Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 491

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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, 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 what are we going to look at today?

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  Well, in today's advanced lesson, we're going to look at idioms relating to happiness and sadness.

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  So we'll split it into two parts, one part about happiness, the other about sadness.

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  And as always, try to practice them, and if you don't understand them, come back to me.

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  We'll try to give you a few more examples.

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  Okay, so what have we got?

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  We've got five particular idioms relating to happiness, and we've got another five relating to sadness.

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  So look at happiness first of all, come back, give you some examples, and then do the same with sadness.

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  Okay, so let's get going.

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  Let's give the first one.

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  So, on cloud nine, well, the clouds are high in the sky, so when you're on cloud nine, you're really, really happy.

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  Oh, he's on cloud nine.

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  He got the highest marks he's ever got in his exams.

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  He's going to be able to go to university.

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  And what's more important, he's going to be able to do that engineering course that he hoped to do.

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