AEE: How to Use Necessary Evils to Bond in English
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What does it mean to use necessary evils to bond in English?
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, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. What are the necessary evils in your life? Today learn how to talk about the things you don't want to do but have to do to build better connection in English.
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Hello, Michelle. How's it going today?
Everything is good, Lindsay. How are you?
I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. Michelle, what do you consider to be a necessary evil in your life?
I would for sure say the laundry. We kind of touched on this recently in a Business English episode. But yeah, it's the first thing that pops in my head. It's a necessary evil. I have to do it if I want my family to wear clothes. That's right. Which is a good thing in modern society, right? Yes, it's important. I think, you know, it's really, it's necessary, right? Yes, yes. But it just doesn't, it never stops. What about you, Lindsay? What's a necessary evil in your life?
I can't remember what I said when we talked about this before, but anything... around like maintaining at home, the house, cleaning up, you know, like grocery shopping, I would say is a necessary evil, right? Because I wish someone could just do it for me, but that's just not where I'm at in life. So I go to the grocery store.
Yeah. Yep, exactly. Well, recently with groceries, I've been doing just like the pickup, which has been really nice. I mean, it's $5, which is a good- Yeah. So I pay five dollars. I save all this time. But sometimes if I can't get a pickup slot, then I have to go in with my kids.
What are some examples of necessary evils in everyday life?
And my daughter goes around with a teeny tiny card and it's very cute. But then we end up buying things I don't want.
So anyway, like fancy cheeses in the card and putting all kinds of things in our little cart.
Yeah. She like picked up like a giant salami the other day that I didn't. And like so I end up a bit like, OK, sure. And then I put then I put everything back anyway. Right. Yeah, so this expression, unnecessary evil, did come up in a recent Business English episode. And it's so useful. And we said, we better do a whole episode on this. So that's what we're going to do today. We'll give you that Business English episode towards the end. Yes. And so that you can listen to that as well. But before we get started, guys, we want to make sure that you hit follow wherever you're listening to the All Ears English podcast. And while you're at it, because I mentioned Business English, if you haven't listened to Business English, definitely go on over there, search for it wherever you're listening to your podcast and hit follow there as well.
Yeah, 100%. Guys, you want to be following both shows so you don't miss a single thing from All Ears English. So, Michelle, what exactly does it mean to say that something is a necessary evil?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:15
2
What does it mean to use necessary evils to bond in English?
0:15–1:55
3
How can focusing on connection improve your English skills?
1:55–3:36
4
What are some examples of necessary evils in everyday life?
3:36–16:00
5
How do necessary evils contribute to personal connections?
16:00–17:59
6
What are common necessary evils people face in their lives?
17:59–19:05
Speakers
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