Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 304

和哈利一起说更好的英语|第304集

Speak Better English with Harry

2021-07-14

13 分钟
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Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar.In this podcast episode, we're going to learn useful English idioms with meanings and examples. The idioms that I have for you today are to do with the word 'air'. He always has his nose up in the air. What does it mean? Students often ask me 'How can I memorise English idioms?' Well, you don't need to memorise t...
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  • Hi there.

  • This is Harry, and welcome back to my podcast where I try to help you with the english languages to get a better understanding of how to use the grammar for conversational English or business English, whatever it might be.

  • Also things like pronunciation, idioms, phrasal verbs, etcetera.

  • Okay.

  • And if there's anybody out there that you think will benefit from some of our courses and our lessons, well, please give them the details, and I'll give you my contact details at the end of this particular podcast.

  • Incidentally, you can listen to this, or indeed, if you want to watch it, you can do so on my YouTube channel.

  • Okay, so what am I going to talk to you about today?

  • Well, I'm going to look at idioms, and these idioms are connected with air a I r, not hair.

  • No, there's not much of it there, but air a I r.

  • And you've got to make sure that you pronounce that without a h.

  • It's not hare, no, it's air a I r.

  • Okay, so we're going to look at idioms connected with air.

  • I'll give them to you, as usual, one by one, and then I'll go back through them and give you some worked examples.

  • So here they are.

  • Things can be up in the air.

  • Things can be, or people can be full of hot air.

  • You can be a breath of fresh air.

  • We can be into or out of thin air and explain those in a little bit more detail.

  • Something is in the air around something is in the air.

  • We can clear the air.