So you can say, I'm up to my ears in paperwork.
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So maybe you could imagine a stack of paperwork that goes literally up to your ears,
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just to help you have an image of this expression.
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Or you could say, we're up to our ears in customer requests.
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And remember, you can use these with non-work items, of course.
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There are seven people in my household, so I'm always up to my ears in laundry.
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You can just imagine the amount of laundry.
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So notice that preposition, in, and then the noun, in laundry.
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Let's review to be buried in work.
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This means to have an overwhelming amount of work.
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So much work, it literally covers your entire body.
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So you can imagine the paperwork, the laundry.
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Of course, that's figurative.
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You might say, I need to cancel our dinner plans tonight.
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I'm buried in work.
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So of course, notice that pronunciation, buried, like a strawberry, buried,
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with a soft D for the ED, buried, buried.
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And it's the verb to be that you need to conjugate.
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We've been buried in work since we launched the new project.
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So it starts in the past and continues until now.
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Or maybe you say, since Joan quit, my team has been buried in work.
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And of course, when he's here, he's buried in work.
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Let's review the verb to juggle, to juggle.
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Now, this is commonly used with other information to juggle things.
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And you can even add at once.
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So let's review different examples.
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But first, this means to manage multiple tasks or responsibilities at the same time.
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Can you juggle by the way?
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I don't think I can, but you can imagine what that's like.
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One wrong move and everything comes crashing down.
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So you might say, it's not easy juggling, being a mom, and being a CEO.
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How's she going to juggle work?
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So you have different tasks.
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All the tasks associated with being a mom, all the tasks associated with being a CEO.
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And you can imagine this person is trying to juggle them.
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So notice here, the sentence structure is your verb juggle.
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And then we have a gerund, being a mom, and another gerund, being a CEO.
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That's a very common sentence structure.
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You might also say, I spend my day juggling meetings and emails.
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So again, meetings, emails, and all the tasks associated with them.
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So here in this expression is the verb juggle, and you have a noun and noun.
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So you can use gerund and gerund or noun and noun.
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You could also say my team is juggling several projects at once.
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So notice here, instead of two distinct things you can just be general
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and say several projects several responsibilities several reports at once at once is optional it's not required
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and you could use a different time reference as well like right now
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so here is to juggle conjugated and then you could use several many different
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or another plural word and then a plural noun i'm sure you are busy
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so now you have many ways to express that.
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Do you want me to keep helping you expand your vocabulary?
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Este vídeo tiene 203 frases y 2225 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 14:42. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 151 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| rush verbo | /ɹʌʃ/ | correr, apurarse |
| swamp sustantivo | /ˈswɑmp/ | embalsadero, pantano |
| stretch verbo | /stɹɛt͡ʃ/ | estirar |
| bury verbo | /ˈbɛɹi/ | enterrar |
| verb sustantivo | /vɝb/ | verbo |
| noun sustantivo | /naʊn/ | nombre, nombre sustantivo |
| ear sustantivo | /ˈɪə̯/ | oído, oreja |
| laundry sustantivo | /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ | colada, lavado |
| pronunciation sustantivo | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | pronunciación |
| lesson sustantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lección |
| associate sustantivo | /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/ | asociado |
| commonly adverbio | /ˈkɑmənli/ | comúnmente |
| paperwork sustantivo | /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌwɝk/ | papeleo |
| plural sustantivo | /ˈplʊəɹəl/ | plural |
| phrase sustantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | frase |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| tie up verbo | apersogar | |
| pick up verbo | coger, asir | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | despertarse, recordar |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 53 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, we're, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: rush /ɹʌʃ/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, dash /ˈdæʃ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, continuous /kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, intensify /ɪnˈtɛnsɪfaɪ/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como rush, swamp, stretch.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be conjugated · be swamped · is pronounced |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has been · she's been · You've been |
| Posibilidad con “might / may” might/may + verbo — algo posible pero no seguro | might say · might be · might ask |
| Obligación: must / have to / need to decir que algo es necesario | has to go · has to get · have to be |
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.