I went through a rough time when I had to go through with a speech
last week. Of course, before I went on stage, I went through
a couple of cups of coffee while going through the notes for the speech.
That's a lot to go through, let's discuss. Welcome to another Happy English
podcast, coming to you from New York City, and here's your English teacher,
Michael al Rye. Thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael
here from Happy English and I help people speak English better. And this is
Happy English Podcast, Episode seven twenty seven. Go through. Have you ever
gone through a tunnel with your car or maybe a train you were on went
through a tunnel. Well, when you go through a tunnel, you start
at one end and come out the other end. It's a process of moving
from one point to the other. Think about that as you listen to this
lesson on using go through. John wants to become a lawyer. As he
recently found out, the process to become a lawyer is not an easy one.
Not only does he need to complete a college degree and then go to
law school, but he also needs to pass the bar exam in his state.
In other words, he needs to go through a lot in order to
reach his goal. As in this story about John, go through means to
experience a situation, especially something difficult or unpleasant. When you go through something
like this, you really don't have a choice. John is a bit stressed
because he's going through his final exams this week. Our company was just bought
by a bigger company, so we are going through major changes right now.
Alice just went through a difficult breakup with her boyfriend. Sarah is very good
at her job, and her boss and her coworkers appreciate her effort all the
time and the skills that she brings to the office. She also has a
lot of experience working there and because of that, her boss wanted her to
give a speech at the next conference. Sounds nice, right. The problem
is that Sarah is deathly afraid of any kind of public speaking situations. But
when the boss asks, she can't say no, so she's going to have
to go through with it. We use go through with something when you talk
about doing something despite being unwilling to do it. When you go through with
something like this, you don't want to do it, but somehow you manage
to do it. Even though she gets nervous doing public speaking, Sarah decided
to go through with the speech that her boss asked her to make. Nestor
and Phoebe were hesitant about buying the old house because of its condition, but
in the end they went through with the purchase, hoping to restore it.
Lisa was unsure about quitting her job and starting her own business, but she
finally went through with it after months of planning. Michael is an English teacher
and along with his job comes a lot of writing. He writes lessons,
social media posts, and even the scripts for his videos. While everyone knows
that it's important to check those documents before using them, it seems that Michael
always has a problem with typing the stakes. All of his students know this
and he knows it too, But despite the fact that he always goes through
everything, those typing mistakes often show up when you go through something like a
file or a document thoroughly. You examine it or search it, usually to
find something or to check for errors. Let's have our lawyer go through the
contract once more to ensure there are no mistakes. We need to go through
these files to find the document we're missing. He went through his contact list,
but he couldn't find Grandpa's address. Jenny has three young children between the
ages of four and ten. She's always amazed by the amount of basic grocery
items she uses up each week. Her family can assumes almost four liters of
milk every day, not to mention bread, eggs, peanut butter, and
so on. They certainly go through a lot of groceries. In this case,
go through means to consume or use up something. Betty said that her
kids go through almost a gallon of milk every day. That's about four leaders.
I can't believe how quickly we've gone through all the coffee this week.
I got a new printer because the old one went through ink to quickly.
Being the driver of one of those high speed trains in France or in Japan
is a job that involves a lot. Before even leaving the station, the
driver needs to carry out a number of procedures to make sure that the train
is ready for departure. There are checklists for safety as well as checklists for
basic operations, and the driver must go through all of these procedures in order
to safely operate the train. Go through also means to perform a series of
actions or carry out a procedure or process from start to finish. Before the
plane takes off, the pilot goes through a safety checklist. Let's go through
the schedule one more time before we send it out. Once you get hired
in our company, you'll be going through four weeks of on the job training.
Lenny is a high school student with big hopes of going toit to study
engineering. MIT is one of the best engineering schools in America, and getting
into that university is not a walk in the park. The application process is
very intense and Lenny has spent a lot of time preparing all of the documents
he needs to include with his application. Tomorrow morning, he's going to put
it in the mail and send it off, and the only thing that he
can do after that is just hope that his application goes through successfully. In
this usage of go through, we talk about a process like an application or
a transaction coming to a successful conclusion. As you'll see in the following examples,
the subject of go through is the thing like the application or transaction.
I hope my loan application goes through without any issues. She was relieved when
her visa application finally went through. I sent a bankwire transfer and they told
me it should go through in two days. Keep in mind the best way
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