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Welcome to English as a Second Language podcast

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number 11. Welcome to another edition of English

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as a Second Language podcast brought to you by

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www .eslpod .com. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan,

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Senior Researcher at the Center for Educational

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Development here in Los Angeles, California.

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ESL Podcast is especially made for you, those

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who are trying to improve their English listening

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and speaking. If this is the first time listening

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to this podcast, I recommend that you go to our

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website, www .eslpod .com. to read more about

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how best to use this podcast to improve your

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English in today's podcast we're going to talk

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about expressing emotions expressing feelings

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particularly when you feel sad or you don't feel

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well we're going to listen to someone talking

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about their feelings and as usual we'll discuss

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vocabulary and expressions after we hear the

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interview now Let's get started. It would be

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great if I could always feel happy all the time,

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day in and day out. But sometimes I feel down.

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This is one of those days. Sometimes I get depressed

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if something disappointing happens. like if I

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interview for a job and I don't get it, or if

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I have to cancel my vacation after looking forward

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to it for a long time. Once in a while, I'll

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even feel down if I've read a very sad book or

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have seen a movie with a sad or tragic ending.

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Well... None of those things happened today,

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but I'm still feeling a little blue. I don't

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know what the cause is, but maybe what I need

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to do is to try to cheer myself up. When I've

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felt this way in the past, I've found that a

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change of pace helps. Getting out of the house,

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going to a new restaurant for dinner, Or just

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going for a walk outside can sometimes get me

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out of this bad mood. Sometimes, I hate to say

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it, but going out and buying myself something

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new sometimes does the trick. Getting something

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new, especially something I've wanted for a while,

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can sometimes cheer me up. Or... Other times,

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just having a long talk with a good friend helps

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me put things into perspective, and I feel better.

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Okay, I've got it. I'll call my friend Debbie

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and invite her out to dinner. Debbie is such

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a good friend, and she has a way of seeing the

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bright side of things. She's one of those people

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who always sees the glass half full. not half

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empty. I bet she'll help me get out of my lousy

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mood. And, if that doesn't work, I'm heading

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to the mall. There were several expressions that

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we heard that are equivalent or that mean the

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same thing. All of them expressing this idea

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of feeling sad. You heard the woman say, I feel

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down. I feel depressed. I'm feeling a little

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blue. I'm in a or I have a bad mood. All of these

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are ways of saying, pretty much the same thing,

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that we don't feel well, that we're not happy.

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The expressions, I feel down or I get depressed

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or feel depressed, those are fairly common. The

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expression, I'm feeling a little blue, is a little

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more old -fashioned, a little more not used quite

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as often anymore in English. but to feel blue

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means to feel badly, like the color blue. A bad

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mood can sometimes be used when we feel sad,

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but a bad mood can also be when you are angry

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or when you are upset over something. A couple

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of other expressions that were used. The woman

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said that it would be great if I could feel happy

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all the time, day in and day out. The expression

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day in and day out means all of the time, that

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we're trying to express the idea that it is going

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on constantly. So, for example, if you... live

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in a climate where it rains a lot, you can say,

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it rains day in and day out, meaning every day,

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all the time. The woman also said that because

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she was feeling a little blue, she was going

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to try to cheer herself up. To cheer yourself

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up means to make yourself happy. One way she

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was going to do this was she was going to have

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a change of pace. Change of pace means a change

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in the way that you are doing things. Now, literally,

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the word pace, P -A -C -E, is related to speed,

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how fast you're going relative to someone else.

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For example, in a race. If you are going to run

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a long race, like, say, a marathon, you want

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to pace yourself, to keep your pace so that you

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don't get tired. To change your pace or a change

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of pace means, more generally, to do something

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in a different way, to go in a new direction,

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to do things to get yourself out of your depression.

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to cheer yourself up. Another expression she

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used was, I hate to say it. She said, other times,

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I hate to say it, but, and then went on to say

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something. This expression is very common in

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English. When you want to say something that

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you know the other person may not like or that

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you're speaking perhaps in a not very positive

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way about someone or something. So, for example,

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you could say, Well, I hate to say it, but I

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don't think my brother is a very good musician.

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We use the expression before some bad news or

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before something that's unpleasant that we're

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going to tell the other person. The woman in

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today's podcast also mentioned that she was going

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to buy herself something new because sometimes

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that does the trick. The expression to do the

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trick means to accomplish something, to accomplish

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our goal. So, for example, I want to win a million

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dollars. I go out and I buy a lottery ticket

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and I win. I can say, well, you see, that did

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the trick. So to do the trick means to accomplish

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your goal, to do something to accomplish your

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goal. A couple of other expressions that we heard

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today. The glass half empty, not half full. Or

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the glass half full, not half empty. The expression

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the glass is half full means that you are optimistic.

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I always see the glass half full means I always

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see the positive side of things. To see the glass

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half empty means you are pessimistic. You always

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see the negative side of things. Well, I hope

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that you listening out there always see the glass

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half full. That's going to conclude our ESL podcast

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for today. Again, as we have said in the past,

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you again for listening today. We'll see you

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again next time. ESL Podcast is produced by the

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