Hello and welcome back to your English Five a Day on the English Likenator podcast.
This is a short daily podcast for intermediate to advanced learners who want to build natural English vocabulary through stories.
My name is Anna and this is week eight, day three of Gabriel's time in Glasgow.
Yesterday Gabriel joined a lively group at a pub in the West End and met a woman called Isla who invited him to a music festival later in the week.
Today we follow Gabriel to a famous live music venue where things get crowded, noisy and perhaps a little bit romantic.
Supporting materials for today's lesson are available at www.joineland.com Let's begin with a snapshot of what's to come.
At a busy music venue, Gabriel and Isla break away from the crowd and soon bump into Callum behind the bar.
Callum jokes that Isla had been trying to chat up Gabriel earlier in the pub.
As the night continues, Gabriel feels that he and Isla really hit it off, so he decides to stick around and see where the event leads.
Let's now break down today's target vocabulary.
The first phrasal verb is chat up, to chat up.
Hit it off Break away This means to leave a group or crowd.
You break away from that group.
For example, they broke away from the crowd to talk.
Next we have bump into.
If two people bump into each other, then it means that they meet unexpectedly.
For example, I bumped into an old friend yesterday.
Stick around To stick around is to stay somewhere for a while.
For example, let's stick around and see what happens.
I hope you will stick around and listen out for those phrasal verbs in today's storytime.