Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for spending time with me today. I'm sure
that you'll feel that by listening to this podcast you'll
be spending your time wisely. Today I'm gonna help you
build your vocabulary, and I hope that doesn't make you
too spent.
Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from
New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.
Speaker 1: All right, 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 eight thirty four.
Here's how to spend. Hello and welcome. Thanks for joining
me for another episode of the Happy English Podcast. I'm
your English teacher Michael, and I'm so glad you're here
with me today. We're going to talk about using spend,
a small word with a lot of power. Now you
might just think that it's about money, but spend has
a few really useful and interesting meanings, and if you
are like a lot of English learners, you might sometimes
get tripped up on how to use spend. So let's
break it down together. The most common way we use
spend is with time. You can say that you spend
time doing something, or you can mention a specific amount
of time, like today I spent an hour cleaning the house.
Thanks Max, I spent an hour. You can also spend
the weekend, spend three years, or spend your whole life,
like I spent a lot of time looking for a
new computer, or we spent the weekend in Boston. It
was great. Jenny said. She spends several hours a day
working in her garden and it shows it looks amazing.
You can also spend time with someone, like I spent
the day with my grandmother, or we love spending time
with our friends on the weekends. So spend time with
someone is a warm, friendly phrase, and in a similar
but deeper way. You can spend your life doing something.
We use spend your life doing something when we talk
about long term projects or activities like mother Teresa spent
her life helping people, or Frank and his wife bought
an RV so they can spend the rest of their
life traveling around the country. It gives a sense of
pers and how someone uses their time overall. Of course,
you can also spend money. You can say that you
spend money on something, or you can be more specific,
like spend one hundred dollars or spend a lot of money,
like Jack said he spent a lot of money on
that suit, or Eddie spent one thousand dollars in Vegas
and lost everything, and me, well, I don't go to
Starbucks much. I don't want to spend five bucks on
one cup of coffee. And speaking of money, it's a
good idea to spend wisely. This means to use your
money in a practical way, like not wasting your money.
I remember when I was a kid and I got
paid the first time for my part time job. My
dad told me to spend my money. Why it's good advice, right.
We usually use spend wisely when we talk about money,
but spend wisely can also be used for time too,
Like we only have three days here in New York City,
so let's spend our time wisely so that we can
see and do as much as possible. And here's another
cool way to use spend We can talk about spending energy.
This is a pretty common way to talk about things
that take a lot of work or focus. When you
spend energy doing something, you're using your effort, Like we
spent a lot of energy researching the best way to
upgrade the website, or Jenny spent a lot of energy
putting together a really nice party for Jack's birthday. In
other words, it took her a lot of effort and
hard work to make that party happen. You get the idea.
Spending energy is all about putting in effort. And by
the way, you can also be spent. When you spend
all of the energy in your body or the energy
in your brain, you are spent. That's right. To be
spent means to be exhausted or really tired. You might
say something like I was totally spent after the race,
or maybe you look spent. What happened? When you say
I'm spent, it's like saying I've got nothing left in
the tank, no more energy. You're done. You're spent, So
there you go. Spend might seem simple, but it's a
super useful word with lots of real life uses. Keep
an ear out for it in conversations and try using
it in these different ways. You'll sound more natural and fluent.
And hey, thanks for spending some time with me today.
I hope it was time well spent. Keep in mind,
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