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Hello and welcome to today's edition of English

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as a Second Language podcast. My name is Jeff

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McQuillan. English as a Second Language podcast

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is brought to you by www. www .eslpod .com Visit

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us on the web. In today's podcast, we're going

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to talk about nasty habits or bad habits that

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people have. I'm going to talk about some of

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my bad habits, which include... Smoking and drinking.

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Let's get started. Well, my worst habit that

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I have ever had is probably smoking. I don't

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smoke anymore, but when I graduated from college,

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I... went abroad to study in Mexico. And almost

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everyone around me was a smoker. So it was very

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difficult for me not to smoke. And I just decided

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after a couple of months to give in and to start

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smoking myself. I smoked for probably about two

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or three years, and then I decided to quit smoking.

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I was lucky because I was able to quit cold turkey,

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whereas other people who try to quit often have

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to use... Nicotine patches or nicotine gum or

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something like that. But I was fortunate. I missed

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smoking after I stopped it for probably five

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years. When I would go by someone or walk by

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someone who was smoking, I would inhale deeply

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to smell. the smoke because it gave me a certain

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satisfaction a certain pleasure but after about

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five years i got sick of the smoke so that now

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and this was 10 years ago that i quit smoking

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now i i can't stand the smell of smoke i try

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to get away from the smell of smoke in a restaurant

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or on the street. The other bad habits that I

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have include drinking alcohol, although I don't

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drink very much alcohol. I used to drink when

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I was in college and after college, but now I

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don't drink as much. partly because I can't handle

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my alcohol very well anymore, and I don't have

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a lot of occasions to drink. I don't go to bars

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anymore, and I don't hang around a lot of people

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or friends who are heavy drinkers. I also like

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to drink tea. I was a coffee drinker for many

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years. I drank coffee almost every day, but eventually

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the coffee started to irritate my stomach, and

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so I had to stop drinking coffee, and I switched

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to tea. And now I drink all sorts or all kinds

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of tea. I drink black tea. I drink oolong tea.

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I drink jasmine tea. I drink chai tea. My favorite

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drink with tea is a hot chai tea latte. A latte

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is a drink, either tea or coffee. That's made

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with milk and sugar. Sometimes a little cream,

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too. I usually have a cup of tea every morning.

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It helps me wake up. I like the caffeine in the

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morning. It gets me going. However, if I drink

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tea at night, I have problems sleeping. So I

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try to avoid drinking tea. As usual on ESL Podcast,

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we recommend or we suggest that you listen to

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this podcast several times, two, three, four

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times, in order to understand everything that

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we say. Now we're going to talk about... some

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vocabulary that you may have had difficulty with

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or difficulty understanding. The first expression

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used at the beginning of the segment was to give

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in. I said how I gave in when I was in Mexico

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because everyone else around me was smoking.

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To give in means to do something because you

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are pressured somehow or that you receive pressure

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from other people. For example, I ask my sister

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to lend me her car and she says no. And then

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I argue with her. I give her reasons. I beg her,

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I bribe her, I give her money, and eventually

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she gives in and allows me to use her car. So

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to give in means that you are reluctant or you

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don't want to do something, but eventually you

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do. Another expression we used in talking about

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smoking was cold turkey. I said that I quit smoking

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cold turkey. To quit cold turkey means to stop

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completely without ever going back. We often

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use this expression when talking about bad or

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nasty habits, such as smoking and drinking. So

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to quit cold turkey is to stop some vice, some

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habit, some addiction you have completely. Two

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other expressions that we mentioned in our talk,

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can't stand and can't handle. I mentioned that

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I can't stand the smell of smoke. Can't stand

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means or not able to stand. means that you do

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not allow it, you do not tolerate it, you do

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not put up with it. That is to say, for example,

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I can't stand people who shout, meaning I'm very

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bothered by people who shout. I try to get away

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from people who shout. So the expression... Can't

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stand means you can't tolerate, you can't put

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up with. The expression can't handle is a little

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different. To be able to handle something or

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someone means that although that person or thing

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is difficult, get along with that thing or that

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person. So when I said earlier in the talk, I

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can't handle my alcohol, that means that alcohol

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gives me problems, problems that I can't control

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very well. So, well, that's going to wrap it

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up. for this edition of ESL Podcast. We are going

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to come to an end, but we invite you to come

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back tomorrow for another English as a Second

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Language Podcast. Thank you for listening.