Home For Holidays
ESL Podcast: Many people go home for the holidays and visit their families. Listen to a real life conversation between friends about this. In this ESL podcast you will learn great phrases for daily communication and useful English slang.
HolidaysESL Conversation
| A: How’s life back in the US?B: Lot’s of sitting around. There was a blizzard here a few days ago so I haven’t been able to go outside.
A: How have the workouts been? B: Pretty much non-existent since the first day back. I’ve been making a lot of questionable food choices as well. A: I’m guessing you are spending a lot of time horizontal watching sports in high def? B: That’s essentially all I’ve been doing. I’m hoping I’ll be able to turn things around soon so I don’t come back looking like a pig. A: Just stay out of the cupboards! |
Phrases and Vocabulary used:
Sitting Around: This is a slang phrase that refers to doing very little. If you said “I just sat around all weekend” it means that you didn’t really do anything. You probably just stayed home and watched TV or surfed the internet. You didn’t do anything worth mentioning.
Blizzard: A blizzard is a really bad snow storm. often roads and schools are closed during a blizzard.
Non-existant: this means that they don’t happen. Pretty much “non existant” means that they happen very rarely.
Questionable: If something is “questionable” it means that it is unclear. We often use this word in spoken english to describe a poor decision. If you say, “that was a questionable decision” you probably mean that it was a poor one.
Horizontal: If a person is “horizontal” it means they are lying down. People often lie down on the couch while watching TV. Horizontal is a funny way to describe this.
High Def: This is short for “high definition” TV. This is talking about the new technology that makes some new TV stations very clear.
Turn things around: “Turning things around” means to change a bad situation to a good one.
A company that has been losing money might hire a new CEO to try to turn things around.
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