Show 727 Friday 9 May

Watch today’s show at YouTube or BlipTV.

Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today I recommend a song called Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne – I think that’s how you say her name, I’m not quite sure.
The song was released in February 2007 and the video is now the second most viewed video of all time on YouTube. It’s been viewed over 80 million times. So, it might not be your thing – but a lot of people obviously like it.

Avril Lavigne is a pop punk singer, musician, fashion designer and actress.

The song Girlfriend is pretty easy to understand. It’s about a girl who likes a guy and thinks that he should get rid of his current girlfriend and be with her.

Cutting out the “hey hey, you you” parts, the start of the start goes like this:

I don't like your girlfriend
I think you need a new one
I could be your girlfriend
I know that you like me
You know it's not a secret
I want to be your girlfriend

One line that I quite like is this: She's like so whatever.
Which means: she is boring or not interesting or no good.

And I also quite like the line: Hell yeah, I'm the motherfucking princess.

Which is actually cut out of some of the versions of the songs, which I think is a shame, because I think it quite nicely captures her whole image of being kind of bad-girl sexy rather than good-girl sexy, if that makes sense.

And it seems that people who bought the album in Japan have been ripped off. As it says in Wikipedia: The Japanese version of this song replaces the word motherfucking with the phrase: one and only.

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora, in Stick News today 11 people in Japan were slightly injured when an escalator going up suddenly stopped and moved downward.

This morning at about 8:15 at a subway station in Nagoya, Japan, an escalator going up suddenly stopped and moved downward.
Mainichi Newspaper reported that 11 people between the ages of 25 and 59 were slightly injured.
The Nagoya Municipal Government's Transportation Bureau said it is unsure why it moved downward.
Local police are now questioning the people responsible for the maintenance of the escalator.

And that was Stick News for Friday 9th of May.
Kia Ora.

Word Of The Day

Today’s word is sink.
This ship is sinking.
This is a line from the song Girlfriend: When's it going to sink in?
Sink in is a phrasal verb which means: to fully understand something.
So when’s it going to sink in means when are you going to understand?

friday joke

Boy: What’s in the bag?
Girl: Lollies.
Boy: If I guess how many are in the bag, will you give me one?
Girl: If you guess how many are in the bag, I’ll give you them both!
Boy: OK. Um ... five?

conversations with sarah
#443 The good girl or the bad one.

Step 1: Repeat Kim’s lines.
Step 2: Read Kim’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Sarah That video reminds me a bit of myself about ten years ago.

Kim Why did you used to stalk guys ...

Sarah No.

Kim ... and try and steal their girlfriends?

Sarah No! I mean I used to dress kind of like that.

Kim The good girl or the bad one.

Sarah The bad one.

Kim Did you have a pink streak too?

Sarah No. I’ve never died my hair actually.

Kim Really? Never.

Sarah Yeah. I remember wanting to dye it red once when I was in high school and I went to the chemist to buy some red hair dye and the woman at the chemist was like no, you can’t dye your hair red it looks really nice now and then I just kind of gave up and then never really got the urge after that.

Girlfriend
Avril Lavigne

Hey hey, you you
I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way
I think you need a new one
Hey hey, you you
I could be your girlfriend

Hey hey, you you
I know that you like me
No way, no way
You know it's not a secret
Hey hey, you you
I want to be your girlfriend

You're so fine
I want you mine
You're so delicious
I think about you all the time
You're so addictive
Don't you know
What I can do
To make you feel alright
( alright alright alright)

Don't pretend
I think you know
I'm damn precious
And hell yeah
I'm the motherfucking princess
I can tell you like me too
And you know I'm right
( I'm right I'm right I'm right)

She's like so whatever
You can do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that's what everyone's talking about

Hey hey, you you
I don't like your girlfriend
No way no way
I think you need a new one
Hey hey, you you
I could be your girlfriend

Hey hey, you you
I know that you like me
No way, no way
You know it's not a secret
Hey hey, you you
I want to be your girlfriend

I can see the way
I see the way you look at me
And even when you look away
I know you think of me
I know you talk about me all the time
Again and again
( Again again again)

So come over here
And tell me what I wanna hear
Better, yet, make your girlfriend disappear
I don't wanna hear you say her name
Ever again
( Ever again again again)

She's like so whatever
And you can do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that's what everyone's talking about

Hey hey, you you
I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way
I think you need a new one
Hey hey, you you
I could be your girlfriend

Hey hey, you you
I know that you like me
No way, no way
You know it's not a secret
Hey hey, you you
I want to be your girlfriend

In a second you'll be wrapped around my finger
'Cause I can, cause I can do it better
There's no other, so when's it gonna sink in
She's so stupid, what the hell were you thinking?

In a second you'll be wrapped around my finger
'Cause I can, cause I can do it better
There's no other, so when's it gonna sink in
She's so stupid, what the hell were you thinking?

Hey hey, you you
I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way
I think you need a new one
Hey hey, you you
I could be your girlfriend

( No way No way)

Hey hey, you you
I know that you like me
No way, no way
You know it's not a secret
Hey hey, you you
I want to be your girlfriend

Hey hey, you you
I don't like your girlfriend ( No Way!)
No way, no way
I think you need a new one (Hey!)
Hey hey, you you
I could be your girlfriend ( No Way!)

Hey hey, you you
I know that you like me ( No Way!)
No way, no way
You know it's not a secret ( Hey!)
Hey hey, you you
I want to be your girlfriend ( No Way!)

links

today's news
today's STICK NEWS pictures

music

show start
artist: BrunoXe
album: aprendiendo desde 2004
track: Mandrake
from: Jerez, Spain
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: EVREUX, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

friday joke start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: Sumbala
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: San Sebastian
track: Happy Sad
artist site

qa start
artist: ioeo
album: Groovetracks
track: groovetracks ending
from: Saint Raphael, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky
album: Dj Spooky's contribution for the 'One Laptop Per Child Project'
track: Moon rain
from: New York, United States
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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Show 726 Thursday 8 May

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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

The video I recommend today is an instructional video about how to open a bottle with one hand. The guy in the video only has one hand, so the video is partly to help people who only have one hand. But as he says in the description, it’s also useful for “people who want to be ready for the worst-case scenario that they suddenly have only one free hand and have to dismantle a bomb that is hidden inside a bottle!”

I think the video is interesting partly because his delivery is quite entertaining.

And the main reason why I recommend studying English with this video is because following instructions and giving instructions is a very important part of learning English. And it doesn’t matter if the actual information isn’t always directly useful for you – you can still pick up some useful language and grammar structures.

For example:

What I like to do is ...
You should be able to ...
Here’s what you can do ...
One tip though, make sure ...

STICK NEWS

Kia Ora, in Stick News today, an American boy who wore the same shirt every day for four years has finally changed his shirt.

In 2003, a seven-year-old boy called David was given a football jersey for Christmas.
It was the number 4 jersey for an American football team from Wisconsin called the Green Bay Packers.
David put the jersey on and continued wearing it every day until his twelfth birthday.
He wore the jersey for a total of 1,581 days and took it off on the 24th of April 2008.

And that was Stick News for Thursday 8th of May.
Kia Ora.

Word Of The Day

Today’s word is willy-nilly.

This is an adverb which doesn’t have anything to do with anything else in today’s show ... I just heard it on a podcast a couple of days ago and I remembered how much I like this word.

Willy-nilly has a couple of meanings. I only ever use it to mean: haphazardly or randomly, at random, indiscriminately, arbitrarily, every which way.

Here’s an example of how you can use willy-nilly from the headline of a blog entry.
Effective writing: Don't place those commas willy-nilly; there are rules

conversations with sarah

#442 You’re probably just weak

Step 1: Repeat Kim’s lines.
Step 2: Read Kim’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Kim Isn’t it strange how you try opening a jar for ages and as soon as you give it to someone else they can open it straight away?

Sarah Mmm. You’re probably just weak.

Kim Doesn’t it happen to you?

Sarah Yeah, yeah, I’m just kidding. There’s a reason for that though.

Kim Because you get tired and the second person is fresh.

Sarah Yeah, exactly.

Kim And you’ve already weakened the ... what do you call it?

Sarah Yeah, you’ve weakened the vacuum, or seal or whatever. But it’s not just that, I also think it might be kind of psychological too.

Kim What do you mean?

Sarah Well, the second person knows how satisfying it will be to be able to open the jar when the first person couldn’t ... and that desire releases a kind of adrenalin type thing which gives them extra strength.

One handed tricks: Opening Bottles

by captaindanger384

A lot of people have a hard time opening bottles, whether it’s because of arthritis, cerebral palsy, weak joints, or whether like me, you’ve just got one hand.
Now, normally with a bottle, I can get my hook around it, but with these larger bottles, or a bottle that’s really stuck, it’s just, it’s too hard to do.
So, what I like to do is get these rubber, um, gripping pads. You can get these at any dollar store, they’re very cheap. And, ah, put it down on the table. If it’s just a normal bottle, you should be able to get it off really easily. If it’s a bottle that’s really, ah, really tight, here’s what you can do, use the same grip. Put it in your elbow. Of course, if you don’t have an elbow, use your shoulder.
Put the bottle on top. Another grip on the other side. And with that solid grip right there, that kind of three point contact. You can open up just about any bottle. That’s a better grip than you can even get with your hand. And just open it up.
One tip though, make sure when you’re opening it like this, hold it back as far as possible, you don’t want to spill whatever you’ve got in the bottle, down on to the table or on to yourself.
Remember, you can do it, you just have to find a way.

links

today's news

today's STICK NEWS pictures

music

show start
artist: BrunoXe
album: aprendiendo desde 2004
track: Mandrake
from: Jerez, Spain
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: EVREUX, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: San Sebastian
track: Happy Sad
artist site

qa start
artist: ioeo
album: Groovetracks
track: groovetracks ending
from: Saint Raphael, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: zoop
album: music on hold
track: sfumato
from: Moscow, Russia
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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