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Today's expression.
To feign something.
To feign something.
Are you feigning sick?
He's feigning sleep.
What does this mean feign?
F -E -I -G -N. To feign something is another way of saying to fake something.
To fake being sick, to fake sleeping.
This is the idea. To play sick or to play dead.
To act like you're sleeping.
To act like you're sick.
This is the idea to feign something.
Now most of us are adults.
Most of you listening to this podcast are adults right?
So do you ever feign a sickness or something like this?
When do we feign something?
We feign something so that we don't have to do something else.
The perfect idea would be children.
Yes children when they don't want to go to school they feign sick.
Right? Absolutely absolutely oh another good example, they say if you are in the forest and you see a bear or some other vicious animal they say you should feign death.
You should pretend that you're dead just lay down on the ground like you're dead." Uh -huh.
Is that a good idea?
I don't know. I've never...
well actually I have met bears in the woods and I ran away.
I did not feign dead.
I ran away. I was lucky.
But yeah, this is the idea.
So, of course, you are an adult.
You never feign sickness or death, right?
What about on Monday morning?
You enjoyed the weekend?
you don't want to go to work many people call the boss oh boss oh my god I'm really sick I was sick the whole weekend and I'm still sick I don't think I'll be able to work today uh -huh or sometimes they feign sickness on Fridays so they can have an early weekend yeah yeah don't do that let's check out the like, Ooh, yeah.
Whoa. Oh, here comes the boss.
He saw us watching the game.
Quick, fain death. Were you men watching the game?
Guys? So bring me my gun.
Let's make sure they're dead.
When you are at the office, you are supposed to work, you are not supposed to watch football games and soccer games and baseball games and whatever.
You're not supposed to watch sports.
These two guys were watching sports.
The boss saw them and they're guilty.
They know they're guilty so they're feigning death.
They're stupid but the boss is going to check to make sure that they're dead he's going to use his gun and shoot them?
Of course it's just a joke.
Yeah, don't don't fain death at work.
Not cool. But be honest, do you ever fain sick?
Some people do that they fain sickness they feign an illness.
Are you feigning sick feigning sickness to not go to work fainting illness to not go to work is actually pretty common lots of people do it so once again do you feign sickness so that you don't have to work or so that you don't have to study or so that you don't have to go to school that's all I want to know and if you do what kind of sickness do you feign.
Is it a cold, is it something more serious?
Oh, boss I think I'm having a heart attack, yeah.
I'm gonna go to the hospital.
Oh, boss, I think I'm going crazy.
I'm gonna go to the hospital.
Yeah, what kind of a illness, what kind of sickness do you feign?
Me, I don't, I don't have to go to work.
I work everyday, so.
But if I did work, uh, yeah, I would feign a cold.
I'm pretty good at that.
Yeah, I can change my voice to sound like I have a cold, I think.
But, once again, I don't lie.
I never lie. The only lying I do is in bed.
To feign something.
To feign death. To feign illness.
To feign sickness. To feign sleep.
Mmhmm. That's what we do.
That's what we do. Many humans.
That's today's expression.
Have a great day. The weekend is here.
Yes TGI F no need to fain an illness you can be healthy all weekend have a safe weekend have a wonderful weekend with your friends and family and Yeah, I'll probably be here tomorrow.
Take everybody listen to the dialogue 2 more times Please practice and together, let's master English Yeah, whoa, oh here comes the boss Quick faint death were you men watching the game guys?
So bring me my gun.
Let's make sure they're dead.
Oh Yeah, whoa oh Here comes the boss Quick faint death Were you men watching the game guys so bring me my gun.
Let's make sure they're dead
