Kayla (English With Kayla)

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882 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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English Vocabulary Help · Listen and Repeat: SPEAK with me in English · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

Here, we're just saying that even though the first part of our day was rough, or we could say difficult, or things weren't going right, meaning we were late, we forgot things, whatever it might be, there was some sort of problem, we're putting a positive spin on our answer here and saying the day got better or was more positive in the end.

It was busier than I expected.

Here we're saying that our expectations were surpassed.

And again, it's not being super negative, like you were complaining about being busy, but you were surprised at how busy you were.

And you were just saying, you know, you had lots to do.

It's really common to talk about your work and your everyday life like this.

Something is busier than you expected.

I got a lot done today.

I love this phrase because I love the idea of being very productive and getting lots of tasks done today.

It's very optimistic.

It's very positive to say, I got a lot done today.

I was putting out fires all day.

Here in this phrase, if you're putting out fires, it means you're solving problems.

It's a very dramatic phrase that we use a lot in the workplace here in the United States to say that, you know, we're solving lots of different problems for different people.

And it feels like it's back to back to back solving all of these problems.

I was juggling a bunch of different things.

If you're juggling different things, it means that you are doing more than one thing at the same time, or you're trying to, you know, be very busy, get lots of things done, but it feels like everything's happening at the same time.

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