Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week six day four of your English five a day.
The second season,
this is the series that is dedicated to expanding your vocabulary so
that you can feel more like yourself when communicating in English.
Every day of taking week we deliver a new episode with five new items of vocabulary pulled together in a creative way so
that you can fully get to grips with it and as always we start with a snapshot so listen carefully.
The detective tried to piece together the clues from the crime scene but just when she thought she understood what had happened the case took an unexpected twist.
Walking through the gritty backstreet of the city past walls covered in lurid graffiti she reflected on the ambiguous testimony of the main witness wondering
if he was telling the truth or hiding something.
All right that was our snapshot so let's start to dive deep into some of those items.
We begin with the phrase of verb piece together to piece together piece we spell P-I-E-C-E together T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R together.
To piece something together is to understand a story or situation by taking all the facts and details about it and putting them together.
For example
if you were to hear one person telling a story about something that happened to them today it was something terrible that happened and you think oh my goodness that's an awful thing that happened to you but then you hear somebody else's version of the story and it gives you a different perspective.
You start to realize that maybe what you initially thought wasn't completely true
because you only saw one person's point of view so then you hear someone else's version of the story and you start to get a real idea for what actually happened.
You begin to piece together the story you piece together the event.
Now you understand what actually occurred.
Here's another example.