Hello, English learners. Welcome back to another lesson with us at EnglishPod.
My name is Marco. And I'm Erica. And today we don't feel very good.
That's right. Actually in this lesson we're talking about a hangover.
Hangover, wow, that's an interesting word.
What does that mean? Well, when you drink beer or wine or vodka and you drink too much of it, The next morning, you have a hangover.
Okay, so a lot of our listeners have probably experienced the hangover before. it's very likely but the problem is when you have to go to work the next day Yes, and you might need to actually miss work, but you need some good words and phrases to describe how bad you feel.
Okay so let's listen to this dialogue for the first time.
We have a guy describing his hangover and why he missed work that day.
Are you okay, man? You don't look very well.
I feel terrible. I went out last night with Trevor and things got a little out of hand.
Nice. So where did you guys go? We hit up a couple of local bars and met up with some friends.
Everything was cool until Mike came along and it turned out that it was his birthday yesterday.
Oh, no. Mike's birthday is a drink fest for sure.
Tell me about it. We drank everything in the bar.
Is that why you missed work today? Yeah, I woke up this morning feeling really nauseous.
I threw up like five times. Ew. I was so dehydrated that I drank a gallon of water and my head has been pounding all day.
I swear, I am never going to drink again.
Too bad, man. Tonight is Tracy's going away party and she asked if you were going to go.
Oh yeah? I'm there. Alright, so he's never drinking again, but then at the next chance for a party, he's already ready to go.
I think that's the typical lie of every person that drinks.
They say, I'll never drink again, but a week later or a month later, there they are again.
Or a day later. All right, so we saw some great vocab here, so let's look at it now in Language Takeaway.
Language Takeaway going to look at five words here.
Now, the first one, they talked about how Mike's birthday is a drink fest. a drink fast it's a drink fast alright so we have this word drink fast now what is this fast part Well, maybe you recognize the word Oktoberfest.
Okay, or festival. So fest is like a party.
There's lots of food. There's lots of drink.
A drink fest is an event where there's a lot of drinks.
Okay, so can I have different types of fests?
Yeah, this is a really informal sort of slang way of saying there's lots of something.
So I could say, oh, my God, it's a puppy fest.
So there are a lot of puppies. Or I can say like a fast food fest.
Okay. So you're eating a lot of fast food.
There's a lot of fast food. Yep. All right, so fast.
Interesting. Now, when he was describing his hangover, he said that he felt really nauseous.
Nauseous? Now, I always have a hard time spelling this word.
So N-A-U-S-E-O-U-S. Nauseous. nauseous it kind of seems like you should say nauseous right but but you say nauseous yeah okay so when you're feeling nauseous what do you feel like So you feel dizzy, you don't feel very well.
Like your stomach hurts. Yeah, and your head is kind of spinning.
Okay, and you feel like you might throw up.
Right, exactly. Now, this word that you just mentioned, throw up, is actually our next word.
And, well, we're not going to describe it.
Why don't we just... listen to a person throwing up.
Oh, Marco, that was horrible. Well, that's the only way we could actually explain throw up.
I mean, it's kind of a hard word to explain.
I'm sure everyone understands now what it means, right?
Okay. The word is to throw up. To throw up.
To throw up. Our next word, now our guy who's hungover, he said, I was so dehydrated. dehydrated to be dehydrated so this is an adjective and it means that I have no water in my body exactly Okay, so I am dehydrated.
I need water. Yeah, common feeling after drinking too much beer, huh?
Exactly. now our final word he he said he had a headache and he said my head's been pounding all day okay so his head has been pounding all day.
Now this verb, pounding, it sounds like this.
Alright, so a clear example of what your head feels like when you have this very bad headache.
You can also say, I have a pounding headache.
I have a pounding headache exactly. Where my head is pounding.
All right, so five great words that we just looked at right now.
So why don't we listen to our dialogue a second time?
Let's slow it down just a little bit. and then we'll come back and take a look at some phrases.
Are you okay, man? You don't look very well.
I feel terrible. I went out last night with Trevor and things got a little out of hand.
Nice. So where did you guys go? We hit up a couple of local bars and met up with some friends.
Everything was cool until Mike came along. and it turned out that it was his birthday yesterday.
Oh, no. Mike's birthday is a drink fest for sure.
Then tell me about it. We drank everything in the bar.
Is that why you missed work today? Yeah, I woke up this morning feeling really nauseous.
I threw up like five times. Ew. I was so dehydrated that I drank a gallon of water and my head has been pounding all day.
I swear I am never going to drink again.
Too bad, man. Tonight is Tracy's going away party and she asked if you were going to go.
Oh yeah? I'm there. All right, well, that was a little easier to understand this time.
Now, you mentioned that we've got some great phrases, so let's go to them now in Fluency Builder.
Fluency Builder. All right. So as we heard in the dialogue, the party was I think it was a great party, right?
Well, it sounds like it was fantastic. Well, apparently it was a great party.
And he said that he went out with Trevor and things got a little out of hand.
Things got a little out of hand. Right, so things got a little out of hand.
Now, to get out of hand, what's that mean?
Well, we have some examples, so let's listen to a couple of them before we explain it.
Example 1 Honey, the kids are getting a little out of hand.
Can you do something? Guys, this argument is getting out of hand.
Let's all calm down. The party last night got out of hand.
The neighbors called the police. Okay, so when things get out of hand, you lose control.
Exactly. They get out of control just a little bit maybe.
Yeah, go a little crazy. Mm-hmm. All right, so things got a little out of hand.
Now the opposite of this was everything was cool.
Everything was cool. So everything was cool.
So basically everything was okay. Everything was relaxed.
Everything was going fine. exactly and then mike came along and then things got a little out of hand oh that mike and now for our last phrase He was describing that Mike's birthday party was a drink fest, right?
And then his friend agreed. He said, tell me about it.
Tell me about it. Tell me about it. Now, what does this mean exactly when he says tell me about it?
Basically, it means I completely understand.
I completely agree with you. Okay. So I could say, oh my God, Marco, it's so hot outside today.
Right. And I would say, oh, I know. Tell me about it.
Right. So I'm saying, yeah, I agree with you.
You are right. Yep. Very good. So these phrases, okay, so three great phrases that we just looked at.
Let's listen to our dialogue for the last time.
And then we'll come back and talk a little bit more.
Are you okay, man? You don't look very well.
I feel terrible. I went out last night with Trevor and things got a little out of hand.
Nice. So where did you guys go? We hit up a couple of local bars and met up with some friends.
Everything was cool until Mike came along.
And it turned out that it was his birthday yesterday.
Oh, no. Mike's birthday is a dream fest for sure.
Then tell me about it. We drank everything in the bar.
Is that why you missed work today? Yeah, I woke up this morning feeling really nauseous.
I threw up like five times. Ew. I was so dehydrated that I drank a gallon of water and my head has been pounding all day.
I swear, I am never going to drink again.
Too bad, man. Tonight is Tracy's going away party and she asked if you were going to go.
Oh yeah? I'm there. So it sounds like these guys sure like to go out and have a few drinks, don't they?
Yeah, exactly. And I think this is a very common thing among young people, usually in the United States.
After a day at the office or something, they'll go.
Or even Europe, they'll go to the pub, right?
Yeah. But the thing is. that in America and Canada, we're very careful about alcohol and young people, right?
Yeah, exactly. The legal drinking age in the most part of the United States is 21 years of age.
And really, many parents or families will never let their children drink alcohol until they're 21.
Right. And also the laws that control alcohol like for example on television if you notice a TV commercial with a beer or a wine you will never see the person actually drinking it it's illegal yeah that's true well in other countries it's okay you'll see people drinking and having fun In these commercials, they can only maybe put them close to their lips but not drink it.
Interesting. Another weird thing is that sometimes you might want to sit in your back garden or out on your porch. your porch and have a beer after work, right?
But in places it's totally illegal to do that.
You can't be outside with alcohol. Right, you can't be seen drinking or you can't be on the sidewalk or on a bus drinking.
Well, in other places you can, right? You can just have a beer on the subway.
So it's a little bit different policies on alcohol control.
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