2026-01-19
8 分钟Hello and welcome back to your English Fiver Day on the English Like A Native Podcast.
This is a short daily podcast for intermediate to advanced level learners who want to build natural English vocabulary through stories.
I'm Anna and this is week two.
Day one of our brand new season following Gabriel,
an adventurous French traveller exploring the UK one city at a time.
This week he's just arrived in Liverpool and today we're looking at five expressions to describe those first moments in a new place.
Supporting materials for this lesson are available at www.joineelan.com.
Okay, buckle up as I give you a snapshot of what's to come.
The moment Gabriel set foot in Liverpool, he was taken aback by how friendly people were.
Although he got a warm welcome from the locals,
he struggled to make sense of their accent and instantly felt a little out of his depth.
Wonderful.
Let's now head into our vocabulary breakdown.
Exploring these expressions one by one, we started with set foot.
To set foot.
Somewhere means to physically arrive in a place.
For example, the moment I set foot in Edinburgh, it started raining.
Then we heard the phrase taken aback.
If you're taken aback, you're surprised, often pleasantly.
For example, I was taken aback by how helpful the staff were.