AE 364 – Expression: Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks

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AE 364 – Expression:
Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks

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Alright, guys. Welcome to today’s episode of Aussie English. Aussie English, The Aussie English Podcast, is the number one podcast for anyone and everyone who wants to learn Australian English. It’s my mission here to teach you guys to understand Australian English, but not only that, it’s my mission to teach you to speak English like an Australian. That’s the goal, guys. That’s the goal.

Announcements:

A few housekeeping things, a few announcements, before we get into it, guys.

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Aside from that, obviously, you’ve probably heard me talking about The Aussie English Classroom plans. So, I reformatted these episodes as of last week, and you can go and check out how it’s formatted. It’s still a bit messy, guys. Like, I can tell that it’s a bit counter intuitive. It’s not really obvious how to use these episodes. And so, I’m working on coming up with a better way for you guys to consume this material. So far, I’ve been having discussions with some friends about doing or creating an online learning management system, or at least using one, I won’t create it, but I’ll use one, to create a better Aussie English Classroom where everything will be organised more neatly. (It’ll be) easier to use. It’ll be more intuitive. And you’ll get quizzes, you’ll have badges. So, you’ll be able to earn points and all that sort of stuff, and communicate with each other. So, I’m going to hopefully bring that to you guys in the New Year. I’m working on that for the next two months or so. It’s going to require a bit of a breakdown of the website, (to) change a few things up, but definitely suss that out now, guys. You can sign up to The Aussie English Classroom for a dollar for the first month. Give it a go. The price is going to increase next year, but if you sign up now, or if you’re already signed up now, the price isn’t going to increase for you guys. OK? So, that’s a little incentive to get in there now and give it a go before I upgrade it.

And apart from that, I’m obviously working on The Effortless Phrasal Verb Course, guys. If you guys are having trouble with phrasal verbs, make sure you show up every Monday and every Thursday on Facebook at 7PM Melbourne time, and you can watch the episodes that I put up there for free. And if you want the transcript, the slideshow, the MP3s, the video and everything, sign up to the course. It’s 97 dollars now, guys. And you’ll save 13 dollars if you buy it now before I finish putting it out, and then release it.

Anyway, guys. That’s enough. No more announcements. Let’s get into the expression episode.

Joke:

So, as usual let’s start with the joke. I got a joke for you guys. (It’s a) bit of a dad joke those so it’s kind of… it’s funny, but it’s not really funny. OK.

So, what kind of music to kangaroos listen to? What kind of music to kangaroos listen to? Can you guys guess the genre of music? Kangaroos listen to “hip hop”, to “hip hop”, guys. Get it? “Hip hop”, because kangaroos hop. Yeah, that’s it. Good joke. Great jokes, huh? Great jokes.

Expression:

So, today’s expression is “Little strokes fell great oaks“. “Little strokes fell great oaks.”

It’s kind of a saying, I guess. It’s not necessarily… It’s an expression, but it’s not something that you would use or conjugate in a sentence. You normally just say this as a proverb, as… yeah, sort of as an expression to explain… I guess, we‘ll get to the definition of it.

But as usual, let’s go through and define the words in the expression.

So, little strokes fell great oaks. Little strokes fell great oaks.

Definitions:

“Little“. I’m sure you guys are going to know the word little. It means small in size, small in amount, small in degree. So, he has a little dog.

“A stroke“. “A stroke” is the act of hitting something or striking something. OK? So, it’s like this movement, right? So, we refer to strokes in golf as the number of hits that someone makes when they’re playing the game of golf. So, it’s like it’s a blow. It’s a hit. It’s a strike. A stroke. So, he swung the axe at the tree and he felled the tree in two strokes. So, it took two hits with the axe to chop the tree down.

“To fell“. “To fell” is a verb. It’s not too common, and it tends to only be used for trees getting chopped down. So, if you fell something, it’s that you have cut down a tree. It’s gone from upright to lying down on the ground, because you’ve cut it. You’ve caused it to fall. You’ve felled the trees. So, the timber company felled a small forest, it felled the little forest. And a man could fell a tree with just two strokes of his axe.

In the expression, little strokes fell great oaks, “great” is big, impressive, grand, large, massive, huge. So, if you’ve got a tree that is a great tree, it’s big, it’s massive, it’s really impressive. It’s a great tree. So, the largest land mammals are the great elephants. They’re great, they’re huge, they’re impressive. And maybe we want to talk about the largest whale in the ocean is the blue whale. It’s the greatest whale of all. It’s great.

The last word in the expression, “little strokes fell great oaks”, is “oak“. “An oak” or multiple “oaks”. “An oak”, O-A-K, is a type of tree, a really large tree, and these are from the northern hemisphere. I believe they’re from the US. They’re probably found in Europe as well, though I’m not 100 percent sure. But these are trees that have acorns, the little nuts that squirrels typically eat. And they’re deciduous. And “deciduous” means that they shed their leaves every year. I think during winter. And then, they grow their leaves back during spring, and then into summer. So, that’s what “an oak” is. It’s a kind of tree.

So, keep hammering away at something for a really long time. And that is little strokes for great oaks.

So, the expression. When we say the proverb or the expression “little strokes fell great oaks“, it’s that limited strength when persistently applied, so continuously applied, can accomplish great feats, can accomplish great things. So, “little strokes fell great oaks“. It’s the idea of slowly but surely, or slow and steady wins the race, or maybe little by little. Right?

And it also made me think of a song that you guys should check out, an Australian song, called From Little Things Big Things Grow, From Little Things Big Things Grow. And this is by singer/songwriter Paul Kelly. He’s a really really good famous Australian musician.

But the expression “little strokes felt great oaks“, I hadn’t actually heard this before. And it was Ruchi that suggested this expression, and I looked it up, worked out what it meant. I can kind of gain the sense, but I’d never heard it. So, thank you Ruchi for suggesting this in The Aussie English Virtual Classroom, guys, and thanks everyone else for voting on this expression.

Expression Origin:

And it actually comes from Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin used this proverb in his book Poor Richard’s Almanack. OK? So, this is from the 1700s. And Benjamin Franklin was a famous inventor in the US.

Examples:

So, as usual guys, let’s go through some examples of how to use this expression or this proverb, this saying.

1.

So, imagine first, the first example. You go to a gym and you meet a really massive guy, you know, a bodybuilder. He’s ripped, he’s huge, and you think, “Far out! I’ll never be as big as this guy.”. He walks over to you puts his hand on your shoulder and says, “Don’t worry, mate. Little by little you’re going to get bigger. You’re going to get… you could get this big, but you’re going to have to train every day, and little by little you’ll improve. Rep by rep, sit up by sit up, push up by push up, you’ll get bigger and bigger every single day.” He might say, “Little strokes fell great oaks.”. So, in this sense “little strokes” are the slow and gradual exercises that you do every single day. And the “great oaks” are getting ripped. That’s the metaphor here. Little strokes fell great folks.

2.

Example number two. Imagine you are running a marathon, guys. And you’ve just started the marathon. It’s the first one you’ve ever done. You’ve never run a marathon before, but this time you’re going for it, and you know you’re going to finish it. So, you have to remind yourself, “Slow and steady wins the race! I can do this. I just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Step by step, I can do this! Little strokes fell great oaks.”. If I persistently do these small actions, I will get this great reward as a result at the end. OK? So, each step is a “little stroke”, and finishing the race or winning the race is the “great oak”, OK, in this example.

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Example number three. Maybe you trying to conquer English. You’re trying to get to fluency. You’re trying to master the language that is English. OK? So, you’ve started, you’re practicing a little bit every day, five minutes a day, half an hour a day, one hour a day. It feels daunting. It feels like it’s a big challenge. “Maybe, I‘m not up to it”, but then you remind yourself that, “Slowly but surely, over time, gradually, if I keep exercising, or keep doing exercises, if I keep practicing my English, I’m going to improve, and eventually I’m going to conquer this language, because little strokes fell great oaks.” OK? “Little strokes” being everyday practice that you do. “Great oaks” being becoming fluent in English, mastering the language that is English. So, little strokes fell great oaks.

So, as usual guys, let’s go through a little listen and repeat exercise. Find a place that you guys can listen and repeat after me. Maybe away from people so that you can feel confident. Say these words out loud. Try and repeat exactly as I say them, if you want to work on your Aussie accent, guys. But find somewhere now and we’ll get started. OK? So, many go through and say each one of these words in this sentence and build the sentence. And then, I’m going to just say the whole thing several times. So, listen and repeat after me, guys.

Listen & Repeat:

Little

Little strokes

Little strokes fell

Little strokes fell great

Little strokes fell great oaks

Little strokes fell great oaks

Little strokes fell great oaks

Little strokes fell great oaks

Little strokes fell great folks

Pronunciation Tip:

Good job, guys, there. So, one thing, I guess, pronunciation was that I want to focus on, that I want you to pay attention to when you go back and listen one more time. The T’s in the word “little”, and in the word… or between the words “great” and “oak”, “great oak”, “little”, the T-flap is present. So, I don’t say “little”. I don’t say “great oaks”. I say “little” and “great oaks”. OK? So, that’s the T-flap at work there. So, when you go back and listen to that exercise, you’ll hear that I don’t pronounce it as “little strokes fell a great oaks“, I say, “little strokes felt great oaks“. So, the T is sort of turned into that T-flap, kind of like a D/R sound. OK?

So, practice that and you sound like a native when you speak quickly. And it actually gets easier to speak quickly when you start using the T-flap.

Aussie Fact:

So, before we finish up, guys, the Aussie fact for the day, the Aussie fact for the day is that Aboriginal people have inhabited Australia for about 50,000-60,000 years. They live everywhere in the continent, or at least they did until after European colonisation. They lived on the Torres Strait Islands between Papua New Guinea and the tip of Queensland. But the really cool thing that people don’t often know about Indigenous Australians, Aborigines, is that they actually comprised 500 or more clans, 500 or more nations, “nations”, or “countries”, as we would call them. So, Australia wasn’t just one group of Aboriginals that all, you know, spoke exactly the same language, that all had exactly the same culture, but instead they were up to 500 or more different nations or countries spread all over Australia, guys. So, I always find that mind-blowing.

And, I guess, to give you an idea of how many languages were spoken, there were between 290 and 363 Aboriginal languages that were spoken in Australia before European colonisation. So, mind-blowing. 300 or more languages were spoken across Australia. That is like probably the equivalent of a number of languages throughout all of Europe and Asia. You know? It’s just ridiculous.

Anyway, guys, with that, thank you so much for coming to this episode. If you want to sign up to The Aussie English Classroom to get the bonus content for this lesson and learn to speak Australian English like me, learn to understand it better, learn to improve all aspects of your English, sign up to The Aussie English Classroom. It’s just one dollar, one buck, and you get four lessons for the first month. And if you sign up now and continue into the future, when I do the redesign of Aussie English and the price goes up, you won’t pay any more. You’ll pay the amount that you signed up at.

OK, guys. So, I hope you have a freakin’ amazing weekend. Thanks again for showing up, and I will see you next week. Peace out guys.

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Additional Exercises:

Exercise 1: Vocab & Writing Practice:

Let’s try something different in this lesson. I want you to:

1. Find the sentence that includes the word or phrase in the text and write it out.
2. Write your own sentence using that word or phrase.

SW = Somewhere
ST = Something
SO = Someone

An aspect – a particular part or feature of ST.
A bodybuilder – a person who strengthens and enlarges the muscles of their body through strenuous exercise.
A breakdown – the reduction of ST into smaller parts to better understand it.
A genre – a style or category of art, music, or literature.
A mission – a goal, a purpose, a reason to do ST.
A quiz – a test of knowledge in a small test.
A squirrel – an agile tree-dwelling rodent with a bushy tail.
A tip – a pointed or rounded end or extremity of something slender or tapering.
A whale – a very large marine mammal
An acorn – the fruit of an oak tree
An axe – a bladed tool for chopping wood
An incentive – a thing that motivates or encourages SO to do ST.
Colonisation – the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
Daunting – seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating.
Equivalent – equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
Housekeeping – lit. the management of household affairs (e.g. announcements)
Impressive – evoking admiration through size, quality, or skill; grand, imposing, or awesome.
Intuitive – using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive.
Little by little – gradually.
Messy – not clean.
Mind-blowing – incredibly impressive or shocking.
Persistently – continuing in a determined or resolute manner.
Ridiculous – deserving or inviting derision or mockery; absurd.
Slow and steady wins the race – consistent, effective effort leads to success.
Slowly but surely – achieving the desired results gradually and reliably rather than quickly and spectacularly.
Timber – wood prepared for use in building and carpentry.
To (not) be up to ST – to (not) want to or be prepared to do ST.
To collect ST – to gather ST.
To comprise – to consist of; be made up of.
To conquer ST – to overcome and take control of ST.
To fill ST up – to completely make ST full.
To get to ST – to reach ST; to address ST (e.g. a topic).
To go back – to return
To hammer away at ST – to continuously work away at ST in order to complete it.
To inhabit – to live in or occupy.
To reformat ST – to give a new format to ST; revise or represent in another format.
To remind oneself – cause oneself to remember ST.
To show up – to arrive SW.
To work on ST – to spend time improving or repairing ST.
To work ST out – to figure ST out.

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Exercise 2: Listening Comprehension:

• Listen to the episode again now and answer these questions in your own words.

1. What do I want to put on the wall behind me?

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2. What’s the postcard address?

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3. When did I reformat the AE Classroom episodes?

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4. What am I working on coming up with?

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5. What am I wanting to set up on the website? A ______ management _____.

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6. When am I wanting to bring that to everyone?

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7. What’s going to happen to the price next year?

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8. What else am I working on at the moment?

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9. Which days are the live classes on FB on?

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10. What time of day?

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11. How much is the course at the moment?

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12. How much do you save off the price at the moment?

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13. What kind of music do kangaroos listen to? Kangaroos listen to ___ ___.

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14. What’s today’s expression?

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15. It’s an expression, but it’s also a p_____.

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16. Define: little

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17. He has a little ___.

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18. Define: a stroke

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19. He swung the ___ at the tree and he _____ the tree in two strokes.

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20. Define: to fell

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21. The timber ______ felled a little _____.

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22. Define: great

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23. The largest ____ ______ are the great elephants.

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24. Define: oak

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25. Deciduous means that they shed their _____ ever winter.

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26. Define: little strokes fell great oaks

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27. Slowly but _____, or slow and _____ wins the race, or little __ little.

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28. Had I heard this expression before?

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29. Who suggested this expression?

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30. Who does this expression come from?

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31. What year was the book from?

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32. Briefly describe example 1.

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33. Briefly describe example 2.

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34. Briefly describe example 3.

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35. What aspect of English pronunciation do I go over today?

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36. How long have aboriginals inhabited Australia?

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37. Did they occupy just some or all of the continent?

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38. How many aboriginal clans were there in Australia?

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39. How many languages were spoken?

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All answers below in the Answers section.

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Exercise 3: Phrasal Verb Substitution:

• In this exercise, we’re going to practice using the phrasal verb “To show up”, which means:

o To arrive (at) SW
o To get (to) SW
o To come SW
o To reach SW

• Substitute in the phrasal verb “To show up” into the following sentences.

• Pay attention to match the verb tense used in each sentence too. Let’s go:

1. I’ll arrive at his place soon.

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2. You got to the beach.

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3. He comes when he’s ready.

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4. She’ll have reached there by now.

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5. We’d arrive in the evening.

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6. They used to come each morning.

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7. It has reached the shops.

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8. I had arrived early.

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9. You get to school on time.

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10. He wanted to come at brekkie (breakfast).

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11. She had got here in the arvo (afternoon).

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12. We’ll reach the party soon.

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All answers below in the Answers section.

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Exercise 4: Slang:

This week’s slang mission is to look up and use the following slang terms.

A rep – A repetition.

E.g. I did 10 reps in this set of bicep curls.

Create your own example sentence:

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Freakin’ – Adjective used for emphasis. Polite version of “Fucking”.

E.g. This gym is freakin’ amazing!

Create your own example sentence:

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Ripped – To have very well-defined musculature on your body.

E.g. This bodybuilder is freakin’ ripped!

Create your own example sentence:

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To suss ST out – To come to understand ST or work ST out.

E.g. I’m going to suss out how much this gym membership is.

Create your own example sentence:

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A tradie – A tradesman.

E.g. That bodybuilder works as a tradie.

Create your own example sentence:

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Brekkie – Breakfast.

E.g. What did you have for brekkie?

Create your own example sentence:

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An arvo – An afternoon.

E.g. I’m going to the gym this arvo.

Create your own example sentence:

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Exercise 5: Pronunciation:

• In this exercise, we’re going to practice the vowel sound /?/.

Mid /m?d/
Lid /l?d/
It /?t/
Pit /p?t/
Sit /s?t/
Did /d?d/
Min /m?n/
Bin /b?n/
Pin /p?n/
Fig /f?g/
Dig /d?g/
Sick /s?k/
Sieve /s?v/
Zig /z?g/
Wig /w?g/
Whiff /w?f/
Stiff /st?f/
Lift /l?ft/
Hit /h?t/
Bit /b?t/

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Exercise 6: Connected Speech:

• In this exercise, we’re going to practice connected speech and focus on the pronunciation of the T-Flap.

• To T-Flap occurs when a T sound is surrounded by two vowel sounds, one in front, one afterwards.

o Water /?w??t?/ –> Water /?w????/
o Bit off /b?t ?f/ –> Bit off /b?? ?f/

• In the following exercise, I want you to substitute in the T-flap /?/ for the normal T sound /t/. Let’s go:

1. Water – /?w??t?/ – /?w????/
2. Pretty – /?pr?ti/ – /?pr??i/
3. Forty – /?f??ti/ – /?f???i/
4. Hospital – /?h?sp?tl/ – /?h?sp??l/
5. Better – /?b?t?/ – /?b???/
6. Little– /?l?tl/ – /?l??l/
7. Bit off- /b?t ?f/ – /b?? ?f/
8. Party – /?p??ti/ – /?p???i/
9. University – /?ju?n??v??s?ti/ – /?ju?n??v??s??i/
10. Thought of – /???t ?v/ – /???? ?v/
11. Figure it out – /?f?g?r ?t a?t/ – /?f?g?r ?? a?t/
12. What is it? – /w?t ?z ?t/ – /w?? ?z ?t/
13. Wait it out? – /we?t ?t a?t/ – /we?? ?? a?t/
14. Eight elephants eat olives – /e?t ??l?f?nts i?t ??l?vz/ – /e?? ??l?f?nts i?? ??l?vz/

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Exercise 7: Grammar exercise:

• In this exercise, we’re going to practice using “used to”.

• We use “used to (+ infinitive verb)” to talk about things that happened in the past repeatedly that no longer happen now.

o E.g. When I was young, I used to go to school.
o E.g. In the 1990s, I used to be a tradie (tradesman).

• Let’s convert sentences in the Simple Past Tense, e.g. “Yesterday, I went out”, to sentences using “used to”, e.g. “When I was young, I used to go out”.

• I also want you to substitute in “When I was young” for “Yesterday” at the start of these sentences to give you context.

• Let’s go!

1. Yesterday, I arrived at his place.

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2.Yesterday, you got to the beach.

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3.Yesterday, he came here.

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4.Yesterday, she reached the shops.

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5.Yesterday, we arrived in the evening.

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6.Yesterday, they came in the morning.

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7.Yesterday, it reached the city.

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8.Yesterday, I arrived early.

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9.Yesterday, you got to school on time.

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10.Yesterday, he came at brekkie (breakfast).

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11.Yesterday, she got here in the arvo (afternoon).

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12.Yesterday, we reached the party.

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All answers below in the Answers section.

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Answers Section:

Exercise 2: Listening comprehension exercise:

1. What do I want to put on the wall behind me?
   1. Postcards
2. What’s the postcard address?
   1. PO Box 597, Ocean Grove, 3226, Victoria, Australia
3. When did I reformat the AE Classroom episodes?
   1. Last week
4. What am I working on coming up with?
   1. A better way for you to consume the material.
5. What am I wanting to set up on the website? A ______ management _____.
   1. A Learning Management System
6. When am I wanting to bring that to everyone?
   1. In the new year
7. What’s going to happen to the price next year?
   1. It’s going to increase
8. What else am I working on at the moment?
   1. The Effortless Phrasal Verb Course
9. Which days are the live classes on FB on?
   1. Monday and Thursday
10. What time of day?
    1. 7PM (Melbourne time)
11. How much is the course at the moment?
    1. $97
12. How much do you save off the price at the moment?
    1. $13
13. What kind of music do kangaroos listen to? Kangaroos listen to ___ ___.
    1. Kangaroos listen to Hip Hop
14. What’s today’s expression?
    1. Little strokes fell great oaks
15. It’s an expression, but it’s also a p_____.
    1. A proverb.
16. Define: little
    1. Small in size, amount, degree.
17. He has a little ___.
    1. dog
18. Define: a stroke
    1. The act of hitting or striking something.
19. He swung the ___ at the tree and he _____ the tree in two strokes.
    1. Axe, felled.
20. Define: to fell
    1. To cut or chop down a tree.
21. The timber ______ felled a little _____.
    1. Company, forest.
22. Define: great
    1. Big, impressive, grand, large, massive, huge.
23. The largest ____ ______ are the great elephants.
    1. Land, mammals
24. Define: oak
    1. A type of large tree from the northern hemisphere that have acorns and are deciduous.
25. Deciduous means that they shed their _____ ever winter.
    1. Leaves
26. Define: little strokes fell great oaks
    1. Limited strength when persistently applied can accomplish great feats.
27. Slowly but _____, or slow and _____ wins the race, or little __ little.
    1. Surely, steady, by.
28. Had I heard this expression before?
    1. No
29. Who suggested this expression?
    1. Ruchi
30. Who does this expression come from?
    1. Benjamin Franklin
31. What year was the book from?
    1. The 1700s
32. Briefly describe example 1.
    1. You go to a gym and meet a bodybuilder. You think you’ll never be as big as him. He says to you not to worry because you’ll get bigger little by little. Little strokes fell great oaks.
33. Briefly describe example 2.
    1. You’re running a marathon. It’s the first you’ve ever done. This time you’re going for it and going to finish it. You remind yourself that slow and steady wins the race. Little strokes fell great oaks.
34. Briefly describe example 3.
    1. You’re trying to conquer English and get to fluency. You’re practicing a little every day, but feel worried you’ll never get there. You remind yourself that gradually over time you’ll improve and conquer the language. Little strokes fell great oaks.
35. What aspect of English pronunciation do I go over today?
    1. The T-flap
36. How long have aboriginals inhabited Australia?
    1. 50-60,000 years
37. Did they occupy just some or all of the continent?
    1. All of the continent
38. How many aboriginal clans were there in Australia?
    1. 500+
39. How many languages were spoken?
    1. 290-363, ~300 or more

Exercise 3: Substitution Exercise:

1. I’ll arrive at his place soon.
   1. I’ll show up at his place soon.
2. You got to the beach.
   1. You showed up to the beach.
3. He comes when he’s ready.
   1. He shows up when he’s ready.
4. She’ll have reached there by now.
   1. She’ll have shown up there by now.
5. We’d arrive in the evening.
   1. We’d show up in the evening.
6. They used to come each morning.
   1. They used to show up each morning.
7. It has reached the shops.
   1. It has shown up at the shops.
8. I had arrived
   1. I had shown up
9. You get to school on time.
   1. You show up to school on time.
10. He wanted to come at brekkie (breakfast).
    1. He wanted to show up at brekkie.
11. She had got here in the arvo (afternoon).
    1. She had shown up here in the arvo.
12. We’ll reach the party soon.
    1. We’ll show up at the party soon.

Exercise 7: Grammar exercise:

1. Yesterday, I arrived at his place.
   1. When I was young, I used to arrive at his place.
2. Yesterday, you got to the beach.
   1. When I was young, you used to get to the beach.
3. Yesterday, he came
   1. When I was young, he used to come
4. Yesterday, she reached the shops.
   1. When I was young, she used to reach the shops.
5. Yesterday, we arrived in the evening.
   1. When I was young, we used to arrive in the evening.
6. Yesterday, they came in the morning.
   1. When I was young, they used to come in the morning.
7. Yesterday, it reached the city.
   1. When I was young, it used to reach the city.
8. Yesterday, I arrived
   1. When I was young, I used to arrive
9. Yesterday, you got to school on time.
   1. When I was young, you used to get to school on time.
10. Yesterday, he came at brekkie (breakfast).
    1. When I was young, he used to come at brekkie (breakfast).
11. Yesterday, she got here in the arvo (afternoon).
    1. When I was young, she used to get here in the arvo (afternoon).
12. Yesterday, we reached the party.
    1. When I was young, we used to reach the party. [/mepr-active]

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