Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 456

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  Hi there, 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, we, 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 and we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you.

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  Okay, back to our lesson for today.

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  What is it about?

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  Well, an advanced english lesson.

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  Advanced idioms.

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  And these are advanced idioms about trying or attempting, usually trying or attempting something new.

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  And as always, I'm going to go down through the list and we have ten items on the list.

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  I'll go through them, explain them, and then give you an example of how you can use them.

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  And if you have any questions or you need more examples, then I'll give you the address at the end of this particular lesson.

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  Okay, so we've got ten.

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  As I said, let's go through them.

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  So first to take the plunge.

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  Well, when something plunges, it goes down very quickly, like falls.

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  A rock will plunge over the side of the bridge if you drop it.

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  Okay.

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  Or a car that comes off a bridge will plunge into the river.

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  So go down very, very fast.

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