Listen to a Story in English - Five a Day #44.2

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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 44, Day 2 of your English Fiver Day, second season.

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  I'm here, your fluency guide,

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  ready to take you on a journey of learning more and more English vocabulary so that over time you improve your listening skills.

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  You extend and expand your comprehension and generally feel more confident and more like yourself when you're communicating in English.

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  So let's begin as we always do with a snapshot of what's to come.

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  By the end of the week, I was ticking things off my to-do list with grim determination,

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  reports, calls, deadlines, the works.

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  I'd imagined office life would be glamorous,

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  but spilling coffee on my boss during a meeting was nothing short of mortifying.

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  Still.

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  Every cloud has a silver lining.

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  She laughed it off, and I realised she was far kinder than I'd ever thought.

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  OK, let's dive into that vocabulary now, starting with the phrase, tick things off.

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  Tick things off.

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  Three words, tick, T-I-C-K.

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  things, t-h-i-n-g-s, off, o-w-f, tick things off.

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  Two tick things off is to mark items as completed on a list,

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  or just two generally complete tasks, one by one.

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  You might not have a physical list, it might be a mental list,

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