Name: Real-Life English Podcasts | Elementary | Episode 009 Small Talk
Uploaded: 2026-03-25T02:37:34.000Z
Duration: 10 min 18 s
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And we're bringing you another great elementary lesson for all our elementary learners.

This is language that you can actually use every single day.

Exactly, because today we're going to be teaching you small talk.

Well, small talk is small conversations that you would have with people that you don't know very well,

And you want to maybe just chat a little bit.

And as always, it's going to be a little bit fast, but don't worry about it.

Because we'll come back in a minute and help you with some of the difficult language.

I heard that there was a fire in Byron Street.

Did you happen to watch the football game last night?

Oh, by the way, I saw you with your daughter at the office Christmas party.

Okay, I think this guy was a little bit annoying.

Anderson really didn't want to talk to him, did he?

Okay, let's take a look at our language today in language takeaway.

All right, what do we have today in language takeaway?

Well, we've got four words and phrases, and our first one is barely even.

It's really similar to, like, almost couldn't, or almost nothing, or almost can't.

So we use it usually in a negative sense.

For example, I could say, I was so busy today, I could barely even eat my lunch.

Okay, so I can maybe say, It was so dark, I could barely even see.

Or, I'm so poor, I can barely even pay my rent.

All right, let's take a look at our next one.

So by, did you catch the news, you mean did you hear the news?

A really common one is, I didn't catch your name.

And we can also say, I didn't catch what he said.

Okay, so let's listen to some examples first of how we can use by the way,

and then we'll come back and talk more about it.

Are you going to be at the meeting today?

Oh, by the way, did you hear what happened today?

By the way, I almost forgot to tell you, Maggie called.

Okay, so I see that when we say by the way, we're introducing a point after we've already talked about something.

Exactly, and maybe it's not even related to the topic we were talking about.

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Real-Life English Podcasts | Elementary | Episode 009 Small Talk

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