2025-02-20
16 分钟Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week seven day four of your English five a day.
The second season.
This is the series that is dedicated to expanding your active vocabulary so
that you can feel more confident and more like yourself when communicating in English.
We release episodes every day of the working week from Monday to Friday and every item of vocabulary is recorded for you in our database that you can access for free by clicking on the link in the show notes.
So let's begin with today's snapshot.
Listen carefully.
This snapshot contains everything we're going to cover today.
As the car began to swerve dangerously on the icy road, Milo shouted,
you need to step on it if we're going to make it in time.
His pulse raced as he hastily gripped the door handle, bracing himself for whatever might come next.
The tension in the air was almost unbearable but the drivers firm grip on the wheel kept them from sliding off the edge.
Well that was dramatic.
Well let's keep going and dive into our first item.
So first we have the verb swerve swerve.
We spell this s-w-e-r-v-e swerve.
Two swerve is to change direction, usually suddenly.
So if you are going down the road and an animal jumps out in front of your car, you're going to swerve.
I think there's actually a rule,