English Listening Practice - Five a Day #45.3

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  Hello and welcome to the English Lycanator podcast.

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  My name is Anna and you're listening to week 45,

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  day three of your English Fiver Day, the second season.

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  I'm very pleased to see that you've turned up today.

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  And I do hope that this is part of a long-term habit of dunking daily into the English language I've certainly provided.

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  Lots and lots of material to keep you going for quite a long time.

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  So, without further ado, I am ready to give you today's vocabulary,

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  but let's start with a quick snapshot of what's to come.

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  When the storm hit, it turned the quiet village upside down,

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  leaving people's homes and gardens in disorder.

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  As we set out to help the next morning, the indelible sight of ruined streets stayed with us.

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  But with every building we repaired and every meal we shared, we began to turn the tide together.

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  So, without further ado, let's dive into today's list.

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  Number one is an idiom, and it's the idiom, turn upside down.

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  So if we talk about something being turned upside down,

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  then we're saying that a situation has been completely changed.

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  And we usually use this to say that something's changed in a bad way.

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  So you might say, my world has been turned upside down, or my life has been turned upside down.

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  Those are very common things to couple with this idiom, my life.

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  or my world or my work has been turned upside down.

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