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Speaker 1: It's time for another podcast English lesson You like it right,

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it's good for you to listen to English and a

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podcast like this, well, it's great for learning new conversational

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phrases like the ones with it.

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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: Alright, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael here

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from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode eight eleven. It's

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all about it. There are a lot of ways in

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English you can use it. Essentially, it is a pronoun

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and so it can be used to represent things that

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were just mentioned, like I lost my key card. Have

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you seen it? Here? It means my key card? And

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I remember when I first met Alice. We met in

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a place called Soho. Have you ever heard of it?

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Casablanca is my favorite movie. I've seen it like ten times.

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By the way, you may see the word spelled it

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in the computer world. In that case, it's not pronounced it.

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It's pronounced it and it stands for information technology. You

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can use it as the subject of a sentence in

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a variety of ways. And that's going to be the

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focus for the rest of this lesson, starting off with

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the four most common ways of using it. Time, weather, temperature,

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and distance. You can say things like it's ten degrees

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this morning, it's very sunny, it's already nine o'clock, it's

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only three blocks to the convenience store, and these days

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it gets pretty cool in the evenings. Here you can

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also use the pattern it followed by an adjective followed

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by four, like it's unnecessary for him to come to

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the office today, or it's a mistake for the company

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to fire Jack. It's important for your English that you

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do something in English every day. You can also use

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phrases like it's good for or it isn't good for,

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like you shouldn't smoke, it isn't good for your health,

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and why don't you read a book in English? It's

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good for your vocabulary. In a similar way, we use

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the pattern it followed by an adjective followed by two.

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You can say things like it's good too, it's important to,

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it's nice to and so on. It's important to study

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every day, and I like having a drink, but it's

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not good to drink alcohol every day. According to my accountant,

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it's a good time to invest. And you know what,

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it was nice to see you at the party last weekend.

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I hope we can get together again soon. You can

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also use the pattern it followed by an adjective followed

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by a gerrand, you know, the ing verb like it's

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worth going to Central Park when you come to New

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York City. And maybe you're probably thinking it's hard trying

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to remember all of this vocabulary, but I'm sure that

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you feel the same way. I feel it's fun speaking

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another language. And I try to tell Jack the other

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day it's no use trying to convince the boss to

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change her mind. She's so stubborn. And finally, for today,

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when you want to mention the time someone needs to

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do something, we usually use it as the subject of

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a sentence, it took a week to finish that book.

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Sometimes I hear people say things like I took a

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week to finish that book. But in everyday conversational English,

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it's more natural to use it as the subject of

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this sentence. So you can say something like, it took

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me a week to finish the book, or even better,

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it took a week to finish that book. Remember you

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don't need to use me in the sentence if it's

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clear from the context that you are talking about yourself.

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It took a week to finish that book, or it

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took a few weeks to get settled in my new office.

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I heard it takes Jack over an hour to get

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to work. Keep in mind, the best way to remember

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English like this and any other word or phrase in English,

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is to take that word or phrase, write it in

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a sentence that's true for you or true in your world,

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and then memorize your sentences. Hey, did you know you

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of that, each episode has exercises where you can practice

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choose podcast lesson eight eleven. Remember, learning another language is

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not easy, but it's not impossible, and I'm here to

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help you on your journey.

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