In today's lesson, we are going to look at another way to say the same thing.
For instance, the other day, this red text right here, what could you say?
You could say, recently.
Recently, the other day, I went to, I went to the city.
Or you could say, I visited the city.
And spent a good part of the afternoon.
A good part of the afternoon.
What does that mean?
A good part of the afternoon.
How about most of the afternoon?
I spent most of the afternoon.
I spent a good part of the afternoon.
Catching up with.
Catching up with my friends at a cafe.
What's catching up with?
How about chatting with?
It's kind of the same thing.
Chatting with my friends at a cafe or chatting.
Catching up.
When you catch up with someone, you say, hey, how you doing?
What you been up to?
Chatting with my friends at a cafe.
Catching up with.
Catching up with implies that you haven't met them in a little while.
Chatting could be either one.
Catching up with my friends at a cafe.
Okay.
We talked about or discussed.
We discussed, we talked about different things, various topics, various topics, different things including, such as our relationships, work And office politics.
Ooh, office politics.
All the drama that goes on in an office environment.
Office politics.
All right.
It was interesting.
It was intriguing to learn.
It was intriguing to learn.
It was interesting to hear.
You hear it, you learn it, you learn to hear their perspectives on what they think about.
It was intriguing to learn what they think about their perspective on different people, various people,
Okay, so it was intriguing to learn about what they think about various people, or it was interesting to hear their perspective on different people.
Before we left, before we left departed, before we departed, we promised to, promised to.
We oops, right here, we made a promise to Get together again.
Hang out again.
If you hang out, you get together.
Let's get together.
Let's hang out.
Let's get together again.
Let's hang out again.
In the near future.
Sometime soon.
Sometime soon in the near future.
Before we left, we made a promise to get together again in the near future.
Before we departed, we promised to hang out again sometime soon.
On the way back, how about upon returning home?
Upon returning home, I stumbled upon an old bookstore.
I stumbled upon, I happened upon, i happened to see, i happened to find, i happened upon, i stumbled upon, i happened upon an old bookstore.
There i found a book, i found a book i discovered.
So to discover is to find, i found, i discovered.
There i found a book I had been looking for.
I had been looking for that book and I found it.
I had been looking for it.
I had been searching for that book.
This sentence is little, the order is different, right?
There, I found a book I had been looking for, which made me happy.
Made me happy, thrilled.
I was thrilled.
It made me happy.
I was thrilled.
So, upon returning home, I stumbled upon an old bookstore and was thrilled to discover a book I had been searching for.
On the way back, I happened upon an old bookstore.
There, I found a book I had been looking for, which made me happy.
Alright, next one.
As it was getting dark, As the day was winding down.
So when a day winds down, it's getting finished, it's getting dark.
As it was getting dark, as the day was winding down, I started, I found myself.
If you find yourself doing something, you start doing something.
I found myself, I started making plans.
Planning.
Planning.
For the following weekend.
For the following weekend.
For the upcoming weekend.
I started making plans for the upcoming weekend.
For the following weekend.
Upcoming.
All right.
That's our text.
Now, that was just the practice part, the learning part.
Now we're going to do the shadowing part.
This time I'm going to say both versions nonstop.
You just try to join me and say it with me.
All right, here we go.
The other day I went to the city and spent most of the afternoon just chatting with my friends at a cafe.
Recently, I visited the city and spent a good part of the afternoon chatting up, catching up with my friends at a cafe.
Oops, I mixed them together, huh?
Chatting up.
We do say that.
We say, oh, I was chatting her up.
Anyway, sorry about that mistake.
Let's try to get the rhythm back.
Here we go.
We talked about different things including our relationships, work, and office politics.
We discussed various topics such as our relationships, work, and office politics.
It was interesting to hear their perspectives on different people.
It was intriguing to learn what they think about various people.
Before we left, we made a promise to get together again in the near future.
Before we departed, we promised to hang out again sometime soon.
On the way back, I happened upon an old bookstore.
There I found a book I had been looking for, which made me happy.
Upon returning home, I stumbled upon an old bookstore and was thrilled to discover a book I had been searching for.
As it was getting dark, I found myself planning for the following weekend.
As the day was winding down, I started making plans for the upcoming weekend.
Boom!
Good workout.
How was it?
Was it good?
Keep moving forward.
One step at a time.
We'll get there.
I'll see you in the next step.
