So you may find yourself thinking: Hmm… I’m really busy. It means he’s taking on some tasks that I used to do, and that’s wonderful. Now, if you didn’t know this idiom, you might think: Why is this man stealing Rachel’s food? But of course, that’s not what it means. And one thing I’ve been saying about that as I talk about that, is I’ll say: he’s taking some things off my plate.
Well, he recently started working full time for Rachel’s English. Here’s the deal, a lot of you guys know Tom, he’s been on this youtube channel before, he’s a great teacher in Rachel’s English Academy. Hey guys! I’m working on editing this video right now, and actually, one thing that I thought about was I’ve been using the phrase, related to the phrase, ‘a lot on my plate’, quite a bit lately. You could say: I have too much on my plate right now. You could also use this as an excuse not to do something. I used it last week in an email, just to say that I’m very busy in my life with a lot of different things. I literally shot that clip three years ago, and I’ve just been waiting for the chance to use it. You could also say: I have a lot on my plate.
So I have a video on how to pronounce ED endings, those rules, you can check it out by the link in the video description below. But with slammed, the ED ending is a D sound because the sound before was voiced, the M sound, slammed. Now with swamped, the ED ending is a T sound because the sound before was unvoiced. This is actually an interesting time to think about ED ending words. Or: I’m just so swamped at work right now. You can also say I’m swamped or I’m slammed. Okay I was partially on the curb there, I am no longer on the curb, that is a bonus. Because I’m going to be honest with you, I am NOT a confident driver, and here’s a guy with his door out ahead of me so I’m just gonna have to give my horn a little honk so he’ll pull it in. Going to have to put a pause on the video while I focus on it, just exactly how wide is the car that I’m driving. The most common pronunciation is the EH as in bed vowel like in the word ‘bear’, or in the word ‘air’. Now, depending on where you are in the US, this word will be pronounced differently. No, I don’t actually mean I’m dead buried covered with Earth, but I mean, I’m covered with things to do. Busy.Īnother way to say ‘I’m busy’ is to say: I’m buried. Some of my students make that tighter, they make it more of a EE. It’s spelled with the U but that’s actually the IH as in sit vowel in the stressed syllable. There are a lot of fun idioms that we’ll learn here and it’s just nice to know more than one phrase to use for a given situation. So instead, we’re gonna make the video while we’re driving, and this video is on being busy. But I’m so busy that I don’t really have time to sit at my desk today to make a video. Isn’t that funny? We use the verb ‘running’ for errands but we’re almost never actually running. I’m just very busy today running errands. Hey guys! I wanted to make you a video today but I’m just too busy. To learn more, see the privacy policy.YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video.Īre you learning English phrases? Here are 15 phrases that you can use right away.
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