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Hello, and welcome to the English Like a Native podcast. My name is Anna, and you're listening to week 25, day 2 of Your English Five A Day, the second season.
I am on a mission to help you to feel more like yourself when communicating in English.
I do that by giving you the opportunity to build a habit of daily dunking into the English language every day from Monday to Friday.
So all you have to do is turn up, tune in and listen.
If you'd like to get access to all of the vocabulary so that you can revise and review the vocabulary we've covered, then you can by joining the Vocabulary Vault, our free database that we fill in for you.
I'll leave a link in the show notes, but let's now begin today's episode with our snapshot.
I slammed the brakes.
Emergency urgency stop, just in time to avoid the fallen tree trunk blocking the road.
Jess tugged at the door.
It's jammed, we scrambled out the other side.
Unless you've got a TARDIS, we're walking, I said.
Jess handed me an energy bar.
This should tide us over until we find help.
OK, that was our snapshot, so let's now dive into the vocabulary starting with the noun emergency stop.
Emergency stop. Two words.
Emergency. E -M -E -R -G -E -N -C -Y.
Y. Emergency stop, S -T -O -P.
An emergency stop is a sudden and quick stop, especially in a vehicle, to avoid danger.
When you do your driving test in the UK, you have to do an emergency stop.
So at some point, the instructor will tell you that an emergency stop is coming and that you you must slam on the brakes at the point where they tap the dashboard. And they see how quickly you react and are you able to do an emergency stop without stalling the car?
At least that's what I had to do during my driving test. Have you ever had to do an emergency stop?
stop? Here's an example sentence.
The bus driver made an emergency stop when a dog ran onto the road.
Next, we have the noun tree trunk.
Tree trunk. Two words, tree, t -r -e -e, trunk, t -r -u -n -k.
The tree trunk is the thick main stem of a tree.
Some tree trunks can be incredibly thick.
Some tree trunks you can easily wrap your arms around.
Some tree trunks are even hollow.
I recently visited a National Trust venue.
It was a stately home and gardens.
gardens and there were many trees there that had really fun, slightly hollow tree trunks and the children were able to climb inside some of these tree trunks and play.
Here's an example sentence.
A bird was building a nest in the hollow of the tree trunk.
Next Next, we have the adjective jammed.
Jammed. We spell this J -A -M -M -E -D.
Jammed. If something is jammed, then it's stuck tightly and unable to move.
A door or window may be jammed if it's stuck and cannot move.
My son recently had a toy which broke because the button or the trigger trigger for the toy was jammed and we were unable to then activate the toy.
It was a cheap plastic toy that he'd received in a party bag.
So that was jammed and I said, I don't think I can fix it.
It's jammed. It's really, really stuck.
You can also get yourself jammed, get yourself stuck stuck and be unable to move.
Here's an example sentence.
His fingers were jammed between the door and the frame.
Ouch. That sounds painful.
OK, next we have the noun TARDIS.
TARDIS. We We spell this T -A -R -D -I -S.
For those of you who are fans of the TV show Doctor Who, this may be familiar to you.
It's basically a time machine from that TV show Doctor Who that looks like a police box and it can travel anywhere in time and space.
place. A TARDIS is also bigger on the inside than it appears to be from the outside.
So if someone describes a place as being like a TARDIS, then they're suggesting that it's much bigger on the inside than it seems to be from the outside.
I used to describe my Fiat Panda as a TARDIS.
You would look at my Fiat Panda and think, you can't get much in there.
But actually, I moved house using this Fiat Panda, and I knew for certain that I could cram all sorts of things into it.
I even managed to move a full desk.
And it wasn't a desk that you could break down into different parts.
It was a full wooden desk, fully built.
I managed to get it into the back of my my Fiat Panda, albeit I couldn't close the boot door.
So I had the back of my car was open with the desk sticking out, but still you could fit a lot into the boot of my Fiat Panda.
It was like a TARDIS, but the TARDIS can also travel anywhere in time and space, which is how we used it in the snapshot today.
So, here's an example.
The TARDIS is bigger on the inside than it looks outside.
Last today, we have the phrasal verb tied someone over.
To tide someone over.
So, tide over is the phrasal verb.
Tide, we spell T -I -D -E over O -V -E -R.
To tide someone over is to help someone to get through a difficult time, usually by giving them a small amount of money or food until more is available.
For example, if I'm unable to pay my rent one month because of difficult times and I'm also unable to buy food and I come to you and say I'm really struggling.
Can you help me? And you'd say of course let me give you a little money to tide you over.
This will just help you this month to pay your rent and buy some food and then And hopefully next month, you'll be able to cover your costs yourself.
So, you give me some money or even some food to tide me over, to help me get through this difficult time.
So, I might say, can you lend me some money to tide me over until payday?
Okay, so that's our five.
Let's do a quick recap.
We started with the noun emergency stop.
An emergency stop. This is a sudden and quick stop usually in a vehicle to avoid danger.
You do an emergency stop.
Then we had the noun tree trunk which is the thick main stem of a tree.
The tree trunk. We had the adjective jammed which means means stuck tightly and unable to move, jammed.
We had the noun TARDIS, which is a time machine from the TV show Doctor Who that looks like a police box and can travel anywhere in time and space.
A TARDIS. And we had the phrasal verb tied over.
To tide someone over is to help them get get through a difficult time by giving them money or food until more is available.
You tied them over.
Let's now do this for pronunciation purposes.
Please repeat after me.
Emergency stop. Emergency stop.
stop. Tree trunk. Tree trunk.
Jammed. Jammed. Tardis.
Tardis. Tied someone over.
Tied someone someone over.
Fantastic. Okay, if I'm in the car and I'm driving down the road and I see that a tree has fallen and it's the thick main part of the tree that's across the road, what part is that?
the tree trunk. Yes and because the tree trunk is blocking the road I need to quickly halt the vehicle.
What noun would we use to describe this sudden halt that I have to perform in order to avoid danger?
danger. An emergency stop.
Yes, that situation calls for an emergency stop.
Now, because of this tree trunk, there's now a row of traffic, a huge long queue of traffic, and I cannot move forward and I cannot move backward because of this situation.
So you could say that my car is is stuck and unable to move.
What adjective could I use?
It's jammed. My car is jammed.
I can't move anywhere because of this traffic jam caused by this tree trunk.
Now, if I want to talk about a time machine that can travel anywhere in time and space that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, what noun would I use referencing a popular TV show.
A tardis, very good, a tardis.
And finally, if I need someone to help me by giving me a small amount of food until my next meal, what am I asking them to do?
What phrasal verb could I use?
Tied me over. Yes, please tide me over till dinner time.
I'm so hungry and I have no food.
Could you help? Tied me over.
Fantastic. OK, let's revisit our snapshot briefly.
I slammed the brakes.
Emergency stop. Just in time to avoid the fallen tree trunk blocking the road.
Jess tugged at the door.
It's jammed. We scrambled out the other side.
Unless you've got a TARDIS, we're walking, I said.
Jess handed me an energy bar.
This should tide us over until we find help.
Okay, now I'd like you to listen out for our our target vocabulary once more as we head into story time.
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The road was quiet that evening, the sun setting behind the hills and casting long shadows over the trees.
Leah was driving home after a long day at work, her mind drifting through the plans for the weekend.
She barely noticed the curve ahead until it was too late.
Suddenly a deer darted across the road.
Leah slammed on the brakes, making an emergency stop.
Her heart pounding as the car screeched and skidded on the wet leaves.
For a moment it felt like time slowed down, like she was inside the TARDIS from Doctor Who, everything around her moving in slow motion while she desperately tried to regain control.
But the car didn't stop.
It spun, sliding towards the edge of the road and crashing against a massive tree trunk.
The impact shook the whole vehicle and Leah was thrown forward, her seatbelt holding her tight.
The door was jammed.
She tried to open it, but it wouldn't budge.
Breathing hard, she reached for her phone, but there was no signal.
Panic started to rise, but she forced herself to stay calm.
She knew she had to think clearly.
Leah looked around the car.
The windows were cracked but still held firm.
Outside, the forest was quiet except for the distant sound of water.
Maybe if she could get out through a window, she could find help.
She grabbed the emergency hammer she kept in the glove box and smashed the side window.
Glass shattered and the cold air rushed in.
She climbed out carefully, her legs stiff but not broken.
Walking through the trees, she soon found a small stream.
The water looked clean and fresh.
She filled her bottle and took a long drink, trying to tide herself over until someone came.
Hours passed. The sky darkened and Leah wrapped her jacket tighter around her.
She thought about her family, her friends and all the things she'd left unfinished.
She wished she could call them, but the phone was useless here.
Then, just when she was starting to lose hope, she heard a distant engine.
A car appeared on the road, headlights cutting through the night.
Leah waved her arms and shouted until the driver stopped Ah, help had arrived Later, in the hospital, Leah learned how lucky she was The car was badly damaged but she had only minor injuries She remembered the emergency stop and how close she had been to disaster The tree trunk had stopped her from sliding off the cliff just beyond the road As she rested, she thought about how fragile life could be and how important it was to appreciate every moment.
The accident was terrifying but it taught her something important.
Sometimes you have to slow down, pay attention and be grateful for the small things.
And sometimes a little help is all you need to get through the hardest times.
And that brings us to the end of today's episode.
I do hope you found it useful and I hope that you have no need for an emergency stop.
Until tomorrow, take very good care and goodbye.
