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  • So the first U.S presidential debate between  President Trump and Presidential candidate Joe  

  • Biden is now in the books. And if we can only say  one thing about it, it's that it was an absolute mess.

  • Now, as the CNN article put it: "There's  wide public agreement that the ugly contentious  

  • presidential debate between Donald Trump and  Joe Biden on Tuesday night was irritating  

  • national embarrassment. Must-flee-tv." And  that's right, they didn't say "must-see-tv."  

  • They said "must-flee-tv." "Must-see-tv" means that  it's something that you cannot miss. Now to flee  

  • means to try to escape something, so you  must escape from that presidential debate.

  • So for this lesson we have taken some different  parts of the debate that are more comprehensible,  

  • and we will be teaching you the key expressions  and words from those. And then we will also be  

  • looking at commentary that different  people have made about the debate,  

  • and will be teaching you with those clips as  well. This will help you to learn some practical  

  • vocabulary for politics, news and debateand of course about American culture as well.  

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  • natives? Just like how, in this lesson, the  vocabulary that we're teaching you will help  

  • you if you want to watch the news, read the  newspaper or even in talking politics. Now,  

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  • And as we've said or in case you're interested  most of the debate was not as peaceful as we  

  • saw in some of these clips. Most of the time  it actually went more like this.

  • I mean, what was that? Even for us natives it was impossible to  understand what they were saying most of the time.  

  • So now we're going to actually look at what some  different journalists said about the debate,  

  • and this is going to be really fantastic  because you'll learn some really colorful  

  • vocabulary and expressions to talk about  something that was catastrophically bad.

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  • lesson that you're going to laugh a ton with, with  President Obama. I highly recommend that you check  

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  • Hey, so I hope that you have enjoyed this lesson  

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  • And now it's time to go beyond the  classroom and live your English. Aww yeah!

So the first U.S presidential debate between  President Trump and Presidential candidate Joe  

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