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All Ears English Podcast

AEE: Draw a Crowd with This High-level Use of a Verb

11 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 25.144 Lindsay McMahon

This is the All Ears English podcast. Draw a crowd with this high-level use of a verb. 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.

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25.124 - 55.131 Lindsay McMahon

with your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl, coming to you from Colorado 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

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55.111 - 69.188 Michelle Kaplan

app the word draw is not just limited to making pictures on a piece of paper there are so many more interesting uses of this word listen in to get a few of them today

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128.045 - 157.275 Lindsay McMahon

Hey there, Michelle, what are you doing today? Oh, nothing much. Lindsay, do you like to draw? Oh my gosh, no, I'm such a bad drawer. Drawer, that's a weird. Drawer, drawer, drawer. Oh, I am too. I hate when it's like Pictionary or something. Oh, I'm so bad at it. Yeah, it's great if I can do a stick finger. Like it's really... Stick figures are like advanced for me. I mean...

157.255 - 176.401 Michelle Kaplan

Yes, exactly. I'm the same way. I'm just not very artistic in that way. But yeah, today we are going to talk about how to use the word draw that doesn't have anything to do with putting crayons or pencils to paper. We're going to talk about it in a different way.

176.521 - 194.343 Lindsay McMahon

Yeah. I mean, it's very relevant to our language in so many different ways. Um, not just playing Pictionary. Thank goodness. Right. Cause my, my Pictionary drawings, if I'm trying to draw a horse, it ends up looking like an elephant or a giraffe or something. I don't know. It's just terrible, Michelle. It's so embarrassing.

195.144 - 208.044 Michelle Kaplan

I, I, I, I'm the same. We would be a horrible team. Um, so, but, but, but it'd be funny. So that's good. Um, So yeah, guys, hit the follow button.

Chapter 2: What unique uses of the verb 'draw' are explored in this episode?

208.766 - 236.229 Michelle Kaplan

But we're going to talk about two ways that we use the word draw, two main definitions. Okay. They're pretty similar. So the one is... to extract, right? So think about you're pulling something out from something else, okay? So these are some really common collocations, expressions that you might hear with this idea in mind. Lindsay, what's the first one?

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236.249 - 254.608 Lindsay McMahon

Yeah, so the first one, draw conclusions, right? right? No, wait. No, the first one is right here. We'll come back to that one. We'll go back to it. I'll come back to it. That's okay. So let me give an example for draw conclusions. Before we draw any conclusions, let's take a look at the facts, right? Yes. Oh, so common in English, that phrase, right?

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254.628 - 265.278 Michelle Kaplan

Yes, exactly. So, you know, we pull out any conclusions. Something has happened. Before we take anything from that, let's look at the facts.

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265.318 - 266.079 Lindsay McMahon

So draw.

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Chapter 3: How does fluency relate to one's identity in English?

266.559 - 268.701 Lindsay McMahon

And what else can you draw from something?

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268.681 - 278.719 Michelle Kaplan

draw inspiration from something. So basically pull out inspiration from something. So I drew inspiration from three of my favorite artists.

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278.979 - 283.888 Lindsay McMahon

Would you say, Michelle, for your music, you draw inspiration from any particular singer?

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285.117 - 312.871 Michelle Kaplan

I mean, I haven't been writing in a long time, but for singers that I like, that I'm inspired by, I mean, of course, Alanis Morissette. You know who I've been listening to now? Just in the car earlier, Rosé. I don't know. Do you know who that is? No. She sang Apatow with Bruno Mars. And I've just been listening to her solo stuff because I think she's from Blackpink. Okay. And it's very good.

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313.011 - 314.893 Michelle Kaplan

So I was all excited about that. Yeah.

314.913 - 330.936 Lindsay McMahon

That's funny. Yeah. I mean, I know a lettuce more said for sure. Her song ironic is one that I've used in classrooms for ESL students to learn about irony. But I feel like when I try to teach that it's always hard. Like I get to the end and I'm like, do I even understand irony? I'm not sure.

330.916 - 346.756 Michelle Kaplan

I know it's irony. I think we've talked about it on the show. It's one of those things that it's I remember and I had to make examples of irony and it's like so it's it's one of those things where it's so hard to make an example. You only know irony when it hits you in the face. It's true. It's true. That's right.

346.776 - 369.58 Lindsay McMahon

Just like. Just like all those examples from the song. So guys, check out a lettuce more set and her song ironic, really fun song. Okay, another thing we can draw is draw strength, right? So this is during her period of unemployment, she drew strength from her spouse and her kids. Some people draw strength from religion or spirituality, right? Yeah, community, all sorts of things.

369.56 - 370.562 Lindsay McMahon

We draw strength from.

Chapter 4: What are some common expressions that use the verb 'draw'?

699.998 - 702.321 Lindsay McMahon

So what are you saying again? Draw interest.

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702.341 - 706.405 Michelle Kaplan

We can attract interest. We can attract interest, you know? Yeah.

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706.385 - 732.101 Lindsay McMahon

um and then i you said we can draw inspiration from that festival so we're going to get inspiration we're pulling out inspiration it's kind of interesting because in each case the draw stands for different verbs right draw interest is to attract interest draw inspiration is to gain inspiration or to get inspiration right So this would actually, it's a very versatile verb. It really would be.

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733.102 - 746.4 Lindsay McMahon

It really is. And guys, it would be a great activity for you to go through the episode again and see how many other verbs you can come up with in each scenario that mean the same thing. That's essentially what is it saying, right? Yeah.

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746.821 - 758.939 Michelle Kaplan

I like that idea. That's a great exercise. What about the last one, Michelle? Yeah. And I said, yes, I think we are really going to draw a crowd. So we are going to attract a crowd.

759.8 - 777.648 Lindsay McMahon

A lot of people are going to come. Or there could be some phrasal verbs that our listeners might come up with that mean the same thing, like pull in a crowd. Yes. Love that. So good. This is a great one today. We're talking about expanding our English, making it more interesting, guys, which always leads to connection. Okay.

777.668 - 789.866 Michelle Kaplan

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Very useful one for today. Also, another really good one to check out is episode 2588. That was we wish for you to master English. Nice.

789.966 - 800.922 Lindsay McMahon

All right, guys, go ahead and do that activity that I mentioned and then go out in the world and use these phrases to build connection in your next conversation. All right. Really good stuff. Awesome.

800.902 - 808.347 Michelle Kaplan

All right, Michelle. All right, Lindsay. Thanks for chatting about this with me today. And I will talk to you soon. All right. Take care. Bye. Bye.

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