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episode day after day and very soon you'll step back and look at the huge tower that you've made.
So I encourage you to just tune in on a regular basis to keep that tower growing so that over time you start to feel more like yourself when communicating in English.
So let's begin today's episode, as we always do, with a snapshot.
Ruby was meticulously checking the contract details when a cold caller rang, trying to persuade her to switch energy suppliers with unsolicited advice about saving money.
You should look before you leap, her grandmother had always told her.
So Ruby politely declined and decided to research the company properly properly first. The next morning she discovered the company had terrible reviews online and felt grateful she hadn't been rushed into making a hasty decision.
Let's now deep dive into some of that vocabulary.
The first word on our list is an adjective and it is unsolicited, unsolicited, unsolicited.
Unsolicited refers to something, usually advice or some sort of information that is unwanted or at least hasn't been requested.
So if someone makes a phone call to you and tries to sell you something thing or if some mail comes through your door or if you get a text message or a WhatsApp message and you didn't ask for those messages, you didn't ask for that communication, then that is unsolicited.
I often get phone calls from people asking me to consider certain insurance or to who consider a new product and I have no interest in those products whatsoever.
And so for me they are unsolicited phone calls and I find it very annoying.
Very annoying indeed.
So here's an example sentence using unsolicited.
Please be careful when clicking on unsolicited pop -up ads.
They often turn out to be scams. The next word on our list is an adverb and it is meticulously.
Meticulously. Meticulously means in a way that shows great care and attention to detail.
So, if you're very, very detailed and you really pay close attention to something while you're doing it, then you're doing it meticulously.
Here's an example sentence.
After being conned by the car insurance firm last year, I always meticulously read the full terms of my contracts, even the small print.
Okay, number three on our list is a noun and it is cold caller.
A cold caller. A cold Cold caller is a person who calls or visits you and tries to sell you something, just like the people I told you were giving me unsolicited phone calls.
They tried to sell something to me when I haven't even made a request for that call.
Here's an example sentence.
The number of cold callers who have contacted me about my accident claim is ridiculous.
ridiculous i'd like to know where they get their information from now that that example sentence does ring true because i have had several people call me saying i'm calling about your accident claim you had an accident recently in your car i'm like no i didn't and they're just trying to find someone who has has an accident they pretend to try and get in get you to use their services Number four on our list is the verb persuade.
Persuade. This has an unusual spelling.
So listen to the pronunciation.
Persuade. Persuade.
It sounds like it's got a W in there, but it doesn't.
But we sound that sound.
Sw. Swade. To persuade is to make someone do or believe something by giving them a good reason to do so.
So, if I'm trying to persuade my cat to come out from underneath the sofa, then I might persuade the cat with some yummy food.
Or by rolling a toy to invite the cat to play, I persuade him to come out.
Here's an example sentence.
sentence. I tried to persuade my friend not to buy from that stranger on Facebook marketplace, but she didn't listen and they stole her money.
Okay, there's a theme here.
Can you spot the theme?
So finally, number five on our list is an idiom, to look before you leap.
Now, to look before you leap, can you guess what it means?
It means that you check that the action you're going to take will not be problematic, that it won't lead to a bad outcome before you try doing it.
You know, it's literally like going to the edge of a cliff and looking over the edge to see if there is a safe place to land before you leap off the cliff.
So you literally look down before you jump, rather than just blindly jumping and hoping for the best, which many of us do at at times in life, don't we?
We don't know what the outcome will be, but we just leap.
We just take the decision to do something without fully researching or understanding what we're doing.
So we need to look before we leap.
Here's an example sentence.
I really need to look before I leap in future.
I just committed to a £3 ,000 holiday, which I can't afford. And now I can't get out of it.
So that was our five for today.
Let's go through them again.
We had the adjective unsolicited, meaning unwanted.
We have meticulously to do something showing great care and attention to detail.
We had cold caller, a person who is uninvited, but gets in touch with you anyway, way, trying to sell something.
We have the verb persuade, which is to try and get you to do or believe something.
And we had the idiom look before you leap.
So check before making a decision to act.
Now for pronunciation, listen and repeat.
Unsolicited. Meticulously.
Cold caller. Persuade.
Look before you leap.
OK, let's listen to our snapshot once again.
Ruby was meticulously checking the contract details when a cold caller rang, trying to persuade her to switch energy suppliers with unsolicited advice about saving money.
You should look before you leap, her grandmother had always told her.
so Ruby politely declined and decided to research the company properly first. The next morning, she discovered the company had terrible reviews online and felt grateful she hadn't been rushed into making a hasty decision.
OK, let's bring all of those words and phrases together in a little story.
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This is the year of getting And you can get started now by saving when you join today.
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And you can work out your way on your time at any convenient location near you.
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So let's do this. Join Planet Fitness today and save. Just $1 down, $15 a month.
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tales. When we started writing our thoughts down on paper, it opened up endless possibilities.
Ideas could grow beyond the borders of the mind, and it changed the world.
Somewhere along the way, we lost touch with paper.
Distracted by devices made for every purpose except for thinking and focus.
On edge, waiting for the next notification.
But what if new technology didn't pull us away from paper, but brought us closer to it.
Listen. That's not paper.
It's the sound of the new Remarkable Paper Pro, rewriting the future, a paper tablet with a true color ink display, gentle reading light, and unheard -of tactility with digital features for taking notes, thinking and organizing without any distractions.
Paper is about to change the world again.
Get your paper tablet at remarkable .com today.
Maria was always shopping.
On the phone, on the internet, in town.
She spent money like there was no tomorrow, and she didn't give it a second thought until one day she received an unsolicited email.
Drawn in by the flashy heading, description of the islands and the shiny images of a dream holiday for a bargain price, Maria clicked on the link.
When she reached the website, the temptation to book now grew stronger.
Idyllic beaches, crystal clear seas, swaying palm trees, a water bungalow, all inclusive food and drink at only £500 for seven nights for four people, including flights.
This was a dream come true.
Maria, who usually reads through terms and conditions meticulously, couldn't help herself.
She clicked book now, entered her personal and made the £500 payment on her debit card. The next day, another payment for £2 ,700 was taken from her account.
The £500 she paid up front was just a deposit.
For the next seven days, Maria was bombarded by cold callers trying to sell her insurance, luxury holidays, travel money and car hire.
Why did she let her shopaholic heart persuade her to buy that holiday?
Oh, Maria, why don't you ever learn to look before you leap, she shouted at herself.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the end of your English five a day.
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