Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. Are you looking for an emphatic way to say that something happens way before or way after something else? Today, get a native trick to add to your English to put more energy into what you're saying. Hello, Michelle. Good to see you on the mic. How's it going?
Good to see you too, Lindsay. Everything is good over here.
How are you? I'm feeling great today, Michelle, but I have a question for you. Yes. So do you typically wake up well before you start working or do you just get out of bed in pajama pants, go to your laptop and start working?
That's funny that you say that. So it depends on the day. It depends if I'm working at home or if I'm going out to my husband's office. And so it depends. But I am not one of those people that wakes up and has a peaceful morning and wakes up before my kids. That I don't do.
It's like you see in commercials, like sitting in your picture window with your coffee staring at the sunrise. That's not you, Michelle? That is not me.
I wish you could see it. I wish you could see what my mornings are like. It's not peaceful. It's not good. But we get out the door and then once my kids get dropped off, then I can go and move on.
Yeah, I think a lot of our listeners have kids and families, so they get what you're saying. You know, chaos in the home between 6 and 8 a.m., right? I mean, that's crazy. So Michelle, what are we getting into today?
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Chapter 2: How can you express actions happening well before or after something?
Yes. He said the shipments will be in early... Wow, that's great. Before the deadline? Well before.
Okay. That gives our listeners a little context, right?
Yes. So that is how it was used. And it's one of those situations where I didn't plan it for, you know, with the idea of doing another episode on it. Sure. But we realized when we were reading it, oh my gosh, this is so useful.
Yes.
And that we should do a whole episode on it. So, Lindsay, what did you mean by... well before.
Yeah. So as our listeners probably can see from the context, what I mean by well is what I meant is a lot, like way before the deadline, right? It's not like it's going to be happening right before the deadline. We have a lot of buffer time.
Right.
Yes.
Before I like that buffer time.
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Chapter 3: How can you emphasize timing in business English?
Did she call you by eight? She called me well after eight. It was too late for me.
So there you go. So it's the same meaning. You're conveying the same feeling as when we put it before, but you have some options here. There's another option too, Michelle, which is well ahead of, right? So similar to well before.
Yep, exactly. So, well, since we, well, I didn't realize that I wrote well. Okay, since we're running well ahead of schedule, let's head out early.
And let's show our listeners the intonation difference between the first well, which is just conversational. It's just an opening of a thought, right guys? So don't get confused between these two wells. They're very different. So we could say, well, since we're running well ahead of schedule, let's head out early. Did that feel right, Michelle, to you? Yep. Yeah.
It sounded great. Yeah. Two different wells, two different ways of saying it.
Yeah, exactly. And then there's still one more. One more option. What is it?
Well above or well below. Okay. So it's, I mean, yeah, the idea of much more or much higher. higher or much lower, right? So there are well above 50 people here.
Yeah. Or this fell well below my expectations, right? The work fell. And this is when, let's say at work, you're responding to someone's what they've done, their project. This fell well below. You don't want to hear that from your boss, right? Not good. Okay. Because they're taking the time to say the well, it means it's really bad.
yeah yeah okay yes it's it's more more intense yeah exactly exactly let's do a role play so here I put us at a wedding oh a surprising right not surprising because this is one of the key moments right yeah all right here we go um Oh my goodness, I was almost late. Oh, did you leave before rush hour? Well before. That's odd. So much traffic.
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Chapter 4: What role does intonation play in English communication?
yeah yeah i like that idea yeah without you know um just with by adding that one word a little spark maybe a little drama maybe you're showing a bit of your frustration like you are on the i-5 for way longer than you expected to be right i left well before i needed to but i still sat in traffic i sat in a parking lot and we call heavy traffic a parking lot right michelle yes a parking lot yep
All right. Good stuff. All right. We'll come back to the concept of traffic another day, I'm sure. But for now, Michelle, you have a good rest of your day. Guys, don't forget to go and find the Business English podcast and hit the follow button. All right. All right.
Bye, Lindsay. Bye, guys. Bye.
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