Episode 26 – International Workers’ Day!

In this episode, you will probably learn NOTHING about International Workers’ Day ?, but you WILL hear some great work related stories ? that involve sh!tting in the street ?, SLEEPING in the toilet ?, paper-rounds ?️…. PLUS Dan the Man has some important news and there is, of course, lots of RnR vocabulary, such as:

It’s only taken you a month to recover from your illness
Are you ready? Brace yourself
Your podcast has been making me giggle
It’s for working class people, not posh people like you
You’re barely a man
I used to arrive at home absolutely knackered
I worked on the till at the supermarket
I did a paper round for a day
It was raining so I got soaked
I was gutted
She couldn’t be bothered to come

RnR Grammar

In today’s episode, when I was saying that I didn’t do much research, I said to Dan:

“I could’ve done some research, it would’ve taken 2 minutes”

These are modal verbs used in the past form and to do this, we always follow the formula below:

Modal Verb + Have + Part Participle of Verb

It is a very useful piece of grammar to know and use, as it allows you to speak about PAST events that you cannot change. PLUS…. it’s very easy and using this type of RnR grammar makes you sound like a fully competent speaker!