1093 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—Crush, smash, squash

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today’s English expression and dialog: Crush, smash, squash Watch your step! Someone squashed an orange. What a dirty area. There’s a crushed can. And someone smashed that window. Let’s get out of here… GET FREE LESSONS: I’m on iTunes and everywhere else they have podcasts! Coach Shane? I'm from the USA, I make videos and podcasts for 𝐄𝐅𝐋/𝐄𝐒𝐋 students and my teaching focuses on 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, listening 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. My lessons will help you MASTER English. Support me! 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐃𝐌, 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬. Master your English listening, comprehension and pronunciation.𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐅 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧. A course 100% focused on speaking American English. Join 𝐋𝐌𝐄 365—the best of both DDM and PIRF together. Join 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 Three specific course for Beginners, Intermediate AND Advanced people Where to join? AND HOTMART!! 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐲 Newsletter & FREE lessons! Buy me a coffee OR help buy some diapers for Mikey and Jimmy! We’re on PATREON, too. And we give nice gifts! PLEASE support my sponsors: (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) Get the best NOOTROPICS for your mind and body. #coachshane #esl #englishpronunciation #americanpronunciation #americanenglish #actionenglish #lme #LetsMasterEnglish #ddm #pirfectenglish #pirf #coachshanepodcast

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions.
0:10.6	Come on, let's master English.
0:13.6	Hello everybody, welcome back to Dave the Easy English Expression, the podcast.
0:24.2	Coach Shane here, how you doing today?
0:28.3	Today is the last day of April, 2023.
0:31.8	It might be May 1st already for you. It is, by the way, the best day to join DDM today tomorrow this week because we are starting around fresh
0:40.9	oh and please stick around until the end of the podcast because I'm going to talk about
0:48.3	Spotify and I'm going to mention some of the listeners' names, and I had a quiz there.
0:55.5	So, yeah, please stick around for that.
0:57.4	Today, E-Cubed 10093.
1:02.2	We're going to be talking about three words that are very similar, but used in different ways.
1:10.1	Are you ready?
1:30.2	Crush, smash, and squash. Crush, C-R-U-S-H, smash, smash, S-M-A-S-M-A-S-H, and Squash. So first let's talk about crush. To crush something means to press it or squeeze it with force, usually your hands or even your feet.
1:40.3	And you squeeze it, you press it, and it breaks, or it becomes flat.
1:48.0	So, for example, there was a big truck that drove over a box on the road and crushed it.
1:58.1	The box is flat.
1:59.7	Or there was a can, an empty can, and I stepped on it hard,
2:06.0	and I crushed it. It's flat. Okay, so that's the idea of crush.
2:11.8	Next, we have smash. To smash something means to hit and break it with great force. Usually it's, it could be
2:23.5	glass, usually glass. It could be a person too. And if you hit glass like a window with great
2:32.4	force, what happens to the glass glass it shatters or it breaks into pieces so
2:39.7	for example he got so angry that he picked up his phone and smashed it on the ground
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