Name: ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION and ENGLISH CONVERSATION – Learn English Conversation | Rachel’s English
Uploaded: 2020-10-12T19:30:31.000Z
Duration: 13 min 56 s
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To-infinitive

we're going to sit down with my dad and talk about where he works now that he's mostly retired.

Future simple

You'll learn the phrasal verb 'boot out',

how to use space and room, a shortcut to make the word 'months' easier to pronounce, and much more.

We're going to listen to the first 15  seconds or so of this conversation.

Then we'll study some of the words—how  they're being used and how they're pronounced.

Pay attention to booted out, space, and  often from home.

Are you still going into work at all these days?

No. Actually, I finally got booted out in my second office.

Well they, they're...they have all kinds of  issues with space.

And since I'm only working one month a year...

Did you hear my dad use the phrasal verb booted out?

Finally got booted out in my second office.

It means to be asked or forced to leave a place, job or situation.

My dad, though he was mostly retired, still  had an office at the University where he worked.

But after many years, they needed the office for someone else and booted him out of it.

Finally got booted out in my second office.

Notice my dad isn't pronouncing the T in  'booted' as a true T.

The tongue bounces once against the roof of the mouth

and the teeth don't need to come together  the way they do for a true T.

This is how we pronounce the T when it  comes between two vowels

but doesn't start a stressed syllable in American English.

The way my dad is using 'space' is  interchangeable with the word room.

These are nouns that mean an area that's  available or unoccupied.

The university doesn't have enough space.

It doesn't have enough room for my dad  to have an office anymore.

Of course these words have other meanings as a noun.

What you might think of as outer space, or a room with four walls like a living room, dining room, etc.

But let's come up with a few more sample sentences where we're using the words to mean 'available'.

The garage is used for storage, there's no room to park.

Or the garage is used for storage there's space to park.

Sometimes, when I'm reading at night to  my son Stoney, he sits really close to me.

So close that he's sitting on my arm, and I  can't turn the page.

Or I could say: I need a little more space.

They have all kinds of issues with space.

You may also use these nouns as adjectives.

Our minivan is much more spacious than  our Volkswagen.

Or our minivan is much more roomy than our Volkswagen.

'Work from home' is the phrase be used for working remotely at your computer in your home office.

From is the preposition we usually use, though you may use at as well.

It's not from, longer with the full UH as in butter vowel, but it's reduced to the schwa and said really quickly.

Do you notice how he's pronouncing often?

But it's a bit more common to drop the T  and that's what I encourage you to do.

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