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The hosts of EnglishPod introduce the topic of the lesson, which is about real English used in movies and TV shows. They then introduce two vocabulary words: inconsiderate and keep it down. Inconsiderate means not thinking about the feelings of others, and keep it down means to be quiet. They provide examples of how to use these words in sentences. They then listen to a dialogue about people being noisy at the movies and someone's phone ringing. They discuss the key words and phrases from the dialogue, including "not such a big deal," "switch it off," "can't hear a thing," and "do you mind." They give examples of how to use these phrases in different situations. They then discuss different movie-watching habits in different countries. The hosts encourage listeners to try using the phrases they learned in their daily lives. The lesson ends with a vocabulary preview of the next lesson. Hello, English learners, and welcome to EnglishPod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erica. Erica, today we are really excited, right? Yeah, we've got a great lesson today, all about real English. Exactly, English that you hear in movies and TV shows. Yeah, speaking of movies, today's podcast takes place at the movies. Exactly, and that's why it's so fun today. Uh-huh. Okay, great, so before we listen to our dialogue, let's take a look at our vocabulary preview. Vocabulary preview. In today's vocabulary preview, we have two words. And the first word is inconsiderate. Inconsiderate. Inconsiderate. So, Erica, what is it when someone is inconsiderate? If someone's inconsiderate, they're not thinking about the feelings of other people. Right, so for example, yesterday, I was on the subway, and it was full. Right. And an old lady was standing there, and no one got up to give her their seat. That was pretty inconsiderate. Great, so now let's take a look at our second word, and it's keep it down. Keep it down. Keep it down. Keep it down. So, why don't we listen to some examples on how we use keep it down so we can understand. Example one. Excuse me, do you mind keeping it down? It's after midnight. Okay, sorry. Example two. I'm trying to study. Do you mind keeping it down? Example three. Do you mind keeping it down? I'm trying to watch the game. So, that means be quiet. Yes, don't make so much noise. I used to hear this one all the time from my mother. I think we all did when we were children. Yes. Okay, so now let's listen to the dialogue for the first time. It's going to be kind of fast. But don't worry about it if you can't understand everything. By the end of today's lesson, you will understand this dialogue. Those people in front of us are making so much noise. It's so inconsiderate. Don't worry about it. It's not such a big deal. Oh, I can't hear a thing. Excuse me, can you keep it down? Sure, sorry about that. Someone's phone is ringing. Honey, I think it's your phone. Did you forget to switch it off? Oh no, you're right. That's so embarrassing. Do you mind keeping it down? I'm trying to watch a movie here. I hate it when people's phones ring when I'm watching a movie. I think everyone gets kind of angry, but we're going to talk about this a little bit later. Why don't we take a look now at our language takeaway? Language takeaway. So, the language takeaway is our most important word for today's lesson. And our first word today is, not such a big deal. Not such a big deal. Not such a big deal. So, when something is not a big deal, it's... Not a big problem. It's not important, right? Exactly. Okay, let's listen to some examples. Example one. I can't get these files due by tomorrow. That's okay. It's not such a big deal. Example two. Uh, I'm really sorry. I'm going to be ten minutes late for the meeting. It's not such a big deal. Peter and Liam are late too. Now let's look at our second word, and it's switch it off. Switch it off. Switch it off. Switch it off. So, this word means to turn it off. To turn something off. Now, we can use it in three different ways. Yeah, this one is a little bit complicated because it changes a little bit depending on how you use it. So, Marco, I think you've got some examples for us. Right. So, for example, I can say, did you switch off your phone? Or you could say, did you switch your phone off? Right. Or simply you can ask, did you switch it off? I think this one is a little bit hard. Let's look at a couple more examples. Okay. So, I can say, for example, switch off the TV. Switch the TV off. Or switch it off. Yeah. I think that's a little bit more clear. Yeah. But you know what? We even had trouble with that one, didn't we? Yeah. We had to do it a couple of times. Okay. Now, let's look at our last word and it's can't hear a thing. Can't hear a thing. I can't hear a thing. Can't hear a thing. Okay. We have some examples for this phrase. So, let's listen. Example one. What's going on in there? I don't know. I can't hear a thing. Example two. What? I'm sorry. This music is too loud. I can't hear a thing. So, that's like saying, I can't hear. Exactly. I can't hear anything. It's too loud. Right. So, now we are ready to listen to our dialogue a second time. It's going to be slower. This time listen for some of the key words we were explaining. Those people in front of us are making so much noise. It's so inconsiderate. Don't worry about it. It's not such a big deal. I can't hear a thing. Excuse me. Can you keep it down? Sure. Sorry about that. Someone's phone is ringing. Honey, I think it's your phone. Did you forget to switch it off? Oh, no. You're right. That's so embarrassing. Do you mind keeping it down? I'm trying to watch a movie here. Okay. Great. Now with the dialogue slower, it's really understandable. Yeah. I think you can catch those key words a lot better. Perfect. So, now let's listen to our dialogue. You can catch those key words a lot better. Perfect. So, now we are ready to look at putting it together. Putting it together. So, in putting it together, we help you use a great phrase in different ways. And today's phrase is, do you mind? Do you mind? Do you mind? Okay. So, let's listen to some examples on how you can use this phrase in different situations. Example 1. Do you mind holding my coat for me? Example 2. Oh, I forgot my wallet. Do you mind paying for dinner? Example 3. Do you mind turning off your phone? So, this phrase is usually pretty polite. I could say to you, Marco, do you mind holding my coat for me? And that's really polite. Yeah. So, would you mind, do you mind are very polite phrases. But, depending on your voice and how you use your tone, it could be a little bit sarcastic, right? Yeah. It could be a little bit rude if you say, would you mind keeping it down? Exactly. Like we heard in our dialogue. Yeah. So, that's not so polite. Yeah. Exactly. I mean, in English, you have to be careful because your tone of voice tells the other person how you're feeling. If you're angry, sad, or just like in any other language. Yeah. That's true. So, I mean, using a phrase like, do you mind is a great phrase, but make sure you keep a positive tone in your voice. Exactly. So, now that we've talked about all these great things, we can listen to the dialogue a third time, but it'll be at its normal speed. So, people in front of us are making so much noise. It's so inconsiderate. Don't worry about it. It's not such a big deal. Oh, I can't hear a thing. Excuse me, can you keep it down? Sure. Sorry about that. Someone's phone is ringing. Honey, I think it's your phone. Did you forget to switch it off? Oh, no. You're right. That's so embarrassing. Do you mind keeping it down? I'm trying to watch a movie here. So, I know that in different countries, there are different habits about watching movies. Yeah, that's definitely true. Erica, what's it like in Canada? Well, in Canada, it's really common to eat popcorn and candy and maybe chips while you're watching a movie. But if your phone rings in the movie theater, this is a big problem. I imagine it is. I mean, I would be upset also. What about in Ecuador? Well, in Ecuador and in South America, usually people can bring in food from the outside. Really? Yeah, so it's not really uncommon, depending on the city, to find people bringing in chicken or some sort of like really smelly food. No way. So, you get either really hungry or really upset, but that's what happens. You know, I used to live in Switzerland, and in Switzerland, you would have to eat before you watch the movie. There was no popcorn, no soda, no candy inside the movie theater. Can you imagine that? I could not live with that, because the whole purpose of going to the movies is to have some popcorn and relax and have a good time. You can't have a movie without popcorn. Exactly. We've talked a lot about how to ask someone to be quiet today. And I hope that you'll go out and try a few of these phrases in your daily life. Yes, and I hope also that you visit our website at EnglishPod.com and leave all your questions and comments. Marco and I are there every day, so we'll be happy to answer your questions. But until next time. Bye. Bye. Welcome back, English learners. My name is Marco, and I am joined by... Erica. How are you, Erica? I'm doing great, Marco. And you? Excellent. I'm doing really well, and I'm really excited about our lesson for today. That's right. We've got an intermediate lesson today, and we're going to study some real English. English that you use every day, right? That's right. English that native speakers really use. Exactly. And today, as Erica mentioned, we have an intermediate lesson. And not only is it intermediate, but it's a business lesson. Yes. So today we're listening in to a sales meeting, and we're going to learn some great, useful English to talk about sales strategies. So we're going to learn English for sales strategies, for making suggestions, and for responding to suggestions. Great. So why don't we take a look at our vocabulary preview for today? Vocabulary preview. So our vocabulary preview is a part of our lesson when we teach you some really important words that will help you to understand the dialogue better. Okay, great. So that is what vocabulary preview is. We have two words for you today, and we can start off by looking at the first one. Our first word today is drive sales. Drive sales. Drive sales. To drive sales. And that means? To increase sales. Right. To sell more. Exactly. So to drive sales. Okay. So now let's look at our second word. And it's an interesting one. It's promotion. Promotion. Promotion. Promotion. So Erica, what is a promotion exactly? Okay. So here, we're not really talking about getting a better job, right? Okay. Not like a job promotion. No. We're talking about a marketing strategy. Okay. So I can give you an example. Suppose that I want to buy shampoo. Uh-huh. And if I go to the supermarket, and I see buy one and get one free. So that's a two for one. That's a two for one promotion. Yeah. Okay. That's a sales promotion. Or? Perhaps the shampoo in the supermarket is less expensive than usual. Okay. Yeah. Usually maybe it costs five dollars, but today it costs four dollars. That's a sales promotion. Great. So that's a really good marketing strategy. Exactly. And we'll hear this word in our dialogue today. Great. So we are ready to listen to our dialogue. It's going to be pretty fast. So it might be a little bit difficult to understand. But don't worry if you don't understand everything. Because later in this lesson, we're going to explain all the important words and phrases. Okay. All right, people. We're holding this meeting today because we've got to do something about our sales. And we need to do it now. I want concrete solutions. How do you plan to drive sales? Roger? Well, in fact, we're the most expensive in the market. So maybe we need to lower our prices to match the competitors? Lower our prices? Not very creative. It'll never fly with Swan. What kind of thinking is that? Geez. Anyone have a better plan? Natalie? Perhaps a promotion. Maybe a two-for-one offer or something like that. That's the same thing. Bad idea. Really bad idea. Damn it, people. Come on. Think. The CEO will be here any minute. Hello, Mr. Swan. Hello, Mr. Swan. Hello, Mr. Swan. Do we have any ideas yet? Yes, Mr. Swan. We were kind of considering a two-for-one offer to get more competitive. A two-for-one promotion. Hmm. I kind of like the sound of that. It sounds like something we should consider. Yeah, exactly. That's just what I was thinking. In fact, it's a brilliant idea. I'm glad we thought of that. Very creative. Okay, so an interesting manager, right? I don't know about interesting. Maybe I would think bad manager. We're going to talk about him later on in the show. But now, let's take a look at our language takeaway. Okay, so language takeaway is the part of our lesson where we teach you the most important words from the dialogue. All these words that we are going to focus on can be found in today's dialogue. Exactly. So, we have three words for you today. Let's look at the first one. Great. So, we have some examples for you so you can listen and try and see if you can figure out what match the competitors really means. Example one. We guarantee that we can match the competitors' lowest price. Example two. It's impossible for us to match the competitors. Our costs are just too high. Example three. Do you think we can match our competitors' prices and still keep our quality high? Ah, okay. So, I see that match the competitors means to be as good as or better than other companies in the same industry. Exactly. Match the competitors. All right. So, let's move to our second word today for language takeaways and it is in the market. In the market. In the market. In the market. We heard this phrase in the dialogue and it means in the industry. Exactly. I can say, for example, EnglishPod is the best language pod in the market. So, of all the podcasts that teach English, EnglishPod is the best. Of course. No doubt about it. I totally agree. Right. Or I can give you another example. iPods are the most popular MP3 players in the market. So, of all the MP3 players in the world, iPods are the most popular. So, let's move to our final word for today and it is... It'll never fly. It'll never fly. It'll never fly. It will never fly. So, this phrase sounds a little bit strange. I know. Fly? Are we talking about an airplane here? What's going on? Exactly. But we're not. So, we're going to give you some examples and try and guess what it'll never fly really means. Example 1. This marketing plan will never fly. It's just too expensive. Example 2. Example 2. What? You want to sell bikinis in Alaska? That'll never fly. Example 3. Brad told me his idea for a film script, but the story will never fly. It's not interesting enough. Example 4. So, it means it won't work. It won't work. It's not a good idea. They'll never agree. Exactly. Great. So, now we've seen a lot of useful phrases and we are ready to listen to our dialogue a second time. But this time it's going to be slow. So, you'll be able to understand a little bit better and you'll be able to hear the words and phrases we were just talking about. All right, people. We're holding this meeting today because we've got to do something about our sales. And we need to do it now. I want concrete solutions. How do you plan to drive sales, Roger? Well, um, in fact, we're the most expensive in the market. We're the most expensive in the market. So, maybe we need to lower our prices to match the competitors. Lower our prices. Not very creative. It'll never fly with Swan. What kind of thinking is that? Geez. Anybody else have a better plan? Natalie? Um, perhaps, um, a promotion. Maybe a two-for-one offer or something like that. What? That's the same thing. Bad idea. Really bad idea. Dammit, people. Come on. Think. The CEO will be here any minute. Hello, Mr. Swan. Oh, Mr. Swan. Hello, Mr. Swan. Do we have any ideas yet? Yes, Mr. Swan. We were kind of considering a two-for-one offer to get more competitive. A two-for-one promotion. Hmm. I kind of like the sound of that. It sounds like something we should consider. Yeah, exactly. That's just what I was thinking. In fact, that's a brilliant idea. I'm glad we thought of that. Very creative. Okay, great. I hope everyone understands a lot better now. And I hope everyone could listen out for some of those key words. Right, so now it's time for us to take a look at Fluency Builder. Fluency Builder. So with Fluency Builder, we try to help you increase your fluency. We take a word or phrase that you already know and show you how to say it a little bit more naturally. A little bit more like a native English speaker. Right, and we have three of these words for you today. Yeah. Let's start with the first one. Okay, so often students will say something like... I'll be here soon. Or... I will arrive soon. Right, and these sentences are correct. They're totally fine, but I think there's a better way to say this. Right, and we heard it in the dialogue, so let's listen to what the person in the dialogue said. The CEO will be here any minute. Okay, so be here any minute. He'll be here any minute. It just sounds a little bit more natural. Yeah, I think I use this phrase quite often. He'll be here any minute. He'll be here soon. Yeah. Great. Okay, so let's move on to our second phrase for Fluency Builder. So this phrase will help you to learn how to say something in a better sounding way. Right, so you can say something like... Or... Right, and it's perfectly correct. Yeah, there's no problem with this. But in the dialogue, we heard something a little bit different, so let's listen to it. It sounds like something we should consider. So consider sounds like a pretty natural way of saying it, right? Yeah, and you know, I think it sounds really kind of smart. Yeah, it sounds more formal even. A little more professional. Yeah. It's a good word. Yeah. Okay, brilliant. So let's move on to our third word. Marco, you already said our third word. Yeah, I actually did. Brilliant. That's a great word right there. Yeah. A lot of people might say, that's a great idea, or great. But in the dialogue, we heard another way of saying the same idea. That's a brilliant idea. That's a brilliant idea. Okay, so this is great, but I would have to say that it's a little bit more British English. Yeah, I'd agree with you there, but I also think it sort of gives more power to this idea that it's a good idea, a brilliant idea. That it's a really, really good idea. Yeah, yeah. And I like that word. Yeah. Okay, so we're ready to listen to our dialogue again a third time, but at its normal speed. All right, people, we're holding this meeting today because we've got to do something about our sales, and we need to do it now. I want concrete solutions. How do you plan to drive sales? Roger. Well, in fact, we're the most expensive in the market, so maybe we need to lower our prices to match the competitors? Lower our prices. Not very creative. It'll never fly with Swan. What kind of thinking is that? Geez. Anyone have a better plan? Natalie. Perhaps a promotion. Maybe a two-for-one offer or something like that. It's the same thing. Bad idea. Really bad idea. Damn it, people, come on. Think. The CEO will be here any minute. Hello, Mr. Swan. Oh, Mr. Swan. Hello, Mr. Swan. Do we have any ideas yet? Yes, Mr. Swan. We were kind of considering a two-for-one offer to get more competitive. A two-for-one promotion. Hmm. I kind of like the sound of that. It sounds like something we should consider. Yeah, exactly. That's just what I was thinking. In fact, it's a brilliant idea. I'm glad we thought of that. Very creative. All right, so listening to this dialogue makes you think about this boss. I'm pretty sure everyone has had a manager or a supervisor that's similar to this guy. Yeah, this boss, Clark, I would have to say he sounds like a terrible person to work for. Yeah, that's true. If you're a manager, you want to motivate your employees. I think it's the most important thing a manager does is to encourage his or her employees and to help support them to grow and to be better people in the job. And this guy is totally not doing that. And you can tell because they are a little bit scared of talking and he cuts them off with saying, oh, it's a bad idea. Give me a better idea and stuff like that. Yeah, I could never work for a guy like this. You know, my first boss that I had when I first entered the workforce, I was in a very junior position and I was working for a large company. And the general manager of the company, he was amazing. He was so encouraging. He knew every single employee's name, first name, and he would make an effort to stop and say hello and ask them how things were going. And, you know what, this left me with such a good feeling about the company that I really wanted to work hard for this company and try my best. And I think that I've never met such a great boss as this guy. No, I think that's true. Definitely, if you have a boss that's encouraging and motivating like that, it makes you work harder and makes you feel part of a really special team. And that's something we can all agree on. And I'm sure all our managers out there do the same. Well, you know what, I hope some of our listeners log on to our website and maybe they can tell us some experiences with bad managers or good managers or if they are managers, how they handle things. Yeah, and hopefully they can use some of these great phrases that we talked about today. Great. So, be sure, everyone, to visit our website at EnglishPod.com where you can find a lot of other information and really good resources to continue improving your English. That's right. So, thanks for listening today, everyone. And until next time, this is goodbye. Bye. Bye. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to EnglishPod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erica. And today with Erica, we have an Upper Intermediate lesson. That's right. An Upper Intermediate lesson is a little bit strange. It's a little bit strange, but it's a real English lesson because that's what we give you here at EnglishPod. So, in today's lesson, we've got a lot of really great language for you. We've got language to help you to gossip better. Gossip. Why don't you explain it a little bit, just in case. Okay. So, if I gossip, I maybe share news or information about other people with my friends. Like, I might say something like, Marco, did you see what happened in ChinesePod today? You'll never guess what I saw. Exactly. That's gossip. That's gossip. And we also have language today to describe things. To describe strange things. Strange things. All right. So, let's take a look at our vocabulary preview. Vocabulary preview. So, in our vocabulary preview, we'll look at a few important words that will help you to understand the dialogue a little bit better. Exactly. And the first word is weird. Weird. Weird. Weird. Weird. Now, this is a common word you probably hear all the time and in a lot of different situations. So, we wanted to explain it today. Yeah. This word just means strange. It's strange. Yeah. Weird person is a strange person. Exactly. But the thing about this word is if you are a young person, let's say under the age of 35, you'll probably use it about 100 times a day. Weird. Yeah. It's just such a good sounding word. Weird. It is. But the thing is that even though it is probably more commonly used in American English, it's still widely used for British English as well. Yeah. That's true. So, but maybe in British English, you would say something like... Odd. It's odd. Yeah. That's more common. Okay. Let's look at our second word. Housewarming gift. Housewarming gift. Housewarming gift. Housewarming gift. Now, this is a cultural thing. It's common in North America to give a housewarming gift to someone. Yeah. If I move into a new house, maybe some of my friends or family will bring a gift over to make my house a little bit more beautiful. So something like a photo frame or... Or maybe a plant or sometimes even like maybe a basket of pastries or something. Oh, okay. Yeah. I've never gotten one of those. Really? Because I don't have a home. Where do you live? On the street? Well, I don't have my own home, so I have never gotten one of those. Okay. Okay, so we're ready now to listen to our dialogue. So we've got two housewives who are gossiping about what's going on in the neighborhood and let's listen to what happens. Oh, I don't know if you've heard, but someone moved into that old house down the road. Yeah, I know. I met the owner of the house yesterday as he was moving in. His name is Armand. Really? What's he like? You have to fill me in. Actually, he's a bit strange. I don't know. I've just got a bad feeling about him. Really? Why? Well, yesterday I brought over a housewarming gift, but Armand started acting really weird and then he practically kicked me out. I tried to sort of peek into his house, but everything was so dark inside that I couldn't really get a good look. The whole thing really creeped me out. Well, you'll never guess what I saw this morning. A delivery truck pulled into his driveway and it dropped off a long rectangular box. It almost looked like a coffin. You see? Why would he... Hello, ladies. Armand! You scared the heck out of me. This is my friend Doris. Pleasure to meet you. If you're not doing anything tonight, I'd like to have you both for dinner. I mean, I'd like to have you both over for dinner. Ooh, that guy seems kind of weird. You can hear his voice. He's like a weird guy, right? Yeah. All right. Let's take a look at our Language Takeaway and look at some of these great words. Language Takeaway. So our Language Takeaway focuses on several words from the dialogue that we feel are really important for you to know. Exactly. And we have four of them for you today. Why don't we look at the first one? Okay. So the first word is a bad feeling. Bad feeling. A bad feeling. A bad feeling. So we've got a few examples that will help you to understand how this phrase works. Example one. I don't like Kelly's new boyfriend. I've got a bad feeling about him. Example two. It's so dark. We shouldn't be out here. I've got a bad feeling about this. Example three. I've got a bad feeling about this trip. I feel like something's going to happen. Maybe we shouldn't go. Okay. So basically you think something bad is going to happen. Yeah. You have a sort of uncomfortable feeling. Okay. That makes sense. I have a bad feeling about something. Exactly. Okay. Let's look at our second word now. Kicked me out. Kicked me out. Kicked me out. Kicked me out. So when someone kicks you out, they force you to leave. You don't want to leave, but they force you. Yeah. Marco, have you ever kicked someone out of your class? Yes, I have. Really? Yeah. If you misbehave in my class, you're kicked out. So you're pretty strict, huh? Sometimes I am. Okay. Also, maybe you've kicked your husband out of bed. I might have done that once or twice before. We'll have to ask him. I'm sure he has. All right. So that's what it means. You force someone to leave the house, leave the class, leave the bed. So kicked out of class, kicked out of the house, kicked out of bed. Exactly. Great. Let's look at our third word now. Creeped me out. Creeped me out. Creeped me out. Creeped me out. Now, this is a really common phrase. I like this phrase a lot, and we've got some examples for you to listen to to help you understand this word a little bit better. Example one. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Oh, I think I saw something. Stop it. You're really creeping me out. Example two. This place really creeps me out. Let's get out of here. All right. Well, I have a confession to make. I'm kind of creeped out by clowns. You are? Yes. I don't know. They're just creepy. They scare me. Really? Yes. What is it about clowns that scares you so much? I don't know. They're just white faces and weird paint. I don't know. It's just creepy. And the way they laugh. I don't know. Maybe you had a bad experience with clowns as a child. Probably. I watched a scary movie about clowns or something. Yeah. All right. So, creeped me out basically means made me feel uncomfortable. Yes. It scares you. Yeah. Speaking of being scared, we have our final word for language takeaway. And it is scared the heck out of me. You scared the heck out of me. Scared the heck out of me. You got really scared. Yeah. I think this is a quite common way of saying you really, really scared me. Yeah. Okay. We're ready to listen to our dialogue again. Now, try and see if you can catch all these phrases that we just talked about. Hello. I don't know if you've heard, but someone moved into that old house down the road. Yeah. I know. I met the owner of the house yesterday as he was moving in. His name is Armand. Really? What's he like? You have to fill me in. Actually, he's a bit strange. I don't know. I've just got a bad feeling about him. Really? Why? Well, yesterday I brought over a housewarming gift, but Armand started acting really weird, and then he practically kicked me out. I tried to sort of peek into his house, but everything was so dark inside that I couldn't really get a good look. The whole thing really creeped me out. Well, you'll never guess what I saw this morning. A delivery truck pulled into his driveway and it dropped off a long rectangular box. It almost looked like a coffin. You see, why would he... Hello, ladies. Ah, Armand. You scared the heck out of me. This is my friend, Doris. A pleasure to meet you. If you are not doing anything tonight, I would like to have you both for dinner. I mean, I would like to have you both over for dinner. You know, one of the things I really like about this dialogue is there's a lot of great phrases that will help you to gossip. That's a good observation. So, I think it's time for Fluency Builder. Fluency Builder. In Fluency Builder, we take a simple phrase or a simple word you already know and show you how to express the same idea a little bit more naturally. Okay, great. So, let's take a look at our first item for Fluency Builder. So, when you gossip with somebody, you often tell them news or information that they don't know already. And you might start by saying, did you know that? Or you can say, did you hear? Yeah, both of those phrases are perfectly fine. But if you want to sound a little bit more native-like when you're gossiping, you might try out this phrase from the dialogue. I don't know if he's heard. I don't know if he's heard. Yeah, that's a really good phrase. You're saying exactly the same thing, but in a really natural way. It's a great one for gossiping. So, Marco, I don't know if you've heard, but Chinese Pod is up to some pretty crazy things. See, that's exactly how you would use that phrase. So, now let's take a look at our second item. Now, when you're gossiping, you want information. That's right. So, you might say, oh, tell me about it. Or something like, give me the details. Yeah, and again, both of these examples are perfectly fine. But when you're gossiping, you might want to try something like this. You have to fill me in. You have to fill me in. Fill me in, yeah, that's what I would say. Fill me in, you know, give me the details. Fill me in. Fill me in on today's gossip. Okay, so let's take a look at our third item. Now, if you have some juicy gossipy news. And you want to start up a conversation, you might use this phrase here. Well, you'll never guess what I saw this morning. Well, you'll never guess what I saw this morning. That's a really good phrase. You can change it a little bit. You can say, you'll never guess who I saw. Or you'll never guess what I heard. Exactly. Very excellent gossip phrases. We're teaching you how to gossip because that's real English. People really do it. People really do it. You've got to know the language for it. All right, so enough of our gossip. I think it's time for us to listen to the dialogue one last time. Oh, I don't know if you've heard, but someone moved into that old house down the road. Yeah, I know. I met the owner of the house yesterday as he was moving in. His name is Armand. Really? What's he like? You have to fill me in. Actually, he's a bit strange. I don't know. I've just got a bad feeling about him. Really? Why? Well, yesterday I brought over a housewarming gift, but Armand started acting really weird, and then he practically kicked me out. I tried to sort of peek into his house, but everything was so dark inside that I couldn't really get a good look. The whole thing really creeps me out. Well, you'll never guess what I saw this morning. A delivery truck pulled into his driveway, and it dropped off a long rectangular box. It almost looked like a coffin. You see? Why would he... Hello, ladies. Armand! You scared the heck out of me. This is my friend Doris. Pleasure to meet you. If you're not doing anything tonight, I'd like to have you both for dinner. I mean, I'd like to have you both over for dinner. Okay, Marco. I have a true story for you. Is it kind of like a creepy story? It is a creepy story indeed. Is it a true story? No, it's really true. Okay. So, when I was young, I used to live in the country. And, you know, in the country, all of the neighbors know each other. It's a small community, so everyone knows what's happening all the time. Okay. But there was some gossip going on in our community about a guy who lived at the end of the road. And he was the owner of a car wrecking yard. So, a place where you take old broken down cars and take the parts apart to sell. Right. And anyway... A scrap yard. Yeah, a scrap yard. All right. Okay, so, you know, he had a wife and a couple of kids, and suddenly his wife disappeared. Wow. Yeah. And no one knew what happened or anything. And so, several years passed. And suddenly the police start coming in and start investigating this guy and start digging up all of the land around his property. And I guess, I don't know what they're doing, but I think they were looking for the wife's body. Wow. And did they find it? I don't know. I moved away. Such a great story, but we don't know how it ends. Yeah. Well, we can leave it up to the imagination of our listeners. Exactly. Maybe they're looking for an old car. An old car buried in the ground. I don't think so. All right. That's a true story. Real English. Real stories. There you go. You heard it first here on EnglishPod. All right. So, we want to hear your comments and suggestions about this topic. I bet a lot of our listeners also have creepy stories, maybe ghost stories, maybe, I don't know, different types of weird stories. So, you guys should definitely log on to EnglishPod and share them with us. That's right. Go to EnglishPod.com and in the comments section of the website, tell us your creepy stories. And we're going to pick out the best story as the story of the week. We'll announce it in our This Just In podcast. Yes. So, we want to hear all your juicy stories and gossip, maybe, as well. Yes. All right. Well, it's time for us to go. So, be sure to listen to us next time. But until then, it's... Bye-bye. Bye. Bye.