UE 091 - Philomena, Breaking Rules, and Different Ways To Say "Going"

Uncensored English

By request of a student I made the podcast to give you listeners out there multiple ways to say the word "going" Also we discuss a sad movie and why its ok to break rules sometimes.

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Keiran: How is it going everybody? Today, is Wednesday, October the fifth. Which means I am not teaching, but I am working doing a podcast. I'm doing my second to the last comedy show tonight and I'm helping my wife with this English assignment she has. She has to compare the play of this Rex which I talked about in Saturday's podcast on the first. And this, oh my god this emotionally wrenching film I just watched that's called "Philomena", which I have to admit I cried my eyes out like a baby during the film. That was a very sad film. I wish I'd never had watched it. But it's probably, it's probably a pretty good film. I think if you guys watch it you'll probably like it, it's tough to watch though. It's about a girl, a young woman who got pregnant and she was a nun in a convent which means she was a Catholic and she lived with a whole bunch of other women in the convent. They can't have sex, so she broke her vows, she got pregnant and then the sisters of the convent made her give away the baby when she was very young and at fifty she decide, it's not her fifty, it's like seven years and then she decides to go and try to find her son. And then in the end she ends up finding that he had died and blah blah blah, and oh my god it's sad I cried. [Chuckles] I haven't cried for a while but I cried during that movie, so. You better not be laughing at me. You cry too! I know you do stop lying. Stop saying you don't. Everybody cries. Even men, men cry. So, yes and today I wanted to talk about something, I was teaching a class on Tuesday and one of my students, she said, you know, I know I've improved in my English but I'm still not where I want to be yet and I feel like I'm always using the same words. And I've heard this a lot from many different students and it's a funny thing because I don't think an English person will ever worry about this and I don't think you in your native language will ever worry about the words you're using, yet people seem concerned that they sound overly simple. So today I'm going to give you guys a few different ways you can say that you're going somewhere, very simple ways to say this in a different way. But I mean this, this conversation I had with this student and with many other students made me realize, what are you learning the language for? You know. Is it because you want to communicate a message and connect with another person? Or is it because you want to seem intelligent? So I don't know if saying something in many different ways is actually helpful. I mean, I know you want to understand the language but maybe that's something to contemplate for everyone out there who's listening to this podcast. Why am I learning to speak this language? Right?

Okay. So sometimes in English, sometimes in English. Sometimes we're talking and we say, we are going somewhere. I'm going to go to the store and get some food. Later on I'm going to go to a party or maybe you're saying, Hey! Where did John go? He went to the the party to go get hammered. To go get drunk. To go have some fun. But you're tired of saying it in the same way all the time. So here are two different words you can use to say the same thing but in a different way. So instead of saying, "I'm going to the store", you can say, "I'm heading to the store", just like your head. Think of it as if all your decisions are made in your brain. So your brain is leading the way. "I'm heading to the store to get some booze." "I'm heading to the store to buy some ingredients before it closes, so I can cook you dinner". So if you ever want to say you're going somewhere but you're tired of saying you're going somewhere, you can now say, "I'm heading to the party at eight o'clock later tonight". Where did John go? "Oh, John is heading off to the football game. It's the last game of the season. He's heading to the football game." Okay. So that's the first word you can use instead of the verb go or going or went. He headed to the party, you can also say in the past. The second one we can use is, "off to". Where are you going? "Well, I'm off to the store." "I'm off to the store to get some ingredients." Where are you going next year? "Next year I'm off to South Korea. I'm going to go live there and I'm going to learn the language, so I can perform comedy in Korean. I'm going to be off to Korea in a few years." "I'm off to." Actually I just thought of something funny that happened this weekend that kind of a pissed me off a little. I realized as time goes by, one of the things that really pisses me off, one of my pet peeves, is people mindlessly following rules. You know, we have rules to create a society so that everything kind of works and we all can get through our days. That's why we have rules like stop sign and traffic rules and speeding limits, so everyone can kind of lives seamlessly together but sometimes the rules don't really make sense. You know. So I was at my sister's wedding on Saturday and after the wedding we were all getting into the cars. We were going to go to a restaurant for the dinner and then the party afterwards. And I go get in my car. And we were in this small parking lot and there was only one way to get in the parking lot. It was a one way road which came off of the main road, which will lead right to the parking lot. But before it entered the parking lot, the road split in two. So you could go around the left to the parking lot or you could enter the parking lot. And of course this is a one way road so you can only go towards the parking lot or around the parking lot. And we were all in our car and everyone else was in their car and then the limo that the bridal party was in was parked in front of the building and they were blocking the exit to the parking lot. So there's this big line of cars accumulating behind the limo and I didn't really want to wait. So what I started to do is I started to drive out the exit of the parking lot, which of course you're not supposed to do. It's a one way road, but you can see all the way down to the end of the road and there's no cars coming down that one way road. And so I drove out the exit and then I drove right to where it fork and I turned right in the fork of the road and then I went by the limo and I got out of the parking lot. But while I was going towards that parking lot exit. I mean entrance. Well, I'm not supposed to be going out there, my aunt was waiting in line with all the other cars and she saw me and she started waving and she'll be like, "No no no no no no! You're heading in the wrong way. You're heading in the wrong way Carrie. Don't go there." And I was just, "Oh God, and as I, everyone in the car was getting very upset because they all knew that that was a one way road. But then on the other hand it doesn't really matter that that is a one way road because there were no cars in clear sight coming down that road. So it was really pointless to acknowledge that as a one way road. Wow! I wonder if that was clear. I think it was pretty clear. You know. If you've listened to this podcast and it wasn't clear to me, let me know. I mean, clear to you, let me know. But let's summarize this real quickly. So today we talked about two different ways you can say you're going somewhere, instead of saying you're going somewhere. So we can say we are heading to the pool, instead of saying you're going to the pool or if someone says, Hey! Where is Jen going? You could say, "She's off to the pool." Alright guys. That's the end of this podcast. I hope you enjoyed it and found it useful. Rate it, review it, and we'll catch you next time on the next podcast... Uncensored English.