Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 541

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  Hi there, this is Harry.

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  Welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,

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  where we try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language.

• 00:16

  So this is an advanced English lesson.

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  It's about vocabulary and it's vocabulary that we can use when things go bad,

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  so alternative words to use.

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  So when things take a turn for the worse, then you need to know how you can express it.

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  Okay, so let me go and give you an example or indeed situations when you can use them.

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  So the first is a step backwards.

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  Well, if we have to take a backwards step or a step backwards,

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  it means that things are not going quite as well as they should.

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  So if you're planning to do some...

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  additional education and you complete the documents for the university and they tell you well look before you can actually do this course you need to do an introduction course first of all so that's going to take you six to nine months that's the rule of the university and so you're going to have to do that first.

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  He said, well, that's a little bit of a backward step.

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  It's going to set me back by an extra year.

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  So you might consider that to be a backward step or a step backwards, but you don't really know.

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  Or indeed, if somebody is in their job, they're looking to get promoted, but nothing happens.

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  And then out of the blue, the company announced that they are merging with another company,

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  so they're going to be taken over.

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  Unfortunately,

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