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Speaker 1: I was working away this morning, trying to write this

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podcast English lesson, and it was hard to concentrate because

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my dog Max was barking away while looking out the window. Meanwhile,

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my other dog Rosie was sleeping away, snoring on the sofa.

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You see, working from home is not as easy as

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it sounds.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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This is Happy English Podcast, Episode eight twenty five. Frasal

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verbs with away, Hello and welcome. Thanks for joining me

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for another episode of the Happy English Podcast. I'm your

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English teacher Michael, and I'm glad you could join me here. Today.

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We're going to talk about a group of phrasal verbs

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that all have something in common. They use the word away.

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When we use away like this in a phrasal verb,

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it gives us a feeling of something continuing, something happening

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with a lot of energy or focus. It's kind of

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like the word away tells the verb hey, keep going.

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So when you hear someone say they're working away or

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typing away, it doesn't just describe what they're doing. It

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tells you they're doing it with focus, maybe for a

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long time, and probably with no interruptions. And now let's

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look at some common away Fraser verbs that you'll hear

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all the time in everyday conversation. The first one for

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today is cook away. When someone is cooking away, they're

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busy cooking and they've probably been doing it for a while.

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We have a holiday in the States in November called

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Thanksgiving Day, and it's a holiday that's based around a

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huge meal with special foods that needs a lot of

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special preparation time. I'm gonna guess you have a holiday

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like that in your country too. And I remember when

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I was a kid, my mom was in the kitchen

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cooking away all day to prepare that meal. She was

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cooking away, dressing the turkey, mashing the potatoes, preparing in

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baking the apple pie. Yeah, she was really cooking away there.

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The next one is something we all do from time

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to time, whether it's at the office or at school.

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Work away. I think workaway is a phrasal verb that's

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easy to imagine someone at the desk sitting in front

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of the computer for hours totally focused on work. Like

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this morning, Jack was working away at his laptop and

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didn't even notice I walked into the room. He was

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really working away. It seems that his team has been

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working away all week to meet a project deadline. And

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I've been working away here all morning to bring you

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this podcast. Working away, it's a feeling of steady, focused activity,

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just putting in the effort to get the job done.

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And in a similar way, we have type away and

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write away. Both of these give the image of fingers

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flying across the computer keyboard like Jack's coworker Kim. Like Jack,

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she was typing away all morning, probably finishing some report

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or a spreadsheet. I remember when I was a kid

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and my dad would work from home, typing away at

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the typewriter on his desk. And the other day at

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the coffee shop, I saw a guy writing away in

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his notebook. It seemed like he was totally lost in thought.

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It's not just writing, he was writing away. He was

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in the zone. And what's possible with your fingers is

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also possible with your mouth. You can be talking away.

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Over the weekend, I got a phone call from one

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of my cousins who I haven't heard from in a while.

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We were talking away for over an hour, and Away

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teams up with probably all of the verbs related to talking.

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Like after work, Kim and her co workers were chatting

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away at the bar with a few beers, and one

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of the major topics was about the boss who was

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yelling away at Jack for coming to work late. You

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can be talking away, chatting away, gabbing away, blabbing away,

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and even yelling away. And regardless of what comes out

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of your mouth when you use away, it's a lot

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and with a lot of energy. Do you like music?

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Have you ever been singing away in the shower? Or

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maybe you like rock and roll and head to YouTube

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to watch Eddie van Halen playing away on that red

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and white guitar of his playing away, singing away. Whatever

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instrument you use, you're putting a lot of energy and

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effort into it. Maybe you like the drums and spend

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hours on end banging away in the studio. And you

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know how we call a photo a snapshot. That's because

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you can snap a photo, which means to take a photo.

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And when you take a lot of photos continuously, you

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guessed it snap away. At the wedding last week, the

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photographer was snapping away, the band was playing away and

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the guests were drinking away during the reception. Well, there

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you have it, Thanks for studying away with me today.

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