Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 467

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  Hi there.

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  This is Harry.

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  Welcome back to advanced English lessons with Harry, where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language, to help you with your conversational skills, your business english skills, interview skills, whatever your goals are, we're here to help.

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  And for those of you and your friends or family who want one to one lessons, whatever, well, you know what to do.

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  Just get in touch www.englishlessonviaskype.com and you can apply for a free trial lesson.

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  And we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you.

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  So back to our lesson.

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  So the lesson today is about accidents and incidents in the traffic driving a car.

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  So different accidents and incidents that can take place.

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  So these are advanced expressions that you need to know.

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  So if you're a stranger in a foreign land and something happens, you'd like to know what these words mean and how you describe the particular situation.

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  So accidents and incidents.

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  Advanced vocabulary relating to those accidents and incidents in traffic and in cars.

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  As always, we have ten particular expressions to give you and phrases.

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  So I'll go through them in the list and then I'll go back and give you some examples and then you can practice them on your own.

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  So number one, to collide, well, collide is when usually two cars crash into something, okay?

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  Or into each other, or a bus and a car or the tram and the car, or the truck and the car, or even the bicycle and the car.

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  So they collide means they crash into something.

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  So you might see the report or hear the report on the news.

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  There was a big hold up in the city centre today because a truck collided with the tram.

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