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Welcome to English in a Minute.
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Biting your nails is a bad habit, but can you figure out what this expression means?
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Nail-biter.
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I am so excited to watch the soccer game tonight.
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I know!
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Both teams are really good think it will be a real nail biter.
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It's probably going to come down to the final minutes.
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A nail biter is something that causes stress or makes you feel nervous.
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Many people who are nervous do actually bite their nails, which is where this expression comes from.
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In our example, Jonathan guessed that the soccer game would be a nail biter
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and that no one would know who would win until the final moments of the game.
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And that's English in a Minute.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “English in a Minute: Nail-biter”. This video has 12 sentences and 125 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:53. The speaker talks at a steady 142 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 9 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| nail noun | /neɪl/ | The horny plate or appendage at the ends of the digits of various animals, including most reptiles, birds, and mammals (both nonhuman and human). |
| soccer noun | /ˈsɑk.ɚ/ | Association football. |
| bite verb | /baɪt/ | To cut into something by clamping the teeth. |
| habit noun | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | An action performed on a regular basis. |
| distress noun | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. |
| biter noun | /ˈbaɪtɚ/ | A fish that tends to take bait. |
| expression noun | /əkˈspɹɛʃ.n̩/ | The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. |
| welcome | /ˈwɛl.kəm/ | Greeting given upon someone's arrival. |
| excited adjective | /ɪkˈsaɪ.tɪd/ | Having great enthusiasm, passion and energy. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| come down to verb | To reach by moving down or reducing. |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
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話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。
| 文型 | 動画での表現 |
|---|---|
| 関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える | people who are |
| 「going to」の未来表現 be going to + 動詞 — 予定や、起こりそうだと分かること | It's probably going to come |
| 「will」の未来表現 will + 動詞 — その場の決定、約束、予測 | will be |
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like nail, soccer, bite.
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