hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're bringing you the third part of this series that we've created called I'm sorry I love you that's right the third part in our story about our English pod couple yeah it's a romantic series but today we're bringing you an argument that's right like in every relationship you have fights you have discussions so we're going to teach you how to do that in English that's right in today's lesson you'll learn some great Lang language that people use when they
get into an argument with their boyfriend or girlfriend right so why don't we take a look at vocabulary preview vocabulary preview we have one phrase today get a hold get a hold get a hold to get a hold to get a hold of someone means to try and communicate with that person exactly so to try and call that person for example I can say I've been calling his phone all day but I can't get a hold of him or I could say finally Marco I got a hold of you where have you been all day
exactly MH now we're going to listen to our dialogue and as always it's going to be at a normal Pace but you don't have to worry about it we'll come back and teach you all of the important [Music] words stepen where have you been I've been trying to get a hold of you for hours I uh there was an emergency at work I was waiting for you in the restaurant for 3 hours and you didn't even have the decency to call me do you have any idea how embarrassed I was honey I promise this won't
happen again it's just that I yeah right I've heard it all before I'm not going to take any more of your empty promises this is the fifth time you stood me up in 2 weeks you need to get your priority straight I'm tired of you putting your job first all the time come on Veronica that's not fair I do care about you a lot you know that I try to you know what maybe we should just take a break I need some time to think about where this relationship is heading but Veronica would you listen
to me there was a fire alarm at my office building today and I [Applause] [Music] was okay so a little bit of trouble in the relationship yeah that's too bad yeah well I think um she's overreacting you do we'll talk about that later on but we saw some great words and phrases here so it's time for language takeaway language takeaway today on language takeaway we're bringing you three words the first word is stood me up stood me up stood me up stood me up the phrase stand someone up when do we use this if for
example you have a date and you don't go okay so let's say you and I were supposed to have dinner together and you just didn't come and didn't call right so I stood you up yeah okay stand someone up our next word priorities priorities priorities so priorities are something that's really important in your life that's right like family or maybe work or making a lot of money or whatever it is what what are your priorities in life right right yeah okay and our last word for language take away way heading heading heading heading this is
a bit of a funny verb so let's listen to a couple of examples of how it's used so we can understand its meaning example one I don't know where our relationship is heading example two where's this bus heading example three where is this project heading so basically heading means going exactly a heading is where you're going yep okay easy word and interesting okay so now it's time for us to listen to the dialogue a second time it's going to be slower so now we can understand the words that we just talked about [Music] Stephen where
have you been I've been trying to get a hold of you for hours I um there was an emergency at work so I was waiting for you in the restaurant for 3 hours and you didn't even have the decency to call me do you have any idea how embarrassed I was honey I promise this won't happen again it's just that I yeah right I've heard it all before I'm not going to take any more of your empty promises this is the fifth time you've stood me up in two weeks you need to get your priority
straight I'm tired of you putting your job first all the time come on Veronica that's not fair I do care about you a lot you know that I tried to you know what maybe we should just take a break I need some time to think about where this relationship is heading but Veronica would you just listen to me there was a fire alarm at my office building today and I was stuck okay now we saw some interesting phrases in dialogue yeah we saw some great phrases um that people use when they're getting in a fight
right why don't we take a look at some of them in fluency Builder fluency Builder the first phrase that I want to take a look at today is do you have any idea do you have any idea do you have any idea this is a great way to set up an argument so let's listen to some examples of how you would set up an argument using this phrase example one you forgot my birthday do you have any idea how angry I am example two Julie kissed my boyfriend does she have any idea how mean that
was example three I just broke up with my boyfriend don't you have any idea how sad I am so it's a great phrase to make that person understand that you were really worried or really angry really angry yeah okay and now the second phrase that we can take a look at is I've heard it all before I heard it all before I've heard it all before I've heard it all before so this is a great phrase of just saying you don't have to give me an excuse I know what you're going to say exactly and
our last phrase today take a break take a break take a break so when a couple takes a break they sort of stop their relationship right they're breaking up yeah but it's is it really like forever like a a breakup that lasts forever not well maybe it could be forever but they're saying let's just take some time away from each other for a couple of days or weeks yeah yeah and see what happens yes take a break take a break okay so our happy couple is going to take a break well I guess they're not
that happy then hey yeah okay so let's listen to our dialogue again and then we'll come back and talk some more Steven where have you been I've been trying to get a hold of you for hours I uh there was an emergency at work so I was waiting for you in the restaurant for 3 hours and you didn't even have the tcy to call me do you have any idea how embarrassed I was honey I promise this won't happen again it's just that I yeah right I've heard it all before I'm not going to take
any more of your empty promises this is the fifth time you stood me up in 2 weeks you need to get your priorities straight I'm tired of you putting your job first all the time come on Veronica that's not fair I do care about you a lot you know that I try to you know what maybe we should just take a break I need some time to think about where this relationship is heading but Veronica would you listen to me there was a fire alarm at my office building today and I was so Marco this
phrase to take a break really reminds me of a Friends episode yeah that really famous Friends episode when Ross and Rachel were on a break and and Ross like went with another girl right yeah and then they definitely broke up after that yeah so that's one of the key issues right if you're taking a break can you start to date someone else I've got to agree with Rachel really yeah no you can't you can't you can't so what's the point of taking a break just you need some time away you need some time to think
but you're not really broken up exactly that's convenient I don't know they were on a break I agree with Ross well you would wouldn't you all right guys we're out of time today I hope you enjoyed our lesson and be sure to listen next time because we will definitely have a part four to this yes coming out soon yep and also come to our website at englishpod ccom and leave all your questions and comments yeah Marco and I are always happy to hear from you and we love answering your questions right and maybe you can
tell us what you think happens in the fourth part yeah okay well until then it's goodbye [Music] bye the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word find or contact someone get a hold of polite or moral Behavior decency do you know do you have any idea fail to keep the appointment to meet someone stand someone up realize what is more important get your priorities straight go towards a specified Direction or place head let's try that faster do you know do you have any idea polite or moral Behavior decency find
or contact someone get a hold of fail to keep the appointment to meet someone stand someone up find or contact someone get a hold of realize what is more important get your priorities straight polite or moral Behavior decency realize what is more important get your priority straight go towards a specified direction or place head do you know do you have any idea now say the word and hear it in a sentence head I don't know where our relationship is heading do you have any idea you forgot my birthday do you have any idea how angry
I am decency if you can attend the meeting please have the decency to call me beforehand stand someone up why did you stand me up again last night get your priorities straight you have to get your priori straight is your job more important than our relationship head I don't know where our relationship is heading do you have any idea you forgot my birthday do you have any idea how angry I am decency if you can't attend the meeting please have the decency to call me beforehand stand someone up why did you stand me up again
last night get your priorities straight you have to get your priority straight is your job more important than our relationship [Music]
