Listen to a Story in English - Five a Day #40.3

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  Hello and welcome to the English Like A Native Podcast.

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  My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 40, Day 3 of your English Fiver Day.

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  The second season.

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  This is the place you come every day of the working week in order to indulge your habit of dunking daily into the English language.

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  Because slowly but surely,

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  you want to improve your listening skills increase your vocabulary and start to feel more confident,

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  like you own the English language.

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  So, without further ado, let's begin today's episode as usual with a snapshot of what's to come.

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  Lena pulled a clean sweatshirt from the pile of laundry, then paused to enjoy the perfumed scent.

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  of the lavender sachet her grandmother had tucked inside.

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  She fastened her backpack and checked the mirror to see if her outfit went together.

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  Satisfied?

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  She grabbed her keys and headed out into the crisp morning air.

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  Okay, let's now deep dive into that vocabulary starting with the noun sweatshirt.

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  Sweatshirt.

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  S-W-E-A-T-S-H-I-R-T Sweat shirt.

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  Now, this is a very simple, quite low level, basic noun.

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  But it's interesting because firstly,

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  the pronunciation of anything containing the word shirt is tricky.

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  So, sweat shirt.

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