Hello, everybody. My name is Coach Shane, and welcome to Easy English Expressions.
Come on, let's master English.
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to daily Easy English Expressions the podcast.
Yes, I know. My podcast has been irregular.
I apologize. It's the end of the busy busy busy busy so let me get today's it's still Friday for me so let me get Fridays tgif expression out and I will tell you next week there may only be one podcast okay so don't be angry it's you know the holiday season so you You know, I'm busy, I'm relaxing, so don't be angry.
So, all right, today's expression.
Do you recognize any of these names?
Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey.
Richard Branson. Richard Branson.
Jack Ma. Jack My. Winton Marsalis.
Winton Marsalis. Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan. One more.
Warren Buffet. Warren Buffet.
Should we do another one?
Yeah. Bill Gates. Let's do that one too.
Bill Gates. Okay. So Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, Jack Ma, Winton, Winston, I always confuse Marcellus, Michael Jordan, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, these people have something in common.
Well many things in common right?
They have lots of money, they're very successful and we all, well most of their names we know.
Oprah Winfrey is an entertainment.
Jack Ma is one of China's most powerful big businessmen.
Richard Branson is one of the UK's most powerful big businessmen.
And when to Marcellus is one of the great jazz musicians, Michael Jordan, a basketball great Warren Buffet, investing investment.
Business grade Bill Gates, computer giants, they're all huge leaders in their area.
and one more thing that they have in common is, as of December 23rd, 2016, they're all alive.
Check out the dialogue.
Uh, when I die, I want to be happy.
When I die, I want to be a living legend.
Um, you need to be alive to be that?
Oh, right, yeah. Oh dear, so the first guy, when I die, I want to be happy.
Yeah, what a great way.
You're getting ready to die, you're almost dying, but you feel happy.
That would be a lovely wonderful way to die.
the next guy says when I die I want to be a living legend okay so if you're dead you cannot be living right so this guy is an idiot yeah the second guy is pretty stupid a living legend somebody who is super popular you know in their area it might just be your country it might just be your town but it might be all over the world somebody who's super popular very powerful very influential and they don't have to be rich I mean look at mother Teresa now she's dead right now but I don't think she was rich right no but she was when she was alive she was a living legend many many people would love to
meet these people these living legends.
Yeah, I want to. I would love to meet Oprah and Richard and Jack and Wint and Michael, Warren, Bill.
I would love to be able to meet these living legends.
They're amazing people.
In fact, I'll be honest, when I die, hopefully many many many years later when I die I hope that I well before I die I should say before I die I hope that I become a living legend.
I hope people around the world thousands of people millions of people will say oh coach Shane what a wonderful man what a great English coach I would love to meet him yeah that's why Why not?
Come on, that's a good dream, right?
Sure. Just online though, yeah.
Okay, so a living legend.
Now, I'm giving you homework.
I would love to hear about a living legend in your country.
Give me the person's name.
Tell us what they do.
And maybe we can find out more information.
Maybe we already know the person, a living legend.
Remember, in order to be a living legend, L -E -G -E -N -D, legend, L -E -G -E -N -D, in order to be a living legend, the person must be alive, okay?
If they're dead, well, they're just a dead legend.
We don't have that expression.
Okay, I have one announcement to make, and this is pretty important.
As you know my birthday was yesterday and so many people sent me a birthday message and it was so wonderful.
I want to say thank you so much to all of you who thought about me, who sent me a message and I sent a special card to everybody who signed up for my lessons over the past couple days and they loved it too.
Now I have another special deal and this is called I don't know the Santa deal two -for -one a special until Christmas until the end of Christmas if you are thinking about signing up for DDM live 17 if you're thinking about that well now is a really good time to join if especially if it's not just you but another person too.
Maybe a friend, maybe a family member, maybe you want to give the gift of DDM.
Well we have an amazing opportunity and it's on our website, www .LetsMasterEnglish .com, in the middle it says two for one special for a limited time.
It's only for DDM, DDMLive 17, that begins in January.
If you have any questions, just go to the website and you can see, on the top it says Course Guide and Sign up, you can just click on that and it talks about the DDM class and you can get all the information you need there, but use that round button if you and a friend or a family member are interested, if you wanna give a gift, come on, education is a fantastic gift.
This is a great opportunity for you and another person to sign up for an unbelievable price, super inexpensive price, and you can study together or you can study apart.
It's up to you. But anyway, it's a very special deal.
only through Christmas Day so just a couple days.
So if you're interested do that now and yeah we'll see if it's popular if a lot of people are popular maybe I'll extend it a day or two but to be honest the price is so low and we've got a lot of teachers that I need to pay a lot of money to so I don't know if I I can keep that up, but for sure, until Christmas, maybe for a day or two more.
Anyway, that's it, check out the dialogue again.
A living legend, are you a living legend?
Yeah. Who's a living legend in your country?
Send us a message, I would love to hear from you.
Christmas is coming up if you celebrate Christmas like me.
Merry Christmas, I hope you have a fantastic Christmas.
I hope Santa Claus comes and visits you make it a special time.
I hope it's a wonderful time And I promise I will have at least one podcast next week before the New Year Thanks so much guys.
Have a fantastic day.
Check out the dialogue a couple more times and together Let's master English When I die I want to be happy When I die, I want to be a living legend!
Umm, you need to be alive to be that?
Oh, oh, right, yeah.
Umm, when I die, I want to be happy!
When I die, I want to be a living legend!
Umm, you need to be alive to be that?
Oh, oh, right, yeah.
