AEE 2659: Don’t Be Thrown Off By This Vocabulary
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2659. Don't be thrown off by this 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 hosts, Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl, and Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, coming to you from Arizona and New York City, 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.
Does your schedule often get derailed? Today we answer an amazing listener question and teach four phrases for plans being interrupted. Have you ever walked away from a conversation thinking, wait, what did they just say? Native speakers speak fast. They interrupt. They use slang. They don't speak textbook English. If you sometimes feel one step behind, you're not alone and you're not incapable. You just need targeted listening training. The first step, find out your exact level and where the breakdown is happening. Take our quick free fluency quiz at allearsenglish.com slash fluency score. Again, that's allearsenglish.com slash F-L-U-E-N-C-Y-S-C-O-R-E. Hello, Michelle. How are you today? Hi, Aubrey. I'm doing well.
Good to see you. How are you?
I'm great. I have a question for you. When is the last time your schedule got thrown off?
Happens a lot, right? Yes. Especially lately. Yeah, so I would say a lot of times, you know, with my kids, like, I'll... Well, we were just talking about this, Aubrey, maybe, you know, starting to have to actually write things down because now... My kids are starting to do like they each have an extracurricular activity. She does dance. He does. He does Little League. So it's trying to balance all of those things. So there's definitely been times where I'm like, oh, my gosh, what's it get all confused?
Yeah, I have to share. So Open Conversation Club is a couple of times a week and anyone in our community can join. So a lot of you out there listening, you come often to Open Conversation Club. It's been so fun getting to know everyone. And last week I was supposed to start a call at 1 p.m. And my schedule had gotten thrown off. We had to take a car to the shop and some things had to happen that were sort of out of the ordinary. And I had an alarm go off on my phone five minutes before at 1255 my time. That's like start the open conversation call. And I was 10 minutes from home. I was like, oh, no. So I'm driving and I called my husband and I said, can you start this Zoom call and just say hello to everyone and tell them I'll be there in five minutes?
And so he did. And I think it was really fun for everybody to meet my husband. Actually, I was glad he was available to do that because it means a lot to me that I like start that on time and everyone can count on us being there and starting it on time. So but it's just like you just never know. Some things just happen that throw off your schedule.
That is definitely true. Yes, that definitely happened. So we're talking about this guys because we got a really great question about phrases for someone's schedule being interrupted.
How does the episode introduce the problem of schedules getting thrown off?
So guys, if you follow us on social media, you saw a sneak peek for this episode several weeks ago. And remember that you should definitely follow us on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.
Yes, because if you miss that, you're missing amazing posts. Michelle and I both post interesting vocabulary phrases, really fun stuff on social media. There are also podcast clips. So follow us wherever you have social media, whichever platform you love or all of them. And sometimes we answer student questions there as well, like this one. I knew we were recording in advance and I wanted to answer this question right when we got it or as close as we could. So I posted about this a while ago and today we're doing the episode I promised where we're going to do a deeper dive into these phrases with examples and a role play.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:12
2
How does the episode introduce the problem of schedules getting thrown off?
4:12–8:35
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What real-life examples do the hosts share about unexpected interruptions?
8:35–17:01
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What listener question sparked this episode and why does it matter?
17:01–18:00
Speakers
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