Pratique du Shadowing: 5 Common British English Expressions (Episode 3) - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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and welcome back to English with Lucy today we have another

episode of my fabulous five common British expressions now before we

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so our first expression is a piece of cake

and this is very similar to easy peasy lemon squeezy

which we've discussed in a previous video and basically it means very easy

so I might come out of a particularly easy exam saying

that exam was a piece of cake that exam was really easy

so number two break a leg actually looks really rather cruel

but I promise you it's positive And break a leg means good luck, so before a race, before a job interview,

before a test, instead of saying good luck, I might say break a leg.

Do really well.

So since we're talking about legs, let's bring arms into the equation as well.

Number three is it cost an arm and a leg.

And this basically means something was really expensive.

If I say my bag cost an arm and a leg, I mean it cost a lot of money.

Now the next one isn't particularly nice.

It is to pop one's clogs and this actually means to die but we use it quite affectionately.

It's like a nice way of saying that someone's died.

So I'm going to a funeral this Sunday.

My neighbour's popped his clogs.

It's a way of saying my neighbour's died

but we don't want to say the death word so we say they've got their clogs.

And then we have number five, to call it a day.

And this means to end a task.

So for example, I'm feeling a bit tired, I think I'll call it a day.

And that means I think I'll stop here, let's finish.

So as we've come to number five, I think I'll call it a day now.

Bye!

Thank you so much for watching this episode of Five Common British Expressions.

I hope you liked it

and I hope you learned something make sure you connect with all my social media as I said before

and have a very lovely week bye this wine is off

Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?

Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.

Pratique du Shadowing: 5 Common British English Expressions (Episode 3) - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?