English Questions

Are you English? On the contrary, I'm Irish, Beckett

Then I'm having some of your fries (pause)

'Cause I'm kinda sick. Like everyone knows I'msick and everyone is freaked out about it and no one comes here and brings - what is that? (Points to his bag.)

Why would I help you? In what planet in what universe would I help with a school project when I'm not, in fact, in school right now. Like at all.

I try not to overstep the bar => I try not to overstep the mark/line

if it's so bad, it'd be banned (McDonalds) => if it were so bad, it would've been banned (mixed conditional) (it's better here)

out and about ( now that Covid cases are decreasing, I definitely see more people .....)

Meet and greet ( the annual financial conference starts on Saturday, and there's a ..... for all the presenters on Friday evening)

Peace and quiet (When I get home from a hectic day at work, I need some piece and quiet)

Bright and early ( I need to leave ... tomorrow for an important meeting at work)

Fair and square ( Most americans think president Biden won the election ...

So rather than being a problem with time management, Sam should blame her caveman ancestors who acted ____________.

But maybe, also like Sam, Eshaan has a problem organising his ____________ and managing his time.

Neil Well, ____________ the task into smaller stages also breaks down the level of threat you feel from your workload. Also, forgiving yourself for procrastinating in the past seems helpful in avoiding procrastinating in the future.

Eshaan Akbar A lot of stuff you read about procrastination focuses on the time ____________ of it...

Sam Unlike Eshaan, I'd rather finish my work feeling ______, but there never seems to be enough time.

Okay, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned from this programme on ____________ - delaying, or putting off, doing things until later, often because they're difficult, unpleasant or boring.

Neil ____________ means a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction.

Sam __ behaviour is sudden and spontaneous, done without thinking about the consequences.

Sam And finally, when you have ______ of something, you have a lot of a very large amount of something pleasant.... like time, which once again we've run out of. I'm rushing off to finish my work, Neil, but remember to make time to join us again soon, here at 6 Minute English. Bye for now!