AEE 2561: How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2561, How to Blow Open Your English Vocabulary. Welcome to the All Ears English Podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer. coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA. To get real-time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary list, try the All Ears English app for iOS and Android. Start your seven-day free trial at allearsenglish.com forward slash app.
In this third part of our three-part series, we give three more ways to use below as a phrasal verb. Listen in for interesting vocabulary today.
Picture this. You're part of the conversation. Someone jumps in with a fast comment. Everyone reacts, but you're left behind, still processing the words. It's not that you don't understand English. It's that real conversations don't slow down for you. Slang, speed, tone, it all stacks up fast. The good news, these are trainable skills if you know your English level and what to do to move up. Start by taking our free two-minute fluency quiz to find out exactly what your level is now. Go to allearsenglish.com slash fluency score. That's allearsenglish.com slash f-l-u-e-n c-y-s-c-o-r-e. Hey, Lindsay, how are you? Doing great, Aubrey. How's it going? Excellent. Have you gotten much snow in Denver yet?
Not too much. I think we've had one small storm, but still waiting for the bulk of it. Yeah. Do they get a lot of snow days there? Kind of, but they actually don't plow the streets here, which is really weird to me. They just let the snow sit.
Like you just drive on it.
Yeah, they just expect you to be able to drive in the snow. Whereas in New England, they always plow the streets. Yeah, it's different.
They're in Colorado. Most people have four-wheel drive vehicles.
I know, I guess. Yeah, it's true. It's weird. Aubrey, when you were a kid, did you ever get snow days up in Idaho? No.
Yes, we would get up really early if there had been a blizzard during the night. And there would be huge drifts of snow out on the street. So we knew the buses couldn't come through. And so we would listen to the radio and they would announce the school districts that had closed. And ours was always the last district. To call it. We'd hear all and then finally District 251 finally would. Yes.
It's so funny. I remember the number of my district for that exact reason. I'm listening to the radio. SAU 29. I remember it. So like sitting there and like holding my breath. Are they going to say SAU 29? Fingers crossed.
Yes.
How can you identify your current English level?
Well, this is fun. We are going to talk about blizzards just a bit today because we are doing the third installment of a three-part series with phrasal verbs with the word blow. And yeah, I'm excited for all of these. You can listen to these out of order. So if you miss the other two, stay to the end. We'll share how you can find those. Listen to this one first.
Who knew that this word was so much all over the English language? It's incredible, right? It's true. So we're tackling it here today. So where should we start today, Aubrey?
So each of these has multiple meanings. We're going to start with blow open. And some of these are also not like a phrasal verb. They don't have this figurative meaning, right? So blow open, just a verb with a preposition means being opened by a strong wind, right? Like a sudden gust of wind blew the front door open.
Or the storm was so strong that it blew the windows open during the night. Aubrey, have you ever lived or stayed in a place that has tornadoes like Oklahoma, Nebraska? No, never.
Have you?
Okay. Not really. No, no. I was wondering what that would be like, though. Scary.
No, the sirens, the tornado sirens. I'll see videos, you know, I'm like, that sounds horrifying.
Terrifying, for sure. So, blow open is a physical wind is, you know, releasing something, right?
Exactly, right.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:19
2
How can you identify your current English level?
3:19–6:22
3
What are effective strategies to improve English fluency?
6:22–10:09
4
How do phrasal verbs enhance English vocabulary?
10:09–10:37
5
What does 'blow open' mean in English usage?
10:37–13:29
Speakers
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