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Hello, High Level listeners.
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Today, we're going to show you how to improve your English speaking skills by practicing some quick and easy English small talk.
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You know, those kind of quick, everyday moments when you want to sound natural, friendly, and confident in English.
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Yes, that's right.
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And today's small talk topic is one of the most popular and common ones, especially in the UK.
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It's the weather.
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exactly
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so more specifically we're going to be talking about the hot
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weather for this summer i know it's been hot all over the world this summer
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and when it's really hot outside people in the u.s
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and the uk love to make little comments about the heat
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when they want to chat with other people it's a very
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easy funny funny enough an easy ice breaker despite it being hot outside uh they might say wow It is
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so freaking hot today.
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Or man, how about this heat, right?
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Yes.
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So we did a similar small talk episode about cold weather, which is also another good icebreaker.
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And that shows that complaining a little bit about the weather is very normal in English cultures.
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And it doesn't make you seem like you're in a bad mood or you're an angry, grumpy person.
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It's just a topic that helps people connect.
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And let us know in the comments if this is similar in your culture as well.
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I think the key to like a good complaint is to not take it too far.
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Okay, so we don't want to spend too long talking about it.
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That's why some of these conversations are going to be really short today
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because they really are just a quick sentence or two and that's it.
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Then we can move on to something else.
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We kind of established that, yes, it is hot outside, but we don't want to spend too much time complaining about it or it can start to sound a little awkward.
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Yeah.
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So today we'll give you short, fast English small talk conversations all about hot weather.
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And before we start, if you want more real small talk practice, check out our Active English Small Talk Dialogues ebook.
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It's made for B1 and B2 students, and it gives you these natural everyday conversations with both me and Mark with American and British English side by side.
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So you can really get into those natural conversations that native speakers would have.
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Okay, so here's our first small talk conversation.
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Kat and I are co-workers and we are coming back into the office together.
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Oh my gosh, the heat just hits you the second you step outside.
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I think I came back feeling completely drained.
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Yeah, I know.
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I only went out for lunch and instantly regretted it.
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The aircon in here feels amazing.
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Okay, so let's hear that conversation one more time.
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Oh my gosh, the heat just hits you the second you step outside.
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I came back feeling completely drained.
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I know, I only went out for lunch and instantly regretted it.
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The aircon in here feels amazing.
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All right, so we came back into the office and, you know, it was hot.
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So if I'm hot, I assume everybody else is too.
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So it is very common, especially after you've left the air conditioning, the AC of the office, that you had to go outside for a second and it was hot.
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So the first one I said, oh, my gosh.
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Oh, my gosh.
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You can say, oh, my God.
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That's totally fine, too.
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I tend to say, oh, my gosh.
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The heat just hits you.
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All right.
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The cold just hits you.
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The rain just hits you.
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Now, it's like going from the nice, cool weather to very different weather outside.
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And it just hits you the second you step outside.
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The second, the moment, the right away, right?
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The second you step outside.
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I came back.
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So I was out, maybe went to lunch or something.
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I came back feeling completely drained.
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I came back feeling completely drained.
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When you feel drained, you are lacking in all energy.
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You have no energy.
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So I am completely drained.
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Wow.
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I stepped outside for 30 seconds and I am completely drained, right?
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So that's very common that the heat takes up all your energy.
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Yes, me too.
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When I go outside in very, very hot weather, it takes all my energy.
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I want to go home and just sleep because I'm drained.
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My part of the dialogue was, I know, I only went out for lunch and instantly regretted it.
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The aircon in here feels amazing.
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I know, I only went out for lunch and instantly regretted it.
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The aircon in here feels amazing.
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So Kat went out and she got very, very hot.
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Me too.
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I know.
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If you want to sympathize with someone.
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Oh, I know.
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It's horrible outside.
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I only went out for lunch.
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So I only went out to eat lunch and instantly regretted it.
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I opened the door.
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I felt the heat and thought, oh no, this is a bad idea.
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I've made a mistake.
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I regret this now.
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And afterwards, I regretted it.
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I instantly regretted it.
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The aircon in here feels amazing.
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So hopefully you're lucky enough to live in a country with aircon.
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So inside can be nice and cool.
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If you want to talk about how nice it is inside, the aircon feels.
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oh it feels so nice when we talk about the weather
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and how it affects your body it feels so outside feels
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and inside feels so the aircon in here feels amazing
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so it's nice and cool inside and super hot outside okay
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so we're going to move on to conversation number two
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and this is going to be a little bit more casual okay
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so we're going to use a couple of words that we probably wouldn't use at work.
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And so this is at a bus stop with a friend.
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It is so freaking hot out today.
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I'm so sorry.
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I didn't realize there'd be no shade at this stop.
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Same.
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I've been standing here for five minutes and I'm already overheating.
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I just hope the bus has decent AC.
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Okay, so let's hear that conversation one more time.
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It is so freaking hot out today.
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I am so sorry.
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I didn't realize there'd no shade at this stop same i've been standing here for five minutes and i'm already overheating
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i just hope the bus has decent ac okay
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so let's start with the first sentence it is
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so freaking hot out today i say this all the time do you think
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that you would say this phrase mark freaking hot flipping hot
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uh-huh freaking is quite an american phrase the british version sounds like it flipping it's
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so flipping hot today now like we said these are going
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to be much more casual you would not use the word
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freaking hot you would not say flipping hot you might say
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flipping hot that's that's probably like the nicest one freaking is supposed to be a word
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that replaces the f word the f bomb in english
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so we're not going to say a horrible word but it definitely is very casual
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And you can totally use it with your friends, right?
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It is so freaking hot out today.
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So it's like freaking freaking hot out today.
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And the word is freaking, F-R-E-A-K-I-N-G, freaking hot.
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But we kind of say it's so freaking hot out today.
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I am so sorry.
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I didn't realize there'd be no shade at this stop.
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Now we're at the bus stop, right?
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And normally, you know, when you stand under a bus stop, there's kind of a cover and it's for shade and it's for the rain, right?
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But I'm apologizing because it must be a smaller stop.
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I'm so sorry.
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I didn't realize there'd be no shade at this stop.
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So shade, kind of like I'm creating a shadow here, but shade offers kind of some protection from the sun.
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Okay, like a tree, you would be in the shade of the tree and cooling down.
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I'm so sorry, I didn't realize there'd be no shade at this stop.
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Same.
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I've been standing here for five minutes and I'm already overheating.
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So I've been standing here for five minutes in the direct sun.
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If there's no shade, you're in the direct sun, which can be very hot and uncomfortable or even dangerous.
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Sometimes you should avoid direct sun.
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And I'm already overheating.
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A phrase you could say if you were in a small talk conversation about hot weather.
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Oh, I'm overheating.
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After five minutes, I'm already, like surprisingly, I'm already overheating.
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Sometimes it can be nice to feel warm when you go on holiday and you feel hot weather.
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That's great.
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But if you spend too long, you start overheating.
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Your body starts getting too hot and maybe you start sweating and you start feeling uncomfortable.
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That's overheating.
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So I've been standing here for five minutes and I'm already overheating.
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I just hope the bus has decent AC.
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I just hope the bus has decent AC.
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So in American English, we often use the letters A-C.
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And that means air conditioning.
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Mark said it in the last conversation, air con, that's more British.
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So I would say AC or air conditioning.
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Decent AC, meaning that it's cooling down.
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Because, you know, in the hot weather, sometimes the ACs don't work very well.
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I just really hope the bus has decent AC.
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It's funny you said it's British because it's not really British at all.
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Nowhere in the UK has AC.
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nowhere has aircon at the moment houses some offices do
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and some supermarkets might but most people's homes
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and even buses don't have uh air conditioning it's still a bit of a luxury
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but maybe in the future when it's
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so hot all the time maybe we'll eventually upgrade to to
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be like north america okay let's look at our third small talk conversation about hot weather this time we're
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making some outdoor plans, but we're going to change them because of the heat.
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I know we said we'd go for a walk, but have you been outside?
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Yeah, absolutely not.
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It is hot as hell outside.
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Let's grab a coffee somewhere cold instead.
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Here's that conversation once more.
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I know we said we'd go for a walk, but have you been outside?
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Yeah, absolutely not.
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It is hot as hell outside.
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Let's grab a coffee somewhere cold instead.
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Okay, so we made plans before.
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I know we said before we would go for a walk.
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So will, thinking about the future, in the past becomes would.
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So I know we said we would go for a walk.
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I know we planned to go for a walk, but have you been outside?
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Again, if you want to just remember a small chunk and use it to talk about cold or hot weather, have you been outside?
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As in today or during this time, have you been outside?
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I'm implying...
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Are you aware?
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Are you aware that it's really hot out?
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Right, yeah.
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Did you know?
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Have you experienced the temperature?
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Yeah.
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So if it's super hot or super cold, this works.
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Oh my, have you been outside?
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I mean, I'm referring to the weather.
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And I'm kind of joking around here because I know it's hot outside.
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So I'll just say something like, yeah, absolutely not.
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Yeah, no. This is kind of one of those famous, yeah, no. Yeah, absolutely not.
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I am kind of saying, yeah, I hear you.
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Yeah.
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Have you been outside yet?
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Absolutely not.
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So that's kind of one of the funny phrases that, am I really answering it?
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Absolutely not.
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We are not going outside.
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Or absolutely not.
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I have not been outside because I know how hot it is.
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Yeah, absolutely not.
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It is hot as hell outside.
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hot as hell um when we visited the uk
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and france this summer i heard a lot of this yeah
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hot as hell hot as hell now this is a much more familiar phrase
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so we probably wouldn't use this one at work either even
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just using the word hell is not as commonly used in kind of more formal situations but with friends, perfectly acceptable.
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It is hot as hell outside.
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Let's grab a coffee somewhere cold instead.
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Let's grab a coffee somewhere cold instead.
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I mean, I can't stand it outside, right?
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So let's go somewhere else.
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Okay, so as a last helpful section to this video, if you want to start a little conversation about hot weather, but you don't know what to ask,
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here are some questions or some sentences you can say that all sound natural and friendly, and might start a little bit of small talk about hot weather.
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Is it just me or is it really hot today?
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Is it just me or is it really hot today?
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Wow, it is super hot out there, isn't it?
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Wow, it is super hot out there, isn't it?
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I cannot believe how hot it is today.
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Believe how hot it is today.
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It's like an oven outside.
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It's like an oven outside.
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I was not ready for this heat today.
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I was not ready for this heat today.
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Oh, I love your fan.
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Where did you get it?
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Oh, I love your little fan.
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Where did you get it?
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This heat is a lot today, isn't it?
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This heat is a lot today, isn't it?
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Are you managing okay in this heat?
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Are you managing okay in this heat?
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How are you coping with the heat?
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How are you coping with the heat?
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Wow, it feels good to be inside for a minute, doesn't it?
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Feels good to be inside for a minute, doesn't it?
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Is it always this hot around here in the summer?
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Is it always this hot here in the summer?
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All right, so there we go.
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Some easy English small talk conversations about the hot weather.
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Yes.
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So now, if it is hot where you are, you've got something to talk about in English.
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Absolutely.
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So let us know which words and phrases were new for you in the comments.
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We read and reply to every single one.
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So if you have any questions, let us know.
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Yes.
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And if you enjoyed these conversations, you can get our Real Small Talk Dialogues ebook for more realistic situations,
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more useful phrases and audio practice, PDFs and all sorts.
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It's a great way to build your English confidence and sound more natural in your everyday English as well.
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The link for that is in the description below.
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Thank you so much for watching, High Level listeners, and we will see you in our next English podcast episode.
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Bye-bye.
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Stay cool.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Improve English Speaking Skills: Real Conversations About Weather”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: hot, outside, weather, heat, conversation. Questo video contiene 264 frasi e 2502 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 15:46. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 159 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 85% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| shade sostantivo | /ʃeɪd/ | ombra |
| drain sostantivo | /dɹiːn/ | scolo |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | perbacco, accidenti |
| flip verbo | /flɪp/ | capovolgere, spadellare |
| listener sostantivo | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | ascoltatore, ascoltatrice |
| oven sostantivo | /ˈʌ.vn̩/ | forno |
| uncomfortable aggettivo | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | scomodo |
| grumpy aggettivo | /ˈɡɹʌmpi/ | scontroso |
| icebreaker sostantivo | /ˈaɪsˌbɹeɪkəɹ/ | rompighiaccio |
| sympathize verbo | simpatizzare | |
| chunk sostantivo | /t͡ʃʌŋk/ | pezzo, tocco |
| supermarket sostantivo | /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/ | supermercato |
| imply verbo | /ɪmˈplaɪ/ | implicare |
| surprisingly avverbio | /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/ | sorprendentemente, a sorpresa |
| sweat verbo | /swɛt/ | sudare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| come back verbo | tornare |
| check out verbo | investigare |
| go out verbo | uscire, andare fuori |
| take up verbo | sollevare, prendere |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Are you aware that it's really hot out?
- Have you experienced the temperature?
- Have you been outside yet?
- Where did you get it?
- Are you managing okay in this heat?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | I've been standing |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | it's been · you've left · I've made |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | weather, which is · sun, which can |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 68 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, we're, I've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shade /ʃeɪd/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: shade /ʃeɪd/, overheat /ˌoʊvɚˈhit/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, flip /flɪp/, chunk /t͡ʃʌŋk/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come shade, drain, gosh.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
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