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So you'll often hear it with around with together.
So the key verb is to tinker.
Now listen to the sound tinker, tinker, tinker, tinker, tinker.
You can imagine somebody using a screwdriver with some tools making sounds fixing something to tinker around with something is to fix something or to adjust something to make it better.
So a good example would be my uncle loved to tinker around with his car so my uncle would open up the engine and take apart the engine and fix this and fix that and inside the car he would change the Stereo system, or he would do things he would make adjustments he would fix things he would add Things ADD add things he would tinker around with his car he loved to tinker around with his car do you understand so many people who like to tinker around with things they become engineers it's a natural area for those people or they become a mechanic fixing cars or fixing airplanes or something like that and they
might even become a doctor.
A surgeon opens up the human body.
What are you doing doctor?
I'm just tinkering around.
Oh that's scary. Alright let's check out a dialogue.
What are you gonna do today?
I might tinker around with my blog.
Is there a problem?
Well I want it to look nicer.
Great example, not just engines and things, but you can tinker around with your blog, or you can tinker around with your website.
You can change the colors, change the font, change the size of pictures, change the organization.
This is tinkering around.
There's nothing wrong with your blog or with your website But you just you want to make some changes here and there and see if it looks better To see if people like it.
That's the idea now is tinkering around with something good or bad Well, usually it's harmless.
Sometimes it's really good, but sometimes tinkering around with something can cause problems. So be careful, don't destroy anything.
When I was a child, I wanted to tinker around with my dad's stereo system.
And my dad said stop it, you're gonna break it, never touch it.
And he was probably right.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
So, do you like to tinker around with things?
Tell me, have you ever tinkered around with something or who in your family or who among your friends likes to tinker around?
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issue. Let's check out that dialogue two more times.
What are you gonna do today?
I might tinker around with my blog.
Is there a problem?
Well, I want it to look nicer.
What are you gonna do today?
I might tinker around with my blog.
Is there a problem?
Well, I want it to look nicer.
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