Welcome to english as a second language pod cast number five hundred and sixty one. Dean forgetful er i this is english as a second language pod cast episode five sixty one. I'm your host doctor jeff more quill in. Coming to you from the center for educational development. In beautiful all los angeles california. Go to our website at b. s. l. p. o. d. dot com. Download a learning guide for this episode. That will help you improve your english even faster you can also take a look at r. e. s. l. pot cast store with additional courses in english and r e s l pod cast the log. This episode is called uh. I forgot oh yeah. Dean forgetful. Let's get started ah oh you won't forget how about going over to the long again there tomorrow night really you. It's etch to feed my brain i won't forget. It's slipped my mind last week that we went meeting donna at the movies remember. I was preoccupied last week. But i won't forget about tomorrow night. I'm reminding you because the week before and that you forgot to cash that check at the bank remember attached. I didn't for jacked i was just a little were up up in work fat week. I'm not usually absent minded you know uhhuh right. Do you want me to send you an email tomorrow morning to jog your memory. That won't be necessary i have the day time and even there address committed to memory. Do you want to test me. No i don't but i just want to make sure we don't have a repeat to have what happened last month. He was supposed to meet me at the donnelly act eight o'clock and you've never showed up remember that. No i don't. I have amnesia. I won't remember any other incident you want to throw in my face. I thought last week you said you would stop giving me a hard time about my bad memory remember that. Um no i don't. I guess i've not the only one who's scattered brand ah ah um charlie's begins are dialogue. I think this is the famous actor sure at least faron i'm not sure. By saying you won't forget that were going over to the long's for dinner tomorrow night will you. To forget means not to remember something to have no memory of something. Charlie's is using one of the many ways to ask a question in english using something called a tag question. You won't forget that we're going over to the long for dinner tomorrow night will you. Pizzas it's etched in my brain. Something that is act he t. c. h. e. d. in your brain means that you have memorized it. You have permanently written it down in your mind so that you cannot possibly forget it. Sometimes we use that expression for very happy things sometimes for very sad things. Pizzas i won't forget sure at least responds it slipped your mind last week that we were meeting donna at the movies remember. To slip s. l. i. a. p. your mind means to forget something. Not to remember something john said i was supposed to get married this afternoon but it's slipped my mind just forgot all about it. Pizzas i was preoccupied last week but i won't forget about tomorrow night. To be preoccupied means to be worried about something else to be thinking about something else. We might also say to be distracted. Charlie says i'm reminding you because the week before that meaning two weeks ago. You forgot to take cash that check at the bank. To remind if someone means to help someone remember something. To remember to do something by telling them perhaps over and over or sending them an email don't forget to do this. Sure at least is reminding p because he forgot to cash a check at the bank. To cash a check means to go into a bank with a piece of paper called a check give it to the person working at the bank. And in exchange they give you back money. Sure at least mentions call pete forgot to cash this check two weeks ago and then asks him remember that do you remember. Pizzas i did and forget. I was just a little wrapped up in work that week. To be wrapped w r a p. p. e. d up in something. Means to be very busy with something to be very involved in a certain task a certain thing that you are doing. The word wrap has a couple of different meanings in english take a look at the learning guide for some more information. It says. I'm not usually absent mine did you know. To be absent mine did. One word. Means to be forgetful to be easily distracted. Not to be able to remember things. There's an old expression about the absent minded professor. Yeah ideas that university professors are so busy with their intellectual tasks but they forget to do basic things like get their car washed or. Buy food to make dinner. That would be in absent minded professor. Well here pete is saying that he is not absent minded actually says i'm not usually absent minded you know. Surely says right. She says right which would normally mean i agree with you but when you say at a certain way it means the opposite i don't believe you i don't agree with you. Often people will say yeah right. That means i don't believe you. Well charlene says right she doesn't believe him. Then asks him do you want me to send you and email tomorrow morning to jog j o g your memory. To jog someone's memory means to remind someone of something to help someone remember something. If you are going out early tomorrow morning and you don't want to forget your lunch you may put a little note on the door that says bring lunch. That notes will jog your memory you will remind you of what you are supposed to do surely is is offering to send to pete an email to jog his memory about their dinner. At the long's tomorrow night. Pizzas that won't be necessary no you do not need to do that. I have the day time and even their address committed to memory. When we say something is committed to memory. It's similar to the previous expression etched in my brain it means you memorized it you know what so well you can repeat it without even looking at it. Most americans have committed to memory for example certain patriotic songs because they've heard them so often they know of them. We would say by heart they have them memorized pete then asks sure lease do you want to test me do you want me to answer questions so that i can prove that i know. Surely says no i don't. But i just want to make sure we don't have eh repeat of what happened last month. Eh repeat of something is when something happens again just like it did before. We what also use the word read currents it occurs or it happens again. Sure lease says you we're supposed to meet me at the dot always. At eight o'clock and you never showed up. Pete was supposed to meet sure at least. At the dot always notice if we're talking about someone's house especially a family in a house. Well off and use the form of ah. And the name of the person with an s at the end. We're going over to them a quill and. We're going over to them a quill in house but how's that belongs to the family named look well and. There isn't apostrophe before the s. so what would be look willing apostrophe which is like a little comma but up above the word and then the s it indicates possession. We're really sane them a quill ends house. Pete was supposed to show up but didn't he never showed up. To show up is it frees over meaning to arrive at a particular place. At a particular time to go somewhere when you are expected. My friend told me that we would meet at the cafe at three o'clock but i waited for an hour and she never showed up. Show has many different meanings including other phrase over you can get more information in this episodes learning died. Surely says remember that. Pete says no i don't. I have amnesia. A and and eat s i a. And he's yeah it is. A medical condition where you can't remember what happened. During a certain period of time usually this is because you were hit um ahead. Or had a very frightening experience you might forget everything you might even forget who you are and where you live that would be a serious case of amnesia. Pizzas. I don't remember because i have amnesia he's probably joking of course. He then says i won't remember any other incident any other event anything else that happened. You want just throw in my face. I won't remember any other any additional incident you want to throw in my face or that you will throw in my face. To throw something in someone's face means to remind someone of something. Especially if it's something that the person wants to forget but you keep reminding them usually it's something bad that happened or something that. Someone did wrong they made a mistake and you keep throwing that mistake in their face you keep reminding them that's what p think sure leases doing he says i thought last week. You sure at least said you would stop giving me uh hard time about my dad memory. To give someone a hard time means to do or say things. That make the other person feel uncomfortable to make a joke about them. We would also use the verb here to tease t e a s p to make jokes about something that someone did wrong. Pizzas remember that remember when you said you weren't going to give me a hard time shortly says uh no i don't. Pete then says. I guess i'm not the only one who's scattered brand. To be scattered rained is similar to to be absent minded. You're unable to focus your easily distracted you are constantly forgetting things that would be someone who is scattered brand. Now let's listen to the dialogue this time at a normal speed ah oh he won't forget then we're going over to the long for dinner tomorrow night like you. It's etched in my brain i won't forget. It's thinking mine last week that we were meeting down at the movies remember. I was preoccupied last week but i won't forget about tomorrow night and reminding you because believe you find that you forgot to cash that tack at the bank remember that. I didn't forget i was just a little wrapped up in work that week i'm not usually absent minded you know. Right do you want me to send you an email tomorrow morning to jog your memory. That won't be necessary i have the date time and even their address committed to memory do you want to test me now i don't and i just want to make sure we don't have a repeat of what happened last month. He was supposed to meet me at the donnelly eight o'clock you never showed up remember that. No i don't i have amnesia. I won't remember any other into that you want if you're on my face. I thought last week you said you were going to stop giving me a hard time about my bad memory remember that. Um no i don't i guess i'm not the only one who scattered brand ah ah if you listen to our pod cast regularly. You should know who the script writer was it should be etched in your mind by now. It's doctor lucy say in case it slipped your mind. From los angeles california i'm jeff smoke will and thank you for listening come back and listen to us again here on. Yeah so part cast which is the second one fog houses minimum produce probably doctors as you say host doctor jel coverage thousands and by the center for educational development now huh oh
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