Episode 90 – Boom Boom Sweden 💥🇸🇪

Another friend from school on today’s podcast and things go BOOM! 💥 We talk about life in Sweden as well as Karl Duck 🦆, children called Ikea 😲, a Nobel prize for dynamite and lots more! Loads of RnR vocab, so sit back, put your headphones on and get ready to ROCK! 💣💣💣

The RnR vocab that you will learn in today’s show:

Let’s stick with Boom Boom
Boom Boom is a nickname
But don’t put yourself down, Russell
Reliable Russell
Everyone takes the piss out of me for wearing a seat belt
It’s a good job you’re not actually earning any money
Don’t bring it up (the 51% tax rate)!
Next time I call in sick I’ll bear that one in mind
You’re a very good looking bloke
She is going to be gutted to find out she can’t call her child Ikea
Waitrose is a bit more upmarket
Take that with a pinch of salt what I said there….
I was about to ask you if anyone likes them
Doesn’t have the same ring to it as Donald Duck
Sweden have not taken part in any world wars
I fit in perfectly here in Sweden
It’s a bloody great language!
I don’t know if I can live up to that image

RnR Grammar

In today’s show, I said:

“I was about to ask you if anyone likes Abba”

This construction of “to be + about to” is used to talk about something that will happen in the next few seconds. Here are some examples:

I can’t talk, I’m about to go out.
I was about to do a poo, then I realised there was no toilet paper!
Help him, he’s about to die!

It is VERY common, but not used to much. So…. what should you do? Use it! 👊