Episode 103 – How to be a Real Man 💪
Martin Johnston Johnston 
Some useful information in this episode for people like me (as I am definitely NOT a real man!) 😬 There’s talk of use should use the DRILL 👨, lots of TOOLS 🔨 and even ELEPHANTS 🐘! Some SEXY RnR vocab and even a phrasal verb used in 2 different ways – WOW! Just keeeeeeep on ROCKin’ people! ✌️
The RnR vocab that you will learn in today’s show:
I finally got round to the old fake review
Neither of us our good at DIY
A real man knows how to change a tyre
When someone’s struggling to open a bottle
That’s me, middle of the road
I got some pliers to open the bottle
What a lad
I bought a scooter for my niece
Stop trying to put me off, I’m trying to study
It put you off elephants
Respecting women should be a given
Yea it’s nothing to show off about, have children, look after them
Real men can down pints
It’s tricky to know what to do with the doors
I’ve been in that situation before so I took a detour
I was thinking of changing gym but it was the straw that broke the camel’s back
RnR Grammar
Notice in today’s episode we had the SAME phrasal verb with TWO different meanings:
“Stop trying to put me off, I’m trying to study”
“It put you off elephants”
This is a PERFECT example of why we should memorise phrasal verbs in their EXACT contexts. For example, if I take the phrasal verb ‘make up’, like ‘he always makes up stories’, I would explain that as ‘he always invents stories’.
BUT…. does that mean ‘make up’ and ‘invent’ are the same? Can I say ‘Steve Jobs made up Apple computers’?
NO! Why?! Because we need to memorise the phrasal verbs in their exact contexts, so just use ‘make up’ for ‘make up stories’ or ‘make up lies’…. be careful with those phrasal verbs people, they can be real bastards! 👊