All right, I think I have a fun story for you.
Let's practice speaking English with a fun story, shall we?
Now, let's do the first part.
We will work on our pronunciation and then we'll work on our fluency.
Judy is a professional photographer.
Repeat after me.
Judy is a professional photographer.
Judy is a professional photographer.
Pooh takes great pride in her pictures.
Yeah, she takes great pride.
You can take the great out and you can just say, takes pride in her pictures.
I take pride in my work.
I take pride in something, my country.
I take pride in this, that.
And you can put great here.
Takes pride in her pictures.
All right, so Judy takes pride in her pictures.
Let's say all of it.
Ready?
Here we go.
Judy is a professional photographer who takes great pride in her pictures.
Again.
Judy is a professional photographer who takes great pride in her pictures.
Again.
Judy is a professional photographer who takes great pride in her pictures.
There you go.
She loves sharing her work with others.
Yeah, she loves sharing, sharing, sharing her work with others.
Whenever she gets the chance.
Whenever she gets the chance.
She loves sharing her work with others whenever she gets the chance.
One day, when she showed her pictures to her host Sandra... All right, so one day...
When she showed her pictures to her host, Sandra, so Sandra has her over to the house.
Maybe she's giving her a meal.
She is the host.
She received a backhanded compliment.
Hmm, a backhanded compliment.
What's a backhanded compliment?
That's a remark which seems to be a compliment.
It seems to be a compliment, but could be understood as an insult.
So it might not be a compliment.
It's backhanded.
I don't know why we say that actually, but we say a backhanded compliment is a compliment that could be understood as an insult.
One day when she showed her pictures to her host Sandra, she received a backhanded compliment.
Ready?
One day when she showed her pictures to her host Sandra, she received a backhanded compliment.
Again.
One day when she showed her pictures to her host Sandra, she received a backhanded compliment.
Sandra said, Wow, these are really nice pictures.
That's not so backhanded.
I don't understand.
Let's see what else she said.
You must have a great camera.
Ah, I think this is the part.
Let's say it all.
Sandra said, Wow, these are really nice pictures.
You must have a great camera.
Sandra said, wow, these are really nice pictures.
You must have a great camera.
Sandra said, wow, these are really nice pictures.
You must have a great camera.
Judy was outraged at the implication.
Okay, we have two words there, outraged and And implication.
Let's look at outraged.
Outraged is a strong reaction of disgusted anger.
Disgusted anger.
Outraged.
I'm outraged.
All right.
And implication.
So when you seem to suggest something without saying it directly.
You don't say it directly and you seem to suggest it.
You are implying it.
If you are implying something, it's an implication.
So let's look at that.
Judy was outraged at the implication.
What implication?
This one.
That her talent was just a result of let's say that, that her talent was just a result of That.
Her talent was just a result of The quality of her camera.
The quality of her camera.
Judy was outraged at the implication that her talent was just a result of the quality of her camera.
Together...
Judy was outraged at the implication that her talent was just a result of the quality of her camera.
She waited until the end of the meal.
She waited until the end of the meal. and then thanked her host for the delicious food.
She waited until the end of the meal and then thanked her host for the delicious food.
She waited until the end of the meal and then thanked her host for the delicious food.
She waited until the end of the meal and then thanked her host for the delicious food.
As an afterthought, she added.
Afterthought.
That's like, oh, I just thought of something else or something to add.
Oh, by the, oops.
Oh, by the way, I just thought of something.
As an afterthought, she added.
You must have a nice oven.
That's her backhanded compliment.
She said, it is the oven that makes your food good, not you.
You must have a nice oven.
All right.
So that's the funny.
Oh, wait, we got to shadow this part.
Ready?
As an afterthought, she added, you must have a nice oven.
As an afterthought, she added, you must have a nice oven.
As an afterthought, she added, you must have a nice oven.
All right, that's the little story.
Now we're going to speak it.
We're going to say the whole story nonstop.
Let's try and go nice and smooth, clear, enunciate, radio voice.
Here we go.
Judy is a professional photographer who takes great pride in her pictures.
She loves sharing her work with others whenever she gets the chance.
One day when she showed her pictures to her host Sandra, she received a backhanded compliment.
Sandra said, wow, these are really nice pictures.
You must have a great camera.
Judy was outraged at the implication that her talent was just a result of the quality of her camera.
She waited until the end of the meal and then thanked her host for the delicious food.
As an afterthought, she added, you must have a nice oven.
Women, they're so evil.
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
Don't get on me.
Boom.
Good workout.
Keep moving forward one step at a time.
We'll get there.
I'll see you in the next step.
