WARM-UP VIDEO FOR SPOKEN GRAMMAR

Instructions. When we speak, we often report what someone says or feels with expressions I'm like, he's like, etc. These expressions are often very difficult to catch, because a lot of sounds can be missing, for example, 'I'm like' can sound like 'umly'. Listen and fill the gaps with one of these expressions.

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

up the stairs and I would always come first. Got to around the top of the stairs and he was miles in front of me and again I am crying out like an old woman. [huffing sound] (1) ………….. "Ah, man up, man up girl" stuff like that. [laughs] Anyway I said do you mind if we go to the college doctor after we have been through their hearts are generally a bit bigger then someone that doesn't play sports or whatnot. Anyway, so I went to Dominican. Walked into this massive hospital, there's all these patients sitting there and (2) ………….. waiting to see someone. I had a doctor there waiting for me with a clipboard "Joe Matthews?" as I walked in I was like looking around since I didn't know the place. I was like "Yeah," and was like "Come with me," and they took waking up there and my dad being at the end of the bed and I'm thinking, um you were in England which is quite a whiles away. Um you know, from when I last remembered. And I wake up my dad's at the end of the bed and (3) ………….. "What are you doing here?" and my uncle and aunt have come off their Holiday and they are at the end of the bed. (4) ………….. "What are you guys doing here? I'm fine I only have a cold I think." And (5)………….. "Well, nothings up Joe. We just came in and we wanted to, we heard you were in the hospital and we just wanted to check up on you." My dad was like "Oh I had extra time off work." 'Cause weak when you have your transplant so you need to get your fitness back and that's why, on this slide here I'm on this, my dad, I wake up the next morning, sorry if I am going on. I wake up one morning and there is an exercise bike in my room. (6) ………….. , my dad is at the end of my bed or sitting beside me, [points to slide of picture] he had spoken to this professor Dr. Robins and basically said "would you mind if we get Joe an exercise around, and we like unplug it, it's running on this battery, I need to show you how to operate it if it was to switch off. So she switches off this machine, she's got this pump and (7) ………….. sitting there and pumping this pump for my heart basically in her hand. Showing my mum and dad and (8) ………….. "Right now it's your go." And she passes it over to my dad and he was like pumping it and then passes it to my mom and at this point she is like shaking and everything. She gets the pump and, no way am I lying, she drops the pump and my heart goes in my mouth. (9) ………….. "OHHH!" I'm holding my breath thinking what is going to happen now. The nurse who was showing my mum and dad was like "If that happens you just stamp on it like this" [audience laughs] And then she switched it back on and would go back every day for tests. Before that I went back they were like "Joe you need to start walking a little bit now. Stop using the little golf buggies to get to the hospital." (10) ………….. "There's golf buggies?" [laughs] Basically, I have walked everywhere from when I left the hospital I never used a lift, they had all these lifts. I was like on the fifth floor and I walked to the hospital everyday And I laugh and he looked at me and is like "What is so funny?" and I looked at my dad and I laughed at him and my dad is kind of like laughing and they go "What's so funny?" and I go "Start walking a bit, what do you mean by a bit?" and (11) ………….. "Well, you need to start walking, you know like to the hospital and everything." (12………….. "Well me and my dad yesterday and my brother we walked around the entire campus." Well, I don't know if you know how big Stanford is but I think the circumference is like eight miles or something and laughed cause he thought I was joking. And I said "Seriously, here is a picture of me there and a picture of me there." And he was like "Wow, ok, well excuse me a second." And he walked out, went and told a few other people, like Sharon Hunt come in. (13) ………….. the best cardiologist there is in the world. Um, "Joe, I want you to be my patient now." So now I had like [laughs] I went ok, um. "We need to do a few more tests, physio tests so I am playing that, so I haven't focused completely on my running so when I told the Team Managers of the Great Britain team and I am not running anymore I'm just doing rugby. They were a bit "Well we don't want you to play rugby." and (14) ………….. "Well you are not telling me not to play. I'm playing it whatever you say. The doctors have given me the all clear to do so, it's the game I love, I'm playing it. End of." But they still want me

Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.

up the stairs and I would always come first. Got to around the top of the stairs and he was miles in front of me and again I am crying out like an old woman. [huffing sound] (1) ( He is like) "Ah, man up, man up girl" stuff like that. [laughs] Anyway I said do you mind if we go to the college doctor after we have been through their hearts are generally a bit bigger then someone that doesn't play sports or whatnot. Anyway, so I went to Dominican. Walked into this massive hospital, there's all these patients sitting there and (2) ( they are like) waiting to see someone. I had a doctor there waiting for me with a clipboard "Joe Matthews?" as I walked in I was like looking around since I didn't know the place. I was like "Yeah," and was like "Come with me," and they took waking up there and my dad being at the end of the bed and I'm thinking, um you were in England which is quite a whiles away. Um you know, from when I last remembered. And I wake up my dad's at the end of the bed and (3) ( I am like) "What are you doing here?" and my uncle and aunt have come off their Holiday and they are at the end of the bed. (4) ( I'm like) "What are you guys doing here? I'm fine I only have a cold I think." And (5) ( they are like) "Well, nothings up Joe. We just came in and we wanted to, we heard you were in the hospital and we just wanted to check up on you." My dad was like "Oh I had extra time off work." 'Cause weak when you have your transplant so you need to get your fitness back and that's why, on this slide here I'm on this, my dad, I wake up the next morning, sorry if I am going on. I wake up one morning and there is an exercise bike in my room. (6) ( I'm like) , my dad is at the end of my bed or sitting beside me, [points to slide of picture] he had spoken to this professor Dr. Robins and basically said "would you mind if we get Joe an exercise around, and we like unplug it, it's running on this battery, I need to show you how to operate it if it was to switch off. So she switches off this machine, she's got this pump and (7) ( she is like) sitting there and pumping this pump for my heart basically in her hand. Showing my mum and dad and (8) ( she's like) "Right now it's your go." And she passes it over to my dad and he was like pumping it and then passes it to my mom and at this point she is like shaking and everything. She gets the pump and, no way am I lying, she drops the pump and my heart goes in my mouth. (9) ( I am like) "OHHH!" I'm holding my breath thinking what is going to happen now. The nurse who was showing my mum and dad was like "If that happens you just stamp on it like this" [audience laughs] And then she switched it back on and would go back every day for tests. Before that I went back they were like "Joe you need to start walking a little bit now. Stop using the little golf buggies to get to the hospital." (10) ( I'm like) "There's golf buggies?" [laughs] Basically, I have walked everywhere from when I left the hospital I never used a lift, they had all these lifts. I was like on the fifth floor and I walked to the hospital everyday And I laugh and he looked at me and is like "What is so funny?" and I looked at my dad and I laughed at him and my dad is kind of like laughing and they go "What's so funny?" and I go "Start walking a bit, what do you mean by a bit?" and (11) ( he's like) "Well, you need to start walking, you know like to the hospital and everything." (12) ( I'm like) "Well me and my dad yesterday and my brother we walked around the entire campus." Well, I don't know if you know how big Stanford is but I think the circumference is like eight miles or something and laughed cause he thought I was joking. And I said "Seriously, here is a picture of me there and a picture of me there." And he was like "Wow, ok, well excuse me a second." And he walked out, went and told a few other people, like Sharon Hunt come in. (13) ( She is like) the best cardiologist there is in the world. Um, "Joe, I want you to be my patient now." So now I had like [laughs] I went ok, um. "We need to do a few more tests, physio tests so I am playing that, so I haven't focused completely on my running so when I told the Team Managers of the Great Britain team and I am not running anymore I'm just doing rugby. They were a bit "Well we don't want you to play rugby." and (14) ( I am like) "Well you are not telling me not to play. I'm playing it whatever you say. The doctors have given me the all clear to do so, it's the game I love, I'm playing it. End of." But they still want me

Sources: 

Channel: Talks at Google. Health@Google presents: English Joe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TqbOT1Bdm4

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