Episode 68: Taking Risks ?

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ If you listen to this podcast it will be a RISK! Well… that’s not really true but that’s what we talk about! ? Dan the Man manages to constantly embarrass me ?‍♂️, we talk about KIDNAPPING children (and The Queen) ?, sexy STUDS ? and lots more! So just keep CALM and keep on ROCKin’! ???

Dan the Man watches you like a hawk
Mark Zuckenberg shit on his friends to launch Facebook
I am your role model in life Dan
Happy people risk getting turned down
Do you mean ‘when have I been turned down in any walk of life‘?
He whispered in my ear ‘beat that’
I was entered in the competition for Essex studs
I was flicking through the paper
There have been a lot of awkward moments in this podcast so far
I ended up having to pay a €50 fine
You see someone kidnap a child
I had to put myself out there for the video

RnR Grammar

In today’s show, when Dan was explaining the story about him entering a talent competition, he said:

“I had been practising my football skills for days”

As mentioned in the show, this is the Past Perfect Continuous. It is a real RnR tense and is obviously very similar to the Past Perfect – where we talk about 2 actions in the past and one comes before the other one (in this story, the 2 events are Dan at the competition and practising for days which obviously happened earlier).

Anyway, we use the Past Perfect Continuous here to stress the DURATION of the action. As he had been practising FOR DAYS, so it was a long action!

Use this term when you speak and your English will ROCK! ?