British English Slang Expressions… Explained! 🔥

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You want to understand your favourite TV shows, but it's difficult because of all the slang expressions native speakers use! In this lesson I'm going to explain some of the most common expressions so that you can start understanding informal conversations between native speakers more easily.... Let's get this show on the road!!!
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► CHAPTERS:
00:00 British English Slang Expressions
2:27 Start from Scratch
3:10 I owe you one
3:37 What''s up with
4:02 Let's get this show on the road
4:31 It's no big deal
4:44 Let's hit the town
5:13 Hang out
5:43 Fair enough
6:17 What a rip-off
6:44 It's beyond me
7:26 How come?
7:57 Beats me!
8:23 3 Reasons you don't understand TV programmes
8:48 Improve your pronunciation
9:05 Improve your linking

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► TRANSCRIPTION

If you find yourself having difficulties following conversations between two native speakers, then learning some simple, common slang expressions will really help you understand. So, let's do it.

This video was suggested by Luisa from Italy. She is one of the students I help inside my Daily Quick Fix group. As last week, we were looking at some very common, informal slang expressions and she wanted to know more. So thanks, Luisa, for the suggestion. Luisa joined my Daily Quick Fix group a few months ago and she has made great progress.

I started Daily Quick Fix in January 2020 to help intermediate students with busy lives break that intermediate barrier and reach an advanced level of English. So if you have 10 or 15 minutes a day to dedicate to reaching an advanced level of English, and if you would like daily lessons from me delivered to your mobile, then I would love to have you inside the group. Every week we work on pronunciation, including the sounds, linking techniques, stress and intonation that will help you sound much more advanced and also help you understand native speakers more easily. You also get one exclusive video, not on YouTube, but just for you every week. And we watch a video, we learn vocabulary on a different, really interesting topic every week. You practise your listening skills and you have direct access to me via WhatsApp to ask me all of your English questions. So just because you watch my YouTube videos, I have a special discount for you for your first month inside the group. I've put a link and the promo code in the description. So after this video, click there and I would love to see you in the group.

OK, let's have a look at these must know slang expressions that I taught my Daily Quick Fix students in the group last week. Oh, and as always, this class comes with a PDF which you can download in the description.

OK, number 1: We're going to have to start from scratch. This is a mess. Start from scratch. If you start from scratch, it means you basically begin from the beginning. You could be doing a project or doing a piece of work. Let's imagine you're writing an essay in English and you write, write, write, write two pages and then you think, this is rubbish, I'm going to start from scratch. So you put it in the bin and you start again from the beginning. When I was at university, I learned Italian from scratch. That means that I had no previous knowledge of Italian. I learned from nothing. I learned Italian from scratch.

Number 2: Thanks for taking me to work this morning. I owe you one. I owe you one is an expression which basically means I owe you a favour. Thank you for doing me a favour. I owe you a favour. The next time I need to do a favour to you, to say thank you for the favour that you've just done for me. Thanks. I owe you one.

Number 3: What's up with your eye? It looks like you've been in a fight. What's up with your eye? What's up with ... Means basically what is the matter with? What has happened to your eye? OK, imagine it's black. It's got a cut. It's huge. What's up? What's up? What's the matter? What's up with your eye? It looks like you've been in a fight.

Number 4: Are you ready? Let's get this show on the road.

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[nastyamastereng]

What lovely expressions! Will definitely put them into use, cheers!

[rifqaghaffar]

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[PonyTaylor]

Great slang Greg! Thank you so much 🙏 Love it 💓

[pallavi]

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[mutusmatus]

Seems my English is better than I thought (I'm from Holland), I knew all of them. Please keep it up, I like your videos!

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I've watched a lot of your videos and really appreciated them. Above all, your last ones. Thanks.

[andredias]

You are the best teaching.. easy to understand and learn..thank you for helping us! Hug from Brazil

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[qwertyasdf]

Thank you again and again.Really love the way you explain.

[EduardoCruz-vsuy]

Useful class. I will take a look on the stuff shared on the channel.

[ajithnishantha]

Sir, Could you please explain the difference between the two vowel sounds "i" and "e". Ex: - damage, cabbage, encroach, English, end ...

[berenice-]

Thank you very much for this lesson, it's very useful.

[qalandarkhan]

You are an excellent teacher.Thumbs up

[mkrleza]

I am not a native English speaker, but I tend to use British English. Once I said to an American buddy of mine: "Let's get pissed tonight!". His answer was: "Why should we get angry?".

[pallavi]

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As to "beats me", I've always stressed "beats", not "me"

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