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In this episode, get part two of our series on how to describe phases of things in English.
Today, learn how to say that you're in the middle of something and find out why it matters for human connection.
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Hello, Michelle. How's it going today?
Good, Lindsay. Lindsay, are you in the middle of anything right now besides recording, obviously?
maybe a good book maybe a series yeah i'm actually in the middle of i'm not actually in the middle technically but i just started um a another book and you've probably you may have read it um it's called wild i don't know if no i didn't i've heard of it i've seen the movie no no yeah it's a good it's a good story the writing is actually really really good as i it's my second time reading it and as i got started i read the reviews and she really is a great writer yeah cheryl strayed yeah Yeah.
It's your second time reading.
My second time reading it.
Yeah. Because I think the book is better than the movie.
And I just I'm always hunting down books in my house.
I don't plan ahead enough to research what I should read.
So I look on my shelves and think, what can I read?
Yeah. So I just finished a book called The Husbands.
And that was about this.
Maybe I told you this woman who she comes back home one day and she has a husband and then but she never had a husband and then every time the husband goes into the attic they come down as a different person and she keeps on it's a commentary on kind of the swiping uh that we that is now common with dating and just always looking for the next best thing and oh that's not good that's not good so um but now i've started reading um a book called lessons in chemistry so um i'm at the start of that but anyway what i was gonna say is normally i always have to have the next book book lined up yes interesting
okay you don't want to have any dead zones right where you're not reading something i love that well because if i if i lose it like if i lose the momentum then it could be gone for a couple of years literally so so i i remembered that my i didn't want to read i had a couple books on deck that i just happened to have in my house and i decided against them because i wasn't in the mood for anything scary and i only had scary books so i chose the book that my sister -in -law lent me All right.
What about you? What are you reading?
Oh, you already said wild.
Oh my gosh. Wild. It's a good one.
I recommend it for sure.
I'm not quite in the middle of it yet, but you know, that's what we're getting into though.
Right. Michelle today to be in the middle of something, to be kind of halfway through Michelle, what, what exactly are, why are we talking about this today?
Yeah. Well, because we have a series we're in the, actually we're in the middle of a series now actually um about progress and this was uh part one was actually over on the business english podcast and that was the episode just this past week episode 374 was describe your progress getting started um yeah so we're having fun with the series in that episode we spoke about getting ready for something so different vocabulary to say you're about to begin um so guys but we want to make sure that you hit the follow button wherever you're listening.
Hit it on All Ears English.
Also hit it over on Business English because guess what?
The third episode, the third and final episode is going to be back on the Business English.
Okay, good. So we're going back to Business English for the third.
Back to Business. You do need to be following both shows to get the full series, the beginning, the middle, and the end.
I love it. So perfect.
Yes, absolutely. All All right.
So today we are going to talk about how to say that we've already gotten started with something and we're kind of in the middle.
So this can be used for a process that you're doing that you want to express or you want to ask about.
Yeah. It could be used for many different reasons.
But Lindsay, why would this be important, do you think?
Well, I really like it.