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Y I K E S. That's it.
Yikes. Now when do we use this word?
Well we can use it when we're scared.
So for example, a couple months ago, I had the chance to visit the Grand Canyon in America in the state of Arizona.
It was amazing. But as I was walking along a trail, I looked down into the canyon and it's right there.
There's no fence. There's no protection.
it's just down, down, down, down.
I'm not joking, thousands of feet.
Hundreds of meters, it's like so scary.
And when I looked, I said, yikes, oh, yikes.
It was so scary. When I was in high school, I lived in the north and in the wintertime, we always have snow and ice on the roads.
Well one day I was driving and as I was turning left Suddenly my car started to spin on the ice shoo, shoo, shoo I thought oh my God.
I'm gonna hit a tree, and I'm going to die so I said yikes Fortunately nothing happened No accident and the car stopped spinning, and I was lucky, but I was really scared, so I said yikes and we can also use it in more daily situations like in the dialogue check it out Shane I want you to give the opening speech oh okay how long should it be sixty minutes yikes how many people will be there around six hundred yikes you imagine your boss tells you too Create a speech to do a speech for one hour For most people that sounds very scary one hour.
Oh my goodness yikes.
That's huge. That's a scary amount That's oh, that's not easy in front of how many people six people okay?
60 people whoo 600 people yikes.
Oh my god. That sounds really scary.
Yeah absolutely Absolutely, absolutely, it is scary.
When I started doing daily easy English, I was thinking, okay how long should I do this?
Should I do like one month, like 30?
Should I do six months?
Should I do one year?
365 expressions? And then one of my students, his name is Saad, he said, why don't you do a thousand?
So I said, okay, yeah, I'll do a thousand.
100 % but then after I said yes, I was thinking, 1000.
Yikes. That's a lot.
That's not easy. That's kind of a scary number.
Well we're doing it today what is this 342 on the podcast were up to like I don't know 7 over 700 and the videos and we're doing it.
We're almost 2000 for the videos but we got to over two more years to go.
For the podcast so there you go for sure if you like this podcast Don't worry, it's gonna be here for at least another two years Are you gonna be able to listen every day for two years?
Oh? Yikes that sounds like a lot It's kind of scary.
It's a great word when can you use the word yikes?
Hopefully not in such a scary situation, but in kind of a fun situation That's it everybody.
Thank you so much for listening again and together Let's English Shane I want you to give the opening speech. Oh, okay.
How long should it be?
60 minutes yikes How many people will be there?
Around 600 yikes Yikes!
Shane! I want you to give the opening speech!
Oh, ok. How long should it be?
Sixty minutes. Yikes!
How many people will be there?
Around 600. Yikes!