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Today you're coming with me around the city so
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that you can learn 20 everyday really useful English expressions like this
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and this helps us remember the expression make a splash
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and idioms like this this big fella behind me leads us to our next expression the lion's share and even this
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so you would probably say he's naked or you could use this next expression he's starkers hi i'm steve
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now this city is unusual
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because it's got two cathedrals this is what's commonly known as the old one
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and this one which as you can see is a lot more modern
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and you could say these two cathedrals are like chalk and cheese, which is our next expression.
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Chalk and cheese.
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This is used when two things are very different, like this.
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One of my kids likes riding their bike, but the other prefers reading.
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They're like chalk and cheese.
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If you look behind me, you can see lots of rope on this boat,
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which leads us nicely to our next expression, money but old rope.
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This means money that's easy to come by.
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You can get it without much effort.
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Use it like this.
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She's a television reviewer.
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Her job is money for old rope.
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Behind me is the only natural spring in the whole of this city.
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And it leads into this tiny little pond.
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And this helps us remember the expression, make a splash.
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To make a splash means to attract attention.
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Do something that makes you stand out.
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He really made a splash at the party by wearing a fancy jacket.
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Now behind me is grass.
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And that takes us to our next expression.
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The other man's grass is always greener.
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This means that other people always seem to be in a better situation than you are.
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It's used like this.
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He said that he wanted to change his job, but I warned him that the other man's grass is always greener.
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These stones that I'm walking on are called cobbles, and that should help us with the phrase cobble together.
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This means to make or build something quickly, using whatever you already have.
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Chews like this.
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They cobbled together a meal from what was already in the fridge.
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And now I'm in the underground to bring you the next English expression. On the right track.
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To be on the right track means to be acting or thinking in a way that's likely to lead to success.
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She checked her notes again and realised she was on the right track for the test.
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Now we're inside the railway station, and behind me you can see a train.
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This leads us to our next expression, lose your train of thought.
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This means to forget what you were talking about, or thinking, because of an interruption.
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The loud noise made me lose my train of thought.
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Now this used to be a small prison and to say that someone's actually in prison, we use the expression behind bars.
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This means to be in prison.
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Use it like this.
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The gang of car thieves are all behind bars.
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Behind me are headstones.
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These belong on a grave.
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And that gives us our next English expression, pushing up daisies.
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This English expression means to be dead and buried.
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He was warned that he'll be pushing up daisies if he keeps driving so fast.
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As we look around the city, you can see that there's one building that's a lot taller than all the others.
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It's that tower behind me.
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So we could use the expression, it's head and shoulders above the rest.
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This means to be much bigger or better than everyone or everything else.
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She is head and shoulders above the rest of the applicants for the job.
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This statue behind me is really famous in this city and as you can see he's not wearing any clothes at all.
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So you would probably say he's naked or you could use this next expression, he's Stalkers.
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Stalkers means to be completely naked.
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Use it like this.
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He came out of the bathroom stalkers because he forgot to take his towel.
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In the UK, we usually don't say call a cab, we say hail a cab.
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Use it like this.
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In English we say we're going to hail a cab, basically it means to wave your hand to stop a taxi in the street.
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They stepped out into the rain and put their hand up to hail a cab.
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I've been walking for over an hour now making this video.
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So I could say I was tired, or I could use the expression, I'm pooped.
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If you're pooped, you're extremely tired or exhausted.
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So you might say...
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After working all day, I was far too pooped to go out for dinner.
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Now this statue is a member of the royal family riding a horse.
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And that leads us to our next expression.
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Straight from the horse's mouth.
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This expression means to get information directly from the person who knows all about it.
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She knew the shop was closing because she heard it straight from the horse's mouth when the owner told her.
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This big fella behind me leads us to our next expression.
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The lion's share.
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The lion's share means the largest portion or the majority of something.
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She was like this.
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He spent the lion's share of his Saturday morning tidying the house before his guests arrived.
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and the next expression is it's fishy
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if something is fishy it means it's suspicious
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or you don't trust it something about his sudden decision to
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sell the business felt fishy the coffee shop behind me is one of my favorites
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because it gives all its profits to homeless people However, it's quite tricky to find.
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And that's because it's off the beaten track.
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Off the beaten track means located far away from busy roads or popular places where most people go.
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Often it's quite hard to find.
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We found a brilliant little seafood place off the beaten track.
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Now we're in one of the main shopping streets, which lets us use our next expression, to shop around, which is what these people are doing.
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This means to compare prices and quality at different places before you buy it.
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It's worth shopping around instead of buying the first thing, you see.
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This city has two football teams.
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Liverpool, who play in red and Everton, who play in blue.
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That reminds me of two really useful English phrases.
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out of the blue.
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Out of the blue means unexpectedly or without any warning.
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It was out of the blue when he asked her to marry him. And into the red.
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This means to spend more money than you really have.
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Paying for the roof to be fixed pushed their bank account into the red.
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and then click here and I'll see you there.
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Bài luyện nói trình độ B1 này dựa trên video “Sound More British · Everyday Expressions explained in the City”. Những từ được nhắc lại nhiều nhất trong bài: expression, English, lead, track. Video này có 104 câu và 1167 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 10:16. Người nói giữ tốc độ đều, khoảng 114 từ mỗi phút, vừa sức để nói đuổi theo. 88% số từ nằm trong 3.000 từ tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất, nên từ vựng dễ theo.
Từ vựng quan trọng trong video
15 từ khó nhất trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| splash động từ | /splæʃ/ | tung toé |
| poop danh từ | /ˈpuːp/ | phân |
| chalk danh từ | /t͡ʃɔk/ | phấn, đá phấn |
| hail danh từ | /heɪl/ | mưa đá |
| rope danh từ | /ɹoʊp/ | dây |
| daisy danh từ | /ˈdeɪ.zi/ | hoa cúc, hoa cúc mâm xôi |
| cathedral danh từ | /kəˈθiːdɹəl/ | nhà thờ chính tòa, đại giáo đường |
| warn động từ | /woɹn/ | cảnh báo |
| statue danh từ | /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ | tượng |
| phrase danh từ | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | cụm từ, câu |
| reviewer danh từ | nhà phê bình | |
| seafood danh từ | /ˈsiːfuːd/ | hải sản, đồ biển |
| chew động từ | /tʃuː/ | nhai, nhằn |
| thief danh từ | /ˈθiːf/ | kẻ trộm, kẻ cắp |
| bury động từ | /ˈbɛɹi/ | chôn, mai táng |
Ngữ pháp trong video
Những cấu trúc người nói dùng nhiều nhất, kèm đúng cụm từ trong video:
| Cấu trúc | Trong video |
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| Câu bị động be + quá khứ phân từ — nhấn vào việc xảy ra, không phải người làm | are called · was warned · be fixed |
| Mệnh đề quan hệ who / which + mệnh đề — thêm thông tin về người hoặc vật | cheese, which is · person who knows · around, which is |
| So sánh hơn -er than / more … than — so sánh hai đối tượng | taller than · better than · more money than |
| Thì quá khứ tiếp diễn was/were + -ing — việc đang diễn ra tại một thời điểm trong quá khứ | were talking · was closing |
Phát âm cần chú ý
Người nói dùng 16 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ I'm, we're, you're. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.
- Âm “th”: cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, thief /ˈθiːf/, cloth /klɒθ/
- Âm “sh” và “zh”: splash /splæʃ/, interruption /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/
- Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: interruption /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/, unexpectedly /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/
Những âm người Việt thường gặp khó:
- Cụm phụ âm cuối — đọc đủ từng âm, đừng nuốt âm cuối: warn /woɹn/, applicant /ˈæp.lə.kɪnt/, exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/, pond /pɑnd/, attract /əˈtɹækt/
- Âm /tʃ/, /dʒ/ và /ʒ/ — tiếng Việt không có, đừng đọc thành “ch” hay “gi”: chalk /t͡ʃɔk/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, chew /tʃuː/, jacket /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
- Âm /æ/ — mở miệng rộng hơn âm “e”: splash /splæʃ/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, applicant /ˈæp.lə.kɪnt/, taxi /ˈtæksi/, attract /əˈtɹækt/
Cách luyện với video này
- Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
- Nói đuổi từng câu ở tốc độ bình thường, lặp lại mỗi câu đến khi nhịp của bạn khớp với người nói.
- Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như splash, poop, chalk.
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